TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Both houses of Congress are still discussing the tariff.

Richard Wagner, the eminent German composer, is dead in Venice, at the age of seventy years.

Ex-Governor Morgan was very low last night, and the indications are that he cannot long survive.

President Arthur entertained the diplomatic corps and members of Congress and their families last night.

All the members of the French cabinet have resigned, on account of the action of the Senate on the expulsion bill.

The giving away of a dam at Louisville, Ky., flooded a large part of the city with water, and the people living in the inundated district barely escaped with their lives.

The waters of the Ohio are still rising, and the damage already done is very great. The Cincinnati Southern Railroad freight and passenger depots were washed away yesterday, carrying with them about one hundred people, several of whom were drowned.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14, 1. A.M. For New England, slightly warmer, fair weather during the day, southeast to southwest winds, lower barometer, followed on Wednesday night or Thursday morning by light snow.