The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-05-04

discharged on o. before tie Is, 81 Jane
neat None viii be paid after this date,
and chisls q departments are enjoinei
TO look 70 the execution Of this order
rEmSDIAS.
A National Womans Dress C1nven.
ton assemblies here ibis evening A
good many sensible things will be said.
Voters arc registering here for The
next municipal election Several wo-
men. residents q Washington, have
presented themselves al the registering
places u their respective wards, and
requested 70 he eg.stered. They were
net registered il any instance, but in
Que ward they were told that their APP
phcation would b considered The
question has been submitted 10 tie
Board; aud after dehberation the opin-
ion prevailed that the act Of Congress
provides only for the registration Of
male voters. The applicants arc
among the most intelligent and respee-
table woman in the community,
TIE ABBorr spRAGUE DIFFICULTY.
The ugly-looking difficulty between
Senator Abbott Of N. G., and Spragno
Of r. l., growing ont Of a story told by
the latter about "a large mastifr and
mongrel puppy he encountered in one
Of his country ramhles, when replying
to the speeches Of Senator's Nye and
Abbott the last day Of the Senate ex-
ira session, is at last amicably attled.
The friends Of the parties succeeded
Monday in bringing about an exchange
Of letters between them, in which Sen
ator Sprague states that the language
in question was in manuscript be ore
Senator Abbott spoke, and therefore
could not allude to him. To which
Senator Abbott replies in his second
letter withdrawing his charge Of Sena-
tor Sprague's skulking out of the Sen
ate Chamber to avoid the former, hay
ing made the charge under feelings
arising out Of the misapprehension now
corrected.
Daniel D. Page, one Of the founders,
and the first Mayor Of st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, died in this city on Saturday. Of
congestion Of tho lungs, aged seventy
nine years,
THE HERO OF FORT FISHER.
] had the pleasure last night Of a
glance at the hero Of Fort Fisher, Gen.
Alfred H. Terry 1t was u pleasure,
strictly speaking, because I found him
Judging from outward signs a splen-
didly constituted fellow in body and
mind, He is young man; certainly
nearer 80 than 40, from appearances;
with a stright, flexible, graceful figure
towering above six feet to the top OF
an admirable head Ian Apollo,' rath-
er than Hercules Do you suspect
Inc Of being a toad eater or hero-wor
shipper, in al this ] think You know
me better Besides the General and ]
have never exchanged words / mere
~ sac him No; my pleasure specially
comes Of this opposite fact, that seldom
DO see a man Of whom the world has
heard for achievements accredited to
him, whose appearance iustifes the
opinion that his manhood is at all to be
measured by The magnitude Of the
deeds or cause be represents. II is a
common error Of mankind to exagger-
ate by this association and confusion
To me it argued nothing in favor Of
Gen. Terry that Fort Fisher was cap.
tured by force under his command =
He might have had one or dozen off
GERS about him whose ingenuity and
force Of character, with the means sup
piled, coull have taken the Fort If Con.
Terry had kept bis bed the whole time
The battle Of New Orleane was accred.
tied TO jackson, but was won by cotton
bales, which the ingenuity or lucky
thought Of one Of the Generals officers
conceived Of employing for breas'vorks.
Gen. jackson was deficient in mechani-
cal inventive genius
But Gen. Terry is not mere invent
or, mechanieian, or brave man He is
not specialist Of any kind He has
good qualities for almost everything
Without looking at him again am n 0,
able 10 particularize any one thing be
is not capable Of doing / wonder /
have not heard Of him as an orator on q
writer He can excel in both. He
loves art, and Is natural musician
He delights ia the beautiful No mere
tough, determined, dry -as-dust soldier
is he. II the age were favorable for it,
be might be an Admirable Crichton
over again. To help a fuller idea d
the Generals appearance let me add,
in conclusion, that his hair and beard
are lightish brown with complex.
ION to match His eyes are fall His
forehead is projecting 10 swelling lines,
high aud broad His tace wears q re.
fined geutleness Of expression. His
voice is flexible and musical, a. II cult
waited HIS manner is open, manly, yet
quiet. entirely nn,rumpetiue, direct,