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Anniversary of Etna ConeIave No. 1s
a. w. n.


Anniversary OF Etna CoaeIavs No. rs,
q. w. n.
On Tuesday night last this Conclave, the largest
in this city, celebrated its first anniversary in
magnificent style, over Hawkinss Saloon on Com.
mon street.
During the forenoon, their chief, W. E. Fitz.
gerald, Esq.,, received for his Conclave, mag
nifcent nougat pyramid cake, accompanied by
the following note:
TO the officers and members Of Conclsvs No. Is, s.
W NJ, New Orleans
"Brethren-Plesse accept, on this your first
Inauguration anniversary. this small token OF
friendship from Etna C0nclave No. of Mobile.
~. n. CoULoN, M. E. Chief"
Chief Fitzgerald, not forgetting that Waterman
Conclave No. were in session, dispatched mes
seDger, inviting Waterman Conclave No. to as
sist them in celebrating their anniversary. This
conclave. after adjournment, proceeded In body
TO join Etns Conclave, lead by their chief, An
thony Ssmbola.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather.
about 200 members were assembled. Everything
in readiness, Chief Fitzgerald made brief but
eloquent address, announcing the occasion and
thanking Etna Conclave, of Mobile. concluding
with he and success Of the officers
and members OF Etna Conclave No. 1, of Mobile.n
Chief sambola followed, giving brief history of
the order, and concluded with, I" To the order of
8. w. NJ, at large-msy it prosper and become
the first benevolent institution of the United
States.
E. Heidpgsfelder, chancellor of Waterman Con.
clave, then made few witty and we'll timed
marks, as customary with him. concluding with
toast to Etna Conclave No. Is, their chief indie.
fatigable in the performance OF his duties, and
the health and prosperity of their officers and
members"
Brothers ODorando, Meek, Bercegeay and 8. W.
Scott and others followed with addresses and
tossts.
Our friend, j. Pinckney Smith, who had Just
been initiated in Waterman Conc!ave, was called
upon. In q few brief remarks he expressed
thanks in behalf of his conclsve in which he was
hoped that ere long his conclave would find OPP
portuDity to return the compliment.
We have been present at many convivial boards,
but never have We witnessed more harmony,
good feeling or cordially than on Tuesday
night.
The management of the whole affair shows that
Chief Fitzgerald, under whose supervision the
whole affair was arranged, is no novice In the art
of banquetiDg.
il was Midnight ere the sparkling champagne
punch refused to flow. and the Assem-, lage ad-
journed, feeling assured that the evening could
not have been better spent.
A CoIored Lecturer Views about the South
and the Southern People.
large audience, composed of the better class
of colored people with few whites, assembled
last evening in the Hall of Representatives corner
Cont and Royal streets, 10 hear Martin x. De-
lany's views on % the state of the country 10
reference to the South" he was introduced to
the audience by c.. &. sauvinet, Esq, cashier of
the Freedmen's Savings Bank OF this city, and
after few preliminary remarks launched forth as
follows: That all the coored people required were
equal rights before the law; that the political
disabilities of the whites were not owing 10 any
love of the colored people but as a punishment
Inflicted by the coDquerors, a result of war that
on account Of the Acknowledgement Of the whites
some few negroes had slid into Office in the
fnta 20 hA nkAp 1uwAl
open. telling the coIored portion of his
audience, ,smong whom we saw several members
of the Legislature, that the same would not soon
occur again. The white race we're true to them
selves as much as they pretended to like negroes,
yet the great mass OF the Radical party North
were unwilling to see the colored man rule the
white. he warned his colored friends against
Q ass of adveDturers, the miserable. puny, mer-
ceDary Yankee, who came only for the spoils.
THAT white labor could not work the soil, cited
Brazil and other South American countries where
il had been tried and failed. The colored people
should be true themselves, that they must work.
till the soil, and raise the crops; that they could
not expect to lay down the hoe and become
legislators, they not fitted for such business;
that the white people must accept the situation,
the colored people work and let politics alone,
and everything would right itself.
The lecturer has created some little notoriety
for himself among those who believe in his
eide Of the question. He Is short thick.set,
full-blooded negro, was born in Charlestown, Va,
is about 56 or Sc years DID, was educated at Pitts
burg, Pa, afterwards receiving medical educs-
ton at Harvard College. Mass. He has travelled
considerable in Europe and Africa, aud was the
only colored member of the International Stats
tical Congress. held at the Somerset House, Lon
don, in July, lS60, and from which, on account OF
his having been admitted to the floor, Judge Long
street (uncle of the genera). who represented the
United States. and the Hon. Mr.. Dallas then our
minister to the Court Of St. james, Withdrew.
During the late war he was commissioned major
Of the 12Sth United States colored infantry, aud
served in South Carolina, on the stats of Generals
Ssxton and sickles, where be has since been ten
dered the nomination to Congress By the Radical
party, but has declined the honor, because he did
not consider himself resident Of that State, and
that Congress was not yet ready for colored mem
bers, or that the colored people were ready TO go
to Congress.