Show BY telegraph IMLE A rul pul n welt walt UNION nine LINE I 1 EASTERN washington president grant in a letter accepting the resignation of secretary boutwell passes a high encomium upon the lattery 1 administration of his office saying it has as lie he reads public judgment and opinion been satisfactory to the country countz and has thus been to him and he adds add s the policy that shall be pursued in in the office of the secretary of the treasury by your successor I 1 h hope e maybe maybo may be as successful as yours noras has been and that no departure from it will be made except such as experience and and change of circumstances may make necessary the letter closes with a warm expression of personal friendship the president has nominated john gaforth for assistant actor ney general of or the united states james G patten chief justice 01 of the supreme court of new Bl mexico exico cole bashford secretary of arizona frank hall secretary of colorado william ritchie aitchie rit Bit chie secretary of new hew mexico 31 exico the senate has confirmed all the cabinet confirmations sent in today and the following john W foster poster of indiana minister to mexico vice nelson resigned cornelius 1 A logan of kansas minister to chili chill george J lammont marshal marshai 11 arshal of nevada edward P smith ofner of sew new york yori commissioner of indian atra Afra affairs ins irs P E W barber of michigan Blich igan igau third assistant post master waster general thomas L james post Is master laster at new york vice P H jones resigned to take taeke essect effect april lat NEW YORK the london papers of the third and fourth give the following details of the great forgeries on the bank of england it was discovered on saturday that bills to an enormous amount bad been forged upon all the principal houses of london and that the bills had been discounted in the west end branch of the bank of england tn in burlington gardens which does an entirely different kind of business from the alent establish establishment mentin in the city ift is intended for tho the convenience of gents and ladies and west end tradesmen who might find it inconvenient to journey to the city in order to transact their occasional business it is not therefore ordinarily concerned with the tho large bill transactions of city commerce and in consequence conee coneo quence is less lees bound b by strict regulations in dealing with wit any burino business of that nature which might raight accidentally be brought to tp it the conspirators must have bave been aware of this and laid their plans for approaching the bank of england by this the weaker portions of its de fences warren an Arneri annerl american dan dau who managed the plot was in no hurry and took care to gain a good footing before he ventured on his ultimate enterprise ho he behaved for homo gomo time just like an ordinary customer of good resources bie ble he tie drew upon u 0 n his balance and renewed it lt but kept it always at a good figure after a while he deposited some bills and they were good and genuine bills still he was waa careful not to be hasty and he continued his transactions with the bank until ho he had acquired the reputation of a person engaged in legitimate commerce and thoroughly trustworthy at length the moment came for the presentation of the forged bills they were discounted without hesitation and the authors of the fraud had to all appearance succeeded eded in safely pocketing about a hundred thousand pounds all these arrangements were masterpieces in ability and patience but the bills themselves the melves must have required aired the greatest amount of labor in n the first place many of the large firms upon whom the bills purported to be dra dna drawn wn are in the habit of using a peculiar kind of paper with certain water marks and printed matter all this would have to be imitated and as the bills were drawn on more than one firm there must have been several such imitations there remained the drawing of the bills and the affixing of the signatures and each b bill III ili must have required a series of feats in successful forging borgin some of the bills were backed ty by several acceptors cc cep p tors so that there might easily be as many as half a dozen signatures on a single bill yet the bills were so perfect that not one of them was questioned on the ground of tho the acceptances not appearing genuine but the man who exerted a skill foresight and perseverance sufficient to insure the unhesitating acceptance of forged bills could not escape on a trivial blunder which revealed the whole plot they presented two bills in which the date of the acceptance had been omitted an inquiry was of course made of the firm whose acceptance was thus undated and it was discovered that the bill was not genuine and the whole series were then found to be forgeries how much further the plot might have been carried it is impossible to say ray advertisements were published cautioning brokers bankers and all other persons against dealing in a number of united states five twenty ten forty and funded loan bonds bonda amounting in the aggregate to the loss to the bank of england is stated at eighty thousand pounds the are reported reported as one of the firms on which chic the for forged ed drafts were drawn but