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The Legislature was organized by General Meade, under what was called the reconstruc tion laws of Congress, and he reported to his government that the State of Georgia had com plied with the requirement of those laws an Congress in various ways recognized and troa e a the State as a State in the Union—in fact, Con gress has always held that the Union has never «*»*-. *">« oaths are imposed on the members of the Leg islature, and whioli were not required of them by General Meade, nor by onr own laws or Con stitution, when tho Legislature was organ ized, and which they are required to take beforo they can re-enter upon their duties as legislators. F-w-h and every member of the Legislature should absolutely refuse to take either of the oaths thus prescribed by Congress. The result would be that there would be no Legislature to carry out the infamous and degrading edicts of Congress—the effects of which acts of Congress would be to change our form of government and most unnecessarily liarrass and oppress and impoverish the people. If this State is to legislate jnst as Congress orders her, why not Congress do hi once, and directly, all tho legislation for the State, and re lieve the people from the burthen of paying taxes with which to pay the heavy expenses of State legislation, simply to do what Congress orders the Legislature to do ? No, let every member of the Legislature refuse to take either of the oaths prescribed by the late act of Con gress. Let them not resign their seats in the Legislature, but simply refuse to take the oaths that are prescribed for them, and return 1. FROM WASHINGTON. I British Government can make any further Battle Iiost—Democrats Did tbetr Beat—A oat propositions in the matter. He says, however, as Well—What baa Virginia Gained?—Can- that his Government is willing to enter a Con- toy on the ©Id Dominion—The Plot against vention for the purpose of bringing about a Tennessee—That State to be Reconstruct- modification of the rales governing the policy ed—Texas will not toe Admitted—All of of nations in cases similar to that of the Ala- 11,e southern States to toe Remanded to bama, which shall hereafter be binding on all Military Provinees-The Opposing forces nations who participate in the Convention. In Con gress—The C. B.’s-The Wrong Doc- I The House was engaged to-day in making ament—Hitch between War and Treasn- | hunoombe speeches. No business of conse quence was done. Both Houses have adjourned until January 10th. Dalton. Notes on tlio Situation—No, NOT BY B. H. HILL. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I have been seized by the prevailing malady in a mild form— Caeoethes scribendi—and before proceed ing to enlighten my fellow-citizens as to what sbali be done, I desire to condole and sympa thize with this epistle-ridden poople. Letters aro written and printed—andread themwe must or be ignorant in every social circle—from Ath ens to Cuthbert—from Apollo to Lillipnt—from Jupiter tonans to 6criptor minimus—from “notes on tho situation” down to the mover of negro expulsion! Our satiate, reeling brains are still taxed by their scintillating excogitations, until crazy with the weight of onr wisdom, we are unable to decide whether the light that guides ur feet emanates from the sun in meridian splendor or the corruscalions of the lightning- bug at noon-day. Oh 1 that we could have a short furlow from tho arduous service of adoring greatness for its repeated splendid failures! Oh! that some friendly cloud might for a time obstruct the great meteoric lights, and drive tho host of fire flies to take shelter and repose in the seared nnd crisped leaves of oar autumn until tho peo ple can recover tho instincts of tho most com mon sense—until they can once more see the sun rise in the east and set in the west until ^• ect ’ , j ierea ft er . They will, at least, go upon I holding a high position under the Secretary of _ „ ‘ State for foreign affairs and a member of Par ry Departments — Virginia Later—Sam* ner’s Bill—Alabama Claims and mo on. Special Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.] Washington, December 25, 1869. I Weekly Resume ot Foreign AffHIrx: I can add little to the advice previously sent PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH A3tD MESSENGER, by mail and telegraph in relation to the “Geor- Great Britain.—The Alabama question is oia horror ” With this letter yon will receive rising again to the surface of Anglo-American the conclusion of the debate as reported in the I ?<*««■• Recording to reports from Washing; Congressional Globe, _ ., . , | ton, the Government of the United States has w It was evident from the declared t o the British Cabinet its willingness first that the Conservative members of Congress I to reopen negotiations for settling, at last, the were battling in behalf of a “lost cause.” Yet, Alabama question, now pending already five , , , , . , .. - | years. The main points for a new treaty are though defeat stared them in the faus, they did ^ ;d to fce alrea d y decided upon. Also the pub- not ■waver nor shrink from the performance of j press is turning again to the same subject, their sacred duty, in standing by the Constitu- j Yemou Harcourt in an article published in the tionand the rights and liberties of the people. | “Times," expresses his opinion on the “Alaba- by common prudence they can determine onee more the latitude and longitude, the revolution of the planets, the coorse of the winds and the progress of the seasons, The people really deserve somebody’s pity. To have lost government and constitution, property and liberty, is deplorable beyond measnre. But frail hnmanity, under a con scious assurance of patriotic purpose, can for give the erring judgments of past popular up heaving and revolution. To have committed errors since, lured by hope and spurred by pas sion, as we know we were: goaded and insulted in onr dependent and suppliant attitude by cruelties for which there was no excuse, and upon which the curses of tho good in all ages and countries most rest, who doe3 not feel a jnst pride in the recollection that his voice and ballot near a reflex to the throttled but strug- home to their families, and let Grant, at the gling, ont-speaMng honor of his fireside and call of Bullock, send an army and a navy to country? reconstruct the State, and let him find our Leg- We can find consolation in tho hope that de nature and all of our people at their hones, I scends with us into the political grave—but may peaceably and quietly attending to their lawful we not there, at some period, find repose? Or business, as the people have been doing ever are we doomed to have the lights that guided since the close of the war, the infamous false- us down the declivity into this chasm of dark- hoods of Bullock and others to the contrary ness, constantly flared in our faces, to evidence notwithstanding. their magnitude and brilliancy, and to beguile It is true that murders have been committed onr reaS on with the delusion that they are in- in Georgia, and which all good men should and fallible ? Shall tho frantic ears of tho Southern do deplore; but what States in tho Union can say braves catch their lost music as they sink into that