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tiiek kisses.
;ivenin childhood’* lioai
never gave another;
till 1 akffl shall feel
cil my liiw for yearn,
siM heart reeled in bliss
y of tho hour
felt young love's first kin
f the sacred tliree
,ve felt the dying kiss,
at kiss of burning love,
he dead—then nevermore
slionld they think to movi
The Fatal Glass.
ousin Walter, won’t yon drink my
lh?” nnd Fanny Lacy turned from
merry group, nnd held tho tempting
it ,.f wine almost to his lips. Now,
ter Frazier was a man of strong
.us nature, nnd had inherited with it
.iiilncss for dissipation. He led a
wreckless life, and had l»een
led hy many as a hopeless case ;
uul r.itonished his friends, all at oi
liis al'riqit discontinuance of liis old
its, and a steady application to his
iaos. Yet no one knew what nstnig-
it cost him to do so. No one knows
mental agony he endured in trying
•ast off the temptation which constant
ly 1,minted him, nnd sought to cost him
n Iron the position he had reached,
as, with him, a continual effort; for
in* society iu which he moved, not a
j,a-sed that ho did not experience a
ptatiou to abandon his resolution, and
u!ge “just once” in the dangerous
us:in 1 , liis friends were by no means
trirt in their habits, ami they fre-
ntly urged him to take a glass, and
>-areely attended an entertainment
r’m was not offered wine ; all these
r> \uro <iuietly refused ; but some-
es he felt that the effort would snap
The Hlaton's Grave.
In all ages tho bodies of Masonic dead
have been laid in graves dug due east
and west with their faces toward the east.
This practice has been borrowed and
adopted py others, until it has become
nearly universal. It implies that when
the great day comes, nud when He who is
Death’s ecnqnerer shall give the signal,
his ineffable light shall be first seen in
the east; that from the east he will make
his glorious appearance; will stand at the
eastern margin of those graves, and with
his mighty power—that grasp, irresista-
bly strong, which shall prevail—will raise
the bodies which are slumboring therein.
We shall have been long buried, long
decayed. Friends, relatives, yea our
nearest and dearest, will cease to remem
ber where they have laid ns. The broad
earth will have undergone wondrous
changes, mountains leveled, valleys filled.
Tho seasons will then have chased each-
other in .many fitful rounds. Oceans,
bished into fury bv the gales of to-mor
row will have sunk like a spoiled child to
their slumber. Broad trees with broader
.roots, will have interlocked them hard
and knobbed as they are above our
having lived, and after centuries of life,
they too will have followed our example
of mortality, and long struggled with de
cay, at least will have toppled down to
join their remains to ours, thus oblitera
ting the poor testimony that man has
u here. So shall wo bo lost to
human sight. But the eye of God,
nevertheless, will mark the spot, green
with everlasting verdure of faith, and
when tho trumpet's blast shall shake the
hills to their bases, our astonished bodies
impelled upward by an irresista-
blo impulse, nnd we shall stand fnco to
face with our Redeemer.
The Mountain of Dead Bodies in
the Qnarrie. or Jaumont, Near
Metz.
lie made the struggle bravely through.
II.- firmly resolved never again, to taste
,t.Aicatiug liquors ; for he knew him-
.. ii wll enough to be assured that his
:r.«t glias would lend to another, and
..M thirst once aroused, he could not
iGl wlc iv it would end. But how could
1: • refuse his little cousin Fanny, the
only one he had loved dearly from child-
i.mul? Ami this was the night cf her
bridal; au«l they, perhaps, would never
uwt Again. Could he le’use her last
ti lu-r voice sounded in hi
a Walter, you remember it
st time I shall ever ask yon.’ And
| the bright blue eyes looked up s.t him i funerals as well
rough their dim mist of tears. The *ere Germans.
u>hed
s too great, nnd raising the
et to his lips, he drained it
ttom ; but that was not all
ses were drained, during
md when Walter Frazier
that night, he knew that
ued man. The demon of
was now aroused, and he
nearest saloon, to allay his
ling thirst—drank more, drank deep*
ini then reeled home, and lay all
it in a drunken stupor. Day after
the t ame was repeated, night found
in the same condition.
There is a man at the door that won’t
tut away. Ma’am,” raid Bridget,
her head into Fanny Lacy’s, or
Mrs. Morton’s pleasant sitting-
Wobi>, “Jew.”—The following,
which appears in a communication to a
New York paper, is a piece of information
that many do not posssess: “Tho word
‘Jew ’ is not the name of the once great
nation of Palestine, but it merely de
scribes their faith or belief. If
should ask me what religion I have
answer would be, “I am a Jew.” Ask
my nationality—my answer “I am a Ger
man.” The same as n protestant can lx
an Irishman, as well as a Catholic can hi
a German or a Jew can be a Frenchman,
Mr. Sig. Kauffman is a German hy na
tionalitv and a Jew by religion; and if a
Jew is born in Dublin bo is as well an
Irishman as a German born in New York
is an American. I don’t believe there is
a Jew living on the glolie that conld
trace his descent; for, when tho emigra
tion from Asia to Europe took place,
Jews and Gentiles went there as well as
Jews and Gentiles come to America.—
You have attended Jewish weddings and
us Catholic, and both
Can a Jew be a Teuton
or can a Lutheran be a
bulb tlie same qnestio:
religion is taught all ove
l American are
i. The Jewish
the globe ”
‘ We drink,
onsense Bridget; what is tho
miug to me with such stuff' ?
