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hour**? his distress-that Masonry overrides the
boundaries ..{' Stute?, ni'ow? of no political or
religious differences..jind that its vi? ry nature
?.nd Constitution are adverse tri the idea of any
such renunciations of the paramount.duties of
the craft, in ali countries and under ail circum?
stances.
W e add a few particulars in relation to Ame
pf these ?odg->s, showing the extent and cnar
aeterof their losees. Thc minutes of UMOU
Kilwinning Lodge.'No.-4. were more than a cen?
tury old; those of Orange Lodge No. 14, very
near a century. These are al) gone, and the
lose is irremediable. ? portion of tho minutes Of
Richland Lodge No. ?9. are supposed to be
safe, aa they were confided to the keeping of a
Macon ic writer, with a view to the preparation
of ax history. He will probably, from . this
notice, perceive the propriety of restoring them
to the Lodge as soon as possible.
XIX.
Among the items of loss, which are particu?
larly lamented, thajl of the famous sword oi
State, called ''the Cromwell Sword," belonging
to the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, is par
ticuiarly deplored. This wasNin antique oi
peculiar interest and value. Its history, a
givtn by Dalcho, may be given here, as par
ticuiarly calculated to gratify the curious, as
well as the Masonic reader.. It was a large
elegant and curious two-edged weapon, in t
rieb velvet scabbard! highly < rnamcntcd wit!
Masonic emblems, and with the arms of th?
Grand Master. It had been presented to tin
Grand Lodge by tbe Iv- ,vinciat Grand Master
after the installation of the grand officers,- wa:
given ar a consecrated sword, and receive?:
with reverent assurances, to keep it safely, si
far as humau effort could accord safety. Tb
weapon had been long in the possession of th?
Grand Master's family, and was said to hav<
once belonged to Oliver Cromwell, a legend ti
which some degree of probability may be given
from tlie fact that the Provincial.Graud Maate
waa a descendanto-SirEdward Leigh, who"wa
a member of the Long Parliament and a Farlie
mentary General ia the time of the Protector
from whom, perhaps, he received-it.
The farther history of this sword may a
well be gives here. Prom.the time of the pre
sentatiou it continued rb the possession of th
Grand Lodge, and waa borne by the Gran
Sword Bearer, oi m dater limes, tbe Gran
Pursuivant, in -all public processions. A
length, at the conflagration which, in the yes
1888, destroyed so large a j.or. iou ot thc cit
Of Charleston, and wit:? other buildings th
Masonic H? ll, the sword was, wu h great ?ritt
Silty, saved by brother Samuel - ?eyie, tu
rand i uer, with the lose of Ure tun, the neat
bard, sad a small part of the extremity of th
blade. Io tn? contusion??ousequcut on the fir
the sword thus mutilated was mislaid, aud fe
s long time it was supposed to be lest. 1
ISa'A a committee wa appoiuted by the Oran
Lodge to make every exertion Jpr.its recovery
sad st length, in the beginning of tbe yet
' *>
I 18?4, it was acc\deutolly found by the Grate"
; Tiler,-iu nn outhouse on his premie??, aud was
j by him restored to the Grand U?dgv in its mutti 1
I lated condition. The lost piece of the blade
waa ingeniously replaced bj a cutler in the
city of Charleston, and bong sent to New
York, was .returned" with new hilt and velvet'
scabbard, and was used in its appropriate place
during the centennial- ceremonies of that year.
With such a history, and blended with such
tradition of its origin, we need not feel sur?
prised at the universal and kean feeling occa?
sioned by its loss. ' * -
[COXTXNOCD nt. ona KKST.]
, * [Communicated.]
Slats from History.
The plague reverted the city of London iu
16?6, bat the visitation'of 1665 was far more
disastrous. <
De Foe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, han
left ns a history of t&is last pestilence, written
In his singularly clear and felicitous style.
