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Show Nine rmxcii'AL citicn o( tho United BtatcB show Btamp aalea in 1878 aggregating aggre-gating nearly $7,000,000. Iast year wan a dGod ono or tlie licking bjii-Dt'SS. bjii-Dt'SS. Tom Fitch, late ot every wlicro, aod now ol Arizona, baa introduced a bill in tho legislature of that territory to increaao tbo salaried of federal judee from 42,500 to &3.0UO, tbo territory to pay tho difiereuco $2,000. If tho local pupcro bave any influonce upon the law-makerd tho bill will not pat-a. Tho joLirnalfl admit that Uio aalariea arc too small, but they aay if Arizona biia to pay her judges alio wauta the privilege of (selecting tbem, which is sound democratic doctrine, and should prevail. r It aiteabh from a brief tolegram in tho liEiiALD that tbo two wiiijja of tho liUho hoiwo of repreaentaiivea have patched up a peace and come toKC-tocr, tho democratic organisation organisa-tion being declared illegal. Thin compromise, however, doea not eeem toholp matters much, aa a dead-lock exists through an Inability io elect a speaker. Nearly half of the forty daya' eosaion ban expired whilo this unprofitable quarrel has been going on. There U a Tery fair pronpeot ol liltlo or no law-making being done by tho present Idaho loialalurn. England ruoi-osta to Btop the touguca ol fault-fiudorB and avoid tho complictioua and diapules that would neccaanrtly arido from her occupancy of A Turkish aland, by buying Cyprus outright. The eum otforcd is Xl.000-000, Xl.000-000, which tho Sultan will probably accopt, as ho needs money now a goodjdeal moro than ho docs lover-infocted lover-infocted and poverty etricUon ialanda. When John Bull geta the tillo deed to CypruB, ho will ttll tho other follows fol-lows of tho eiat who aro barking at his hocla, to abut tip, and they will obey p. d. q. or be will kuow tho roaacu why. A ciiABAcrERisTio letter from Ben Butler has recently appeared in print. It was written lo a gentleman in Minneapolis, Minn., and closes as follows: In tbo democratic convent ion at Charleston, S. C, iu tho yaar Ititd, 1 votal liftv-savon tinio', as I remcmbcrl it, for JolEorson Davis, ot Mississippi, al'torward presulont ol' tho confadorato statos, as candidate of tho doiuocralic party for prosidunt. Ho wi9 not beforo tbo conviution as a caodidato, for my voto and that of ono ot my collonguoa woro tho only ones ho had. I behoved him to bo a reproBeiitativo man of tho south and subsonuent ovonta bnvo ehewn that I wna right. And I baliovod llion, and boliuvo now, (hat if ho could have boon nominated fur president and oieoted, tho war would liavu boon savod and the attempted disunion prevented, for ho would havo choioa to bo pre.idont over thirty-two states ratlior than ilfloen, and my experience has beon that tho north always po inoro consideration on ciuaa-tions'of ciuaa-tions'of human liborty from a southorn statoBman as prcsidont bel'oro tho war than it did from a northern dough fico, and that remains truo down to tho present timo, Two Heukeivs havo hold aeata io the United States eeuate Judith P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, from 1S53 to 1S01, and, David L.- Yulee, of Florida, from 1850 to 1SG1. Both loft the aenato and united their fortunes for-tunes with thoao of their states iu tbo war of the rebellion, and both wore promiueut in the Confederacy. Ileury M. Phillips, a Philadelphia Jew, was twiceelected to congress in 1So7 and 1S50. Leopold Morao, ol 1 Boston, an laraelUo, ia a member of tho present congroaa, and has bcon reelected. In 1S01 Now York city eont Emttuuel H. llart, a Hebrew, to congress, and at tho late election Edward Einateiu, au Israelite, was returned from tho Seventh dUtrict, New York. It is vtotluy of remark, and stands to the credit of the Jew, that all of that faith who hive gone to cougreds have uot only been above the average as to ability, but no ch:rgoof corrupiiou hss been maJo againat them. |