The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-25

NORFOLK, June e24.-.Cotton Quiet-loW
middling 18L4; net receipts SGT; exports
TO Gres: Britain 95; coss.wise A2e; seles
70; stock 5,592.
HOTEL ARR1vA1s, June "a. Columbia
Hofet-J a Kelley, Marion; D Jacobs,
Gnarieston; u MIR and Mrs Lumpkin, Ga;
" d Evans, G P Gardner, Charleston;
a Psrker, Y; j 81 Sselling. G & @ r
II; d q Mazyck. Charleston; L Ken
nerley, Ill; S Tlurston, N o Jonathan,
L Seegrares. Ohio; L P Zombure. Ky: ]
@ San,Ie, Ala; l. Kreamer, La.
Lane, n Y; Il p Abel, Ga; J 4 Cornith.
Fla; " 81 Jones. N Y; r H Hand, Chas
Marsh, N G; T Il Duvall, 4 nj Boat.
wright, city; S Smyley, Ala; d L Cor
bin, Charleston; r L Frazer, T. Brown.
Georgetown; r Aldrich, Barnwell; W
dudley, Charleston; A Amberg, j w
Massey, Ga; S H Isler. J NJ Williams, n
=; s Russ. Graniteville; a jerks. Rhode
Island; S a Pearce, city; " L DePass,
Camdon; + Greene, Charleston: Chas
Keller, U S A; S B Pointer, Ky; VIM II
Trescott, Pendleton.
The TWENTY FOURTH OF JusE-Sr.
JOHNS DAY.-St. Johns Day is only in
teresting from its Masonic celebrations,
throughout the world, on this day, in
the different lodges, are gathered in the
brotherhood OF the Oldest living order on
earth. If, as Testullian says, whatever
Is ancient is true, whatever is modern is
spurious, we may safely assert that, tried
by the infallible test of time, which only
preserves what il worthy OF preservation,
Masonry stands to-day as sn indestructi.
ble element OF an everything truth.
Schiller's thres words of belief, Freedom,
Virtue. God. are it's pillars of strength,
which bid defiance to all the mutabilities
Of life.
Beyond the building OF Solomon's
Temple, which is the inaugural period
OF the history Of Free Masonry, we look
back to certain ceremonies of initiation
among the workers in wood and stone.
1n the infancy of the world symbolism
filed up the hiatus between thought and
speech. Words were few. and the un.
cultivated mind struggled to find ex-
preston for The thoughts that crowded
1t. The worknen who welded the TWEEN.
ty-fonr-inch gauge insensibly fell into the
practice of dividing the hours OF the day
into certain duties Of habits. The gavei,
desti oying irregularities; the compass.
marking certain boundaries; the square,
alike on every side; the plumb. unswerv-
ing IN lis action; the level, which reduces
to common surface each and all, at
least oil which were in use OF an early
period, awakened moral analogies in
these untaught minds struggling in the
hight. Whatever might have been done
at the building OF the Temple to purify
the ritnalism OF the craftsmen from the
lo.or inn tSor ~,,l,s s&l l.
into it, the order, in o rude form. Ger.
tainly ansedated that period.
Masonry. it is believed, is silently nav.
ing the way to the grand unity of ali the
nations OF tho earth. It recognizes no
differences in language, none in creeds:
rich and poor, great and humble, alike
sit down i'll its halls, into whioh the dis
tinction and jealousies of the outer
world never penetrate. The vexed cues
tions of politics and polemics are hushed
at the peaceful threshold. The men who
enter bring with them none of the fac.
tious distinctions Of nativity or fortune,
but are judged by their innate worth,
and sometimes the highest in outside
honors and place stand far below those
whose only possessions are the virtues to
which Masonry gives tho highest seut.
Open handed and large-hesrted, bound
by no prejudice, and full of prophetic
insight, Masonry is one of the great in
terpreters OF progress. Tho world can
never reach point aboYe its teachings,
because it is itself the great embodied
truth OF high humanity, casting OF the
weight which impedes the race, and
stretching up to eternity.
The CorToS CRop IN New ORLEANS