The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1875, Page 10

fae TM ANGRY. RIVERS View of the Rain W aol Along | Their Banks. | { ——<——K Immense Gorges Still Existing at Va- | rious Points. i } SUSQUEHANNA | cadeeed SCENES ON THE —— | Greater Floods Apprehended | Ere the Ice Dissolves. | | bridge at this place only a vas PORT DEPOSIT AGAIN IN PERIL. Miners Driven from the Coal Shafts by the Water. Bridges To Be Speedily Re- built. THE BLOCKADE OF THE RAILROADS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. GENERAL VIEW OF THE DISASTERS PAST AND ANTICIPATED. Pirrston, Pa., March 18, 1875. The general press despatch sent irom Scranton ast night, which asserted that West Pittston | stood between two foods, is incorrect. The im- | pression that such a calamity might occur proba- bly arose from the {act that the postion of the town tureaters a catastrophe of sucn & mature. The river, which flows ior many miles above West Pittston im a southeast: | erly course, turns almost abruptly as tt approaches | the northern part of the town, and runs fn a | carved line easterly a short distance, when it | changes, and takes @ due southerly course, This | jeaves the upper end of West Pittston open to the | actacks Of te foods as they are precipitated from | the north. There are evidences that some | time in the past a channel has made | its way aloug the western end of the | town at the base of the mountains, and it is thought that this was tne original course of the fiver. When the ice became dammea on Tuesday night and forced the water back it was feared | tuat the river would take its ancient channel, in | the event of which the whole town must have been quickly submerged; but the ice gorge below here giving way saved us this | Bwiul calamity for the present and spared ne finest town in the Wyoming Valley | from destruction. A great deal of water was forced buck by the dam into the course Spoken of, and, a8 tt subsequently receded, it lett Its precious trail behind in shapeless masses of Tagged ice cakes, piled irom tem to twenty feet Righ, Some idea of THE STRENGTH OF THE ICK May be formed when it becomes known thatit | Varied in thickness irom two to even four feet. Many of the blocks are clear as crystal and as soliu. The impeliing force of @ terrific Nood-power hurling these siabs, which in many cases are dozens of feet square, against the banks and other intervening objects can better be iinagined than described. In one instance, at the yaucuon the other night, a single cake, about six Jeet square and turee feet thick, Was hurried by she Jury oi the waters over ao ice embankment teu leet high, and then, striking a smali bara about | two rods distant, shiverea 1¢ into @ shousana pieces, ‘Ihis is given 48 an illustration of tne aWiul force of the waters, THE APPEARANCE OF THE RIVER. To-day it bas beeu very ciear, but cold, The sun | shone irom am unciodded sky, but its warmta | M2de No 1wpresgion upoa the rocky ridges of ibe | r.ads Or the snow-mantied siopes of the moun- | talus, Tue river fell @ iittle, bur this augurs naught jor the peace of the future. What 13 Mortaily dreaded, ana with good cause, tov, is tue release O; the ice dikes above. Stauding on she bilitops in tne northern portion of West Pitt | ston, tue awiul barricade may be ovserved. It comes Gown across the river ajmost in a straight (ue, While at 1s base the peut waters vuvbdie up ih tremendous iury as tuey escape irom below te @ochored ice for @ nheignt o1 ten, filteen and even twenty feet above the suriace. Tne imprisoned giaciers sparkle and jut out in ragged disorder for at least ten miles up the river. Giancing upwara along the lofty Mountain siopes, toe eye is Gazz! by the scitiliations Of tae Continuous snow felus Wahicn still exist aud which are terrible reminders ot — jury which is locked in their rigid emorace. A PICTURE OF WOE AND WARNING, | and many asad eye gazes upon it to-night, not | knoWing what the morning may bring Of ruiu and | disaster. Bebind tus iearia: gorge the people are aware tuat others exist jurther up | the river, Is it any wonder, then, that the excitement is deep aud terrivie? There is no tell. ing how Oiten this heavy qass of ice, when it Starts, May stop ou its way and force cack rhe | Waters, fit would only ran out wheu It is once jet loose there would not be so mauy appreben. sions; but tne circuitous course o! the river belo the twists and turns it takes, cue pumverii small islands which cross it are 1ormidabie barriers, Whico besiege US and which obstrnccions to | & general outgolog Oi the vroKen iragments and the Hood, Lhere is scarcely a singie residence Withio @ quarter of a mile back irom the river, | nd for at least a bail mile along its lengtu, woich 18 not toe home of wealth and refinement. art has done much to enbance woe natural beauties of the locality, abd magnificent dwellings, Daut after the most improved mouern styles, rise ou all wides, Jt has veen ascertained tuat in a tew ine stances very serious damages have been done by food of Tur Hangsome structures tuem com That this litue wiii come is alm rs tan. Tuere appears to-uigut to ve no prospect ar Guytalog else MINES FLOODED. Tuere was a great deal of excitement to-day in town, caused by tue announcement toat several Coal mines |ocated near the junction were being flooded by tue how of back water, A suosequent eXamination proved this iact—-hat the ‘Rough owned by private indi- god Reudy” mine, was corapletely filed by the in- the water. it came from the River, the waters of which Pusoed back, The mises are Feudered useless tor some time, and wuen the wap them @ loss to the owners will, of course, be ery heavy, Wuatis kKoown ag the Twin Suait, Soother mine located near toe “Rough and Ready,” vegan to Gi up aiso; but the strenuous eifor's of a gang Oo! men s an embargo upon the di ton ui @ saitable da Weality have been th Many otuer mines iu this jaied Up, and it i thougnt | epe damage by the anticipated foods of | tee luture, | TILDING & BRIDGES. | A Meeting (ge directors of tne New Bridge Company was heid to-vay, and it was resolved that the Work Of revuildiog the handsome struc- tare that Was swept away oo Tuesaay vignt shail begin &8 #000 a® the Copdition of the river will permit. AS Was stated to @ previous despatch, Ubree spans O/ the Hooded bridye ile intact about three miles below here. They ure resting quietly to the ie ‘ormied there, and to-day a ii oa went Gown to endeavo: “as much of tne bridge as pos. An ‘he girders ‘e ail = jastened er With iron bars clamped on the opposite of Wooden beams with fanges whic it is thougat, by uascre wing (aese fan 6 ¥ ole siruciure can ve removed pises vy puede in 'y ehors t {tte very coid to-night, with @ ciest unclouded sky aud the light of tue moon Bove the Garth Wich awiivery radiance and anords @ good opportunity to work through the pigat uours. THE SITUATION aT WILKESBARRE—KXINGSTON THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION—aA CEMETARY | TORN UP BY THE WATERS, WILKES BARR, Pa., Maron 18, 1875, wEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875.