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TIE PENNSYLVANIA FLOODS.
Losses Over Braif n sIiIIiOn-WOrk I'm
the Coal Hiaes StOPPed-FeaFs that
the Worst Has Not Yet Been Expert
euced.

THO OBaAn 4uA1Co Sup CAAa AAcAN
the Worst Has Not Yet Been Expert
eueed.
PrrTsroN, March 1S.-The losses by the
food reach mOre than half a million dol
lars. The ice i3 again gorged at Ransom,
three miles above this place, TO the height
of twenty feet, and extending up the river
for about five miles. The Lehigh Valley
Railroad track is entirely covered with ice
six feet in height in the Narrows, two
miles north of here. They have a gang Of
yorkmen digging through and trying to
clear the track. 1t is impossible to say how
soon they can run through. No trains
have been able TO reach here yet from either
way. A great many mines in this locality
have stopped work on account Of hav-
ing no route left by which
TO ship their COIL. The greatest anxiety
exists in regard to the weather. Should it
become warm enough to move the gorge, it
will be even more destructive than Tues
days food.
SUNBURY, Pa, March 1S.-The pros
poets below NatsOntoWD, on the west
branch, are about the same this evening.
The town is is in no niger, but the farms
below are inundated and the river is run
ming through the fields. The gorge has
not moved. There is also large gorge be-
tween here and Selins' Grove, below the
dam, which contains part Of the bridges
which came down the North branch, and
which will likely carry of Selins' Grove
bridge when il moves.
COLUMBIA, PA, March 1S.-The ice in
the SusquehaIa river at this point COM
menced running this afternoon, and it is
still running plst in one continuous mass.
At P. NJ. it carried away the winding
bridge of the Iidewater Canal Company at
Wrightsviile, and moved one Of the piers of
the Columbia bridge, rendering the bridge
impossible foS trains. The ice and water
have done considerable damage to the
Pennsylvania railroad tracks west Of here,
piling the ice upon the tracks and delaying
the trains. Ii also swept down a great
many telegraph poles, cutting of photographic
communication with points between Co
lumbia and Harrisburg. Considerable dam
age has beer done to the Pennsylvania
Canal COmpary's towing path, tearing it
out, etc. Canal boats were washed on the
track of the Pennsylvania railroad at Mari
eta and stay there.
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would be regarded as capital stock,
and to that extent the road would be
forever exempt from taxation. The
charter says further that ''the road
with all its fixtures and appurtenances,
including workshops, warehouses, and
vehicles Of transportation, shall be ex-
empt from taxation for twenty years
from complexion 1t is the same
with the Memphis and Charleston,
East Tennessee and Virginia, Edge
field and Kentucky, Nashville and
Northwestern, East Tennessee and
Georgia, Memphis, Clarksville and
Louisville, and other roads Of less i'm
portance. The exemption clause IN the
Mobile and Ohio and In the Mississippi
Central is even more extended. 1t is
stated by the railroad authorities that
their roads were completed In various
years from 1857 to the present time.
So that they have from two to twenty
years to run before they can be taxed
without a violation of their charters.
It is also insisted with some reason, and
it may be correctly, that the four
years they were IN the hands
of the public enemy, because
of the inability Of the State to afford
them protection, cannot Re counted as
a part of the twenty years from their
completion. Hence we find the ques-
ton before the Legislature embarrass-
ed with grave constitutional doubts as
to the right to impose taxation at this
time. The Supreme Court of the
United States IN the Dartmouth Col
lege ease declared that the charters Of
corporations could not be violated by
subsequent legislation, could not be
altered or amended except with the as
sent of the corporations. With the
pressing demands upon the State for
means to meet her just obligations
it is of the highest Importance that
this difficult problem should be solved
as speedily as possible. The only
prompt and certain means to accom-
plish this which presents itself is for
the Legislature to propose an amend
ment to the charters of all the railroad
companies In the State to pay tax of
one per cent upon their gross earnings.
We suggest this because we learn that
the leading railroads in the
State are willing to accept Of
such an amendment. Taxation
may be enforced in this way. The
charters Of some of the banks were
amended before the war IN this same
manner. The tax on gross earnings
last year, when business was dull,
would have amounted to about $4,000.
With a return Of prosperity it would
soon run up to SI5O,OOO per annum.
This would prove a very decided re-
lief. The Legislature might very prop
erly enact that those railroads who de-
clined to accept such, an amendment
to their charter should be taxed as pro-
vided for In the bill which has passed
the Senate. In this manner the con-
stitutionaIity of its provisions might
be tested-by litigation With the contu-
macious companies. But to avoid the
laws deIayanduncertainty agree TO the
taxation Of one. per cent on the gross
earnings. We need the 100000 to
$4,000 which we can get from 1t this
year. Give US at least that much re.
lief.
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IninncfIon sustaIued.