no murders are committed in their bor death—the heroic words of ever gallant leaders dors? Notone. Cain killed his brother Abel, urging them, fallen and mangled though they and from that day till this murders have been be, to follow, as they in their desperation plunge committed. No State or government can pre- j n t„ bloodier fields, and sink by their own vent the commission of crimo. They can only weight into deeper caverns of despair ? punish the perpetrators of crime when they are We have deserved a better fate. The stars oaught. "White men sometimes kill each other, will keep vigils, and smile from the heavens and sometimes kill negroes, and negroes kill a bovo ns with admiration for Southern glory, each other, and sometimes kill white men. It when ages shall have consigned to oblivion the has always been and always will be so. And if masses who murdered, as well as those who Congress is to reconstruct every State where bave defended, liberty. Bat for the remnant murders are committed, she might begin with „f tbe noble stock, there seems to be many Massachusetts, and reconscrnct every one. trials in store; not more than wo shall have But no arm has been raised against, nor no courage and patience to bear, we trust. But violence has been offered to the constitution of there aro some things not to be warded off. the country and the laws of Congress by any Tho road leads through the furnace of affliction, State or any citizen of any State that was in I an d we must march forward. But in tho name Mjbellion, since the war ceased; and while the 0 f all the good, are we still doomed to swallow wapwas going on nothing more was required of the nostrums that have made ns sick? Is there iwthair. that we should lay down our arms and no hope of deliveranco from the greatness of anbrnit- to the Constitution and laws of the onr leaders ? Shall their wisdom be cherished Union. This we have done in good faith, and I ^ a legacy not to the living, hut to the dead? oontinue yet to do, and should wo not bo let gball their sagacity and consistency bo the only alone? Now, neither Congress, Grant nor Bui- study of our race, nnd maintained at the price lock can compel onr Legislature to net and take a g things else ? Cannot conscience, for once, the oaths required of them, or reseat the colored ggj tho better of vanity and ambition? Have members, or adopt the loth amendment They repeated failures no weight to clog their feet, or only propose to prevent them from acting at to produce distrust of their own powers? Is nil, unless they take, and until they take and there no soporific influence in the returning file away in tho State Department, certain oaths, I senses of the people to lull these modern Solo aikL'w3iiu£b$e Legislature should unhesitatingly J mons , an d cause them to desist, for a while, f<nn tn do. . . 1 from their revelry, and nod till the people re- ^ The act of Congress does not order or require j CO yer? the election of another Legislature if the mem- j jj rea j gr ea t n css is their goal, they may still bers of this refuse, as they should, to take the I p er f onn t jj e i r frantic leaping in vain. But if oaths and do the acts required of them by Con- auar fai greatness will satisfy them, I propose gress. And Congress will have to try its reck- M a measnre 0 f relief, that while Congress, so- less hand again to reconstruct its own recon- called, is relieving disabilities, that that august struction; and if they, by another act of Con body bo requested to pass a bill establishing gress, order an election of another Legislature, unities also. Let tho edict of the Government let us elect the same men, or others, who would, gettl0 ^ question in every case, so that the like them, refuse to take the oaths required of j j onrna ]g of our section may have no further them. And if Congress is determined to destroy wasta 0 f type and ink over it. Hie States, and all State governments, the sooner ^ t b ese magnates prefer their claims we know it, and all the States and people know immorta iity 8e ttled and adjudged nearer home. It, the better for them. We may as well cease ^ not let t b 0 Supreme Court of Georgia pass to try to conform to the wishes of this Congress; npQn tb0m> an( j i e t a solemn judgment affirming we can never do it. We have, in good faith, I tbo j r g^^ness for all time, be published among ever since the close of the war, strove to do it, th0 jpgu^rations of that immortal trio of con- to no purpose. Let them have their own way I E titntional expounders ? in their efforts to destroy constitutional govern- ^ tho of war be changed to any other ment and the liberties of the people; we are fi el(L All I ask is that the people bo relieved powerless to stop them in their mad career. Do j from participation in tho strugglo, and that tho not, I insist, let us aid them in the performance press be a u„ we d to speak to ns in soberness and of so unhallowed a deed, nor in any way seem I truth. The, inerted ft. »»« b, « atteei | St&S clesiactical supremacy. Christino Marta, the Minister for foreign affairs, has sent an official declaration to Rome that the Spanish Govern ment would annul any decisions of the Council, which were contrary to tho principles of the new Democratic Constitution of Spain. Long applause hailed the communication of the Min ister in the Cories. Russia.—The centenary of the foundation of the Order of St. George was celebrated with great pomp in St. Petersburg. Prince Albrecht of Prussia, had come from Berlin to take part in the festivals, and Alexander L, when welcoming him, dwelt with some emphasis on the good un derstanding between both countries. A monument to the memory of Catherine L, is being erected in the metropolis. Jabno. BY TELEGRAPH. ■fi ... upon tho close ranks of the largely preponder- E Lee aa f or the same reasons France ating army of Radicalism. Although their pa- had not to consider Benjamin Franklin such a triotic and fearless words, their logical and con- one. He thinks that the analogy of the cases .. u a mo vspom to have °fUanl Jones and Admiral Semmes is complete. stitutionally sound arguments may seem to have Another controversy between England and gono for naught, in view of the action of Con- tbe Enited states of America has been brought cress vesterdav, yet they will surely have their to a satisfactory issue. John Arthur Osway, ° ** , I 1. _13! !i: A Tvr\ SaftVatfiW the records as manly and dignified prat*.| against the encroachments and usurpations of ^jg constituents expressing his satisfaction, at tho Radical party. seeing the question of American naturalization Perhaps it was as well that the effort to post- Bettled a t last. He told his audience that a bill pone the bill did not succeed. Let Butler nnd won j d he laid before Parliament, enabling Brit- the tram of carpet-baggers and royolutiomsts jg b Ra bjects to renounce their nationality when- ho leads by tho ears carry out their ^policy of j they would choose to do so. Hitherto tho vengeance” to the fullest bent of their melina- BritisH Crown always defended the principle tions. Let Georgia be condemned unheard. If a xj r jti s h subject could never relinquish his she is to be humiliated, let Congress humiliate na ti 0 na!ity. her; and let no Georgian aid or countenance TelegramsfromFrankfort-on-the-Main report tho hellish plots of the fanatics who are fast I a jjgpygggjon of American boads in consequence turning a free government into one of the morf of an ap p re hended reduction of interest, corrupt and cruel despotisms tho world has over | Charles Fcchtcr, a London actor of some seen. . . . , I celebrity, has sailed for America, where actors "What has Virginia gained by humiliating her- and lecturers of fame are received with prince- self before the American Carnot ?