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Show GENERAL. WASHINGTON'. Nmv York. 3 Reoorts were circu lated on 'change, which were wholly uutbunded and merely for the pur poe of speculation, that Ouicugo was in the hands of a vigilauce committee, who were putting down the rising of Communists. The attorney general decides that the postmaster c-ionot withhold from the mails letters suspected to contain advertisements of lotteries for the reaaon that under the revised statutes, except in the case of letters on which the postage nas not oeen prepaia there is no power conferred on the postmaster to withhold letters from mails. If the postmaster general is' sati-rjed, by the evidence, that any perdon is conductiDg any fraudulent lottery through the mails, he may iustruct the postmaster at any office at vruich registered letters arrive directed di-rected t j any Buch person, to return the ietterri to tho postoffice at which they werj mailed. There is now being $10,000,000 held in the United States treasury, originally reserved for the redemption redemp-tion of Iraclional currency and in 1 consequence of all fractional currency cur-rency having been destroyed. , The cabinet to-day seriously considered the Mexican border troubles. There is abundant American Bide are making a strong movement to cross the Rio Grande and create trouble with Diaz. The Becretary of war, after the cabioet adjourned, ordered General Ord to be particularly vigilant to prevent an invasion in-vasion from the American Bide. Lardo's lollowers are doubtless in Etig'itiui the ludian raids into the Americau territory, that the Amtrican troops may chase them across the border aud produoe additional complications. com-plications. ; New York, 3. World's Washington: Washing-ton: The office of Linderman his been receiving a thorough investigation investiga-tion fur aorae time past, which has been devoted almost exclusively to the officers of the mints on the Pacific coast. Great discrepancies, it is alleged, involving thousands of dollars, dol-lars, will be found between the books of the minU and the bureau reports. The personal administration 'of the mint has been inquired, into and a report on the aubject will be prepared in a few days by Glover. |