EOM THE COMPILER. "KAI/CRTY, VAG UNION, AND THU CONSTITUTION." G 77'1'SP) (7? 0, rE.V.V I .1.: Monday Morning, April 20, 1857. Democratic State Nominations. FOR UOVERNOR, TvzLunt F. P.1(7 K. El?, of Litcoming, CANALCOM3IISSIONgR, NI - MR 01) STU / (711:1# A IVD. of _Caster. The Connecticut Election The very extraordinary Democratic gains exhibited by the returns of the late election in Connecticut, afibril a most satisfactory and convincing proof of the great re-action which has been steadily progreseing in the minds of n large body of those who antagonized the Democratic party, in the non-slate-holding States, in November last. In moments of frenzied excitement men are frequently tempt= ed tohope for, and to contribute to producing results, which in the hours of cool reflection they would deeply deplore. Under the opera tion of sneh influences, a large body of voters Ar era marshalled up to vote for Fremont who have doubtless since.Tegarded his defeat rath er with gratitude than with sorrow. When we consider how peacefully and harmonious ly the angry surges ef.the Presidential strife burp subsided, and what heart-felt confidence the wlecnation reposes in the wisdom, pa triotism and exalted ability of the distinguish ed statesman who occupies the . Presidential Chair, and the superior Cabinet he has called around him, and then contrast all this, with the deplorable evils which would have inevi tably resulted from the triumph of the oppo sition, it is impossible to repress a sentiment of gratitude fur the happy result. scr At the charter election en Monday, in Cleveland, the Democrats elected their candi -__date for Mayor by .342 majority, and the bal. onee'of their entire municipal ticket by a :sim ilar vote. This is a great gain, and shows that "bleeding Kansas" id dead! Brilhant Democratic Victory in Trenton.— The Democrats of Trenton achieved a brilliant victory at their election on ,Thebtl4, and elected their whole ticket for City Officers by three hundred majority. Something Rare.—We learn front the Louis ville papers, that at the close of the session of the Legislature of that State, a motion woo made to allow Mr. A.. Warner, Secretary of the Senate, $590 extra compensation, w hen that gentleman immediately arose 'and. re quested the mover to withdraw it ; spying that 're--accepted the office •with a knowledge of the salary,- and wonted no more ! here is a bright example of honesty, which we would wish to see imitated by some men who bold office this side of IA nisville. Ihit such .a thing was never heard of in this region, and we 'doubt whether it will ever happen.— rot nsytranian. If Ca. Iltt's will refer to the Journals of the Rouse of Pennsylvania, for the session mediately following the close of the Mexican War, he will find a PRVEUENT in Pennsylva nia flr the act ho so much admires in the Secretary of the Senate of Ken Lucky. Gen. BeIVAIAN, of the „Idet7fioq. Gazette, then Adju• tw , t General of this Commonwealth, holding ~ .‘outnission by virtue of an appointment front UoV..SuuNK, Alticllned to accept extra compensation tendered him by the Legisla. tare for "extraordinary services performed in organizing the Potinsylvania Regiments . ; for the Wxicon War." We cite the fact to show that Mr. W.kasnit is nut the originator of this "bright example." Our friend llowsus is entitled to that merit. The . TraAin,ilon. I'nion.--The lion. Wm A. Harris, ti e new editor of this joa-real, as sumed its i•ontrol on Tharsday. lu his s.llllß tatory; he announces that ho will he its solo editor and privietor, and that he shall ren der to Mr. Buchanan and his administration all the support which party ties and personal friendship can inspire. :""Tire Philadelphia Noes, at radical op position parer, is out very bitter against Wil mot for Governor ; and &flounces him as a British Free Trader, who in 1546, :IA since, has lent himself to the South, as the tool of their -policy. ti& - The Money Lvalit:(zi-y, the organ or the opposition hi Lycomiug county, does not raise the flag of the fusion candidates. No other intimation is contained in its column's whether intends to support them or not. We remember that the Luminary was fiery bitter against "Wilmot "in 1.84 ti, fur voting for the repeal of the Tariff of '42. Lsited.