Year: 1861

Founder of the Order of Odd Fellow
ship in the United States.


At meeting of Odd Fellows of District
No 16, State of California, held at Odd Eel
lows Hall, Orovie, Wednesday evening, Oc-
tober 3O the following preamble and resolu-
tions were adopted:


WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Divine Providence
to call up from labor to reward, the venerable
founder of our Order, our beloved brother
Thomas Wildey; therefore,


Resolved, That it is meet right, and the
bounden duty of the several Lodges of this
District, to join with the Order, generally, in
expressions of regret, for the loss of him who,
to Odd Fellowship, was the bright, the
Morning Star" the author Of its being, and
the giver of its joys.


Resotred, That, while the members of this
meeting contemplate the amount of human
suffering aleviated bv the Order, the widows
grief commiserated, the orphans educated, the
sick visited, the destitute provided for. the
dead buried, by the gentle, yet powerful, hand
of Odd Fellowship, they can but feel deep,
sad, lasting bereavement, an irreparable loss,
an aching void, which distance and time can
never fill nor yet efface.


Resolred That we deeply sympathize with
the relatives of the deceased in their loss, but
feel it to be his eternal gain.


Resolved, That the members of the several
Lodges in this District, be requested to wear
the usual badge of mourning for thirty days,
and that the Lodges be draped in mourning
for like space of time.


Resolved, That we conceive it to be the
bounden duty of the Order, to erect suitable
monument to the memory of the venerable
Thomas Wildey, the founder of Odd Fellow
ship, the friend of humanity, and would there's
this State, to urge upon the R. w. G. L. of
the Q. s., the propriety of taking suitable
action in the premises.


w. R. BROWN, Secy.


We clip the following items from the Louis
vile Journal


The military authorities of Memphis have
ordained that, if any more cotton or tobacco be
sent to that city, it shall be transported back
into the country at the expense of the owner or
owners. The civil authorities of New Orleans
have ordained the same thing in relation to
cotton, forbidding its beng brought to that
city. These things clearly indicate the char
acter of Southern apprehensions and fears
The people OF the South, appreciating the
strong probability that the whole of their cities
on the Mississippi will fall into the hands of
the United States, are already making their
preparations in anticipation of the event.
They prohibit the accumulation of their great
staples in those cities to prevent the United
States armies from getting possession of them.
And it would seem, from their adoption of this
stringent policy at the present time, that they
deem the catastrophe near at hand. They
think it might come upon them so suddenly
that if they were to delay now, they would
probably have no opportunity to save their
accumulated cotton and tobacco by sending it
to the interior.


THE Secessonists complain that the rebel
members of the Legislature arrested recently
at Harrodsburgh, oy the Home Guard, were
arrested without the regular process of law
DO they suppose that al the Union men seized
by Polk and Buckner and Zollcoffer are seized
in pursuance of due process of law? Do they
fancy that railroad bridges are burned and rail
road tracks torn up and locks and dams blown
up by the Confederate troops in strict confor-
nifty with the statutes of Kentucky? Do they
imagine that guns and horses and cattle and
sheep and all kinds of portable property are
stolen by the Confederate invaders IN exact
accordance with the letter and spirit of the
laws of the land? Curious stckers for law are
the Confederate invaders and their Kentucky
friends and admirers


HUNDREDs of those exceedingly sensitive
Kentuckians who so eloquently proclaimed
that they could never take up arms against the
Southern States, inasmuch as those States
were kentucky's SISTERS have now taken up
arms for the conquest of Kentucky herself
Isn't that enough to make the Devil laugh?


A COUPLE of gentlemen write to us inquiring
where they can find John G. Breckenridge. If
the traitor is alive they had better look for him
in Virginia If dead, We fear we must bid
them go to -.


REPORTS OF SOUTHERN DEsERTERs. -Deser-
tions are very frequent from the rebel army to
rorress Monroe. Inc prlnclpal cause OF thelr
desertion, they say is that they had been i'm
pressed into service they had no sympathy
for, and made to fight those to whom they
were bound by ties that could never be sunder-
ed. From them we learn that the condition of
the Secession forces at Sewell's Point, Norfolk,
&c, is much deplorable; that much sickness
of dangerous type abounds; that they are
only half fed, causing thereby great Indignation
/ thrOnUbouf ho ,boI in bot
account OF this outrageous and uncomfortable
treatment. They further assert that many of
these rebel troops are patiently awaiting the
arrival OF our national forces to join them, that
they may cooperate in striking a blow against
secession and its admirers that will be terrible
in its effects All of this may not be wholly
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