BY FRED'K L. BAKER.
1 0 — Wing & OoltAbi4 ititiihy4N
TRAINS of this road run by Reading Rail
Road time, which is ten minutes faster
than that of Pennsylvania Railroad.
omits ea THIS ROAD ADD AS FOLLOWS:
LE:.4 VING COM/411M AT
ni A. M.—Mail Passengert rain for
7. 0 u Reading and intermediate stations
leaving L A N D I S V I L L E at 7:56; M an _
beim at 8409 ; Litiz at 8:23 ; Ephrata at
8 : 51; Reinholdatille at 9:17 ; sinking Springs
at 9:4 3 ; and arriving it ading at 10:00 a. m.
Al Readingeonnection is made with Fast Ex
press :min of East Pennsylvania Rail Road,
reaching New-York at 3:30 P. M. w ith tra i n
of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, reach
ing. Philadelphia at 12:45 p. m., and also with
trios for Pottsville, the Lebanon Valley and
Harrisburg.
F P. M.—PASSENGER TRAIN
2:4u for Reading and intermediate sta
tions, connecting at Landisville at 3:20 P. M.
with Express train of Pennsylvania R. R.
we e, l ea ving MANIIEIM bt 3:35; LITIZ
3 : 90; Ephrata at 4:18; Reinholdeville 4:44 ;
Sinking Springs 5:09 and arriving at Reading
at 6;25 P. M. At Reading connection is made
with trains for Pottsville and Lebanon Valley.
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(4A• M.—PASSENGER
Yltor Columbia and intermediate da
wns, leaving Sinking Springs at 6 26 ; Rein
hoaktille at 6 154, Ephrata at 7 21, Litiz at
54, Mai:Maim at 8 09, making connection at
Landisville with train of Penn's Railroad,
teaching Lancaster at 8:33 A M. and Phila•
delphia at 12;30 ; arriving at Columbia at 9
o'clock, A. M., there connecting the Ferry for
Wrightaville and Northern CuLtral Railroad,
al INS A. M.with train of Ponn'a. Railroad
fir the Wed.
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r t. ) Columbia and intermediate stations
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led Philadelphia at 3:90 P. M., leaving Sink
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reaching Philadelphia at I.:00 p. rn. and
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The Twentieth Anniversary of Donegal
Lodge, No. IN I. 0. 0. F.
WAR MELD IN THEIR HALL
ON SATURDAY EVENING,
DECEMBER 23RD, 1865.
The meeting was called to order by the
Chairman of the Committee of Ar
rangements, Michael Rainier,
who introduced the orator
of the evening, P. (1.
E. D. ROATEf.
After singing by the Choir, under Dr.
Worrell, and a prayer by Rev. G. 51.
Olawges, Past Grand Reath proceed
ed to deliver the following address :
Ladies, Citizens, and Brothers :—1
will, for a short time ask your indulgence,
and proceed to make a few remarks.
The subject I huve chosen is "Odd Fel
lowship." It may seem strange to some
why I should choose a subject like this,
but, for the present occasion, I can have
no better one. This social meeting this
evening is intended as an Anniversary
of Donegal Lodge, No. 129, I. 0. of 0.
