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Show The t uioii I'arilic and Gov-eminent Gov-eminent 'resile. " he t ries lor Silver. Washington, 17. Pi Ivor regulations uirtv be issued to-morrow, though more likely 10 be delayed two or three days. Bristow h:u issued an order for the receipt of Sealed proposals for tho j sale of 0 per cent, bonds to the amount of $-3,SSo,000 for Alitl:uua ' claims, giving dotails for bids. The house judiciary committee toiUy. heard William M. Evarts, of couiiiel fcr the Union Pacific com-piny, com-piny, in opposition to Lawrence's bill, which provides thai the Pacific railway companies shall make certain specified payments into Die United Stales treasury every year lo create a sinking fund fur the payment of all their subsidy bonds and interest under penalty of being thrown into the hands nfa receiver lor non-complt-, a nee with these requirements and with other detailed provisions concerning their transportation service for government. gov-ernment. EvjtIs argued that this bill was an attempt uy act ol congress to make a new contract with the company in violation of the charter acls of !SGl3 and IStjb', a thing winch he contended was unconstitutional and could not be done. lie staled that the companies were willing lo create a sinking fund by the surrender sur-render of a largo portion ol their lands in connection with money payments, pay-ments, and called attention to the bill that was to be introduced by lie- presentative McCrary of Iowa, at the request of the Union Pacific railroad company, the provisions of which are described in a letter from President Dillon as follows : "In behalf of tho Union Picific railroad company I desire to slate that being anxious to make some lair adjustment with government of its advances to this company, wc are willing to make settlement on the following basis: We will sell to government gov-ernment all the lands on tho main line of the road west ot the lOith meitdian, at t e government price of f'2.50 per acre, the sum thus produced pro-duced to be set apart to start a pinking pink-ing fund, to which we will add $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 cash and Buch subsequent payments pay-ments as shall, with interest, computed com-puted each Bix months, and added to the principal and interest due to government ut the date of maturity of the last bonds issued to the company. This general plan oi settlement is acceptable ac-ceptable to our company and it the bill Iramed in accordance therewith there-with is viewed by the committee com-mittee to which it may be carried by sullicient favor to warrant it, I shall be glad to be beard by the committee com-mittee on the subject, with a view to allording information and nf arranging arrang-ing such details as might be neccsarry lor the best interests alike of the government gov-ernment and the company. Very respectfully, Siusey Dillon, President." The bill above ailuded tn w:s introduced in-troduced by McCrary at a late hour this afternoon. An immense number oi letleis was received at the treasury, to-day, accompanying ac-companying packages oi money sent for redemption, and requesting the remittance of silver in return lor the rc.-pective in noun is. These letters were from all eLss-'..-, ol business men in the community, and many of the 3c-natoiH do not seem lo understand thai fii.'i r will not be exchanged tur leg.il lender noted, but only for. currency. cur-rency. There will be a conference at the treasury to-day, lor the exchange ; L i.NDjN Pecl'liakitik-:. AnAmer-j can making his tirst visit to honuon, : s thus impressed with its novelties: This is a droll place in som-i of its i aspects lo an American, w .1 e little I buys wear plug 1ml, and the women Wear Kray and brown dockings on 'dr.sn parade; where many people put ,00 r.-.-piraiora when going out into t:.a au-, thuugh the Imier Bceins mild :aud balmy enough to a hi-itivo from I the aeveie X-,w lviej.md winter; where boi.t-bl.u-L-, errand boys,' porters, and alni(i.it every class of public servants were unilorms; where teams keep to the left instead of the right; where locomotive engines have no cabs and the cars only four wheels each; where the most common and most useful means of local con-veyence con-veyence (the hansom cab) is a cioss belwcen an invalid chair, and the ''one-boss .-hay," with thednver roosting roost-ing on a little perch above and behind the lop; where a policeman may be found whenever wanted or not; where oysters are about the size of a new cent aud of much the same flavor; where street railroads run over the top of the houses or under the cellars ol the fame; where but space tails ; to account the peculiarities which j strike an American in every day's j ramble. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MiNNINS & COLE, Real Estals & ColMioi A&euts, OFFICE S.von.l .uith S-.rv.'t, four doors ol Tr.u.ino utiles. FOR SALS. Or will cxrhftnjr-i for i-lty property, V-cre- in the town of Franklin, terminus termin-us U N' II li. -I larjfc h'uises on part, which runt tr over JtiHO per finiuim, tho rest vury rich and cultivated, without irrigntion. Some of tho Ln- t tnnsin tho country, varying from 10 to mile from the city. Hou.o and lot, 7ch wnrd, iilo, 7 rooms. UwU'O mid lot, 7th ward, 10x10, 5 ro jin;, orcaard and water. Lut :t.l South, bet t-lt a:ij i'th Kast. lloiUK and lot, 20th warj, 2'1i, 2 room?, cheap. Uouso mid lot, ;M S.mi'.Ii, b-.'t Uh and r.lh JCat, il.'axi, 0 rooms, hall, orchard, well. II-JU-. and lot, '2-h V.tet. L.ol, ihmu, .,ui J'-;i.-L, oet -lUi ft 1 ul . Mil S-'iitli. Hoiho nnd lot. lU W.-s t, hi't N and S Teriide, :'xl0. : rooni, elie,ip. lJou-11 nd iol, 'Jd S 'u'.U and -llli Kast, 2x7, & ronriis. Lot -I'll ward, o. -ehoolhoiiio, 1010, clump. Lot l'implr, in 20lh w.ird, iekot f-'iioe, orchard , lie;ip. Tho nluiv.1 it only a partial list nf the most deiirahle propi-rLy in the city. F. lOEll & 10, ARE JUST RECEIVING THEIR OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Coi-.sUUng of PRINTS, PERCALES, GINGHAMS, LAWXS, GRENADINES, GRENA-DINES, TOI'LINS, SERGES, DAMASKS asd MOHAIRS. IN WHITE G-OOJDS We have Plain and Cliciked JACONETS: Slriped, Cl.ecked and Plain NAINSOOKS; Bishop and Victoria LAWNS; CAMBRICS, PKJl'ES and MARSEILLES; TARLETONS in all colors; TABLE LINENS; N ATKINS and DOYLIES, white and colored ; Swiss and Jaconet EMBROIDERIES, Etc., En |