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IP .10 V ssai ■ 'I 2 THE MASONIC JOUIlNAL THE MiSONIO JOURNAL. GREENSBORO, N. 0., Thursday, Sep 30,1875 E, A. WILSON, Editor & Pioprietor. ‘A Good Enough Morgan. TERMS: 1 copy One Year 1 copy Six Moiitlis ' Xo club rates; ADVERTISING RATES. >• n > O C5 O 125 M M a ?3 $ •2.50 $4.50 $10.00 $ 15.00 2 inches. 4.50 8.00 15 00 25.00 8,00 10.0) 25.00 37.00 “ colimui, 10.00 15.00 37.00 o').00 20.00 25.00 50.00 75.00 i column, 25.00 37.50 75.00 125.00 8@" Transient advertiseinents charged |1 per iiicli for first, and 50 cents for qacb subse- ■ [uent insertion. ly Special Notices 25 cents per line for tlie c..,is anj 20 cents for each subsequent inser- and lir.St, tion. Simple announcement of MarnagC' Dcatlis free ; Obituaries and Tributes of Re spect charged for at regular advertising rates. {gy*TERM.S—CASH ON DEMAND.°®8 Office on South Elm Street, first door nortii of the Patriot Office. Our Foreman, Mr. .7. tl. FKTZEl!, i» autl.orized to receive uiid receipt for Suhsrrintioiis In our aliscnce. By-Laws.—We respectfully request Secretaries of all the Grand and Subor dinate Councils, Chapters and Lodges in the Southern States to send us copies of their By-Laws, as now in force Subscriptions are coming in quite freely from all .sections of the country, for which we return thanks to the friends who are so industriously working for us. If all the Lodges and brethren individually, will bestir themselves right ly, we will soon have the Journal along side of any paper in the country. Subscribers will confer a great favor liy showing the Journal to their hreth- I'en and securing as many subscribers as possible. Remember always to send the money with the names, as we aie doing a strictly cash business, and enter no names on our books until the money is received. Receipts always accompany the first pa per to each subscriber. Encouraging'.—The prospects of the Journal are brightening every day. Al most every mail brings new lists of sub scribers, and already the first and second issues are entirely exhausted notwitli- st anding the large editions printed of those numbers. In the future all subscriptions will be gin with the date succeeding the order for the paper. Work on, bretbien, and we'll try to give you, the best Masonic paper In the United States. Leanks.—We are indebted to Compan ion Geo. Frank GoUley, Committee on Correspoiidence, for the advance sheets of his admirable Report to the approaching Convocation of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Missouri. It contains reviews of thirty cix Grand Chapters, hmong which we are sorry not to find North Carolina; Connecticut, Rhode Island and OregOH; Proceedings from those Grand Chapters not having reached him in time, if at all, to be included. The Report contains much valuable information which, from time to time, we shall be pleased to draw upon ; and when, like brother Gouley, we differ with the “other doctors,'' we'll freely “speak out in meeting.” Will not others place us under similar obligations ? Under this significant heading Thurlow Weed seeks to revive a long forgotten slander upon the Masonic Fraternity that of the abduction and murder of Wil liam Morgan—Mr. Weed excusing him self for resurrecting this slander by the flimsey statement that he had been solio- '' ited to do so by the New York He^'ald \ and Albany Argus, two papers noted, I perhaps, above all others in this country I for their fondness for discord and strife. But to Mr. Weed’s .statement. I He sets out by acknowledging that at I the time of the alleged kidnapping he was publishing, in Roche,ster, “an anti-Ma- .sonic Journal,” and was a member of an investigating committee ; yet in the next breath he declares that he “entertained favorable opinions of an institution to which Washington, Franklin and La Fay ette belonged.” Of course such contra dictory declarations place Mr. Weed in a very unenviable light, especially as he was an acknowledged political champion of the anti-Masonic party. Again, Mr. Weed’s statement is entitled to .far less weight because it is all founded on hear-say—flying reports intensified by the heat of political excitement. I.s there a sane man who can believe that a hu man body can lie at the bottom of a river (or lake Ontario) for “more than a year,” as Mr. Weed states it, and then be brought forth and identified ? No! Mr. Weed further acknowledges that the body claimed as that of Morgan “more than a year” after his alleged drowning, was identified by the wife of Timothy Monroe as that of her unfortunate hus band who was known to have been drown ed eleven days before ; the searching eX' amination to which she was subjected by the anti-Masonic investigating committee and the