ODD-FELLOWS' CELEBRATION.

THE first celebration of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, of the State of Georgia, took place yesterday. It is but a short time since the first Lodge was established in this place, and the imposing procession yesterday, with their banners, insignia and decorations, showed at once the rapid growth of this benevolent Fraternity in our midst. The procession, consisting of the excellent "Republican Blues" band, the officers and members of Live Oak Lodge No. 3, Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, Magnolia Encampment No. 1, and visiting brethren of other Lodges, was formed on the Bay, under the direction of Bro. E. J. JONES, assisted by Bros. W. H. DAVIS, T. J. BULLOCH and G. W. MILLER. It then took up the line of march and proceeded through several of the most public streets, to the Methodist Church, where an Anthem was sung by the Choir and an appropriate Prayer made by Rev. Bro. CLAPP. The following Hymn was then sung with excellent taste:

Blest is the man whose tender heart

Feels all another's pain;

To whom the supplicating eye

Was never raised in vain.

Whose breast expands with gen'rous warmth,

A stranger's woe to feel;

And bleeds in pity o'er the wound
He wants the power to heal.

Peace from the bosom of his God;
Peace shall to him be given;
His soul shall rest secure on earth,
And find its native heaven.

To him protection shall be shown:

And mercy from above

Descend on those who thus fulfil

The perfect law of love.

Bro. HENRY R. JACKSON, the orator appointed for the occasion, then rose and delivered a highly finished and eloquent oration, illustrative of the principles of the Order. We have not time to follow him in his re

marks, or even give an outline of them, and this we do not so much regret, as a copy of the oration will, no doubt, be solicited for publication. We were in hopes that during his remarks, he would have given a sketch of the rise and progress of the Order, particularly in this country, as it would have proved highly interesting to the very large and crowded auditory of both sexes, present on the occasion. We cannot help expressing our pleasure at the liberal and extended views of the orator in relation to party politics and religion. The principles of Odd-Fellowship were designed to alleviate suffering-to make its disciples better menbetter members of society. Charity and truth are the basis upon which their philosophy is founded. When a person becomes associated with the Order, he is instructed to write upon his heart the Saviour's golden

rule, "Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you."Their standing mottos, "Faith, Hope, and Charity," "Friendship, Love and Truth," are also engraved upon the tablets of their memories.

After the oration, the Band struck up and played "The Odd Fellows' March," in their usual good style. The Choir then sung with fine effect the following

ODE,

BY C. D. STEWART.

Not at the tyrant's 'hest

Our feet the ranks have prest
On gory field;

The voice of sacred right

Hath bid us arm with might,

And rush into the fight

Her sword to wield.

No trump, or cannon's peal
Invites us forth to reel

In seas of blood;

But friendship's deeper claim,
And love, whose holy flame

Is sweeter far than fame,
To deeds of good,

Inspires our yearning soul,

And bids us to the goal

Where sits distress,

With want, and wo, and grief,

Who vainly beg relief

From Priests, and Levite's deaf,

Who turn, nor bless!

For them, O God, we come,

And they whose lips are dumb
With sorrow's spell;

To bind the broken heart
With mercy's healing art,
And act a brother's part

Those ranks we swell.

Our kindred who are chained,
The stricken and the pained,

The lov'd and dear;

For them we rise to-day,

Nor turn the other way,

But give our hands and pray
And wipe the tear.

The starving orphan child,
The widow weeping wild
In hovel low;

Their cry has reached our ear,
We come to quell their fear,
Their aching hearts to cheer,
And soothe their wo!

O Father make us strong

To break the Tyrant's thong,

Through Love, and Thee;

To turn the Despot's will,

Bid sorrow's waves be still,

And conquer every ill

Till all are free.

The services were closed at the Church, by a Benediction, pronounced by Rev. Bro. STROBEL, after which the procession was again formed and proceeded to the Lodge, where it was dismissed.

