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Show KNKR A I.. New York Charter. New York Fol-lowiJIklilgnii. Fol-lowiJIklilgnii. Albany, New York, 0. Tho Now York charter aa amended, was reported to the senate- this morning, and made the special order for 1 uesday next. The senate committee has made several important changes. Tho board of assistant assist-ant aldermen is retained ; the mayor is to nominate the heads of departments, and if the nominations are not confirmed j within five days, tho mayor and presi- dent of the two boards are to appoint them. Resolutions were adopted denouncing tho action of congress in increasing the salaries, and calling upon the representatives represen-tatives to urge the repeal of the law. The Railroad Slrikcj, St. Louis, 20. The strike of the engineers en-gineers on tho Kansa3 City and Northern North-ern railroad is practically subdued. About forty strikers, who were engaged obstructing the road and damaging its property, have boon jailed at various points along the road and will bo prosecuted. pro-secuted. Washington Advices. Washington, 20. The President sont the following nominations to tho senate: Washington Bootb, collector of customs at ilallimore; Adam is, Jving, naval officer at Baltimore. Commissioner Douglass instructs collector col-lector Bailey, to pursue tho course ho has taken in tho New York Central railroad case, until enough property is seized and sold, to bring to the gorern-me gorern-me tit the entire amount, of tho claims due, A goneral order has been issued from the war department, Ihnt no officer, either activo or retired, shall directly or indirectly, without being called upon by the proper authority, solicit, suggest, or recommend any action by members of congress, for or against military af-fai af-fai rs. Major George Boll, depot commissary of Washington, has been selected ns disbursing othcer to pay the Alonlauu Indian war claims The wife of general J. IT. Baker.com-missioner Baker.com-missioner of pensions died at noon today to-day of paralysis. The senate confirmed the following: Thos, A. iSponccr, Maryland, assistant attorney general of tho post oflico department; de-partment; J. D. Webster, assistant U. 8. treasurer at Chicago; Samuel II. Elbert, El-bert, governor of Colorado; Jos. L. Palmer, chief justice of tho supreme court of New Mexico; Jacob S. Bore man associate justice of the suronio court of Utah; C A. Thomas, associate jur-tico jur-tico of the supremo court of Wyoming: W. S. Johnson, associato justice, of ihe supremo court of New Mexico; U- 6. nian-hal Geo. Smith, for western di-triot of Uisaourij and U- S. attorney Cyrus J. Scolield lor Kansas. Secretary Belknap lraves, Thursday, to join Sheridan at Chicago, to inspect the military ports in tho department of Missouri. Sherman will act as secrt-lary of war. New York laielllgeiice. 'ew York, '2i. Georgo McDonald, supposed to be the man who, under Ui name of Warren, perpetrated the fraud upon tl.e Hank of Kngiand.was arrested on tho Thuringia this morning, and gold and property lo the amount of $ -j.tMJ found in his possession was;ci.ed in behalf be-half of the Bank. No bonds of any kind were discocred. The poiico re-fu-e to show the dispatches ordering papers found on McDonald reveal important im-portant matters, and that persons tx-pected tx-pected soon to arrive, who aro lo be arrestt-d, havo documents on tuctn which will reveal tho whole plot and those concerned in it. Among toera are several men of prominence and character charac-ter in this city, who criminal. y or ino-cently ino-cently helped in the scheme of fraud Ir.tormal application was made to-day by Allec counsel for Foster, to some of the supreme court judges, ir a stay of ! lho execution. The application was made on the ground that some farther instructions from the government were ncc?iary before tbe execution could ideally take place. It was, huwcvi-r, discovered that no funhar action on the part of the government was r.ecess&ry, ar.d all ci'. 'is in bci-a.f of Y-u-t nave been abandoned. Tne suspension of the Bull's IKsd Bar,tc created o-Tis.ieraV.e ex - u :..f-nt in bus-nesf circles l-j-dsy, i-n il brame cnerallj krKwn, a crest rr '! of xcilf-d depor;;os mrro'-r lei i:k bar.k b ;).!. r.g, on Twcr,ly-:.:;n :-e't and T.iird avenue, ar.d sty-:. c:I Tti were made to obtain. intTv.cw; with the c:lic?r. T:.e fr ,r..; iws ar.d doors, however. were titfhilv clu-c 1, and two "''.tC'-r.-.en wre ffv: a; the bead o!" tLe tl.ti:y i,g t- t;.i' directors' rcom. Ihe ;c.ow,r.g n. t.ce waj placarded over the main entrsr,e to Uie baxuu "AjTairs kinder exaiaiQa- tion: will report at the earliest possible moment.'' About ha.li"-pait two p.m., Wi Letts, cashier admitted that a defalcation had occurred in tbe clerical department of the bank whicn renderd it s'Lisi-suiely necessary to suipecd. No d-.-Lnite st'temt-nt retrsirdirg the losses can be n:ade at present. The amount pr. bablv is not -ess than $JaUXO. The U-ii i Head bank is a email State institution. in-stitution. The allured forger McDonald was brougnt tH-iV-re United States commissioner commis-sioner Or borne, this afternoon. Tne pris r.-?r a.-k--(i for an adjournment till Tuerdav. which was granted and he was commit:-:,:. Daniel V. "Wright, a'.ias Phillip Stanley, Stan-ley, was arreste-i to-dy charged wuh being imp.ica'.cJ in the la'-e Irauds of the " iae of the Fort Wayne and Wabasn railroad stock. Samuel Joseph Pnilipson, charged with f o r g i n g d .-a fts in M a n c h es t e r, England, to the aaiount of $0,10, was arreted to-day in Brooklyn. He will be seat back to England on Saturday. Joseph F. Randolph, ex-conftressman and ex-judge of the supreme court of New Jersey, died in Jersey City to-day, after a iocg illness. Msjor Stephen D. Webb, formerly of tbe regular army, and son of the late general Webb of the revolutionary army, died at Jacksonville, fiorida, on the ImIx. Heavy Bobbery. Chicago, 20. The dry goods store of Thisted i Ueiren, corner of Milwaukee avenue and Indiana street, was roDOea last night of silks, dress goods and shawls to the amount of $70, (XO. The burglars gained entrance by sawing a hole in tho noor. |