—A I:thograph likeness of ilene.ral Packer, the Democratic uominoo fur Govern- or, The 6erieral is a 111:111 who will hear mentally, and Itig'George NV, Porter has pc*twaster at thlrrisburg, in plaCci IL Brant, resigned, to take effect fyoni and after the 30th of /BL7. 11;55.•G0v, Geary is in NVoshiugton for the purpose, ae has been stated, 4,l,::osing his of f:sirs with tL g,w, ern:neut. :Udell use has been A la( theuytthc: anti-stavery F4,pert3 of his reported COON CiNz.titi lIS, wi,irit .seer to be euiltrailiotory of 11,.,-; .state ments ; byt it is c. , ,:isextei!, 012 ,041 wohoritv, chat lie clibdaiw.s.:4l,r re,p.):l-; •; ty fur report ed eouversaliops, the statemeuts as - to which are contra iiet-o - ry in ylic,rusto.,,,2;;„ Marne jail at 11.agerttulyn ;ca.- (li•-t-..- , veil by fire on Yrllly, Cre miscue:: in Krrety. ' JUIS;i ;will iJii .0 I'lJiDg. Chief Justice Taney. The irripesition are unkparing in their abuse of Chief Justine TANEY, who H(1 'ably fills the highest judicial pusWan' in our country, ou account of the decision of the Suprorue Court in the Dred Scott ease. Wo do not propose to defend his private (+erecter, for its purity and 0 teredness render it invulnerable. Nor do we presume to stand as the advocate of Ilia lofty abilities and legal learning—but few, even of his entempiraries, are equal to the ta'k. Hidory is his &foie° and his eulogy, !ler testimony is, that never has there existed in this gifted land a mind more /ndowed with comprehensiveness _and discrimination, 'or a heart more full of honor and nobility, than Oat of Roger B. Taney.' The mantle of Chief Justice ,IfarFhall has fallen uppn him with all its adorning virtues, increased by time and polished by experience. His course sea always been thus" unim peachable, und Henry Clay himself, in his highest partizan excitement, never impugned the honesty and purity of the motives of the itoble old Democratic Justice. But he is charged with being the mivocate of 'shivery and its propagandism, and that only 14e - Miso of his acting in accordonee with his oath, and expounding the Constitution by its true letter and spirit, Let the decision speak tin. itself, But Mr, Taney personally is opposed to sli very, in principle and practice. Forty years ago, although never wealthy, he freed °Very negro in his possession, and has paid servants wages ever since. They were all valuable, and one, his body servant, has been the head waiter of the largest 11 1 / 1 .01 in Baltimore fur many years. Judge Taney has always been the ingest friend of the black man, and it is related by a contAmporary that the niost eloquent speech ho over ma - do - Was at the Frederick county bar, in defence of it little negro girl, in which ho thrilled his auditors by exalting the happy construction of our courts and the justice of our lawns in allowing the circuit to he stopped in order to give that poor little negro I or rights and her lawful protection.. And, hi th" oug h little creature had most] kely committed crime. Mr. Taney's eloquent appeal rescued her front the vengeance of the law. Thus have nll hi 4 .acts, public and private, been characterized byjustice and generosity. te`The olitor of the Slur, ever rpady to go to the asAAance of a corner,W Know Nuth- toll reeling the truth of our strictures in reference to several acts of the late Steuerd of the Alma-house, "pitches in" to &fond Mr. ScorT ; but after being in, finds himselr in a situati o n a kin to that of the Know Nothings goon ldter they established their Council in this- place,—"eutiyht, in the act." We an ticipated the editor's course in this matter-- his attempted defence, and consequent "tweak d:iwn." That he would resort to filthy epi thets 811(1 slang Ive also behoved,' partly be- cato:e the defeat of linow Nothingism i ll this county (involving a lose of patronage to bit) has turned his heart into gall and worm wood, and nattly hoc:Lose fact and argument fail him. They are mit. 4/ /i had 'lll didelice of any public officer rspeeially on,“ con nected with a charitable institution—who takes advantage of his official position in order that In Illay minister to the keeping up of so cor rupt and despicable a concern, as Kan uth. We have nothing to say