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Current of Erets. -The small pox prevails at Edgefield C. 11. The Texas crops are the largest- ever grown. Confederate exiles are returning from Mexico. bringing unfavorable reports. The local elections in Illinois and Iadi ana are all that can be desired to foresha dow a complete Democratic victory in those States the ensuing fall. The bier.on which Washington's remains were carried to the tomb, with many other relics used to grace the museum at Alexand'ria, Va., but which disappeared at thi"boginning of the war, have been re stored. having been kept secreted from Gov ernment detectives and other camp follow era. The New Haven Common Council have been petitioned to abate as a nuisance one of the colored Methodist churches there, in account of unreasonably loud singing and playing. The death of Major M. Borbour, formerly Chief Quartermaster under Gen. Joseph E Johnston, is announced in the Petersburg Express of the 80th. Major Barbour was a native of Virginia, and he was a powerful advocate forJudge Douglas in the Presiden tial campaign of 1860. The President stands his ground. We are told that his firmness is demoralizing ihe Radicals, and that they have fallen back from their respective position, with a view to preventing a split in the Republican party. A Washington letter says : "The President openly avows his inten tion to appoint none but the friends of his policy. General Wils->n's proposition in the Senate upon restoration is significant." The Government is about to re move a large part of the negroes on Roanoke Island .to the interior of North Carolina, whence they came. A large steamer has left New born for that purpose. They will be distri buted all over the state. so that they may more readily obtain employment. The samne disposition will be made of the negroes in camp near Nowbern. It. will be remembered that the President has nominated the lion. Ileury Stansbury, for the Supreme Bench, in the place of Justice Catron, deceased. His political record is thus stated. At the beginning of the war he addressed a pubio meeting in Cincinnati, denying the right of the Government to resort, to coer clon. He was opposed to the draft and to the suspension of the habeas corpus. When Gen. Sherman made his treaty with Gen. Johnston, he maintained that the war was at an end, that the State Governments were re stored, and all the rights of the people of the South re-instated as before the late civil war. BO says the Albany Evening Journal. At the old cemetery in Macon, Ga., says the Journal and dessenger, of Thursday, we learn that the ladies universally decorated the graves of the deceased Federal prison. ers, as they did those of the Confederates. Under the chastening influence of sorrow. all resentments vanished from pure hears -t the Macon fair, and they adorned, indis riminately, the graves of the dead of both sections as the victims of a common calami ty. Rev. Mr. Warren, of the Baptist. Church, delivered a most eloquent and touching ad dress upon the occasion, and with feeling alluded to this affecting incident. The deluge still continues along the river borders of Louisiana. Within the last few dpys the waters of the Mississippi, Arkan sas, Ouaehita and Red rivers have broken through the newly made levees near Lake Providence, and flooded all that cotton. growing region and the Ouachita country. 1t has also forced immense crevasses through the new levees of WVest Baton Rouge, and flooded the whole country--the richest plantatio'ns of sugar and cotton in Louisiana-down to the Bayou Plaquemine. It is feared, even, that the whole countrmy down to the Bayou Lafourche will be over flowed. Several orevasses have also broken out In the immediate vacinity of New Or leans. Itis.reported that the military districts of Oharleston, Port Royal, Eastern South Carolina and Western Bouth Carolina, to gatherwith the sub-districts therein, are ordered tb be abolished- These districts are to b~e divided into twelve military posts, named as fellows: