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A WORTHY MISSION.-Dr. Bonfils, of Weston, Platt Co., Missouri, and his estimable lady, are now in Boston, obtaining funds to aid their county in establishing a Protestant normal school for young ladies, and one or more public schools for males and females. Hitherto the Catholic vote in the county has prevented the establishment of any places of popular educacation, except those under the supervision of that sect; but at the last session of the Legisla

ture, an appropriation was made for the suppor of Secular Common schools, on condition that the county would raise the sum of five thousand dollars for the same object. It is for the pur pose of obtaining that sum, that Dr. B. and his lady are now in the Atlantic States. Their mission has been liberally answered in Boston, and as they will visit New-York in a few days, we hope they will also meet with a cordial response here.

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OUR BOOK TABLE.

FROM the temporary quarters of the APPLETONS, corner of Broadway and Dey-street, we have received a copy of the LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH; EVENINGS AT DONALDSON MANOR; SACRED SCENES IN THE LIFE of our Saviour; MIDSUMMER FAYS; and THE CON

SPIRATOR.

THE LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH is a book of two volumes, octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, from the pen of the Hon. John A. Garland. The task of preparing a true and well-balanced biography of this extraordinary and ill-balanced character was evidently one of no common hazard, but we can safely say that Mr. Garland has, apparently, at least, accomplished what few men would have undertaken. He has given us a daguerreotype of a character more eccentric and variable than Uranus itself, and withal, two volumes of exceedingly choice historical reading. Indeed, the life of John Randolph was so closely interwoven with the legislative and diplomatic affairs of his country, that the biography here given falls little short of a political history of the United States during that period. EVENINGS AT DONALDSON MANOR: By Mrs. Maria J. McIntosh. This is a magnificent American holiday hook for 1851, bound in oriental richness, and embellished with 10 exquisite steel engravings, by Smillie, Phillibrown, Muller, Greatback, and Finden; after paintings by Durand, Weir, Huntington and others, all executed in the best style of theso several artists. The plate here got out between the joint glories of Durand and Smillie, "The Western Lake," is a specimen of refinement in landscape painting and engraving scarcely rivaled in any portion of the world; and that beautiful creation, "Zuleka," also in this volume, stippled by Finden, after a painting by J. W. Wright, is scarcely less perfect of its kind. We may add, en passant, that the literary portion of this book is worth the embellishment, a compliment seldom bestowable on holiday gift-books.

SACRED SCENES IN THE LIFE OF OUR SAVIOUR.This is a most appropriate gift-book for the Christmas holidays. The "scenes" are presented in prose and poetry, by various authors, embellished with sixteen line engravings on steel. The volume is elegantly bound in morocco and gold.

MIDSUMMER FAYS.-This is a charming little book of Fairy Tales for little folk, by "Susan Pindar," the sister of "Peter," no doubt, and the authoress of

"Fireside Fairies." It is gotten up in very pretty style, and is intended as a juvenile gift-book.

THE CONSPIRATOR, by A E. Depuy, is a new American novel, evidently based on the history of Burr's treason, and the doings at Blannerhasset Island. It is a well-written romance, in one volume, of 300 12mo. pages.

The Messrs. Harper have sent us a set of THE PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION, so far as it has been published, comprising eight numbers. This book is written and illustrated by B. J. Lossing, Esquire, who has shown himself equally au fait at the pen, the pencil, and the graver. To accomplish his undertaking, he has visited the various scenes of conflict in the struggle of our forefathers for liberty, and made faithful sketches of them, and such relics connected with them as were to be found. These he has carefully transferred to wood, and engraved in a beautiful manner, thus presenting a work embellished with numerous spirited specimens of art, gracefully interwoven with well-written reminiscences and historical scraps of that glorious era. Every American should possess a copy of this work. We quote a short passage from the first paragraph :

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"Man loves the soil that gave him birth as the child loves its mother, and from the same inherent impulses. When exiled from his father-land, he yearns for it as a child yearns for home; and though he may, by legal oath, disclaim allegiance to his own, and swear fealty to another government, the invisible links of patriotism which bind him to his country cannot be severed; his lips and hand bear false witness against his truthful heart."

HISTORY OF ALL NATIONS.-This is a very valuable serial, by S. C. Goodrich, now in course of publication, by Wilkins, Carter, & Co., Boston; Stringer and Townsend are the agents in this city.

CHANTICLEER, a Thanksgiving story: J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, publisher. A very pretty giftbook for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, 155 pp., beautifully bound in cloth and gold. The book bears the name of no author, but it is a good story well told, and with a good moral.