--TRIPLE SHEET. were uvoged and & cow and a number of chickens Just below here the Pittston | supposed, drowned in @ barn, pried? are jammed up in the ice in tne main | uanuel, Forsome distance above this station, ' a nearly two miles below, the track of the rail- road 18 covered with water and large cakes of ice. Nearly all the oMcials of the Letigh Vatiey Railroad are now in this city, and a toice of mea has already been set to work in removing the ice, At Forty Port, alittle below and on the opposite side trom Plainville, the ice is piled up very high | and turns the water out of the channel, The water a @ way through the beautilul Forty Fort Ceme- y and swept down, flooding the fats and rashed (it as this fact that makes tne situation so much more deplorable, There were, be jore the food rendered hundreds homeless, | throu nthe main stieets of Kingston, Ming cele | nd drowning chickens, pigs aud cattle, The us were badly frigutened, Bi were rowed through some of the principal street ‘rom Kingston to Wilkesbarre tae distance 18 ope mile, and the water spread across the Dats between the two places 10 an incredibly Short space oftime, A barn Was swept away whica bad stood | the floods of many years, and bo tences Whatever are leit. Huge pdoulders of ice were carried along with such lerce as to Knock dowo abd tear up great trees. | Ail the telegraph poles on the fla:s are down, and commanication in that way cap only be bad by Way 01 Seranton, From seen unt the eye reaches Kingston, A house close by bas anice boundary ail aroand it, the cakes being piled against 1b 28 high us the tops of the first story widows. The sireet railway 14 covered with massive boulders of ice, which ore heaped upon each otuer im some places to the | beight of ten or filteen feet. In tins city the Water has ceased ranulng over the banks of the canal. ‘The cold weather of last night froze the wat in many cellars to the depth of several inches. ‘Yne bridge, which has stood the floods of lorty- eignt years, isin a dangerous situation. A thaw will set the ice in motiog, and 1 it does not carry off the structure the Pittston bridges will sweep down and destroy it, sears ure expressed by the residents of the Kingston side of the river thay anotner rise Ol the water above would be stopped by the gorge apd torced through the channel already formed through the cemetery and sweep down hpou Kingston. This would save Wilkes- barre further damage by allowing the ice to melt away gradually, bul great damage would be dove to Kingston and many jarmers would be ruimed. ene weather has not moderated any. A com- tee from tne stocknolders of the Wilkesbarre bridge drove to Pittston to-day and asked per- mission of the officers of the bridge companies there to destroy the bridges whica were swept away and are now lodged above tis city, in oraer to prevent their desceot upon this one, ‘The omi- cers gave their consent, ana preparations ace how beimg made to burn the bridges at an eary hour to-morrow moruing. It will take teo days to clear the Lenigh Valiey Railroad of ice shouid the water [all and there be no other rise. Trere fre no mails porch trom here. Mrs. scott Siddons 18 reading in Music Hail, which is dimly ligated by lamps and is without tre, the water in the basement having put out the Gres, FOBCE OF THE WATER AT COLUMBIA. COLUMBIA, Pa., March 18, 1875, The ice in the river commenced running here at hali-past two this afternoon and is stil! ranping past in one continuous mass at this bour, eight P. M. It carried away the windivg bridge of the Tidewater canal Company at Wrightsville, and moved one of the piers of the Coiumbia Bridge twenty-eight inches out of its place, rendering the bridge impassable for trains. The ice and water bave done considerable damage to the l’ennsyl- vaula Ratiroad tracks west oi here, piling ice upon them and rendering the passage of trains impos- sinle, It also swept down @ great many telegraph poles, cutung off telegraphic communication with points between Columbia and Harrisburg. Con- siderable damage bas been done to tue Pennsyl- vania Canal Company's towing path, tearing 1s out, &c, Canal boats were washed on the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Marietta ana re- | main there. The houses, turnaces, &c., were all inundated at Chickies. The only losses reported are those Of parties who had raits carried off. THE DANGER PASSING NEAR HARRISBURG. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 1, 1875, Tue ice 1s passing dowa qnuietiy and the water has falien eighteen inches. No danger 18° appre- hended in tnis vicinity. The ice gorge at Watson- town has caused a heavy rise in the Susquehanna, and the water is within jour tee: o: the flood mark of 1865, At Chickles the ice is gorged above aud pelow. Tne water rose five feet in ove hour, but is now falling slowly, without damage. CONDITION OF THE RIVER 4T HARRISBURG. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 18, 1875, Tne Susquehanna River rose four feet in twenty minutes here this morning, and attained a depth of sixteen feet above low water, when it rapidly receded. The Pennsylvania Railroad, between this clty and High Spire, was covered witm ice and water, trees, &c., for a distance of three or four miles. The obstructions have been removed; bat between Bosinsbridge, eign- teen miles eé or Harrisburg, and Columbia, for a distance of nine miles the track | of the Columbia Division of the Pennsylvaaia Railroad is covered with water from four to fliteea leet deep. Four or five houses and @ Dumber of stables, with nine canal boais, bave been swept across tue track. ‘The torce of the food dislodged an Island oppo- gite tnis city aad Carried it down the stream, THE ICE GORGE AT HOOPER. