Alabama-Extract of a Letter from G. M. E. Salomon, dated Mobile, Jan. 3, 1844.

The Grand Lodge met on Monday last, and granted a Charter to Samaritan Lodge No. 4, which was opened by me some three or four weeks back by dispensation-the Brothers who have taken hold of this Lodge are old and experienced Grands-so you may rely next year in Baltimore of hearing a good report from it. The fact that Bro. I. D. Williamson, late G. Chaplain, is a member, will be sufficient guarantee for you to know that the workings will be correct. He brings with him all the zeal in the interests of the Order, which so characterized him while associated with it at the North. At the installation last night in No. 1, he addressed all the Officers as to their respective duties, in an able and feeling addressalready is it apparent, the influence that is brought to bear on members by the presence of one so ably qualified as he is.

The other Lodges, Nos. 2 and 3, are doing well. It is a pity, however, that the discordant opinions of all could not be united in a small place like Mobile, and have one good substantial Lodge-but so it is-each Lodge is no doubt striving to emulate the other.

The Covenant is always anxiously looked for-it still maintains the high character it always had among the Order here, and the Brethren feel satisfied with the important addition made to its Editorial department, that its usefulness will not deteriorate, but rather increase. A strong appeal to the thousands of good Odd-Fellows should be made by the prominent Brothers in behalf of the work, and they will glorify the day that the Grand Lodge of the U. States decided it should be continued as the Official Magazine.

Ohio-Extract of a letter from Samuel Millikin, dated Rossville, Butler County, February 19th, 1844.

Harmony Lodge No. 14, of this place is prospering-this Lodge was established in May 1842-there are now 50 members-there has been initiated since its organization about 80 members-none but men of the best of character and standing are initiated-peace and harmony prevails in our Lodge and our motto of Friendship, Love and Truth is lived up to by our brethren.

Indiana-Extract of a letter from Grand Secretary John H. Taylor, dated Madison, February 9th, 1844.

Having to write you on business, I have thought it would not be uninteresting to you, for me to say something in reference to the State of the Order in this State, we have now working under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of this State thirteen Lodges, with an increasing membership; since the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of this State, in August last, three new Lodges have been instituted, one at Aurora, one at Fort Wayne and one at Lafayette, and from the reports sent up at the last meeting of the Grand Lodge appear to be doing better than their most sanguine friends anticipated.

At the last meeting of the Grand Lodge, a Charter was granted for a new member at Laurenceburgh, whether it has been opened or not, I

cannot say, as our G. M. was sick at the time, and I have not heard from him since.

Kentucky-Extract of a letter from P. G. P. Donaldson, dated Louisville, February 10th, 1844.

I have just reached Louisville, from Cincinnati, where I have been stopping for the last two weeks. Odd-Fellowship in the "Queen City" is prospering finely. The Lodges are well attended, and the members are generally indefatigable in their efforts to advance the interests of the institution. Some of the first men of the city are attached to the fraternity.

On my way down, I stopped a short time at Madison, Indiana. A new Lodge has recently been instituted there, and a hall has been fitted up with much neatness and taste. The Order is increasing in Madison.

In Louisville, Ky., I have been so fortunate as to find P. G. TAL. P. SHAFFNER, Esq., who has rendered me good service by introducing me to the brotherhood here.

You may expect to hear from me again soon.

P. S. I observe in a late number of the "Independent Odd-Fellow," a notice of Bro Chapin's address, "The Supremacy of Principle," in which notice the editor says that he intends to copy it from "the correctly printed copy" published in the "Symbol." It would appear from this that the address, as published in the Covenant was incorrectly printed-for such is Bro. Ford's intimation. The object of this note, is to inform you and all others who may have seen the insinuation of the Odd-Fellow, that Bro. Chapin expressed to me his entire satisfaction with the typography of the address as printed.

Tennessee-Extract of a letter from P. G. M. T. Kezer, dated Nashville, February 7th, 1844.