TWELVE QUALITIES OF THE MIND, or outlines of a new system of physiognomy, by J. W. Redfield, M. D. Pamphlet, published by J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall. Dr. R. is an enthusiastic disciple of Lavater, and his pamphlets on this subject are not only interesting, but logical.

THE ORDER OF UNITED AMERICANS.

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THIS admirable Institution, created for high and ennobling purposes, and with which we have been associated from its earliest history, is entitled to, and shall receive at our hands a liberal space in the columns of the Republic. Indeed, the presiding spirit of the Order-LOVE OF COUNTRYwill pervade the entire fabric, bearing on wings of light and intelligence, the admonitions of the patriot, to every American heart, and conveying facts and realities that can be gathered from no other source.

The Order of United Americans was established for the purpose of creating a renewed nationality of sentiment among our people, to the end that a more effective guard may be thrown around our Union and its blessed Institutionsto check the progress of the demagogue, and to avert the jealous influences of all foreign Powers, Princes, Potentates, or prejudices. It harbors in itself no prejudices, it launches no invectives against the foreigner, it would not seek to deprive any man of his legitimate and constitutional rights: but on the contrary, it extends the right hand of welcome to the deserving of every clime. It aims to purify the ballot-box-to protect the elective franchise from the polluting and desecrating touch of demagogues, whether native or foreign, and to implant in the minds of all lovers of true Liberty, a sentiment that shall serve in its defense as a bulwark stronger than fortress walls--more powerful than Mercury and Mars; and being devoted to the great cause of political emancipation, it will be found always arrayed on the side of civil and religious Freedom in every quarter of the world.

The Order is not proscriptive, as some would assert. True, it does not receive into its councils men of other nations, because the duties that it has to perform are peculiarly the duties of

Americans; they are duties too sacred to be entrusted to other hands. It receives with open arms every man of good character, born under the jurisdiction of the United States, ignorant alike of his political and religious creeds. The souls of such are sure to sympathize with the spirit of the order, and hence there is no clashing of sentiments in its Councils. It knows no sectional distinctions, no line of demarkation between the people or the interests of this broad and happy Union. Its sympathies are alike with the fair and sunny South, the frosty North, and the golden, glowing West. Wherever the banner of our country floats, there is its home, there will it labor to cement with a growing and a stronger power, the links that bind us together as a free and Independent people.

Another feature of the Order is that of BENEVOLENCE and fraternal kindness. By means of this we are enabled to minister to the distresses of a brother-to smooth the pillow of sickness-to bury the dead-to comfort the widow, and to protect and cherish the orphan. SUCH IS THE ORDER OF UNITED AMERICANS.

But it may be, and has been urged, that there is no need of such an institution-that there is no danger-that our institutions are already sufficiently guarded by the intelligence of the people, and that our vast physical resources are sufficient to bid defiance to the heaviest assaults of despotism, come from what quarter they may. These are but the answers of the blind man, who unconsciously stands upon the brink of a precipice. He sees not the danger that by a single step would hurl him from existence, and in the very ignorance of his peril, he calmly bares his brow to the evening zephyrs. Let those who are thus politically blind, open their eyes, look about them, and see where stand the old land-marks of our prosperity as a nation, and our repose and happiness as a people. They will see that the stability of our Institutions, once deemed so firm, is now a subject of speculation; that the dissolution of our union has become a consideration familiar as household words-men contemplate it without a shudder. They will see that the right of suffrage is regarded by our best men as not worth the possession-that it is a mockery of corruption, instead of the "palladium of Liberty;" they will see our leading politicians transformed to demagogues, who pander to ignorance, and kneel at the shrine of politico-religious influences for the

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sake of partisan spoils and personal aggrandizement; they will see the good old foundation stones of our State constitutions carried away, and new ones, with new theories engraven in strange language upon them, set in their stead; they will see men not one year from the stygian cells of despotic and papal ignorance, choosing legislative and executive officers for the American people; and here, where we write, in the great and intelligent state of New-York, they will see that within five years past the good old Constitution has been wiped away, and a new one, making room in the executive chair for any foreign ecclesiastic, has been adopted in its stead, thus opening the door to that bane of all free governments, an union of Church and State, a commingling of religion and politics. In adopting this constitution the people did their part blindly; they trusted to the convention that framed the instrument, and there were not wanting men who saw that it was framed to their own liking. These facts show that something more than the mere well-meaning of the people is needed to watch over the destinies of our country. If it is not the Order of United Americans, what is it?

