IN yielding to the wishes of the editor, to take upon myself a part of the editorial labors of this paper, I am desirous only to promote its usefulness id lighten the burden of his duties, by contributing something myself, and by the talent I hope to bring to my assistance from among the brethren of the South. There are many gentlemen attached to the Order in this State and Georgia, who are known 'far and wide' to be able and interesting writers; and I hesitate not to say, that their love for the Order will prompt them to advance its interests by contributing to the support of its chief agent-the Magazine.

It can no longer be doubted, that the interests of our Order require an official organ, nor will it be denied that the Covenant has been an instrument of great good, by the knowledge of the Institution it has imparted, the exposition and defence of its principles, and the news it has monthly conveyed to all sections of the country.

It would seem that every Odd-Fellow must ardently desire its continuance, as a promoter and defender of the genuine principles and practice of our beloved Institution. It has thus far met with general approbation; how it shall succeed hereafter in this respect, time alone can determine.

The wisdom of the Order has caused the sail to be spread and the Covenant to be sent forth, trusting to approving patrons to supply the gale that shall waft it onward, and make its voyage successful and glorious.

There has been some manifestation of a disposition to crush the Magazine, or wrest it from the control of the Grand Lodge, and thereby open the door, and encourage the increase of papers by the brotherhood. Doubtless the reasons assigned for pursuing this course were deemed good and sufficient by those of the brethren at the time.

But it is to be feared that many of the papers that would have sprung up, if the Covenant had ceased, would not be conducted by brethren possessing a sufficient knowledge of the Order-its principles, and wants, and that through them the Order would be made to languish and suffer in public estimation.

The question of the continuance or discontinuance of the Covenant was fairly presented before the Grand Lodge at its late session, and received that serious attention its importance so justly demanded; and after respectful and due consideration by the Representatives of the different Grand Lodges, it was decided that it should be continued as the Official Organ of that body.

To those brethren, if any there be, who would yet exert themselves to deprive the Order of the benefit of the paper, we would respectfully say—

The experiment 's ours! Your opposition save,

Our freighted Ark 's already on the wave,

"Tis under way in gallant sailing trim,
As it deserves, so let it sink or swim.

It will be my purpose to present information on the state of the Order in general-its condition and prospects-to lay before the brethren statements of such matters as seem important to its prosperity-to make known its wants, and suggest the best methods of causing those wants to go smiling from its portals. I shall also endeavor to engage my readers in the practice of its principles, and have an eye to its defence from the superstitious and ignorant,-from foes without, and foes within, if any

such there be. I shall therefore write to the Order, and for the Order; and while I endeavor to do good and communicate, I trust the brethren will exercise toward me the charity belonging to Odd-Fellowship, even though they may not approve.

To extend our beneficial institution, and ameliorate the condition of humanity, by causing a more close bond of Friendship to be drawn-a deeper fraternal Love to exist-a glorious Truth to be cherished, and a constant practice of the principles of the Order, will be my earnest endeavor. If in the station I now occupy, as Assistant Editor of the Magazine, I can render the Order a better service than I have heretofore done, I shall not regret having assumed it; and if, haply, I succeed in aiding Odd-Fellowship on to the glorious triumphs it is destined to achieve, the honest purpose of my labor will be gained.

Charleston, S. C., Nov., 1843.

ALBERT CASE.

JOURNAL OF THE R. W. G. LODGE U. STATES,

FROM 1821 TO 1843, INCLUSIVE.

WE copy with great pleasure the Prospectus of Brothers McGowan and Treadwell of New York, who have undertaken to publish this valuable work. At the September session 1842, the Grand Secretary was authorized by resolution to have this object accomplished, provided it could be done by individual enterprize and without subjecting the Grand Lodge of the United States to expense. The magnitude of the work, the labour and toil which it would require to collect, explain and arrange the proceedings of the Order in this country attendant upon its organization, and its early progress, together with the large amount of outlay necessary to set the project on foot and carry it successfully through, deterred the undersigned from urging the subject upon competent Brethren. The great value of the work to the Representatives during the session, and the probability that unless consummated at once, it would be from time to time further adjourned until much of the materials necessary for its compilators would be lost or mislaid, induced the Grand Secretary to offer the work to the enterprising brethren who have now undertaken it.The thorough experience of Brother Treadwell in keeping Legislative records, his general business talents and industrious habits eminently qualify him for the task of collecting, condensing and putting in proper form all the unpublished proceedings of that body, and of adding such useful and interesting explanations as may serve to render them intelligible to the Brotherhood.

Brother McGowan is a P. G. Master of the Grand Lodge of New York, whom we have had the pleasure of meeting in the Grand Lodge of the United States, as a Representative from New York; he is a practical printer, an experienced and active member of the Order and an Odd-Fellow of long standing-from the labours of these two Brethren, assisted as we learn they will be, by a most distinguished P. G. Sire, we have no doubt the work will be one of great value and interest to the Order, and we fondly trust that the Brethren throughout the United States in view of the great merit of Brothers Treadwell and McGowan in undertaking a work

of such immense value to Odd-Fellowship, dependant for remuneration entirely upon our own constituency, will one and all come up to their aid by a liberal subscription to this volume. We have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that this movement is among the greatest benefits to Odd-Fellowship of the age.

