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Show Wasiilugton Advice. Washington, 2. Forty thousand bids liavo been received for carrying mails the next four years in nearly j all that porli.m of tbe United Stales lying west of the Mississippi rivor and extending to the Pacifio ocean. The awards will bt made by March tbe 30lh. I The secretary of the treasury will not open the mint at Philadelphia for tbe coinage of trade dollars and will place such restrictions on tbo western mints as will prevent coinage for shipment east. The coinage of a sufficient amount to meet the actual demand for export will be authorized for the present, or until cougresa shall have anted upon the ooinae of the j silver dollar for circulation. J When Mr. New was United Slates treasurer, he impoaed a fine on all bnkrt and business firms sending! packacs of nuney in inconvenient form for cjtm.ing, to compensatei tbe olhce for the extra trouble and time involved in the counting. During bis administration, thefiufsi sgregiited $l.SUJ and the amount i ! w;t3 turnpd over to hie successor, Mr. j W'yman, and came into charge of :he cniot of the redemption division. I Io July, 157o tlie attention of the fiecretary ol the treasury was called to 'hiH money, and hf wrote to tbe rf.eiiver, suggesting u prnp.-man 't cuvtiog it into lh-- irn.iiury, I m . '-i-urer i hereupon i"m Hih aecreijr IimI of lb- huika ami 'ueiuess firms from winch L;n om Uiul been collected, collect-ed, lint co decision followed j m tbe lMp-1-.iin n in i" made of the money. No . Ue $1.8011 are missing, and the p.Uient eare:i instituted by Secretary s'.ierman cmn.it discover the fund. It wis la-'t pn in an envelope in the .ife u! toe tneu chief of tbe redemption redemp-tion division. |