The pestilence broke out in January, and
only ended with December. It prevailed with
most violence from June to October; one thou?
sand, victims, perished dany. There could be
no regular burials, but huge pita were dug, into
which the bodies were cast, sometimes coveted
with a sheet* bot for thc most part, almost
naked. DuriBg the, prevalence of the disease,
2OU.000 persons fled from the city to other
perta of England. Men's m in da became diseased
as well aa their bodies. There Vas great reck?
lessness and demoralization among the lowest
classes ot society, bat %Jjais extended at last "to
many from whom better things might have
been expected. De Eoe, ?aye, "the power ol
avarice was so strong in some, that they would
r%u any hazard-to steal and pleader; and par?
ticularly in houses where all the families or
inhabitants bad been dead and carried out,
' tiley would bleak in at all hazards, and with?
out regard to the danger bf iu lection, taite
even the clothes off t>pe dead bodies; and the
bea clothes from others where they lay dead.
But these robberies extended chiefly te wearing
clothes, linen, and what rings or money'they
oonld come at, bat not to ? general plunder ol
the houses,"
When the Yankee pestilence, as I may cali
it, prevailed bi Columbia, they improved upon
I this, they plundered the houses un J tbeu burnt
them. They took with violence, watches anc
jewelry from the perseus, even ol females, living
?ud not dead.
When Louis the XIV ravaged U^e Palatinate
with Are and sword, bis ?anuuiauiiy cal iel
forth me execrations of Europe, and lett a dee j
I stain upon the tape of the great King. Bm
what waa the Palatinate Ton-pared with th?
Cemtery' ol' Georgia and the Carobnaa laic
waste by the more inhuman Yankee! Hardly i
; smad county ui extent.
. However averse our pasple have been te f
mgm -y?
rc-utti'in willi thc Non hot ? race, ll ling
tas become intensified by the bruta; < nd nc
of their ai mies, and the plain desigr of '.-fe'.:
Government to blot out the present p upi U-io;
of the South and repeople the latfd. Thinfcin
people are beginuing to comprehend that th
trae issu? is subjugation and extincti ri, or so.
casa ?nd eternal separation. Let them j jude
it valb ' - j >. i ? v
OFFICIAL BONDS and conimunio -1ona foi
tb? Secretary of State, forwarded to Chester C.
H, Post Office Box 29. will be pjfcmptiy for
warded to thc proper point. . April J *
Proclamation.1*
IT. J. GOODWYN, Mayor of the city of
a. Columbia, H. call earnestly apou the
citizens to aid the municipal author; ia th'.
observation of order, peace ana 1. .v. The
laws made and provided for their mainttuance
will be strictly enforced. It is, thereto, c. ear?
nestly, requested that any and ever^ e icroach
ment be promptly reported \o the proper
officers. It isa sourca of deep regret to the
executive that a laxity of morals exists arning
some portions of our inhabitants, inasmuch ad
they arc daily trespassing on the rights ??
others, whose enclosures are not seci . : by pro?
per fencing; also, on the shade trees c . the pub?
lic streets. The law in these iustanc - SE well
as all laws for the protection of pibbc and pri?
vate property, will be enforced.
lt has also been reported that parties i'.rs
bringing into the city spirituous liqu > . for sala,
lt is much to be deprecated thal thin source of
traffic should exist at such a time, when o?i'
inhabitants stand in daily weat, of food. Re?
ver? measures against the retailing > liquors
must be resorted to, in order to atop ?'.b-.- tu. ?..mi
of thia grievous evil; trusting ou ii- ^i<- !se
Providence, to sustain me ur this ?..._ turu of
^affliction, ami ustyiug on all good citizens to
assist the authorities iu niaiAraioing order io
our oby.
.. (Jiveji under my hand, this foe..h of
April, 1S?5. T. J. GOODWYN.
April 6
Stolen,.
FROM my lol'opposite the Pr- by?erian
Church, a large MAHOGANY LINING
1ARLL and u WA?zbPo J> A suitable rev. ard
will be paid to auy one v will gjvc mfvraia,
tion to lead lo tb ?ir ieee. ry.
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