will be apparent from what has been stated, that its failure to succeed under the adverse circumstances in which it was placed is not at all remarkable, and so far from discouraging individual effort, should on the contrary, satisfy every mind that by the removal of the vital objections which have operated against its patronage, it must beyond all controversy, in the hands of a tactful, enterprising, industrious business man, become a general favorite in the Order, and afford a handsome remuneration to its new proprietors. Individual interest is ever watchful and prompting, and under such direction much of the unavoidable expense and outlay incident to a public undertaking may be avoided, a consideration of great moment in all matters of this kind.

All that is necessary, in our opinion, to insure the success of the Official Magazine, is activity and industry on the part of its proprietor, and fitness on the part of its Editor. It must be made a periodical worthy of the Order, and therefore its pages should reflect the opinions and productions of the ablest brethren among us. It is an error to suppose that its mere semi-official connexion with the Grand Lodge of the United States, will bear it up, it must intrinsically command the support of an intelligent community, and as its means augment they should be applied with a liberal hand in the employment of talent in and out of the fraternity, in order that it may take rank among the best periodicals of the day.

September Session, 1844.-In our experience, which now runs through a period of sixteen years in Odd-Fellowship, we have never witnessed a spectacle at once so commanding and so gratifying as that presented by the Grand Lodge of the United States at its late session. Nineteen States of this Union were fully represented, and the District of Columbia, and if possible to add to the interest of the scene, the eldest and youngest P. G. Sire of the Order were present. Among those not represented, Mississippi and Alabama are numbered, both of which had chosen Representatives, neither of whom took their seats, the former on account of the lateness of the period at which he received his credentials and the necessity of his return to Mississippi; the latter in consequence of the failure to receive his credentials, for which he waited during the whole session.

In point of industry, talent, and brotherly bearing that body has never been surpassed if equalled, since the formation of the Grand Lodge of the United States.

We give in this number a summary of the legislation of the session, from which it will be seen that it was emphatically a business session. The most important act passed was the appointment of a Committee to revise the Work of the Order. The necessity of this measure it is believed has been universally allowed, and the subject heretofore has been adjourned from time to time, the rather from an apprehension of the great expense and trouble necessarily incident to such an undertaking than to any considerable objection to the reasonableness and propriety of the Leasure.

That the Representatives were perfectly in earnest upon this subject, is very clear, from the fact that the proposition was carried by a heavy vote and from the unusual mode adopted of selecting the Committee. The fear is now that so wide a field is open, that the spirit for change may run riot and mischief be done-for ourselves we have no apprehensions on this score, we believe there is sufficient of the old leven in the conformation of the Committee to retain all that is truly valuable in the existing Work, should such a spirit possibly exist-but we cannot permit ourselves for a moment to believe that there is any disposition to interfere with any principle of the Work, if such an expression may be allowed, and by that term we mean any feature which can be sustained on principle.

The Committee (always excluding of course our humble self) is composed of brethren of intelligence, experience and great judgment, they are emphatically "picked men," and will enter upon their laborious office, with an eye single to the welfare of our beloved Order, and with hearts full of love for the institutions of Odd-Fellowship. Let then our friends who have been as it were born with the Order and who have strengthened with its strength, dismiss their fears, that the ancient fabric is to be sacrificed at the shrine of the Moloch spirit of innovation-antiquity never yet could present a mantle broad enough to cover the obliquities of poor human nature, and the productions of mind however consecrated by age, are yet but the creations of fallible beings-above all, the things of one age must be made to accommodate themselves to the march of intellect, to the state of man, his refinement, and his progressive improvement.

General Summary of Laws and Resolutions passed at the late Session of the R. W. Grand Lodge of the United States.

Resolutions of condolence and sympathy upon the death of P. G. Sire Gettys.

To print the journal of proceedings from day to day.

That a Committee appointed at one session were bound to report at the next, although some of its members ceased to be Representatives.

To confirm the warrants for the Grand Lodge of Maine.

For the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island.

For the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire.

For the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts.

To amend the Constitution as follows:-"No brother shall represent a Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment in this Grand Lodge, unless he resides in the State, District or Territory where the Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment of which he offers himself as a Representative, is located." That a motion to postpone indefinitely an amendment to the Constitution, was in order.

To confirm the Dispensations granted for Encampments, as follows.Michigan No. 1, Detroit, Michigan; Hochelagan No. 1, Province of Conada, Montreal; Frontier No. 2, Weston, Missouri; Narragansett No. 1,

Providence, Rhode Island; Nashaonan No. 1, Nashua and Wonalanset No. 2, Manchester, New Hampshire; Franklin No. 3, Macon, and Catahoochie, No. 2, Georgia. For Subordinate Lodges as follows:-To the Province of Canada, Queen's Lodge No. 2, at Montreal; Prince Albert No. 3, St. John's, Canada. To South Wales, Great Britain, Ivorian No. 1, Tredegar; Covenant No. 2, Monmouth. To the Province of Canada, for a Grand Lodge at Montreal.

To amend the 26th Rule of Order by striking out the words "which shall be decided without debate."

To institute a Grand Lodge in Michigan, at Detroit.

To confirm the rank of brother Smith of Michigan, as a P. G.

To authorize the D. D. G. Sire of Indiana to receive the petition of the applicants and institute Bethlem Encampment in said State.

Resolutions of condolence and sympathy upon the death of P. G. M. R. S. Hinman, of Connecticut.

To award a blank Diploma to each Grand Representative.

