New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-17

gbe form perfect organizations we're effected and ere
SIX months had elapsed they frequently made their ap
denotng various orders find there at present not less
than 80 81 these societies in this city purely benevolent
anu wSh IN tue ordeal OF priyaOn and suffering hrOu g
whcn the race has passed since emancipation have ac
d Grand results in supplying food to the needy
Seh This is quite remarkable fact in the history OF
ccnte 10 ca race as showing they as people
olne OF an the inner feelings OF the whites and they
become educated and advanced civilization these char.
'o NI thdC become more and more developed.
Nether are they behind their white brethren i'm fbe
H G and more mysterious orders of secetles from
when the most strenuous efforts been made To- x
cude them by these fratemites both North aud south
MsSonry has been naugurated among the coored race
and decorations, and fully impressed with a lis diSnifS
Cnlt oDgations and duty has been in existence here
Te SN n3hdns Ins Lodge was organized the LIST of
January OF me present year. under charter granted by
lodge IN Massachusetts, which occasion the Most
mofshiptnl Grand Master A. b. POrtlOck Deputy Samuel
Davis, aud Grand Marshal VIM. Kearney performed the
polaht ceremony OF installing the officers of Lodge No
Lodge was held, when the following officers were fpd
10 he present. WOrshpful Master, X. C. Hobson; senior
warden, John H. Miller Junior Warden JOS G. Farrar
Secretary JOS g. Hill; Treasurer VIM williamson So
NOR Deacon. JOS II. Oumber, Junior Deacon Francis
Backus; Stewards, VIM Smith and Robert Francis and
Richard Forester, Tyler. Some members were then
mthted, AFTER which tho joyous affair wound up with
granI pau ana supper.
Numbers assert that this is no real Masonic Lodge
even Masons whose prejudices will not allow them to
interchange the cOmmOnest fratcrnal salutaon but ms
they obtained their charter legally in MASSACHUSETTS, by
al the established principles of Masonry known out
White brethren OF the mysterious order.
On the oath OF June this Lodge marched in procession
through the Streets making most respectable and i'm
posing appearance and numbering about 20 members
Ebenezer Church. where lecture was delivered by the
Rev VIM Troy on Masonry The procession then marched
10 the lodge, where renstallatiOn of the officers took
place two dign taries of the brotherhood from Washing.
ton Oihclatg The Lodge is now in successful operation
anu promises TO be credit to s grand aud mystic ties
The Republican papers i'm the South designated by Mr.
Mcpherson as those In which the laws of the United
states should be published for which special apprOpria
uon was made ny Congress with view Of making them
setsustaning, find II hard TO maintain existence The
NCW Nation here OF which the Rev. j. W. Hunnicutt ia
the editor in which the laws Of Congress are published
mas weekly circulation OF about 1O0 1000, with
daily evening circulation OF probably half that number
The paper is dminuYe I'm size, and lacks both news
would probably make IL successful journal, with
those who dislike its peculiar traits and politics. This
arises from the cTamped means of the proprietor who to
the present has not received any remuneration for the
publication OF the laws though they have daily appeared
In his columns for the past three months There is
no other evening paper in the city and The New
Nation to be sufficiently enlarged TO admit of giving
synopsis of the received by the afternoon mails
yond doubt Until Congress makes adj
ditional appropriation for their support we'll
as arrangements to pay their bills promptly, this
class OF journals will fail from necessity The office OF
The New Nation is also the Republican headquarters and
is the universal resort Of the CoOred citizens ana those
whites who eSp0use radical doctrines At meeting of
Germans held there in common with the COOrcd people
last evening, the following nominations for Office said
to have been made Charles H. LOWS, now ald 10 the
Governor for Judge OF the Hastings Court j. L. G. Dan
for City Attorney John Oliver (cOlOred for Clerk OF
the Hastings Court; Cornelius Harris (cOOredl for
Mayor; VIM. III. Lyon icoorcdl for City Sergeant and
ored. These rather premature and will probably be
revised ere elections take place.
IL is not true that the principal hotels or this city
going to close mp Oh account of scarcity Of patronage