Charleston, Colleton, Georgetown, 'Hilton Itead, Lawtonville, ]oefort, Darlington, Columbia, Aikon, Chester, Andersen and Unionvilie. These poets are to be garrisoned, bye seven regi mients of volunteer troops, among which which will be the One Hundre't ad Twenty eigta United States negro'tr 6)4* turoh now existing in thIs - Country *ae Smithfield, Isle of Wight oo@y, 4i*ba was built, In the reIgili or eeno. the year .1080 suzd 1086. h,,i1me ad timbeqr ,word ia.)brt mis 'l~ bhe ihbew r lJi tlibh o#k, 1 a n a e structitre Is of niok ,eoed ~ h~ si eoesohat'deed tWq 1Wllti*fre'f io.egghae T. P. S.1Dk.A, Csq., is tho sole.agent for this piier in.h -hieston S.C. Phrenological Bust. As there are many of onr readers who take an interest in tho Science of PhrenlologV, they -nn indulge their tnste better in the pursut of that study by seniling on to Messr. Fowr.:i and V:Li,, 389 Broadway, Now York, for one of their busts of the "latest classifica. tion and exact lo-:aion of the organsof.tle brain." Those btisl ire made sothat they are not. only i.wttil lit ornamental. See noticc "Phreilogy" elzew:here. A. S-ro.r:N Bint.i.:.-The Orisis, pub. lished at Columnbii, Ohio, says tho hold. er of aIn Oxford (lglish) vdition of tie Bible, of beaitifil typography, tikii from tle library of Hoiter C. Denslow, at, Savanal, Georgia, wishes to resore it to the owner or his heirs. This Bible was presentedi to the present holder by one of Geii. Shrman's army. We wonder if Sierinan's "bummers" will over repent nd restore any, artele taken from this town and District-es. petially fle bieau titifill silver coninn 111ion service beloigiig to the Presbyteriaii Chrbch in this place. A. CoNTRAST.--TI Rili1non,l Re am iner, de,cribing the foliness of Ill, Yaakeve f-mr thw ".almiighty dollar," makes the followinfg compimson: '';o0e thir repre-itat ive men. The life of a soldi-r migii. be expected t,. dti-n he lovI of tilth y lucre ; but look to fle Pvtl-ral Gonerais who nciot I, ., st. a pf-comary tmlnn hr. Grant. and others of high rank have ac. cepted ever y inig offerid to thut % t shatneles a vidit v. Fa rraglt anid of.her nt.vial celobries have n lot. beei nble to rjoctt le bnIevoleticeS of .their fol'ow. <irizons. Were they So )oor[ that Iheir ne!Cessities constrained? If not need y. how dIared they take that Iioney Ita were bmtter bestowed on the indigent families of dead soldiers? - Th-y loved moneVY. like all ih1ir tribe, with a resist. les- afFeci ion. Grant might conq.r Fif-, bit Ie, coi,h not VercITome h1i ow0%i aaricE. Sherimal might11, d4vifeat toid. but. copility oii, fllked him. itn what brigit ciorast to this isihe eximph offred biy oir own men ? Pomr Mi leed, Yvt tihey have resolutely i. f14ed ally material tribiito fr II Lhieir admiring coontry memn. Who does w.i ro-colleet how inviriah this has he n the ease ? Not one hIs degra-ht-d biU. sYlf b tgkm eleIosy nary coniiihil ions fromi1 an o uarter. T:ms they viin. diit4e oAt livi-s as patriois, while hose who fought sigainst them contess them. Silves ni-renaries. soldiers of fortunes, by tihe reLlille.ss with which they roeoivf gritrlifie:z iki the waiters of ho:tls, ther take the uift with a bow and smirk, an11d then look hiigrily a bout to s''' if thero are not yet olhiirs who will -r.ii Ihemn afier Ilhe -am ginerolus fashion. Fanigh ! 'tis disgustina. SouT-rm-.nx Rr..' 1".un.-...\t a mfeetinig, stays thle Ballimnore Gazette, of tie Excut ive Committee of loalies. behi yesterdayv, the 'sitm of $108,000) wsappropriated to the following~ Slates: Viginin, p20,000 North Carolina. 10.000 Smnth Carolina, I5,000 Georgit, 10,000 Alaa, 1 0,000 Mississippi, 15,000 Floridit, 4,000 Tennessee, 6,000 Arkansas, 4,000 Loutisia nn, 0,000 Maryland, -8,000 A committee of three ladies was ap. poinited to sutperintend the distribut.ion for eaich State-a htet of whom will be published in a few dnys. In addition to the appropriiations above, abont.