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Tidings From The Craft In The United States
TIDIFGS FROM THE GRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES .
[ Prepared for the Freemasons'Magazine , by the E . W . Bro . Eos Moeris , of Louisville , Kentucky . ] Louisville , Kentucky , Sept . 6 , 1858 . Upon my table this month appears the following : Amerikanisck Deutsche Jahrbucher fur Freiermaurer , for 1857-8 ; Williamsburgh , New York , I 2 mo ., pp . 175 . This is by one of our most zealous Masons , Bro . Edward Eohr , editor and publisher of the Triangel , a German Masonic paper issued weekly at Brooklyn , New York . The thought is humiliating that , while bur German Brethren whose Lodges do not reach fifty in number ( in this country ) , support a calendar so well got up as this , year by year , there is nothing of the sort among us who glory in 4500 Lodges , without a calendar , almanac , register , or any ephemeral whatever . In the spicy and ever vigorous columns of The Masonic Messenger , published at Few York , by Bro . M . J , Drummond , I perceive a prospectus by
R . W . Bro . E . Gr . Storer , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut , proposing to print" The Ancient Records of the Craft in that state , commencing with an account of some of the Lodges which existed previous to the formation of the Grand Lodge , thence running down to the time of the organization of the Grand Lodges—July 8 , 1789 . " The first twentyfour pages of this proposed work are before us , neatly stitched , in pamphlet form . It sets out with the record of an assemblage of delegates of twelve
Lodges , at the house of Bro . Brown , " at New Haven , on the last Tuesday of April , 1783 ;—this was in pursuance of a recommendation of committees of thirteen Lodges , who , it appears , had first come together on the eighteenth of the preceding month , in the same place . These archives are
deeply interesting to the Masonic historian , and our R . W . Bro . Storer is doing a service to us all by rendering them available to our use . The People ' s College , at Havana , New York , broke ground on the 2 nd September * , the corner stone being laid with appropriate Masonic ceremonies , in the presence of a multitude numbering 8 , 000 or 10 , 000 souls .
A monument is to be erected to the memory of Bro . Major General John A . Quitman , P . G . M . of Mississippi , whose decease was announced in a previous communication . The cost will be defrayed by public subscription , taken at the polls in all the precincts of that state , at the October election . His funeral oration was delivered at Fayette , September 6 th , by Bro . S . Crawford . Death , amongst all his victims , has few so worthy of the sigh and tear as Bro . Quitman . But ,
" The tear for friends departed , The faithful and true heat-ted , Cast midst the rubbish of the silent gravels changed to smiles of pleasure , While trusting that our treasure A glorious resurrectiou-day shall have . "
Your correspondent must be pardoned for this expression of feeling . Between himself ai ? d the deceased Brother there existed a tie such as Masonry alone can entwine , and a grateful remembrance of favours received during days of despondency and distress , prompts this tribute to one who has left behind him few equals . The sprig of acacia blooming ( metaphorically ) at the head of his grave , will long serve to remind his mourning survivors of
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Tidings From The Craft In The United States
TIDIFGS FROM THE GRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES .
[ Prepared for the Freemasons'Magazine , by the E . W . Bro . Eos Moeris , of Louisville , Kentucky . ] Louisville , Kentucky , Sept . 6 , 1858 . Upon my table this month appears the following : Amerikanisck Deutsche Jahrbucher fur Freiermaurer , for 1857-8 ; Williamsburgh , New York , I 2 mo ., pp . 175 . This is by one of our most zealous Masons , Bro . Edward Eohr , editor and publisher of the Triangel , a German Masonic paper issued weekly at Brooklyn , New York . The thought is humiliating that , while bur German Brethren whose Lodges do not reach fifty in number ( in this country ) , support a calendar so well got up as this , year by year , there is nothing of the sort among us who glory in 4500 Lodges , without a calendar , almanac , register , or any ephemeral whatever . In the spicy and ever vigorous columns of The Masonic Messenger , published at Few York , by Bro . M . J , Drummond , I perceive a prospectus by
R . W . Bro . E . Gr . Storer , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut , proposing to print" The Ancient Records of the Craft in that state , commencing with an account of some of the Lodges which existed previous to the formation of the Grand Lodge , thence running down to the time of the organization of the Grand Lodges—July 8 , 1789 . " The first twentyfour pages of this proposed work are before us , neatly stitched , in pamphlet form . It sets out with the record of an assemblage of delegates of twelve
Lodges , at the house of Bro . Brown , " at New Haven , on the last Tuesday of April , 1783 ;—this was in pursuance of a recommendation of committees of thirteen Lodges , who , it appears , had first come together on the eighteenth of the preceding month , in the same place . These archives are
deeply interesting to the Masonic historian , and our R . W . Bro . Storer is doing a service to us all by rendering them available to our use . The People ' s College , at Havana , New York , broke ground on the 2 nd September * , the corner stone being laid with appropriate Masonic ceremonies , in the presence of a multitude numbering 8 , 000 or 10 , 000 souls .
A monument is to be erected to the memory of Bro . Major General John A . Quitman , P . G . M . of Mississippi , whose decease was announced in a previous communication . The cost will be defrayed by public subscription , taken at the polls in all the precincts of that state , at the October election . His funeral oration was delivered at Fayette , September 6 th , by Bro . S . Crawford . Death , amongst all his victims , has few so worthy of the sigh and tear as Bro . Quitman . But ,
" The tear for friends departed , The faithful and true heat-ted , Cast midst the rubbish of the silent gravels changed to smiles of pleasure , While trusting that our treasure A glorious resurrectiou-day shall have . "
Your correspondent must be pardoned for this expression of feeling . Between himself ai ? d the deceased Brother there existed a tie such as Masonry alone can entwine , and a grateful remembrance of favours received during days of despondency and distress , prompts this tribute to one who has left behind him few equals . The sprig of acacia blooming ( metaphorically ) at the head of his grave , will long serve to remind his mourning survivors of