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manuscript the most cordial feeling ; the warmest sympathy was expressed for the success of the Grand Lodge of Canada by the Committee , who recommended them to the favourable consideration of the Grand Lodge . The Committee on Uniformity of Work make but slow progress . A new Constitution was proposed for the government of the Craft , and the action of D . G . M . Varick in healing the members of a clandestine Lodge at Hobokeii , who had been working under the so-called St . John ' s Grand Lodge of New York ., was confirmed . Some of the members expressed themselves very bitterly against the St . John ' s people , arid the Grand Lodge refused to recognize the Fast Master of the clandestine Lodge as a member of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey . There appears to be some misunderstanding between the Grand Lodge and one of its Past Officers in some financial matters . The action of the called meeting was , without question ,
irregular . We append the names 6 f the Grand Officers elect : Trimble , M . W . G . M . ; Van Wagenen , D . G . M . ; Whitehead , G . S . W . ; George Finch , G . J ; W , ; who was re-elected without a dissentient voice , a tribute to merit . Joseph Hough , Grand Secretary , Elias Phillips , Grand Treasurer , both re-elected . Jas . Cassidy , G . S . D . ; S . Thompson , G . S . D . * John Rogers and J * R . Chapin , Grand Stewards . —ZVew York Masonic Messenger .
UNION GF ^ THE CRAFT IN NEW YORK . The Committees on the side of the Grand Lodge of the State , and the seceding party , whom our English Brethren may recollect as the two parties who submitted their cases to the Grand Lodge of England for adjudication , have closed their labours with entire satisfaction to both parties . We learn the best feeling has animated the breasts of the Brethren who formed the Committee , during the whole of the conference ; and we . believe tile principal reason the matters were not settled before was the questionable propriety of putting Brethren on the
Committee heretofore , who had an hostile feeling against each other . D . G . M . Macoy ; H . W . Turner , W . M ., of Amity ; A . Cassard , W . M ., of * La Fraternidad ; Rev . Bro . Gray , and J . S . Peiry , of Troy , on the one side ; the other is Bros . John A . Kennedy , Thos . Cook , and S . Jenkinson . These Brethren formed the two Committees , and we will venture to say no question for years past has agitated the minds of the Fraternity more than the proceedings of this Committee . The
Craft owe these Brethren a deep debt of gratitude for their untiring efforts to produce peace after so many lamentable failures , and we hope to chronicle on next St . John ' s day the Masonic marriage of the two Grand parties , who will hereafter be known as the Grand Lodge of the State of New York : and may the words once applied to us be applied to them for all time— " Those whom God hath joined , let no man pat asunder . " So mote it he . —Ne % o York Masonic Messenger .
Masonic Festivities
MASONIC FESTIVITIES
In the way of amusement , few things afford the writer more gratification than witnessing the innocent enjoyment of young folks in a ball-room . He even thinks a dance occasionally does himself good ; and if he does not enter into the spirit of a deux temps or a varsovieune with the zeal or zest of his younger Brethren , there is still that left in him to enjoy a sober quadrille , or a turn or two in a polka . It relieves the mind after laborious pursuits , freshens the body after close confinement , and enables it to return and pursue official avocations with increased pleasure . That he is not alone in this opinion , the number of Masonic balls noticed in this and our last number will fully testify ; and those who attended them will bear ortt an assertion , that there is a good
deal of dancing left in the human frame even after it does get to the wrong side of five and thirty or forty . We say this by way of a little encouragement to those who fancy they are getting too old for a dance , and would rather have a
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manuscript the most cordial feeling ; the warmest sympathy was expressed for the success of the Grand Lodge of Canada by the Committee , who recommended them to the favourable consideration of the Grand Lodge . The Committee on Uniformity of Work make but slow progress . A new Constitution was proposed for the government of the Craft , and the action of D . G . M . Varick in healing the members of a clandestine Lodge at Hobokeii , who had been working under the so-called St . John ' s Grand Lodge of New York ., was confirmed . Some of the members expressed themselves very bitterly against the St . John ' s people , arid the Grand Lodge refused to recognize the Fast Master of the clandestine Lodge as a member of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey . There appears to be some misunderstanding between the Grand Lodge and one of its Past Officers in some financial matters . The action of the called meeting was , without question ,
irregular . We append the names 6 f the Grand Officers elect : Trimble , M . W . G . M . ; Van Wagenen , D . G . M . ; Whitehead , G . S . W . ; George Finch , G . J ; W , ; who was re-elected without a dissentient voice , a tribute to merit . Joseph Hough , Grand Secretary , Elias Phillips , Grand Treasurer , both re-elected . Jas . Cassidy , G . S . D . ; S . Thompson , G . S . D . * John Rogers and J * R . Chapin , Grand Stewards . —ZVew York Masonic Messenger .
UNION GF ^ THE CRAFT IN NEW YORK . The Committees on the side of the Grand Lodge of the State , and the seceding party , whom our English Brethren may recollect as the two parties who submitted their cases to the Grand Lodge of England for adjudication , have closed their labours with entire satisfaction to both parties . We learn the best feeling has animated the breasts of the Brethren who formed the Committee , during the whole of the conference ; and we . believe tile principal reason the matters were not settled before was the questionable propriety of putting Brethren on the
Committee heretofore , who had an hostile feeling against each other . D . G . M . Macoy ; H . W . Turner , W . M ., of Amity ; A . Cassard , W . M ., of * La Fraternidad ; Rev . Bro . Gray , and J . S . Peiry , of Troy , on the one side ; the other is Bros . John A . Kennedy , Thos . Cook , and S . Jenkinson . These Brethren formed the two Committees , and we will venture to say no question for years past has agitated the minds of the Fraternity more than the proceedings of this Committee . The
Craft owe these Brethren a deep debt of gratitude for their untiring efforts to produce peace after so many lamentable failures , and we hope to chronicle on next St . John ' s day the Masonic marriage of the two Grand parties , who will hereafter be known as the Grand Lodge of the State of New York : and may the words once applied to us be applied to them for all time— " Those whom God hath joined , let no man pat asunder . " So mote it he . —Ne % o York Masonic Messenger .
Masonic Festivities
MASONIC FESTIVITIES
In the way of amusement , few things afford the writer more gratification than witnessing the innocent enjoyment of young folks in a ball-room . He even thinks a dance occasionally does himself good ; and if he does not enter into the spirit of a deux temps or a varsovieune with the zeal or zest of his younger Brethren , there is still that left in him to enjoy a sober quadrille , or a turn or two in a polka . It relieves the mind after laborious pursuits , freshens the body after close confinement , and enables it to return and pursue official avocations with increased pleasure . That he is not alone in this opinion , the number of Masonic balls noticed in this and our last number will fully testify ; and those who attended them will bear ortt an assertion , that there is a good
deal of dancing left in the human frame even after it does get to the wrong side of five and thirty or forty . We say this by way of a little encouragement to those who fancy they are getting too old for a dance , and would rather have a