F. and while I will try to entertain you,
(though making no pretensions to public
speaking.) I hope the audience will not
criticise too closely. On the 23d day of
December, A. D. 1845, a special meet
ing of the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl
vania assembled in this room for the
purpose of installing and dedicating this
Hall for benevolent purposes. Twenty
years to-night, since the first officers of
this Lodge were declared installed in
due form, and who can, of all its mem
bers, recall the pleasing associations we
had here, during that time, the many
charitable acts entertained, and timely
relief besto.ved. Ah ! they would fill a
volume of no ordinary size ; but while
recalling to memory those things, we
feel sad ; at the absence of many a fold
and beloved brother; some have gone
to other fields of labor, and some have
gone to pitch their tents beyond the
"Jordan of death," in. the midst of an
increasing usefulness, and the diffusion
of noble and generous impulses, sur
rounded by filial love, fond affections,
and clustering hopes; ah ! then we re-
alize that life has no impregnable for
tress, no steel-clad armor to protect us
from disease and deCay. We go forth
into the garden of thought, and enjoy
the feasts of love in the evergreen bower
of intellectuality, while the "shades of
evening " cast their cheering, musing,
mellow influence over us; while busy
memory calls up the happy moments of
the past, and sanguine fancy draws aside
the veil from the future. Our bower is
filled with human affections ; the loves
and joys of mankind shall form our eve
ning garland ; and we will breathe the
soft influence of peace, on all who are
susceptible of the charm. Here we
pledge fidelity to each other, pledge our
selves to live and love together, and by
a kindly reciprocity of feeling assist each
other in all our difficulties. Our Lodge
is the Lodge of Peace, and although the
name is Odd, it has a charm which I
hope will soon become familiar to all,
and be worshipped as a household god,
It is "Charity." Our banner , floats
proudly in the breeze, and our motto is
Love for all mankind. Though our
name be odd, we possess all the feelings
and passions consequent to human na
ture, with our proportions of its weak
nesses. But the principles that bind us
together prompt us to the ennobling
ambition of doing good. Our Society is
peculiarly calculated to call forth the
nobler feelings of our nsture, and' give
power and action_to all the .social vir
tom
Perhaps it would not be ont of place
here, to make ;a few remarks owthe pri- ,
o,o..ii'd,Feljo - waliiik. in,
Acetic 8, and they piceeed to etato ito
aliartgarttett Vattogiflattia gonnal. fur tke fame girth.
MARIETTA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1866.
usefulness in Society. On the night -of
the 25th of December, A. D. 1806 while
a winter storm was drifting over the
city of New York, in an upper chamber
of a house yet standing in Fulton street,
five men assembled to organize the first
Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, ever founded on this Continent.
To the Genius of Humanity, who presi
ded over that humble scene, and foresaw
its consequences, it must have seemed
to its first discoverer as did the parent
rill which gushed from the Rocky Moun
tains and flows on its far pilgrimage till
it swells into the solemn Mississippi.
The Lodge they founded, they called
Shakespeare, and like the name they
gave it, it has pervaded the world. The
Institution prospered, and increased in
numbers, so in a short time three more
lodges were organized in the City of
New York, each having an appropriate
name. The first was called Shakespeare,
which name represented Literature and
Humanity. Franklin was the second,
and it represented Philosophy and La
bor. Washington was the third, and
represented Heroism and Love of coun
try. Columbia was the fourth, and rep
resented the broad Continent where
Odd Fellowship, was to achieve its
greatest triumphs. Odd-Fellowship was
then like the cloud that was discovered
the size of a hand, but increased in pow
er and grandeur, until now its gentle in
fineness are felt over this whole Conti
nent. From the cold rivers of Maine,
—from the Orange groves of Florida—
from the deer-haunted shores of the
great Lakes of the North—from the up
per waters of the mountain-fed Missouri
—from the fervid plains over which Cor
tez led the cavaliers of Spain, the Broth
ers meet to dedicate the true principles
of the Order. I shall speak of some of
the causes which brought it into exis
tence and contributed to its progress—
what it has attempted to do for mankind
hitherto, and what it must achieve. if it
would live in the future. All nations
and orders of men have had their Anni
versaries of congratulation. • For nearly
forty centuries the sons of Abraham
have held their yearly Pentecost to cel
ebrate the emancipation of their fathers.
The Greeks held their National Games
to immortalize the triumphs . of heroism,
and the birth of this . Nation will be cel
ebrated through all time, to perpetuate
the memory of the Fathers of the Re
public.. Every creed his had its temples
and every divinity its worshippers ; why
may we not celebrate the•temples reared
for the cause of humanity, and burn in
cense upon its altars. The world has
long had its Republic of Letters, and its
Republic of Liberty, should it not have
its Republic of Humanity. Odd Fellow
ship arose in the necessities of man ;
not to add one more star in the waning
constellation of nobility ; not to deal
with fictitious interests, or precticelan
ciful experiments. It was formed to
deal with substantial life, to minister to
real wants. A more practical benevo
lence was wanted in the world, to seek
out distress, bind up wounds, assuage
griefs, feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
visit the prisoner, educate the orphan,
protect the widow, comfort the dying,
and bury the dead. Man needed a clos
er acquaintance with man, the world
over. For these hallowed purposes our
Order sprang into life, and its course
has been cheered by the sunny smiles of
gratitude, by the consciousness of duty,
and by the blessing of God. Let us, in
passing, correct a false impression not
uncommon. Odd Fellowship never was,
and never can be hostile to Christianity
for it is founded,on its great law of Love.