I notice that the Editor of the Odd-Fellow has tendered you the choice of peace or war. I am surprised and sorry that such a proposition should emanate from any one professing to be an Odd-Fellow. It surely is not consonant with the teaching of Odd-Fellowship in Tennessee. The brother's own course is well calculated to effect that which he alledges against the Covenant, as highly objectionable. For if local publications are to threaten, and make war upon the Official Magazine, merely because it conflicts with private pursuits, the Grand Lodge may feel called upon to exercise its sovereign power, to suppress all local publications as tending to introduce discord, by exerting local prejudices and sectional feelings. Can Brothers be serious in claiming as one of their rights as an Odd-Fellow, the right to live by the Order in time of good health. They cannot without subverting and perverting the whole superstructure-both in letter and spirit.

The Order was humanely designed to give aid and success to those who are deprived of the great blessing of health. There is no guarantee expressed or implied that will justify any one to claim from the Order a support of his daily avocations. There is no obligation requiring us to deal with a brother or vote for a brother in preference to others. No, thank God, there is nothing so sordid, mercenary, or wordly contained in its precepts. If such considerations were to have any weight, its present

lofty and hallowed position would sink degraded to a level with the common pecuniary concerns of stock-jobing for dollars and cents.

It is unbecoming a man of this great and glorious Republic, where the field is so ample for the exercise of his intelligence and enterprize, to claim pecuniary privilege at the hands of a benevolent association. I enclose you five dollars to be placed to my credit.

Mississippi-Extract of a letter from Grand Secretary John B. Dicks, dated Natchez, February 12th, 1844.

I am enabled officially to state that the Order is still on the increase in this State, there were a very respectable number of initiations during the past quarter, particularly in Capitol Lodge No. 11, situated at Jackson, the seat of government for the State.

All the applicants admitted into the Lodges in this city during the past quarter, are such men as we have reason to feel proud of; men who would do honor to, and ornament any institution in our country; men whose characters for moral worth, estimable citizens, and in several instances true piety, are irreproachable.

If we do not increase in numbers so fast as some of our sister Lodges, we trust the influence and example of such as are now attached to the Order in this city, and in this State, will prove valuable acquisition to the cause of Remembrance, from which must eventually flow benefits, diffusing a moral principle, working a complete reformation throughout this community, and establishing Odd-Fellowship in the foremost rank of usefulness.

There was a celebration of the institution of Wilkinson Lodge No. 10, on the 9th inst. being one year since the establishment of that Lodge at Woodville. G. M. R. Griffeth, D. D. G. Sire Geo. J. Dicks, and a number of the brothers of our city made it convenient to meet the members of Wilkinson Lodge on that occasion; they had quite a pretty turnout, and I make no doubt, created favourable impressions of the Order upon the minds of the uninitiated. Harmony prevails in all the Lodges under this jurisdiction.

Michigan-Extract of a Letter from Bro. Samuel Yorke AtLee, dated Detroit, January 16, 1844.

It will no doubt surprise you to hear of me again as an Odd-Fellow. I have been a citizen of Michigan for these eight years past, and, together with my wife and two boys, reside in this city. I had no idea when I left Cincinnati for this region of ever meeting with the Fraternity, but happily I took all my cards and documents, and have had the great joy of witnessing the honorable Institution lifting her benevolent countenance even here. Our Lodge was instituted here on the 13th November last, and we already have 25 members, all of whom, except six absentees, have attached their signatures to the annexed application.

You are aware, of course, that I was, when I left Cincinnati in 1834, Grand Master of that State, and the records here show that I am the oldest veteran of the Order in Michigan, having been initiated into the Order on the 10th day of January, 1831. So soon as I shall have been authorised by you, I expect to be called upon to institute another Lodge in the interior of this State. The Lodge respectfully urge as speedy an answer as practicable, as there is at present no head here.