t‘ lie will go away if you tell him to
ed lib
him in,” nnd Mrs. M.
book down petulantly, and
Says the Chicago Post
every one of us, a pair of boots a
We carry iron enough in our blood,
gtantly, to make a liorsdshoe. We have
clay enough iu our frames to make, if
properly separated and baked, a dozen
good sized bricks. We eat, hero
Chicago, at least a peck of dirt a month
—no, that is not too large an estimate.—
The man who carelesely tips a glass of
lager into his stomach little reflects that
he has begun the manufacture of a hat,
yet such is tho case. The malt of the
beer assimilates with the cbylo and
forms a short of felt—the very same
seen so often in lmt factories. But not
being instantly utilized it is lost. Still
farther; it is estimated the bones of every
aduli person require to be fed with lime
enough to make a marble mantle every
eight months."
"W alter Frazier!” she exclaimed, ns
man with bloated face nnd blood-shot
»' s staggered into the room.
"Yos. I am Walter Frazier. Ah l yon
iy well clasp your hands, you bcauti-
1 temptress, who wrought my woes!
nt for yon, I, to-day might bo a noble,
I 'l’riglit mau, filling the station God
me for. Five years ago, you
tempted with a glass of wine, and I loved
ut so dearly I could not refuse, but
fi m that hour I was ruined. And
Vnnie Morton, look well on the wreck
•on. Raise your hands to heaven
|n'l thank God this isyonr work.'
he could reply, he was gone,
['ll*- threw herself down on the floor, and
v there all night sobbing in her wretch-
bass ; and when morning came with
s freshness and light, Bridget rushed
I her room, saying: “Oh, Ma’am
base come to the front door for a min
u ■ She did so; and on the mArble
I’* 1 p. Miff and cold lay the last of tlje
| nee noble, generous Walter Frazier,
'ietimof intemperanoe.
And now, my readers, by this true,
* simple story take warning. Never
. to another, this hateful poison, or
nmv, like Mrs. Morton, embitter your
I for tver.—Ruby Mortimore.
Total Depravity.—A brother oi
Henry Ward Beecher thus spoke at the
Brooklyn church last Sunday:
‘It had been liis fortune to travel very
largely among heathen nations, but there
was, So said/ worse heatheuism in New
York than iu iCanton, or among the
Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope.
I have seen the Bengalee Indians, the
Chinese, the South Sea Istanders, nnd
the Crackers of Florida, and tho Hillers
of South Carolina; and never, never,
the surface of God’s earth have I jm
such men and women as I have the last
week or two in New York city. They
cannot be fonnd. London may equal it.
Hell does not surpass it.”
Considering the congregation ho ad
dressed, what a satire that is on Brother
Henry’s ministration and what an ex
quisite contribution to tho cause of
truth
Ala Tu ANI * Poetry.—A colored poet of
• mphis, says the Missouri Republican
* ^luced the Fifteen Amendment and
[ Enforcement Bill to rhyme a
a sm to atcal a pin.
irime to cut» throat—
a darned eight bigger to stops nigger
oin patting in hie vote.
“ May I sing, ms?” asked a yonng
lady of four who had been taken to
church by her mother, and wlmse bump
of mnsic was doubtless netted by
the performance to which she
listening. Ma, whose eye was upon the
ptniers in the next pew, of course stud
Yes,” as all indulgent mothers do; and
little hopeful with a strong voice com
menced “ Up in a balloon—” “ Hash!
hash!” said ma; “don’t sing that!”—
Pausing a moment, the yonng vocalist
struck up M Not for Jpe," and was im-
lediately hustled out of the sanetuiy.
» China is going to war now. She
* the ultimatum of the French
| n ‘ ln K the Ute missionary masea^.^,
p erring to settle the mater by an ap*
T^fo arms. Should this determina-
f “ to actual hostilities, in that
« as lmt the sympathies of the whole
'“3 worid will be with the Frenolr
The Prussians were received in sullen
silence by-the pec pie of Strasbourg.—
General Yon Warder was very insolent
His first aet was to make a requisition on
the half starved city iu favor of the abun
dantly provided German troops.
A Paris paper relates that Prof.
Lannclouge, ot that city, keep * his pu
pils in practioeby shooting bullets with
a revolver into the corpses brought to
the hospital, sad these ballets are then
extracted from the corpses by the
TRANSLATED BY THE REV. P. A. BLUM.
For the Chronicle «f" Sentinel from tlte
flaulois (Paris Pajter).
Until now we have had no details of
the engagement oi Jaumont. We extract
the following terrible narrative from a
letter addressed by a young soldier to liis
brother :
*“Yes, my dear Louis, the Major said,
I have hail a terrible shock. May Heaven
preserve me from ever witnessing a
spectacle similar to that of the quarries
of Jnumont, for I am very certatn that I
would loose my senses. Event to this
time my neives arc still trembling,
which alters my writing, nnd wh-.u I
close my eyes I see again this fearful tor
rent of human beings falling over tin
precipice.