To the Grand and Subordinate Lodges and Encampments, and Membership of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, in the United States.

BRETHREN: The Subscribers respectfully announce that arrangements have been made, by which the JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE R. W. GRAND LODGE OF THE UNITED STATES, will be published, in pursuance of the resolution passed at the September Session, 1812.

The increased desire manifested on the part of the Fraternity to possess itself of the valuable and interesting records containing the early annals of the body exercising supreme authority over the Order in this country, prompted the adoption of the vote alluded to: and it now remains for the Brethren to extend that support which will indemnify those who have undertaken the labor of revision, and hazard of publication. No part of the Journal prior to 1827, has heretofore appeared in print, but has remained a "sealed book" in the archives of the Order; and that portion which has been heretofore printed, has been gotten up in such haste as to make correctness impossible. Under the sanction and authority of the Grand Lodge of U. S., the complete Journal of Proceedings will be published in One Volume of about six hundred pages, of the size of the "Covenant and Official Magazine," printed on fine paper, with new type, and bound in embossed cloth. It will embrace the minutes and important documents and statistics, from the period of Organization until the close of the late Session; toge ther with copious notes explanatory of subjects not fully expressed in the text: thus presenting a perfect and authentic history of the progress of the Order in the United States, and the jurisdiction thereunto belonging. The Constitution and Laws of the Grand Lodge of the U. S., embracing the latest amendments, will be appended to the work. The embellishments to consist of the Portraits of the seven Grand Sires, and the Grand Corresponding Secretary, executed in superior style on steel, by an eminent Artist. Copy-right secured.

It is important that every organized body of the Order within the range of the Jurisdiction, and every member who takes interest in its prosperity, should be possessed of the work not alone as an embodyment of the official history, but as containing the decisions of our highest tribunal on usages and customs, from infancy to its present maturity. To be enabled to meet the required demand, it is desirable that specific orders be forwarded without delay. The work will be ready for delivery, by the first of February, 1844. Price $2.00 per copy, to be paid for previous to being forwarded from the city of New York.

NEW YORK, November 1st, 1843.

CHARLES MCGOWAN,
JOHN G. TREADWELL.

Orders for the Work, direct to C. McGowAN, 87 Barclay-street, New York. The Travelling Agent of the Covenant and Official Magazine, is duly authorized to receive Subscriptions.

Maine-Extract of a letter from John D. Kinsman, dated Portland, Nov. 3, 1843.

Our watch-word here is truly forward and onward-the Maine Lodge No. 1, now numbers 217 and 24 are waiting for initiation-the Ancient Brother's No. 4, number about 50-on the 31st ult. we formed a Degree Lodge on the 7th inst. D. G. S. Churchill visited us for the purpose of installing an Encampment-and on the 6th inst. steps will be taken by some of us (members of Maine Lodge,) preparatory to forming another Subordinate Lodge in this city.

Massachusetts-Extract of a letter from Grand Secretary Albert Guild, dated Boston, November 20th, 1843.

I expect to forward three petitions for new Lodges in New Hampshire in the course of a week-there has been I think eight new Lodges instituted in this the State of Massachusetts since I saw you, and the probability is that there will be as many more, within the next three months.

New York-Extract of a letter from the Publishers of the Journal of the R. W. Grand Lodge of the U. States, dated New York, Nov. 27, 1843. Our notes will be much more copious than we first anticipated, we have discovered much information in relation to the first establishment of the Order in this city, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, which had been supposed to be lost forever. We have the certificate of five survivors of the Shakspeare Lodge as organized in 1806, prior to its organization in 1818, and one of those who revived it in 1818.

South Carolina-Extract of a letter from D. D. G. S. Albert Case, dated Charleston, November 18th, 1843.

I have just returned from a tour in Georgia. The Order in Georgia is prospering rapidly-I opened one Lodge, one Encampment, one Grand Lodge, and visited the other Lodges. The Lodge at Milledgeville, Sylvan No. 4, had a procession and Oration on the 8th, and immediately thereafter their Hall was consecrated to the uses and purposes of Odd-Fellowship. The Oration was delivered by Col. F. H. Sanford. The Legislature was in session at Milledgeville on the occasion, and thousands witnessed the display and speak in flattering terms of the Order. The G. Lodge formed on the 13th, immediately granted a charter for No. 6, at Columbus.

I shall have a lot of subscribers to vol. 3, in Georgia, and have engaged a good list of contributors to its columns. The patrons may therefore expect a rich fund of interesting matter from the intellectual store-house of gentlemen and ladies of talent in that State.