*50, 000 will remaein as a reserved fund in the hands of the', Executive Committee to incretase the allotment to such$Stges as may require it, and to meet special cases. Til result of the Fair,has been so far developed es to make it certain thiat its aggrega f ' proceeds will rib&be less thanotie1 htundred arld ui:ty 'ihotuu aund dollars. The entire expeiipg yill not exceed Lhree thousand .dgliars.v An A thianhW#1 n b'ouhti $I. to 4( tnf ideni'a cheek by th p hisWo kA4~ aid to he "M *4,o~'opt1~ ' [FOR THE NEWA.J Hessri. Editors: Tier Is discerniblo .n all our friulties, a tendenoy t tako the m 7dde course between extremes. Otr senses comprehand nothing in ex tr -me; tho much tinois deafens us-too much light dazzles us-an excess of distance, or o' proximity impedes the sight, the extreme either of length or of brevity in a discourse d3stroys the effeet; pleasure pursued with out moderation sltiates, land too llany sweet sounds in sutoession offend the car. We feel neither the extreme of cold, nor that of he1a, thuins all rrte.eire qualities are our ene. ies, they are not welcome to us -- we sim ply endure theil. Extreiie youth and ex treme age, alike trammel the mind; too much or too little food prevetils its exercise, too much or t:)o little cultivation produces stupidity. Extremes are to us, as if thoy ha-l no existence, they escape uso, or we, ghan. This imperfection of hutan reason is more visible in those who are ignoratm of it, than in those who recognize the frailty. it a man be too old, his judguent. is unreli ble, if too youing lie saime tinitig, too tittcl or too littlo thought dtulth the brain, ad Trtih is veiled. It a writer criticize his work immediately after its completion, lie is untit to judge of its merits, it' hao delay in. definitely, the desired? to criticize ceases There is one indivisible point fromi whilhi pictures should be properly viewed, other points are too* near, too far, too higigh, to low Perspective ilicates it in art : brl in Truth, in inoiality, who nsignzs it ! ThaL mistress of error, which we call Fitticy or Opinion, is still mote decit IlI becauise, Hot Conlsisteitly so-for ilstilce she would be the iniallible guide to Trm It it sie were the infallible discerner or F.i.: hood,'hut being most frequenitly talse her self, sie presents no lixe.1 trait ot eiarne ter', iand placs her stamp itliko upon Truthi andl FeaLiehood. This powerful ene-ny *ov f R(eason, which takes pleimire in, tyrianlizing over it, to show how much it caln dto, ink il tlintags has establisIeI its s'cond linatur;e inl illan-it possoses its hippy Rand tillu:1py. its hcalthy, its sick, its rich, its poor, it lise and its fools,,antd nothing -iin lie mm,r%. .Jetestable than to linl that i t':ls its vk1u; iUS Witt a saltistaction far in.-re entire thanl azny, which lVe:ason canl b i-n'. Th1e imiginary * Learned pleaso IIt hvmselve.i 11horoighly, Whilo It Wise arit Nldest sur f'er in proportion, becatise they call nevel' be easily sait isfied I lie forter look upon, monil wit a m conscious supeiority; they d. pute with 01zitsA u.nAc(JfkIdenCe, the lit. li' With fear Ami (d1l'idence: A A Lhat Vory bo 'd'/rss. gives thei liln adI:ntag.:e inl tie opinion of their Ieares; so tirue it is, 11hat the wise il tieir- Own conoeit, are gele. rally fivorel by their./w'cuds qfth some aa hire- This conit cannot make fools wise ; but it protwes emiplacenicy in oppositivyn to Ielsonl, whichl only renders its friernli disiatislied-thie one covers Uen with glor. thal other vith imortilicatiot.. Wh1iat t hii' is pezises reputation, what bestows rettpe ?a1-l Venlerat10on uponl indlividuals. lupoll works, or iipon Ihe' Great, if' it pm,n / Witihouit its olisent how titterly ilislificiit 1ar'o All the riches (1' tt ' art h! ()piljil Orde:s every thing-it constitut. i.lhi v. .iustice, lappiness, which friml tie ail i this werld ! Translated from 'Les Pensees" de i. il. FT.y inst some fiaers enga ged in pe inig oni tie farmz of Squtire Shitannon.i in i;'. 