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Show BRIG. -GEN. THOS. H. BARRY. Brigadier General Thomas H. Barry, who has been picked for the presidency of the War college at Washington, is likely to furnish another grievance to dark lantern patriots. The berth is regarded re-garded by army officers as.. a very desirable de-sirable one, and the prospective incumbent in-cumbent is described as a Catholic. General Barry has risen very rapidly from an obscure lieutenancy to his present rank. By sheer merit, say his friends, not unaided by fortuitous circumstances, cir-cumstances, add those who arc not. At any rate, from what, we glean from reliable sources there is no occasion for proscriptionists to frat themselves sick over his religious stronuositj . Monitor, Moni-tor, San Francisco. |