Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-28

FRox ALAsKA.-A dispatch from San
francisco states that Masonic Lodge has
been or. anizsd At Sitks, Alaska, and die
pensation asked from the Grand Lodge Of
Washington Territory.
We learn from the Richmond DispatcA
that the Masonic Academy Of the city has
some sixty or seventy pupils. but that the
large and generous Contributor Of the fra
tsssity hardly ssG3es 10 pay I'll csrsent ex-
penses. A committee OF Masohs, therefore.
provided for course OF three lectures. the
proceeds 10 b used in aid Of the Academy.
A good ideA, and 70 hope il will net m sx-
cellent return.
The Cedars which we're used 90 freely 10
the erection Of the Temple, " are tsld,
were brought principally from Mount L.
miles from Jerusalem. II vas the very re-
moteness Of ibis noble tree. combined with
IL msjsstic height and sweeping branches,
that made il, We may almeet say, an object
Of religious reverence. To The Jews, the
Cedar Of Lebanon Vas pestsnt. . grand
and awful work OF God. The spithsts they
applied to il were 1.-The trss Of che Lord !;
the cedars which he hath planted; whose
height 10 like the cedar, with fair branches :;
with shadOWiug shroud Of an high sts.
ne; his top among the chick boughs; his
highest exalted above all the trees Of the
field his boughs multiplied; his branches
long; fair In his greatness, in the length Of
his branches; BY the multitude Of HE
branches" &c. II 10 said thse the clergy
Of the Greek Church still offer up mass un-
der The cedar tree, and that the Arabs call
II the tree ofGod.-Awgwsfa Messenger.
Bro. French, p. NJ. G., District Of Column
biA, in an address delivered at the dedicas
ton Of Naval Lodge, a few days ago, 10
Washington city, says:
Josephus, after describing the building Of
the Temple with oil the minutie Of histo-
rian, says when Solomon had finished
these works, these large and beautiful
buildings. and had laid up his donations IN
the temple, and all this in the interval Of
seven years, and had given demonstration
of his alacrity therein, insomu n that any
one who saw it would have thought il must
have been and immense time ere il could
have been finished, and would be surprised
that 90 much should be finished in so sh ,rt
time"
We have therefore, as good evidence %
any deduction from history can give of the
truth Of the legend on which We found the
organized commencement of our Fraternity.
There is little doubt that as soon rs the
Temple was completed. tho immense body
of workmen who had been employed in its
erection were scattered abroad. They car
r'ei with them the knowledge Of the noble
art by which they had been enabled during
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ployed to carry on the work 80 earnestly
and with so little confusion and they made
uss Of that knowlcdge 10 bind themselves
more firmly together Tor operative work.
Years and centuries passed away, but the
legend did not pass away and in time OPP
erative Masonry became united with specu-
lative Masonry, and the symbols the en-
blems furnished by the work in its operative
form became the working tools Of the Graft
in its speculative form, and Freemasonry, as
i now exists, became established. The
fraternity. which had consisted Of practical
builders. became theoretical builders. and
the palaces and temples they erected were
founded on all the virtues that adorn man.
kind. and which may be almost, If not
wholly. expressed in that single phrase 30
vel known to the Craft-"Unverss Bene-
Violence
MAsoNic.-The Oriental Chapter, work
ing under dispensation from the Grand
Chapter Of the State, Was organized in this
city on Saturday evening last, by r. c.
Wright, q. s.. Of De Witt The regular
communications Of the Chapter are to be on
the third Saturday evening Of each month,
1t Masonic Hall. The following are the
officers Of Oriental Chapter: w. Il. Letting. |
we'll. II. p; w. McQuigg, X A. R. Cot
ton. s.; j. b. Dennisen, Treas. +. X.
Beers, See. f; q. w. Warner, L. A. Ellis. p.
s.; q. w. Parker, r. A. c.; s. w. Bald
win, q. n. Sd w.; George +. Wethsrell. q.
NJ. I'd "; John Hart, q. N. LIST w.: w. G.
Marquis. G.-Lysns Mirror.
DIscovKRrss IN PAL.srIxs.-Ths Pales-
line exploration is making good progress
An official report, dated ct Jerusalem on
the 22d Of October, says that Mr.. Warren
has established BY actual demonstration |
that the south wall Of the sacred enclosure
which contai cd the Temple il buried for |
more than half its depth beneath 40 accu-
nulstion Of rubbish, probably the ruins Of |
The successive buildings which once crown
I'd it, and that If dared to ito foundation
he wall would present an unbroken face Of |
'olid masonry Of nearly ono thousand feet |
ons. and for large portion Of that distance
mere than ono hundred and fifty feet in |
,sight; in other words, nearly the length |
Il the London Crystal Palace and the height |
4 the transept.
NJ. Warren adds:
The wall % ID stands with less than half |
bat height emerging from the ground. has
lways been regarded a. . marvel. What
must it have been when entirely exposed
0 view No wonder that Prophets and
'salmists should have r.joiced in the walls
nd 'bulwarks' Of the Temple, and that Tao
lus should have described it as mode arcis