Our danger lies not in physical influencesour defense must not rely solely on physical power. The jealousies of the Monarchies of the Old World are more and more directed towards us as the influences of our liberal system of government is more and more felt among their people, and at each successive struggle for liberty, new hatreds are engendered against us, and new plans devised to put out that all-pervading glory which points man to his true, God-created and God-like dignity and destiny,- Freedom of thought and conscience. They send their emissaries amongst us, gain political rights, create factions, raise issues, embroil sections, and cause local heart-burnings and animosities, which put to the test the sternest energies of patriotism to withstand; and, while at a distance, they calmly laugh in their sleeves at the progressive success of their devilish plans, the American people are absorbed to the very senses in an insatiate thirst for gain. In such a crisis, who are the first to come forth, casting their partisan chains to the earth, and arraying themselves fearlessly on the side of their country? A band of Patriots,-The Order of United Americans, whose voice has already been heard, and whose influence has been felt in the cause of the Union, even from the snowy mountains of Vermont, to the teeming prairies of Texas and Louisianaand who, with the help of that Great Power which stood by the side of our ancestors of '76, will not slumber until the American People are re-united, re-nationalized-and the persecuting spirit of foreign influence is driven effectively and forever from amongst us.

CHAPTERS

COLLECTING subscriptions for the Republic, from their members, are requested to give a receipt for each payment, and keep a list of those paying, to be handed, with the money, to Jesse Reed, Esq., 59 Cortland St., or to Capt. J. J. Dickinson, at the Astor Mutual Insurance Office, Merchant's Exchange, Cor. of William and Exchange Streets. Blank receipts will be furnished at this office, or sent wherever required. Moneys collected should be handed over to the trustees above named, as soon as possible after it is received.

THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA.-The Chancery of this patriotic association of American Ladies, celebrated their fifth Anniversary on the 27th of November, at the Broadway Tahernacle, in the presence of a very large audience. W. H. Smith, Esq., P. C. of Washington Chapter O. U. A. presided. The proceedings were opened and closed with prayer; an appropriate and stirring address was delivered by Chancellor Samuel Knower, of Schuyler Chapter; a charter was presented, and the intervals were enlivened with choice music. Daughters" were present in large numbers, wearing their delicate regalia, and it may be taken for granted that there was no lack of beauty and intelligence. Miss E. C. Reed presided at the piano with skill and grace.

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THE ORDER IN MASSACHUSETTS is now in a most flourishing condition, notwithstanding the temporary obstructions that it has had to contend with. New Chapters are being formed in the rural districts, and in Boston the members have fitted up and christened the American Hall, No. 64 Hanover St. in an elegant and appropriate manner for their meetings. We have not a complete directory of the Chapters in that State, but Hancock, No. 1, meets as above, in Boston, every Thursday Evening. Jonathan Pierce, Esq., is the G. S., and James E. Banell, G. C. C.

CONNECTICUT.-This good old State is responding to the American sentiment as she did in '76. She will establish a Chancery in a very short time. The order is flourishing and popular. We shall have their Directory for the next number.

NOTICE.-The G. C. C.'s of the several States are requested to communicate officially to Arch Chancery the name, number, location, night and place of meeting, and the names of the officers of any new chapters instituted by them, together with such other information as may appear to be

necessary.

ORDINANCES, &c.

NATHAN HALE CHAPTER.-Our friends of Nathan Hale Chapter, Newark, N. J., were greeted with an overflowing audience at their Anniversary on the 27th Nov. The great Library Hall of that City was crammed with attentive listeners, and hundreds were compelled furnished by the politeness of the G. C. of the C.

WE commence in this number, the publication of Ordinances, Decisions, and Resolutions having the force of law, passed by the Chancery of the State of New-York. They are all from the official records,

to return from the doors, unable to gain admittance. Chancellor C. Goodrich Boyce, of NewYork, delivered an admirable address, his subject being the principles and objects of our Order, which was received with soul-stirring evidences of approval. In fact, wherever the principles of our Order are truly presented, they meet with an instinctive, sympathetic response, from every heart deserving the proud name of American. Nathan Hale Chapter, and the Order generally, in New-Jersey, is in a highly flourishing condition. A new Chapter is now in progress of formation at Wightstown.

