"PROGRESS OF THE ORDER."

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF NEW YORK.-The R. W. G. Lodge of the state of New York held an adjourned session on Wednesday evening, 5th March, at the room, National Hall, Canal street. Considerable business was transacted, of which the following is a brief synopsis: Charters for four subordinate Lodges were granted, viz: Madison Lodge, No. 142, to be located at Oneida Depot, county of Madison; Seneca Lodge, No. 143, to be located at Geneva, county of Ontario; Protection Lodge, No. 144, to be located at Roslyn, county of Queens; Tonawanda Lodge, No. 145; to be located at Alexander, county of Genesee. Tuesday Evening, March 11the R. W. Grand Lodge held a special session and granted a charter for Brutus Lodge, No. 146, to be located at Weedsport, county of Cayuga. At these two sessions permission was given to several Lodges to celebrate by procession, oration and otherwise, one or two of which we shall probably attend. We have been promised an account of the opening of Amsterdam Lodge, No. 134.

SENECA LODGE, No. 35.-This Lodge was instituted at Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, on the 20th of Feb. last, by P. G. Joel Searles, assisted by S. H. Bradley, P. G. The following brothers were elected and installed into the several offices: T. H. Sheldon, N. G.; D. B. Chapman, v. G.; H. G. W. Cronise, Sec.; James Sivels, Treas. This Lodge bids fair to be another bright link in the chain of our Order in Ohio, and will doubtless prosper, as she already numbers 22 members. Monday is the night of meeting.—Ark.

Mr. MANGUM, President of the U. S. Senate, has been recently initiated into the mysteries of the Order of Odd Fellows at Washington. -Dem. Freeman.

KING PHILIP LODGE, No. 44.-It is gratifying, as an evidence of the prosperity of our Order, to see the spirit and liberality which our brethren manifest in various quarters in the erection of buildings for their own accommodation. Bro. Tisdale, in his letter communicating the names of the officers of King Philip Lodge at Taunton, under date of Jan. 7, says :-"We have a new and spacious Hall now occupied by our Lodge. It was dedicated on Monday evening last with the customary exercises, and a lecture from Rev. Bro. E. M. P. Wells."-Symbol.

ORDER IN VIRGINIA.-There has been no time in our history when the great duties of Odd Fellowship have been more promptly attended to in our state. With many of the Lodges, it has been a time of trial during the past year. The sickness of the fall season almost drained their funds, and their almost constant vigils at the bedside of the suffering wore down their strength, yet they shrunk not from duty-always at their post, and ever ready to discharge their duty. Returning health has brought corresponding prosperity, and we doubt not, the next annual returns, while they exhibit death's doings

in many places, severing the mystic chain of earthly fellowship, will also present their places supplied by new votaries at the altars of Friendship, Love and Truth. No land can boast a band of nobler, higher souled sons than Odd Fellowship in Virginia.—Independent Odd Fellow.

GRAND LODGE OF OHIO.-The Grand Lodge of Ohio held its annual meeting on the 18th ultimo. There was a larger number of members present than at any previous meeting; and we are much gratified to say that as usual, the session was a very harmonious one.

The following officers were elected and installed for the current year: David T. Snelbaker, м. w. G. M.; Albert G. Day, R. W. D. G. M.; Joseph Phares, R. W. G. W.; Isaac Hefley, R. W. G. R. s. ; Thomas Spooner, R. W. G. c. s.; James Cooper, R. W. G. T.; George D. Allen, R. W. G. C.; Timothy Kibby, R. w. G. G.; Jacob Ernst, R. R. G. C.— Ark.

VAN SCHAACK'S MAMMOTH VARIETY STORE.

WE are aware that to notice and recommend to the attention and patronage of the public, establishments of this or any other kind, is not the legitimate business of a magazine like ours; yet we conceive it our duty, and a pleasure, also, at this time to waive such consideration, for the public benefit.

There are a variety of Variety Stores, which by those who fancy such amusement may be variously divided into a variety of classes. There are small ones and large ones; Liliputian and Mammoth ones; and it is the latter we propose to consider.

In external as well as internal appearance, none can compare with Brother "E. VAN SCHAACK'S MAMMOTH VARIETY STORE," No. 44 Market street. Long established, and well patronized alike by strangers and citizens, it has acquired a name and a fame that rival institutions may well envy, if they cannot gain. The success of its founder, as all certainly know. sprung from his great abilities in the prosecution of that particular branch of trade, his strict attention to business and staunch integrity in all his dealings; and having placed it upon a firm foundation from which nothing can shake it, it has passed into the hands of a son worthy of so valuable a sire.