Judge Wood rendered a decision sustain
ing the injunction against the Funding
Board prohibiting the issue Of consolidated
bonds in liquidation Of the States indebt-
edness to the leyee company. The Origi-
nal injunction was granted upon the petit
ton Of Col. ii. 5. AcCOmb.
Edwin d. Morgan and James A. Rayner,
have been appointed by Judge Wood re-
ceivers Of the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Railroad.
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SNOW Slide in Utah.

SALT LAKE, March lS.-A snow slide at
Liberty. Ogden Valley, yesterday morning
at S O'Clock, destroyed one house occupied
bv a family Of SIX persons, named Burt.
Five of them were taken out badly hurt.
A little child was not found. Several more
snow slides occurred in little Cottonwood
Canon, with considerable destruction OF
property, but no loss Of life.
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NEW ORLEANS.

Destructive Fire-TWO Persons Sup
posed Persisted in the Flames.
New ORLEANS. March 1S.-The front
Of the square on Delord street, between
Rampant and Dryade, including ThOmp-
sons stable and about twenty animals were
burned. Loss 100000, mostly insured in
local companies. Several firemen were in
iured, and a negro man and a white woman
are believed to have been burned 70 death.
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AMONG the many sufferers on that slip
perry, iCe-bOund New Years eve in Paris
was an old maD, who was forced to sit upon
the pavement. When found in the lonely
street on which lie fell, he Rad lost con-
seriousness and was frozen fast. The 81
maritans who came to his aid were too
eager to remove him, and, as acOnsequence
of their haste, left in the ice much Of his
clothing and more Of his skin. A skiilful
surgeon patched the broken part with the
skin Of a new-slain lamb, and that's how
he comes to have wool in the place where
the wool OnghLn't TO crow.
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FOREIGN.
a Concession to German Priests.
The Religious Revival in England
Recess of the French Assembly.
GERMAEY.
A ConeessIon 20 the Priests.


BERLIN, March IS.-In consequence of
the petition Of the Archbishop Of Cologne
to the Landstag, against that part Of the
ecclesiastical bill which gives the people
participation in the control Of local church
property, the government has had the bill
altered so as to give the priests a share in
the administration Of such.
To-day the main clauses of the bill with
drawing State grants from Roman Catholic
bishops were passed by overwhelming ma
jorities. An ultramOntane member, amid
loud protests, read the Papal encyclieal.
Prince Bismarck took part in the discus
sion. He insisted that it was the impera-
tive duty Of the State not to pay fOmenters
Of insuuectiOn.
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CINCINNATI.
Conviction OF the lanyard Murderer.

Conviction or the lanyard Murderer
CINCINSATI, o., March IS Andreas
Egner, who has been on trial several days
for the murder of Schilling, or what is
commonly known as 'the lanyard muir
der" was to-day found guilty Of murder in
the first degree. The jury were ont about
twenty hours.
A severe snow storm is reported through
Southern IndiaIa and Ohio to-day and
night, although none has fallen here.
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GoLD fish now abound in the lower Po-
tomac. and are caught in al the seines
that are hauled. They sprang from two
or three Of the fish that escaped few
years ago from the fountain at the capitol,
in Washington, through a sewer into the
Potomac.
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AT last here is a new fancy in the pres
tidigiLation line. Ee borrowed q bonnet
from a lady in the audience, and as he
was about to return it it caught fire in the
gas, and he had to stamp on it with both
feet 10 extinguish the fame. Misery Of
the ladyl Il was her best bonnet. Then
be fired a pistol, and a bonnet just like il
fell from the chandelier in the middle Of
The theatre.
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GRANTS course In regard to nomina-
tons for Office since the special session
of the Senate began, shows that he has
no mind of his own. He has. been I'M
usually changeable within the last
forty-eight hours.
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THE Republicans Of Cincinnati, feel
ing that they could not elect a candi-
date Of their own party, have held a
convention and nominated old John
Robinson, the Snowman, for Mayor. 1t
was intimated by the Enquirer, the
other day, that old John was using the
Republicans as an advertising dodge
for his bic show.
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FOREIGN NOTES BY CABLE.

