Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-11-04
w1LrarnaroM Expos1ToR.

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FIRE.-Between 10 and lo'clcck on Saturday NOR
ming, fire broke out in the Grocery store of John Nc
Dowcll, corner of Market and High street. Tho
lower story of the building in flames before til,
alarm was given, but the well-drected exertons o.
the Eremen saved the roof and part of the third so
ry. The occupant of the store was in Philadelphia
at the time, engaged in purchasing goods His entire
stock Of Groceries was destroyed. The building was
owned by Capt Lockycr, of Philadelphia
1t is a fact which speaks well Of the carefuness Of
the Wilmingtonans with regard fire, and also of the
skill and activity Of our Firemen, that not single
brick dwelling house has been burnt down within the
memory of the oldest inhabitants.
A frame dwelling house in Brandywine Hundred,
three miles from Wilmington, was destroyed by fire
about the same hour on Sunday morning. 1t was oc-
cupied by administrations and wnrtay young man who
had just commenced farming.
A curious tale has been circulated about market
man, who guarding his cart, in the neghborhood
of the fire on Saturday Before the alarm gene
Ial, aquantity Of gun powder explodedin the building
and caused conclusion which broke several of the
windows in the vicinity Our friend from the country
not being used to such noises, made effort escape
by leaping into the airhut quickly gfavitating back
10 noisy planet he fed like lightning down one of
the streets, and has not snce been heard Of
We caution readers against believing this story
We do know, however, that the noise of the explosion
was mistaken by person persons for the bonn
bardment Of the town by the Blacklist!
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sanctity to the institution. by introducing the
name of Washington.-Hi name, Sir, belongs
to Masonry. His memorable words you must
have forgotten, when you stood in the attitude
of generation, in your rhetorical language, on
the mortal side OF human existence uttering
lampoon upon me. They shall now reach your
ear, and you will see the light in which he
viewed our illuminated Order. The masonic
fraternityis one; he says; 'wuosE IiBERAL
PRINCIPLES ARE FOUNDED ON THE IMMUTABLE
LAWS OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE, and by whom
THE miider virtneS Of tie heart are highly res
5ecfcd' This is the testimony of our august
BROTHER. The Father Of hiS CoHntry.--He has
left you luminous example, when he passed
the Presidential Chair, to withdraw from the
multitude, & retirc'inthe domestic sanctuary of
pure and elevated contemplation. To the last
hour of his life he retained his connection with
the Masonic family; and when 1 lift up my
eyes to Heaven and remember the irreproach-
able spirit of that great man, who l trust. is
there in the dwelling of the Just, am troub-
led at the tendency of this strange demor-
alizing and unholvtwarfare, nowwaged against
+ an institution he loved and cherished, as long
~ his majestic figure was on earth oyershad-
owing the mighty of other tlays.-His name
alone is a Lighthouseof the Skies on which
ron should fix your restless eye, while driven
about in the stormy sea of Antmasonry, the
bitterness of whose blasts has already CONVEX
ted the once amiable sRnsh, into an Orlando
Furioso.--L B. ShrPpard's reply 10 j. Q. Id
ans. az y. 81 n, - Is
The preceding eX.rac. presents, us with striking
instance of the deleterous influence which masonry
produces upon the human mind, 1t distorts reason,
confounds truth with fasehood, poisons the source o.
all the sublime feelings and affections of human nature
and transforms men, naturally am.able, into Demons
pcarnate. ''Washingtons name belongs to masonry
Who was Washington He has been justly callet
1.-THE Father of his country" What is Speculative
Frccmasonry? 1t is an assemblage of the vices, ant
f1Ies Of human nature-a nauseous compound of vul
garity and proclamation. Yet, "Washingtons nam
belongs to masonry What an unnatural associatio
Of IDEAS does this paragraph contain! How obviousl
false is the 2sseron! The Father of his countryth
phlanthropst--an individual in whom was concentra
ted every species of religions and moral excellence
belongs to masonry" which is equivalent to, false
hood sacriege, infamy and the most aggravated gull
Such, to all intents and purposes is modern masonr,
which has been e,;emped in open court. in the pre-
xcncc of hundreds of living witnesses Human test
mony can do no farther in confirmation of any even
than it has gone in confirming the truth Of mason
crime aud guilt and in establishing tho Infamous n;