The battle of Jaumont will remain in
history os one of the most terrific acts of
war, and, liowover terrible, the imagina
tion may describe it, it will never attain
that degree of horror experienced by
those who were spectators. Would you
believe that after the blow was
remained dumb, breathing with fright
and even weeping before this horrible
mountain of dead bodies.
Ivnowest thou to what cause wo attri
bute in our corps, this unheard of drama.
They say it is the vengeance of four peas
ants, ruined and burned out by the Prus
sians. In order to avenge themselves,
these men knowing well the country,
mado themselves the guide of the enemy,
and conducted them to a position that
the Prussians imagined impregnable,
not doubting the wonderful trap into
which they were drawn.
Thou will judge of it.
The stone quarries of Jaumont, from
which at first stones were taken from the
top, form an immense and deep excava-
vatiou, the walls of which attain a height
of from seven to eight stories. It is at
the summit of one of those pointed walls
that the Prussians had themselves strong-
established, very certain that they would
not be surprised from the rear
Of the four peasants that had led them
into this place one made his escape in
order to inform ns of the terrible means
nsed to annihilate the enter corps.
And this plan was infallible.
At first worked from the top, the
qnarry has been slowly excavated iu one
of its sides by longsnbterrcneau galleries
with many stories, one above the other,
and which were maintained by support
ing pillars. One side, I repeat again
had been excavated, and it is on this
ground, sustained by these pillars, that
peasants had established the Prassi
during the night. The obscurity,
at first, and afterwards the high eleva
tion, prevented them from having any
knowledge of these galleries, which w
hollow, on the top of which they had
trenched themselves.
At daybreak Bazaine attacked them
from the front, and they fought full of
confidence that they could not l>c taken
from the rear. Bat nt the height of the
combat, Cnurobert, who hnd flanked the
quarries, planted cannon on the other
side of the precipice in order to fire
the pillars which supported the galleries.
An hour after a sudden and immense
crumbling, in ono enormous block, took
placo under the feet of the Prussians and
precipitated them into the chasm. O, my
dear Louis should I live ono hundred years
yet, I shall always hear the horrible cry
ottered by the eutiro corps in feeling tho
ground giving away under them. Im
agine to thyself 20,000 cries con fouuding
themselves into a single sound of indes-
scribable despair, coming up from these
men, when conscious of the instant death
approaching.
liko ono human voice, bat pow
erful as possible, vibrating with that ter
rible anguish of a last and doleful appeal
for aid nnd a frightful adeiu to life.fbnt
of very short duration, for the human
avolance immediately commenced, and
horses an cannon, all, is hurled pell
mell into tho chasm in one enormous
mass, which crushes itself under its
terrible weight.
At the same time that this crumbling
took place, Bazaine drove the Prussian
corps, before him with such irresistible
fury that a half regiment of French who
conld not retain their elan were also pre-
lipitated in tho abyss.
The drama lasted ten minutes; At this
moment the national character was imme
diately elevated. Instead of exclama
tions of ferocious joy, which the Prus
sians would not have failed to have given
were they in onr place, at a similar suc
cess, we remained quiet,terrified by his last
and mournful cry which still rung in onr
ears; and tears flowed from onr eyes,
rliich remained fixed on this mass yet
moving in the spasms of terrible agony.
This heap of bodies, from which pro-
traded arms, basts and heads of men,
legs of horses, cannons, broken caisssons
represented to us a living moun
tain, the height of which settled little by
little by its own weight, ended by filling
two-thirds of the precipice which had
oeived it
The noise of the combat immediately
censed.
All with heavy hearts, were silent,
listening to the twenty thousand moans
issuing from this mass, and dying away
as the masa becomes more compact
Onr victory gave us fear.
I am ignorant of what paaaed after
words, for I fainted, and I am now awake
in the ambulance after a long attack of
delirium which had seixed me.
To remove these thousands of heaped
corpses for interment was impossible,
tkat did time permit the raising of these
braised bodies. We had id first thought
of burning them . by inundating petro
leum; bat we gave up that idea. The
Prussians then hired' Belgians, at ten
francs per day, to cover with and this
mountain of human beings, from which
four days terrible cries camfr out. In the
place of earth they employed sand, be
cause it fills op the empty spaces in the
mass, and rising little by litle, it finishes
by covering the frighfnl hecatomb caused
by four peasants who desired to avenge
their ontraged wives and their hnrned
homes.
They say even, that one of these false
guides, who had succeeded in escaping
in order to forewarn us, had rejoined the
Prussians, in order to enjoy, at the price
of his life, the pleasure of this terrible
vengeance.
Poor peasants, who a month since have
seen lifo so culm ! They are there, all
four sleeping their lost sleep under the
bodies of 20,000 Prussians, for which
their patriotic hatred prepared the death!
Joe Trezel.
Birdseye View ot Paris.
he Beauty of the City—Paris ami the
Pleasure See Jeer*—Tlte Fortifications, the
Defences and Their Cost.
