iree»n congratulateouredvMßPon fte whlcbbas«o far crowned vmoSoia,_m mn with great confidence bespeakior It to tho future * mTuS* for ournecullar JXstloml am notunmindful that thlre exist which may bejustlyflsstgnedas having Intofinenco upon the success which has hitherto attended the Order in this city and State. Thcpcople here have exhibited a better appro elation of the Order than in any other locality, ;ths<reason for which, I flatter myself, arises from tho'dose resemblance of the principles andpur £©kb of the Order with thoaepromulgatod by William Penn, the founder of thfi colony, the in flnenccof Which is still reflected in the peaceful and benevolent acts of our people. .Hie great ireatyW peace with the , Indiana enunciated the ■rarest principles of Friendship, Love, and it remembered that it was not a .treaty for lands, but to "settle Friendships, and iJtRNRW. Covenants ok Pback and Amity, con stltutine a Brotherhood never to be broken;” Ind to this day it has not been broken. Deoplo, the descendants of him and his contemporaries, have continued to revere the memory of the authors, and to admire the pure mincipfes with which they were animated. This 1b evidenced on every side. Onr city abounds with public and private charities, schools, col leges asylums, hospitals, homes, refuges and re treats’devoted and dedicated to charitable uses and benevolent objects. There is no ill that mau 1b heir to that does not find in the City of Bro therly Love on asylum for Its cure or amellora- Sarronnded, therefore, as we are by a philan thropic people,, zealous of good works, it would be passing strange if we foiled to be properly Notwithstanding all these efforts in the cause of human benefaction, we iound ground that did not seem to be occupied, and paths not here tofore travelled by any that were open before us; and if onr peculiar system of nnostentatious re lief haß reached a worthy and deserving class not heretofore provided for, although the hand that gave it could not be Seen, we are content. •‘Tree charity,like the breeze, gathers fragrance from the drooping flowers it refreshes, and un consciously reaps a reward in the performance of Its offices of kindness, which steal on the heart like rich perfumes to bless and to cheer. Hoping to be favored in the future, as we have been in the past, with fraternal and united coun sels with a reliance, upon an overruling fro\ - deuce for our preservation and peace, we shall feel an assurance that our labors in the work ot human benefaction will far exceed in usefulness those of the past, and better onnble ns to obey your injunction: “To visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the or- P And now, Most Worthy Grand Sire, in conclu sion, on behalf of the brethren oi the Order in this jurisdiction, I extend to yon a most cordial welcome. In behalf of the widows and orphans whose tears have been wiped away, and their stricken hearts gladdened by the kindly offices ol the Brotherhood, X bid you welcome. In tbe name of the good people of this great metropolis, who recognize and appreciate to the fullest extent Individual and associated efforts in the amelioration aDd relief of human suffering, I hid yon a moßt cordial and hearty welcome to our peaceful city. , , , May yonr sojourn amongst us be pleasant ana agreeable, and may yon carry with you to yonr families and homes the most pleasant recollec tions of yonr visit. uF.sroN6F. 0K THK c.KANi) 81 displays the mogpilude of the offering which our ,E. D. Farnsworth, of Tenn., M.\V. Grand Sire homage 6 this day renderß to the liviDg Of the Grand Lodge of the United Btaies, replied (jo[) From beyond the great lakes of the North, as follows: . / in the land of her Majesty, the illustrious Past Grand Master John W. Stokes, Chairman oj y lclorla . f ro m the islands which girtherrock fhe General Joint Committee oj Arrangements. ’coast beyond the Bt. Lawrence to In behalf of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Grande; from the great Atlantic the United States, and of the assembled brethren *“® lhe d( . BCrt plains and moun of the Order from other jurisdictions who are to- to tb e pacific slope; beyond day the guests of members of the Pennsylvania |0 tho glands in the sea, and still be- Jorisdiction, and especially of those of the city of “ n(J tll p B(J to the d i ßtanl Continent of Australia; Philadelphia, I return thanks for the hearty and 5 i aud to ) and f ro m sea to sea, in every city, fraternal welcome which has been extended, and “ town and considerable village, there goes acknowledge my Inability fittingly to replyto ° e ftt thievery hour to the great God of Humanity the eloquent and Impressive terms Inwhlch you “P d aad | er vent voice of thanksgiving—a have expressed it. Be assured, sir, that the “ comoineu heartfelu-“tbe Odd Fellows’ pageant which your great cUy preaenta to- of tbe ytar of our cord I 860; an offer day, prepared in the broad spirit oi I constrained by the profoundest grautude on liberality which characterizes our Fraternity, i tb e part of a great Brotherhood to that Providence and in devotion to the »«bto prtodptoß which j lo U s , ab or lhe approving smile, constitute tho corner-stones of the Order of Odd , * „m, b spirit of rejoicing, of glad- Fellows, inspires the sou s : 6 at a e D^a ” \ l “ lon: Everything around us lends all who participate in it. The Right Worthy nnd pjj, aßnre to tho heart, and an iulluencu Grand Lodge, in this dutiful celobration of toe lm i eßcr ib u bly anspiclous creates a general har- Bcmi-Centennlal Anniversary of the fou^nding of m0I)T of all hearts alike partake. It 1b a day thO'Order in America, is sensible that Phlladel Qf i'citival; the proclamation has gone forth to our phia and Pennsylvania, inthis magnificent dis- J(j eTI ry where throughout the earth where play, has enhanced, if possible, the interest which dwells, that from tho rising to the every true Odd Fellow feels in the occusion; and t|j of thesun, there is rest to day fiocu secu congratulntes ilßelf in the selection of the city of lnr ln [ a)r - (hat the sons of toil respond not to- Brothcrly Love, will! its more than one hundred (0 tb ' o muß j c 0 f tb e hammer, or to tho roar and twenty-five Lodges, ahd more than twenty- , f nrmice . that the merchant and the men seven thousand members, os the scene of the of , be professions, and of tho schools, and of tDe commemoration of an event which mark artß and of sciences, shall to-day pause in ibe the Inauguration ol a “. i work of mind; and the thousands that are here efficient utilization of the cip '® a £f i have nobly responded to the call, pouring like an Friendship, Love and Truth, the peer ol an avulance from ibe North and the Bouth, from any known in ancient or modern times; and Fftßt an( j t h e West, from every quarter of the destined, it is hoped and confidently believed, to j. d jj to thiß great cilv; to this most fitting spread as far as human civilization extendsand of Humanity, this'Mecca of Brotherly to last as long as the distresses of the bereaved - consecrated as such in its baptism by its and sick, and the needs oftho orphaned and toUlldt , r whose deathless name and virtues, ebor lonely shall claim the sympathy, the assistance, lßh cd in’the innermost hearts of all the people, and the fostering care of tbelr fellow-creatures. . ag freshly to-day as when, on the banks of In all that yon have said of Pennsylvania Odd vour beautiful Delaware.one hundred and seventy Fellowship, Its members, its financial resources, s sgo hE achieved, with the wand of peace its power, the beneficial use to which it has ap- F cimeter and the shibboleth of love as his a&arstsi ?.vks.'“£’.szi --<* ***.«^ *». s.sr s ...... ** ■ but did not wrest with the bloody hand from probably say, Mils national movement. Men are its aboriginal owners, it was meet that an Order not accustomed to cone together by hazard. The whoso bond is the brotherhood of man, and throng of to-day is not an idle pageant, not a whose covenant, one with another, and with mere holiday exhibition; it does not mean a dis soclety. Is the performance of the offices of play of numbers for influence on public senti friendship nnd tho cultivation of an enlarged ment. None of theeo—it represents an Idea, a philanthropy, should flourish. It has done so; living, breathing, predominant and pre-eminent and It affords the Legislative Head of that Order Idea, emphatically the Idea of the age in which pleasure to recognize the fact; and, sir, I am we live. We are here to-day to discourse of that honored in being the organ of its expression, and Idea— to look upon the P aB '- a , n^ hat 11 in conveying to you again for the Right Worthy | to our gaze during a period of fifty years. Fitly Grand Lodge of the United States, and for those years! Startling words in the measurement of present from othor jurisdictions, and from the the little span of human jife,while In the reckon- Fraternity throughout the world, their cordial lng of the uge of nations they represent but a thanks for this reception. For tho allusion which , single hour; yet they disclose, however you havo been pleased to make to me as tho official applied, chequered scenes, much ol wonder, ol chief of the Fraternity, I tender my sincere ao- i chunge, of progress, of hie, of decline ana aeatn. knowhdgEDenle; and will only add that, while I \ Time is ever on the wing, and the panorama feel, officially and individually, that “it is good to \ which day by day it displays before the human be here,” and mingle wilh those older and abler j eye is but a continuous recurrence of events, or than myself in this prand ceremonial of com- ! shifting sccneß, tbe counterpart of which have memoration, I feel also that all official distinc- j been always enacting upon the same stage from tion is dwarfed in contrast with the memory of \ the morniDg of creation. Man is, and always ftlm whose work, filty years ago to-day, we havo has been its subject, and has been essentially the „met to celebrate, Thomas Wildey, of Marylaud; same being, evei influenced in his habits and and.iu contemplation of the vast benevolent progress to social Improvement and development /Objects for which we are associated, that all true by corresponding laws. <)<id Fellows, of whatever rank or degree, are the From the standpoint of the present, the fifty equals oS each other. Standing hero, in an offi- years last past appear bQt as yesterday; like a cial, capacity, 1 canuot desist, without the utter- ; gieat scroll opened up to the common gaze, the ance of a thought that occurs, and the delivery world is at once before us. During that short a single word of exhortation; lor thw is a ■ period greater changes have come over its his tdlme nnd scene to awaken a full sense of one*6 I tory than have transpired since the creation, /responsibilities. The cycle of fifty years since 1 Space has been annihilated; the remotest ends of onr foundation in America is complete. The the earth have been marvelously brought within who labored then, who first boro our speaking distance; seas, oceans, mountains, de isymbo)?, who delivered our charges, who iucul- serts, inhospitable regions, and uninhabitable <«&ted the lofty truths we profess and endeavor to climes have been Rnbdued by the power of human /practise, have gone to theLr rest. What they genius, and the depths of mind have not yet been inaugurated the orator of the day will depict in sounded, nor have its further conquests entered its progreas and portray in its beauty. into the imagination of man. Through this Within that time, in our hletory as an Order, grout telescope bow grand and sublime the sceue! and in.history of this continent, marvellous How altered and varied the map of earth and its changes.have been wrought and wonderful de- constantly recurring lessons; how has it accom velopment has been made. From the handful modated itself to the ambltlan'and lasts of kings, that gathered at the call of Wildey wo have in- princes, and emperors; how have nations and creased nntil near half a million are enlisted un- peoples, like chessmen, changed places; the once tier the standard then eel up. Other continents ! strong and potential, the bow feeble and dpclin and the islands of the sea own our fraternity ing; the once tottering and decrepit and humble, and ecknonlcdge our laws and principles as their now erect, stalwart, and looming np to colossal guide. ’ power; the once dismembered and broken into But amid all the mutations of that period, petty iragments, now reunited, consolidated, and whether they contributed to the advancement of advanced upon the way of greatness! How has civilization,'education and morals, and to tho our own beloved land in fifty years kept pace improvetnent.otf the race lu its higher attributes, with the most forward march ot the world? or Bctmed to retard them—amid ml fluctuations From twenty-one Stateß the Republic has ex and exterior couynjfeions, Odd Fellowship had panded to thirty-eight; from lees than ten mii preeerved Its uuity as an organization, and main- lions to nearly forty millious of population, tained the steadfastness of a single purpose. Whutits present prestige and rank in the family ir rom Us high duties and behests it has known oi nations, what its present greatncsß in all the do ‘ variableness nor the shadow of turning,” etstntial elements of empire, contrasted with Us S? B !f to the cause of humanity, to tho Btutus fifty years ago ? How havo the kingdoms Binding up, of lus