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GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER . E / D . De Haven , G . High Priest . | John F . Houston , G . Scribe . P . Draper , D . G . High Priest . ! John D . Daggett , G . Treas . Marcus Boyd , G . King . j A . O'Sullivan , G . Sec . The Old Masonic Temple at Boston , Massachusetts , a prominent object upon
Tremont-street , has recently been sold to the U . S . Government to be used as a Post-office . The sale money is 106 , 000 dollars . One historical incident connected with this old building is well remembered in Boston , that when the state legislature proposed , during the antimasonic excitement which existed there from 1826 to 1836 , to annul the Act of Incorporation of the Grand Lodge , the title to this edifice was vested in an individual , a Masonic Brother of great integrity , and so remained until the political storm had "blown past .
The hall of Lodge , No . 138 , at Smithland , Kentucky , was burnt on the night of October 10 th , 1857 , but the Jewels and Archives of the Lodge were saved . Among the recent deaths chronicled in the mortuary lists , of the School of Crotona ^ are two Past Grand Masters of Kentucky , viz ., Willis Stewart and John D . McClure , and Brother Jesse Edmonston , of Hickman , Kentucky , long a collaborateur of Bro . Bob . Morris , in his Masonic efforts . A sketch of the condition of Adoptive or Androgynous Masonry , in the United
States , a subject to which I perceive you have devoted considerable space in your column 8 ^ shall be given you hereafter . Much attention is bestowed upon it , by a large portion of the American Masons ; though , until recently , hut few and feeble attempts have been made to reduce it to system , and place it under a governing head .
Lodgeton , Kentucky , November 28 , 1857 . A proposition has been agitated amongst the Lodges of the United States which bears the stamp of enterprise and zeal . It is that the Masons of this country unite in the purchase of the " Mount Vernon Estate , " formerly the residence of George Washington , and where his remains yet repose . The price asked by the present proprietor is 200 , 000 dollars , and as the estimate of Masonic
membership in the United States at present is , by the tables or the bcnool ot Urotona , about 200 , 000 , the contribution from each Brother would be but the insignificant sum of one dollar . The scheme originates in the Lodges of Richmond , Virginia . It is suggested that , when thus purchased , the Brethren meet annually around the tomb of their illustrious Brother , to celebrate his undefiied character
and imperishable deeds . A new Grand Lodge , the thirty-sixth in the galaxy of Grand Lodges in the United States , lias been organized in the territory of Nebraska , but five years since a howling wilderness ; date of organization , September 23 , 1857 . Nothing illustrates American thoughtfulness better than the fact that , in emigrating to new countries , they carry their Lodges with them , as the Israelites bore theirs through the desert ; while their independence of spirit is manifest in the rapidity with which they unshackle from their mother Grand Lodge and establish one of their own . The amount of incomes of some of our Grand Lodges may form an interesting
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Tidings Feom The Craft In The United Sta...
GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER . E / D . De Haven , G . High Priest . | John F . Houston , G . Scribe . P . Draper , D . G . High Priest . ! John D . Daggett , G . Treas . Marcus Boyd , G . King . j A . O'Sullivan , G . Sec . The Old Masonic Temple at Boston , Massachusetts , a prominent object upon
Tremont-street , has recently been sold to the U . S . Government to be used as a Post-office . The sale money is 106 , 000 dollars . One historical incident connected with this old building is well remembered in Boston , that when the state legislature proposed , during the antimasonic excitement which existed there from 1826 to 1836 , to annul the Act of Incorporation of the Grand Lodge , the title to this edifice was vested in an individual , a Masonic Brother of great integrity , and so remained until the political storm had "blown past .
The hall of Lodge , No . 138 , at Smithland , Kentucky , was burnt on the night of October 10 th , 1857 , but the Jewels and Archives of the Lodge were saved . Among the recent deaths chronicled in the mortuary lists , of the School of Crotona ^ are two Past Grand Masters of Kentucky , viz ., Willis Stewart and John D . McClure , and Brother Jesse Edmonston , of Hickman , Kentucky , long a collaborateur of Bro . Bob . Morris , in his Masonic efforts . A sketch of the condition of Adoptive or Androgynous Masonry , in the United
States , a subject to which I perceive you have devoted considerable space in your column 8 ^ shall be given you hereafter . Much attention is bestowed upon it , by a large portion of the American Masons ; though , until recently , hut few and feeble attempts have been made to reduce it to system , and place it under a governing head .
Lodgeton , Kentucky , November 28 , 1857 . A proposition has been agitated amongst the Lodges of the United States which bears the stamp of enterprise and zeal . It is that the Masons of this country unite in the purchase of the " Mount Vernon Estate , " formerly the residence of George Washington , and where his remains yet repose . The price asked by the present proprietor is 200 , 000 dollars , and as the estimate of Masonic
membership in the United States at present is , by the tables or the bcnool ot Urotona , about 200 , 000 , the contribution from each Brother would be but the insignificant sum of one dollar . The scheme originates in the Lodges of Richmond , Virginia . It is suggested that , when thus purchased , the Brethren meet annually around the tomb of their illustrious Brother , to celebrate his undefiied character
and imperishable deeds . A new Grand Lodge , the thirty-sixth in the galaxy of Grand Lodges in the United States , lias been organized in the territory of Nebraska , but five years since a howling wilderness ; date of organization , September 23 , 1857 . Nothing illustrates American thoughtfulness better than the fact that , in emigrating to new countries , they carry their Lodges with them , as the Israelites bore theirs through the desert ; while their independence of spirit is manifest in the rapidity with which they unshackle from their mother Grand Lodge and establish one of their own . The amount of incomes of some of our Grand Lodges may form an interesting