Registers of dead

Grand Master.—Have you applied the Square to those parts of the Stone that should be square ?

Deputy Grand Master.—I have, Most Worshipful Grand Master, and the Craftsmen have done their duty.

Grand Master.—Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden : What is the proper Jewel of your office ?

Senior Grand Warden.—The Level.

Grand Master.—Have you applied the Level to the Stone ?

Senior Grand Warden.—I have, Most Worshipful Grand Master, and the Craftsmen have done their duty.

With joyful hands, to-day,
This Corner-Stone we lay
With Corn and Wine :
But do thou build up one,
Wrought in the living stone
Of our true hearts alone.
Master Divine.

Saviour Omnipotent,
Crown Thou our good intent,
With grace of Thine :
Honor this stone we rear ;
And when thou shalt appear,
Save us who gather here,
Master Divine.

PRAYER BY THE GRAND CHAPLAIN.

CEREMONIES

MUSIC BY THE BAND.

OPENING.

M. W. Grand Master.—Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden: The Grand Lodge of Maryland having been assembled for the purpose of Laying the Corner-Stone of the Monument, here to be erected, it is my order that the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Maryland be now opened for the performance of that ceremony. This my will and pleasure you will communicate to the Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden, and he to the Brethren present, that all having due notice may govern themselves accordingly.

COMMANDERIES AND GRAND COMMANDERIES.
VISITING GRAND LODGES.
BAND OF MUSIC.
THE M. W. THE GRAND LODGE OF MARYLAND.
GRAND TYLER, with drawn Sword.
GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES AND GRAND PURSUIVANT.
THREE GREAT LIGHTS,
Carried by a Past Master.
SILVER PITCHERS, WITH OIL AND WINE,
Carried by Past Masters.
CORNUCOPIA,
Carried by a Past Master.
BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS, Carried by a Past Master.
GRAND CHAPLAIN.
PAST GRAND TREASURERS AND GRAND SECRETARIES.
R. W. GRAND TREASURER AND GRAND SECRETARY.

PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES
OF

ANCIENT, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

TO BE OBSERVED ON THE OCCASION OF
LAYING THE CORNER-STONE
OF THE
MONUMENT
AT THE
ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY,
AT SHARPSBURG, MD.
Tuesday, September 17th, A. L., 5867,

Which will be laid by Most Worshipful JOHN COATES, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Md.

animosities of the past, we may stand together hereafter, and in all future time, as one people, having a common origin and bound together by a common destiny ? May this Union be perpetual.

Next followed prayer by Rev. HIRAM MATISON, D. D., of New Jersey. Then the hymn composed by Rev. EDWARD MEYER, was sung by the assemblage.

HYMN I.—Old Hundred.
"Aceldama !" 0 Lord, our God,
Who evermore dost Israel keep,
Watered in tears, baptized in blood,
Thou givest our beloved sleep.

They came at Freedom's trumpet call,

ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR SWANN.

THE ceremonies were commenced by Governor SWANN, who delivered a brief speech, which was cheered at the conclusion, as follows :

Fellow Countrymen

space devoted to the erection of a monument commemorative of the great event of the battle, and the heroism of those who sleep at its foot and around it. The design of the monument, which was adopted at a meeting of the Board, held in the city of Baltimore, on the 16th day of September, 1867, seems to meet all requirements in a military, national and patriotic point of view. It is the Colossal Statue of an American Soldier standing guard over the remains of the loyal dead, and, when completed, will be the largest work of its kind in the country.

Mountain, memorable as the spot where Lee received his first check during the invasion of Maryland, and which caused him gradually to fall back with his army until it rested on the waters of the Antietam, and made a final stand only to be again defeated. In the far distance also looms up, in their majestic prominence, the continuous chain of the so-called Maryland heights, rendered notorious as the rendezvous of John Brown prior to his raid on Harper's Ferry.

should be here mentioned, is, that a person occupying a position in the centre of the grounds, with his face turned to any point of the compass, can, with a good field glass, read the inscription on every head-board contained therein. As yet no uniform character of head and foot-stones have been adopted by the Board, but a general plan for marking all the graves in a proper and suitable manner will, in a short period, be decided upon, when the present temporary and imperfect stones, and monuments erected by friends, will be removed.