It never assailed the church, for cl ergy
men, and good men of all denominations,
swell our numbers. We impose no re
ligious creed on the conscience ; we
only attempt to do our duty to one
another; true, we admit no one to our
Order who does not believe in an . Al
mighty and Beneficent Father of the
Universe; Who does not recognize -the
law of the Saviour, "Whatsoever ye
would that men should do unto you, do
ye also unto them," to be the only true
or safe guide of life. When we come
together, we sing anthems of congratu
lations, and we invoke the benediction
of Heaven, that all we- do may be con
formed to the Law of Love. But
. who
will say that the glad and joyous heart,
may not pour forth its fullness in music,
or that, in a world,in which the tears of
the Son have fallen, the erring; misguid
ed, suffering child ofearth, maynot turn
his eye up-to the blue of Heaven., and
supplicate the blessing of the Father I
we. only aim to do to each other,- what
the Good SamejiWi did'to thejignanded.
• and robbed way*.er,,whoorthettiasike t
aryl the pr;eit peered by on the other
side. Our duties are plainly prescribed :
"To meet together as brothers, and, in
cases or affliction or distress, to relieve
the wants of each other, and administer
all the consolation we can to the afflict
ed. We keep nothing hidden, except
what is necessary to give efficacy and
permanence to our Order, by preserving
its unity, and guarding it against impo
sition. The breaking of bread to the
hungry, the cup of cold water to the
thirsty, watching by the sick bed, com
forting the afflicted, cherishing the
stringer, visiting the imprisoned, suc
coring the enfeebled ; how sadly are
these tender duties neglected by a large
portion of the human race 1" How far
are these duties performed by Odd Fel
lowship? Flow far are these objects ef
fected ? So perfectly, I answer in a
word, that it is nearly impossible for a
good Odd Fellow to be overwhelmed in
calamity without finding succor. If
slander's merciless breath strikes him,
there is as honest man near by to defend
his reputation, for in this association
men are taught not only to reverence
truth, but to scorn the liar, and despise
the robber of the good name of a fellow
man I The Odd Fellow cannot suffer
honest poverty without alleviation. If
his band of labor' is paralyzed at his toil,
he is maintained till his muscles grow
strong—and this comes not in grudging
charity—it is his right. His wife and
children are not driven into the streets
to ask charity stills) he is sick—the dig
nity of manhood is spared this deep hu
miliation. This argument is notlimited
to the poor man—for no man has so
much gold he may not sometime lack
bread ; none of us has so many friends
he may not one day be deserted, and
our children are sure one day Co be or
phans; so it is no mean praise of Odd
Fellowship to say that it multiplies a
man's friends—and in a world like this,
who ever had too many ? Another cir
cumstance fits us peculiarly for the great
work of benefiting our fellow-men, I
mean the absolute simplicity of our ob
ject, unfettered and unembarrassed by
any connexion with the ecclesiastical,
political, or philosophical distinctions
which obtain among men. One convic
tion fills our hearts, one purpose nerves
our arms. Man is suffering, and man is
sacred. _We can better his condition ;
we can elevate his character; we can
inspire him with noble aspirations ; and
we can direct his eye to the better life
to come.
Man, poor, feeble, benighted, lost,
needed something more done for him ;
priesthood had invented a thousand re
ligions, with mystic emblems, and sol
emn rituals ; philoSophy had thought,
and learning bad studied for ages. Tho
arts of taste, had grown to perfection ;
heroes had won crowns of victory ; em
pires, republics, arts and religions had
risen and gone to decay ; but man was
the same suffering, misguided, unhelped
. being still ; could nothing effectually be
done to illnmine and elevate so noble a
creature, susceptible of such exalted
sentiments, struggling, longing, thirst
ing, panting, dying for bread, light, hope,
progress, immortality ? Must he grope
on, along the shore of that vast ocean
which rolls round the world, famishing
for the bread of life, sighing for some
new bark to bear him to climes he nev
er trod, and an Elysium he had not yet
found ? Odd Fellowship heard the sig
nal, and sent back its response : "no
generous, hoping, sighing, suffering, sa
cred brother, help and light are coming ;
the day of thy redemption is breaking—
see the herald beams flaming on the
eastern sky.. 4" Such were the wants,
such the exigencies that brought'up out-
Institution. It has grown with incredi
ble progress. It is because the world
needed it--because it hasihnswered the
demands of the age. It must continue
to do so if it would live, and the age is
changing every hour. The life of a
single generation is a longer period now
than was once the life of an empire.