In one of his most powerful essays De
Quincy indulges in a train of reflection
somewhat to the following effect: Snp*
posing that.the moon is peopled with in
telligent beings, and that those beings
are provided with eyes or telescopes far
surpassing our range of vision, on what
earthly spectacles, would they look with
the keenest interest ? Not, says tho elo
quent essayist, on Fields of Cloth of
Gold, or meetings of allied sovereigns,
or reviews, or even on battles ; the
Lunarians wonld rather choose to gaze
on some scene of heroic feminine endu
rance, where beauty, innocence and
nobility of character all combimo to
melt the heart of the spectator. The
finest sight that earth conld show an
observer upon another planet would be
sneb a martyrdom as that of Joan of
Arc, or such an exeention ns that of
Marie Antoinette.
Pay# Your Debts.—Simply because
to do so, and now you have'
You have wheat, corn, hay
sell, and pay up. Pay- your
remember he is worthy of his
wife and little ones need food,
g—must be educated; be has
to .yon in Holy things; now
pay him out of your worldly things.—
Pay your physican; remember how he
waited on your sick family until they
were restored to health. Pay your mer
chant; now is the time you promised
him; you succeeded hi gaining his con
fidence, and obtained your supplies.—
Now, he needs it badly; yon cannot con
ceive how much; pay, and you will see
his rigid mouth relax into the most pleas
ant smiles. Try him, and watch the ex
traordinary effect—you will make him a
happier and a better .man. Pay all
persons you owe, so your credit may bo
good, olid “yonr wonl your bond?’ and
your conscience will approve, and God
will bless, yon, because you do it ii
in obddrante to-His word. Did yon not
know, that “ honest man is the noblest
work of God?” Yes, he is! Pay your
debts, and your credit will be just os
good “ As a bard shell Baptist’s.”—Car-
terscille Ex.
Babies.—We love babies, and every
body who does love babies—No man has
music in his soul who don’t love babies.
Babies were made to bo loved, especially
girl babies, when they grow up. *
isn’t worth a shack who hasn't a baby,
and the same rale applies to a woman.—
A baby is a spring day in winter, a hot
house in mid-winter; and if it is healthy,
A beautiful city has often been com
pared to a beautiful woman, and sorely
city in tho world is more largely eu*
(lowed with that sort of fascination which
beauty inspires than Paris. At all times
Paris is an object of more lively interest
to the moss of mankind than any other
town in the world, onr own sombre me
tropolis not excepted ; bnt at present
that interest is vastly enhanced by tho
tragical destiny that appears to be im
pending over tho gay and glittering
haunt of pleasure seekers from all parts
l BEAUTIFUL CITY.
and good nature, and von are sure it’
yours, it is a bushel of sunshine, n
matter how cold the weather. A man
cannot be a helpless case so long as he
loves babies—one at a time. We loye
babies all over, no matter how dirty they
Babies were born to be dirty. We
love babies because they are babies, and
because their mothers were loveable and
lovely women. Onr love for babies is
only bounded by the number of babies
in the world. We always look for ba
bies, we do with anxiety and paternal
affection; we do, indeed we do. We al
ways have sorrowful feeling for mothers
that have no babies, and don’t expect
any. Women always look very down
hearted who have no babies; and men
who have uo babies always grumble and
drink whisky and stay out nights trying
of the world. Who can believe it? Lit
tle more than two months ago there was
not a cloud in the sky as big as a man’s
hand, and now the heavens are black
with tempests. Two months ago if a
prophet, a modern Isaiah, the son of
Amos, had appeared on the Boulevard
des Italiens, and prophesied tlie speedy
encampment of hundreds of thousands
of foreigners on the soil of France, ho
would have been treated as a lunatic, and
sent to the Bicetre. And
write, this mass of armed men is steadily
drawing towards Paris.
£ FORTRESSES.
ling the German host should
reach Paris, will Paris open her gates,
or will she resist to the death ? She de
clares that the will resist to the death,
and her chances of success are much
greater now than in 1814 or 1815. Mod-
_ „ warfare has tended to show the
mensc advantages of fortresses. Toni
and Pfalsburg have proved that
lasts
E. J. KIRKSCEY, O.IV.C.T.OP Gcorgi*.
DELIVERED BEFORE THE
GBAUD LODGE AT AKEEICTJS, OCTOBER
5TH 1870.
To the Officers and Members of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia, Independent Order
of Gootl Templars;
Brothers and Sisters: By the authori
ty of the (trand Lodge, given to me at
its lust session held in Atlanta, Novem
ber 22nd and 23rd 1869, I have assem
bled you as Representatives from the
different parts of the State, from the
several subordinate Lodges, thus early
in tlie season and two months before the
regular time of holding the annual Sess
ion, that you might legislate for the good
of the Order, interchange your views with
each other on the all important jioint of.
immediate action to extend onr lielovcd
Order throughout the State, and consult
as to the best mode of advancing our army
into the enemy’s territory. Let ns first
of all retnrn thanks to The Great Grand
Chief Templar of the Universe for the
many oomforts around us, as well os for
the blessings showered upon our institu
tion, nnd invoke^ His continued Divine
blessing upon our Order, for without His
tve accomplish no good.
ion, adopted the following report
St. Louis, May2G, 1870.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge'of North
America :.
