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Show One insrATciins speak of a long interview in-terview with President Grant and Alex. 11. Stephen, ex-vice-president of the Southern Con fed racy and member of Congress from the eighth Georgia district, and of his infirm health. A correspondent says Mr. Stephens is ready for work with an in t tiled ns clear as ever, lie sullers from the worst kind of rheumatism, one hip being thrown out of place, and he is compelled to use crutches whenever he ventures upon the street. Fearfully Fear-fully emaciated and so colorless thathis fingers secl transparent he still takes, an active interest in political affairs and is eager 10 enter upon his duties. In the list of members of the forty-third forty-third Congress he notes the familiar 1 names of twenty of his old associates and friends. It is a little over thirteen thir-teen years since Mr. Stephens, opiws- ing with all his influence the secession seces-sion of his native State, finally yielded to the current and enlisted in the strucryle which he saw was to end iu subjection or independence, despite , the general belief at that time that , the North would yield t" everything to the demands of the Synth rather than inaugurate a ciwl war. With what peculiar sensations and feelings must lie now meet his former friends and associates in the Coogre?$ of the United Slates! |