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., March 18, 1875, The ice gorge at Hooper is s+ttiing and the water is gradually wearing channels underneath, 0 thatt ¢ course of tue river is not likely to { be changed. Hooper is a smail village, and stands up out of danger. Farms and | roads are inundated considerably by back Water 80 as to prevent travel with teams, but the tarm houses are out of the water and are im DO | 112 k1 deep wit water, Whicn 1s jrozen over, reat danyer. Close inspection of the gorge to- jay BHOws that it 19 mot more than three miles | long and from one-eighth to one-iourth of a mile | wide, and is made up mostly of small cakes of ice. ‘The ice joosened jor a mile and a half below the gorge tothe Union Vilisge bridge Jast evening, but did not vreak op. Unioa Village is not in great danger. The present site of the gorge isin @ nest of islands, all of which are completely covered, as are nearly all of the bushes marking toe river oauks. ‘rhe waier sets back a Little at Bingbamton, but the city is in no danger. THE BREAKING UP AT SUNBURY. Sunsvry, Pa., March 18, 1875, The ice gorge here broke at nine o'clock last night and went over the dam safely, beiore the great gorge between here and Danville came, which started soon after, bringing away with it several bridges and completely tearing away the public bridge between here and the Island, and knocking oge span out of the other bridge from the Island to Northumberland. ‘The ratiroad bridges are sale, naviug been heavily Joaded with peg cars, But lor the prior starting of the ice at tuls piace, before tne gorge reached here irom above, the town would have been compieteiy flooded, The ice in the West Branch is gorged from Wat- Sontown to Milton, and the water is spreading over the farms below Watsontown, ana irom there down the ive 1s not broken. The water at Wat- SontOWD is Witoin jour iset eleven inches of being oe bigh asthe great food of 1865. Selin’s Grove bridge is ali right thus far. The We-t Uraucn is rising tbere siowly, and is about ten feet above low water mark. Tne North Branch is stil! falling at Danville. The water Was up to Mili street—the ie et—between the old Post Ufice and Lack, jd Bloomsburg Raiiroad. 1c wa ei'Srs aud up to the window will past. THE CONOWINGO BRIDGE THREATENED. ConowinGo, Md., March 16—8 P, M, river has risen ten feet in the last two of some of ihe house: Ali danger 1s now The | hours, The bridge here will douotless go. PORT DEPOSIT AGAIN ENDANGERED. Port Deposit, Md., Marca 18, 1975, The river is rising rapidly here to-night and Some anxiety ts ‘eit, Great quantities of back ice are coming Gown, and if it gorges velow it will occasion trounie here, 9:20 P, M.—fne river is still rising and immense quantities of ic+ and some timber are passing aows, Tue railroad is covered in some plac .MmThe river haw been rising rapidiy all this @ nj ‘ihe depot is pow aimos: sur. rounded Gad the telegrapa oMce may bave to ve @bandoued during the night. outing ice, runnin Tate of twenty a hour, Suouid @ gorge an form at Havre,de Grace is will cause great de- struction here, 4 TELEGRAPH OPERATOR DROWNED OUT. PUILADELPHIA, arch 10—1:45 A, M, The telegraph operator at Port Deposit ieit bis oM@ce in @ boat at midni, Since then Bothing bas been heatd trom. hia, 'o farther in- | boss, go Way Irom dar!’ | ong o: the houses hearest the river, | battering against uis nouse, and the lower end | owners generally, are besieged with seekers aiter once testify that they are greater than bas been | ‘The loss of the bridges, while a great | public calamity, still falis pecuniarily on moneyed | corporations, Tue other damage is done to people, the most well-to-do of whom have nothing more | than what tuey have earned by their daily jabor. | | The bulk of the joss must be borne by a class | Whose social position 1s just beyond the boundary ; line of Want; whose ail—the accumulation of years of toli—was contained in the mean shanty or the more respectable frame dwelling. | over 200 pensioners on public bounty in this town, Their number will now be largely increased by recruits forced into the ranks by yesterday's deluge. It is well that the winter is about over, else this place would sbow such scenes of misery agseldom afflict tue sighs of any community, iverything 18 being done to render the lot of the homeless and ruined laborer and mechanic as comfortable as possible, INUNDATED FLATS, The sudden change in the weather has frozen the acres of water that stil lie on the flats at and around Germantown to a thickness of two inches, ‘The Erie Raliway fat, around which runs the cir- cular switch on which stood the coal dumps that lormea the barrier tothe food, saving a great part of the train, still contains twenty-live acres of water irom three to five feet deep. A number of outhouses, some dead pigs and iarge quantities of stray furniture, stable ixtures, &c., are frozen in this small lake, and it 1s covered with men, women and children looking for lost articles and chopping them out of the ice when found. Others are gatbering firewood from the driit, firm be- lievers in the adage that “t's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” I visited the fooded district this morning and entered some of the houses from which the in- mates were driven. To reach Germantown it is necessary to climb over acres of ice piled up in every conceivable position over the avenues lead- ing to the place. The flat over which the road to Germantown passes 18 buried beneath cakes of ice whose proportions raise them almose to the dignity of icebergs. Through this mass no path or pas: ‘hes. Crushed in vais glacial mass, or car- Tied jar from their joundations by its irresistible flood, are hundreds of bumbie dwellings. Some ol these have escaped total destruction, but many of them are wrecks, Still their unfortunate own- ers are heaving the ice away irom avout them, in the hope that alter they are once reached a slight outiay fur repairs will make them again in- habitable. “Ferry street, River street, McAlister street and a@ ulmber oi others can scarcely be .befound neath the covering of ice. A WOMAN'S HEROISK, The most deplorable case 1 met with In German- town Was that of Patrick Creighton and ‘is fam- lly, Creighton was long an industrious empioyé of the Erie Railway Company. kight months ayo he Jost his leg 1m its service. Since then his wiie and nine smail children ave had a severe struggle with want, as he has been unabie to work. ‘Lucy lived In a story and @ half frame house on tne nuts, The coming ot the flood was sudden tbat it was sweeping over the flats belure the people had hardiy received the Warning. Creighton’s neigh- | bors fied on every hand, Belore one oi the very | Jew articles that composed his househcid goods | could be gathered up the great blocks of ice were was knocked Gut and the water and ice began | pouring in, Mrs. Creighton seized her crippled husband and driving the chiidren out atthe iront door, started with him in her arms tor saier quarters, She isa slight woman and he a neavy Tuan. ‘the flood was gaining on chem, when they were seen by some Oo: the neigndors aod aid was given toem just im time to save their lives. ‘ney just everything. 