Your committee, to whom was referred
tho snbject of Children’s Organizations,
wonld most respectfully submit. the fol
lowing report:
After a carefnl examination of the vari
ous juvenile organizations, your commit
tee ore unanimous iii the opinion Uinttbe
Gold Water Templar’s organization is the
most appropriate and efficient, and the
best adapted to educate the children in
the principles of Temperance. We wonld
therefore recommend the adoption of the
following resolutions:
Resoleetl, That the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge adopt tlie Ritual of the
Cold Water Temple organization.
Resolved, That a committee of five be
appointed by the Right Worthy Grand
Templar, who shall have the general su
pervision of tlie Cold Water Temple or
ganization, and as soon os possible divide
STATE OF TIIE ORDER.
It gives me exceedingly great pleasure
to be able to report a five fold increase in
our numerical strength since we last met
in annual session, and we have tho most
flattering hopes of future success, if wo
will onlvbe vigilant and active in advanc
ing onr army of Good Workers.
We havo instituted forty-six new
Lodges during tlie post eight months all
of them under the most flattering pros
pects of future success, and we trust each
oue will be a bright and shining light.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF Vi HAND LODGE.
Under this head, our esteemed Broth
ers Thrower and Pilgrim, Grand Secreta
ry and Treasurer, will give all the data
you may desire.
GRAND LECTURER.
to get music in their souls; bnt they
come it Babies are babies and nothing
can take their place. Pianos play out,
unless there’s a baby in the house. We
have tried it; we know and we say there’s
nothing like a baby. Babies are a pro
ductive substance uud we intend to talk
more about babies in tho future. We
iutend to tell our friends if they waut to
be happy in this world they must have a
baby in the house—one of their own is
preferable. Babies stimulate exertion;
they make a young man scratch gravel;
this view of the case, they
the while laying golden eggs. A
hardly ever worth three red cents until
he gets a wife and baby. They push him
to it. While he is making enough for
their support, he is sure to have some
thing over.
James Gordon Bennett
third-rate forts constitute a most formid
able obstacle to the advance of a hostile
force.
Ever since the revolution of 1789 the
idea of fortifying Paris was entertained,
but nothing practical was effected till
1840, when M. Thiers obtained a grant
of 140,000,000 francs for tlie purpose.
It lias been the fashion for many years
to regard the works that were then con
structed as a giant specimen of Oileanist
folly. But now, in the face of danger,
tho Parisians rush to the opposite ex
treme, nnd praiso M. Thiers as the wis
est of his species.
Ills LASTLEOS.
It is known privately among journalists
that James Gordon Bennett, Sr., of the
Herald, is on his death-bed, and that liis
end may be expected at anv moment
3 DIVISION OP PARIS.
Regarded from the point of
millitary topographer, Paris is divided
into two parts by the river Seine, the
northern part of which is much larger
and lies lower than tho other. The
most conspicuous natural object on the
north side of the town is thehiUof Mont
martre, 426 foot high, which forms i
commanding eminence close to tho boon
dary lino of the city, and is inaccessible
on all sides, except that towards the
town. It is a position of surpassing
strength, and if well defended with ar
tillery, would be almost impregnable.
Montmartre is separated from Belleville
by the plain of St Denis. The plateau
of Belleville, the hill of Montmartre and
tho plain of St Denis are the natural de
fenses of Paris.
THE ARTIFICIAL DEFENCES.
Now for M. Thiers* artificial defences.
They comprise an enceinte 35,914 yards
In most of the newspaper offices elabor
ate obituaries havo been in preparation
for several days, and that bound file of
I deeply regret that onr fiuances were
at such a low ebb, that I felt constrained
to withdraw our beloved Grand Lec
turer from the field, although the harvest
was then quite ripe, and we so sadly
needed good speeches. I exhausted
every resource at my command to obtain
tlie necessary funds to keep him and
others constantly in the field. I endeav*
ored to borrow the money from older
bodies of “ Good Templars,” but failed.
I applied to onr dear mother, tho R. W. G.
Lodge, she however, had far more needy
children to feed and clothe, and here
alone without help we did the best
conld, but was not able to have each
Lodge lectured during the term. I trust
that your next G. W. C. Templar, will
be able to place in the field at least
able and efficient Lecturer—immediately
on the close of the session.
b jnns-
each member of the
diction.
Resolved, That committee be instruct
ed to prepare a constitution, to be print
ed without delay by the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge, for the use of this organi
zation.
Resoleetl, That the committee shall
so plan this organization that it shall be
self-sustaining.
Resoleetl, That the highest interests of
the children demand a pure Temperance
literature, and we thererfore recommend
the juvenile publications of the National
Temperance Society to the patronage of
the Order.
All of which is most respectfully sub
mitted.
D. Wilkings, J. B. Graw, Thomas
Roberts, Julia J. Drew, Isaac B. Ains
worth, Committee.
Report adopted.
Brothers Wilkings, of Illinois, Aiken,
N. H., Hickman, of Ky., Graw of N. J.,
and Durham, of N. Y., were appointed
the committee ns required by the report.
