The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-04-14

Our Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, April 10, lSG

PHILADELPHIA, April TO- 1860
Mr.. EDToR:--On the 29th ult the "S,
rah M. Douglass Literary Circle of Til,
city adjourned for the season. Onthi ~
ccsion an address was delivered by Il,
President, Rev. j. @. Gibbs, an essay Wa
read by one of the members, and @Eo.
ence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing nr.
sented to the ladies of the Circle BY M,,
Douglass. The members all read in tr,,
as usual, and after partaking of GOLIATH,
dismissed. This association dates b.ot
only as far as the 22d of last Septembo.
when it was organized, Rev. j. G. CHI,
being chosen President, Mr.. w. H. Min
ton Secretary, and Miss Sarah A. Thom,.
Critic. The regular order of exercise,
consisted Of reading and commenting tbaro
on; conversation on a subject proposed At
previous meeting; the reading of original
essays by two of the members, and tbs
statement of some fact by every membe,
The meetings invariably adjourned with
singing, and were held semi-monthly, III.
number of members was limited to twpntr
five. Every member produced an orioin
al essay some time during the season. Tbs
organization has, without doubt, done much
good, and will, if continued with the com,
zeal which has been manifested BY tba
members this winter, WELD a powerful in.
fuence over the literature and morals If
our people here.
On Tuesday evening last, the twelfth
anniversary of Carthagenian Lodge No
901, G.. U. O. of 0. F., was celebrated at
the brick Wesley Church, Lombard street
below Sixth. p. G. M. Nathan G. Bacsn
presided. A very large though not very
efficient choir was in attendance, and dur.
ing the evening discoursed sweet strains
of vocal music P. n f. James Robinson
made most fervent and beautiful PRAYER
after which P. G.. M. D. B. Bowser,G N.
delivered the opening remarks. He said
among other things-"Our Order is the
handmade of religion, and it must flourish
He exhorted the members to adhere toGIs
principles, and congratulated the membeB
of Carthagenian Lodge on their success in
acquiring wealth and influence. He closed
with the remark that "Odd Fellows should
always baer about them the emblems Of
the Order, friendship, love, and truth,
their conduct should exemplify those prn.
ciples.' P. n. F. Joshua B. Matthews
was then introduced. He alluded very
briefly to the origin and early history Of
the Carthagenian Lodge, mentioning some
of the disabilities under which its founders
labored. He said that much of their sue,
cess depended upon the ladies who bad
presented them with banner, lit was sus
pended over the altar of the church, and
was very attractive and afterwards with
Bible. I have heard but few addresses
of the kind SO grandly eloquent and so ap
propriate. His effort abounded in sublime
sentiments, not only beautiful lin theory
but truthfully practical and instructive.
He exhibited an intimate acquaintance
with the principles of the G. Z. 0. Of ..
F. am unable in my brief space to do
justice to his address. 1t was like string
of pearls from which, if one should be ia.
ken, it would spoil the set. To be appre
ciated, it must be heard. p. N. F. james
III. Stanard being introduced, delivered the
presentation speech. He, on behalf Ofthe
Carthagenian Lodge, presented the Good
Samaritan Lodge with melodeon, in a
neat speech occupying some five or ten
minutes p. N f. Davis D. Turner, on
behalf of Good Samaritan Lodge, received
the melodeon, and in happy style re-
turned thanks to Mrs Webber, who, quite
unexpectedly, had made a present to Good
Samaritan Lodge of a beautifully worked
cover for the Melodeon. This was not an.
nounced in the programme, and when the
fact was made known, the generous gift
was SO well appreciated by the audience
that a round of applause was given. Dur
ing the evening some pieces of church mu,
sic were well performed, but others were
not so well done.
Last evening public meeting was held
at the Philadelphia Institute, for the pur.
pose of hearing report from the commit
tee appointed at meeting held on Friday
evening, 3Oth ult., a report of which was
published in your paper of last week. Mr..
Samuel M. Smith, chairman of the CON-
mittee, brought in report of its labors, in
which it was stated that the several colored
churches had been solicited for collections
to aid those noble men who had made an
attempt to rescue Moses Horner. In the
report all the churches which had respond