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Show GESERAL. Wnsutngtoa Advices. "Washington, 9. Tho secretary of tho treasury this afternoon revoked tho order calling in a hundred millions of five twenties, having received information informa-tion from London that lho subscription there to the new fives are made payable Juno 1st Tho call will berenewed March first so as to have tho called bends payable Juno 1st to conform with the London subscriptions. sub-scriptions. i Tho President returned from "Wilmington "Wil-mington this morning, and to-day received re-ceived quite a large number of visitors. The cabinet session was attended by all the members. Tho preliminary report of tho Etnate committee on the elections in the Louisiana Louis-iana investigation will relate exclusively to lho legality of the electoral vote. Tho President to-day pardoned El-Ross El-Ross Stewart and RobertHayes Mitchell both of South Carolina, convicted o Ku Klux crimes, and sentenced to imf prisonment in tho Albany penitentiary Sew York Intelligence. New York, 7. Comptroller Green, to-day, sent mayor Uavemeyer a report on the recent discovery of additional frauds in the construction o! tho new court house, from which it appers that ! not less than $615, 'Jd'.J was fraudulently ! expended, of which sum lngursoll ob tained SO'Xf.oCJ. Tho body of tho late vicar general Storrs is lying in state at Ins late residence, resi-dence, and will be removed to the cath-dral cath-dral on Suuday. Funeral on Monday. A Veto Strongly Opposed, "Washington, 7. The senate committee commit-tee on claims, to which tho President's veto ef Juno 1st. la.-t of tho bill to pay doctor Best, of Paducah, Ky , fir h.s house destroyed by tho federal troops during the war, to-day made a report through the chairman, Howe, strongly in opposition to the veto, saying the objections ob-jections of tho President wero not based upon the ground that the act was unconstitutional uncon-stitutional or inconsiderately passed, but upon tho ground that tho payment of the claim would invite tbe presentation presenta-tion of demands for largo sums on account ac-count of property necessarily and una-veidably una-veidably destroyed by the army. Tho committee say the act of relief for Best, fur JYoni Drovidine for the Davmont of property unavoidably destrojod, clearly discriminates against and disclaims the liability for such payment; and, more- I I over, if tho principle involved in tbe bill is just, and in accordanco with all law and precedent, government cannot bo oxcused from payment, because of tho burden of such payment would im-poso im-poso upon tho treasury. The report concludes with an elaborate statement to show that no claim was or ever can be preferred against government, resting upon moro impregnable grounds than this, and recommends the passage of the bill, the objection of tho President to tho contrary notwithstanding. Credit MobUicr. Boston, Mass., " Judge "Wilson, chairman of the "Wilson investigating committee, to-day, oxamined Hall, sec-rotary sec-rotary of tho credit mbilier.and auditor of the Union Pacilic company, in roierenco to tho profits on various contracts con-tracts on tho Union Pacific road, the cost of construction, profits, and so forth, as shown by tho books of the company which Hall examined to-day. From tho mass of figures submitted by Hall, it appears tke profit on tho Ames contract con-tract wero nearly thirty millions, on tho Davis contract nearly nino millions, on tho lioxie contract.ovor five millions.o ra total on tho whole road of $-12,25.327 in stock and securities at their par value. Tho cost of the whole road ti the company, com-pany, as appears on tho books, was S1U,0oj,HX, in round Lumbers. The actual cost of construction was 71,108,-000. 71,108,-000. Hall testified that tho trustees, under tho Amos and Davis contracts worn pnmnelled. on account of nressine necessities of tho company, to sell securities se-curities received by them at so largo a discount from the amount paid for them, that the actual amount divided on both contracts at iu cash valne, bo should consider not worth more than nino millions. mil-lions. A Terrible Wretch. Boston. 7. According to tho confession confes-sion of Evans, in ls-iS ho stole away and killed a little niece, in Derry. M. H.. tlvo years old. In 1S(U ho assaulted and cut tho throat of a girl tourteen vears old, in Augusta, ilaino. In lStVi ho outraeed tho person of Isabella Jovce, killed her. and her brother bro-ther John, a bov of V, in Hujsoy's woeds near Boston. In 1-72 ho is charged with a similar crime upon thoperson of a woman found dead in tho wnods, near Filchburtr. Ma?., and during the year .,,iPU,r...l un.l in n Li I l, i,l tho person of, and murdered, Georgians Lovoring, a girl uf 1 'J years, in Morlhwood, M. H, miscellaneous. Topoka, 7. The Pomeroy investigating investiga-ting committee sal with closed doors al', dav, taking tho testimony of sonator York- St, Louis, 7. A tax payors' league has been organi.;d here, pledged to do all possible t" prevent or to punish corruption corrup-tion in otUce, neglect of duly, or abuse of power. |