1 could but express to pt Creighton this morning my admiration jor tue | bravery she displayed 1 saving her helpless hus- | band, “O, sit, it was nothing, shure. But would you | Dilave, sir, tuat whin Pat found the watver was upon us, he says to me, ‘Patme down, darlint, an’ Save yersill.’”” INDIFFERENCE T0 DANGER, Among the houses Carried from their founda- tions Ove, a small one, Was poimted out, standing several jeet Irom its original site. It was sur. rouaded by large cakes of ice, and looked lixe anything bat habitable structure, An oid lady stood in tne door, however. quietly smoking her | pipe and viewing the prospect us Mu noching strauge had occurred, “My good woman,” I said, “nave you no place to — that you move back into your house so soon’ “Move back, 1s it?’? she exclaimed. “Divil a vit did I move Out ut ail, me Gariiut.”” ‘This was @ stunuver; but further inquiry in the neighborood proved thal ine old lady told toe truth. Just pelore the fvod came Policeman Eis- ton went to her house and told her that sue must get out. “ait out, 15 At, ye spalpeen? Isn’t tuisme own house, snure ? The oficer replied that the flood was coming aud she was in danger. she replied that she was Not wiraid of tue foud. “But your house will be knocked to hell |’? ex- claimed the policeMan, annoyed at tue stub- bornness of the womun, To nell ig 1t? Then Ili go there with it, shure.” And she did not sur frofh her house, although it Was carried off its joundation a distance of twenty-five feet, and was iu the very thickest of the crashing ice. The engine house of the Germantown Fire Com- | pany Was carried bodily away a quarter of a mile, and lies with two barns ana a number of out. houses jrozen in eight Jeet ol water and battered to pieces. ‘the engine and hose cart are crushed to vieces, and ail tue company’s records destroyed. ‘Yhe piie Ol ruins, Of which wie engine house Jorms @ part, 18 4 specimen Oi the existing state of affairs In that part o1 town. ASPECY OF PORT JERVIS. The flooded district of Port Jervis, proper, pre- sents a similar scene to that im Germantown. King street, Thompson street and Brown street | luruishing the only means O1 getting about in toat section, An icy line runuing arouud tue build- logs from jour to Six jee jrom the pe. Inarks Where the water Was yesterday. Iu some parts of this district, Whick 1s LOtso clogged up with cakes Of ice, iamiies are moving back Into their ceserted houses. O hers are inaking pre- parauious to go elsewberc, and leave premises Whose cellars are iulloi water. Water-soaxed walls and floors do not tend to make iurther tenancy ag pleasant as it might be. Real es- late agents, newspaper offices, aud broperty | rooms, aud whole lawilies are enjoying the Dos. pitality of rejatives und fiends pending the dawn Of more propitious days. | Among the exuraordinary scenes to be wite | essed to-day Was the sport of a crowd of urcuins | fisning for bait-tisn through the ice in King street, ‘Thousands Of minnows were carried into the | Streets by the flood, and they are being caugit io | large numoers, As they wre worth $1 jer i00 Poe @ profitable business is auing in bait. ausug. Yesterday @ lurge pickerel Was caught to the gutter near the Delaware House, and numer- ous perch and chubs, surprised in alien waters, have been cuptared. A SHBILLING INCIDENT. Many interesting iucidents occurred ia connec. tion with tne flood, but pone so thrilling as the JoLowing, Whicao wus the first precursor of the general inuodation :— Aboat seven o'clock in whe morning W. H. Nearpars and L. 0. Rose, two oi the village tras- tees, Weot in @sieign, with J. 4. Buchanan, to Rose's Tavern, On the Sparrowbueh road, two mules above here, to watcn the rise of the river, in order to give thmely warning to people slong the road and to this place, ‘Ihe roud ruus within jour jeet Of the river bank, Which is fliteen feet high. There was no material rise in the river When they arrived there, and the channel wi lear of ice lor # mile below the ruiiroad bridge at aw Mill Rift, Una high biudt on the opposite side of (he Fiver, commundiug a view up the rive! tor several mil @ colored man, living in tn vicinity, bad taken @ position. Tue gentleme: mentioned @tood on the river bank at Rose's Watcning the gradual rise in the stream. Pres entiy the report of one o; the heavy biasts of pitro- gycerine, put of in the ice gorge below Port Jer- vik, reached their ears, aod the neXt instant they Were startied by the Arne the negro, whieh rd clear across the etreau : Fo' God A’mighty sakes, ‘Tole Was addressed to Mr, Ne@rpars, who had stepped down the bank nearer the water. He in- stauuy re, ed his companions, Looking up tae river they saw that the avalanche of ive was ine deea coming. It Was roanding the bend in the | tiver hall @ mile above, moving 1 4 Wave twenty | jeet high; NOt Of water, for uot @ drop could be seen, but @ surging, rolling, clashing wail oi ice | and drut. The scene w eer binek the | food advanced and hea veut blocks of ice Big Up on eltner bank the watchers did not tarry | hy | to Witness it, but hastily re-entering taeir #: started with the hor seives and spread the RACING WITH THE FLOOD, | They had scarcely started belore they saw the ice lijtinwapin the river within @ few feet of | tiem, 40d in almost the twinkling of an eye it | Wos over the bank and rushing along within three leet of the sieigi and keeping pace with it. Be- tween Rose's and Buckiey's there is & depression ip the road and the river bank about a hundred fide persone in the | its | Were so rotten as to break easily ag they had just passed over covered ten feet deep with huge cakes, ‘The monster wave, of wuose ap- proaoh they nad been warned by the colored boy, jad overtaken the less threatening flood, and from | ter edge hundreds of tons of ice had toppled | over into the road and lay like the ruins of some | | gigantic marble edifice. be road still lay along the river bank, and the danger to those in the sleigh was sull great. For a jong distance the foe kept abreast of tnem, still Giting up the road behind them with ice, and at times almost crashing upon the sleigh, About an eigoth of aimile above Germantown the river leaves the road, following around a small plateau and bearing to the right. On this plat of low ground there are several buiidings, among them, | near the lower end, the elegant residence of Mr. | Wade Buexley. When Buchanan had urged his | horse to the point where the river bears off he thought they had escaped all danger, and brought | bis horses toa trot. ‘The ponderous mass of ice | moved on with the coursé of the river, and was pe around the curve when adam occurred elow, and it stopped, In ua very lew seconds, however, the flood started anew in a channel it made a¥ it Went across the fat, directly tow- ard @ poimt in tne road ou the lower de Mr. Buckley’s house, The distance to the point irom the sleigh was about equal with that to be traversed by the food. Not @ second was to be lost, aud again tie horses were urged to their utmost speed to reach, if pos- sible, the Objective point in advance ef the ice. The people living in the houses near the scene ot the race for lile or death shouted ior the driver to stop, while others cried out to him to “Hurry ap, for God’s sake ?’ Mr, Buckley waived them back, and shouted to them not to take the chance; but Buchanan kept on, and crossed the point like the wiud—not two seconds belore the surging wall of ice swept over the road, and on in its destructive course over the flats, So intense bad been the strain on the nerves of the flying party that, wheu it Was known they were sale, the reaction ‘was so great that they were ail rendered as helpless as babes, and sat speechless for some minutes in the bite midst of the destruction going on around ein. INCIDENTS AT THE RAILWAY BRIDGE. Just before tae railroad bridge was carried away, an engine on which was Benjamin ‘thomas, super- intendent of the Delaware division, Engineer J, Van Wormer and Conductor Gow, and William Morris, engineer, started to cross it, They were hear the Pennsylvania side When tue {ce was seen to start and raise up rapidly beneath the briage. The bridge itself began to sway and trembie, and the cr was given to return to the New York side, The engineer was obliged to run very slowly, to cause as litue jar as possible. Before they reached th side the bridge was raised irom its but was not carried away for about live minutes alter the engine was off it, At this tme the coal trains were about due at the bridge, and as nothing was known of its condition west, the situation was alarming, Rob- ert Frampton, superinrendent of bridges on the Delaware division, volunteered to cross the bridge and notiy the Watchman on the track above. He reached the middle pier, the bridge rising irom its foundations steadily, when the two spans aliead of him parted from the Pennsylvania abutment and commenced swinging down stream. Further progress was impossible, and he was obliged to re- trace hig steps. Just then the watchman ap- peared in sight, and, signaiing him to run back With a@ fag, he started for vhis end or the bridge, which he reached just in time, as the structure aid not stand a moment alter he stepped off it. CONDITION OF THE STREAMS NEAR PHILADEL- PHIA, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 18, 1875, The Delaware opposite this city 1s clear of foat- ing ice. The Schuylkill 18 now quite free from ice, except at Peter’s Island and at a few points above that island along the banks, The river has risen con- siderably by the sudden influx of waters from the nilis and minor streams caused by the 1ain and melting snow, and at Manayunk fears were enter- tained tout the flood might cause another suspen- sion of business, All danger of this, Lowever, 18 | beleved to have passed. Yesterday alternoop some targe cakes of ice which had been detached irom the gorge at Phoenixville came down, but on as they pi encountered any obstacle. THE HUDSON FALLING. Asany, N, Y¥., Maren 18, 1875, A change in the temperature here has stopped the flow of water into the river, and the flood in the latter bas fallen about twenty inches. THE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY. AN ICE GORGE IN CROTON LAKE—APPREHEN- SIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF THE DAM. Owing to the unusually large accumulation of tice in the Croton Lake and its tributaries serious apprehensions for the satety of the dam have for some days past been felt by many living 1n its | vicinity. That these fears have been entertained, to some extent at least, by the Croton Aqueduct | Board may reasonably be interred from the cir- | cumstance that one of the assistant engineers made a flying visit to the lake aday or two since yor the purpose of examining the situation, | and, doubtless, also of impressing on the mind of the newly appointed superimtendent the | necessity Of extra Vigilance during the continu. ance of the present somewhat precarious condi- dition of aifairs regarding the lount on which New York city depends lor its supply of water. The immense quantities Ol icein the lake and sure | rounding streams have until the present cold | spell set in been gradually disappearing, and itis to be earnestiy hoped that a continuation of mod- | erate weatier will tena to dispel the appreben- | sions indicated, It 1s asserted, however, by iarm- ers and others living 1n the neighdornood of Croton Lake that, should @ heavy rain | storia set in, the fresbet that must inevitably Jollow would, in ali peor’ be the means of carrying away the dam through the tr- Tesisiible 1orce of the ice that would be driven | Qgaiust it. Should such a disastrons event occur the destruction of property between the lake and | the point where it empties itseif into the Hudson River, near Sing Sing, would probably be great, while the calamity it would entail on the people | ofthe metropolis, by almost wholly cutting o' their supply of water for perhaps twelve mouths, | Can scarcely be imagined, mucn less described. SHIPPING NEWS OCEAN STEAMERS. DATES OF DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORE FOR THE MONTHS OF MAKCH AND APRIL, Sails, _ [Destination |e 39. fice, Havré FD Vite ue varis., Engiand ar rr oy F City ot Montreal. | Liverboot- is broadway | Eepunuc. Liverpool. | yBroaaway, |. |Giaszow. + howling Green Howling Green ‘orDoo! U7.) Livervoo' 27. | Glasgow 27.) Bremen 30. | Liverpoo! a1.| Liverpool. 7 Bowling Green |2Bowline Groea w Broadway, 4 Bowling Green 61 broadway | raat 3 Broadway. 4 Broadway, April Apri 7,| Liverpool April 8.|Hamourg... april W,| Liverpool. Aprit 10:1 Liverpool. prt 10.1Ginsgow -. 15.) Kotterdain Abe i: Liver 17, Liverpoot., ALMANAC FOR NEW YORK—THIS DAY. 113 Broadway. | ‘Bowling Green | ‘él broadway. | iy Broadway 69 Broadwa 17 Bowls Gi rosa way. 19 Broadway. Algeria. Baepnene. Celtic. SUN AND MOON, Sun rises Sun sota...., Moon seté....morn 6 26 PORT OF NEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1875, CLEARED. ag ep Swe), Wittergrea, Cork for orders— ‘anen, Ye agua Sliesia (Ger), Hebeck, Hamburg—Kunhardt Steamer City of Now York, Timmerman, Havana, 4c =F Alexandre & Sons Steamer Leo, Daniels, Fernandina via Port Royal— H Geipeke, Lawrence, Nortolk, City Point Steamer Isaac Bell, and RichmyhG—Old Dominion Stedmasiip ware. W Dalzell, 'porsiawiend ¥ Amen, Stoamer J W Garrett, Hi Steamer Franconin, frag as, Boars. dostov—it ¥ Dim nano rEritanuia ior, Groawoldi, Hamourg-Funoh, | rik Harriet (Br), Hill, Bristol, E—Bowring & Archi- rk P ON. gaa (Br), Kline, Rio Janelro—Pender- HIGH WATER. Goy. Island..morn 6 44 Sandy Hook.morn 6 69 Heli Gate....mora § 29 Bros " Wark Latte 4 ir), Canningiam, Jacmel—A Nones & Co, Brig Belle ir), Mulcahy, Lisbon—Bowring & Archi- baitig Nellie Gay. Mead, Rio Grande do Sul—George W wn. an Torrid Zone (Br). Cooper, Port au Prince~R Mur- i rig AH Curtis, Mermman, Oardenas—Brett, Son & ‘Yohr John R Merril, Fournier, Ponce, PR—Ablei Ab | sage and” had | her station as soon as the ice wll permit. | bly weithin ia vours | dered to Halifax). NOTICE TO MERC HA NTS AND CAPTAINS, | | ing at New York can do so by addressing to such vessels, | York. Letters received trom all parts of the world and | Mton, Portlant, Me. | con | United States. | Campbell, New Yor« for Glawrow. MSteamer Albemarle, Gibbs, Lewes, Del. with mdse and passengers to the Old Dominion Steamship Ca. brig Maruniquaise (fr), Maugere, st Pierre, Mart, Mt days, With sugar to D Trowbridge & Sons, Schr Freddie © Ebbett vor st John, Veal, Messina 00 days, with truit to Baring Bros & Uo; vessel to Heney 4 Varker. Massed Gibraltar Feb 3; took the iniddle pis heavy W and NW gales; lost and split 47 40, spoke brig Atlas, from day ier ior Philadelphia), Malloy, war und molasses to mer vessel to master, Co; molaxses, Sehr dco P Hallock, Sharrot Sehr PA Saunders, Smith, Richmond. Nortolk, with ‘umber to Overton & Hawki Sehr t Harris Kirk, Cavalier, Virginia. sehr) G Wright Seuli Virginia, Bi mers, Virginia, r, Baltimore, ‘hiin, Baltimore. ies, Baltimore, K Vreeland, Vaneliet, Baltimore. Schr Helen Hasbrouck. Nennets Baltimore. dehr Susan, Scranton, ‘Baltimore, Sehr B W Robinson, Waples, Phila leiphia for Provi- dence. PASSED THROUGH HELL GATE. BOUND SOUTER. Steamer Galatea, Walden, Providence tor New York With mdse and passengers. Sebr Sarah & Smith, Grillin, pang Menan) tor New York, 13 days, with fish to Jed Frye & Sehr Klectrie Flash, Vincent, «i! joucester for New York, with ish to order. Schr Silen Norrison, Dodge, Providence for New BOUND RAST. Yors. Steamer Glaucus, Bearse, New York for Boston. Ba Surmuet ¥ Godwin, Waterbury, New York tor miord Schr J 1) Marston (Br), Bell, New York tor Yarmouth, NB, sehr Light Boat, Wood, Hoboken for Rockland Sehr D W Vaughan, ReskeniHO Hoboke. fur Boston. SAILED, Steamers Silesia (Ger), tor Hampurg; Lidador (sr), Rio Juneiro; City ot New York, Havana; Leo, Fernan: dina and Port Royal, ssichmond, Baiumore ; Albetwar! Lewes, Del; ships ‘Avra (Ger), Bremen; Magdalene Ger), do; aith Warren (Br), Liverpool; barks Juan F Pearson (Br), Valparaiso: lda P (Ital), Glasgow; Uldra (sr), irtstol Langen (Nor). Stocknolin, LY Santander; Rocket, Curae: , Brome: (Ger), Galway rts Miran Gr), St Jobin N cmel and Montego Bay; Mary Fisk, Corunna ai liz; La Cayenne (Br), St Merte; Magenta, Sagua irande 5 it B Gove: Matanzas: Mattie K Russell, Oarde- barien jsclirs Marcia I Revnolds, Cabello and Laguaveas A’ bert J Oliver (Br), St ‘Thomas: Highfiyer (1 NF: Kate Wentworth, St Thomas; Nellie Shaw, Kings: ton, Ja; Rebecea J kVans, Baracoa, OUR MARINE , CORRESPONDENCE. Newport, R1, March 18, 1875, Sepr Wm 8S Farwell, of Rockland, from Newcastle, Del, with a cargo of 5000 bushels of corn for Providence, arrived here this noon, Befure she could get her sails down or anchors overboard, the wind blowing very heavily, she went ashore at Fort Greene, upper harbor, Wreekers were promptly on hand, and succeeded in Retting her afloat this evening without dama; It has biown a heavy northwest gale here tor the past twenty-four honrs, and a large fleet of vessels have put in tor @ harbor. Schr Dictator, Hammond, from Providence for Yir- ginia, was obliged to return, having carried away main- sheet, There were a hundred sail of vessels in Dutch island Harbor this aiternoon, having put in during the gale, An unknown schooner, in ballast, is reported ashore on Nayatt Point, Providence River, but will come off, it is presumed, at high yldond! without assistance, MARITIME MISCELLAN ¥. Kam See cable news. STEAMER Alama Hey = at Charleston lth from Philadel. h inst, at 6:30 Ph, Winter Quarter paring SSW. 6 miles distant, passed the port quarler of a vessel; apparently been could see no name. Friday, izch, oft’ Body Island, passed a quantity of shipjoiner's’ work, painted white and blue, Siur Lypia, which ¢} d 15th inst at Savannah, tox robably the’ largest ¢ for her tonnage ever earried vany ship. The Lydia is120) tons register, and car- ries 440) bales of cotton, weighing 2,202,241 Iba, Bank Many Kittam, 421 tous, of Yarmouth, NS, has been sold to parties in Bremen. Banx Uxa. Weaver, trom Calcutta Oct 14 for San Fran- cisco, Letore reported loxt, was probably so reported Irom the Tact that the Calcutta pilot never returned. The U had not arrived at San francisco March 15, being considerably overdue. Brics Ameiia Exwa, hence tor Porto Rico, and Guapra- tron (br), for Rio Grande, while being towed toseaon ff Governor's 3 ot t1 iateur part- ne, a both vessels sustained alight daiwage to rigging, and returned tor repairs. Senn Marcia Rerxoups, hence for La; oing to sea 17th, towed German brig Blitz, Ging, off edioe’s Island; the brig fiying Jibboom and head- gear carried away; the schooner’ was obliged to cut away mizzen stays and other rigging, and sustained some other slight damage. Sonn Maseun te Vassar, Jr, was towed to New Bedtord 16th inst from New London ‘for repairs. She leaks but little, and the reports in relation to ber being bilged ana Josng are fstern are false. Her bottom 19 probably somewhat chated, and fore‘oot knocked off. Bostox, March 18—Schr Addie Ryerson, of Lubec, is missing. "She left Boston for Wilmington, AC, six Weeks ago, and has not since heen heard tro1 je Hattrax, March 18—Steamer Geo Shattuck, for the | satiety of which tears were entertained, arrived to-day from st Pierre, Mig. She report ‘Lett St Pierre on the 2d inst; was jammed in the Jce 14 days; sustained no serious damage; saw a bars and a brig, supposed to be French, ia the ice, bound into st Pierre, Norrorg, March 17—A schooner, with mainmast gone, is reporied sunk 10 miles south of Cape Henry. Newrort, March 17—Johu Waters & Co, wreckers, of | this port. will resume operations ou sclir Robt Pettis, | which was sunk and all hands lost Dec lt, in the West Bay, near the north ead of Dutch Island, the latter the present week, They are to deliver her at ence, where she is owned, and are to receive ne the jo. New LOnpox, ch 18—Steamer Bolivar, hence for New York this Sy Was oblixed to return, owing tw heavy westeri iy v Brig iliza (Br) still re ‘mains on the marine railway, repairing keel, where her leak Was found. Sam Francisco, March 18--The Pacific Mail steam ayra, while (aang for Panama, wis to have sailed yesterday, bat grounded at the whart. | NOTICE TO MARINERS. Osrick OF Lit arouse ANSPECTOR, t Turmp Distnucr, ToMPLINSVILLE March 18, 1875. ‘The lightship statione | at st) ‘atford Shoat broke from her moorings on the 1h inst, She will be returned to The buoy, which ts also gowe, Will bs replaced, proba- HEN D TRENCHAED, Commodore. USN, TaanO ee: Lespector, Third Districs, WHALEMEN. San Franetsco March 17, bark Illinois, Fra- . to cruise. le ‘des! atch received in New London trom Per. Namnuco reports the schr Framlin at