Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-17
Eastern Dispatches.


The bill in equity prepared by counsel
for the United States against the Union
Pacific and Credit Mobiler, to be filed in
the United States Court at Hartford, pro-
ceeds on the ground that the original
subscriptions to the company were never
actually paid, and that receipt for pay
ment was the result OF fraud and fiction.
The suit is therefore to compel those
who subscribed to pay the amounts
severally credited to them, and to ac-
count for bonds, stocks and other moneys
and property which they received as
profits to which they were not entitled.
The Credit Mobilier is not party to the
suit as corporation, but as individuals.
The management of the Union Pacific
and Credit Mobilier being essentially in
the hands OF the same parties, who
divided the the proceeds of their joint
scheme, the Convenient Sc ks to restore
the affairs of the company to the condI-
ton contemplated by the laws Of Con
gress authorizing and assisting the con.
structon OF the road, so that not only
innocent stockholders may be protected
and secured, but the company strength
; ened, in order that it may discharge il.
obligation to the Government, by tn
payment into the Treasury of five pc
cent. of the net receipts of the road, as
fund with which, in connection with tn
amounts withheld by the Government
!, for transportation, to repay the interes
advanced by the United States, and ulti
, mately the principal of the bonds.
l The Third Assistant Postmaster-Ger
eral, to-day sent requisition on til
a manufacturers for 3,245 900 postal cards
a The Postoffice to-day issued an adve
!, tisement soliciting for one years suppl
;, Of postoffics and registered package Ell
n velopes. The estimated quantity of Il
It former is eight, and of the latter fol
millions.
CHICAGO, May Is.
Countess Portales, daughter of Ben
, Holiday, died this afternoon in Pu
man car on the Burlington road, viii
returning from San Francisco.
=, New York, May l5
- Nixon seemed to be unaffected tod
: by the intelligence that the Suprer
:. Court had refused the motion of /
:, counsel. He expressed wish to see /
;s children, and when they were brought
y was completely overcome. The scene
y, the meeting is described as the me
= painful the keepers ever witnesse
), Nixon wife and sister will remain wi
- him until late hour tonight.
: The Times, o-morrow, will publish Il
?, tiers from General Van Buren,, recent
:, removed as Chief Commissioner to t
=. Vienna Exposition, addressed to Pre-
=. dent Grant and Secretary Fish. He 50,
AZ For ten months have spared no ex
:, ton or expense to make the exhibition
success, and am utterly unconscious
doing, or authorizing to be done, a sin
-, wrong or unworthy thing; and that p
~ son who asserts or intimates that l e
:, received, asked, Tor have been promised
.ou single cent, or any consideration or
49, vantage whatever, either directly or
81 directly, from any appointment or C,
Nm cession, by reason Of my position or
-. any way connected with the exhibiti
h is cowardly knave and liar. The
"a cursed malignity and unhallowed am
-, ton and vanity Of John Jay have
II, months been employed to destroy
- and my commission, that he might
Ito tain some notority for himself. The
tv- tiers of which the foregoing is the pi
to are accompanied by sworn statement
~. the same effect.