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Foreign.
The report closes with the following extract of a letter from Bro . W . PI . White to Bro . G . II . Teuton . " I am commanded by the M . W " . Grand Master , H . R . II . the Duke of Sussex , to request that you convey to the M . W . Grancl Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas , the assurance of his brotherly consideration . " The thanks of the Grand Lodwere voted to BroTeutonfor his
ge . , faithful services during his mission . Bro . GREER , M . W . G . M ., having announced his contemplated absence for some time from the republic , Bro . James Webb was elected Grand Master . Balance in the Grand Treasurer ' s hands , 168 , 075 dollars , in government notes , worth two cents on the dollar . ' Bro . Teuton resigned the office of Grand Secretarymuch to the
, regret of the Craft . The pamphlet concludes with an admirable address by the present Grand Master , Bro . James Webb . $ S ~ All communications to be addressed to the "Deputy Grand Secretary , City of Austin , Texas . "
America, (United States).
AMERICA , ( UNITED STATES ) .
We acknowledge the receipt of several letters , and have , in the general language of petitioners , " a great favour to ask , " viz : —that our friends will either defray the postage of letters , or confide them to private hands for delivery . The day we write this , two have been declined by reason of a charge of nine shillings each , and another three shillings—in all , one guinea ! This notification is probablg necessary to be understood by excellent friends , and even brother journalists , who ,
if they will point out any feasible mode , by agency or otherwise , by which a reasonable expense will suffice to ensure intelligence , we will with great pleasure adopt some regulation , being convinced that the information contained in their publications will , by being extracted , equally interest the Masons in the " Old Country , " as our own F . Q . It . will , by a similar process , gratify our Brethren on the other side of the Atlantic .
A letter on the subject of a paragraph that appeared in the public papers , headed " TIIURLOW WEED going to Europe" with reference to GENERAL RUFUS KING appears to have more of apolitical than Masonic inference , and is therefore declined . We are quite aioare that the Anti-Masonic party in the United States were as equally opposed to good government as to common sense ; but it would not now serve any good purpose to re-open unseemly differences .
Our general correspondence is , in all respects , satisfactory ; and if we do not enter into details , it is because they might not , for want of variety , be as interesting as usual . NATIONAL CONVENTION . A meeting of delegates from a majority of the Masonic Grand Lodges in the United States , assembled in the hall of the Grand Lodge of Baltimore , on the 8 th of May last , in pursuance of an arrangement of the VOL . i . 3 N
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Foreign.
The report closes with the following extract of a letter from Bro . W . PI . White to Bro . G . II . Teuton . " I am commanded by the M . W " . Grand Master , H . R . II . the Duke of Sussex , to request that you convey to the M . W . Grancl Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas , the assurance of his brotherly consideration . " The thanks of the Grand Lodwere voted to BroTeutonfor his
ge . , faithful services during his mission . Bro . GREER , M . W . G . M ., having announced his contemplated absence for some time from the republic , Bro . James Webb was elected Grand Master . Balance in the Grand Treasurer ' s hands , 168 , 075 dollars , in government notes , worth two cents on the dollar . ' Bro . Teuton resigned the office of Grand Secretarymuch to the
, regret of the Craft . The pamphlet concludes with an admirable address by the present Grand Master , Bro . James Webb . $ S ~ All communications to be addressed to the "Deputy Grand Secretary , City of Austin , Texas . "
America, (United States).
AMERICA , ( UNITED STATES ) .
We acknowledge the receipt of several letters , and have , in the general language of petitioners , " a great favour to ask , " viz : —that our friends will either defray the postage of letters , or confide them to private hands for delivery . The day we write this , two have been declined by reason of a charge of nine shillings each , and another three shillings—in all , one guinea ! This notification is probablg necessary to be understood by excellent friends , and even brother journalists , who ,
if they will point out any feasible mode , by agency or otherwise , by which a reasonable expense will suffice to ensure intelligence , we will with great pleasure adopt some regulation , being convinced that the information contained in their publications will , by being extracted , equally interest the Masons in the " Old Country , " as our own F . Q . It . will , by a similar process , gratify our Brethren on the other side of the Atlantic .
A letter on the subject of a paragraph that appeared in the public papers , headed " TIIURLOW WEED going to Europe" with reference to GENERAL RUFUS KING appears to have more of apolitical than Masonic inference , and is therefore declined . We are quite aioare that the Anti-Masonic party in the United States were as equally opposed to good government as to common sense ; but it would not now serve any good purpose to re-open unseemly differences .
Our general correspondence is , in all respects , satisfactory ; and if we do not enter into details , it is because they might not , for want of variety , be as interesting as usual . NATIONAL CONVENTION . A meeting of delegates from a majority of the Masonic Grand Lodges in the United States , assembled in the hall of the Grand Lodge of Baltimore , on the 8 th of May last , in pursuance of an arrangement of the VOL . i . 3 N