minute description she gave of clothings, &c., proving conclusively to the jury that it was none other than the unfortunate Canadian, Monroe, who went over the Falls eleven days before. But as Mr. Thurlow Weed, for purposes to be adjudged by the public, sees fit to resur rect this old story, and at the olo.se of his discrepant article declares his shattered faith in it, for his and the public's infor mation we append the following from the St. Louis Dispaich as to the whereabouts of this notorious William Morgan , and his subsequent life in Van Diemaris Land: “Years ago the story of Morgan’s mur der by the Freemasons was effectually disposed of by no less a person than Mor gan's own son. Instead of being myste riously butchered, the father lived nearly thirty years after his abduction, and fi nally died, in corpulence and contentment at Van Dieman’s Land, where he was the editor of a newspaper called the Adver tise^-, which still survives him, and where in a pleasant way he u.sed to I’efer to the stories told of his horrible killing in the United States, and the various modes of torture that liad been accorded to his ex ecutioners as the means whereby he was taken out of the world. “According to the statement of young Morgan, his father was .irrested after the exposure of Masonry came out, and held .some time a prisoner, and finally released upon the condition that he should leave the country forever. He accepted with alacrity the propositions made to him, and was aficOmpanied by Masons as far as '-luebec. Here he entered the British navy, and in two months sailed direct for England. Morgan in some why got a dis charge from the service, and settled 'm Van Dieman’s Land. His son was a res ident of San Francisco at the time this in- fdrmation was communicated concerning his fathei’’8 whereabouts. Once every two years the sort visited the father, and for a while after this official and emphatic statement was published; the stdry of the father’s milrdef died out. At intervals, however, it breaks out afrSsh and goes the rounds of all the newspapers.” ■What They Say. To show our friends what is being said of the Journal, we append a few extracts from some of the many notices that we have received : The Journal is a handsome eight page paper filled with useful and instructive “Craft” reading, as well as news and mis cellaneous matter.—Fiwston Sentinel. MOiSAiUiS. We wish this enterprise great success. There is no telling the good which is done by a family newspaper, which incumates correct sentiments, as we have no doubt this one will do.—Danville 'limes. It is well gotten up both editorially and typographically, and we very cheer fully commend it to the favor and patron age of the public, and especially to the Masonio Fraternity,—Or_pAan> Frund. Well printed and full of matter^ of much interest to the Craft. It is edited and pinhlished by Rev, E. A, Wilson, at Greensboro, N. 0. It should receiv-c a liberal support at the hands of all good and true Masons.—Christian Sun. Masonic Journal ; A Masonic and Family Weekly, E. A. Wilson, Editor and Proprietor. The first number of this new candiuate for public tavor and especially for that of the Masonic Fraternity, has been received. It is an eight page journal, neatly printed and well filled with the best reading mat ter. We congratulate Bro. Wilson on his new paper ind wish him success. Chris tian Advocate. The Masonic Journal.—The first number is dared Sept. 16th. The paper IS of e.xcellent quality, and the mechani cal part is well done. The Journal has a lively, fresh ap pearance, and the style of the editor is easy, clear and to the point. He has learn ed the art of compressing a great deal in to a few words, and that ot itself is a vir tue not to be overlooked. We like the Journal, and give it a hearty greeting. — Central Protestant. Masonic Journal.—Rev. E. A. Wil son, formerly editor of the Kinston Ga zette, has just commenced the publication of a new paper, in Greensboro, with the above name, the first number of which is before us. It is a large eight page paper , handsomely printed and generally well arranged. Every Mason in the State should subscribe for it. We wish Mr. Wilson abundant success in his new enter prise.