TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Another chief of the Spanish "Black Hand" Society has been arrested.

Alexander H. Stevens died at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday morning at half-past three.

Col. Harry Gilmore, a well known Confederate cavalry officer, died at Baltimore last night.

The Mississippi valley for fifty miles is inundated, towns are submerged, and the people are fleeing for safety.

The questions at issue concerning the management of the Soldiers' Home at Washington have been settled satisfactorily.

J. G. Chambers, an old Cambridge (England) University oarsmen, as well as a famous umpire of Thames races, died very suddenly in London yesterday.

The elevator and mills in Albany which were on fire on Friday rekindled on Saturday, and were wholly destroyed, with a heavy loss of life and property.

A dispatch from Dublin states that letters seized at Walsh's lodgings reveal the fact that six thousand men are enrolled in the secret society he has organized in the North of England.

The last session of both houses of the Forty-Seventh Congress expired by limitation at noon yesterday. David Davis resigned the presidency of the Senate, and Senator Edmunds was chosen as his successor. The tariff and appropriation bills were passed. The last session in the House was very animated.

Speaker Keifer yesterday signalized the close of his official career by appointing his nephew official stenographer of the House of Representatives, at a salary of $3750, and no work till December next.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, northerly winds, stationary or higher temperature, higher pressure.