Evening star., 1869-04-15
EVENING STAR.
LATE rELEGRAMS, &c.

TIE forgery Of the name of Jay Cooke &c Go.
% Tunber OF checks on the Bank o! the State
cf New York, ard the drawing thereirom of
<,eb,CCh, announced yesterday, creates unusual
comment. on accOuBt of the perfect and FL sbo-
rat. imitation OF the business forms of Cooke A.
%. and the complete success of the swIndler.
In New YorE, Judge Barnard has appoIn ted
4 a Rs,ifi-ld referee for the purpose OF asc-r-
aiming TO whom belongs S5,UOJ.UOO claimed by
Receiver Tweed to be on deposit in the Corn
Exchange Bank, nOminaIiy TO the credit of
Nr. Crane. but really TO the use of thu Credit
M05ileT and the Union Pacific railroad.
paper was put IN circulation IA Rhode
IsiaLG yesterday for signatures TO an invita-
non 70 Governor Burnside, asking him 70 &C.
cspt a puOlic ovation, owing 10 the alleged as
persIoHs Of the hrs- regiment In the battle of
Bull Run, py Senator Sprague.
". Bentley, who presented a forged draf. for
seventeen hundred and fifty dollars ON The
FIRST National Bank of WilmIngton " O. on
saturday, has been arrested and committed to
All All The money recovered but tive dol
iars.
The New York State Senate Yesterday after
neon raufied the n tern,h ame ndment 20 the
I'd TAI constitution, by a vote of L. 20 I5-Rs-
ruhlI. su~ voting Yea, Democrats nav Action
S ye' - b. taken by the Assembly.
Tn" Ways and Means COMMITTEES of the
II u~P ct RepreSsntatives called on Collector
GTu nell IA New York yesterday, as a prellm
,uaIy ~t~p u inquiries TO b. made into the
general working OF the revenue system
An extensive oil refinery near Pittsburg was
destroyed oy fire yesterday, durlng which five
persons, two men, two women, and a child
were burned, ana one woman was seriously
injured.
The telegraph reports that frost has seriously
damaged the cotton and fruit crops of Ala
hama Florida aud Georgia. The repianting OF
the new Gotten is rendered generally neces-
sary-
In Boston, the Executive Committee of the
National Peace jubilee have fixed the prices
of admission at five. three, and two dollars.
The Coliseum II progressing rapidly.
IL 10 reported in Madrid that General Prim is
to be Captain General Of Cuba. and that be will
carry along with hun heavy reinforcements to
AMI IN suppressIng the rebellion.
MsttheWs and Miller, charged with highway
robbery IN the United States. were arrested and
yesterday delivered to the United States au-
tnOriues, at ST. Catharine's, q. w.
The Paris I'rssse predicts that the rejection of
the Johnson treaty by the United States Senate
United States in EQrope.
The trial of David bore and Josephine La
Flamme. for the murder of Chas. La FIamms
husband of the latter, commenced at Worces-
ter, Mass, on Tuesday.
Chas. L Merrill, of Meredith, N H, on
Tuesday feled a tree which accidentally fell
upon bis son, ten years OF age. and killed
EIm.
In the New York Assembly the bill granting
-+.Utu per mile to aid 10 the construction of
railroads IN tnat State was ordered TO a third
-eading.
In the English House of Commons yester-
DAY the Married Woman's Property BIiI'' was
introduced and read a second time.
AT the charter election in Albany, N. V. the
Democrats elected their city ticket by MAORI
ties ranging from SO 10 2,oUO.
Al the charter election IN Rockport, N V
on Tuesday, the entire Democratic ticket was
elected.
Itappears that the Imperial newspaper i'm
New York has not collapsed, as has been
stated.
The Leavenworth (kansas) Club gave Gen.
eral Schofield public reception an Tuesday