JBjr this, action, tho Right Worthy
Grand Lodge, assumes the direction and
supervision of the Cold Water Temple.
Up to the lost session of the Right Wor
thy Grand Lodge, it had been under
the Grand Lodge of Illinois, where it had
its origin. To make this Juvenile Insti
tution a success, nnd the Grand Lodge of
the State of Georgia assume os little re
sponsibility asnosrible, the plan given
by D. W. Wilkins Grand Worthy Chief
okl alike, that ‘eternal vigilance la the prico of
liberty* from the bondage of sin and shame, and
* *-—*-*— ****~* that they er-
‘Let us, then, encourage by every means
... onr power, an earnest determination among
the meuiliers of our Order to sustain tho Tem
perance Tress.
Before the close of this session several
Good Temperance papers will be laid be
fore you and “prospectus” for others will
oorae in for yonr action. Let me beseech
your cal inn and unselfish action in this
matter, in selecting one as the official
organ of the State, that will reflect credit
oif our Order. ’
• POLITICAL ACTION.
Notwithstanding the fact that I am in
favor of “strict Prohibition” and of
itringeut laws prohibiting the sale of spir
ituous liquors every where in our State,
lean only recognize tho great difficulty
of reducing “these sentiments into uni-,
form practical application in a jurisdiction
delv extended as our Order, and
among a body composing so many persons
of diverse political associations. “I think
itwiae and prudent that the political stand-
,test i
i onr Lodges.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
I bog yoiv to retain our present able
active Grand Worthy Secretary in office.
He is now familiar with the duties of the
office and in his bands the Order will not
suffer. I recommend his salary be placed
at 8600. This will enable him in some
degree to give up his time. I would
further urge upon each representative
to give him their cordial support by com
pelling their respective Lodge Deputies to
be prompt in their reports.
GOOD OF THE ORDER.
In order that this Body may know who
lias done tho work I have instructed
each deputy to make his report, and hope
yon will after hearing their report and
know their worthineas—give them their
reward as good and faithful servants.
FEES AND DUES.
satisfied that there should be a
change in the per capita tax by placing it
at 25 cents instead of 5 cents.
the little lltrald of 1835 has been well
ransacked for characteristic specimens of
Bennett’s early stylo of journalism. The
veteran has been in declining health fur
two years. He has not been down town
from bis Washington Heights residence
for a year. Tlie effect on the editorial
character of tlie Herald lias been very
marked. It lias lost tliat strong individ
uality which made it at one time so fear
ed and conrted. Nobody now cares for
the Herald’s opinion on the political
situation. It might advocate the claims
of a dozen different public men for the
Presidency without exciting a particle
- — * —. TI .. rti.aIa/1 Kv ii, am
in length^ completely inclosing the city
on all sides, bostioned and terraced with
thirty feet wall. Oatsido the enceinte
are the casematcd works and independ
ent forts, of which most lie on tho north
or right bank of the Seine. On the
north is St Denis, with a doable crown
work facing north, northeast and north
west ; a special fort on the east and the
little fort of La Briche on the west, to
gether forming a strong defence for the
city on the north. To the southeast of
St Denis lies the redoubt of Aubervil-
tiers, covering La Yillette on the north
east Further to the south is the fort
of Bomainville, and on the samo line,
still further to the east, the fort and earth
works of Noisy. Proceeding south are
two forts, covering Bagnolet and Mon-
treuil on the northeast Farther south
Roeny, and still more to the south and
cast the fort of Nogent, within which
ties tlie next great fortress of Vincennes.
At St Mease and at other points north of
the Seine are redoubts, bnt those named
are the most considerable. To the south
of the Seine are the forts of Charenton,
between the Seine and the Marne; Ivry,
of interest It is not quoted by its co
temporaries, nor do people in society
vigorously denounce it as a satanic sheet
as of old. If ever a man impressed him
self on a paper, Bennett did on the Her-
aid. When he drops ont it is the Herald
no longer. His son has no taste for
journalism. Ho passes most of his time
on his yacht, and the paper is really
ducted without a supreme head, each
department being run by an indepen
dent chief with bis own corps of sub
ordinates. When Mr. Bennett dies, it is
probable that his great journal will pass
into other hands. His heir, with an
ample fortune, will be anxions to rid
himself of uncongenial responsibilities.
It is doubtful if the Herald can regain its
old rank under another conductor. Its
place, as a strong, aggressive and not
over scrupulous commentator on current
events is now occupied by the Sun,
which has also swept away a large part of
its circulation. It will always be a great
advertising sheet, however. New York
ers have got into tho rat of advertising in
the Herald, for houses and help, and it
will forever oommand that class of patro
nage, though its editorial page should
become as lifeless as that of the Weekly
Lumber Reporter.
that Lave been decided are now i;
hands of the Committee, and will come
up for yonr approval or disapproval.
DECISIONS.
I havo answered very many questions
for my Sisters and Brothers, none of them
however of sufficient interest to bring be
fore the Representatives of this Grand
body.
SUBORDINATE LODGES.
Tho work in the Lodges has been a
good work with bat few exceptions.—
The officers and members have vied
with each other and brought the work to
perfection.