[Sav. Rep. Jan. 23.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Ir is with inexpressible pleasure that we announce to the Brotherhood the agreeable intelligence that our fondest anticipations in relation to the reform of the Order in Great Britain are about being fully realised. We have received the Memorial of a number of the most distinguished brethren of Wales praying two warrants for the establishment of Lodges at the important manufacturing town of Tredegar in Monmouthshire, South Wales. These petitions have been granted, and the last steamer from Boston has borne the chartered authority from the Grand Lodge of the United States to our Welsh brethren to institute two Lodges according to the legitimate work of Odd-Fellowship as known and practiced by them in 1825, and as then and ever since known and practiced in this jurisdiction-among the signatures attached to this memorial we recognize the leading spirit in the name of P. Pro. G. M. John Davis, Brychan—with this veteran in the Order, we had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance-we met him at Wigan in Lancashire at the celebrated Moveable Committee to which we were accredited as special Deputy of the Grand Lodge of the United States upon the subject of uniformity in the Work of the Order. With him we had many earnest interviews and ever found him the bold, dauntless and devoted advocate of a Universal Order of Independent Odd-Fellows. In the debates before the committee, and upon all appropriate occasions he fearlessly maintained the American position as the true one, which it became all who regarded the permanent utility and certain preservation of the Order to unite in adopting under any and all circumstances after the defeat of this zealous advocate of the universality of the Order, he with the few friends of the cause who had courage to follow his lead, invited the American Deputies to a conference at their lodgings, where a mutual pledge was interchanged that no effort should be left unemployed to reform the Order in England, by infusing into it, as an initiatory step the life-giving spirit, energy and healthfulness of the Institution as it existed in America. This pledge has now been redeemed by reciprocal co-operation with the aid of that host in Odd-Fellowship, P. G. Sire Kennedy, who kindly consented to conduct the correspondence. We now congratulate the Brotherhood that the Rubicon has been passed, the powerful array of the Manchester Unity to the contrary notwithstanding.Three other applications will soon follow the warrants already issued, from the North of England, and we predict as we have before ventured to

do, that so soon as the constituency shall have had an opportunity of instituting the comparison between the work as we have it and the character of the Order as inseparably blended with its practice, and the condition of Odd-Fellowship in England, blurred all over as it is with associations utterly at war with its professions and teachings, that the same spirit which prompted the spartan band at Tredegar will pervade the whole country until "the powers that be" shall themselves hear, feel and be convinced. We have before intimitated, and we take occasion here again to reiterate the remark, that the great body of the Order in England are anxious, nay eager to unite with their transatlantic brethren in defining a universal work-this feeling we witnessed in every quarter of the kingdom when it was our fortune to meet and address the brethren, and we should do injustice to the leaders at Manchester who so tactfully checked and killed off this feeling by the ingenious device of appearing to yield every thing in the conference, when in point of fact they imposed as a condition what they knew to be utterly impracticable in the American Deputation to concede, we say we should do injustice to them, did we impute their opposition to a common work to any want of conviction of the great importance of the measure and the vast benefits which would result to Odd-Fellowship thus constituted, as a means of benefaction to universal man. We conclude with the single remark, that it becomes every brother who feels as all should feel it to be a duty to promote the unity of our beloved Order throughout the globe, to co-operate with us in the crusade, which is now being entered upon, by correspondence with friends in that country, or by such other legitimate means as may present themselves. The heritage is a rich one. Let us enter and possess it.

WE return our thanks to the person who forwarded us the January No. of the above paper. We know not to whom we are indebted for it, but as it contains a vile and unprovoked attack upon us we are glad that some one has favored us with its perusal.

The writer of that article accuses us of "invidiousness" and "unfairness," in some statements made in our bow, editorial. Of making "efforts to sustain the Covenant," detrimental to individual effort, and indirectly slanderous in their character. Hear him. "The worthy Junior Editor of the Covenant, in his new-born zeal, has in a grandiloquent strain denounced again, indirectly, individual enterprise; and as we have long since determined to arrest, at its onset, any such assumption of superior intelligence and utility by the Official, we call to notice the vauntings of our good brother Case."

This seems to bring the case directly home to us, and to demand a notice, although as Bro. Ford says "it is at all times disagreable to notice invidiousness and unfairness in statements."

What he is pleased to term "invidiousness, unfairness, denunciation, efforts detrimental, slanderous, &c." on our part, is contained in an article