weaker parts, to the substance of ibe old world—one,or perhaps two,excepted— and - snceor -of thur s f stricken W "ProvidentTH ' hetii ofitfimpped hy the infant-giftut of ihe* Wosfr to the widow in her grief and need, out), in the race, how hopeless that those, leit ado Oie orphan In its helplessness, it has. with behind should ever regain position. How has .invigtehie fidelity, performed its lolty task The the world been startled with the rapid succession 6CWBTO and dlEßeneioufi which have occurred ol great evtrite of every character? Religion, about ttja&ve not scarred or seamed its massive morule Io philosophy, literature,how cherished and ana wejkcemented proportions, and the roar of advanced, uud diffaeed broadcast among the discord has never penetrated Its halls nor moved people; how sedulously fostered by theclvil power? It from the own and majestic tenor of Ub wav. tiieatn and its developments, electricity and its Tty s ® o in the m^idst of danger, have been applications, mechanism, arte, science, com avojded bv innesiblc adherence to the grand rmrei*. navigation, agriculture, and evory con- Jruthe.pf Ibo .Qrdej; and so would 1, and all for eeivablc nlillt), how have they been adapted to and I i would earnestly entreat this large • concourse or i the brotherhood,; representing every section, to . lay well the ground for ; a prosperity in tho ; i Coming fifty yeareupontho principles waicn have seenred It Id the past. This is an inviting themej and might well be enlarged'on, but 1 wui sot. dwell. Commending all who hear me to the work,’and that they should yield profound grati tude to the Almighty Disposer of ovents lor His hitherto signal approval of our labors, X close oy again thanking you, sir, and the Order In Phila delphia, in the name of tho Bight Worthy Grand Lodge of the United States, for your cordial wel come. .. In the order of proceedings instituted for mo day, another and a veteran in the sorvico, one whose name is familiar wherever tho order is known, is assigned to pronounce an address suitable to the occasion. He will do it well and worthily, and I will not consume longer your time or transgress against your patience. I take greut pleasure in introducing to the audience James L. Ridgely.P. G. Master of ary lnnd, and Secretary of the Right Worthy Grand j Lodge of tho United States, who haß been desie j natid as the orator of the day. ! amkuiuan ODD I'KLLOWSIIir—its origin, HIS- I TORY AND DKVKIAII’MKNT. j Mr. Ridgely then came forward and delivered the following oration : I I.mlies and Gentlemen and my Brother Odd h el- I bus :-I have no words in which to express the j gratification and thankfulness awakened oy the animating scenes of this day, and 1 am sure that the occasion of this anniversary has filled my brethren, wherever assembled throughout our vast jurisdiction.'with corresponding emotions ol loy and gratitude. , . . „ This is to Odd Fellowship a day of general re joicing-a day of thanksgiving and fervent out ponrine of heartß to Him '‘who orders ail things wisely''for tho rich rewards vouchsafed to thwr combined labors in aid of an Improved and uplifted Humanity. The delight which swells our hearts Is diffusive; it has, like the little rill, no ‘ ! refreshed the surroundings of its eourco, scattered profusely in im path therichlnfluences of its genial power. It has moved the heart of this great citv; to-day the mnltitude swarms her avenues, and sways hither and thither with res tive pulse. Masses of humanity are astir—ban ners are unfurled- the tramp of men reverberates —music, sweet and electric alike upon the heart, whether in the palace or In the hovel, float upon the air—men and women, eager with curiosity, crowd every available spot oiground. No quar ter of (he city is free from tho hnm omnipresent Gay pennaEts stream from the forest of mast heads. aDd from every eminence the auspicious bunting utters its.'yoice in eloquent unison with the general scene; and yet the grandeur of the display on every'side, and the noble sympathy ot this great people of this great city, responsive to our good cause, witnessed upon her avenues, fails to measure up to the moral splendor of the spectacle which now ravishes the sight within this majestic temple. Here have hastened at this early morn an array of humanity, solid yet per sonal, covering every tenable point of space. The thou&auds that are here, representing the youth, the beauty, intelh gence, aDd fashion of the city, have caught the inspiration of the hoar, and are here to honor the cause wo espouse, for it is a just cause, a virtuous cause, a noble cause—the cause ol Humanity itself. Yet, my friends, vast as is our number here, immense as is tho array with all Its EorgeousneßS, commanding as is the glitter and splendor of the spectacle, and beautiful as is the moral which underlies the scejiu, It but faintly THE DAILY EYPING BULLETIN—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, J§§||lLJ 6, 1869. the comfort, weiraroand toappineßSof .tho race;. tow have they acatwred their ; : ggy« distriethm rich fruits upon the earth?! And yet there.ie a , ; -SLChS things tod shadow which Bhcdß Its leadentingo npon m'a y bn e Gb B B ti an church essentially another—the ono plctoro. In fifty years,iwlth iite advance In all pIM of faith; the other these, elements of wealth, Warhas notceasedto Rovornment, With a decimate the race and td.desolate l polity,Claim- Strife, Individual and civil, and international, is of nations, and, by the rule rather than the exception. The sword mgA®' ra ?,, en g ar structure cxertlng influence and cannon are etlll the alters of honor and reason ££ pe n C d D ™for of divine anlhorlty. character, and the paradox of darkness In the ex „„der snch auspices, could not pd naldst of the brightest light, and of Inbnmanlty | lza i \ io ” I | 6 n “ d B ® l , cd & ltß most vital principle. In an age ot the snblimest civilization, offend the . vancc, 1 was a eonero tion to bind Its moral sense of the Christian and philanthropist. , Theright of » B go vernmnt. or dog- It has now been fifty years since on this Conti- successors jn sys g « of philosophy, nent the instllut on known os the Independent mas of faltD, o P mlnd ft a the divine Order of Odd Fellows was organized at tho city 1 wps at war wiin me vindicate its freedom of Baltimore by ThomasWijaey and,his four eo- | and itsstraggilest.i™a wc ll laborers. It came into being in the interest of Canute have at hnmanity, and os an offshoot of an improving £ J ,T r( E L "rto of nature. The civilization, which, through long years of con- oughtinnate and inseparable from diet, had ultimately culminated with great power, lber yor thongnt 1 f tof God _ a Beintil and had largely advanced the material interests o ; all attempts at its society. In discussing the origin and general , lation ot us mv y t 0 draw aftor it its history of the Order, the gentaß and fancy of an- , colic °" v “ablo destruction; since “every power niversnry and other orators have indulged for the , own l inevuno o w nnd fatlon on most part in the wildest theories and specula- , "k l “ o ?f y cd ° d( . Bolaliou of others, necessarily tione. Every conceivable 'suggestion has been the spoil acu ila wblcb BOOn er or later advanced, and antiquity has almost uniformly Provokes a r*- 1 “ n “. h n , Bed to i nsp l ro been invoked in aid of its claim for veneration , ovmuUs t, and VODpo anco and homage, as if age supplied necessarily excel- ; b eod and having Its victim no longer lenee and intrinsic worth. Ideas as baseless as the ; o l tt ' t , 9 u who f ly for its enemy.” It vision of a dream hove been spun and woven, l orls slave, I .n l J powcr in the world, often to gratify the creative genius of the scholar ; ' B n l K eflcent which, when it is not under or to challenge admiration for his learning and however henOlcxnt. w , d watC bed research. Merit is ever self-reliant, and should control ol Bomo P - Boo Der Qr lftler dt) . belike virtue Itself—its own exemplar. In this . Kreat iy depreclat r y stripp P e r d eS of nt an n b r o?rowed < “ not entirely annihilating its intrinsic exccl ns has been iralhfnlly said by a favorite poet of bindrancoi civiUzation ad ihe apparel of a fair virgin, vanced. Under the lead of that divine spirit of '' Butl'e.'w he i^uu adorned ."adorned 1 the™ oft “ tKce which brightened the wood's horizon True it is that onr principles date from remote g® B ‘y Cn Libmty 'o? conscience now antiquity, becanse they are coeval with creation o ° y d an / or ®t indicated, and its dominion has and inseparable from humanity itself. In ibis recognized bv the common consent regard Odd Fellowship is contemporary with all “, nc t <^ c ® ivilize( f wor ld “as the only dominion ages of the world; in other respects, it is ready,in 01 ine civ n coerclon „ Bv thla Ug ht, from aU humility, in the interest of the broad spirit of tbßd . Btant barbarism of the long past,experience Fra tern ity, to take rank among.the myriad bene- ‘he c example is ever teaching. Generations have factions of the present, in generous rivalry with c and p onUi ]ike a CO ntlnnons caravan moving each and all of them,in promoting the enlighten deulbward . bu t f ro m these there is ever deseend ment, refinement, comfort and happmess of chronicles, memorials, and traditions, con man. „ ,_ _ a ~ a<r7rd from oblivioD, just bb tho annals of Odd 1 have already said that onr Order was an off IJpowship are thiß day being collated for poa shcot of the advancing civilization of the age, Pj ma tcrial, at first rnde ond simple, but, before thla view is presented, I propose to ‘ c o " ly rehendin „ the B0 ’ cla i life, manners, habits, occupy a few moments in considering the nsnal f°“j^ Uonß religion, learning, science, and arts theory of its origin upon the idea of antiquity. eTt rv people undergoing the process of con- The origin of Odd Fellowship has been referred bnB o Ua 3 devetopment, haß been the aliment of to the reign of Nero, the Roman Emperor, and c “ bjzaliol , and \t has advanced, from time to to the Roman camp, A. D. 65; thence it is alleged | throng b various ordeala. In proportion as it was introdneed into Spain, France, and Eng- 1 [ “ koB been sufficient to snccesßfnliy en land. To locateithe l source of a grea mor l or- | overcomo the obstacles by which ganizalion in the Roman camp, whose soldiery superstition, and fanaticism have im m the reign of the monster Nero was, for the | B ?t brogrese. With the triumph of this most part, of the lowest order of Pagans and ' relll imdmftltfol Christianity has humanity and slaves, addicted to debauchery and licentiousness, I « hi „ her and more sublime development of would be. even if well supported, a fact whieb it .ft i ar gely participated. As inseparable were better to conceal than to promulge; but, in | y )be ro y tl f of and as auxiliary to view of its utterly fabulous character, the greater efficacy for good, has the spirit of woDder is that snch a 5®“ e “|?BV s J l0 “ ld B , a avt Lsociation and co-operative organization been ever been dreamed of. Fhilantbropy, or Prater mvoktd w ith a view to more enlarged usefnlneßa nity, as instinctive of a common nature among cffect , Te practlca i results, men, may be songht for in yam in the Pagan thifj Blale of soc iety, ns the fruit of the pro ages of the world. It is true that in the pall 1 press which had been attained in the career of sophv of Greece and Rome the theory is Bublnuuly v nixation there sprung up among tho ancient discussed and taught. Plato and Socrates and originally out of commerce, Cicero and Beneca, represent respective sehoo a ° an institution peculiar ol this philosophy—perhaps those great mud £ tb e “ known as the “Guild.” This term had reached the highest moral elevation of thur in , plitd [bu payment of a certain sum of money day, and had attained to the best defined Idea e me o, ber 0 f a society, or company, ol Nature and its source; of man and his reJ.u B R waß composed,towards a common fond, to that source, and to the divinity wHhin hnu. parlly cmploved in the relief of ne and from these truths were able to deduce the . .t (on6 members. These orders or organiza proper obligations and duties of men towards , ioD6 wtre 0 f divers characters, many of them of each other. Yet this learning was purely morn J["® nature- they were born of the oppres sed intellectual; so abstract nnd theoretical, and oDB g o f a disorderly time; some of them having in it so little of the practical.that these 01 a Xd with great favor by philosophers were utterly incapable of illastrit C arly English monarehs, who lDg in their lives and conduct the beautiful vir- , ed , tbem special privileges. There tues which they taught. Notwithstanding the * f towDs of any importance which were pure moral of those schools, history fnruiohcs ] DrcT i dtd with a hall lor the meeting of the only l Vhf d° r vriS a a iflht W r h evea ed that ol the city o°f London, which still world had been iilnmed with a light reveaiea j > jg eup p oKed to have been built as early from the true nnd only God, any evidence that ? thp ’i_ n q[ lhe confessor, (1041). These the ; spirit of humanity had found a lodgmeut GuUds became in lime so great, and so import atnoDg the Roman people. The tall 01 Rome and as to be iustly regarded as the origin of all its conquest miDgled together and eonfoanded m mu^icipnl K o Te rnment. Every trado soon hod that empire many races of people. Tne ra* , ceuarate Guild, and, In order to exerciee that ! the Jew, the Christian the master and fte .Uve, be free of the Guild by hav the citizen, the stranger, ‘.. « np o(.rved an anprentlceehip to bo me master of confronted each other isfw- i the craft. These organizations diffused themselves changed aspects. A common “ " ! ull over Europe, and what are now designated as tunc, the common d«ola ion lhe d co “”°“ Town Balls were then known as Guild Halls; they poverty and want, awakened Kinaiea sympa * r , Unions or epondcd'to Dc^uuHßonjiature were dissolved now into such a faith, and con- dßciflonß much of lhe custom or law of trade death: social intercourse, lies of friendsbi; . commerce, cbi( fl _ employed aid and defence s sm element of civillzatton, Bprnng up by degrees. craflßmen and the seenrement of odeqnatecom- Ihls train of progresß could iiot fa l t n CI)Eallon for bbor. They embraced every va tho asperities and to mollify essentially the Hetv of interest and calling, and were all of tbem antagonisms of the conquered and the con- phnracterislic for conviviality, which feature, uuerors. Of all institutions amoug an advunc- o “„ iEa i ly ludulged only tho anniversary mg people, none exercise so large an influence ia ‘ ,y radna f ly bct . B me by abuse so distinc BtaT the Ksr« ? .s.d IS4.