The bullion in the Bank Of England in
creased EZ2S,OOO last week.
The General South American Banking
Company Of London has suspended, with
liabilities amounting TO Sl,50G,O00.
The specie in the Bank Of France has
increased 100000 francs the past week.
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Punch furnishes this inscription for the
front Of the idiot asylum founded by Mr..
Holloway, who made his fortune IN ''pat-
ent medicines:'-
ssrSot eft is fate 50 just-see wealth restored
Back to the simple source from which Il pour
ed
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This brief and solemn dialogue be
tween two Of the country's most devc-
ted patriots is said, by the Washington
correspondent Of the Boston Advertiser,
to have taken place in the United
States Senate at the close of Senator
Christiancy's speech on Louisiana ::
Gas Mr.. Christiancy ceased speaking,
Mr.. Logan leaned over his desk and
said to MIR. Boutwell,: That man has
gone over to the Democrats No.
replied Boutwell,, he had gone over
before.'n
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rsc,za ~ ConvIcts az Lizzie Rock.

LITTLE Rock, ARK, March 1S.-About
ten o'clock this forenoon ten convicts, en-
ployed in making brick above the city, re-
VOTED. o-eTp5wered the guard and escaped.
One was Killed by q guard during the
melee. All except two OF the con7icts
were recaptuTed during the day.
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Hon. FERNANDO WOOD has not the
slightest recollection Of the amendment
made in the late Congress by which the
postage OF third class matter has been
doubled, and explains as follows:
''The great fault Of our system Of legis-
Iation IN Congress was that during the
lass few days Of the session thegreatest
confusion prevails, and many bills pass
without the possibility Of any proper
action being taken upon them.
During the last session of Con-
gress ne had not been absent
from his seat single day,
and had been exceptionally attentive
to the proceedings Of the House, but
it was impossible for anyone to know
all that vas done at the close. The
act IN question, he presumed had been
reported upon by the Committee
on Postoffces and Postroads IN the
usual way, and the parties who we're
responsible for its contents were the
members Of that committee. Mr.. Wood
then went on to describe the scene Of
confusion that invariably prevails dur
ing the last days Of a session.
The members crowded around The
Clerks desk, and each handed IN his
own bill and devoted his entire ener-
.gies to having it passed, apparently
not caring whether any other was
PASSED or not. The noise and din
were very great on such occasions, and
many acts were passed Of which the
majority Of the members were utterly
ignorant until after the adjournment
of the session"
In view Of the present condition of
affairs in our Legislature, and the fact
that there remain but five more work
mo days Of the constitutional term,
NAV we not suggest that the above
should be carefully studied by the
Senate. as an example "more honored
in the breach than the Observance"
We say the Senate-because the
House has already doneits worst. Had
Gen. Sheridanmarched his soldiers into
the Hall of Representatives, on Wed
nzday last, and dispersed that body at
the point Of the bayonet, he would have
dealt a blow TO Tennessee less deadly
than was aimed by the men who sit
there as the custodians of her dearest
interests and her most sacred honor.
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s.o, s,or,, in the Northwest.

OMAHA, March lS.-The worst snow
sto-m of this winter set in during last
night. Snow fell to the depth Of seven CT
eiEht inches, and drifted badly By high
winds.
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SPAIN.

The Demand for the ExfradifiOn OF
Don Alfonso.
LONDON, March 10, 6 A. M.-The
Spanish Government has requested Austria
not to permit Don Alfonso 10 reside in
Austrian territory. Among the crimes of
which he is accused and on which
Spain bases her demand on Austria for his
extraditiOn, are murder, arson and rape.
A correspondent Of the Times teleqaphs
that Gen. Coberra holds letters from the
highest officers Of the Carlist army APPROX
ing his course.
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TIE lazy schOOlbOy who spelled Andrew
jackson "&ru JaxOn" has been equalled
by 8 student who marked the first OF
half dozed shirts "J0hn Johnson and the
rest adO.1
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UNION AND AMERICAN.

GOLD opened and closed at 1169,
yesterday, in New York, with sales at
116ss.
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IN Wilmington y. c., a Baptist clergy
man ofiiciated at the funeral Ct a jew, de-
Iivering a sermon from an Old Testament
text, and avoiding any cOntroyerted points.
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AMONG the articles in a box Of dona-
tions lately sent to Kansas was a tract en-
titled "1he Wickedness Of GlUttOny."
It must have been rather aggTavaling, un-
less, indeed, it was intended for the grass
hOppeUs.
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RUSSIA.

