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Show Kerada, a Tall to I'ibq's Kite. j Hope lor tVasliiuKtou Territerj. "ashinglon, 21. Current political gossip his reeeulJy brought lo the ( surface in this city a suggestion &id to have originattd ou tbe Pacific coast that the beat way lo get rid cf polygamy, would be to annex Utah tn Nevada. The conalilulion of thai sUte would, it is argued, quiekiy diaijose of the probieui without lurlhtr trouble to coujjrsss. ADMliJsiON OF WASHIS-CTON". Gossips " also ' predicts that ai formidable movement will soon be made to admit Washington territory as a Ktate in tbe anion and thereby provide two more republican senators. It is scarcely necessary to say toat such a movement would have no possible chance ofBuccea in either branch of congress ei present. IUE SEW BOND CONTRACT. The full contract for 4J per cents, is published. . The names of August Belmont i. Co., Rothschild and Sana, Drcxei, Morgan fc Co., J. &. W. Seiigman fc Co., Seligman Bros., Morton, Biiss Sc Co.. Morton, Rose &. Co,, and the First National bank appear ap-pear as the eiguers of the contract. Tha immediate subscription is for $10,000,000 and the subscribers contract con-tract to take $40,000,000 more, and not less than $o,000,000 per mouth. Tha secretary ia not to sell any other bonds during tbe continuance of this contract, except Geneva and Halifax awards, and the four per cents, except by mutual agreement. All other points of the contract are well known. SEW ORLEANS MINT. The house commiltee on coinage, weights acd measures, have agreed to report favorably the pending bill appropriating ap-propriating $75,000 to repair and put in operation tbe mint at New OrleauB, authorizing the coinage of gold and silver thereat and making an appropriation appro-priation therefor. |