- sjsßftrJsrajw a^®, i S V sl ?^»ss , £ S@±SM^S»KSaR supremacy was imminent, unavoidable, and, in f n,Hpr of Odd Fellows consonance with the eternal order and fitness of the Order of Odd billows. things, Paganism went down forever. It tottered In the early part of the present century one of awhile upon its throne, then reeled and sunk be- the many societies known by this name was or neoth the power of truth, flashing from the fires ganized into a permanent institution, and had of heaven, out of the throne of the Eternal, mnen success m attracting numbers to its ranks. The superstition of heathenism was at an end. Confined almost exclusively to tho, operative 'the gods of Rome and Greece and Egypt expired classes, ns idea was wholly beneficial and con aad disappeared from the face of the oartD, so vivial, aßd, as thus constituted, it found its way that no veßilge has been preserved of their ex- into the Untied Btates with the tide of immtgra lsteuce except in the traditions of tho ago, and tion wnich flowed in this direction after the not of its theology, but of its romance, literature peace of Ghent. Some of these societies, soon and noctrv. The religion of tho Pagan was the alter their formation, became secret, and from religion of man; ol his exclusive handiwork; it this fact the attention of Parliament was called was of the earth, earthly. The religion which to them afi early ae 1,9;i, waa beamed on the world in Its stead proclaimed entitud Tbe I riendlv Boclety Act, since tho a new and sublime moral. “Peace on earth and passage of which np to iB6O annual reports good-will to man” was inscribed in letters of hove been required, and a general enoer living fire upon its broad banner. Turning away, vision exists, from which H appears that thereloie, from the reign of Nero and the Roman twenty-eight thousand five hundred and cami: we shall find in the ouward march of civi- fifty of Bitch bodtcß had been enrolled. The idea lization incident to Chrietiaulty a thread which, of enrollment wus to elicit a disclosure of the ob if followed, will lead us ulong through its many jecis of the association, Its general rules and re f? n centuries of ordeal into the true origin of the or- lations, snd the relative protection of the legal ganizationß of men lor practical beneficence and rights of the lociety and of the individual mem frnTernitv btrship. Onr Order, in this view only in which Civilization, we are told, “reters to a certain we have presented English Odd Fellowship, is state of mankind which is distinguished from derivative in its origin lrom that country, and is barbarism,” an “improved condition of man,” the offspring of what is known as the Manchester resulting from the establishment of social order, Unity, established in Manchester about tho year “a stole of progress towards realizing the idea of 1809. Tims all the attempts to construct analo humanity." The application of this touchstone gies between secret societies or organizations furnishes a solution ot the origin of co-operative among the Romans, Greeks or Egyptians and associations among the children of men for their Odd Fellowship, le without support, and he in mutual improvement, and is the source to which qnirer after the real source of the Order, as it now r ‘;f xa™ ““ X w?a...b. ™, „d wholly uncivilized, could not long continue in- tions and kindred tongues upon a common plat- Bensihle to the contrast which marked so dis- “ onß uuu r tlnctively the Divine origin of tho new religion. ,0 ”“- . . .. . , and nre . i rw\ C gTd^\^nltWm:ToTof°t, C devlopmew/of Ibis gteat St7aVu V BV-terv^titatrrof W Vcmos n t d d"eo U r n '.nri 1 Sn’hmrnd bVthe benlgu P inllaenee of Chris dant opinions, resulting from narrow education Uani'tv l“ame cot verted tolmtaUh through and of creed, by personal intercourse ♦Vvzi ni>nnrniif>if>ri and heroic and Rftlf*B<LO ttod oesocl&tlon oDd community of interest arc riflceThsmlnißUy. 116^F In tcame being an« SSrS enlightened clergyl s:e:sH£i-£Z'»i cllnalion and interests. And thus the foundation Br, i al ,' hl , F ?T^i' te dfltatef ’ formed oxclm of the p esent map of Europe was iali. Under the of’ humanity is le tlaniiy it owed its preservation. Huving its birth P“ • c i aßß . manual labor Bchools, dispensatw in early ages in tho East, it had sneeumbed to institutes, soup-houses, lodg ■ dsflolutioii wWcli marked tbe foot* J ® *iiT\Wopir-4hfiro‘pt»t-ftf»vß’ bome§ : foundiincf ftsv* prints of the barbarian; seeking reluge across tho “P’lhnorflf b * inflrmarlM tom fc-T %£Z rtAJnss. xs St S With the full llll or tC Umt‘“Km uider R °Thd ud P tb ' carew°ore“"pe‘ak a eC voice an nobly s'-ars 1' been called to pass—a war of opinion ftml doc- inas WO nld enlarfrn wn trine and faUb witbin its om bousehold. Tbe ucderlke tho whole. U wo would enlarge, we may super-add.totbesothe varied dent nißiUniioDß ol the aeo, wjilch have had ;thelr birth in this brood .pbilanUiropy, ;Wp eayujge bank, Ibe co-operative. trade and building associ ations, the mutual llfoond health societies, and, above all, the free and public; education of the mind.which is Uo lodger the oxcepUon.butiatho rule in all highly civilized governments In the world, the dictate alike of a wise polity and hu manity. If I had time, and tbo occasion did not forbid iuller clab6ration.it would bo interesting in this connection,to produce statistics of this great entire of public benevolence.derlved from general, religious and moral sources In our country,which in this regard emphatically leads the world. The vast rums employed in this object in ail the States and cilice uttest tho public virtue, and vindicate not only their refined humanity, but also the wise providenco of their rulers.* Originally these great works of beneficence and ehnritv were tho peculiar mission of religion, and the Cbnrch in the early centurlcß dedicated its unremitting caro to their support and extension. Hospitals, almshouses, insane asylums,lounating houses, and monasteries followed in tho wake of the Cross and tho missionary; abases and politi cal convulsions led to secularization, and the aid of government was applied in that behalf under lav direction. The modern idea, and the more elective one, is to relieve tho Slate and the Chnrch alike front special missions of humanity by the enlistment of private auxiliaries os the best Instrumentalities of embodying ibe all-per vading Spirit of philanthropy, which seems to be always ambitious of the means and opportunity to enter actively upon its work. The more this potent arm of voluntary co-operation is en couraged and upheld by tho liberality of the people, aDd the generous contributions of Slates and cities, the more will tho active offices of the State and Cbnrch become superfluous, and thus bo left tree to pursue, without this additional weight, their special charge. Of those abounding charities, eo honorable and so exalting to the refinement and civilization of men of the present generation, yonr magnificent city numbers a most imposlug array. Eighty-four of theso as sociate ministering mercies to all the ills or which human flesh is heir, are organized within its limits, besides the splendid charities sustained by the State and city, and the vast or ganization of Odd Fellows and other kindred be nevolent Orders. My distinguished brother, one of Ibe noblest of Pennsylvania’s many honored eons, and my long cherished personal friend, r. G. M. Stokes, in his eloquent and moßt beautiful address of welcome to the Grand Sire and ofllcere of the Grand Lodgo of the United States, has well said that “there is no ill that man is heir to which docß not find in this city of Brotherly Love an asylum for its euro or amelioration, to this fact, so honorable and bo beautiful, let me add that there is than this no brighter jewel that sparkles in the cluster which adorns the es cutcheon of the Bla to. Brethren of the great Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, let me say to you that, grand and sub lime as is tho historic renown of your State; born as it was of an anccsUv whose llneoge chal lenges comparison; invoked' into life by the hal lowed genius of philanthropy; founded upon principles instinctive of divinity Itself; conse crated in its memories and traditions by tbe moral heroism of a man whose dauntless spirit quailed not under trial and persecution, and whose in trinsic excellence and purity of character opened to t hls access tho palace, the cabinet and ibe counsels of the most eminent ond gifted of his countrymen: commanding as is this prestige of yonr political birth, and still more splendid and pre-eminent in ali the greatness which the worthy descendants of so illustrious a sire have snperodded to tbe commonwealth; vast and coloeeal as Us political status has grown, until it has become tho keystone to the arch of a Ftdtrnl Union as imperishable as it is impregna ble, oboncdlDg in every resource, material, moral ar.d intellectual, which adorns and enriches em pire bountcons and inexhaustible as Is its agri cultural and mineral’wealtb;|iHimltablc as are Its commerce, manufactures, and the varied products of its industry; lmmeneo as is its geographical domain, stretching away from the Atlantic to the Great Lakef; hallowed os la the momory of its Kevolnllonary fame, and the lone line of Us pre eminent statesmen and patriots: grand and sab-„ lime os Pennsylvania is in all these cardinal ele ments, she Is yet greater in the moral eminence which she bos attained, which no tongue, nor pm nor pencil of the most gifted genins cm adequately portray; that emincnco overlooks all else, ond upon its apex a monument looms np more mdnrtDg than brasß, eternal and firm as the iron of her mountains; the monument of her Humanity, state, municipal, and co-operative, tbe redeemr d pledge of her fidelity to the god like t xarople and heroism of the immortal Penn. In tbe broad and generous development of the past, to which we have referred,will be found the getmofOdd Fellowship, descending from the Saxon Guild, and faEbioned aTler like habits and frailties. We are now to speak of it as our lathers inaugurated it fifty years ago—as we received it Horn their hands—and to see what, under Amer ican auspices,has been made out of it. This field of inquiry I would gladly escape,for reasons per sonal to myeelf.bnt especially because tho discus sion involves details and elaboration wanting in general interest on an occasion like this, and which therefore renders the subject not less unin viting to tbe audience than to the speaker. But, my friends and brethren, tbo very distinguished ct mmiltce of the Grand Lodge,who have honored me with tho position which I to-day occupy,have overruled my wlßh, and I proceed accordingly. Fifty years ogo, in, at that time, a compara tively small town of some sixty thousand In habitants (Baltimore, Maryland), In an unfro unented street near the docks, there stood a i uilding, unattractive in its appearance, the haunt of men of toil and of tbe humbler walks of life. Tbo rude sign of 6even stars, which swung upon its primitive frame, informed the passer that it waß a tavern, in the acceptation of the term eo well understood at that day. In an upper floor of this honse, and in a scantily furnished room, Thomas Wildey, John Welch, John Duncan, John Cbeatbem and Richard Rushworth assembled on the 26th day of April. 