_ She is as j munificence. Cbnrles Dickens, Wilkie Col- far from being admitted into tho Union as ever, several other gentlemen representing notwithstanding her compliance with nil that hterary and artistic circles of tho Capital, the Reconstruction laws required. A letter accompftnie a him to the vesieL from General Canby is now before the Kecon- The Dlto h esg Q f d’Anmale, after a long illness, struction Committee in ■which he condemns the I at her conntrv-seat in Twickenham, people of Virginia in sweeping terms. He From the first of January, 1890, single post- charges them with disloyalty to the Union, tyitn a£!e between Great Britain and the United States hostility to the Government, and with an ntter ba rednced f 0 three pence, or six cents, disregard of the laws. Tho letter is destined to Fbance.—Tho debates of the Corps Legislate be a formidable stumbling block m ^ lrginia s 1 C o n tinue very exciting. Tbe deputy Estancelin thorny path of reconstruction. Indeed, i- expressed his regret at the lasting banishment ireely asserted that but for compromising tho of the ponces of Orleam from the soil of action of the Legislature in adopting tho Four- p rance> Monsieur Forcade de la Roquetle pro- toenth and Fifteenth Amendments, a new elec- testing against this declaration, Estancelin in a tion would be ordered, with the application of passionate speech attacked the policy of tho the “iron-clad,” and all other test oaths, f° I Government and, sarcastically, advised the as- State and Federal officers. sembly to admit at once all governmental candi- The_ plot against Tennessee is also working, I da t es ^-boso elections wert contested, as every and will culminate after the holidays. An effort I d j scngs j on on that point w»s of no avail. The will be made, and it will no doubt prove success- depnty was called to order. Henri Rochefort fid, to subject that Stato to further reconstruc-1 addressed an interpellation to the Government tion. A new election, and a new registration, on account of Senor Paul Angelo, a member of will be ordered, and meanwhile the State will tho Spanish Cortes, who had been expelled from be placed under a military government. j p ra nce. Alluding to the Imperial policy, he re- There is very little probability that Texas marked that the Government left Ex-Queen Isa- will gain admission for some time to come. The bella and lh0 Oarlists at perfect liberty to con- Radical press is already circulating slanders I gpjjg against Spain in Fiance, while tho laws of against her, and recitiDg immaginary stones I nen tralitv were rigorously enforced against all of murders and of outrages committed on Union Republicans. Tho representative of tho Gov- men as a plea for keeping her under military ernmont replied that Senor Paul Angelo had rale. A member of Congress said to me last oalv been ban jgbed from Franco for having evening that “six months will see all of tho tm- ta j- en part in tbo treacherous tendencies of tho reconstructed States, and even those which p renc b Republicans. To prove his assertion, have gained admission, remanded to the condi- Monsieur Forcade de la Roquette cited part of tion of military provinces." The design of the a speec h delivered by the Spaniard at a banquet Radicals is not only, as Mr. Etheridge said, to I 0 j ^ b0 free-thinkers, prophesying the speedy “make the people of Georgia slaves to this Con- proo iamation of the Republic in France. The gress; slaves to the general government; but Minister, condemning the red flag of the revo- the States and all the people of this country who i nt i 0 n, concluded by the threatening declara- oppose their views and resist their despotic and tioDi tbat tbe Government would reduce the unconstitutional mandates. I Republicans to impotence as soon as they at- Sitting yesterday in the reporters’ gallery of tempted to pass from speech to action, the House, an attentive listener, and a close A 11 Spanish exiles in Paris, who wero in any observer of what transpired on the floor below, way connected with the late Republican rising •I could not but contrast the opposing faces and j n g pa ; n> bave been ordered out of France, their respective positions. On one side was a Gidzot has turned renegade in his old days, hopeless minority, defending principles and After frequent conversations with the Emperor, liberties which a few years ago none would have be bas addrefl , * letter to tho deputy Plichon, dared to attack. On the other side, a triumph- adv j 8 ; n g the L.oernls to rally around the stan- ant majority, flashed with repeated successful dard c f the “Empire Parlementaire." and unlawful usurpations of power; bound to- j t j s mmored that Prince Napoleon will soon gether by party interests, and moving as one tabe cba rge of tho presidency of the Imperial man at the call of their leader, the notorious pjjyy Council. and infamous Benj. F. Butler. Around him “La Marseillaise,” the new paper published were so-called representatives from the South- by Henri Rochefort has already attained a cir- em States—carpet-baggers from Massachu- ca j a tion of 100,000 copies, setts, New Hampshire, Vermont and other *‘L 0 Journal- official," announces the total New England States. Their very presence here ^cb 0 f the French-man-of-war “Gorgone,” on is an outrage. They represent no one but ber voyage from Spain to Cherbourg, themselves. They obtained their seats by j xiegnanlt de Saint-Jean d’Angely, Marshal of fraud, or by the aid of the bayonet.^ And these | p , raDC g ) died, 73 years old. _ <i ! are the men who have voted Georgia out of the North GemianConfedehetion.—Burlingame, Union. They have done even more; they have t b 0 Chinese Ambassador, now sojourning in handed her over bodily to the tender mercies of H er ]i n> bas concluded a treaty between North a thieving carpet-bagger from Connecticut, Germany and China, which has already been whoso solo object is to plunder and defraud the ra tifi e d by the Governments of both countries, people of Georgia. The last debates of the Prussian Landtag While speaking of making arrangements for bave but little interest copies of the Congressional Globe, a confrere jbe expenditure occasioned by the war of said to me, “What’s the use of paying for such of i 8GG un til the end of September, 18G9, things? Get one of these Southern carpet-bag- amon nts, according to the official report now gers to send yon what yon want—yon see the I published, to 150,884,231 thalers. Northern and Western members send their ijhe Se na te or “Bundesrath” Notes on the Sitnation—No. 3. NOT BY B. H. BILL. We have glanced at its causes, and now come to consider what is the situation, and how we are to be extricated from it. I will not consume time or space to show what has already been shown