against Mr. S'ott as a citizen. All the pufliny Which the $/qr gives Lim as such, is of no consequeuce in this connection. We expressed it as our opinion —and it was the main purpose (.f our article —that the Steward co u ld have had no other motirc than to make politirot capitol, when he interrogated as to the place (;1 . their birth poor wayfarers who called there for the crust of charity. The editor is careful not to say a wnrd about utoiire, but cites an old regulation of the Poor-house to justify the coarse of the Steward. It may be that ho calculates upon humbugging a credulous portion of the pub lic by the section which ho quotes, but he certainly would not,as a lawyer, attem pt any thing of the kind before a Court,—if he did, it should at once be set down as evidence that he had acquired very little of law, and less o f common sense. The old regulation which he quotes b; iu these words, as he gives them : —The Steward shall keel.) a fair and regular list of all the Poor, together with their sexes and ages, as Ill'llr,as can he ascertained, and the time when received into the Hotn,e, and feoln «•hence." Upon "from whence" he appears 11; build his justification of Mr. Scott and yet we mill vfn:t ore to say that no one, from its framers down, ever eifilstrued it t , ../ TP; . r- to the //Wl' pbice of the poor any more than it did to the wan in the moon- "From whence" has ro- P - rettee to other counties, and the pro\ ision was put in for no other purpose "than to carry out certain regulations which the counties had. and prk.balily still have, one with another. And it is not uncharitable to suppose that 31f, - Sciitt and the editor of the .sYar in their secret hearts believe with us but take this prop Irmn their porsitio:l, and they fall under tile weight of our charge of "embittered par- tiza ip." But there is another fact not to be expiain• by personal and vindictive abuse on the part of the Star. The editor intimates that Mr. Soot's course is justified by an old r,e , nintion. How comes it then that further S , -wards, ha making up M"ir l•e:Pirts rm.. pub -I,ion. were nut governed by it ? We have —Nlifted :L /arge number of them..ma can • sorb classification as .Mai. -Scott ivor ix (tall nf his own exerpr7h - e5 wn , rtbii:4l,o(l just previous to his going supereeded bra Democrat! it regulation governed him in his last, not in the publishing of those w hich pr.. (civil it strikes us as a knotty ire•tion, and leavers that of motioo—the only 111 t• ter at issue—exactly where we have placed • ",'e a , serted a week ago that Know Noth ;.,.,4lsin has much to answer for, and to its s; ,s theft in our view may now be added that , n attempt to irrivl the p:ainest terms in our so as to mean what their -framers no,:er intended they :4 hould lileall. anti V% hat no one ever before thought they did mean.— Seoo. had published his lute report in •h o , jden tiees., when parties were more honest. and denatig,;:ttles lop:s reckless," (Know Noth iugism was not dreamed of then,) it would bare eotuzintA no political items whatto,er. mote it be." liamaways from School, The following article is taken froth thelast Clutm hers burg Valley Spirit, and is commend ed to the careful perusal of Know. Nothings with "strong sympathies" hereabouts, who delight in lending a 'helping hand in "under ground operations :" • Prenecious school, girls, who like their "Shanghai" beaux better than their books. and run away from the hitter In order to en joy the luxury of billing and cooing with the former, owitsa great deal to the Know Noth ing Party. Formerly it was the pritetice to condemn as silly the conduct of pupils who quit school without the permission of their parents or guardians, but now we have a party in our country which seems to have been formed for the purpose, among others, of encouraging unruly school girls (and Loyd) to runaway from the Institutions to which they are sent to be educated. This party would do a great favor to the institutions from which they encourage theme desertions, if they went no further than to induce the giddy girls to leave. But they do not btop here. Knowing that the business'in which they are engaged, however beneficial it may be to the morals of the institution, is a rather