5w tielhd t onzship. Washiington) countyi . wit. n issedt a scente somewhat $1itran' iio Ita nteck-o' wools. Int an adnjoitin ag lie!] sime ewes andi tlmbs were qutiet ly grazinig. an;d white I ho alienationt of th plo hiwmuen wais directedt to Ithemi by roma~rks of' some one ill ihe crowd. a larji Amei'icatn r a; he wa s se'tn ti swoop down, and seizing a wooek-o!d la:ih with I a ioud iream ni lew ofl' fat' abtove I he tree tops, bearintg the bleiating Inamb in its taltigs. Thliis isu'don rise Ill tout ton so ius tonishied Itie fa'mers that for a white t hey mauiintainead a silenice not unmixed with nd.' miration, but recovering thomiselves, set. tip a shot. and haltoo whichh seemingly fzighi toned thie proud bird,. forIit let go its hlId anid the laimb fellito the ground with a forco whaieh reduced it to a state of muatton chops and uheep skin in a very short space of TAil FA-ru or AlT. Sutn.--An edJitor of a westerni pnper, white taking ia snoozo aftei' dlark, traYelling ini a a railway cairlage, haiti his pocket pinked. The tnief'inext daiy for warded the pocket book by express to the editor's office, with tho-tilowiung tnote. "Youl mhzerabile skunk, flon'ri yei' pockit book. I don't keep sloth. For a maln dress med as welt as yeon was, to go round with ni walhit and ntuthin.it la fbut a tot of ntoose paper soraps, an tvryiooth comb, too nloose paper,stamps and a. pass ,frema ralorode direotitr, is a contgjnplable .Imporsition on the pthllo. As I hee .yeoigy a editus', I re tar'a yet' tras--I never' robs any, only gens. tiemnon." *A. W'ard thu do ibos s perils at aea: 4DJoLIh'stat'd t si~ hp, act. But h~ Iad rathuer. .He) nytldq'9 0v /)eth, RbOl 7O.,.V , ttDesha in th~e "lea$i to P,rm the 'New York lierald, April 18. Nitro-lyceriue.-A Terrible Explosive Agent. Trhe frightfl dinater which, ocenirrid onl th(4 I 6th of April, in or near ithe of fico of W'lls, Filr-go & Co.'s l'pre., in the city of P m Francisco, killing fif. teen or twenity p-rsol, and dtredfulb injilring 111an1y others. d(estroying nearl1Y a whole block os ib-ling, amd resnh.ing in a :nnmige of tio tii *200,000, is, IeyomI ani dl<i the result of the Vxplosion of nitro-glyceiine, or blisting oil. Accor1ing to inroriwminm taknloi hwre, in New Yfrk," IIe stierintiedet of a New York niiiiiig coiniy had sevt, soi weeks ago, 'o Sin l'ranlcisco, by tIe Pacific Maiil Comllpany1q, sevvral bioxes of itro-glycerins. wveigling a Wult 200 piounds, nmport-A fromi i(m Cactory of' Mr. anlred Nowl, of' ltamberg, (er In-ily. It was9 in,tjd I to Soe lliz; oil to mninl ing , i4 iv,, the iIIIIII Ise x plo !ilng plower 41f 1 he neiw ,hm a , -mp,,m114 offe ing greav adtvata , f. oIllyv i thw Saving of labmr of driill holo:. butl1 al o inl freight. hle.alwv lon plovlml of :t.is bhasting oil 4loes- thm :Inne l;.-truvtivv work :1. 12 tol 15 pouindi Ofrcommnon hhosl ing gno e Ti'l- IloIll stirs if we :hh1, that ti 20" pounds sent bY tie Pacilie mas s'V;lIIekr hadL uxploi(I duriing Ihe sca voy agt, It-arin;t I') jif.cl :Ind, butrying freightlicL 0'''l Welli & ro's Com ImIny,.n I S:nIi Pranlci:co, wi1:13.n apparent caum-, havv happwnm quAIte P:4 w=ll on borl of thl i t!enr which cllrrild te-1triu1a d d ng ru frig1t ? IIn ilw. smllfl . of, Blo -inna, inl one of le coI] 1 of Wes philalia, (or u1in'1y, a t,ore-keepeir lo-I)t C-ir saile for lw( minor., soimo tock of Noil'Ts nitro glyeorine. ()ftm morniiig a tminor caie to bmy t wpounds,and brought wift Im In t to carry i, tle i l am bot l., in whicb it wva sul bwing onwonvi.nil-int f-r h1111. Till elot k opiont-d the( bottles and 0mrI' 1w oil into tiw- till Can ; bllt Io, in twe same .umn ULiD phdoI , tarng' tti pieces fihe p),.r cl!-C ,' kilEn., ifhe mnr4.al 1i t orv. The Prils,inn Gw;mIn ppoin'-d at comn mki ,ion to invv ti l t mal sr, aill it as oll :5 til. thl tinl (;:IihIl c!'O i0 ed litrlw l.in t il, ilt l a tir p.1n iinv oil int v<o :o-t wit!b imtr - l ;vin i po - i wold occasi 1a sd,ild'Ivle xplosio ..-. Sin lirly n ogh th accil,t ti !v ppnii od 'it tl't SliIfv dlay tla ti e v ywilinl", hteIIld, anel,h nitook h : in lhlis vl ty. Near ih z Ii tht Pr1esia l'rovi. dae, o a d3 la 'rv of la bor w to oc 011pi-d inl b!;ltinI. Ilway somw rm.,ks Iln h!e r:lh;,.I it -u, .u;w v.rv earlk inl 'h n orbin,! (Jo (. 