Bicetre, Montronge, Vanves, Issy and
tho great fortress of Mont Volerion,
which towers above every thing in the
neighborhood on the west of Paris, and
commands the westerly reach of the
Seine and the Bois de Boulogne.
AlW .
Tho fortifications form a girdle round
Paris of 89,000 metres—needy twenty-
four miles. With respect to the two
wide bays formed by the Seine pt each
extremity of Paris below the viaduct
bridge at Auteui), and above tho Point
Napoleon at Bercy, tho epaulements of
the ramparts are carried bn into the shal
low water of the river, the channel in tho
centre of which will be defended by piles.
There are seven or eight hundred em
brasures for cannon in the parapet all
round the enceinte. Many powerful
guns have been placed in position on the
detached forts. Tho stores of food and
munitions of wav are considerable.
Gloves are “going up” in price
consequence of tho war. The largest
manufacturer for this country is Alexan
dre, who supplies one house iu New
York city with about 70,000 dozen -pain
of kid gloves per annum. As his princi
pal factory for cutting is in Paris, his
shipments have stopped, and his house
states that their resumption will depend
upon the contingencies of the war.-—
Gldves have accomplished much for Mr..
Mailer, who stamps his givon name of
“ Alexandre” npon the gloves. He owns
a hotel in Paris for n winter residence,
and possesses La Grange, with its Co
bed-rooms and 1,500 acres of land, dis
tinguished in former years as the home
of LaFayette. His hospitulity
ponds with these important dwellings.—
He manufactures his own champagne,
claret and brandy; each of a fine qtiati-
ty. 1 ‘
J*Tlxe Detroit Free Press says:—
There is no wrong of which this adminis
tration has not been guilty. Its affiliation
with and in aid of tho military mob in
North Carolinia; its eendorsement of
similar conduct in other Southern States,
and its more reoent indorsement of the the Ritual,
disfranchisement of sixty thousand white
men in Missouri, all stamp it as corrupt
and partisan beyond all precedent. *
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In accordance with tho action of (he
Right Worthy Grand Lodge at Oswego,
a circular was sent to all the Lodges in
the State, instructing them to vote for or
against continuing the Degrees. The
result throughout the jurisdiction of the
Bight Worthy Grand Lodge was os fol
lows :
For the Degrees 35,620
Against the Degrees 18,530
Majority for 20800
Majority Against 3,210
Majority for the Degrees, as far as re
ports have been sent in, 17,390.
It will be seen that the vote
Degree question has been exceedingly
tight Out of a membership of about
400,000, less than 60,00 persons have
voted, oyr not more than one-seventh of
the whole number of members.
The following is the action of the R.
W. G. L. at its last session in St Louis.
Whereas, The Degree question is, has
been, and is likely to be a snbject to be
discussed in future sessions of this grand
body, so long ai the success and the
workings thereof remains in its present
status, it is therefore
Resolved] That, our whole Degree ques
tion be referred back to a special com
mittee, to bo composed of the following
members of this grand body, viz; Past
Right .Worthy Grand Templars Chase
and Hastings, and Bro. Orniston, of Cana
da, whose duty it shall be to confer wit
the chief executive officers of the several
Grand Lodges prior to the next session
of this body, with power to oollect such
evidence as to them may seem advisable,
with a view of ascertaining the opinion of
the whole body of Good Templars on this
much vexed question, and that they re
port at the next session of oar grand
body such a mode (as to them may aoeM
advisable) of settling this matter. •
- By these proceedings you see thatthe
degrees are retained and I need not say
to this body that each Subordinate Lodge
should and must have its degree Temple.
And I hope you-will InatourtyoarBep-
reeentatives to the next R. W. G. L. to
retain the degrees, without any change in
Templar of Illinois, iu his last annual
address is hsre submitted for your seri
ous consideration and action.
1. Appoint a competent general super
intendent, who shall have the entire su
pervision of tho Cold Water Tempie work
in the btate.
2. Let it be his duty to appoint a
county superintendent in every county,
whose duty it shall be to see that
Templers are instituted in every township
or precinct within their respective county,
and havo the general supervision of the
same, under the direction of the General
Superintendent.
3. Let the General Superintendent
hold county and district conventions,
aided by the county superintendent, and
the deputies and lecturers of this Grand
Lodge, so far os practicable.
4. Let the General Superintendent ad
opt a financial basis, that will be self-
tainiug, with -the exception of printing
circulars, notices, etc.
5. Let the General Superintendent
grant all charters for the instituting of
Temples, nnd all reports be made di
rectly to him—he reporting annually to
the Grand Lodge.
I do not suppose that any sane person
doubts the troth that it is far better to
save from Drunkenness, than to reform the
Drunkard, this great fact is seen by our
Order, and the noble army is rallying
around the little ones. Brothers and
Sisters here is a ripe hon est, come to the
field with yonr reap hooks.
THE FUTURE.