Time is no longer to be measu red
s by the
succesive vibrations of the pendulum,
but by successions of ideas ; not by hours,
but by events ;, not by moments, but by
revolutions: Time is- no more marked
by the sundial, or the hoar-glass, but by
strokes of the engine, and flashes of the
telegraph. Every sign in the political
and 'Moral firmament betokens progress
and inspires hope. The whole world . is
in motion, and.the whole world is bidd
ing us God speed. A new and a better
day for mankind is every where break
ing. Religion, which in all Its forms
seems destined to prove the pleasing or
the blight of mad,'has begun to interest '
itself with the 1ife,...0t Ow, world—wittt
our hearts=onr homes=forrtevee. , dff
()KA:palm. 'The monk is-leaving the
cloister, and the nun her convent, to
mingle with the warm life and earnest
struggles of Man ; and as they turn their
backs on the tall cypresses, which for
centuries held their steady moan over
those gray sepulchres of the buried
alive, they feel the undulations of the
new age. The age of Scholastic Theol
ogy, of mystic rights, of monkish rituals,
of besotting and enslaving priestcraft,
has gone by—and it will return no more.
And who would roll our car of progress
back again into the misty shadows of
those gloomy ages ? Orphan schools
should be founded everywhere. "It is
your duty to educate the orphan," and
till it is done, Odd Fellows themselves
cannot measure the agency, their order
can wield in the destiny of men. The
schoolmaster has left the University,
and gone abroad through the world.
He has been in Egypt, and the sovereign
who now ruin the Nile puts ( instead of
building pyramids) a hundred thousand
men to building railways and canals
across the Isthmus, and the shrill whistle
of the engine , is echoing around the tops
of the sky-reaching pyramids. Would
you again launch five million crusaders
on the plains of Asia ? Men have done
looking for hope to the East.
"Westward the Star of Empire takes
its sway."
The world has heard the shout of free
dom, and is straining on its fetters. It
is saying to its oppressors, "The cup of
trembling ye have so long pressed to our
lips we will drain no more forever we
are Men 1" Such is the electric age in
which Odd Fellowship finds itself en
camped, and it must move on with Hu
inanity. What the beacon is to the
tempest-tossed mariner, such is Odd
Fellowship to the children of sorrow and
suffering. Amid the storms of life she
sheds a ray of light when all around is
shrouded with gloom and sadness. Her
ministry is one of gentle charity and be
neficence. To the poor she contributes
of her bounty, to the bereaved and sor
rowing she comes with soothing accents
of sympathy, and the erring she seeks to
win back to the paths of virtue and
peace.. The motto of her banner is the
divine maxim—the golden rule—" to do
unto others as we would that they should
do unto us."—lt has been objected to
Odd Fellowship, that it is a secret asso
ciation. "If your acts are charitable
and moral, why keep them a secret."
I would say Odd Fellows have - no se
crets, save to recognize a brother; no
duty but to protect and aid him when
necessary. These signs and secrete aro
no new thing, for every age and almost
every class of men have signs by which
they are distinguished, of peculiar forms
by which to ask protection and assist
ance. In former days, when Christians
were haunted like boasts of the chase
over Europe, they found it necessary to
have some token by which to kno.w
themselves, and often when surrounded
by armed bands of ruffians, in the streets
of the cities, or in the ravines of the
mountains, when the bloody axe or glis
tening bayonet was on its course to
drink the blood of the victim, when in
all that crowd, no christian could be
seen to save or defend (for none dare
'openly wear a badge by which to be
known,) he raises his eyes to heaven and
- says, " I believe !" and the pulse ceases
to beat, until his ear catches the wel
come words from some distant voice
"In God," thus forming a chain by
which he is known, bringing to his res
cue stout hearts and strong hands to
beat aside the murderous weapons and
guide him safely from the wondering
throng. Thus, that good thing that has
taken root upon American soil, has in
creased, and will increase in beauty and
strength, until its' wide spreading influ
ence is felt in the remotest parts of the
earth. But a few more words and I
have done. You cannot become an
Odd Fellow, in truth andt spirit, unless
you.ilre grateful to yout gfoLpt, faithful
to your Country, and fraternal
_to your
fellow men. I need scarcely mention
that in the great struggle with the Re
bellion, during the past few years,- when
darkness and dismay overshadowed' ear
country,as the black curtain of midnight,
every prospect of self-government and
republicanism:; the brethren of the Or
der showed loyalty to the great cause of
human right; we were then contending
for; and many in the great conifict,gave
their lives a sacrifice, that their country
and her institutions might live ; but the
tread of tbe contending hosts are . no .