1, lo i, S>. I,- w:l' 14o 11"or oil in ':is dIliP hmlv, ibt fwo l izt wd rtztg ovvr nigh -lim oil haVi' ! h nir u.Vhy (d i e-v.1.g ix 11. ga:-s4 aboMV0 Walt"lr f:"r('Z i g I',ilt. Th'le oil wasin l! g111. p1-e lh1 f Ia tI : lt.l- K ini ng 1 1,, t hW hulr*11' tiato w0i I ing inan cnt.(.pvn Oh flit, ki wl t,ak a haoich-t to et, o ;I p -c- of e ik 11rozenl oil ThI m l- otil>nlt Ohw h II vl-I tomehvd thk. Crozwn llumpI itepodd killint- in.sin nivy fthe p14 r MAn, Whi%, t.he accide t ppen 1. kl81( W e cal, therifgr', the a (etiel Floods in the Mississippi. N Ew Out1.ANs, Ifny '.Wygh wa: ters every whire, an1 floods coming down. The planters are in despair. Congressional News. VASt1N0TON, May 2. - Senator' Dixon offered an amendment to the proposijion of the Reconstruction Com mittee. It declares flhat, when any of the lately rebellions States shall present itseht not only in an attitude of loyalty,. bit represented by nien capable of sub miting to constitutionl tests, it shall he' adiittvd to tie right of representation. In the 11onse the bill for reorganizing the army was defeated, and it will next consider one which has passed the Son. ate for that purpose. 1illitnry Commissions at an End. WASIhINrON, May 2.-An order' has I1een issuml front the AXar Depart. mneut, by dirv< tion of the President, de. chiring that MliNtary Commisions and Ciourt. N.\hrtial are not authorized, there f.r III-y will not a-sume jurisdiction in ie tril of persons other than those be. 1Io ging t, the army And navy of the. Ullited States, camp followers, contrac. tors, a nd such others as are indicnted in the Articles of War and Acts of Cn. gress. 111ot at Memphis, MUnieitis. May 1.-There was a riot here this evening between the police. m1n and negro soldiers, growing out of' an attempt of the olicers to arrest a while man whom the negroes attempted' o proteet. A boutthirty policemen kept. 1p the1, fight for two hours with a hun, dred und ihy negroes, which was final; Ir qiteil by the 16th Regiment of Infit ry. Once policeman was killed, irve womilvd. Eight or ten negroes. were kille:1 auld several wouiled. CABINET MEETING. President Johnson on the Report of the Reconstruclion Committee, Ete. WASIIINCTON, May 1.-It is tiider. s1ood that at a meeting of te Cabinet to-day thi Presideit invited an expres. 41mn1 (if opinioi from the Hoads of the Depart menis respecting the report of ti,e Reconstroctiont Committee, and it is reported that. in an animated discussion whieb entmed thermipon, Socrotaries Sward, McCuilloch, Welh-s and S-an. ;4m wvre decided mi their opposition to be l.an of the( colmiittee, and enriet ii their upport of the Prosideti't, policy i restorat ion The Post mast er-Gener al was in fivor of carrying out thn Presi. .1sn't policy, but expressed soin doubts as to tho precise tune at which loyal Ippresentiatives from Southern States slhuld ho admitted. The Attorney. General was not presentt. 'The President was very emnhiatio in his opposit ion .to the commitltee's report, a nd dechatred hi mself againv, all conditions. precedent to 'he admission of loyal rep resentatives fromx tha Southern St ates in ihe shape of amendments to.the Consti tiution and the passage o4sws. He in. sisted that tunder the. &iisLtitution rno Stato could be deprived of its equal af frage ini the Senate, -and that Senators and Representatives Outat oc to be admitted ito the representative houses as pre.scribed by law and r,be Constitu Hewas for al sriot eneto the Constitution aitis,,aehttmarked that, having sustaitiefoitr*elves tinder it dlur ing a tore' %'hellion, lie thought the GOVI fit could be restored without reto amendments; and remarked, eneral terms, that if the organic law a to be changed int all the States it should be at a time when. all the peopie cani participat.e ini the alteration. lina Jefferson Dayla, FonTnss MONRo;C May 1.--Mrs. Jefferson Diavis arrived lhene thuis morn. tng, direct fronm Montreal. Irece.ntly broke her nxeck~ whi e r p at tempt ofra young man to kiss her. i furnishes a f'earhd warnhig to yor, ladies.