What shall it be ?- It devolves on this
present session to say what shall be the
future history of Good Templars in Geor-'
gia. Yes my Brothers it devolves on
you to say how for the burning waves
of Intemperance shall sweep over onr
honored State, and where they shall be
stayed. As your retiring Grand Officer, I
call upon you, in the name of common
humanity to rise in all the vigor of yoath
and manliness, and arrest if, possible the
tide of whisky which is sweeping o’er the
beauty of qar (land. We need warm
hearts and willing hands, whisky with
which we have to contend is more power
ful than Kings ( and Presidents, and will
not be defeated without a straggle. Go
then earnestly to work in the cause of
humanity, in the cause of God. We may
toil long as Good Templars against this
evil, bnt remember victory is ours in the
end. It is the cause of man’s happiness,
and would reflect glory upon the angels
of God, were they permitted to engage in
it Be not discouraged though we advance
alowly.
I would not forget those beloved Broth
ers who have rendered me so much aid.
in the discharge of my duties in institut
ing new Lodges and overlooking old
in their work.
“Infoks the aeeSetsneeof “God overhead,” end
do your duty well, and when the eouree or fife is
run, and tho lest hour of hnman probation ar
rive*, you will look beck upon your efforts to
stay the tide of crime, and rave the drunkard
high end holy eatisftetiou. Angel* wffiwhieper
in your car of men redeemed from vice and
crime, end hy your hand clocked as .brands
from the burning. Such tiding* wifi be sweeter
music to yanreparii, then aU the anthems of the ■
earth, and though home upon the bleat, or
waftedon the gentle breeze, the flourish of
trumpet*, or the melody of the organ, awy dU-
turb tho stance of your death-chamber, tho
memory of your good act, wifi kneel by your
dying couch, ana do its homage there, aiul
breathe upon you a tweeter strain than <—
purchased by the wealth, the *•
pomp and parade of empires.
w.thonouy
CONCLUSION.
And now as I surrender to yonr keep
ing the high trust reposed in mo—and
take my seat among you as a worker jn
the common ranks, allow ma-toratuzn
to you my warm thanks and acknowledg
mentsfor the kind hospitatites received
at yonr hands, and your gentle forbear
ance—and may God bless oar cause is’
my prayer. E. J. KIRKSCEY,
G.W.O.T.
return to the .many ministers of
the Gospel, those Christian women.—
The Press, both Temperance and Secular,
for the interest they have exerted in our
behalf and hope ns an institution we will
merit their continued favors—in the fu
ture.
I have ever found warm hearts to wel
come me, and provide for my comfort
all of my visits among the Lodges.
Pigeoen Express.-Wo stated the other
day that twenty-five years ago carrier
pigeons werp emplpyed bj the New York
Sun to convey items of news ahead of tbo ‘
mails. Our readers will see by the cable
telegrams of to-day that the people of
Paris have substituted the pigeon express
for the. telegraph in sanding out and re
ceiving back news from Tours, Metz, &c.
Those pigeons were no doubt obtained
from Brussels, where at least 15,000 are
continujdty domiciled. No doubt they
have a good stock of theee birda in Farm,
and that they are what are called “hom
ing birds”—that is, birds trained to re-
has been conducted with pleasure, and
not one line have I received to wonnd or
offend. V
THE TKMPERENC]
In calling yonr attention to the Press
one of the strong points of our Order, I
beg that you will allow me to quote from
the report of our old War Horae the
Right Worthy Grand Chief Templar.—
Me rays
GOLD WATER TEMPLES,
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge at its
‘•Ono marked evidence of wwkaew in owr Op-
der"ia “ the frarftal lo— we MaojJgsMUuxin
our membership from the deeeriioa of theee
Order, leiTinyt dishonorable ----- —
SSmSg°toS5*iMtaSto»hoStU ofradoll.
SB
ESiSd acknowledged, m-wm™ uwouem
messenger that shall find tbo deserter in all hie
wandering#, and shall plead with him with an
importunity flat will not be denied."
‘nn tho home, also, where early joys and com
forts blind tlio vision of its inmates to the temp
tations of eia without, tho silent
comes with ite lessons of wisdom,
office’s hard experience, to teach young and
turn homo even months after their libera*
tion. However nUKh we may pride o
this CHS Uwmgeon KrtiMM theetortnc
telegraph, Md where the win* would be
ot no .veil, » bird ofttejir wdl airy
the voice, end that which Irath wiegs
tells the matter—ft mode of eommmuo*-
tion nt least ns old m the time of Solo-
mon.
Contrasts.—An interesting volume
might he written concerning startling
_ _ the .British navy
went .down at aea, just as one of the
smallest and frailest boats' in tho world
rodehafely fcto pact after an on nnpanl-
leled voyage across the Atlantia And
V while poor France is being devaaU-
J own Virginia, so full still
of war, is suffering terri-
from a superfluity otwattf. -
■tare - Are and water, and
for disaster! Even in
*?ns of tbecon-
the onset of tho
of God, who never smites but for some,
good purpose! The “heathen Chipaq,”'. ^ ;
on tlie contrary, attributes misfortune to %
the deviL and worships him on the
ground that God sends only pleasant
things, and therefore need not be placa
ted;while the Evil Spirit is the author of .
man’s troubles, and therefore must be
propitiated.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
Kjf John Allen, “ the wickedest man
in New York,” is dead, and ™ borisd
■mmMmHSI
last Sunday.
MniHii