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
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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™ ““
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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 .
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'.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
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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
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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
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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.*
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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.
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9.925 00
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