Turkestan, applies for leave of absence. He desires to return to his province of Hunan in order that he may visit his grandmother, by whom he was brought up in his childhood. The aged lady, who has reached her eighty-fourth year, is very near her death, and has repeatedly expressed her wish to behold her grandchild once moi He is afraid that unless he goes now he will never be able to see her.—Decreo issued separately.
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