by our friends in Congress, that the ac tion of Congress is an assumption, violative of tbe Constitution and of good faith to a conquer ed people, and subversive of the theory of the United States Government—ruinous in its di rect tendencies upon us, and dangerous as a precedent to all the States; or, to intensify the conviction that Governor Bullock and his co adjutors who have brought about the present state of affairs, have been actuated by unwise counsel, as it relates to their own personal and political prospects, and by enmity to the State— that slander and falsehood have been the meads employed, while mischief is the clii^f aim in to to countenance it. And this the Legislature Question of Labor and Race in « i i ■ nnrl vithnnt mv- I 4 * _ can peaceably and quietly do, anil without giv-. Mississippi ing any just offense to any one, by simply de- Rig bt Rev. Mr. Blitchfeldt, a Danish dining to take the oaths, or cither of them, re- gentIeman) jg peopling Northern Mississippi qnired by the late act of Congress. ^-jth recruits for tho white race from Scandina- 0Ct ’ T *' Lia. The work has actually been inaugurated, December L . and tho fair-haired Danes and Swedes are pour ing into North Mississippi. Forty or fifty Tlte New Nat on. i em jnto Worm Mississippi, rony or uujr Underthisheadthe Constitntionalis i *?• s wed23 an a Danes wero distributed in the nelgh- Doring tho late war, under tho p ea o n ■ I bor b 0 cd of Okalona, a few dny3 ago, where a ty, tho government at Washington utterly ig- ^ ^ be0n org(mizod and an “Immigrant noredthatinstmment known as tho Constitution ^ established for tha accom _ of tho United States whenever i snue modation of immigrants until disposed of to purposes to do so. And now, moro an planters of tho surrounding country, or lo- years after tho conflict of arms h^ ceased tiiey | ^ ^ of tho are about to succeed by fraud and for-o in li band3 ar0 said tobo filing to work for a ing that torn, tattered and pa c e up b { the crop, one-third and found, or one- ment “amended” for the fifteenth time. When ^ ^ finding ^ emselve3 . this Fifteenth Amendment 8 “ 0 proc l Of an interview with these people, the editor as adopted, the government of these .oncolCm- ||U ted States will bo change m e0 y ’ H We conversed with several of them who wero been in fact, from ono of separate ana ais.m.t we u delighted with tho open-he arted welcome that States—united, bnt haring reserved rights—to . thoy had reee i vod in the county. They were all that of a vast centralized empire, with the States Lgreeahly disappointed at the reception that - Tf trill Ln a New NaUon. they had met with, for they had heard fabulous M mere provinces. It will boa stories of our pride and selfishness. We left The Fifteenth Amendment will sweep away tlio j tbem f eebl) g m a t tee were two or three inches least and last vestige of reserved rights of tho talleri ibftt tbe a j r several degrees purer, nnd once independent States, by making every man that the night of negro role was bound to close •ir r nantral government and giving I when this Scandinavian sun whirled np behind a citizen of the central government ana givi g I ^ line . If w0 wr0 encouraged from Congress the supreme nght of enforcin 0 its ta jj c j EI g to them, wo were rejoiced to meet the provisions. * I sterling citizens of Chickasaw in counoil at „ Thn smeeisis to tho the Presbvterian Church. Wo found them Violence Anticipa- - sp n „ thoroughly organized, and as fully determined Augusta Constitutionalist repeat tho story ^ wbiten tbe 0 j d county, as they were when they that the administration anticipates violence in U^ed regiment after regiment and company Georgia- j after company into the Moloch jaws of the late HoBi-lMuch f st ^ n 0 I^^f 6 d n e s ! 8 ‘Thfyiiad thrown away the scabbard of com. oyer the denounc-s^t It is promise that held tho sword of principle, and tains the Senate, the Jtost aenoun ~ ... 1 }j e A enn i ne d to fight ignorance, superstition nnd rumored that Hoar res^from ^ Kadicalism with its most deadly weapon, whito Georgia. Tim admmisttation anaapetw aic0 plantcr3 aros0 and gave their expo that the Georgia bill will provoko -no fience, and it was equal to an old-fashionedlove that quarter. • . I T . nes t. •"Well, the ; ‘anticipations' of tho admimstra- j lease. tion will bo disappointed. They and their T i tc West Georgia Gazette and Tal friends havo got both to do and to intent, as botton fitamlnrd. heretofore, all tho “violence” in this quarter, j bav0 R noto f rom Mr, B. T. Castellow, of The people of Georgia are going to keep cool, WcKt Georgia Gazette, complaining that in •watch and wait—satisfied that Congressional out notiC0 of lh0 standard we announced it as usurpation will eventually stir up a different th0 meeeuor of ^ Gazette. We did it inlgno- and much more efifectuaLviolenco in duo time. ranco . f orj no j having received the Gazette for Hclbebt fob Senator.—Atlanta gossip, as some weeks, we presumed its publication had retailed by lie Ern, mentions the name of Col. ceased and the property had been transferred ri" Halbert for United States Senator from | to tho Standard. Mr. Castellow will please Georgia, fo» tho long term, yn among the specn- continue his exchange, nhd wo shall then have lations engendered by the roqant legislation of tangible evidence of "the vitality of hia excel- •ongreef. * ^ ‘ lent paper. •v. of the North copies to their constituents and the newspapers, I German Confederation has been convoked for but these carpet-baggers have nonse for them.” yj 0 Gtb 0 f December. The speaker was a Badical himself. I introduce I Bismarck and his wife have hurriedly left for this little incident merely to show what is B onn 0 n the Rhine, where one of their sons, thonght of tho men who claim to represent a pursuing his studies at that university, is lying number of the Southern States in Congress. j ow j n consequence of a gash in the bead he re- By a singular oversight, a letter, said to have ce i ve d by a duel of sabres. Tho accident had been written by a Georgia lady, and which gave been kept a secret from the Chancellor until the Bullock a terrible overhauling, found its way to wolmd took a dangerous turn, when the King the Government printing office, and was trans- himself telegraphed him to hasten to the side mittedtothe Senate, with some other doeu- of his son. ments, by tho President. When the error was xiie congress of North German agriculturists discovered, great efforts were mtale to snp- I assembled in Berlin, lias sent a petition to the press the letter by gathering up all the copies. Landtag, pointing out the necessity of reform- A few extracts, however, found their way into j n „ t h e present system of mortgages, print. I have made every effort to secure a j ^] so in the xfcnssiaii capital the Poles eele- complete copy, but havo been unsuccessful so b rated the anniversary of the Polish revolution far. There is a hitch between tho War and of 183 o Count Ladislaos Plater, formerly a Treasury Departments in reference to the em- mem b er of the Polish Reichstag, and a veteran ployment of troops to collect the revenue and oft ] ie war 0 f revolution, drank to the regenera- aid in suppressing distillation. Gen. Terry sen t ; on 0 f p 0 j an d t an d argued that it is to the_ in troops from Atlanta, Ga., to Wilkes county, I t eres t 0 f Germany to restore the ancient king- some time ago, to protect the assistant asses- dom 0 f die Jagellons, a3 a bulwark against the sors from the Ku-Klnx trouble; and now tho I Muscovite. Commissioner of Iutomal Revenue refuses to Italy. Tho Popo has published n Papal bull credit tho War Department with the cost of prescribing the mannor how the debates in the their transportation. And so General Teny c onnc ii are to be conducted. But is very doubt- will render no more aid to the civil department ^ wb ether he has tho power of issuing such at tho expense of the War Department. 