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The Steamer C. r. Bishop, Captain Cameron,
arrived on Tuesday forenoon, ii days from San
Francisco. She brings one days later files than
those to hand by the mail steamer
The Ohio continues to rise. Great distress at
CINCINNATI, and a number of lives Iost.-At
Cleveland, another deluge is feared. Lumber
piles are being anchored on the flats, and the
drift wood and ice gorges will be blown up with
dynamite. All practicable precautions are taken
against a threatened overflow.-At New Albany,
Indiana, the loss by food is no less than $780,
600. No lives lost. Farmers along the Ohio
suffer greatly, many losing their entire crops.
Six hundred families are homeless, many are
destitute. and the manufactures are stopped
Immense excitement at Louisville. Business at
a stand-still.
Drury John Tallant, senior member of the
banking firm of Tallant & Co., died on the night
of the 18th instant. He was u native of England
his age.
The non-arrival of the steamer City of To-
kio " ut San Francisco, from China, is causing u
little anxiety. She left Yokohama on january
24tb, and was, consequently, on her 2lst day
out on the 10Th instant.
j. G. Merrill & Co., have purchased the bark
Elsinore for $4,000. She is Il good, handy ves-
sci, and will be placed i'll the Honolulu trade.
Ex-Governor Morgan OF New York died on the
18th instant.
LONDON, Feb. 14th.-It is understood that the
interview between ex Empress Eugene and
Prime, Napoleon, ut F.trnsboroush, was most
cordial.
Wagner died at Venice ON the l4th Instant
from disease of the heart.
Archbishop McCabe OF Ireland is dead.
At II preliminary meeting of the Irish Parlia-
mentary party, 10 consider the action of the Irish
members III the House of Commons during the
session, P.,rnell was re-elected Chairman. 1t
was decided that IN am endment be made to the
address in reply to the speech from the throne
dealing witt the operations of the crimes act.
Regret was expressed at Healy's arrest.
BERLIN, Feb. 14.-Emperor William will per-
sonally devote much attention to settling the
difficulty in regard to the Danes in Schleswig-
Holstein. Negotiations have been opened for a
convention on the question.
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 14.-Protests have been
lodged at the American, French and Spanish con-
sulates at Casa Blanc against the brutality of the
Moorish Governor toward the Jews.
CoNsrANrINoPLE, Feb. lit is stated that
Count Corti, the Italian Ambassador to Turkey,
has been instructed to ask satisfaction for re-
newed insults to Italian officials in Tripoli.
Henry G. Langley, compiler of the San Fran
cisco Directory, died in that city on the goth
ultimo. In connection with John L.. O'Sullivan
and Samuel j. Tilden, Mr.. Langley established
the New York Daily and Weekly Morning
NeWs, whose great influence contributed much
to the election of Polk in 1874. Horace Greeley,
when i'll San Francisco in 1858, said that he
never met a stronger journalistic opponent than
Mr.. Langley.
Information has been received ut Brisbane,
Queensland, that a large, three-masted schooner
had been lost at the mouth of Fly River, New
Guinea. The crew, II in number, were killed
by the savages, their heads being cut off and
distributed among the native villages.
The Secretary of the U. S. Navy has recon-
mended the passage of a bill to compensate the
officers and crew of the late steamer Rodgers, for
the loss of personal effects, when the vessel was
destroyed to allow the mother of Master Put
nam of that vessel one years pay, and to reward
the natives of st. Lawrence Bay for Inequalities
extended the shipwreeked crew.