that place with | 120) skins and 200 bbis ou, AN well. SPOKEN. | Brig Queen of the West (Br), from Clenfuegos for Bos. | ton. and brig Empress (Br), ;rom West Indies (iatter or- | jarch Ways woston pilot buat). Merchants, shipping agents aud ship captains are mformed that by telegrapaing to the lsratp London | Bureau, No 46 Fleetstree, the arrivals st and depart. | ures trom European ports, and other ports abroad, of | American ana ali foreig.; vessels trading with the | United States, the same wilt o¢ cabled to this country | tree of charge and published. } | | ‘ersous desirous of communicating with vessels arriv- care of Heaip news yachts, pier Nol East River, promptly delivered. Duplicates aro required. OUR CABLE SUIPPING NEWs. Antwerp, March 17~Sailed, ship Jairus B Lincoin, Musans, Callao. Breweruavex, March (Nor), Olsen. Galveston. Bonpsgavx, March 17—Salled, ship Nathautel (Nor), Ja- cobsen. New York. Homoay, March 17—Saited, ship Chandos, Ros, Havre. Doxcuness, March 16-01, bark Gessner (Ger), Cbris- toffers. from Baltimore for tram Gi.ascow, March 17—Arrived, 1g--arrived, brig Trenmore ip Pomona (Br), Ham Haves, March 18—Arrived, steamer France (fr), Tru- delle, New York, Livenroot, March 17—Arrived, steamer Halley (Br), Cross, New York; ship WJ ilatdeld (Br), Tooker, Phila- | delphia. Sailed 17th, ship Supertor (sor), Helgesen, Philadel. phia; barke Emilic (Rus), Usderborg, Pentacola (not | sailed 9th); Prankiyn Swe), Over do (not sailed 12th) Cleared 17th, ship Otago (By), Guilison, United Sta: barks Pomona (Nor), Moller, Philadelphia; Vibiha (Br), Cienfuegos; orig (ora (Br), Henderson, United States; ach Sophia Kranz, Dyer, Baitimore, Loxnox, March 18~Sailed, werk Regia (Nor), Larsen, Arrived Haddad at bare Soran (Sp), Goitia, | New Orleans (see b \ Lrasonx~Sailod, parle Paotino (Ital), Porrigial, New York. Movinne, March 18Arrived, steamer Elysia (Br), | | Puynourm, Maven 17—Salied, bare Diana (Nor), Roth, United States Quaxxstows, March 18—Aaurived, bark Clara, Nickels Mure eering to SW; lost deckload of ss hnds ot | 33 | monie (N z re FOREIGN PORTS. ate Age, March 18—~Arrived, steamer Colon, #40 i a mins, March 17—Arrived, schr Telumah, Foster, uit Salat Tien, Sherman, north ra Jenkins, Coombs, do; dalia i Long Reach, Blair, do; Ubaldiena bark M—arrived, brig Perces Hinckley, hr Joseph Oakes, Parker, King sion, Norton, Philadelphia. |) brig) Agnes Bartow NFURGOS, Mare Small, New York March I7—Arri wpaltimore. 17th, senr Ellen Tobin, ssurnett, north of Hatie ath, steamers Juniata, Catharme, Philadelphia: de, Livingstone, New Orleans: Austin, Indianola barks OFimus, Shucktord, north ot Hatteras; Saguenay (61), Sagua, u ‘ax, March 18—Arrived, brig Eva () Melos gal. Now York. pales 18th, brigs Thalia (Br), Jamatea; Ellie 2 Buller (Br), do. Aiso suiled, steamer Lady Head, for ‘able Isiand Macrimivs, March l—Sailed, bark Charles L Pearson, Swain. & valeuita. s, March 16—Sailed, schr Lahaina, Houghton, Philadelphia, ‘St Tuomas, Feb 2¢—Arrived, bark Wahsatch (Br), Gra. ham, Pernginbuco (and sailed Muren 3 for Cuba). Marea 1, steamer South America, Tinkle} New York (and suiled for Brazil: 2d, schr Ki f, Holt, Antigass; Md, bark Lallah Rookh (Br), Dakin, Haere. Salled pf 18, brigs Citizen er, Ponce and St John. 3 Nit: daa, Kingston dir), Veale, Sathalce: Fis May (Br) Gow, Humacoa and north of Hatteras: te 2 (Br), Lent, Aguadilla and do: 24th, schrs Fugen ), Winters, and Gold Stream (Br), Cann, Arroyo an 3sin, Mabel Lent dir), Betor, Fajiraa aiid do: Ma jean dA! (Fr), Ferrier (trom Algoa Bay, having re red). Boston. saroi, fe. by Pak 14—Arrived, schr J B Marshall, arshall. Darien, Ga. Arrived 18tb, schrs A B Baxter (Br), Philadelphia; J W . do, Tanta, Feb 23—Arrived, amt Herald of the Morning, McLaughlin, San Franc’ Vieronta, VI. March 12Sailed, ship Blue Jacket, Per. cival, Metbourne; ith, bark Pady Lampson (Ur), Gau- ain, London, AMERICAN PORTS. BOSTON, March 18—Arrived, US steamer Gett cRitchie, Washington; steamer Neptune, Berr’ York; schr Blink Bonnie ( (Br), Swain, Oienfue: Glearec--Ship Castine, Avery, Batavia; ba: K. Wilhams: Hale. Western’ islands; Cataipa, Richmond, New odiord ; brig Nebo Br), Macomber, Portau Prince} achrs Two Sisters (Br), Thomas. Miawatna, Tobin, Baracoa; Addie Blaisdell, Baker, e. Helow---chr Kben sisher, from Clentuckos, nae? Western Chief; brigs Bertha, Arthur, and tT Steamer George Cromwell, trom New York for Port: land Pamered Wighland Light, Oape Code ut 280 PM. tos OW ALTIMORE, waren 17—Cleared, brig Chesapeake Isth—arrived, s ra D J Foley, Price, Wilmington, NU: George W Elder, Miteed, New York; Win Woodward, Young, Awl ship Siriua (Ger), Moller, Breme: tected aAquidne Rafe, Kio; Campanero (Br), Walk Sonereat (ir), Coaiileet, Liverpool: Jason (Ger), Grimm: Antwerp; Ausgar (Nor). Grandeson, Londc liano (Ital), Cacace, Castellamare; schrs D Robinson, Arecibo, PR ‘sunny South, Derrickson, New ‘leans. wiNieaesds Binsalaie Calvert, Foley Charleston: MeCle!- h, Providence : Josephine Thomson, Moore, New: ark Flori M Hulbert Dudley, Cork or Falmouth ; sclirs’ NB Fisk, Crowell, Boston; Almaretta, Merrill; New Haven. Sailed—steamer Rita (Sp), Liverpuol; barks Frank Tralee aan Wright (Br), Londonderry: brigs & man, Indies: Chattanooga and Clara and gn (8 ones: sche Sau Weller (Br), Barbados ATH, March 15—In Dork sctr Bessie E Dickinson, Dickinsn, tor Wilmington, NU. RUSTOL, March 10—salied, sloop Fred Brown, Wil- sont Now York. Vith—Salled, schr Jonn L Tracey, Messervey, Baltl- mo! CHARLESTON, Meret 17—Salled, steamer Virginia, Hunter, Philadelphia. 18th—Cleared, barks Margaretha (Ger), Ramion, Liv. erpool: Polar (sp), Palliser, Pensacola, Arrived—Steamers Flag, Loc'swood, Boston; Equator, Hinckley, Phitadeiphiay sene 1 M Collins, Rich, uo. Sajled—Bark J'T Smith (Br), Morris, Boston ‘Also saited—Bark Polar, FORTRESS MONRO perc 18—Passed in tor Balti. more, bar Mustang (Nor) d, from Liverpoo! on Norfolk Sobre NE immonsand Anthea Passed our—Brig © C Robinson, from Baltimore for Car deni atled— Brig Homely (Br), Morett (trom Rio Janeiro), New York. In Hampton Roads—Bark Frigate Bird, from Norfolk for Liverpool; schrs Caur, trom Baltimore for Ach. manne Metville, trom City Vomt tor Balimore: J 5 virs, from Pliladeiphia tor Richmond; Kate & Lulu, a do; Witch Hazel, trom Florida for Portsmouth. FALL KIVER, March 16—sailea, schrs Pheodot Phitlips, pepe John Stroup, Philadelphi Russe! ork. CGAEYEBTON, ‘Waren 13—arrivea, schr Vernal, Pensa- bi oot h—Arrived, schr Geo Sealey, McDonald, Havana, ly allast. KEY WEST, March 8—Arrived, schr Annie Lee, Look New York. loth—Arrived, sleamer, City of, Austin, Eldridge, Gab ‘veston for New York (and proceeded 17th). LUBEC, March 13—sailed, whee Virginia. eet oe - Fanny Mint Warren, St Jonn. Nx; 14th, Emma ley. Repseien: do—all to ‘ond ‘lumber for Port