The following Journal is translated from the German of Tschokke, who intimates that it is taken from the English, and that it probably gave Goldsmith the first hint towards his Vicar of Wakefield. If it were originally English, it is not easy to understand why it was allowed to die; and our readers, we trust, will deem it not unworthy of being restored to our mother language.

Dec. 15, 1764.-RECEIVED to-day from Dr. Snarl £10 sterling, being my half-year's salary. The receipt even of this hardly-earned sum was attended with many uncomfortable circumstances.

Not until I had waited an hour and a half in the cold ante-room was I admitted to the presence of his Reverence. He was seated in an easy chair at his writing desk. My money was lying by him, ready counted. My low bow he returned with a lofty side-nod, while he slightly pushed back his beautiful black silk cap, and immediately drew it on again. Really he is a man of much dignity. I can never approach him without awe. I do not believe I should enter the king's presence with less composure.

He did not urge me to be seated, although he well knew that I had this very morning walked eleven miles in the bad weather, and that the hour and a half's standing in the ante-room had not much helped to rest my wearied limbs. He pointed me to the money.

My heart beat violently when I attempted to introduce the subject, which I had so long thought over, of a little increase of my salary. I shall never be able to conquer my timidity, even in the most righteous cause. Twice, with an agony as if I were about to commit a crime, I endeavoured to break ground. Memory, words, and voice failed me. The sweat started in great drops from my forehead.

"What do you wish?" said the Rector, very politely.

"I am-every thing is so dear-scarcely able to get along in these hard times, with this small salary."

"Small salary, Mr. Vicar! How can you think so? I can at any time procure another vicar for £15 sterling a-year."

"For £15!

sum."

Without a family, one might indeed get along with that

"Your family, Mr. Vicar," said the Rector, inquiringly, "has not received any addition, I trust. You have only two daughters?"

"Only two, your Reverence; but they are growing up. My Jenny, the eldest, is now eighteen, and Polly, the younger, will soon be twelve.” "So much the better. Can't your girls work?"

I was about to reply, when he cut me short by rising and observing, while he went to the window and drummed with his fingers on the pane, that he had no time to talk with me to-day. "Think it over," he concluded, "whether you will retain your place at £15 a-year, and let me know. If you relinquish it, I hope you will have a better situation for a New Year's present."

He bowed very politely, and again touched his cap. I swept up the money and took my leave. I was thunderstruck. He had never received nor dismissed me so coldly before. Without doubt somebody has been speaking ill of me. He did not once invite me to dinner, as had always before been his custom. I had depended upon it, for I came from home without breaking my fast. I bought a loaf in the outskirts of the town at a baker's shop, which I had observed in passing, and took my way home. How cast down was I as I trudged along! I cried like a child. The bread I was eating was wet with my tears.

But fy, Thomas! Shame upon thy faint heart! Lives not the gracious God still? What if thou hadst lost the place entirely? And it is only £5 less! It is indeed a quarter of my whole little yearly stipend, and it leaves barely 10d a-day to feed and clothe three of us. What is there left for us? He who clothes the lilies of the field! He who feeds the young ravens! We must deny ourselves some of our luxuries.

Dec. 16.-I do believe Jenny's an angel. Her soul is even more beautiful than her body. I am almost ashamed of being her father. She is so much better and more pious than I.

I had not the courage yesterday to tell my girls the bad news. When I mentioned it to-day Jenny at first looked very serious, but suddenly she brightened up and said, "Thou art disquieted, father!"

"Should I not be so?"

"No, thou shouldst not."

"Dear child, we shall never be free from debt and trouble. I do not know how we can stand it. Our need is sore.

£15 hardly suffice for the

bare necessaries of life. Who will assist us?" Instead of answering, Jenny gently passed one arm round my neck, and pointed upwards with the other," He, there!" said she.

Polly seated herself on my lap, patted my face, and said, "I want to tell thee something. I dreamed last night that it was New Year's day, and that the king came to C. There was a splendid show. The king dismounted from his horse before our front door, and came in. We had nothing to set before him, and he commanded some of his own dain