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.ii' . I >’ ' 11 ‘j THE MASONIO JOURNAL- THE MA.S0NI0 JOURNAL GREENSBOKO, N. 0. Thursday, Nov. II, 1875. E. A. WILSON, Editor & Pioprietor. $ 2 00 ] 25 TERMS: 1 copy One Year - - - \ copy Six Monihs 1^5" Xo dub rates.“®a Any person sending; us 12 or more yearly subscriptions, with tl.e CASH, will receive the paper one year tree oi charge. 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Any kind is so scarce down here that we take it and ask no questions —so it's green. To SECRETAaiES.—We respectfully solicit for publication, notices of marriag e,s and deaths of the brethren—each to contain the OfEoial relation, if any, which the party holds in his Lodge, Please .send us any other news matter .connected with your Lodge. Our numerous exchanges are continu ally saying kind and flattering words of lour Journal, ali of which we highly ap preciate, and for which we thank them. In any future notices which they may be pleased to make they will please state to their readers that the Journal is an eight-page Weekly—the only Ma: onic Weekly in ihe Southern Stales ! Price eniy $2 per year ; 6 months $1,25. Too True. “North Carolina has erected no monu ments, and vet her history is lull of great names.”—Richmond Enquirer. The above statement is a sad oommen tary upon the public spirit of our people, and so far as we know the statement is essentially correct. True, there is a small ma.'ble shaft in memory of Coi. Louis D, Wilson, of Edgecombe county, standing in a neglected condition in front of the Court House in Tarboro; and this is the only public memorial in the State of any .jf her native sons, Besides this, there is a bronze statue of Washington on the Capitol square at Raleigh. This is ail wrong ; and though our peo pie are poor, we certainly ought to have something of that patriotism and venera tion for our “great names to induce us to memorialize them in a substantial, yet unostentatious manner. But a few weeks ago vve called upon the Ma.sonic Fraternity and the peoph at large of the State to contribute to the erection of a suitable shalt over the re mains o'. Richard Caswell, North Caroli na's first Constitutional Governor, a.nd second Grand Master of Masons of the State, and as yet we have met with no response, nor has our State press, so nota bly foremost in the espousal of every good woi-k, given us its encouragement. Why is this? Our people have been notably liberal in their contributions to public enterprises in other States ; and yet they neglect their own honered dead. Wc hope this will not continue, but that everybody will contribute what they can, and that as Masons we will take pride in substantially honoring oiir illustrious Grand Master, whose grave is not now marked by even a pine board.- Will not our brethren of the Press aid us in this noble work '! Grand Lodge. A Note'worthy Institution. Our valued coteiuporary, the Raleigh Daily News has repeatedly failed to ‘Tome to time,” or to come at all, during the past two weeks. What's the matter, brother Stone? Stir up your mailing clerk. Three weeks from next Monday the Grand Lodge of North Carolina will meet in Raleigh. Of course every subordinate Lodge will be represented by one or more, as this will be one of the most important sessions, in many particulars, that has been held since the war. We have two suggestions which we desire to offer here First, Brother Mills will be there, and let every Lodge in the State gladden his heart, and the dear little orphans whom be represents, by sending him a contribution by the Repre sentatives. This will be an act in keep ing with the spirit and principles of our Order. Second, we earnestly request every Master, Warden ancf Representative who mav attend, to make an earnest etfor- in his Lodge in behalf of the Masoni'c JaUE- nal and cai-i y us a good List of subscrib ers to Raleigh. This is a voluntary en terprise for the good of the Craft, and de pending in.ninly upon the Masons in Noi th Carolina for its success. It has received the unanimous endorsement of the Press of the whole country and the enthusiastic commendation of our Grand Master, and we do ho[ie and believe that the I'later— nity in the State will give it a handsome support. It has already received flat tering enconrageineiil, but is notyetself- sustaining, and we hope all will come prompitly to our aid in making it the best Masonic Weekly in the United States. The Roman Catholic journals are jest now in the prophetic vein. A journal in Rome intimates to the Prince of Wales that the downfall of Charles X., Ltiuis Phillipe, and Louis Napoleon, was owing to their being Masons, and tells him to take warning and follow the example of the Marquis of Pvipon. It is a pity the RomaHists will persist in wasting so m ch time in the useless endeavor to bring Ma sonry into disrepute.— Canadian Alasonic Craftsman. CjI Arthur Ginn has a ten acre orange The ‘'Mason ic Code of North Garo- 13 now in the hands of the binder, -and will be ready for distribution in a few days. It was compiled by our es teemed friend, Grand Secretary D. W. Plain, by order of the Grand Lodge, and w ill prove of incalculable service to all -who are interested in the Masonic juris prudence of our State. All officers of Imdges. and pr.vate members who can, -should get a copy, and familiarize them selves with the Law. Price $1 per copy. The kind words and warm greeting to the Journal from the good brother in the far off land of Idaho Territory, is warmly appreciated, and we hope he may soon send us the long list of su'bscribers. Also the good brother “down East” will please accept our thanks for the words of cheer and substantial efforts in our behalf. We assure you that nothing ■shall be omitted on our part to make the Journal all its friend would have it. In his address to the Grand Chapter cf ^Maryland, the G. II. P., expresses the following highly oommendaiile language : “It is not the chief end of Masonry to make Masons, notwithstanding