0r fl. e ™ regulations, for if tho Council has been con- have been issued to mount and arm the assist- vo jj ed j 0 pro claim the infallibility of tho head ant assessors throughout tho South; and Con- tbQ church it must, logically, be left to that gress will bo asked for another appropriation, j bodv jq constitute itself. Another Papal hull Wo shall next hear of an order to mount and r8 -j ntc3 any proposals to be laid beforo the arm the negro members of Southern Legisla- J Council in such a way as to exclude beforehand tures. Those dreadful troubles! any b jg s inconvenient to the Vatican, thus giv- Evening.—Since writing what is given above, j D g tbe ultramontane party undisputed sway with regard to Virginia, I learn that further ob- over the deliberations of the Bishops. Yet staclos are to be placed in her already thorny j gren t resistance will be offered by tho French path, and further humiliation demanded of her. lnd German princes of the Church, who protest Mr Sumner introduced into the Senate this af- lga j n st the Papal interference with the debates temoon, a bill in relation to Virginia, which j of t fc 0 Council. The Italian, Spanish and Amen- even transcends the “Georgia horror." It re- ca n Bishops are zealous supporters of the Eo cites various alleged inequalities and defects in I man scheme of establishing the most absolntis- tho present organization of the Legislature: de- I t,ic empire the world ever saw. In the mean- dares the present existing State Government time, after the appointment of severalcommit- to be provisional only, and in all respects sub- I teC3i tho Council has adjourned until tho Gth. joettothe authority of the United States; to 0 f January. - abolish, modify, control or supercede, until after 1 There wero many costly presents made to tho Me left tb 0 admission of the Senators and Represents- p ope by the foreign Bishops, especially of tives to their seats in Congress. It directs Gen. South America. The Archbishop of Lima, Canby to assemble the persons elected to the p orn) w ho by old ago was prevented from go- Legislatnro by proclamation, thirty days after ing to Rome, bas sent a golden bishops staff, the passage of this act. none of whom 6hall an association of ladies in Lima, has offered a participate in tho acta of the Legislature untU silver basket with silver flowers and 7,000 after they tako the iron-clad oath. Upon the f ranc s, the archbishop of Quito, a golden chalice ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by tho profusely adorned with pearls. The archbishop Legislature, thus constituted, the State shall be 0 f New York has brought a golden fish, an early admitted to representation in Congress, protid- syin bol of the Christian mythology of art, filled ed, the Constitution of the State shall never be ^ith gold pieces, and holding a precious ringra so amended or changed as to deprive any citi- ftp mo nth. zen or of citizens of the right to vote, to Spain.—The news from Spam respecting the hold office, to sit upon juries or to participate in e i ec tion of a King, are as confused ns ever. name, school funds and school privileges. Though the Duchess of Genoa is still protest- Tho vote on the. Georgia bill assures tho pas- j n g ngr.inst the choice of her son, reports from ss"e of this bill on the meeting of Congress, Madrid announce that ho would be proclaimed after the holidays. I have neither space nor in- King of Spain at a very early date, c’ination to comment upon it. It folly sustains in the Cortes, Figuerola, the Minister of Fi- what I had already written concerning the nances, accused the ex-Queens, Christine and “oolicy of vengeance” inaugurated toward the Isabella, of having purloined the jewels belong- nnreconstracted States. It is another long j ng to the Crown, valued at 73 millions of Reals, stride toward desp°Bsin. Dalton. The Deputy Ochoa, undertaking the Queens The correspondence on the Alabama claims defense, asked for the appointment of a Corn- called for by the Senate was submitted to that mittee to ascertain tho truth of tho heavy body to-day. It is very voluminous, and makes charges brought forward by Figuerola, where- somo seven or eight columns of printed matter, upon the Minister replied, that ho had not yet In view of tho fact, previously made pnblio, communicated to the Cortes tho tenth part of that the British Government has assented to tho grave charges and facts which had come to tlio transfer of the negotiations to Washington, his knowledge. Oiffioa s proposal was finally this correspondence has lost much of its inter- acoeptedby 198 to 42 votes, the assembly being est. Lord Clarendon’s letter to Mr. Thornton, very excitod. Queen Isabella has made a com- the British Minister, under date November Gth, munication to the Cortes, denying that she had 1869, instructs tho latter to say to Mr. Fish that taken the Crown jewels with her when flying after the rejection by the Senate of the United from her Kingdom. " , . , States of the treaty entered into with Mr. Rev- I Spain, formerly the stronghold of religious erdy Johnson, it cannot be expected that tb a 1 intolerance, has become a champion against ec- Tho Governor is required to convene the Legislature, as the members were declared elect ed by Gen. Meade, in Ms proclamation .of Juno 25th, 18GS. All who respond to tho call—are to be seated, without regard to race or color—if thoy can swear that their political disabilities have been removed by Congress, or take the oath therein prescribed, wMch is in tho ■ main the samo oath as that required for registration as a voter under tho reconstruction acts of Con gress, and applies substantially the test wMch is provided in tho Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This is all that is required to organize the Legislature, The adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment pro posed to tho Federal Constitution, is only a com dition precedent to representation in the United States Congress. The President of tho United States is author- ized upon the call of the Governor to use the military or naval forces for a limited purpose, and that is to carry out the provisions of this act. TMs is substantially the Morton bill; and, when stripped of verbosity and redundant pro visions, simply means tho negroes who aro liv ing shall be reseated, and all wMto men who aro ineligible to office under tho Fourteenth Amendment, are to he turned out. The bill does not provide how tho places of white men, if any, thus tumedout are to bo fillpd._ But the precedent set by our people would indicate that their defeated competitors aro to bo