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Show GENERAL. WASIll.iToX. Report from Jinlt I.uke City . l-'iirlher OiliriuJ l barges Required ti l or n ill ioual I.hw Hushbiru uutl ilie Washington, 9. General B. R. 3owen, atfiatant secretary of the interior, in-terior, returned to-day from Salt Lake city, where by direction of the president, presi-dent, he has recently been engagid in the personal investigation of the condition of atlairs; and especially of the disagreement and difficulties regarding re-garding the federal officers. He expresses ex-presses the opinion that no further changes are necessary, and that while the antagonism between the Mormon and Gentile elements will continue to excite controversies and ill feelings, the maximum o! trouble, 80 far as the government appointees are concerned, has now probably been attained. President Grant, in an interview today to-day with Dr. S. B. Miles, the general secretary of the association for the re form and modificatian of intemation-1 al law, expressed a he irty approval of the work of the association, and said : it would b a great blcpsir.g to the j world if the rank and file of the standing armies could be transferred to industrial pursuits, and he declared , himself strongly in favor of the st-, tlement of questioin between nations by arbritfltion. A statement is published from high authority that Hon. E. B. Washburne; has sent word from Paris informing his confidential friends here that he has positively withdrawn from the contest for presidential nomination. In whose favor he has taken this step we aro not informed, positively. Rumor says that Bristow's aspirations will be specially promoted by it. |