a laudable .lesire to recognize among our numbers good and true men wherever they may ha, and yet we find the feeling prevails with a great macy that when there is no work tiiere is no nece.ssity of attendance on their part. No greater mistake than this could bo made, as upon the attend...rice of the membership, and the interest engender— e ! thereby, depends the very existence of the Chapters.” Thanks to Brothei C. P. MaoCalla Editor of the Keystone, for a History of Concordia Lodge, No. 67. F. & A. M., of Philadelnbia, Pa. It is a neat little book of 52 pages, and contains much valuable information respecting that “Ancient Lodge,’ and particularly to th“ intro duction of organized Freemasonry in America, viz ■. “Philadelphia had the first Master Masons’ Lodge in America, in the year 1780; the first Provincial Grand Lodge in America, in the year 1732; the first Masonic Hali m America, in 1754; the first Royal Arch Chapter in America, in 1767 ; and the first Masonic Periodical in America, "The Freemasons Magazine,'' in 1811. Concordia Lodge, 67, of which this lit tle book is a History, was chartered in August 26, 1795, uy the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, brother Wm. Ball, G. M., and went regularly to work on Sept' 12th —80 years ago. Until Dec., 1817, they elected officers semi-annually. .The History . shows a brilliant and prosperous career. May she always be “bright.” grove on Lake Monroe, Fla., which con tains 700 trees, yielding from $10,000 to $13 000 per year. The lost steamer Pacific has been heard from. She Lad on board 75 passengers besides her regular crew. All was lost, save one. The following is the dispatch anr.ouncing his safety ; San Francisco, Nov. 9.—Henry L. Jelly, the survivor from the steamship Pacific, floated on the pilot house from 8.30 on Thursday night to 10 o'clock on- Saturday morning His companion died from exposure, and was cut loose by Jelly. Several boats were launched but all foun dered. The passengers, some seventy- five in number, were from Puget’s Sound and Victoria. Jelly is too low to give further particulars. Gi'.n. George Washington’s Opinion OP Swearing.—In Spark’s writing of Washington he cites the following ; “The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have hut little hope of the bles sing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.” Gounod, the composer, fell down stairs, at the seventh stair he yelled 'fortissimo!" and as he struck the last octavo he looked like one trying to play a duet. M. Maximilian Littre, one of the most distinguished scientists and philologists of France, and upward of 75 years of age, has been initiated into the Lodge Clem ente Amitie, which has created great ex citement and rejoicing in that country. Commenting upon this valuable accession to the Urder in France, the Voice of j)fa. sowry giving a description of the attend ant ceremonies, says; “Everything was conducted with umi. sual splendor and the journals of Paris, Masonic and profane, were filled for days afterwarcLs with notices of the initiation and for the most part with congrattila- tions, for the glory which Masonry Lad tliereby achieved. In fact, the initiation of M. Lutre has produced about the same amount of tx- itement in France, that the installation of the Prince of Wales as Grand Master did in England. In both instance.'^, there perhaps was a little too much adnlation—but in the latter case it was the adulation of rank, in the former, the adulation of intellect In Ami-rica all this very naturally cre ates some surprise. Here -we frequently initiate great men, statesmen, scholar.i, men in high civil or military rank ami not the slightest public notice is ever ta ken of the fact. President Johnson very quietly received the degrees of the Scot- tush Rite at the White House, and a few years before a Vice-Presiuent tempora rily left his chair as Presiding Officer of the Senate to be vested with the dignity of the thirty-third degree by the Supreme Council then in session at Washington; and yet in neither case did the newspa pers give the incident the honor of a par agraph. We have an opinio-i here that when a great man becomes a candidate for Masonry, he does just what a wise and good man should do, and if he is received, the honor is for him and not for the Or der, which derives its glory from its prin- oi piles only'. But in P'rance, there are, just at this time causes operating, which render suck men as Littre, learned and popular aa he is, important accessions to the strength tf the Order, of which therefore, it has the right to make the most that it can. There is a bitter, contest now wagliif in France between the Freemasons am, the Ultramontane priesthood. At the head of these latter is Monsiegnieur Du- panlonp, Bishop of Orleans, one of the most learned and influential prelates of the Galilean church, He has written s book entitled A Study of Freemasimry, (“Etude sur la Franomaoonnerie”) the refutation of which is incessantly occup'v- ing the writers in the Masonicjournalsof Paris. When, therefore, a man like Littre, i member of the Institute and of the Cham ber of Deputies, distinguished for hit scholarly attainments, and occupying the very highest position as a man of soienK and a philosopher, comes at the verge o a long life which has been consecrated t: the intellectual elevation of man, tola) all his honors on the altar of Masoni), and to declare his belief in the virtue and utility of the Institution, which has been so maligned, it is not strange that the Masons should prize as of inestimable value, this reinforcement of their army i® the very hour of its need. And 80 M. Hubert, the editor^ of the Chaine d' Union, says of this initiation that “it is a witness, an honor, a forte >n which all the members of the Institution should rejoice, in view especially o 1 * renewed attacks of which for some past Masonry and Masons have been t e object.” Subscribe for the JOUEK-51-
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