1819, pursuant to previous accord, to organize the fiist Odd Fellows' Lodge on this Continent, at least tbe Lodge which we recognize ond accept us the original. This Lodge they called, as an earnest of their respect for their adopted coun try-being all foreigners—Washington Lodge, No. 1. The name of the public house at which the Lodge was lormcd, Its locality, and the character ol its bneinesß, combine to determine the nature of the association and of its predominant idea. Not unlike most enterprises which hove out grown the humanity of their early years, Odd Fellowship was destined to survive tho obscurity oi its birth. Tbe growth and development of systems, os of nations, aro always slow and hin dered by general distrust; the foundation is laid In rndo simplicity, without any, perhaps the roost remote conception of the reach to which,by the sid of lime and other essential olemonts of lile, they may attain: the circumstances of posi tion. the sphere of the authors, and often the ap parent obscurity of the scheme, the inadequacy oi tho nieanß to tho end, and ten thousand other obstacles, present themselves In the way of public favor or confidence, lhe genius which conceives docs not always render e-fli ctive results; tho process of development is obscure, and not unfrcquently tho vague first idea is greatly amplified, sometimes wholly di verted, and in tho end the original becomes the secondary, and it may be the mere Introductory path to tho excellence beyond. This, in a good degree, has been the experience of American Odd Fellowship. Tho scheme was laid under disad vantageous circumstances, yet the genius of its author was nurtured, amid itfl inauspicious sur roundings, by on ailment which sustained him through great trial, and infused a tenacity of lite worthy so noble a cause. Building- with tho slender materials at his command, Wildey s pro gress at first was slow, difficult, and wanting in adequate results. At tho end of ten years the Order had been planted In Maryland, Pennsyl vania, New York, Massachusetts, Now Jereey and District of Columbia, but wherever instituted was comparatively feeble. About tho year 1830 light at length broke in upon its horizon, and our hearts were cheered with on auspicious promise. The institution, if it bad not progressed during tho first decade,had ut least fought a gallant battle with adversity, und bud survived the ordeal. Co-laborers were now gathered; the rough and unhewn foundation was reconstructed, solidified, enlarged, and the snpersti ucture, conformed to the standard of a pure moral, fashioned by the light of experience, and adorned by the old of genius and Intellect, began to rise in public favor. Tho initial 88 point, to which its after prosperous life- is ror«f rible.may bo truthfully fixed at U»lBperiod (18dth) I shall speak of It accordingly, and with that can ricr and freedom which is duo alike to tho cause • The amount expended for bonovolent ebjecto in New. York city olono in ltGB roacbed nve luillione. m rmia ddphia about lour, and in Poston ovor two millions. of troth and to'the intrinsic merit of the subject itself** .***• •• •! *•* _ . Four Lodges had existed in tho city of Balti moro anterior to-1830, each so feeble that for tho most part the satire faoes wore recognized atoach Lodge meeting. One room was* oeenpied by all of them, and at a public house. Abont this time : some of the more considerate of the membership interchanged' opinions upon tho Bnbjectof tho proper steps to bo taken to advance tho cause, lhe-pioepect of which was by no means promis ing; the building of an Odd Fellows’ Hall was projected, which at once enliatcd.frlcnds,snd-ar rayid enemies. The scheme foubd favor, wlth'itbo better material of tho Order, and eftor tho usual strugglo incident to conflicts of opinion, whore radical reforms are involved, it,at length hod success: a stock subscription was authorized by the Grand Lodge of Maryland, which, in tho face of earnest opposition on tho part of some, of apathy and Indifference from olhtrs, and of a general want of pecuniary ability on the part of all, ultimaied, by the aid of tho most strenuous exertious, In tho dbtentlon of a few thousand dollars.* The building was com menced, and, although humble and unpretentious in dimensions, yet from the moment that ground wne broken the actuality of its success was assured; the lodge-room was soon crowded with applica tions for membership, and to meet tho emergency it became necessary to hold special mcotings, day after day, as tho building progressed. On the 2tiih day of April, 1831, the much-wished for doy of dedication arrived, and long before its advent the Order in Maryland, forgetting its differences of opiDion upon the subject of the new Hall, breathed as It were from a common lung, and rejoiced with a single heart. On that memorable day, Odd Fellowship; in Its formal separation from a public house, was born anew. Six hundred members, after a general preparation, in which their pride,energv, and zeal, lneplred by the consciousness of success, and encouraged by the auspicious pro mise of the future, was taxed to its utmost tension, appeared in the line, and moved In order along a prescribed route to the place appointed for the exercises of the day. Thousands thronged the place of assemblage. Tho Order, seated in the body of the cbnrcb, with their now and splendid regalia and glittering banners, and the galleries crowded to overflowing with the youth and beauty and fashion of the city, presented a see re to the eye of tho beholder which I have no language adequately to describe. It Is now noarly forty years ago, and the spectacle ' then pree'enled appears as fresh in the memory of the speaker on that oocnsion as if it was but of yesterday. This was the first public,procession attempted in the United States, and, as may be supposed, took the cltlzeos of Baltimore by sur prise. In connection with this point, I pause to remark that such was the prejudice In tho pub lic mind ogalnst tho Order, even under Its im proving condition, that tho committee of ar rangements charged with the celebration found it impossible to procure a church edifice in which to conduct the exerclets except one much dilapi dated, In an oat-of-the-way place, and almost en tirely disused. It Is due to truth here to state that ({forts had been made several years pre viously to 1830 to abolish conviviality from the body of the lodge-room, aod the distinguished brolbei 4 upon whose motion the order was passed still survives an active and zealous member of Washington Lodge No. 1 ; but this movement, bowevr r well-intended, served only to tcntch the serpent; it changed only his locus in i/vii from the boay of the lodge room to an adja cent place beneath the same roof. The demon stration on tbe streets of the city of Baltimore in 18,31, the public disclosure for the first time of the real principles of tbe Order nnder Its new birth, the character and respectability of Its mem bership— competed for the most part of the elite of the sons of loll—the new material which the Decision had incorporated, and which bad leavened the old—all combined to assure to the Order a newness and vigor of life which diffused luelf from Baltimore throughout the general jurifdiction. Visiting brethren had been present trom Philadelphia and Washington; these bad carried borne with them tbe Intelligence of tbe Baltimore success, and Its influence ■ add effect were everywhere apparent. Odd Fellowship,dow foot-loose, bounded away rejuvenated and vitalized. Among its first fruits, and tire most effective auxiliary iu Maryland,was the acquisition of the most Influential members of tbe Masonic Ord. r. There bad been bitter prejudice in that quurler; this prejudice the in trinsic excellence of ibe Order conquered upon contact; a reciprocity of membership was the re sult, which serve d materially to strengthen both institutions. The organic law was thoroughly disFeclcd and reconstructed to meet the necessi ties and dtmaLdsof a greally enlarged area to wbieb It was now to apple; every where the Insti tution advanced and prospered, and acquisitions were cumulative In every uuarter. Bro. WUdey was still at the helm us Grand Bire, and nobly did he meet the new responsibilities of the po sition. He bad crossed tbe Atlantic, and had made a voluntary circuit of the whole borne ju risdiction, to add unity and health and harmony to the work, and he was yet an active laborer In tbe field. From this period the Order progressed with un paralleled rapidity. In 1 H.'li it was introduced to Missouri; in 1836 to Mississippi and Mmols; in 1837 to Alabamu and Texas, then an Independ ent Republic; in 1839 10 Arkansas and Connecti cut; in 1840 to Tennessee and South Carolina: in 18*1 to North Carolina and Florida; in 1842 to Georgia; in 1843 to Maine, New Hampshire and BrllieK North America; in 1814 to Vermont,Bonth Walet, Great Britain, Michigan and Iowa; In 1846 to the Sandwich Islands; In 1849 to Minne sota and California, where it followed the tide ol i migration, then In its full flow from the Atlantic, and its standard was first set up In the then comparatively obscure village of San Francisco, by a pioneer brother! from yonr own city, and where now Odd Fellow ship, kecpiDg pace with its great tread to emi nence, civil, political, commercial, and moral, bids fair to cover the whole Btate, and to diffuse there lrom its benign influence to the remotest climes. In 1861 it was established in New Moxlco; in 1852 I in Oregon, in 1856 in Nebraska and Washington : Tcrritorv; in 1857 in Kansas and Nevada; In 1864 : in Colorado; in 1865 in Utah; In 1867 in Mon tana; in 1868 in tho Continent of Australia. These splendid achievements were tho work of the Grand Lodge of the United States, the su preme head ot the Order, whose reconstruction and reanimatlon, and revised legislation in conformity to the exactions of the new order ol things, has perhaps been the moat eflee , tive instrumentality in pushing forward SO ad vantageously ihe career ol Odd Fellowship. In 1834, for the first tlmo, the subject of a thoroughly revised and improved Ritual was agitated, and with one volue the Supreme Body responded to this jnst appeal of tho advanced in telligence and discernment of the membership. At the session 0f1835 the report of the committee which had been made at the previous session was considered with great deliberation and adopted. The chairman of the committee, Bro. Hopkins, the then Representative of Pennsylvania, afterwards M. W. Grand Sire, was the principal author of the revision, and by that work and many other equally eminent intel lectual labors during bis valuable life, has made Odd Fellowship hiß lusting debtor. Ono of the brightest ornaments of the institution in his dry and generation, bis fame, and the hallowed mem ories which cluster around it, remains among the cberlßbed treasures of onr archives, and is no more precious to the great jurisdiction which so long honored him with its confidence than it is illustrious in tho annals of the Order at large. This revision was thorough; it reached not only the form, but the substance, reconstructed the stylo and lunguage, and, without disturbing the generic feature, laid tho foundation for that great and distinguishing idea which, at a later period, elevated Odd Fellowship to Its proper Fevel among tho benevolent efforts of the oge- The Grand Lodge or tho United States, as the heart of an institulien which was rap dly out growing it in interest and intelligence In every of its extended nnd continuously ixtinding domain, was now invokod to ibterna reform by n correspondingly quickened sense of Ua advanced responsibilities. Since its forma i lon d from paucity of membership and resources, it had been constructed mainly of a proxy mem : b ,. rfc hip, resident in Baltimore; Us records were • exceedingly meagre and detached. New men having appeared in the body, now life was ln foired into its. counsels. The Jonrnaig was at i once orderid to. bo collated, und the foundation i wnß thns lu.ld for the valuable record which wo k JJOW po6Bt S&. • V ;•••. • ; ~Tho"&rdii r continued its onward march, at • troctiDg especially within Us fold the eduqate^, •Kich»rd llarJey, I*. U. M., deserves honorable* men* tioi) in this connection. lAuoraTim Mathiot, P. G. Mnatcr. i Jnniifl Broilov. fiTbtawflßtho work of P. G* Biro Kennedy* who col jrcUd oil tbo carlv lulnutca fiom th* archives of tho Crtnd lodge of Maiymnd. nnd revfced and nn-nimod Ihfiu. Tlie imbHcation was* by Bros. McGowan and Treadwell, New York. the Intelligent; tbo moral end upright, of overy c!abB ana calling; merchants, nxecU»nl<», professional men, mingled In her lodge-rooms in full cominunionand upon a 'Common leyoi.. in process of time, this new and ever-improving element succeeded to the direction of the State Jurisdictions; the revision and laws followed, and the subsequent general en lightenment of administration wassnaracteV? of tho new counsels and energy Wbtchurevailed. As a consequence and natural .frttit, tives to the Grand Lodgo of tho United States of the highest order of intellect appeared upon the floor of that body: tbo proxy system at once dis appeared lrom before this presence; and such was the rebound of life which the change infusod that it is difficult to say whether the splendid future of tho Order owed more to the wlso deliberations and legislation of tho Su preme Lodge, or to tho active energy in the 1 State administrations, which Its example and influence had universally inspired. I need not pause to consider or to portray before, this intelligent audience tho effect upon the general interest of tho presence once a year of Represen tatives from every quarter of a common Brother hood, organized by State Governments, in a body of a Ftderal Congress of tho whole. It has proved to be the wisest step of legislation, and the most effective, which has ever been enacted by that distinguished body, os the observant reader of the progressive history of the Order will not fail to perceive. As an Important effect of this salutary measure, there was ffifused a spirit of rivalry and generous competition In the State Grand Bodies among the brethren for tho position of Grand Representatives, and at the Very first session under the new or ganic law the choicest nod best material was re turned. The names of the Representatives of that session are as familiar to tho Brotherhood as household words. Two of them were Past Grand Blres,* one the then Grand Sire, t two were subsequently chosen,to that distinguished office, ♦ and all of them have been eminently dis tinguished as active and zealous members. Tbcre came with tblß memorable body to B *lti more a demand strong, earnest, irresistible, for an'Unproved work ; for a more commanding moral and for a higher and more distinctive sen timent, for a purer and truer tone; lor a more chaste and refined literature, and for a nontcr embodiment of principle. This was general, but especially potential and forcefnl from Massachu setts. That Jurisdiction had sent on tills mission two of her most gifted sode§, one oi whom early in the session, moved “that a com mittee of five 6« elected by ballot, with full power to revise all the lectures and chargee of the Order.'' Tho resolution was supported by tho other with that marvelous power of oratory for which be has been eo distinguished for the last thirty years, and with a learning and bcanty of language and clearness of reasoning which held the Lodge spell bound, and led the suffrage of the body captive Only three votes appeared In ihe negative, and such was the interest and excitement on the sub ject that a most active canvass was immediately entered upon to secure a committee of corres ponding earnestness aad capacity for the work. Tho committee was chosen,!! and, having per formed its work, reported tho result to a special session of tho Grand LCdgc of the Doited Btatcs, in September. 