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Erie Legislation Progressing in New
York.
ALBANY. March 1.-THE Assembly tonight
passed TO a third reading the SOuthmayd CLASH
fcation repeal bill, appointing the election of a
new board of directors in July. 1t has been
amended so as to require the directors to be cit
liens and residents of the United States. The
bill is similar to one passed tonight by the SEN
ate, excerpts that the latter prohibits the direc-
tors of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
from being directors in the Eric Road.
LATER-The Erie classification repeal bill
finally passed the Senate tonight. The vote
stood % to , Several motions to amend were
voted down.
The Hudson river is open TO West Point.
Special Matamoras dispatches reiterate the
capture of Seacatoreas by the Government
The recapture of Seacatoreas by the Govern
ment troops is officially announced, after the
signal defeat of the rebels who had concen-
trated there. The rebel leaders with small
body of cavalry escaped.
COLUMBUS, March 15.-Hon. Samuel Gallo
way is hopelessly sick.
CONCORD March l5.--Addtional returns re-
duce Straw probable majority to 100.
AUGUSTA, March 15.-The Directors of the
Georgia railroad have agreed to endorse 81, co.,
900 worth of bonds of the Augusta and Port
Royal Railroad The Georgia Road is to get
81, 2OO,0 600 worth of stock, which will be a con-
trolling interest The matter is to be submitted
to the stockholders of the Georgia Road for rat
ifcation.
WARRENToN, March 4-TheConference was
in session until after II o'clock this morning,
Bishop Paine finishing reading the appoint
ments at II o'clock, midnight. Resolutions
complementary to Bishop Paine, presiding Off
GERS, and Rev. Geo. B. Brook, late Sunday
School Agent, were passed. The Conference
adjourned at 1910 A. NJ, to meet again in Balti-
more on the first Wednesday in March, 1873.
COLUMBIA, March 15.-Among the measures
which became laws previous to the adjourn
ment of the Legislature at midnight on We'd
nesday, was the repeal of the act creating
standing funded debt This, with other legisla-
ton in the direction of financial reform, rem
ders it impossible to increase the bonded debt of
South Carolina in any manner,
CINcINNATI, March 14-Dodworth's di>til-
lery has been burned.
NEw York, H.-Eries advanced to forty
one and quarter with considerable oc-
tvity
Another one Of the numerous children bitten
by a mad dog in Brooklyn is died of hydropho-
bia.
The bark, Sarah Sloan, from ST. Johns
hence to Cuba, was lost with all on board.
Mrs Lucy D. Fisk, widow of Col. Fisk, has
been made defendant in the case of Mansfield
vs.. Fisk.
ST. LUIS, March i5.-The revolt in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary has been subdued. One per-
son was shot and others were bludgeoned. The
plan was to OverpOwer the guards and then rob
and burn the shops.
MEMPHIS, March IA hack driver named
r. J. Vance, alias FattJ Maginnis, ard George
Crowley, a waiter in the Continental Rcstau-
rant were arrested last night as the supposed
murderers of Mr.. Atkinson, who was found dead
in the woods near Horn Lake, Mississippi, last
month.