Under his judicious management, and by the exercise of a taste for the beautiful that few tradesmen possess, this store has been transformed from primeval simplicity in appearance, to a state more in consonance with the improved views of the age. There the eye may look without wearying at the endless variety of wonders congregated from the "ends of the earth," which fill his three vast rooms to overflowing. His immense stock of goods do not consist merely of arti cles to please the whims of infancy and childhood, but also of the most valuable ever found in such stores. Household utensils in great variety may be had at almost any price, and of a quality, too, unsurpassed in the market in style or finish. We would earnestly recommend the readers of the Gavel to call on Bro. VAN SCHAACK, even if they should not wish to purchase, for we feel assured that a quarter of an hour could not be spent more pleasantly.

RECORD OF THE ORDER FOR ALBANY.

VAN BUREN LOCKROW, DDGM.

EN-HAKKORE ENCAMPMENT, No. 5.-John Tanner, CP; V. B. Lockrow, HP; C. Brooks, SW; C. Holt, S; A. Heyer Brown, T; R. H. Pruyn, JW.

Post Masters are authorized to forward all subscriptions for the Gavel, free of postage. Our friends, by bearing this in mind, would save us a great deal of expense in the way of postage.

We can still furnish back numbers of the Gavel to new subscribers.

To insure the speedy delivery of communications intended for the Lodges in the city of Albany, correspondents are requested to direct them to the D. D. G. M., V. B. LOCKROW, box 264, post office, Albany.

DIED.

In Utica, on the 6th March, Bro. WM. RICHARDS, of Skenandoah Lodge, No. 95, aged 46 years.

Bro. R. had been a resident of that city for many years, and for the last twelve had been connected with the post office, in which situation he became extensively known, and was by all highly esteemed as a man of strict integrity and obliging disposition. He was a man of a remarkably sound understanding and great good. ness of heart; and his death will not only be mourned by his large family, but it will be extensively felt as a public loss, for in his situation in life, few men have made themselves more useful and respected. His funeral was attended on Friday by a very large concourse of people, and all seemed to feel that a worthy man had been cut down in the maturity of his manhood.-M. [Will G. Rule copy? In this city, on the 7th February, of consumption, MARY ELIZABETH, wife of P. G. John B. Pewtress, of City Philanthropic Lodge No. 5, aged 28 years.

The deceased possessed in an eminent degree the esteem and confidence of all who knew her; mild and amiable in her disposition, she has passed through her journey of life leaving a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. In all the relations of life,-as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and christian,-she adorned her situation with purity and truth. During her protracted and painful illness she exhibited the greatest patience; and a cheerful resignation to the will of God marked her last hours. She has passed from the troublous scenes of this transitory life, to a bright and blissful immortality. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."-[Communicated.

AGENTS FOR THE GAVEL.

NEW YORK.-A. Smith, 197 River st., Troy-Nathaniel J. Cady, Hudson— N. Drullard, Schenectady-L. W. Hall & Co. and James Kinny, Syracuse―J. Anthony, Cohoes-Geo. A. Wilkins, Ballston Spa-Geo. Andrews, Saratoga-J. H. Pomeroy, Utica-H. S. Hover, Flushing, L. I.—J H. Van Benthuysen, 223 State street, Lansingburgh-P. T. Heartt 2, Waterford-D. C. McCullum, RochesterJ. B. Devoe, New York city--Benj. H. Ackley, Canandaigua-Jon. F. Morgan, Keeseville.

OHIO.-Robinson & Jones, Cincinnati-J. Cranmer, P. M. Lancaster-J. V. Campbell, Eaton-A. A. Selover, Cleveland-Wilson T. Drake, Middletown. MASSACHUSETTS.-Edward R. Rich, Boston-Geo. S. Wyllie, Ware Village -Geo. Ashworth, Lowell-John B. Goodnow, Charlestown.

PENNSYLVANIA.-Colou & Adriance, Philadelphia-Wm. Fox, PottsvilleAlfred Craigh, Washington.

KENTUCKY.-H. J. Brown, Lancaster-Wm. R. Walker, Cairo.
NEW JERSEY.-J. L. Page, New Brunswick.

