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Day
20
Month
October
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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United S tales Grand Lodge ofl. O. O. F. - lnteresting to the ladies. - The Graad Lodge of I. O. O. F. ofthe United States, which has been in session for some days in Baltimore, finally adjourned on Thursday night after a most harmonious session. Besides the transacion of many matters of interest to the Order, saya the American Republican, an expression of opinión, in the form of a resolution was voted, recommending that a certifícate be prepared to be issued to the wives of members of the Order,der certain regulations, by which they may make themselves known when absent from home; or, in other words, the conferring of a "degree" upon such ladies, whereby they can claim, at all times, and any where, the benevolent aid now guaranteed and enjoyed by members of the Order. This new feature - should it be engrafted upon the Order - -will be hailed by the ladies, we are sure, with much pride and high gratificaron, and aflbrd anothér instance of the sterling worth of the institution. We wish tham - the ladies and the Order - success. - Phil. Sat. American. HUMAN FLESH STOCKAOE. Reader, look at this! See what War does to w a mors, and friend to friend, for defence."Camp, Peseatcar Nov. S, 1842. Dkar 1 "1 am once more in Hindoostan, and all the dangers and hardsbips of the campaign are over; and now for a glorious march to Delhi, "with blushing honors thick upon us." The Gevernor General has given us each a silver medal ond six month's batta; we have had lots of hard work and harder fighting for them. Il is, however, a good thing to find that our services are appreciated. You could not pos6ibly conceive, dear , the frightful sights I have witnessed during the last two montbs. Only imagine a stockade being thrown across the Jugdlock pass, formed of the branches of trees, with the corpses of our slaughlered coniradcs siuck up among them. It was dreadful, and the stench alrnost insuöerable. There must bave been several thousands of bodiea in the passes between Gundamuck and Khoord Cabul; and in some places the road was so narrow that the gxina went crushing over them; irï f act, a person could not walk without 6tepping on them. It was almost too horrible to bear. We recognized the bodies of many Europeans frora the fair hair; bist they were so scorched and blacked by the sun that we could not teil thern otherwise. There were raany females among them. - However, we have had a glorious revenge! Ghuznee, Cabul, Jellalabad aro levelled to the ground. All the prieoners are safe, and Monsieur Ackbar Khan now a fugitive." The Past and the Present. - tt te curious to mark the rise, progress and decay of towns and cities. Perth Amboy was once a rival of New York. Newport, seventy years ago, was the next seaport of the east. Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, at one time transacted more business than Baltimore. - Jamestown, once so important a place, is now in ruins ; and the spot on which Roanoke was built is not even known. The Electric Light. - We are favored with the following extract from a letter received last evening by Thomas J. Gallngher, Esq. from Capt. King, under date of London, Sept. 2, 1845: "The great question of sustaining the light is perfectly and entirely sertled; it is sustained with as much ease as a gas light; as long as the electricitv is applied, just so long there 3 light steady and unwavering. There is no question as to its applicnbility to' light houses, slreets, large buildings, signáis, and when so applied will bCgreally económica! over gas, or any other method of Iightïng. - Whetheritcan be subdivided into small lights for common house lighting, is a question yet to be settled, and upon this Mr. Strrr is now engaged. It is valuable enough as it stands, but wè do not wish toieave ft open to improVement by othars." - Cin. Union. Wool - The production of wool is rapidly increasing in this country. There have been shipments lately to England to theamountof 800,000 Jba-, and furAor orders are nowirt mrket:Strange Prosecution. - The New York papers state that the Mayor of that city has been arrested and held to trial in $10,000 at the instance of several of the mock auctioneers, whose business has been broken up by the placards, "Be? ware of Mock Auctions!" They have engaged David Esq., to prosecute the case in their behalf! Whatever may be the result of this singular proceeding, the Mayor deserves the thanks of the community for the caution he gives to strangers who visit the city. Horace Greeley, as we learn from the papers, lalely officiated in the Church of W. H. Channing. Some of his neighbors, we perceive, have dubbed him Rev. Newspapers in Wisconsin. - There are published in Wisconsin sixteen weekly papers, and one daily. Six of them are Whigs, six Democratie, one Liberty, and two neutral.The manufacturera in Waterbury, Conn., are employed in making money for the Haytien Government. Of one small coin, valued at about a third of a cent, they have n order for six tons. "Mr. Simkins has an aboninable gait - dont you think boT No, indeed. I think it is quite handaome, especial!? siuce t was painted.' 'Excuse me, but you don't underetand iue - I alinde to his carriagtS Why Ia me! he has no carriage.' 'Oh, yea he has, but it is eeen only when he walks.'

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