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Tidings From The Craft In The United States.
TIDINGS FROM THE CRAPT M THE UNITED STATES .
[ Prepared for ' the Freemasons' Magazine by the R . W . Bro . Kob Morris , of Lodge ton , Kentucky . ] WheeMn ^ We have had but little of general interest to arouse us during the past month . A . few local questions of jurisdiction , one or two cases of internal dissensions ., generally settled by compromise , and preparations for the
summer vacation hard by , are all that have moved the rather sluggish pools of the season . The death of Di \ J / K . Mitchell , of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Grand Master of that jurisdiction , on the 4 th of April , is an incident of note . Though not personally acquairited with him , yet 1 give the general estimate of his character as an intelligent man , a worthy Mason , and a
devoted official . There is no Grand Lodge in all the constellation of thirtysix Grand Lodges now glittering in our American firmament , which pays more attention to the character of those elevated to lofty seats , than that of Pennsylvania . Such names as Joseph R . Chandler , Messrs . Dallas , Miinor , Israel , Page , and the like , attest this assertion as truth , and it is felt that the death of Dr . Mitchell is a national calamity .
Your readers '' doubtless know something of Mr . Lewis Cass , now Secretary of State of the United States , formerly minister plenipotentiary to Prance . I was recently in a Lodge , Amity , No . 5 , at Zanesville , Ohio , of which he was the first Master . This was in the year 1805 . The Lodge possesses in its archives a copy of the " Constitutions of Masonry , " published by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1798 , presented by Bro . Cass . The same distinguished statesman was the second G-rand Master of Ohio in 1808 or 1809 , and the first in Michigan about 1828 .
There is also in possession of Amity Lodge , as above , a sword once the property of Rufus Putnam , an officer in the American revolution , of which the curiosity lies in the hilt . This is of silver wrought into all the emblems of Masonry , displayed in the most ingenious manner . As the manufacture of this sword must have preceded the year 1776 , its hilt is in fact a tracing board of the Masonic designs in use at that period . We are
gradually bringing the antiquities of Masonry out of the dust , arid preserving them from utter oblivion . In the Ci History of Masonry in Kentucky , " by your correspondent , now ready for the press , the titles of all the older Masonic works in any of the American libraries are given in full , with a view to pave the way for a Bigliographia Americana of Masonic titles . The efforts of the members of the School of Crotona are disinterring much that is valuable of Masonic documents , seals , inscriptions , & c . & c .
Your correspondent recently sent to his esteemed friend , M . Eurnell , D . ublin , Ireland , D . Prov . Gr . M . of North Minister , a package of Masonic documents , embracing by-laws , proceedings of Grand Lodges , files of Masonic periodicals , impressions of Masonic stamps and seals , books new and old , circulars , & c . & c , interesting to those who would form Masonic
collections of the sort . By this communication he begs leave to propose a like exchange with any British Brother who will send him objects of the sort published or made in any part of Europe . The aid of Bro . J . B . Taylor , of the Bureau of Masonic Literature , 335 , Broadway , New York , as a medium for forwarding such objects , may be relied upon . I shall be happy to have many responses to this proposition .
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Tidings From The Craft In The United States.
TIDINGS FROM THE CRAPT M THE UNITED STATES .
[ Prepared for ' the Freemasons' Magazine by the R . W . Bro . Kob Morris , of Lodge ton , Kentucky . ] WheeMn ^ We have had but little of general interest to arouse us during the past month . A . few local questions of jurisdiction , one or two cases of internal dissensions ., generally settled by compromise , and preparations for the
summer vacation hard by , are all that have moved the rather sluggish pools of the season . The death of Di \ J / K . Mitchell , of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Grand Master of that jurisdiction , on the 4 th of April , is an incident of note . Though not personally acquairited with him , yet 1 give the general estimate of his character as an intelligent man , a worthy Mason , and a
devoted official . There is no Grand Lodge in all the constellation of thirtysix Grand Lodges now glittering in our American firmament , which pays more attention to the character of those elevated to lofty seats , than that of Pennsylvania . Such names as Joseph R . Chandler , Messrs . Dallas , Miinor , Israel , Page , and the like , attest this assertion as truth , and it is felt that the death of Dr . Mitchell is a national calamity .
Your readers '' doubtless know something of Mr . Lewis Cass , now Secretary of State of the United States , formerly minister plenipotentiary to Prance . I was recently in a Lodge , Amity , No . 5 , at Zanesville , Ohio , of which he was the first Master . This was in the year 1805 . The Lodge possesses in its archives a copy of the " Constitutions of Masonry , " published by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1798 , presented by Bro . Cass . The same distinguished statesman was the second G-rand Master of Ohio in 1808 or 1809 , and the first in Michigan about 1828 .
There is also in possession of Amity Lodge , as above , a sword once the property of Rufus Putnam , an officer in the American revolution , of which the curiosity lies in the hilt . This is of silver wrought into all the emblems of Masonry , displayed in the most ingenious manner . As the manufacture of this sword must have preceded the year 1776 , its hilt is in fact a tracing board of the Masonic designs in use at that period . We are
gradually bringing the antiquities of Masonry out of the dust , arid preserving them from utter oblivion . In the Ci History of Masonry in Kentucky , " by your correspondent , now ready for the press , the titles of all the older Masonic works in any of the American libraries are given in full , with a view to pave the way for a Bigliographia Americana of Masonic titles . The efforts of the members of the School of Crotona are disinterring much that is valuable of Masonic documents , seals , inscriptions , & c . & c .
Your correspondent recently sent to his esteemed friend , M . Eurnell , D . ublin , Ireland , D . Prov . Gr . M . of North Minister , a package of Masonic documents , embracing by-laws , proceedings of Grand Lodges , files of Masonic periodicals , impressions of Masonic stamps and seals , books new and old , circulars , & c . & c , interesting to those who would form Masonic
collections of the sort . By this communication he begs leave to propose a like exchange with any British Brother who will send him objects of the sort published or made in any part of Europe . The aid of Bro . J . B . Taylor , of the Bureau of Masonic Literature , 335 , Broadway , New York , as a medium for forwarding such objects , may be relied upon . I shall be happy to have many responses to this proposition .