1645, called by proclamation of the Most Worthy Grand Sire, under authority of law. After much deliberation, the report was adopted almost verbatim et literatim. Inis revision was elaborate; in fact the result was not less in consonance with the judgment of the committee than responsive to the resolution directing the work. Hitherto the horizon of toe -Order had been measurably described by Its "Guild" origin; true.,tho reform of 1835 had in culcated an Improved moral, but it by no means grasped that Idea in tbo breadth which the spirit of 1845 bad been educated to demand. The new work also left undisturbed the generic principle, whilst it supplied a graft, which greatly Improved Ub fruit, by the enlargement of the area of the Order, and by an application of its offices to a higher sphere in the Interest of humanity. The predominant object now was to enlist elevation of character; to inspire a just delerencc to public sentiment; to systematize and connect the progress of the initi ate from the threshold of the Order through all Its gradations; to describe its great elements and platform; to adorn and embellish its litera ture; to dramatize its theories and precepts; and, above all to strip It of much inappropriate ap parel.’ How far this labor was successful It be comes me not to speak. No hnman work can be perfect; yet the value af what was doDe, with all Us defects, may be In some degree estimated by results. Twenty-five years have nearly elapsed since Us substitution lor the. old work, during ah of which the Order has enjoyed unparalleled prosperity. From about six hundred, wo have increased to over three thousand Lodges; lrom slxty-one thousand contributing members, we have reached a quarter of a million, lrom an ag gregate revenue of about halt a million oi dol lars we have collected two and a hall million*; from a relief afforded of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars per annum, wo were euabled In I»>> to bestow nearly a million. Odd Fellowship thenceforth Blood in no need i of guardianship; it was now fully hedged and | matured, and battenid with clastic cuergy to a lame as grand and univertal as it was me-rilori- ; UQS and just Its career was on wo rd and up ward and mtlurive. seeking in ev< r.v yurier ui the wr rid new acquisitions arid new n ils of :,- j hor. Its history and conelautly cumulative re- j wards since lhat memorable period are ’written so t distinctly in ils annals, and Is scattered throned ' so many nmllipiied channels S..,te and Nation d. that “be who iuunelh may re.ui the open volume of its sj lend id mission. Hence I my here properly leave the narrative to its own in structive lights. set up sloughs entire pathway; tbaticeord is lull, and no dillicully will be found in readily eotnprtinndiug its text. Tire anterior history was not so t xpliei!: much of interesting detail did not appear upon its surfuce by reasuu of the generalities of the context; the omission U has been the design of this del all in some degree to euDply: and, however imperlectly the task may have been otherwise performed, certain it is that the true momentum which impelled odd Fellowship in its earlier life to active progress has, been laithiully eliminated. It may be proper, bclore leaving thissubjeet.to observe that since 1845 many agencies have com bined to accelerate the prosperous career of the Order; among the moßt striking of these instru mentalities has been the splendid administration of the Grand Lodge of the United States. This body, by reason of its thorough reconstruction in 1843. and by the great fruits which that recon struction immediately produced, had endeared itself to the Brotherhood in every jurisdiction, and the fraternal rivalry and emulation in the State Grand Bodies for the office of Grand Repre sentative was an earnest of the high appreciation with which that distinction was regarded. Super added to which tho new material that now crowded the lodgc-roomß, soon assembled upon the floor qf the Grand Lodge of the United States Representatives whose private worth,intellectual endowments, high order of education, par liamentary'and professional skill, and omlnont rank in society, compared favorably in every es sential respect with any deliberative assemblage of tho country. Nobly did the Supreme Body respond to the generons confidence reposed in ft; well and wlßely did it act its responsible port as the common parent, as a faithful sentinel, as a progressiveyet discreet legislator, as a true representative of a general welfare. Its example was approved and appreciated by its subordinate jurisdictions, which, In their respective sphoros, Imitated and incorporated it Into their adminis tration, |and,snperadding valuable and auxiliary improvements, contributed largely to the general-developement. Thus was diffused a sympathetic enlightenment, effectiveness, and harmony In all the departments of the Order, so that the healthful life of the heart imparted a corresponding vigor throughout the system. Its special care has always been directed to the general, prbßpeWty,by. conforming its legislation to tho ex perience and wisdom and necessities of an en lightened and devoted constituency, and by the prompt recognition of this element os the main pillar upon 'which tho superstructure securely reposed. In whatever quarter, however remote from Its metropolitan ecat, its presence might Eoryo to encourage ond strengthen the drooping spirit of the Brotherhood, wherever apathy or decline in any form had set in, with a devotion ever characteristic it moved to the place of need, and, by its just eluim to public confidence, fits always reaped a harvest, worthy as well ot the cause as of tho noble effort in its behalf. The abundant fruits resulting from ibis part ntal in terest was witnessed in New York, in Cincinnati, in .Philadelphia, in Nashville, in Boston, and - Wilde y. Kennedy, fdopklue. .’Kneaaa, Moore. 5H illini o . Chapin. 11 The committee wap composed of Chftplu.of M sea ;Ken nedy, of R. Y.: Moore, of D. of O.; McGabo, of Vo., and the Corresponding Secretary. 55 The introduction of schools for orphans, libraries, widows 1 aud orphans l funds, liio assurance, aud goueral relief committees.' in Baltimore, At intervals daring the last twenty years, on the special occasions tobich assembled the Grand Lodgoof the United Stoles In ibeeo respective cities. There wore then tuch imposing displays of the 'Order asat.oneo commended it to the highest popular favor, and wo-ved largely: to bw.oll ihorronlts of the member ship: Especially may we refer with pride to the experience which Massachusetts supplies in Ibis connection.. The Order in that State bad become So feeble that the Most Worthy Grand Blre, in 1843, in reporting upon its then Improving con dition,speake oflt as ‘' having waited up from a sound sleep of death of upwards of ten years." Such was tho character of the resurrection that its influence spread throughout all New England; and in 1845 there assembled in the city of Bos ton, to commemorate the anniversary of this mar vellous revival, ■ twenty thousand Odd Fellows, whose Bplcndid appearance in tho line of pro cession at once took the populace by surprise, and awakened in tho Brotherhood Itself a con sciousness of interest, power, and strength of which they had previously formed no adequate idea. From comparative death, tho Order in the Slate bad increased to severity-eight Lodges, and to a membership of over eight thousand, rank ing the jurisdiction at that time as No. 2 in the general federation. This grand result was also the work of tho Supremo Body, through ils energetic official head. Btfore I pass from Ihlß just but wholly imper fect tribute to the great master-spirit of Odd Fel lowship,upon which the mantle of the illustrious Wildey bad so well fallen, let mo refer for a mo ment ro the manner in which it has so fully and honorably acquitted lteclf in appreciation of his eminent services to the Order—an appreciation which it testified no less substantially during his. life than alter his death. Yon all remember its proceedings upon the first moment of its assem blage after hiß death; you heard its voice ot sin cere sorrow, its expressions of profound grief,Us plans for the appropriate commemoration of his Hie and character as a great pnblic benefactor. This voice did not fail to awaken a chord of re sponsive sympathy throughout the whole Order, and when, in tho lapse of time, the day had ar rived for the unveiling at Baltimore of the Btatue of Charily, which surmounted the splendid col umn there erected to his memory by your pious gratitude,among the thousands and tens of thou sands of assembled spectators, who that was piesent will ever forget the influence which the scene awakened in ail who beheld Us grandeur? The civil war had ended; desolation and death had passed from their havoc; onr brethren had been separalcd for years, and in the South Old Fellowship had everywhere declined. In the North, East and West its active life was inter rupted, and although its resources, material as well as moral, were heavily taxed, it nobly met the crisis. 'At length tho storm ceased; the ordeal passed: blessed peace descended from its halcyon heights with auspicious promise; our Brother hood * reassembled In council from every State and Territory of an undivided country; reunited, they - now mingled in fraternal communion around the common altar, and clasped hands at the foot of the majestic memorial column. Bow sublime ! how emotional! how hallowed by every tender and sympathetic impulse of humanity was such an occasion, its pregnant in cidents aEd suggestive idea; how apt the time and circumstances for their effective application; how Iveaullful was the Illustration of the noble principles of Odd Fellowship; what golden opinions did Its lesson weave for the Order in every quarter of the land, and how earnestly was ils example commended by the press, from the pulpit, from the lorum, and by the benevolent and humane of all classes of the people. Who shall measure the Influence of that act In the great drama of Odd Fellowship? . This reflec tion and its associations is a subject more suita ble for the pencil than for the pen, and there ex ists but few, if any, historic reminiscences, how ever sublime, which can supply to the gcnlns of the arust a more beautiful and thrilling subject, or a more apt and eloquent moral. Twenty Grand Sires have occupied the chair of the K. W. G. Lodge of the United States,and have guided its administration by their wisdom, their energy and perfectly disinterested labors. Of what has been said of the high claim which that distinguished body has earned to our gratitude (or Its large contribution to the general prosper ity, much is doe to its presiding officers, each of w hom has acted nobly In his part; each reached ihe exalted position only in virtno of long, faith lul and meritorious service; eaeh has consecrated h!s work by a record which wIU live in the heart ot his brethren, hallowed by the viviff~Eud re freshing associations of the past, whilst virtue and humanity survive. 01 tbese.eight have been called (rom the scenes of eartbifour- full of years and honors; two! In the meridian, and twoS in the morning of life. The memory of these illustrious men is en deared to the entire Brotherhood, and in the death of each. Humanity has been called to mourn tne loss of a friend and benefactor, whose unfaltering energy of heart ami Dody was laid most grateful l } as an offering at her shrine; they have parted away at the very moment of their greatest u-eluiness to our sacred cause, removed (tom labor to repose, where their presence has Uen greeted wilh Ite blessed welcome, 'Well com , good and falihlul servants.'' Twelve Past l, rai d Bill's yi t rumitii to us still at active ser v:cc in the moral vineyard: five of whom to il .y giadd'n our hearts with their presvm-e to'add inti r< st and pleasure to tho oecision. ai d to partake wilh Ur in the great vic tory which their life-long labors have so 'arm !v ion trlbuted to ricar". May God in hi* Wiidoru and mercy continue to us (or years to i.i me the benefit of their wist: eon used, and ul their imment txample and influence' There is vet one other potent and invaluable nuiiiimy arm ot the general prosperity, whose .