Evening star., 1870-01-04
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELBGRANs. 20.

The operators Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company's once az San Francisco have
refused to work at a reduced ate of salary VIII ch
has been ordered by the Company The strikers
have been encouraged by meetings of other tel
eersphers In nearly all the large cities who have
offered TO Them their support and assistance, II
necessary.
Oakley. the defaulting cashier Of the Mer-
chants Exchange National Bank Of New York,
las confessed that he Is also the real author Of
the defalcation in the Farmers and Drovers'
Bank Of westchester county, for which Hill, the
cashier, was confined in jail, but recently liber-
ated-
Both branches of the Louisiana Legislature
Inet yesterday; nothing OF importance was done
in the Senate. In the House Speaker Lowell
having resigned, Mortimer Carr, Of the parish
of Orleans, was chosen speaker.
Fears are entertained for the safety Of Charles
H. Nash. late cashier Of the Fourth National
Bank Of Cincinnati, who recently went to Ar
Kansas to purchase a farm. Nothing has been
heard of him since his departure.
The Cuban ,Junta, at New York, calls atten-
tiOn TO the fact that while the Spaniards say thev
have killed, wounded and captured III 100 insur-
gents, their agents persist in representing the
rebellion as small affair.
j. J. Aston, agent of the Chicago Scandina-
yian Emigration Society, is contracting with
louisiana planters for the supply of two hun
dred lsborers per week, Norwegians, Swedes,
Dares, Germans, &c.
There are now no drunken Indians i'm the Nez
Perces tribe, in Idaho. A white man who had
been selling them whisky has been sent to
prison for year, and his successor has not yet
been found.
John Lawrence shot Mrs. Atwood four times
with n revolver, at Bangor, Me-, Sunday, and
then cut his throat, but not fatally, with ra-
zor. Mrs. Atwood viii probably die. Rum.
The counterfeit so bills on the First National
Bank of Jersey City, against which the Comp
trOller of the Currency recently warned the
public, are again in circulation.
The tobacco factory of Taudy, Walker & Co.,
in the Choctaw Nation, was seized last week by
order from Washington, and the contents were
moved to Fort Smith.
The war steamer Alaska will 20 to Portland
with the Terror, to convoy the Monarch, with
Nr. Peabody's remains, and will afterwards
proceed to the East Indies.
The colored people in various parts of the
South observed the anniversary of the issuing
of the Emancipation Proclamation on the LIST
instant.
The insurgent sub-prefect, at Herna n,lo, Cuba,
authorities, voluntarily, with thirty OF his fol-
lowers.
The New York Legislature meets to-day. The
Democrats, in caucus, have nominated Vim.
Hitchman, of New York Tor Speaker.
The Maine Republican State Committee OF
1870 organized at Augusta yesterday, by the
election of Hon. Jas. q. Blaine as chairman.
G.. E Miller, City Clerk of Springfield, Ohio,
was arrested Monday, on charge of embezzling
the funds Of that city.
An incendiary fire at Mobile, Sunday night
destroyed property valued at over $50 900; in
surance about s25,0o9.
The Republicans elected their ticket at Will
mington, " c., yesterday. A very small vote
vas cast.
The Springfield, Mass, city government for
the wear was inaugurated yesterday.