is up at tuts uignesL -puini attained in six years.The XT. S. Senate passed the army appropriation bill May 3d after a spirited debate. Several private pension bills were passed, including bills to pension Mrs. Julia MacV. Henry, widow of the late Geii. Guy V. Henry; Gen. James Longstreet, Mrs. Margaret M. Badger, widow of the late Commodore Badger- ijnd“Mrs. Harriet Gridley,; widow' of the late Capt. Gridley of the navy.Dispatches from St. Joseph, Mich., state that a large portion of the strawberry buds on the low land in the extrema srmfchern section of the county