seated. The Morton bill does not make the State Gov ernment provisional—place it under military or undo any legislation. Now it will turn out that Bullock has an empty and fruitless victory over the people he governs. His plan is to have at the beck and call of his dynasty a suppliant Leg islature to do all they wish done, and undo all that has been done they dislike—control the State Road and its finances and havo a Mgh time generally. Now, tMs is the situation and all that is immediately threatening in it. The question is, what are we to do ? I agree with Mr. Hill that representation in Congress will bo of littlo value to our people. It would be none to me unless I were to get the mileage and per diem. Bnt I differ from Mm as to the policy of doing and saying notMng. If ho means do and say notMng rebellious, or to obstruct the execution of the laws, or to invite tho exer cise of arbitrary power over us, then we can follow his advice with safety and profit. But if he means do nothing to thwart the machinations of onr enemies, nothing to preserve the dignity and integrity of onr State and the spirits of onr people, then he is as wide of the mark as when le induced our people to stand aloof from tha nerv organization of tho State, and put our trust in the Supreme Court of the United States to set it all aside after it was done. On the contrary, I Bay now is the time for ac tion. Bnt few men, if any, were elected mem bers of the General Assembly who were not reg istered votors and had taken substantially tho same oath. But few will be turned out. It does not follow that their successors aro to be Radicals. Some Radicals havo died: Their places will either remain empty or bo filled by a new election. There are bnt few counties now in Georgia where, with proper management, good men cannot be elected. Many of those de clared elected by Gen. Meade, and who wero classed as Radicals, are not so now and never will be again. Many others representing coun ties where the sentiments of the people at home have undergone a change, and who themselves have seen the degradation of negro association in the Legislature, will feel a just resentment at tMs mean stab at tho honor and integrity of the State, and will either abandon the party or take a conservative course. Tho strongest leaders of tho party condemn Bullock and will not second his movements. If the proper effort is made and every man stands square to his post— if moderate Republicans are properly and fairly treated by the people ana by leading Democrats—proper efforts made even with tho negro members, to resign in deference to the wiU of the people they represent—the probabil ity is that when the Assembly convenes there will be a working majority in both houses; if not so at first, it will be very soon afterwards. I would not bo at all surprised that this very Leg islature he has labored so hard and spent so much money to havo convened will not only have the evidence to authorize it, but will, ere it adjourns, actually impeach him for gross cor ruption in office. ' ' - FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, December 24—Stanton is dead— from heart disease. Aged fifty-four years. The Cabinet, after its session, will proceed in a body to tho House. General Sherman has assigned General Terry io the command of Georgia as a District under the Reconstruction Acts, in addition to his duties as Commander of the Department of the South. Revenue to-day $384,000. Washington, December 26.—Stanton will be buried to-morrow. At the request of Mrs.! Stanton the coffin is closed, and no one allowed to see his faco. No military uniform will bo permitted to ap pear in the ceremonies. Washington, December 27.—-The departments are all closed. The weather Is very bad. This morning’s Chronicle says the order promul gated on Friday by the War Department, assigning General Terry to duty aa military commander of Georgia, pending tho reorganization of the Legis lature of the State, remands it to the. condition it occupied under the old Reconstruction acts, and is iaaned under authority derived from them. There is an incessant rain. Tho New York Tribune says that advices from Washington represent the intentions of tho admin istration as favorable to an early recognition of Cuban belligerency; and Mr. Sumner’s views aro believed to have altered with respect to the anti- alaveiy character of Gen. Ccspedes and his govern ment. Tho Herald lias tho following comments on the bank statement: “As the statement is only for five days, it is sug gested that there has not been so even a distribu tion of tho different items, inasmuch as the banks lose tho chances of the last day’s exchange going in their favor. Again, the payments into tho Sub- Treasury for Customs, combined with the specie shipments of tbe week, will go far to account for the decrease in specie. Taking the specie from tho deficits would leave about two and a half millions qf the latter to be accounted for. This is done by conjecturing that tho withdrawal of funds to meet various payments of interest due from railway and other corporations, together with tho temporary dif fusion of money among tho shopkeepers for holiday goods, will fully amount tp the sum in question. Tho effect upon the stock market was hardly perceptible, inasmuch as only a few brokers still remained on tho sidewalk after the publication of the statement, and among them it was not regarded with any apprehension. It is only proper to ob serve that, eo far as the banks are concerned, it really leaves them-in abetter position than might at first appear. With tho decrease in loans and a reduction of deposits, they are about in the same position as when they began the week. While the loss in reserve is two millions, they can afford to lose one million; so that tho surplus abovo the re serve required by law is decreased by only the latter amount.” The people of Rupert’s Land havo issued a dec laration of independence. The administration construes tho recent act of Congress ou the subject to be a virtual repeal of all laws passed since the first organization of tho State government after the war. Dying Out. Female apathy and contempt have killed off two of tho Woman Suffrage Associations in New York city the two that made the most noise and promised tho greatest longevity. One was a “Woman Suffrage Association” by name, and tho other was exactly tho same thing under the milder and moro captivating title of tho “Work- ingwomen’s Union.” Among tho members of each were women of as much brains, persis tence, logic and loquacity as any similar body has ever boasted of. The sayings and doings of these rival concoms havo furnished much spicy reading for New York newspapers; and their death will bo mourned by those journals which habitually gave a column or two to re ports of the wordy squabbles in which tho mem bers wero always engaged with each other and all tho rest of womankind and mankind too.