no otier otter other names are given five mortgages against the property of wm tweed since conveyed v by him to richard bichard NT weed on Broadway amounting toS to are now in course of foreclosure by cram on his own account and on account of ram barn and tater the associated press ress dispatches des patches say that the recall of minister de long is insisted upon because he is said sald to have involved himself in the difficulties existing between japan and another nation con contrary tinly to diplomatic law and usages and his relation with the state department are not entirely satisfactory this neutralizes the efforts of his hia pacific coa coast qt friends on his behalf his integrity does not seem in any way to be called into question NEW yobu york Deemas Dr authorizes autho r izes tho the announcement that commodore vanderbilt has hm given five hundred thousand to bishop of tho the southern methodist chuick church to establish a university in tennessee ST lewis llewis therb Is a strike of the engine drivers on the st lewis kansas hansu city and northern railroad caused by the employment of an engineer not belonging to the brotherhood the strikers keis were all discharged and other men kut put iut in their places the discharged men are breaking wreaking wre aking their vengeance b by y ow tapping to ping the water tanks throwing off the engines etc the governor has ordered two companies of militia to go up the tho road tomorrow to morrow to arrest the rioters the tho president has haa sent to the senate the nomination of wm A richardson as secretary of the treasury together with the rest of the cabinet now in of floo fico ST josepin JOSE Pir when the afternoon train on tho the north missouri R R arrived here today to day it was met by all the railroad employed emp loyes in the city who ordered the eng engineer L f neer r to leave the road they finally consented that he might return with the train and mails but hut refused to permit him to run the train if a single passenger got aboard A cabinet meeting was called by the president this am to consider nominations to the senate the president being desirous of completing this business in order that the senate may adjourn sine gine die at its convenience all the members excepting creswell were present it is probable that the president will today to day meno reno minate minato all the members of the cabinet with the tho exception of boutwell who resigns this pm judge richardson was nominated for secretary of the treasury this p in washington the president has nominated J S boreman associate j justice ustice of utah and A P K safford as governor of arizona NEW YORK IS 18 thi this am three ruffians entered the saloon of jacob schmidt east st beat him most unmercifully and stabbed his wife Cathari nein th three re epla e places c e A friend named jacob young 0 ng who hastened to assistance a nce nee was ws s stabbed in the abdomen john lubey whom the ruffians met in the street was also badly cut the wounds of schmidt his wife and young are said to be very dangerous NEW A robbery of bonds amounting to from th the c office of the president of the pennsylvania western B R R broad st on saturday is is reported reported this morning the thieves of whom there were two entered the office while the president was at lunch no arrests the bonds being of the company will be difficult to negotiate the board of supervisors are to investigate their clerk young who is charged with complicity in the ring frauds an albany letter says the proposed erie eric investigation has lias awakened much interest the lobby interest interests Q who had heretofore been heavily subsidized by gould and fisk are said to have instigated it owing to their failure to derive any thing from the present directors the management of the new york central road is a little alarmed as among the matters which will be gone into it is one just disclosed which shows that wm H vanderbilt Vanderbil fc had been voted thirty thousand dollars by tho the new erie directors for services in shaping le legislation isolation at that time gov D dix was vas president of the tile road washington v A delegation of colored men from baltimore headed by bishop Wayman called on the pre ident this morning in behalf of the retention of collector thomas of that port the president appointed frederick sawyer ex senator of south carolina assistant secretary of the treasury the members of the cabinet were sworn in at noon CHICAGO A A horrible murder was perpetrated here at a late hour last night a party of Irishmen who had bad been freely celebrating st patricks patrick day entered german ball room and soon became involved in a quarrel and a free freo fight ensued in the course courso of which anid auld an irishman named luto luke healey received a knife wound in the side of his head bead several of his companions then caught hold of albert goetz I 1 a young German whom they accused of having havins stabbed healey and holding him up bent his head back while healey drw dr w a knife across his throat cutting it from oar car to ear car and instantly killing him exhausted from loss of blood from his own wound the murderer fell insensible beside the corpse of his victim where he wag was found by the police and arrested most of healeyy He aleys companions were aiso aleo