FORMATION OF CHAPTERS.-Applications for Charters for new Chapters of the O. Ù. A. must in all cases be made to the Chancery of the State in which the proposed Chapter is to be located. If no Chancery is formed in the State, the first Chapter chartered there exercises the powers of a Chancery, and the application must be made to that Chapter. If no Chapter of the Order exists in the State, the application must be made to Arch Chancery, or, at the present time, to the Chancery of the State of New-York, which is acting as Arch Chancery. Applications must be signed by at least ten persons, and accompanied with a fee of six dollars. If the application is favorably considered, a delegation will be sent, at the expense of Arch Chancery, to institute the Chapter, if not, the fee will be returned. The following is the form of an application.

APPLICATION FOR A CHARTER.

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To the Honorable, the Chancery,}

O. U. A., State of

The undersigned, native-born citizens of the United States, severally between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five years, approving of the Patriotic Principles and Objects of the Order of United Americans, and believing that the spread of those principles, and the extension of the Order among Americans, will tend to preserve and perpetuate the Free Institutions of our Country, have united together for the formation of a Chapter of said Order, to be located in the of County of and they respectfully solicit your Honorable Body to grant them a Charter for the same, to be known Chapter, No.

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CHANCERY ROOMS,

NEW-YORK, November 18th, 1850. *

P. G. S THOS. R. WHITNEY, Esq.

Dear Sir, and Bro.-I have the honor to transmit to you for publication in the " Republic," the accompanying Ordinances, Resolutions, and Decisions of the Chancery of the State of New-York. Truly and fraternally,

L. S.

Yours,

C. GOODRICH BOYCE, G. C. of the C.

ORDINANCE No. 1.

[Adopted Oct. 29th, 1849.]

Third Chancery O. U. A., State of New-York. The Chancery of the O. U. A. of the State of NewYork, having jurisdiction as Arch Chancery, hereby ordains that,

From and after the date hereof, no amendment of the Constitution of this Order, or of the Constitution of the Order in the State of New-York, shall be deemed as under consideration, or be placed on file for future action, until a vote has been adopted by the Chancery directing that it shall be so considered and so placed on file.

ORDINANCE No. 2. [Adopted Dec. 3, 1849.]
An Ordinance to vacate seats under certain circum-

stances.

The Chancery O. U. A., State of New-York, having jurisdiction as Arch Chancery, do ordain as follows, to wit: Any Chancellor who shall remove or change his residence from the State in which his own Chapter is located, without first obtaining leave of absence from the Chapter which he represents in the Chancery of his State; and any Chancellor who shall withdraw, or be legally removed from his said Chapter, shall be deemed to have vacated his seat in the Chancery; and on due representation of the facts from the Chapter, the Chancery may declare his seat so vacant, and direct an election to be held in the Chapter to fill the vacancy so caused.

ORDINANCE NO. 3. [Adopted Jan. 7th, 1850.] An Ordinance for the punishment of offenses. The Chancery O. U. A., State of New-York, having jurisdiction as Arch Chancery, do ordain as follows:

§ 1. Any Chapter of this Order that shall neglect or refuse to bring to a full and fair trial, any officer or member of its own body, upon charges duly made, for any violation of the letter or spirit of the Constitution or laws of the Order, and any Chapter that shall willfully screen from trial and punishment any officer or member who is so charged, or neglect or refuse to furnish the necessary evidence, books or papers, within its possession or reach, when legally required to do so for the furtherance of any trial or appeal, shall be deemed guilty of insubordination, and liable either to fine, suspension, or the invalidation of its charter, as the Chancery shall determine.

§ 2. Any presiding officer of any Chancery or Chap ter of the Order, who shall be guilty of tyrannous or disorderly conduct while acting as such presiding officer, shall be subject to impeachment and trial before his own Chancery or Chapter as the case may be, and on the presentation of any act of impeachment, the officer charged therein shall vacate his seat as presiding officer until a decision shall be made thereon. Provided always, that no act of impeachment shall be received or entertained unless the same which the officer charged theroin presides. If found be signed by at least five members of the body over guilty upon such charges, so made, the officer so offend

ing shall be liable either to reprimand, removal from office, suspension in his office or in his membership, or expulsion from the Chancery or the Chapter to which ne belongs.

ORDINANCE No. 4.

For affecting greater uniformity and regularity in performing the private work, etc., of the Order. [Adopted March 18, 1850.]

The Chancery O. U. A., State of New-York, in regular session convened, do ordain as follows:

§1. The G. S. shall, at the first meeting succeeding his election, appoint ten members of Chancery, to be denominated CHAIRMEN OF VISITING COM

MITTEES.