■is'rtui 1 nluiily in tbuL behalf cannot be too highly prized 1 refer to the press of the Order, which lias row- attained to such value and power as lo bi iu-'ly regarded as one of its most effec tive branches of service. It has, after quite a sevire ordeal, reached a success which justifies the belief that, in the future, it will receives reasonable equivalent for its sacrifices heretofore incurred in the defence and proper representa tion of our principles. Its importance to our welfare language is inadequate to describe, since as a vehicle of knowledge, as a lever of moral and material agency, and as a great public utility, it is without a parallel among the multiplied creations of the genius of man. The character of the institution, and its cardi nal principles, have been so often and so elo quently promulged ou occasions like the present, and through its press, now diffused in overy di rection, that I shall not pause to-day to discuss them. , " Friendship , /.one, Truth ; the Brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God over alt," are we golden words which succinctly describe the whole scope of Odd FeUowehip, its alpha and omega; its first, last, and entire compass. Ils plan of benefaction addresses Itself as well to the physical as to the moral nature, and, reaching out from its immediate subjects, permeates by natural affinity every sphere in which active sym pathy may be invoked. Its mission and Us re sults are not only actlvo and substantial, but often so effective, by its consequential or indi rect Influence, as to penetrate entire com munities. In this connection, I would impress upon my brethren the important truth that Odd Fellowship it not a religious society. Let no mis take he made upon a subject so momentious and grave as this, involving, as it does, the Highest in terests of the soul. Our labors concern this world; the relations of man to man in It; the education and training of the heart to practical beneficonce. Whilst we regard our own schome with special favor, and well adapted to the end, we are not arrayed against other and noble formß of effort in the same direction, nor is our work and its fruits vaunted before the public gaze; yet the footprint of Odd Fellowship haß so indelibly marked its path during filty years that its god like virtue can no more be obscured than may truth itself bo stricken from the moral firmament. In 1819 a single Lodge existed on tbiß Continent, established, as we have seen, by humble inon, without influence, and under the most Inauspicious circumstances; moving forward from this standpoint, in a half century the Order has enrolled under its broad banner an army of six hundred thousand of tho true men of the Republic—God’s noblest handi work—tho stalwart men, tho men of tho brawny arm, and of the stout and heroic nerve; the men of toll and of giniuß, of commerce dud of trade, ol the protesßions, and of every conceivable call ing and industry. To the single Lodge of five members,.it has added three thousand two hun dred; to the five members, it has added more than half a million. This mighty host has pur sued a singlo idea, unremittingly, and with inviolable fidelity, turning neither to the 'right nor "'to ' tho'""left; Igdb'r- •To Grand Sire Vb.tou, whoso proclamation to the South was happy and apposite, we owo tho presence of its nepitfentntWes on that occasion.. ' ■ tWifdey, Gettys, Keysur, llopkins. IKnones, Glazier. (Gridin, lioylston. 11 Perkins, Kennedy, Moord. Cralchoad, Nicholson. THE DAILY EVENING BHLLETINr-PHILAPELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1869, Ing ill else, and : consecrating its maestro encr gitsinaid of humanity. For the accomplish ment of Its high purpose it has been armed as well with material as. with moral power, and, blending the two in perfect accord.it has dis pensed for tbo relief of the pick, the burial of tho cead, and the education of tho orphan nearly twelve millions, whilst its aggregate revenue in forty years has exceeded thirty-one millions of dollars. This relief has been, like the gentle dews of heaven, diffused over a laree surface, and has gladdened tho heart of fifty-seven thou sand five hundred widowed families, and brought to the homes and hearths of five hundred thou sand brothei s aid and comfort. Who shall attempt to estimate the influence and value of such a ministration ? And wbat, my brethren of Pennsylvania, has been your contribution to tho general pros pctlly—your offering upon the common altar? Vust ns wo have Been the acquisitions of the Federal Jurisdiction lo be, large as its increaeo of numbers and resources, and Immense na the field in which Its humanity haa been axerted, yet whm its relative position and extent and that of your single State ia considered, your achieve ment in the same field Is comparatively tho greater. In looking back upon the past tho eve rests upon your Initial point at tho year 1823, when Pennsylvania Lodge, No. 1, which bad previously been organized by self-institution, was formally chartered and received Into the Order. Since this period Odd Fellowship within your jurisdiction has had a career as marvel ous and grand as has been tbe colossal tread of the Btatc in tbe path of Dations. From a single Lodge, with a handful of members, you now count nearly six hundred Lodges, with an aggregate membership of seventy thou sand; fiom a single city, you have diflusco our benign principles over your whole Slate, erecting lls altars in every considerable town and village, so that wherever Religion and Civilization huve built the church and the school house you also have placed alongside and in companionship an Odd Fellows’ Lodge. 'And these- Lodges, "ibus established, and their seventy thousand members, what have been their fruits? During the half century, whose close we today celebrate, they have sedulously tolled and have carried to desolate hearths aDd widowed homes cot alone the consolations of moral support, but the material aliment of life. Since 1812 seventeen thousand widowed families and one buLdrtd and forty-three thousand sick brethren have been relieved, for which object over throe millions of dollare have been applied, and during, tbe single year just passed vou hove raised more than a half million, all of which has been disbursed for the relief of the sick, of the widow, and tbe orphan, or has been providently invested for future application to these objects. Your aggregate accumulations since 1837 exceed six millions of dollars. Wbat an offering tbls upon the altar of Humanity? Could all the participants in its ministrations lay their testimonials at tbe foot of this altar, what a pyramid of glory would lift its hallowed head to ibe throce of God; yet this column, pure and sublime, would but symbolize the reality, would but feebly portray tbe tears of sorrow which have been assuaged, or describe the ecstatic Joy which leaped from thousands of fretted hearts in the hour of deliverance. Not less valuable has been the contribution of Pennsylvania to the renown and high position of the Supreme Grand Body. A loDg line of the most cmiD6nt of jour brethren have year after year mingled os Grand Representatives in the do liberations of that general council, who have placed the Impress of their wisdom upon its le gislation, and have adorned its literature and matured its judgments by their genius and learn ing; in high appreciation of which four of your distinguished sons have been during the last thirty jears ended to its highest executive chair, each of whom hos left to us acher shed heritage tee example of his great administrative ability and the rich Irults ol his unwearied labor. My brethren ot Pennsylvania, your record shines in our annals like a precious brilliant, and renders your fame as imperishable as the eternal principles ol onr Order. Already has your Com monwealth, by universal consent, been recog nized ss “The Keyßtone of tbe Federal Arch;” to this proud title you justly add the prestige ol • The Empire State in Odd Fellowship." The paeeant of to-day covers you with honor; its tubhme display, its memories of the post, Us as sociations of the present, and its angary of the future, utter a voice more comprehensive than volumes could elaborate, more instructive than philosophy with the genins of art combined could portray, more potential and Irresistible lltan the inspiration of faith, because faith hath bttD dissolved into fiuitiOD; tho ideal has culminated into the real, and truth itself, embo died and personified, crowns the scene. Among the many beautiful incidents which illustrate your Iraternal courtesy and discernment, in the pro i gramme for the day, is especially commanding ! ihc spectacle within this magnificent temple, and | which in interest and sublimity defies description. I red yet how vacant and lileless, and wanling.bnt : lur the presence of onr mothers, our wives, our fitters, onr daughlers, and, last of al!,thonga not I h net. of unr sweethearts. I thank them for the honor ol their presence today: if there be oi.c it ■ -eclive more inspiring than another, to i trve tbe arm and press the energy of man to w i- i ks of humanity, that incentive is supplied iu the heroic examine of woman. There i- an ii,- i at, : no instinctive sympathy iu her heir; w:.n utiering.and the tear that moistens her ilieek at I'-covehc! disease and death.and in tb" p resell i ; trial nr.' M'liction, is as pure as the di-wdrop lout tips the irogrance of the mornlDg tlower. i nil the Hwrcte Arabia’- **)••:* r. nvev. I-iMt: riutt *-ry meads, can with that f.ni; ire N <>t d*-\s d St em ba.i to bctiuucue il.- fhtvt fulling tear." ikr pruttDce. her co-operation, k, r smile. h r i recur: lit. is worth to our cruse mnr>- 1!, , r .i p id ai.it rilvir aud precious stone?, ,i'.:d wiii win • oros, if wo but approve ourselves worthy of !er cotiGdetiee. greater trophus than all o:..cr ut our e.ißientsol Elreegth combined. And je\ with everything around us to awoken pleasure, we are not free from that alloy which inters iato and qualifies every experienee ol I,uman file. The genius of the " arlir>t, however brilliant, would bo at fault but for the aid which i aiure enpplies in the splendor and variety of the tintß which she displays. There is no litrht without Its shadow, no sunshine that in the midst of li6 gorgeous beauty and grandeur is not i ften obscured by the passing cloud. Thus, amid thi re pleasant scenes and thrilling memories, we look around in vain for the many fellow laborers and companions of our youth who storied oat with us long time ago upon this great and good work; the willing tear suffuses the eye and courses down the manly cheek, and the full heait swells with emotion and earnest sorrow as we miss their accustomed presence. They have fallen in the midst of labor, and have been gathered home,yet their works survive. But two remain of Washington Lodge, No. I,* and tint one of Pennsylvania Lodge No. I,t although Ihe Lodges themselves preserve all the vigor aud energy of youth,and honor our festival with their presence to-day. In no part of our wide-spread field has death reaned a richer harvest than iu this jurisdiction. " The names of Hopkins aDd Kneats and Curtis, and the hallowed memories Which cluster around them are out balmed in the innermost heart of the Brotherhood, and whils: Penn sylvania mourns, a responsive grief mingles in unison with its sorrow in every lodge-room, and s t every altar of our Order throughout the world.' Whilst we bow to the Inscrutable wisdom which orders ond governs, wo lift our hearts gratefully to the Throne, and rejoice that though "God thus smites, He doth not destroy." These emin ent and beloved brethren have followed in the footsteps of our fathers, aud we too will soon join them where Humanity weeps no more, where tiidltss day and joy and uninterrupted bliss re vtiurd tbe just. Yet o.dd Fellowship will survive. Long years from now, when all the actors of this memorable day shall to live, it will survive aDd assemble as UtsUal Its lodge meetings, enact its cilices of benefaction, and eoutiuue its mission ol love and mercy. Man and his works will pass away, but principles are eternal. In fifty years hence,when oar descendants shall assemble to commemorate the one hundredth an niversary of the Order, this great city will^ count Its population by the million, and Odd Fellow ship its votaries in corresponding numbers. Each will then have but comparatively entered upou life, with yet a luturo of codices years belore them. Our moral Temple, built upon a rock so firm as to challenge tho elements, will still stand, towering heavenward in grandeur, rescued lrotn the conflicts of lime and trial by the intrinsic txeellenco of principle, and by the favor of Him •jbenealh- whoso outstretched aria it-has -ever found and a shelter. ’ • John Itoyd, Auaustus Mathiot. , * I lieu in miu ,J. Dadin, now of Baltimore. Oftliehrst generation in Maryland, there eurvivo only five < oup Boyd, Augustus Mathiot, Thomas Caderty, Richard Alai toy, Daniel Weavor glittcri! r iti tho inortmu ray ■ .hyms. "i The following hymn (words byßrotherEd ward P. Nowell) was then given by tbo chorus and orchestra 10 tbo oir of !