ST. PETEF sBURG, March 1S.-The Gar
has ratified the Berne Postal Convention.
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ELSEWHERE we publish an arti-
Gle from the NelU Orleans Times IN an
swer to a summons Of a Legislative
committee which has been appointed
TO investigate the charge of bribery
and corruption against the members
from Shelby IN the matter Of Johnson s
election to the United States Senate.
In its editorial the Times takes occa-
sion to refer to gentlemen connected
with the Ledger as probably
in possession Of some OF the
facts which it has suggested or alluded
to as existing on the subject. The
Times is altogether mistaken. We
know nothing at all in regard to the
charge that paperhas suggested against
the nine" Shelbyitas; never heard Of
1t until the Times gave 1t publicity, and
didn't believe there was one word Of
truth in it when we read It We have
taken several occasions to say as much.
Memphis Ledger.
1t may be added that an Appeal re-
porter interviewed the other parties
mentioned by the Times, and that all
of them were most positive in denying
that they had any knOwledge Whatever
Of a corrupt arrangement between Mr..
johnson and the Shelby delegation.
Now let US have a rest. As we are all
virtuous, why should we not be happy
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TENNESSEE BONDS were, strange to
say, 1c higher IN New York, yesterday,
closing at IS.
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COTTON higher and steady in New
York, closing yesterday at l63Gl64c
for middling upland.
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THE Northwest has been visited by.
another severe snow storm.
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BEECHER'S DEFENSE.
The Plymouth Church Records Pro-
daced-A Prospect CT Defendant TAX.
Er,a, lI,e witness stand Next Week.

NEW YORK, March 1S.-When the
Brooklyn City Court was opened, this
morning, nearly the same crowd OF
spectators was in attendance as
on previous days Of the Tilton-Beecher
case. The day was taken up with the con-
tinuatiOn Of Rev. Mr.. Holidays testimony.
He is Beecher's assistant, and produced the
Plymouth Church record hook, showing the
proceedings Of the Examining Committee
r-han the SCANDAL hrnke out.
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Scandal Scrapings.
New York Sun.

Tilton is hard at work preparing points
for Mr.. Fullerton for BeecheT's cross-eXam-
iualiOn. and It Is intimated that a vigorous
COMPARISON IS to be wrought out between
TiltOn's views Of marriage and divorce
and the great defendants, and the views
of the two men on theological points. The
theory is that they did not think widely
apsrt. and that BeecheT was the first to
have Stephen Peal Andrews in his house
to deliver a free-love lecture. The lawyers
are "cramming'' theology, looking over the
Christian Union files, and copying Mr..
BeecheT's printed writings.
st. Louis Globe.
The suit is against Beecher, but Tilton is
being tried now. When they get through
with him, they viii try his witnesses. As
for the innocence Of BeeCher, that is the
last question that the defense seems likely
to bother itself about.
Cincinnati Commercial.
The defense claim that they are steadily
/ and surely breaking down the case for the
plaintiff. That case so far Is disclosed rests
I on the evidence Of Theodore TltOn and
| bIr. and Ms. MOulton, and upon what may
be called the documentary evidence in
Inc case. mainly the letters written
/ Inv Bsecher. The evidence for the
| defense thus far is directed mainly against
! the credibiiity of Tilton aud Moulton.
! They have also been engaged thus far in
proving that TiltOn is himself responsible
| for the publication Of the scandal; that he
was disposed to profit by If; that he did
profit by If; that bis alliance with Mrs.
/ woodruff was OF his own choice, and that
/ it had nothing to do with the
Baecher difficulty, except so far as
| TfIton brought it ON as a part of the stock
| in trade. TiltOn and MOultOn stand
| substantially on the same ground. The
| defense further claim that TiltOn's testi
monv is opposed on material points by
sworn witnesses, namely, CoTley, Harman,
Schultz, Cook, Halliday, Mrs. Mitchell,
! and bv the True Story" Mrs. MoultOn's
testimony and the documents in the case
are vet TO De explained, and this task wall
/ doubtless devclve mainly on Beecher him
self who will probably take the witness
/ stand next week.
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Ratification of Hawaiian Treaty,

VIII the Senate Sustain Grant?
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vascillatiOns of the President.
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WASHINGTON.

Arrest of a Bounty swindIer.
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PinchbaeIzs' "vIctOry."

DlNNA4A u NL-I NAAlllAlAlALA NUAll Cld4s
The postpOnement of tue decision in the
PiBchback case was mere political juggle.
The more It's oEigin and purpose are under
stood the more clearly it appears that the
delay was secured solely to further the
ends Of ambitious political adgenturers.
1t was like a Butler trick. Indeed, it is
very positively stated that Ben Butler was
one Of the three persons who planned it.
The majority Of the thinking men in the
Republican party to-day agree that Senator
Logan was right when be said that
his party associates were committing a
great political mistake. The indica-
tioDs are that it will realize Talley-
rand's definition of q political blunder.
something worse than a crime. The de-
lay plesseS none but the opponents Of the
Wheeler Louisiana Arbitration. To &C
complish this was the purpose of this par
lamentaTy trick. 1t was known here that
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FIRE {NSU7ANCE.
E0UTTAB BILE

CAPITAL. SI.OOO.OOO
TWENTY PER CENT PAID Up
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". ". BERRY, Pres't. VIA WEBB, See .
A G. ADiHS, Vice President.