§ 2. The duties of said Committee shall be to visit officially each Chapter under their jurisdiction, at least once in each quarter. (exclusive of the SemiAnnual installation) to give all necessary instructions relative to the private work and usages of the Order, and exact a compliance therewith, and also to preside at the installation of their respective officers.

Each Chairman shall present a written report to Chancery at its regular quarterly sessions, viz.: on the first Mondays in September, December, March and June.

§3. Each Chairman shall have power to select,

at least six Chancellors to be associated with him in his official visits, and it shall be his duty to make such appointments from time to time, so that as far as practicable, each official visit shall be composed of not less than seven delegates, including the said chair

man.

§ 4. The G. S. shall, upon appointing such Chairman, and previous to entering upon their duties, notify them of the name, number and location, and night of meeting of each Chapter under their jurisdiction, and furnish each of them with an Official Commission attested by the G. C. of the C.

§ 5. Should any Chairman, by means of temporary indisposition, or absence from the city, be unable to perform the duties required, he shall present a written appointment to such of his associates as he may select as Chairman, pro tem., and the said associate shall thereby become invested with all the powers of Chairman, and shall exercise the same for the time being.

§ 6. Chapters shall grant to the Chairman, under whose jurisdiction they are placed, every facility for inspecting their performance of the private work, signs, &c. &c., and shall strictly conform to such alteration or amendment as he shall suggest.

§ 7. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately. [To be continued.]

NAMES AND ADDRESS

OF THE

DELEGATES TO THE CHANCERY, O. U. A., STATE OF NEW-YORK, FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1st, 1850.

WITH THE

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF CHANCERY.

OFFICERS.

GRAND SACHEM,-JOHN L. VANDEWATER,

G. First C.-JOHN R. LYDECKER.
G. C. of the C.-C. GOODRICH BOYCE.
G. F. C.-G. R. PURDY.

G. Second C.-STEPHEN H. HOPPER,
G. C. C.-RICHARD EBBETS.
G. C. of E.-WILLIAM W. OSBORN.

Grand Sergeant at Arms-B. T. MORSE.

ALPHA CHAPTER, NO. 1. Simeon Baldwin, P. G. S., 159 Front Street.

E. Gilbert Bennett, 102 Broadway.

Jeremiah J. Dickinson, 92 Eldridge Street.

WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 2.

William W. Osborn, G. C. of the E., 278 Grand Street. Abraham Baker, 14 Essex Street.

E. D. Price, 92 Elizabeth Street.

WARREN CHAPTER, NO. 3.

John Williams, Atlantic Street, near S. Ferry, Brooklyn.
Nathan Cook, 117 Atlantic Street. Brooklyn.

Reuben Gurnee, 27 South Baltic Street, Brooklyn.
MANHATTAN CHAPTER, NO. 4.

George H. Raymond, 115 Orchard Street.
G. L. Schuyler, 310 Second Avenue.
Benjamin T. Rhodes, 67 Avenue D.

LAWRENCE CHAPTER, No. 5.

C. W. Boynton, 28 Renwick Street.
Horace Beals, Mott Haven.
George Southwick, 120th Street and 3rd Avenue.
AMERICAN CHAPTER, NO. 6.
B. T. Morse, G. S. at A., 260 Hudson Street.
Wm. J. Underhill, 260 Hudson Street.

Ira A Campbell, 208 West, Cor. Harrison Street.

COLUMBIA CHAPTER, NO. 7. William Mauterstock, 164 West 17th Street. Samuel J. Bookstaver, 198 West 20th Street. John Voorhis, 9 Cornelia Street.

PUTNAM CHAPTER, NO. 8.

Benjn. C Dean.
James Welsh, 67 Willet Street.
J. B. Peck, 504 Grand Street.

FRANKLIN CHAPTER, No. 9.

Thomas R. Whitney, P. G. S., 74 Beckman Street,
Joseph C. Morton, 175 Madison Street.
John G. Packard, 66 Horatio Street.

PAULDING CHAPTER, No. 10.
G. W. Mercer, 271 West 17th Street.
Thaddeus Avery, 255 West 16th Street.
John H. Rogers, 41 Twenty-Sixth Street.
MARION CHAPTER, NO. 11.
Henry G. Evans, Evening Mirror Office.
Thomas P. Teale, 245 Bridge Street, Brooklyn.
David K. Seaman, 47 Orange Street, Brooklyn.
CONTINENTAL CHAPTER, NO. 12.

E. B. Brush, 156 East 25th Street, bet. 1st and 2d Avenues
Charles A. Day, 589 Broadway.

Stephen H. Munn, 97 West 16th street.

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