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Show POLITICAL ITEMS. The Republicans have 39 majority in tho senate anil 37 in the house. A j full senate contaius 71, a full house I 213 members. j The Louisville Courur Journal says: If need be, we will ko with anybodywe any-bodywe will support anybody to , beat General Grant. We regard a chango in the federal administration as j most of all important to the country. P. T. Barnum, long a tempcrnnce worker, writes to the Bridgeport Sfumlard discountenancing the movement move-ment of temperance men for a separate separ-ate political party, considering it inexpedient in-expedient and impolitic. He regards it as a movement very likely to result in "setting back the temperance reform re-form ten years at the very least." Gov. Gratz Brown in his late message mes-sage to the legislature says that the greatest incubus resting upon the peoplo peo-plo of Missouri is found in taxes and duties, special and indirect, levied by tha United States. They amount to much more annually than all our other taxes put together, yet do not go into the national treasury, but arc spent j largely in the collection or are put into i the pookels of favored classes. I 1 . . |