longer heard, the_clash of arms, the roar
10f artillery, the smoke- of battle' has
Passed away, and, since -the -banner of
Peace again floats in -its --Majesty over
-1 •
eitos land, Odd Fellows slab Siadssoble?.
around the , trey of Frieu dship, Lore and
VOL. XII.-NO. 22.
Truth, with a promising hope that their
renewed efforts will be felt, in the cause
of humanity and good-will towards all
men. How cheering are the inspired
lines of the " Poet,"
Advancing in splendor, unshackled and
fearless,
Onward and upward, and proud our
career,
Ne'er may the sick or the feeble be cheer-
less,
But find in Odd Follows, that comfort
Is near
Stronger and broader, and wider our
borders,
Boundless and free be our march
through the land ;
Graceful and peaceful, and free from
- marauders,
Till Faith, Hope and Charity join hand
in hand
Odd Fellows should be very thankful
for the Providential care bestowed upon
our Institution, which has so steadily
increased from weakness into strength,
from a small and feeble beginning to its
present magnitude and moral influence.
The fair fields of the past has been so
fragrant with the blossoms of love, and
the flowers of obedience, that I scarce
ly find it necessary to say more in regard
to the future. Though we have in view
that period when the high and impass
able barriers that separates man from
his fellow-man shall be forever removed,
when the spear of the warrior shall be
broken, and the sword of the Conqueror
shall lay rusting in its scabbard, and dis
cord and contention shall be known no
more.—. Then will the golden age return
to bless the world ; and the ills of life
would be soothed and mitigated under
the benign reign of Friendship, Love
and Truth.
Washington„D. C., Dec., 20th, 1865.
To the Officers and Members of Don.
egal Lodge, I. 0. of 0. F., Marietta,
Pa.
Dear Brethren.—Your invitation to
address you at your approaching anni
versary found me too much occupied
with office duties to comply with it ;
and instead of an oral address, and a
presence in person, I am constrained to
substitute this letter, and an assurance
that I will be with yon in spirit.
The return of peace to one, beloved
land, after a long and a very terrible
and destructive war, imposes on our
Brotherhood no new responsibilities or
duties, but increases diligence in the
performance of the old ones. To fill up
the broken ranks, to build up the waste
places, to comfort the mourning, to
cheer the desponding, to lift up the
bowed down—these are duties old as
our obligations of fraternity, and only
rendered more needful and imperative
by the increase of opportunities, and the
wants of those around us.
I rejoice to learn that Donegal Lodge
is already engaged in. these increased
duties and labors, and possesses the en
larged means for their active perform-
ance. And it gives me no common feel
ing of grateful pride to be able to say,
that, as far as my intercourse with you
extends, I have always found you ready
and willing to perform your duty in
these respects. During the first years
of the war, while 1 was one of the
County and Borough Relief Committee,
I had several occasions for asking you
to - aid in relieving poor families who
were excluded by the rules from any
share in the public funds. I never ap.
pealed to Donegal Lodge in vain—and
the sum I asked from your Fund, was
never diminished, nor given grudgingly
—and this, too, when you might have
pleaded truly that your funds were not
raised for so general a distribution.
But, so far as I know, no brother ever
whispered or ever looked disapprovingly
.on the extension of your charity to those
who had no claim upon it.. God bless
Donegal Lodge and all its members, for
this ready and liberal generosity toward
the poor and needi , ! May their means
multiply like the widow's cruse of oil
with every demand upon them, and the
hearts of its members never grow less !
Hoping that your anniversary may
prove an era of good fellowship and odd
fellowship in one, (ae Odd Fellowship
ever should be good,) and that the en
joyments derived from it may light each
heart and soul onward and upward in
the grand work of Friendship, Love and
Truth through all succeeding years, I
remain, very'respectfully, and fraternally
your fellow member, A. B. GROS%
fir "'I am happy to be still a v!rgin,"
•
.said the 'cild maid to the young bride.
`Yes," said the young bridl to the old
,maid "a fifty, k stiould say."