— Any other enterprise having tho amount of free advertising and first-rate notices enjoyed by each of these societies would havo rapidly crown in stature and soon havo overshadowed the land ; bnt upon them tho magic of printers’ ink and the most unremitting “reportorial” at tention and the flattery or good-natured raillery of editors were entirely wasted. They were like delicate tropical plants which no assiduity of cultivation can keep from droop ing away and dying in tho open atmosphere of tho North. The airs of female indifference that blew in upon these coterie3 from every side chilled and MUed them, in spite of all the fos tering, friendly patronage of so many leading papers and the tolerating amiability of the rest, Both of them started on their misanthropical mission by reviling tho men, who were uniform ly painted in the blackest colors of the disap pointed female’s pallet; but they soon began to find ont that their only implacable foes wore women themselves, and from that date they fur nished the reading public with quantities of “woman’s thoughts about woman” vastly more amusing and instructive to the misinformed masculino mind than Miss Muloch shock of that Asiatic Contributions to Civilisation Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; If American wishes to know how much he owes to the Asiatic, he has only to cast a glance at y, hour of his daily life. The dock which sum. mons him from his lied in the morning was the invention of the East, as were also cleptydrr! and snn-dials. The.prayer for his“daily bread which ho has said from his infancy, first rose from tho Bide of a Syrian mountain. The linens and cottons with.wMch clothes himself, thonei thoy may be very fine, are inferior to tho* ■which have been made from time immemorial in the looms of India. The silk was stolen b, some missionaries for Ms benefit from China He could buy batter steel than that with which he shaves himself in the old city of Damascus where it was first invented. The coffee lie expects at breakfast was fin- grown by the Arabians, and the natives of K' per India prepared the sugar with which 1 sweetens it. A school-boy can tell tbe of the Sanscrit word sacchara tastes are light, and he profess tea, the virtno of that excellent leaf were were first pointed o- by the Chinese. They also taught how to mab and use the cup and saucer. His breakfast tr>t was lacquered in Japan. There is a traditio- that leavened bread was first made of the wi* c - of the Ganges. The egg he is breaking^ laid by a fowl whose ancestors were <!om« treated by the Malaccans, unless she mav Jn„ been, (though that will not alter the ca-e.) , modem Shanghai. If there are preserves a n a fruits on his board, let him remember with thankfulness that Persia first gave hi m >h» cherry, the peach, the plum. If in an r ofth&l delicate preparations he detects the" fl»vor of alcohol, let it remind him that that subiance was first distilled by the Arabians, who have set him the praiseworthy.example, which it will be for his benefit to follow, of abstaining from it. of FROM ALABAMA. Mobile, December 26.—There was no market veaterday. Business generally was suspended. It rained all day. A sumptuous dinner was given yesterday at the Battlo House, by Col "W. D. Mann, proprietor of the Mobile Register, to the employes of that office and the craft. Many invited guests wero present, in cluding prominent citizens and members of the ed itorial profession abroad. It was an occasion of unbounded hilarity, enjoyment and good feeling. No papers till Monday evening. EBON SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, December 27—The China brings twelve hundred boxes of tea for New York, and five hundred packages for Chicago, to go over land. The Duke of Edinburg was cordially received at Shanghai. Tho appearance of Burlingame’s cMef Secretary at Pekin created surprise. Bishop Kingsley, of the Methodist Episcopal Chnrcb, has left Pekin for home. When ho talks abont coffee and alcohol, he ; ;S using Arabic words. A thousand years befopi it had occurred to him to enact laws of restriA tion on the use of intoxicating drinks, the Pri* phet of Mecca had accomplished tho samo oil ject, and what is more to the purpose, has co: pellqd. to this day, all Asia and Africa to obi it. ’ We gratify onr tastes for personal orname-. the way tho Orientals have taught ns—wiiS pearls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds. Of pnblio amusements it is the Rame. T- l most magnificent fire-works are still to be eed in India and China; and as regards tho pasticJ of private life, neither America nor Europe 1 produced an invention wMch can rival the gai ' chess. We have no hydraulic constmctic: great as the Chinese canal—no fortific&ticL extensive as the Chinese wall; no artesj wells that can at all approach in depth some their’s. We have not yet resorted to the pra J tree of obtaining coal gas from the interior | the earth; they have boriDgs for that purpei more than three thousand feet deep. While the learned of Europe, wero forbid;) a heresy, tho doctrine of tho globular fig-.j the earth, the Asiatics were measuring si length of a degree along the shores of the LI Sea. A Sarac6n explained the nature of til light and showed the importance of allowing ■ atmospheric refraction in astromonical obseriS tions. Algebra was invented by the Mahomma who gave it the name it bears. The same: be said of chemistry. Whoever will take d trouble to look into the history of any brandj science exicting in the 17th century will findij deep are its obligations to Asia. Tho inven of the figures of arithmetic, which, in rea! gave birth to that science, laid knowledge t commerce equally under obligations. The ir ner of using the cipher and placing the fig one of the happiest suggestions of the gee man. The light of the Arabian crescent shine;I all countries, from the Gulf of Guinea to r CMnese wall. In those sunburnt and pestfle tial forests under tbe equinoctial line, cities springing up with their ten, their twenty, f fifty thousand inhabitants. That implies i ordination, law, civilization. Gleams. 1 of : FROM SAN DOMINGO. Havana, December24 Thooccupationof Sam- ana excites tho insuigenta to desperate efforts to overthrow Baez beforo Congress can ratify tho lease. Two Hsytion insurgent Generals were killed upon their capture. ^ Salnave now holds only Port-au-Prince, which ha will bum if compelled to evacuate. A largo fire occurred in Padre street—incend iarism suspected. , GENERAL NEWS. New Yoek, December 26.—Ten more Spanish gun boats havo gone to sea. Tog boat Traffic ex ploded at her dock—one killed. A panic occurred on tho steamer Galatea, from Providence, but the fire was extinguished without serious damage. Tho Arizona brings Panama dates to tho 16th. It is reported that Pern has sold the steamer B. R. Cuyler to tho Nicarangan government, and that af ter repairing she will prey on Spanish shipping in the Cuban interest. l’ho Bolivian revolution, under Morales, is sup- Land Renting fob More Than it IVd Sell Fob.