TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The water is still rising in some parts of the South.

James G. Bennett yesterday gave $10,000 to the actor's fund.

Bills of indictment have been ordered against the steamer Golden City.

The House has voted in opposition to the bill to extend the charter of national banks.

Now that Hurlbert is dead, little more will probably be heard of the Peruvian scandal.

The Metropolitans of New York defeated the Brown University nine by a score of 11 to 3.

Since the end of the war this country has reduced its debt $142,000 a day, including Sundays.

Secretary Lincoln in his report to the President recommended that Sergt. Mason's sentence be mitigated.

At Washington it seems to be regarded as a settled fact that the President will veto the Chinese bill today.

Jesse James, the noted robber, was shot dead in St. Joseph, Mo., yesterday, by a man appointed to arrest him.

In the boat-race on the Tyne yesterday Hanlan defeated Boyd by seven lengths. The victory was very easily won.

The Senate adopted a joint resolution appropriating $10,000 for a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Va.

The freshmen of Dartmouth last night handed a petition to the faculty, requesting that the sophomores suspended some time since for kidnapping Arthur Lucas, the freshman, who was to respond to the toast "Class of '84," at the class supper, be restored to full standing in the college. The petition was signed by all the members of the freshman class.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 4, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, south to west winds, lower barometer, higher temperature.