— Roanoke Ffews. Of the original cedars of Lebanon onlv seven now remain. They cover a space of not over a half mile upon the mountain side. They are more than a thousand years old. Indeed, it is believed th'jt some of them weie planted by Solomon. Jame.s B. Walker has been nominated as the Anti.Masonio candidate for Pres;, dent in 1876. He stands one chance ia fifty million.s of being elected, Heisj native of Philadelphia, and is about seven, ty-five years old. Virginia Lodge, No. 3. of Virginia citv Nevada, having lost their hall by fire, followed the example of our .incient breth ren and opened a Lodge on the top of lit. Davidson, Nev., 7,827 feet above the lev el of the sea. The Egyptian hieroglyphic represent ing charity is a naked child, withaheart in his hand, giving honey to a bee with out wings. The child represents the hu mility of charity ; the heart in its hand, the cheerfulness of charity ; giving honev to a bee without wings, the worthiness and helplessness of the object ofeharitv. The Brethren in Smyrna, Turkey, cele brated the election of the Prince of Wales as M, W. G. M of England, by holding a special meeting at which congratulatory addresses were delivered in the Italian French, Turkish, American and Greek languages, and after a delightful evening, the Lodge closed in pieaceand harmony. On St. John’s Day last, the Fraternity in Louisville and vicinity celebrated the day at the Park, and collected |10,OUO towiards the completion of the Masonic Widows’ and orphans’ Plome of Louisville which was so disastrously wrecked by a wind-storm several months ago. There are at present fostered by this great Pub lic Masonio Charity’, 134 children and 9 Widows. The Masonic Journal made its first appearance last week and is in every re spect what the publisher professed to make it—first-class. It is handsomely arranged, neatly printed, carefully edit ed and is such a journal as the Or-al't may welcome as an Organ, and the public o'dgbt to liberally support. We congrat ulate Bro. Wilson on the success of his first number and trust it is an augury of a brilliant and prosperous future.— Greensboro Patriot. • The Masonic Journal.—The first number ot this paper published, at Greens boro by Rev. E. A, Wilson, has been re ceived. The paper is a model of neatness, the print is faultless, and the original and selected articles, show that great labor and care have been given in getting it up^ We feel a great interest in the Journal, having once been connected with the present publisher, but for good and suf ficient reasons, closed out our interest to him. Not that we did not have faith in the ultimate success of the Journal^ for we believed then, and since the reception of the first copy of the paper our faith has been strengthened, and now say and think th.at every Mason who can, ought to subscribe at once and show that the ef fort of Bro.' Wilson, to give them a good, first class Masonio and family paper (and we here say that the paper is strictly first-class) is appreciated by them,—give him your help brethren, and our word for it, he will help you. There is u great need for Masonic Literature in our State and in the Southern States, and the Ma- sonic Journal will supply that need. We pledge ourself to do all we can towards spreading the circulation of the Journal, and we hope the Lodges throughout the State will endorse and adopt the Journal as the organ of the Fraternity in the Slate, and that each individual Mason will do all he can to hold up the hands of the Editor and send him subscribers outside 1 of the Order.— Franklin Courier, The Grand Orient of Portugal has for ty-eight Lodges affiliated with it, some of them in Portugal and others in Spain. St. John’s College, at Little Rock, Ark., was largely attended by the brethren, at Commencement on St. John's day. These Masonio institutions of learning are cal culated to infuse a better feeling for Ma sonry and its great work of Charity than it would otherwise obtain. Health of the Asylum,—We .are' happy to be able to announce that fie health of the children here is very good indeed. ■ At the time of writing this par agraph, (Tuesday morning) we Lave but one natne on the sick list—a little girl— and she is rapidly improving. We have been remarkably blest in this respect tie present season.—Oo-phan’s Friend. The Barones,? Burdett-Ooutts has not, like the most of her sex, that antipathy to the Freemasons which is generated by tie secrecy of their proceedings. She has, on the contrary, recognized the charitable disposition of the craft, and is going to work with them for the common good. In return for a present of 'chairs of order to the Lodge which bears her name, she is to be invited to a banquet; and this, ve are assured, will be the the first occasion in England on which a lady has been present when Lodge furniture as such will be used. Mr. Mills gave an entertainment wih' his orphans at Winston last week, anc, just like that people, who never do things by halves, they made a contribution o* $180,04. This liberal donation speats volumes in praise of Winstonian chant} > and is commendable to all people. are informed there were eighteen gentle men in the audience who contributed , each.
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