au rine MOBILE, March 18—Arrived, schr Chas M Newins, Ru- land, Bremen. Cleared—Schr Moses Williamson. Lake, Bosto! Dena, Helen NEW ORLEANS, March 1 leared, peety "Sh leld (Br), Lithgow, Liverpool; bark Runeberg (Nor), Ffede- ek Cronstadt; sehrs Eugenia, bes tel Port aa JG Craig, Woodbury, Savanna-la-Mal Prince; Tith—Cleared, steamers State of Alabaina Br), Flint, and Consett (Br), Hodgson, Laverpool (not ss mu Prive 17th, ships Golden Rule, Hall, and Pat (re chris Calcutta (Br), ‘Tyre! erson, Liverpool ; ee Due Fratelli! (Ital), cag set Palermo; Sem otland, Rogers, schra H’Robinon, Gray, uate; eunie Wood, Uuliay Manod: nock, Baker, Jamaica, 18th—Cleared, Ge parol Gn. Purdy. Liverpool, Passes, Mai ships bing ih (Bri, Smith. Breme! Mot ty of ‘Bontont Crosby, ton; ate nie ra, Tarbox, Liverpool; schr Old Chad, Reed, Bot ‘AIK. arrived, ship Southern Chief, Higgins, Liverpool; ba" tart Eigen ae Ge, tans ne vre. i ‘ou (Br), Liver; Ore LAY stave Ie sehr Alice Bell, Bow RFOLK, March 16—A , Mosauito niet Frigate Bird (Nor), Tonnesen, piven pools sehr M jabei Rose. Allen, Demerara (iatter sailed). h sailed, bark Srigate Bird (Nor), Tonnesen, Liv. er, Ey pray Set Bavch I7—Salled, schra Hastings, Chase, New Yor 8 Smith, suow, Wareham. ai sehrs Hastings, and Louisa Francis, which sailed 17th BWPORT, Macch 16, PM—Arrived, schrs Golden Fa- in ‘veuty, hades tor New York; ened shower, vurd, Providence for d iled—sehrs Helen Mw Condon, 1D Crocker, Halyard, Manet for do; Fla- wa tor do. ary E Pennell. Porto Rico for la Carter, do for Norwich. W LONDO: arch 17—Arrived, schrs A Tirrell, Berton tor Montville: Roena Arabel, Virginia tor Nor’ wPORT ROYAL, SC, ee 18—Arrived, schr Sue W Townsend, Townsend, Baltitnore, Cleared—Sehr Johtt'N Parker, Moore, Richmond, Va. _ HILADELPHIA, March 17—Cleared, scnr Maud ¢ @r), Weich, Matanzas. Igih—Arrived, steamer Florida. Crocker, Providence, ste . Pendleton, Portland: Per New York: schrs Frank Atkioa, Atkins oll Hyer, Betts, Newcastle, Del, to loac for an Eastern port. Also cleared, steamer Hunter, Sherman, piravine bark White Hail (Br), Oxldweli, Sagua; ‘schr Josept Baymore, Burdge, Boston. Sailea—steamers Illinois, Hunter, Bergs, and Porkio men. Neweoastix, Del March 18—Passed down, steamer Vin dicator, tor New York: brigs Dawn (Br), Elsinore aué orders: + portsman, tor Havana, Noon—Passed down—Steamer Banter, for Providen: J Ricardo Jova, for Clentusgos. Passed down, rigs Aenora, for Matanzas: Goo K , tor Havana; sehrs Mart: r Matanzas; Harold lovana: Agnes it Bacon, denas: el, Marea 1S—artived erday, bares Har fram Bordeaux: Althiid (Sw, from Gede Iphia). via Malmo (both pe pipe: pha cee Batchetiter. r Kehr Fred 4, Rcamntneil, from Hava PM—Arnived, schr Sadie, Wiileut, Matanzas. Schr F E Scamme! goes to vhiladelphia. aah Samuel Weich and others reported this mornim main. ate Tilinols, for Liverpool, went to ciara Staron errr ~ ia Cu e ‘orge, to loa ae Uigaredsschr’ Hannle Westbrook, Littlejohn, New {th—Aarrivea, steamer Eleanora, Johnson, New Yor! (and cleared to Teturn); sobr Alex Burding, McBride jus —Bark Lew! Stocke: hed vardenas scars. Jennie i Mivorty ‘baltimore’ Neil je Scott, St Jonu “BoRTSMOUTH, March 17—Sailed, schr 1J Trafton Boa Baltimore. ROVIDEN' ve 0) OE. March 17—Arrivod, belz Happy, R jum (Bn, Campbell, Uape Haytien: sonrs Whitt bins, and Lizzie W Hannum, Waileckwone Halety Baitmore vie jorida, Crocker, Philadelphia: schrs Carrie Rare! ‘Neweonib, Barucoa: Walter Lalmer, Cale, Ma! | timore;‘Alugator, cing, New York. RIC Sisto Mi, fe rived, outs Breoze, Crao dl Are: MAAN CISCO, Mat tod, thins Oseiden ‘i 5 dow jose, Narva (not as telegrapiied), shelled ‘sent Ada O (not Ida) Shortiand, Doane ew SH steamer San Salvador, Nickerson, New re uate utcent Lisle Hever: Poland. Sew York #0 arrived. schr Lizale Heyer, Cleared—Bark Alamo (Ger), ‘pradorhausen, Fait more. Also cleared, barks E: rf (NOM), Lammers, Liverpool Talsman (Br), 8a Dari Mt 4 sol ‘eg Mayes, Smith Fal abun be Bi tied Stel ae er Ati rics ups, Baltimor d—Steamer Ame: SALT, Murch 17—Sailed, wane Romeo ‘irvin Bath) Richmond, Va. OMI, te nt, March yea alle ot Mena Queen, 8 veater Hale, Coleman, ie a ON, y n 18—Arrived, steainer Rega lator, Jones, New Tote iB STRLS LIF A. Basan fos stood a 27 years’ public test aos y ite 200,098 rm cures of sphewmatisr worotul gout, ral ay ol ek well an cease frising {inpari iy of th nam Medic ‘ol Ger.” | Price, ai oN pot, 446 Grand treet, Now York ent by express every Whe )per halt doaen, Sale by Nadnut. ‘Horoman, “eushton ad deuiggisty, PSOLUTS DIVOROAS OBTAINED FROM DIFFE % Al ent States logal everywherd; desertion, &a,, « Piet Fequired ; no charge wat i ‘9H, Attorney, 194 Broadway ficient cause; no divorce granted; M COURT: BSOLUT# DIVORCES OBTA The river nus been failing slowly this aiter- teiigence bas been received trom Havec mohied | Bott Lifer agloy | Melty NOt ayanne Roo, and is now nearly two feet lower than | telegrapmic communication being inerrupeane’ the golly aud crossed it befor | seit 4 BManenyy, felns, Aus Saree’ Merzay, de Soucy, Marek 17-Off, bars’ Ada (Br), Roach, from Bal- i Acerca RCT ay auce, bh Weesestey tavaing, ‘tuace te.0. Geligy ts | would be | ee eee teint, eharee cavaunah—roit, son & | Hmore for Rotterdam, | FREDERIK L KANG, Couusellor-at-inw. dit Broalway the ice iu woe main channel, and it is generally | THE DELAWARE VALLEY. then be “al Bohr BJ Carleton, Butler, Brunswick, Ga~Parsons & ditt Se tort. arin tam EEK | O°8GH, XO MOKE-—-USE DR. TOBIAS PULMONIC ea | H wo com! river, houd, Aho | YRUP. If sot the bost in the world ae , that isresenes 00 tho Bottom Of the | THE GURNWAT OF TES DELUOS As tT APPmans stone's throw bebind then. Buchanan raised | sult K Delaney, Heave, Providense—Rackett & Bro. Warenrond, Maoh IT—Arrived, arg Maria (ROMs | gig bythe drugginte, Deporlu Pur placa ee ‘er, For some distance above the island gorge, AVTER THE CALAMITY, Up lu Gis weigh and, lashing his borses with t Neuman, Balimore via Queanstown. | anne a Delow the city and from that point to Plain- Pont Junvis, 8. ¥., Maron 18, 1475, a a flew over the snow, When ARRIVALS. 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Several persons walked rect estimate Of the individual losses oy the food began piling up to rhe very edge of the fr a HERALD WHITKSTOMR TELOGRAPG LIxd, Marea 7), Now Yoru 4 ai At thin piace of yesterday, a tour through the inundated dix 0 cake struck tue rear of 4 | U8 aoa an, Jowatt, (teu We Med. | Loxvox, Maroh ldBarh” Aeraga (6p), Gulia, from | Hi Tauicgl ha (pebtaanet eagen 8 ass Valiey Raib trict end on inspection of tue in is rots 14, with | Now Orleans, arrived at Geavesond to-day With loss of ie ¢ a gh haat oad nd Gb0et tweny dwelling houses | that lie im the Mudst Of 404 Of DIOKER ice Wii ot, ho Ward Sareea Me | mualeteppastsntanes serge thy: Yara