The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-10-09
NEWS ITEMS

The LELAND brothers have gone
6 san Francesca q open : be hotel
The census bureau estimates tho
pr az population 81 fl's country at
5000 600
There ay nev Do pa.ive born ar
nldrti An b. PRISON ia
glgl sad - suaus
TIE ulau erl who Ias,y losther
9ah ~lge whispering has bad forty
oilers Is assliaEt
rhe son 81 ule French Minister at
Isl Washington, tMonthoiou3 has been
shot Nv tho i Aorala rs Mexico
The annual CON mptou II to-
haceo rs tile h1mau family Is t.4s0.
600 pounds vonty ounces per head
Twenty more miles Of the Western
Pueldc Railroad froia san Jose to
Valley Jose we're opened ON the lsL
james Buchanan is drinking sui
phur water ut Bedford Springs He
viii taste sulphur ia a different shape
some Of these nights on DAYS
AT Jersey City a eolorod girl fell
twelve feet striking headforemost uIpn
some rocks That night she attended
o bah. and was as festive as i lark.
Secretary Seward has announced
G. some Of his friends thnt ho viii re-
Sign his Office on the restoration ~ his
hcalth The country will be resigned
TO bis restoration
Con Mcclellan writes homo from
abroad that he approves tho arm-in-arm
Philadelphia Convention. Macs help.
as usual, comes too late 10 imluro That
movement 1t is already dead.
Tho President has appointed Gen.
John A. Dix to be Envoy Extraordna-
ny and Minister Plonipotcntiary TO
France and Hugh Ewing Of Kansas. 10
be Minister Resident at the Hague.
Even the Now York News thinks
Il would be we'll for the South to accept
the Constitutional amondmontl The
Mammoth Cave az Kentucky Is no
longer the hugest cave ON tho cont.
nent.
Mr. Charles Wright Of Hinsdale,
Mr. johnson appointed as Assessor in
the lOth Massachusetts Uistrict,f IL in
the insane asylum az Northampton ,suys
the Springfield Republican,
II is proposed tohaye grand hotel
IN Baltimore, and Il public meeting in
its and has already been held. The
Lelands laye agreed Is subscribe
100000 % the capital stock, provided
they have the refusal Of the lease.
Ut Is a little curious, and set very
encouraging, to find that after all of the
Governors have spoken, there il not
one Of them in all the Northern States,
from Maine to Oregon, who il not de-
cisiycly committed against the treason
of Andrew johnson.
Rear Admiral Francis II. Gregory.
United States Navy, diod very sudden
~, at one o'clock Thursday morning,
in Brooklyn. He was one Of tile most
distinguished officers Of the nayg. and
WAS at The time of Ills death super
|iutendent Of thc iron-clnds and steam
vessels constructing ID New York
i keg Of yeast czpioded ia an OK
press Office III frcaport, IH., on Mon
day of last weals hurling q forty pound
ban Of iron lying upon it through tho
ceiling above INTO Il crate If crockery,
70 tie great du!rimont Of earthcnwarc.
Tho cypress agent, who was standing
near, Wos violently thrown ogcr a pile
Of peach boxes and considerably injur-
ct
Henry VI Corho,t Che newly cleo
ted Senator from Oregon Is about 40
years old, and hes been IN Oregon N OFT
II years, having removed 70 thnt terri
tory lrOfu New York. Hc.was born in
Westboro, Massachusetts. He went to
Oregon and began business as a mor-
chant, III which be has been very sue
ces full, having amassod n handsome
fortune. lie has always been II resi-
dent Of Portland, where he built the
first frnme house. Ho has but recently
gone into political life.
Since Grant has made if apparent
that he does not support my policy
and Is down on copperhelds, the Dem
]ocratic papers have taken to abusing
ham again. He is now said to be "a
person of limited information aud COM
monplace ideas, with some obstinate
prejudiees, and not 4 superabundancc
Of intelligent convictions"
AT the Republican National Con-
y%ention Of 1854, when n proposition
was made in the Wisconsin delegation
70 unite their vote IN favor Of Andrew
johnson for ce-President, Governor
Randall, o Johmson's right-hand
man and Postmaster General, opposed
the motion. no. no said. II know
Andrew johnson bettor than you do
III Il abqa Lreaeher0as man, and mn
for ne o6iee.
On the way 10 Niagara Falls, n
grcat deal Of merrimcnt was created in
the Presidents party By rivalry which
sprang mp between Grant and F~arragui.
At one on two places the ladies had
kissed the NAVAL hero, and had merely
shaken hands with the unconditional
Commander-in Chief. This" said the
General is easily cxplained Tho Ad-
miral is so Old that the young ladies
don't hesitate to kiss him. but they
don't lie to take such liberties with 4
. young man like me" Against this the
Admiral ~laugbingly protected. ascrib-
ing the lmpututIOn up0n bis age "a ipal-