*(iid>Htuidi£d f ” thcandl-f cnee joining in tbe eiogHfg: > On tbU grcstflayiof jubllCCai: ’? .T 4 i Tbo fraternal rongrecate, .With-joyfnl p®aur, frill and free,, - Our Orders birth to celebrate; Through good end ill report, onr cause Has to the wwld a blessing been. And won its rapturous applause, With peace on earth, good-will to men. Majestic lot the ehorue swell, Frc-m tea to eea, in every clime, —• Of Friendship, Love and Trait, to tell Their teachings perfect, pure; sublime. O God of Love l show us Tby way; Our Order prosper, guide, sustain; Teach us our faith in Thee to stay. And make oar path of duty plain. The exercises closed with a benediction Tbo vast audience then separated, tbe members of (he Order to join in the and the ladies and others te witness ihe grand spectacle on Broad street. TUB HYENINO KXBBCXSES. Tbe following is the programme for the exer cises tbb evening, at tbe Academy of MoslCfCom mencim? at 6 o’clock: Part I. I. Hymn—lnvocation L. Bngelhe Grand Chorus and Orchestra. [Written expressly for Ibis occasion by P. G. J. Mar tin McFarland, Washington, D. C. ] Author of laith and charity. Before whom Angela bow, Tby children humbly.corno to thee, Aud seek a b esiJug now. O deign lo hear our humble prayer, And lorn not thou away. But bleu? the creatures of thy care, And cheer our hearts to-day. For many merries in tbe past. Accept oor grateful praise; May nu dark shadow overcast The .ioy of luture da>s: But may we ever trust iu thee, A ad faithful subjects prove, And thou wlb bless oar unity, And perfect us in love. Protect the widows in our care,— Each tender oiphan bleea! And may oar efforts everywhere Be crowned with great success I And when on earth we fall to meet. In Friendship, Truth aud Loye, O grunt us all an bumble seat in that Grand Lodge above! * 11. Prayer by Grand Chaplain. I 111. Overture— Oberon C, M. Von Weber. Grund Orcheetre. IV. Address. V. Duel —Come il Bafceio. , Messrs. j. Graf and A. R. Taylor. VI. Address. VII. Bone with chorus, “Our Flag,” O. A. Veazie ! Wrrda by Brother B. P. Sblllaber.j Fling wide our banner! Land nor sea Boasts prouder gonfalon than oars; It points in higher destiny Than crowns the strife of mortal powers. Its held of while, its border bright, Its links denoting union’s might, II waves an angel's wing, above, Proclaiming Friendship,Truth and Love. Wave, banner of U e triple tie. In traLqoil glory o’er the land; No dism:il or ensanguined dye Snail mar the folds that here expand. It e'er shall share the brother’s prayer, The orphan's rescue from despair; A benit-ou tach wave shall fling. And many a widowed heartbhall sing. May blessing? ever on it rest, Wnile heralding onr Order's Came; In every motion manifest The principles oi good we claim,— Whose oeaming ray shall round U play 'Till merges in the night oar day, Arid other generuions prize The flag that greets our tai’ing eyes. Paut 11, 1. Selection—ll Trovatore .. Grand Orchestra. 11. Address. 111. Terzetto, with Chorus, “Friendship, Love and Truth Miction's Air. Chorus ond Orchestra [Words by Grand Representative R, B. Mayes, of Mis ftitt-ippi. Performed by Metiers. J. (iraf, J. Jacob und A. R. Ta>l«u,j In Friendship tried is found a precioue treasure; In trusting Love, a fount of purest pleasure; In Truth, a lamp alike for age and youth ; May earth be tilled with Friendship, Love and Truth. With Friendship filled, with Love, with Truth- May earth be titled with Friendship, Love and Truth. tnshahen Faith mnet Friendship ever nourish ! Sweet Dope and Love, like twin?, together flourish ! Truth points ibe way lor Charity and Ru^b; Aud Ilea\en hmUf? on Friendship, Love and Truth, On FricDdfrbip tmile?. on Love, on Truth; And Heaven kinilce on Friendship, Love aud Truth. llail! Friendship pure! (> may it b“ earth'? h'avon Hail! sacred Lot e! the aiiuosptie.'e ol he.ivt.-ti! i [in! ! Truth divine ! th:it h;-- m? in Luh. !<•*? y'U’h ; (n ii.-pted the enure ol K;.eLJ?u p, Love und Ir-itn Duii! Friendship pure! fan 5 .! Love! b-ii! Truth! (ifd s*pei*d the cause i,r ’"•* t-urlrit! 1 ' Love ami Truth. 1 V. Adcreee. V. t.,uMi.”Ode. [ The usual Closing Ude o* the Order. V i. ikxjt.d’ciiuu. THE GERMAN )' lATt \ AI The Festival of WVk-omt: by the Brethren o! the German Lodms of FLiiabidj-hlu to the German * siting brethren \vi:i ukc plaue in the eveuiCL'’ at Horticultural Hall. 1 UK (.KANO r W.L. Tbe Grand Regalia and Citizens’ Dre?a BaUgiil j take place this cvenirte - . at the FhiladeSStfm I SUatintr Uiok, comer ul Twenty-hr-'t und it u c dtreels. The immense proportions of the t>uud- ; Li tr are adtnirut)ly suited to the The Giand March will commence at nine o'clock I’. , M. The Grand Promenade March by the (Hand Lodge of the I'nited Stab-p, the Grand Lud ? 'e ol , i't r.DtyTvania. and othtr (irand and Subordinate 1 Lodges and Eoenmpmcnts, will take place at j hatf-pasl eleven o’clock. j The Kink b i-.s been titled up expressly for the oecitbioL). In addition to tho numerous gas jets which are already in the building, a number o! chande liers, conuiDing ten and twelve burners, hive been intioduccd, 60 that the spacious edtlice will be well lighted. A hat and coat rack with three thousand compartments has been constructed, and will be so managed that. no confusion need take place. Two naDds of music, brass and strieg, have been engaged, eo lhat when dancing ceases, ajpromenade will take place. The interior of the building has been appro priately decorated; at the south endure thejhree liDke, with the words in large letters: “Welcome, thrice Welcome,” and portraits of Washington, LiLtolji and Grant. At tbe north end, the “All seeing Eye,” and beneath, the words “Friendship, Love and Truth.” The American colors are fes tooned all around the immense structure, and pendant from each buttress is the banner with tbe coal ol arms of all Ihe States. After the pro cession has been dismissed the banners and fl vers will be taken to the Rink and hung upon hooks, which are already provided to receive them. Tbe supper will be under the charge of the cele brated caterer, A. Proskauer, but ho liquors will be sold in tbe building, in accordance with a re solution adopted by the general joint committee several weeks ago. HISTORY OF THE ORDER. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, al though but fifty years old this day, Is one of the most popular and flourishing organizations ever conceived. No order or association has yet been originated by man, in this or any otbor age or country, that has, in so short a period of time, attained such strength in numbers or power, in usefulness or benevolence, as this. Odd Fellow ship was founded in England during the latter part of the last century; but this country experi enced none of its blessings or benefits until the 2tßn of April, ISI9, when Thomas Wildey, an Englishman, then a resident of Baltimore, organ ized the first Lodge In the Monumental City, li wugflttinglv : v cdlicd "Washington Lodge, No. 1." Sir members of foreign Lodges wore present. From this time but little progress was made In the Order, until the organization of “Pennsylva nia Lodge, No. 1,” in Philadelphia, on December Vt.ll). 1821. On June 27th, 1825, the Grand Lodge of Ptnnsylvnnia was organized, \yith Aaron Nichols (is Grand Master, and hold its first ses sion February,,lB24,, ut which lime Pennsylvania : Lodge, No. 1 1. was chartered. The Gtand Lodgo of the United States was or ganized in Baltimore, on tho 15th of January, 1h25, and was composed of the only Grand Lodge then existing—in the Stales of Maryland, Penn sylvania, New York, and Massachusetts. Thos. j Wildey was unanimously elected Most Worthy i GrnndiSire, although that title whs not conferred 1 ‘was created July Bth, 1827, in Baltimore; and “ the first Eucampment organized in Pennsylvania; dates from August 13th, 1829, as “Philadelphia Encampment, No. 1.” To many, Odd Fellowship Vs a strange mystery tmt it should not be. since the Order has. been’ pfodnctive of soch vast amounts of good.Asthe injnnctlpn which,terms tha : motto; on the pcalpf \tlfe Grand Lodge of the United States—“We com mand you to visit the sick, relieve the 'distressed, 1 burylbedead, and educate the orphan?—leads the uninitiated to learn of some of the sacred par-, notice of It, the fact of an open Bible, in every Lodge commnnicatca a thrill ef brotherhood tbrouubomthe race, and establishes the religion of our Fathers among all mankind. That' the 'great, grand and hnmane objects of the Order are' understood, however, and appreciated, la well at tested by the Semi-Centennial Celebration and the prestnee of the many thousand strangers in Philadelphia to-day. Daring the half-eentnry jest closed, 608,327 members were initiated, and <320.153 529 were ex pended by the Odd Fellows of the United States in the relief of the sick, in assisting widows and orphans, in burying the dead, and in educating the orphan. This may seem enormons, bat it is nevertheless true. The number of members re lieved from this fund was 684,189, in addition to 55,188 widowed families. On the 30th of June, 1868, thero wore 3,195 Grand and subordinate Lodges in the United States, and 245,086 members. Of this large nnm ber, Pennsylvania had 526 Lodges, and 66,235 members, or more than- doable (be membership of any other Stale. The initiations for the year ending June 30tb, 1868, were 40,080; brothers re lieved, 21,344, and widowed families relieved, 3,911. The total amount paid for relief daring the eame period was $BBl,llB 26; of which Penn sylvania contributed $207,115 92, or nearly one fonrlb of tbo whole sum. Too number of Grand and Subordinate Encampments was 795, with 43.478 members. The total amount paid for re lief was $70,437 95, of which Pennsylvania con tributed $26,438 01; making the entire relief granted by the Lodges and Encampments of the United States for the year ending Jane 30th, 1868, $951,556 21. | For account of the Procession, see Eighth Page, j ’ SiRAND AND IMPOBING REGALIA AND DRESS BALL, la honor and commemoration of the GRAND RATIONAL CELEBRA'UON OF THK SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF ODL FELLOWSHIP, to be given under the direct Bupervision of the _ ._ „ GRAND LODGE AND GRAND ENCAMPMENT OP PENNSYb VANIA* ON MONDAY EVENING, April 26. 1869, AT THK PHILADELPHIA SKATING PJNK, TWENTY-FlRht AND RACE STREETS. MUSIC ‘BY BECK’S PHILADELPHIA BAND. REFRESHMENT AND SUPPER DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF ADULPH PROSKAUEA. Ticket? irefreshiumt? Dot Included), admitting a gentleman and two ladies $2 00 Additional ladies, each i OJ To lie bad of the Janitors of the various Odd Fellow?’ Hails, Music fatores, orominent places ol business throughout the city, and at the Rink on the evening. Ibe Committee offer as a memento of this gigantic reunion of the Brotherhood from all parts of the conti nent of America, the following PRIZES. First—For the largejt number of Tickets, over one hnDdred.eoid b 7 any Lodge, Encampment or individual, tin re shall lc *iven A MEDAL IN GOLD, struck from the die prepared by order ot the General Joint Com mittee. valued at $lOO, and endoeed in a beautiful finished case. . Second-For the second largest number of Tickets, ever one hundred, sold by auy Lodge, Encampment or individual, there shall be given a Medal, struck in SILVER, enclosed in a beautiful finished case. Third - For the third largest number of T icketa sold by any Lodge, Encampment or individual, there shall be given a MedaL struck In BRONZE, enclosed in a beauti ful finished case. Fourth.—One Ticket to the Ball will be given gratui tously for tvery Twenty five sold by any Lodge, En campment . or single individual. Returns of money from sales to be made without delay to the Secretary ot the Committee, Brother A. McNutt, No 116 North Sixth stre« t NOTICE In order to promote the comfort of the visitors, it is requested that vehicles set dowu ‘ ’ head* went and take up - 'heads ta+l." This regulation will be rigidly on. forced. ap23 3t) ,G. Mercadante. PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY.— In view of the persistent, active and publicly an nounced eiTorta of the’Fr-e Trade League" in Now ork to tlu ow open our Ameiican Market to the Euro pean manufactuter, bv decreasing or renloving the pres ent inadequate piotection to domestic industry, thenn dr reigned call upon nil interested in American Prodnc tinn to meet at the BOARD Oi? TR-vDE ROOMS. No. B(>6 < licfitnut street (eecoud tioor), on THURSDAY, April 29, at 11 o’clock A. M. , Prompt attendance is requested, in order that the buei m-ee may bo promptly despatched .lohn P. Vrirce, IS. M. Felton, Henry C. Lea, Charles Weaver, h li. Butler & Co., Charles 8. Wood, Tiuodure Mi gorge A: < o . J. B. Moorehead, Clnxton, Kemsen Ai HatTel-jd. FuUon & Go., linger, P. C. Brinck, I indray At Blakiaton, Alfred Hunt, E. R. Cope | Win. deUera At Co., Jet-sup At Moore, |M, McMtckaeL, A .M. Collins. invew &. Weightman. O Megarge A: Co.. Brothers & Co., Wui. D. Lewis, Moro Phillips, < 'harifa Lennig. Bander, Adamson & Co., K<-ffDgiirten A: Son. Browning <5 Brothers, John T. Lewis A: Bros., * Benj.'Bullock’a Sons, John Dawtnu dr Sol, ttarrin Landenberger A; Co. Knrlbnum A: Co., David 8. Brown & Co.. -I “t-j-li Wrartou, Raudo’ph Ar Jenks, H >. D. <fc C. Kellv, !: B. Higton. John frarnum, i ~-ur.i* Mean*. I'H. Lea At Co.. .1 rihli M Baron, Campbell, Kuowlo- Ai Co., n 11. tiiillingford, R. Carsed. F Fraby. [ \V m. Devine, S. I Reeves, |R. Patterson At Co. iar<'i;t”(Jk~the condition of'tli -5 NT TIONAI. BANK OF GERMANTOWN, PIULA Ui 1 I'Hi A, wt the (lose of business on the 17ill day oi ,• v ril, 1-JoH. v Verdi. 