CANADA-David Milligan, Montreal-J. H. Hardie, 30 John street, Quebec.
RHODE ISLAND.-John E. Risley, Providence.

CONNECTICUT.-Horatio N. Hawkins, Derby.

TENNESSEE-W. H. Chaplain, Memphis.
MISSOURI.-William Childs, Boonville,

This Essay took the first prize awarded by the Young Men's Association of this city, July 4th, 1844.

CHAPTER FIVE.

On the first January, 1792, Wayne was despatched by General Green to reinstate the authority of Congress within the limits of Georgia, with only one hundred dragoons, regular, and six hundred horse and foot, Georgia militia. With this small force to accomplish such a purpose, many a man would have turned away in disgust or trembled with fear, but no such man was Anthony Wayne. He accepted the command with soldier-like submission, and hastened to enforce his orders and execute his commission. In the words ascribed to Romulus, "If the strength of cities depended on the height and breadth of their walls then was Rome weak indeed." So Wayne might have said of his army, if its strength lay in its numbers, then it was weak indeed; but the boldness, skill and energy of its leader In six overcame every difficulty and surmounted every obstacle. weeks he drove the enemy from every post in the interior, and confined their operations to the town and neighborhood of Savannah; here, indeed, was rapidity of conquest without a superior; and during all this time his men slept with their arms in their hands and the blue heavens for their canopy, and although the enemy nearly tripled them in number, yet by the manouvering of Wayne the foe were cooped up almost in close confinement. On the fourth April he received an addition to his army of three hundred men, which, together with two companies of converted tories, enabled him to keep the British in continual alarm. I myself have heard stories related by British soldiers, who were on that service, and they always spoke with horror of the continual night alarms they were subject to; sometimes the whole of their sentries would be swept off, and no trace of them left for conjecture.

This stealthy and silent manner of thinning the ranks of the British had a terrible effect upon the courage of their soldiers. Like

some appalling pestilence which makes the stoutest hearts tremble, where no courage can avail nor skill ward off the blow that is levelled in certainty and dealt in silence. Wayne was a close observer of human nature.

To keep down a spirit of discontent, Gen. Clark, commander of the British, invoked the aid of his Indian allies; but the Choctaws, on their march to his assistance, were nearly all made prisoners, and to prevent a like fate to the Creeks, a strong force of horse and foot was despatched under Col. Brown to meet them at Ogeechee and convey them to Savannah. Wayne learning their movements, determined to steal a march upon them, and knowing that on their return they must pass through a narrow defile, he resolved to seize the post, and if possible cut them to pieces. Having reached his destination at midnight, he was surprised to find the enemy advancing upon him; but with that bold promptness peculiarly his own, for he had only a moment to decide, and as a British soldier was saying to his comrade, "what if Wayne should catch us in such a place," then, like the Black Douglas of old, the hand of Wayne was upon them, and was heard his stern command to charge, an order which was almost as quickly executed as the command given, and which as speedily defeated and dispersed the foe, killing their colonel and forty men. The Indian alies, however, were not among the number of the defeated, some circumstance having prevented their union with the detachment of Brown, and thus they escaped all share in the defeat.

The chief of the Creeks was a man of great courage and cunning, and although informed of Brown's defeat, it, instead of stopping his progress to head-quarters, only incited him to persevere and retaliate upon his enemy. For this purpose he confined his march to the woods and swamps, and the 24th May, four days after the defeat of the detachment, the Creeks reached a spot within distance of striking a blow at night, against the redoubted foe of their friends. Creeping like tigers to devour their prey, the Indians stole through the underbrush and fell upon a party stationed to protect the artillery with such force that the party fell back in confusion upon the rest of the camp, which now being fully alarmed, Wayne ordered a general charge with the naked steel, which completely routed the swarthy foe, who fled, leaving their dying chief and twenty of his braves dying and dead around him. Thus in a night attack our hero defeated a foe celebrated for success in such encounters, and from the difficulties of guarding against such an adventure, it added fresh lustre to his already high military reputation.

The British government having now abandoned operations offensively in America, evacuated Savannah. Wayne then, with the sagacity of a sage, used his influence in allaying the feelings of party animosity, and also moulded into form the civil and mercantile structure of society in Georgia. In this he was as successful as in his military operations, and General Green did him full justice in his report to Washington and Congress, and the termination of all hostilities with the British brought the war-worn general once more to his peaceful fireside.