DEATH OF P. G. M. ROBINSON S. HINMAN,

Late G. Representative of Connecticut to the Grand Lodge of the U. States. Ir is with profound grief that we announce to the brotherhood, the death of this eminently distinguished Odd-Fellow. Among the first to embrace our beloved Order and to welcome its introduction within the borders of Connecticut, he continued up to his latest period of physical capacity its ardent friend, its devoted patron and its zealous advocate-and when prostrated upon the bed of sickness dwelt often in love and delight upon the happy influences which its benign principles had shed upon his path of life-he died at the residence of his colleague Grand Representative William H. Ellis in the city of New Haven, beloved and respected by his fellow citizens and endeared especially to the brotherhood of Odd-Fellows for his many and valuable services to the Order and the spotless purity of his private life. To his fellow Representatives in the Grand Lodge of the United States at the sessions of 1842 and 1843, this painful intelligence will be a source of deep regret, and bring mournfully to their recollection, the eloquent and pathetic closing prayer of the Grand Chaplain, who when he invoked a blessing upon the assembled Representatives then about to separate and return to their respective homes in the utterance of devout thanksgiving, that so many who had assembled at the Annual Session of 1842, had again been permitted to meet in council in 1843--solemnly exclaimed,

But my brethren how many of us may meet each other on this floor in the coming year."

We shall never forget the pure and elevated tone and moral of Grand Representative Hinman's remarks in the last debate in which he participated during the late Session of the Grand Lodge of the United States. The question before the Lodge was a proposi tion to refund the charter fee paid by an Encampment, and one of the arguments in support of the application was the poverty of the Encampment. "I come said Rep. Hinman from a Grand Encampment without a dollar in her treasury, not even the means of defraying my expenses as her Representative on this floor, but sir her poverty shall never operate as an argument when clear law, principle and practice are against her claims."

"DEATH OF GENERAL HINMAN.

"It is with heartfelt sorrow that we announce the death of ROBINSON S. HINMAN, Esq., Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Hew Haven, and a member of the bar of this county. He died at the house of William H. Ellis, Esq., in this city, on Friday evening the 10th inst., at the age of 42. Though prepared from his declining health to expect this sad termination, yet we can hardly reconcile ourselves to the melancholy reality. Cut down in the prime of life-in the midst of his usefulnesssurrounded by friends as true as any man ever had-respected universally in the community, and most of all, by those who knew him best-there are few who have more to attach themselves to life, and few whose loss would be more widely felt. In his profession, he was distinguished, not less by his attention to the interests confided to his care, than an upright and honorable bearing towards all who had occasion to meet with him; and in the discharge of his official duties, no one could have been more faithful to his trusts, or more accommodating and attentive to those who had business in the Court of which he was Judge. His disease was pulmonary-he was conscious of his situation to the last-and met death without a struggle, calmly resigned to the divine will.

"Green be the turf above thee!
Friend of my early days-
None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise."

"The funeral of Gen. Hinman, on Monday, attested how strong was the respect of those who had known him in life. It was attended by the Judges of the Superior and County Court, the members of the Bar-the fraternity of Masons-the several Societies of Odd-Fellows, numbering several hundred-the boys of the Lancasterian School, under Mr. Lovell-and a large concourse of citizens.-Gen. Hinman will be missed from many a circle of friends, who knew and appreciated the generous qualities of his heart; his philanthrophy as a man; his public spirit as a citizen; his uprightness and consistency as a politician; his devotedness as a friend.-No man had fewer enemies, or warmer admirers."

"At a meeting of the Members of the Bar, of New Haven County, on the occasion of the death of Gen. ROBINSON S. HINMAN, held November 11th, 1843, Hon. Ralph I. Ingersoll, was appointed Chairman, and John S. Rice, Secretary.

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Resolved, unanimously, That we have heard with deep sorrow of the death of ROBINSON S. HINMAN, Esq., Judge of the Court of Probate for this District, and an honorable and much respected member of the New Haven County Bar: that in token of our respect for his memory, and our sympathy with his afflicted relatives, we will wear the usual badge of mourning, and in a body attend the funeral on Monday next.

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Resolved, That these proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and published in the papers of this city, and that the Secretary of this meeting furnish a copy to the near relatives of the deceased.

JOHN S. RICE, Secretary."

RALPH I. INGERSOLL, Chairman.

In our next we shall present to our readers a full and complete directory of all the Lodges and Encampments in the United States.

-Miss Louise.-May we hope to hear again from this admirable writer.

-Della.-Will he again consent to grace our pages with his chaste, energetic and truthful moral. Miss H. J. W. of Boston.—We beg the favor to hear from her-our mutual friend the Deputy

Grand Sire has encouraged us to hope for her efforts on behalf of the Covenant.

We again request Agents of the Covenant to forward their lists for 1844. It is important that we may know what edition to work off. We shall forward only such quantity of the January Number as they may expect to dispose of for cash.