1 . ur* and DLo-unt? L u.ud Ruud* to secure eii rn! Atioii I l iud Suites Rond* on hand (<-r Draft* Ii -i trom Nuiioiutl litinkf (■nrli Itt-nif- Hil-.M Sat* 'ml U-.nK- t I .1 iil 11 aI Lm I'M - > Sj Lt't-ml T* nd< r Nou* j a. <1 j-ti cent Uci'UUcuteH Biinkine ll< •!«•* i mher I cal Krt;iU* K a Ja 4 I.rT*S Mini I M X I l’niniumv Capi f al Hock 200,000 00 Mtrpluf Uirrount and ih'm-rt il^'rl V ( i) dilating Note* • • ••. *'•*.•**)- «-> Individual I fi.o-it*'.. 1 ne to National Hank* 4».8i0 49 Stale Back Circulation. outstanding 3,add uu (HAS. W. (V TO. ( iouior. Snoni and -übecnhod to beioro me the 22dday ■ April iu^i t CtIAS. IF ENGLE, 1 U{ 04 ;u < Notary Public^ CAUTION Tit URAL ESTATE OWNERS. The undersigned respectfully notifies the public that Blown Brothers, of Chicago, are not authored to sell liyattv Patent Light* in Philadelphia, Til Eli: LICENSE HAVING BEEN FORFEITED. The reserved right* of the holder of the Patent* will be enforced from this date. \/ ttfaf- OFFICE OF TUB DIAMOND CML CO., 209 Walnut *t. , , , lt M . f NOTICE —'l he Director** have declared a dividend of 50 "cents per .hue, payable on demand.^ A run. 23, 1« »r 33 4f ges- GOOD SPUING RATLKOAD COMPANY 88/ PniLAiinn’iit a, April 9th, 1869. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of this Com pany ond an election tor President and six Manager* to -erve for the enetflDg year, and untilothurs shall be elected, will be held at the Office of the Philadelphia and Rending Rnihvud ( oropany, No. 227 South FOJRrH street, on MONDAY, the 3d day of May next, at o’clock. A. M. WM. 11. WEBB np9(uij3 Societal y. SCHUYLKILL AND SUSQUEHANNA RAIL road Company, omce, 227 S. Fourth Street Pm LAnKM’i! i a, April 9,1869. The nnnual meeting of the Stockholdera of this -Join pany, aud an election for President and eix Mauagara, will take place at the Office of tho Company, on MON DAY , the ad day of May next, at 12 o’clock M. apVtm>3 WM. U. WEBB, Secretary. NORTHERN LIBERTIES AND PENN TOWN SUiI’ RAILROAD COMPANY. fi , , PmLAprxriiiA, April 9, lBbh The annual meeting of the Stockholders of this Com-, pany . aud an election for olhccre to nerve for the unauiug your aud until others shall be elected. will bo held at the i (lice of tho Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany. No. 227 SOUTH FOURTH street, on MONDAY, tho 3d day of May next, at 11 o’clock A. M. WM. 1L WEBB, ap9tmy3 secretary. e&sr ZERBE VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY. OFFICE. NO. 227 S. FOURTH STREET. PiuiJiUELi’iiiA, Aj>ril 9» hkxl - annual meeting of the Stockholders of tin* uom- PBDy, and an election for President aud six Manage!a, will take place at tho office of the Compauv.onMONU.vx, tho 8d day of May next, at 11 o’clock A. M. . apb to my 3 ALBERT FOSTER, Sccrotai y^_ B s*~ Ol’iaois VULCAN MINING COMI-ANY Fml.ADKi.rii iA, Apr. U, WbJ. Tho Annual Mooting of stockholders oitini Mining Company will be held at their „ t ».> o'clock nut street, on THURSDAY. May I; i th • I !^ > c S o q of other M , fox tho eloctlou ©f Lhectois and tr bU a^nyl3 B ® eEr lc.dgnl uuperipr to any 0,1 [ red by O. Hrnwn. Horses* Stock .and Poultiy. Romembsv driiggiek. cheinißt an' l ' pliott. For aulo at 602 lied Homo Trade Mark on eacn 1»“ f „. on . ARCH Strutt. Ftuladslpnj?- l^ vl ° Milton , Pcumyl, derful cutes, addttun. L. mwi "; , ;i tul vv Gtv[l . vania. SPECIAL NOTICES. KFtfol'l.’UßS. 21M. 000 'l-1 :w,ooo uu £32.1*65 Iti 11.7M7 23 *i 2H 0(1 561* 47 214.772 00 LIABILITIES. TIIADDEUS lIYATT. Attorney. TO AKCHt'PECTB.- i - . ’ i -OFFICE OF Tfl e COMMIS3IOKEKB FOUTH* EJECTION OFFUBMO BUILDINGS., : V' fa''"'' zt S for 14 ' in-Sbe city oXjJpSufAS^SilSitfc: ; »pecificatioiw,Hnd v .ttowinOiWUyittr*- cclved at the OEEICE OF THE, ‘‘BEPAaiMENT Og , BUItVEYS> No .rn South FIFTH utreebtmtiltho FUSST DAY OFBEFTBMBEKtooxt; At a*AMii>0 I !v>v < Archlteets intending to submlt pluu wilf roealtn eir* culuo containing frill lntonnatlon an to the gonatiH ofcur. aclerof theproroßed buildings, tho amount* «f,»cconi modation to toe provideA &c., by applying, either par* Bonally or by tetter, to .the undersigned, Secretaryof t«; Board of CommißaionOra, at tiio BoiittoWOßtcOrzierAT Walnut and Fifth atreoto. ■ .'-.r , A premium of $2,000 will bo paid for the design possess- \-}' ;■ log tbc moit merit»sL6<W for aioOOOFdru the third, and $6OO for the fourth/ The deci*ion4ipoatit*~ merits of the plans to bo made, and the premioaifltops aworded, by the Board of Commissioners, on or before thefiretday ofOctobernoxt,at!2M.' e - L -V' ' ’ * All rejected plans will be returned*- By order of the Board of .Commissioners. . • H.: C. FtTGH* at>7lBt§rp ~ . Secretary., . J. O. O. F -a MEDAL..O*O. F.. —The Commemorative Medal (TWO INCHES-iM. diameter) authorized by the Joint Committoo of tho. Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of Fczmsylvaniav 1.G.0.F., is now ready for delivery* and can be hod 'exi r application to JOHN J. bCHELL, Secretary of the Com- •. mtaee.No 40 Bonth Third street, to whom all order*frdoa 1 agents must bo addressed. The Committee understand that others are Belling what are calied-the OOmmemonU ' five or EAItADE MEDALS, and would Btato thatthiflia the only authorized MEDAL issued by the! 0/0. F. < J JAMES , apl6>fmw6t{ Chairman. flag- ABSTRACT OP REPORT OF THE CONDI w r * lON OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF THBItB PCBLIf\ OF PHILADELPHIA, made to tha Controller of the Currency, as shown by its book at the closet# business on tie 17th day of April. 18©: K&BOUKCES. Loans and Discounts $1,172.388 88 United B»atoa Bonds deposited with Treasurer of United States, 500 000 00 Bonds on hand 141. OH) 00 • - Real Estate (productive) 132,121 10 ,—51,015,500 OS; Legal Tender Notes and Certifi National Bank Notes Fractional Currency and Stamps Pn minms Dae from other Banks Expenses and Taxes. Total . $3,907,884 7» , LIABILITIES. > Capital Stock i $1,009003 00 Circulation 417,600 <*» Depcaita 1,413.120 60 Profit and Loeb 77.239 (M Total 82,907,833 TO JOSEPH P. MUMFOKI). Oauhior. pHii*Ar»Hi.niTA., April 2L 1869. ap23f,m,w^ts CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE., , __Pim.iLp:ELt?HrA«AprU 12; 1869. NOTICE To hoMere of FIVE AND BIX PER CENT. LOANS' of the City of irhilanelphia. j Lordb of the City of Philadelphia, maturing July 1* 1860 will be paid on presentation at this office. Interest coating from date of N mßgow , City Treasurer, aplSfm wl2's NOTICE.-TITE ANNUAL ELECTION, FOR. w* President and Managers of the Elmira and Wil liamsport Railroad Company will bo bold at their office. No. 80S Walnut street, on MONLA'V, May 3d, at 12o’clock, L. P. GEiQEtt, Secretary. kpl9 ro.w.f till my 3 OFFICE OF TUB AMERICAN FIRE INBU vay KAKCE COMPANY. No. 310 Walnut street. , A General Meeting of the stockholders in the Amendan Ktre Insurance Company will bo held, agreeabl* to charter, on MONDAY, the 3d day of May next, at 13 o’clock M. . . The Annual Election for Directors will taxe place im mediately thereafter. A. C. Lu ÜBAWFORD,., ap2l w f mst§ Secretary. OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH ZINC COMPANY, No. 333 Walnut street. . „_ „• Philadelphia, April 20,1869. The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Lehigh Zinc Company will be held at the Company's office, on WEDNESDAY, May 5. at 12 o’clock M.,for tho purpose of electing seven Directors to servo during the ensuing year, and for the transaction of any other Doainess that may come before the Meeting. , ap2o-14t GORDON MONGES, Treamrer. •ct- CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. „ L M Camden, March 29,186?. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Camden, and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, tor the election of seven Directors to serve for the ensuing year, will 1)6 held in this city at the Otfice of the West Jersey Railroad Company on WEDNESDAY, the2Bthof April, lfctiy, at 12o’clock, fiL _ nl „. nT i SAMUEL J BAYARD. mh29 dtap293 Secretary of C- and A. R. R. and T. Co. DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL COM -1 An Kleotioil for Nine Directors of tlio above Company, to pervo for the ensuing year.wilL be, held atthe ofl ice* in Princeion, New Jersey, on MONDAY, May 10,1859 i at 12 o’clock M. ... •< • Dated Princeton, N. J., April 17 1860 u JOHN P. STOCKTON. Secretary. ap22-16t$ MONUMENT CEMETERY NOTICE.—THE AN nual Meeting of the Lot Holders in tho. Monument Cemetery of I‘UiLudelpb.ia and an election for ilanajsem to perve for the ensuing year will be hold at tnd Hall of ibt* Fire Association, south eidw of North streets west of Fifth, on MONDAY AFTERNOON, May 3, next, at 4 " ui°22tmy3s E. TAYLOR, Becretary. ■««»» OFFICE OF THE LEIIIGH COAL AND NAVI- S' GATION COAI PAN Y. , „ Pihla.pei.phia, April 19.1812*. 7he plated Annual Meeting or the Stockholders of th® Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company will ,be held at Botrd of 'Prado hootne. CheetDUt above Fifth street* North ride, on TUESDAY, the-Ph day of May next, at 10 Xi o’clock A. M., after which will bo held an election for I'n pjdent and Hoard ot Manager*, towervofor theoneuiag 5 cur Tlif I’oU, u i.l cli.-bu at 1 o’clock I’. M :l3 24 2ti‘J7 to my4s E. W. CLARK, President. MS?-’" DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.— OFFICE OK CHIEF COMMISSIONER, NO. lOf S. FIFTH STREET. Pini.AnEi.i’inA, April 2tflt 18fl9. Notice to owners of Cali &, WAUUNS, L>ltAYti aud I'AiiMAVS Ihe annual Licence ia now due *1 he inn.iltvfot neglect of renewal of License, three dollars L-tch . mi iu.y vehicle that may be uaed. n fVrtxt 0. DIXON, Lieenae Clerk. nj.il i/JOi.ut r- km;u n ydi'R blood with V*** « ill lind n li. f fn-ni £767,121 57 ltt» 12 yulll -Vetdn by iii-iuy j wAwni/im Tl't' rnot Vl! Jtintil<‘ Toutr. ( Bl l TKttS. bold by .JOiuS&TUtt, UOLLUWAV As UJWIJ.MN, \... tvOl Arch atrc»*t, And DniK&i-ti every .vhurti. jiATJiS. llti+ GIRAHD STREET, TWO SQUARES FROM TUB, CONTINENTAL. I,adieu’ department nrictiy private. Open aujr ana evt-i.iu*. apl-tirpS ‘:rj,«*4 -v, 10 («' 10 325 "! 4.9*i2 5:1 £I.UP2 ;i54 2; ■ww.*- H'iWaRD HOSPITAL, NOS- 15ld ™ll&2'lLO 4- &i “ £7 hard ttreet, i.’ieoonsury Dor vrtmeiit—Medical treatment and medicine lurniahed gratuitously to tuo poor _____ 1! „h TN 7HE DISTRICT CUI H'F I’OE THE OFTY AND i(_'ouni> of Philadelphia. - BENJAMJ-N P. LIUdVVkbL v P . WILLIAM K. LuAS, JOIIN 'L. BARR SIMON UUUTEN. Vend. ex. *, • March! undorßimiod hereby gives notice thatheyha* boea appointed Auditor in tboDmtrici Court for the.city ana county of Philadelphia, to diartbnto: tlie/fund mowin, i our-, aiifirg from the sale by the fihcrilt.of (the isHo w inn described real estate of the defendant, SIMON lA\ UTfc-N, to wit: AU or .plexorigcpund* with the buildings and improvements ‘thereon erected, situate on the southeast ; comer_nf Fourth street and Willow street, in that part of tuo or Philadelphia formerly called the Northern Liberties, now the Twelfth Ward ofthe said city; containing in front or breadth on said Fourth BtrceHtfteeu feeftnine Inches, ana iu length or depth along the south side.of the saidi Willow streetnf iy-nine feet to a certaiu nine-feot wide alUyleaa jug from John’s court into the said VVillow street v ( Being the same promisee which Daniel Kellner and wife,.by in denture dated December 20th, 18t» and in L It. 8.,'N0. 66, page SSL &c. % granted and conveyed unto Matild Lichten, wife of said Bimon Lichten, in fee.) The Auditor gives notice that he will hear ail names having claim upon said fund, at his ollico, No. 62<P \Yal— nut street, in tlft city of Philadelphia-on WEDNESDAY* sth May. 1869, at 11 o’clock A. M, when .and .where all persons aro required-to make their claim or bo debarred from coining in on «gj~ aTUART PATTERS ON. Auditor. $1.092.354 21 np22-10t* TNTIIE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE TOTE AND X Countvof Philadelphia.— Eetate of CAIHARINEMA CiEK-The Auditor appointed by the and adjust the account of JOHN Ij. KaTEA, Executor of tho last will and testament of (JATHARINh MAGtut. deceased, and to report distribution of **> jiSjSJ&JSJJf hands of the accountant, will meet the injorwjea T N TEE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR T 1 JEUJJXi aKE l County of Pbiledclphix - hstato of JxMEd deceased —The Auditor appointed settle end adjuat tho accmmPof R. C. (“""jAIiIES MAS I.LE, A din mistral of tho balance to the handa oftliii'accouiitantiWill meet tho^piwtlo|^iuterk 524 AVkluut street, room iNo. I-* m u» apl^fiq nrst* ; —,-rrr D m a u pom MON PLEAS FOJfc TflE ln usiT?T C \\i EARLF. A’fn: You wUI please. tako notice Vu* court h.vigranted a rule on you to show cause that lie court nae aiaoi d t b decreed. Personal ioUre - *H’. SELTiftEU,' ' i - »pl‘t,in,tu.lf Attorney pro I<ll)eUant,__ T 'STATE OF UEORIiET. STUCKEBT, DECEASED.- Tlj it tiers of adn tnistratlon upon the _est?te of OEU'ROE T. STUCKERT. haAtaßVuboeo urantedto Ibe iinderelsnod, all persomi ludebtedtothe said estate are requested to make payment, and'all I6T •®“ haviuß claims to DeHAVEH. 617 Wftlnutatreot._ unit.* i«p&smws SCISSORS IN CASES oj-tll«'’tlIi08t qaaßty._ltttO)<3« Knives, Scissors end Table Cptiory. Ground ana r olUaoa. 'EAB INSTRUMENTS of thomort aerrovodcoiutruetioa to assist tUO Uoarlnß, at I*. MADEIRA'S. Cutlar and . Sll T Kicttl UuUumoot Maker* US Tenth airaM. $32 783 00 *7,513 00 5 9M 10 9.925 00 502,363 43 IjSk’AiAlL' ««' 038"49i8*i 22m at
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