—The Mariana (Fla.) Courier; cords a singular state of affairs in that ( It sava: There was a largo amount of land eoU-t Monday last at this place, at prices t’J amounted nearly to sacrifices, averaging r.’ j tliirty cents per acre. It is a remarkable rJ that "the lands of this county rent for moreuj they will bring at public out-cry. But this rj be accounted for by the crippled conditio: j the "farmers, the unsettled state of the counrj and the want of confidence in the governma consequent upon the corruption and remis^i which has characterized the State adminL-ffl tion. | The first crop from'the generality of !i| sold at public outcry in the county during! last two years, would pay all expenses, of cJ vation and theeost of the land. Thisissr plorable fact, and hope is entertained th:'., concatenation of changes with which the tf two years are pregnant, "will thoroughly rez the evils as well as correct the causes. Most of the largo warehouses in Santiago, Chili, are burned—loss heavy. General Hurlbut has been unofficially received at Bogota. Sperehes alluded favorably to tho pro posed Darien Canal. Bone, Ga., December 27 Tho entire regular Democratic ticket, with one exception, was elected by an average majority of 60. H. A. Smith’s major ity for Mayor, 88. Siiiacuse, December 27.—Seven large brick stores on South Selina street wero burned to-day. Total loss—nearly half a million. pmrinnrim, December 27.—George Mount joy, convicted of whisky frauds, was sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary. He was allowed a few days under the custody of tho United States Mar shal, to settle his affairs. Fortress Monkoe, December 27.—A heavy southeastern storm prevails. Atlanta, Ga., December 27—By direction of Governor Bnllock, tho flag on the Capitol building was displayed at half-mast from one to sundown, in respect to tho funeral obsequies of tho late Jus tice and former Secretary of "War, Edwin M. Stan ton. Boston, December 27.—Bev. Baron Stowe, a Bap tist clergymen, died to-day cf apoplexy. Cincinnati, December 27—John R. Wilder, of Westwood, attacked his wife with a hatchet, inflict ing fatal injuries. Wilder went into an adjoining room and discharged two barrels of buckshot simul taneously into his head, blowing the top completely off. Cause—troubles attributed to his son-in-law. Mrs. Wilder is known in Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis as a woman furnishing houses of prostitu tion. ... Tho anti-Euffrage women met these, assaults by the masterly strategy of staying away from tho meetings more resolutely than ever, with the additional game of cutting the suffrage wo men’s acquaintance, and freezing them out of society with on Arctic rigor. And so it comes to pass that thes9 two organizations aro dead, and have left behind them as little impress upon the ago as any minor occurrences that took place in tho Pharaohs. Their fate may prove but a forerunner of the early doom of tho whole woman suffrage movement under the same awful, invincible cMll of female aversion. At any moment it may collapso and tumble out of sight and hearing. Ttrw excess of men in Ohio is 40,000; in Mich igan, 40,000; in Kansas, 15,000; in Missouri 12,- 000; and in California, 143,000. On the con trary, there are 50,000 more women than men in New England, and nearly the same excess of fe males in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jer- •sey, '-rf- FOREIGN NEWS. Home, December 26—The Pope will baptize tho infant daughter of the Queen of Naples. The Committee on Discipline announced, com prise the Bishops of Now York, Genova, Birming ham, Santa Cruz, Mexico. Bolivia, Barcelona, Sene gal, Quebec, tho Patriarch of Alexandria and the Vicar of Bombay. Havre, December 27.—The cargo of the Brunette, recently ashore near Nantes, is reported saWable. Didn’t Like Sweet Things.—A well known alderman was dining out, a few days since, and being entirely an fait in all aldermanic pecu liarities, dined sumptuously. Arriving athome, he proceeded at once to bed, and to sleep. His repose, however, was short-lived, and he awak ened soon, with severe pains _ in his stomach The alderman, however, imagined it was amor tal disease, and 03 he was a strict member of the church, he besought his wife to send at onco for the clergyman. The good man came and of fered all the consolation in his power. He told him that it was nature’s decree that men should die; that resignation was a Christian’s virtue, and that it was sweet to die. “lYhatl” screamed the alderman, “sweel die!” : .- -v . . ' • . • '‘Yes, my dear friend, it is sweet to die; don vent think s 1 ?” —’ i" • ' “Yes, sir, but I* ain’t fond of sweet things.” It is neklless to say that the good ministers’ consolation was ineffectual.—JV. 0. Picayune. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT Irwinton Lodge, No. 150, F. A "Whereas, the Great Architect of the univeis; TTia infinite wisdom, has seen fit to call fron midst onr beloved brother,-Dr. G. H. C. Bed ing us an additional evidenco of his ch&ss power; therefore be it Besolved, 1st. That wo deeply sympathize’ his bereaved family in their irreparable 1» husband, brother, friend; and are only conso’. that truly Christian reflection that he is “noli bnt gono before” to renew the sweet comm: with those little ones, whose short span of lift bnt enough to ripen a parent’s love, ere th«J ! their way back from a cold and callous tlioso • bright portals from whence they hsl lately flown. Besolved, 2d. That, as his chair in onr ball he forever vacant, and no more his friendly P ing can be acknowledged by the brotherbe?- blank page bo left ia the minutes of our Lo£? commemoration of his departure, contain®? dates of his birth and death. Besolved, 3d. That in the death of brother 6 tho mystic tie is again severed; the golden broken, and our time honored order again ished of tho uncertainty of human life, aw ■ when we believe our plans aro ripening into ens and blushing honors seem about to crown ef forts, Death unannounced calls, levels all d’ :i tions, and bids us repair to the land of oar I fathers. Besolved, 4th. That every member of tho wear tho usual badge, and the hall itself te dr» in mourning for thirty days. Besolved, 5th. That these resolutions be lishod in tho Telegraph and Messknock, copy of the same bs seDt to family of our de] brother. ■ Dl MEMOBIAM. In the very nioming of bis young existencej _j the roseate joys of hope had but bloomed Tf his cheek, passed away from earth all thstj mortal of Wilbur Fisk Mason. Though the pen be feeblo that traces these "- and while I would the task had been to abler!) assigned to transmit a fitting epitaph, yet I| not shrink from a duty I owo the hallowed,-! Under my immediate command for two lou:l weary years of war, did the subject of this *T under circumstances which palsied thenen- stouter arms than his, unfalteringly enduro : hardship, privation and suffering, for the; land that has furnished tho world a history cl paralleled heroism, and which now. in hertij robes, stands sentinel over the gravos of W triot dead. .. Twas not in poor “Doe” Mason to dcsra-l jacket of gray: ami conspicuously brave as f peered on the crimson field of Manassas, ®j death from his trusty weapon as a private sc j his courage became a part of history when he j aa an officer, his sword in tho Land of Y j Not for his heroism alone, but for his kind-1 the writer when suffering from wounds, and J many noble traits of character, will bu » J ever be held in dear remembrance. As * was ever dutiful, and as a brother, alwsy- 1 affectionate. - . Respected and admired by all wh? J with a life full of promise, we are 1 and wonder at the Inscrutable acts of Divinity who doeth all thisgs well. Those hearts bereft of one wffi keep, with their tears, green the “Doc” Mason’s grave. pia^lation, Pidasks County, Oa. KrL -. ." v f