arrested A document was presented to governor dix to by several jurors in tho the foster case mso stating that conviction could never have been obtained but from the belief of the jurors that a recommendation to mercy would procure a commutation of olo OIL the fhe sentence to imprisonment for life ana and ask aak asking lug tho the nao governor dovenor to prevent the execution the governor said he would give the document careful consideration NEW dorithe iThe the irish laborers lately employed on the boulevards yesterday determined to clean out the italian laborers who replaced them at less wages today to day a large force of rioters marched where the italians were working but the police drove them away it is feared there will be trouble tomorrow to morrow the committee of investigating of the condition of the tombs report in favor of the demolition of the building fronting on centre street and the erection of an entirely new building washington col COI casays confirmation fir as collector of new orleans is earnestly opposed senator west ia Is against him but more he says in the interest of the state of louisiana than with the hope of defeating him it is said that the vote will be close the following have been appointed by the president to attend the vienna exposition practical artl arti lyman bridges ills geo A stanberry ohio scientific men J lawrence smith ky john A warder ohio A large large number 0 of honorary commissioners to the exhibition hibi tion have also been appointed quite a number of strikers were e arrested at moberly and several were captured yesterday at 1 lexington and placed in richmond jail another engine has been ditched at st charles the case of the rochester inspectors of election indicted for receiving the votes of susan B anthony and thirteen other women has been postponed until the may term NEW YORK no action has been taken at the meeting called for tonight to settle the eight hour question about which there is a difficulty at present between the master carpenters and the employed emp loyes TRE TRENTON trento nto N J in the house a preamble and resolution were offered setting forth that rumors of corrupting influences used among the members of the house were in circulation to secure the adoption or defeat of certain measures and it was waa resolved that a special committee be appointed to investigate the truth of said rumors and report as early as practicable adopted 53 to 0 the commissioner com loner ioner of internal revenue acting under the late decisions of the united states supreme court has rejected soven seven claims made by railroad companies for refunding taxes paid on interest of dividends and profits the president has made the following nominations E A thomas of new york associate justice supreme court wyoming jason B brown of indiana secretary of wyoming hiram latham surveyor general Wyo wyoming wyoma mn NEW nev YORK 19 it ibata Isata is stated ted that three prominent employed emp loyes of the erie railway have been suspended until investigation is made of their connection with tho the former management it la is stated in an albany letter that while ten thousand dollars which are accounted for were placed in the hands bands of attorney general barlow by timo tiro Engl engi english isil stockholders for use ube in effecting reforms in erie eric an additional sum of ten thousand dollars was waa paid by the erie eric directory for which no account is made one of the pal matters to be investigated is as to the late payment of dividend which it is charged was waa not justified by the earnings of the irbe road NEW YORK treasury agent jaynes reports thata that a well weil vcr vel known and respected wall street sugar importer who is 19 also bupt and member of tho the board of foreign missions I 1 has i as been detected in smuggling silks in su gar mar gar samples sample s which are passed free the extraordinary oha otA inary weight of tho the samples lampies excited suspicion the duty on the tho silks captured amounts to five hundred dollars dol doi lais and it is believed boli beil eved oved that the smuggling has been successfully cess fully carried ou on for a long time jaynes refuses to disclose the name of the culprit WASHINGTO washington 2 at the president declared to lo an becker beeker to dav day that tho tilo ruh lush fou far the eth of march far exceeded that of four years since when he first entered the white house and that what few appointments remained to be made he intended to dispose of at once an and thus get rid of the terrible pressure nearly all the patriots also some democrats who have turned against greeley and rebels who have turned radicals are imploring for their reward in the way of consulates etc the continued assaults on caldwell from both democratic and republican quarters encourage the hope ope that he will finally be expelled e d morton says he would not be surprised if his resolution declaring the seat vacant would bo be carried but this is not generally anticipated although the debate of the last few days has had the effect to make a perceptible gain of votes in the direction of expulsion conkling has the floor to day when an elaborate and technical argument is expected against the morton solution resolution le NEW YORK yanic there seems to be little doubt that george |