TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The 68th birthday of Prince Bismarck was celebrated yesterday.

President Arthur and Secretary Chandler will start for Florida this week.

The claims of the insurance companies under the Geneva award aggregate $2,086,763.

The Indian troubles still continue in Arizona, and a society has been formed for the extermination of male Apaches.

The Mississippi and its tributaries are again rising submerging many plantations and doing much damage to the Texas Pacific Railroad track.

In the Diamond mine men engaged in the recovery of the bodies of the miners killed in the recent disaster were imprisoned by a new caving-in, and were rescued with difficulty.

The men arrested in Liverpool with infernal contrivances were brought up for examination on Saturday, and remanded for a week. It is said the infernal machines are identical in construction with those used in London, and that they are made in this country.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, northwest to northeast winds slight change in temperature, rising followed by falling barometer.