That McGowan & Treadwell's edition of the Journal is the official version.

That all future publications of the Journal correspond with said version. To authorise the Grand Secretary to have an edition of 200 diplomas printed, and such further quantity as in his discretion may be requisite. To restrain improper lectures on the subject of Odd-Fellowship. To discontinue the Official Magazine after 1st Dec. 1844.

To dispose of the same to individuals upon conditions that all matter published therein shall have the approbation of the G. Cor. Secretary. A By-Law establishing the usage in relation to A. T. P. W.

To authorize a deputation to confer Patriarchal degrees upon Scarlet brethren at Fayetteville, N. C.

To authorize Subordinate Lodges or Encampments in their discretion, to initiate or confer degrees without charge.

To elect by ballot, a Committee to revise the Lectures and Charges. To establish the Grand Lodge of the Principality of Wales, at Tredegar. That a proposition to amend a By-Law was in order.

To provide for the settlement of all claims against the Official Magazine. To present to P. G. M. James L. Ridgely, a suitable gold medal.

To prefer Bro. Neilson, if his terms are as favorable as any other bidder, for the Official Magazine.

To approve the removal of the G. Lodge of Texas from Austin to Houston.

To regulate and make uniform the mode of examining visiting brethren. To adopt and make uniform visiting and clearance cards.

To direct the Cor. Secretary to have a plate engraved for the same, and to prohibit the printing of the same from and after 1st January 1845. To cause the language of the Order to be written in cypher and deposited in the archives of the Grand Lodge.

To establish a fiscal year, beginning 1st July, and terminating 30th June.

To forfeit charters of Lodges and Encampments failing to report for four successive quarters.

To concur in the report of the Committee on Finance.

To dissent from the opinion of the Grand Sire and Cor. Secretary as to the construction of the Resolution 22nd Sept. 1842, in relation to conferring Patriarchal degrees upon Scarlet Brethren in States where Encampments are established.

To authorize Subordinate Lodges to determine for themselves upon the subject of opening and closing with prayer.

To sustain the appeal of Trenton Lodge against the censure of the G. Lodge of that State.

To confirm the Constitution of the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts, of Michigan Lodge and Michigan Encampment of Michigan.

To confirm the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, excepting the 12th Article.

To confirm the warrants for the following Lodges and Encampments. Georgian No. 3, Ancient Brothers No. 4, Ligonia No. 5, Sabbatis No. 6, Penobscot No. 7, Relief No. 8, Natanis No. 9, and Lincoln No. 10, of Maine; Roger Williams No. 3, of Rhode Island; Michigan No. 1, Wayne No. 2, Pontiac No. 3, Jackson No. 4, Peninsula No. 5, of Michigan; Washington No. 1, Iowa; Hillsborough No. 2, Wechamet No. 3, Washington No. 4, White Mountain No. 5, Piscataqua, No. 6, of New Hampshire; Rose of the Valley No. 3, of Wisconsin; Machigonne Encampment No. 1, Eastern Star No. 2, Sangamore No. 3, and Katahdn No. 4, of Maine.

To declare a Representative already admitted from a State G. Lodge, incapable of representing a Grand Encampment at the same time.

To appoint a Committee to contract for public printing.

To abolish the Side Degrees of Encampments.

To discontinue the printing of Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment returns, and to substitute Reports of D. D. G. Sires.

To present to each Representative the 1st, 2nd and 3d volume of the Official Magazine, and to dispose of the balance on hand at $1 per vol. To direct the Cor. Secretary to furnish blank reports to Grand Lodges and Encampments and Subordinate Lodges and Encampments under this jurisdiction.

To authorise a commission to examine the State of the Order in Illinois, with general powers.

To confirm the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, except Section 9 of Article 7.

To publish 1000 copies of the Journal.

To print 500 copies of the Constitution and By-Laws in pamphlet form. To supply each Lodge and Encampment now under and hereafter to be under this jurisdiction, with a copy of McGowan & Treadwell's Journal.

To subscribe for 50 copies of the same for that purpose.

To confirm the Constitution of Washington Encampment, Tennessee. To authorise the Grand Sire to fill vacancies, if any, on Committee to revise the Work.

Unanimous vote of thanks to M. W. Grand Sire Hopkins.

Names of the Elective Officers of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, I. O. of O. F., for the year 1844.

SAVANNAH, GA. AUGUST 7, 1844.
Office of the R. W. G. Lodge, Geo.

DEAR SIR & BROTHER,-The Annual Communication of this Grand Lodge was held this evening at Odd-Fellow's Hall, M. W. G. Master A. N. Miller in the chair, at which time the following Officers were elected

P. G. Elisha Parsons, of Live Oak No. 3, was unanimously elected our Grand Representative, and we congratulate the Order in having so firm and devoted a friend to the cause of Odd-Fellowship, who is fully able and competent in every respect to discharge the duties of the high and ennobling station to which he has been called. It gives me great satisfaction to say that the onward march of our Order in this State still continues, and that the coming winter will bring many excellent additions to our Order. Our city remains remarkably healthy, and we have no cause to doubt but what it will remain so throughout the summer.

Respectfully yours, in F. L. and T.

GEO. W. MILLER, G. Secretary.

HOME CORRESPONDENCE.

Extract of a letter from G. H. P. T. P. Shaffner, dated Boston, August

28th, 1844.

I have been in Boston several days. I have visited a number of Lodges &c., and it affords me much pleasure to inform you that the Or