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Show GENERAL. Washington Aitvlcci. Washington, t. Tho commissioner of internal revenue, to-day, addressed a letter to tho houso finance committee, deprecating on behalf of tbe internal revenue department and all the manu-faelurors manu-faelurors of tobacco in the country, the final passage of tbe bill in regard to selling leal tobacco direct to consumers, which passed the house yesterday; and asking a heariug on the subject for the department and manufacturers, before tbe committee. The commissioner estimates es-timates the loss to tho revenue, by the Dill, at three millions a year. The funded loan subscription in the TTnltnd iiu. nrid Knroiie. lo-diiv. has been so heavy lhat the secretary of the treasury, in order to stop tho interest, lias issued a call fer ono hundred millions mil-lions of five-twenty bonds of '62, in advance ad-vance of tho closing of the books. Additional Ad-ditional calls will be issued shortly. Nov York Intelligence. Now York, G. It is reported thatTre-msine thatTre-msine and associates, are in consideia-lion consideia-lion on the advisability of applying for a struck jury , forthe trial of the civil suits against Tweed. Credit Moblllcr. Washington, 6 In the Poland committee, com-mittee, Ill's morning, congressman Brooks submitted a letter from ex-secretary of the Interior, Browning, dated March 21st, IbS transmitting his com- mission as goTernnient director of the 1 Union Pacific. Brooks staled that it i was the 27th of December, 1W7, when j Neilson got tbe shares of ilobilier. Congressman Beck, member of tbe conference conimilleo on tne interest Question of the Union Pacific road, and Voorhees, member of the Pacific railroad rail-road committee of the forty-first congress, con-gress, testified that Brooks never spoke 10 either of them on tho subject of tbe Pacific railroad, and never appeared before tho committee. Brooks stated lhat ho introduced the witnesses in view of the charge that ho received Mobilier shares for ;ictluencing Democratic congressmen. con-gressmen. j he Jtotloc War. Washington, Orders are issued to the conimaivNnl of ti.oltulcd Stato forces operating a;air.sl the Mi docs, io maWe such disposition of lm forces as wdl tend lo protect the settlers and their property in the neighborhood, and suspend fu'rtlier hostile proceedings against tbe ln-iians. unless absolutely neces'arv, umil alter tho commissi. -n recontlv appointed to investigate the causes which led to Captain Jack's wagiug war with the white, shall arrive, ar-rive, and the result of tho invcdigation 11 made known. MIcellrjroti. Buffalo, ti. Grave doubts have existed ex-isted for the past forty eight hours, as lo the sanity ot John Gaffrcy, condemned to be hanged to-morrow, in consequence if which governor Dii has respited h'm for a week to enable meuual experts to decide regarding his mental condition, Huston, Pa-, o lames Henry Lthn, professor of in a thematic and astronomy, Lalayette coi'.-.-fie, died this evening. |