disreputa ble one, they feel the necessity of offering some defence. Their defence usually consists Of allegations derogatory to the diameter and habits of persons conneeted with the institu tions as teachers, Miss Bunkley, who bruised her feet and tore her trowsers running away from Femnitsburgn year or two ago, did so, as the Know Nothing newspapers informed us, to get rid of the annoying, advances of !WOO! MOO in the institution. But she chang ed her name so soon after her romantic ad venture, that we are led to think it was not so much to escape a man* will /a the institution as to got at one without it, that, she sealed tilt': fearful heights of a four feet lattice loses, mei bounded through' the' pathless woods to the nearest tavern on the read, without at friendly. aria •-or--a- protecting hoop around her. NI 1.1 _Ani...ey's exploit has been imita-. t , ,d lately by a .41i.5s Miller, who h as crell t,,,i quite a Tarot in Know Nothing cito'.(!s ranning awny from a Catholic instisintion in Nclson county, Ky. la her .letter--'2,,r eonr.se she has \written and one — 7 :he sap, :die left tlie R.l "rei w atettl.- emifineil ill a room two, three mot once ti\ti days at a. time, 'kiwi\ e l of her allowance of fwl, for no other reasim thati that of reltu,ittg to g*• to oitirs:.ioit." Th e litto\v, Nothi'itg papers are malting the most of this silly girl's elopemeut, hut we think they w:11 get enough e:tp:tal , tit it to carry them thrott , lt the nest -campaign. It. is a common thing for vicious and nnz,overn ahle apprentices to run alva2,- from'good Inw•- ter,s, and by no moans uncommon for intrach.- I , le . popils, both male lema.lo, to nujostili bly absent themselves from good and well-gov erned institutioos I 1 learning-. :\ stoubs b _l i cen puhlishoil till over the country, we think it, no more than right to publish the accoeut givon by the lU4ly NV - 110 11.1:4 ' principal charge 13111:o in stitutton from which Mk s M:li e d. Av e have no doubt that the cacti', are as stated by the Sj L iU r NAzkia:rlt. 13;11, 18. W. MEssP.s. Eo' 'l n ' ;.-.1 friend has sent, me th e I,o l ,i &N ill e ',Journal of the 12th inst.. in which is an - article hetolc.l—•l,:evas;ll , ai Ro man Cuthat Perseeal or a Poolesia d d St.Loiar X(iz: areM.' ftiriwar any coninanaon the editorial remarks premd jug the of a letter purporting to h ave 1,,, e „ M;try Miller. who on the Itith oh robriturv, at 8 o'clock, 1 ) 0 M., left our institution and proceeded to Mount "Washington, where she has sinoe remained. .`he states in this letter, - twat the reason of her leaving the Academy was that the Sisters endeavored to ftirce her to the practiee of the religious obs"ervanees of the Clthoiie Church, especially confess io n, ;111(1 kept her contihed for several days. depriving her of her allow alive ( If 1 ; n , d. 10(...!ath'e she would not go to confession. This assertion is utterly false, as can be attested by all our pupils, both Catho lic and Protestant. Miss Miller was never known to join the Catholic pupils in any of their especial dov atioual exercises: and it is kn,two to every one in the house that no efrort, either by word or net, was made to in duce, much less to force., her thoughts. This young lady was placed here in Janu ary, 185(1, Ly Mr.' Win. Miller, her half brother, \dm said he, feared we would be una ble :o keep her, as she 1% as or WI unruly dis position ; but he pegged that we should make the effort. Finding. upon trial, said young lady by no 1110811 S inclined to study, and as her brother had assured us, of an unruly dis position, we wrote to hint reioestiog hint to come for her or remove her from the Aeade ! my. The first Lett •r having been unnotieod by him. other letters were written ; vet he neither wrote nor came ; nor did he, afier her entriince (when he paid to the•treasurer the s tu n $75) give anything towards the defray ' ing.of her expenses. On the very day that Miss Miller left the institution, when, according to her statement, she xvas kept all day in close confinement, she took it walk with the young ladies as far as the toll-gate house ; and during the even ing recreation she was with them. She said. at the close of the recreations, to two who were near her, "Good night ! 1 am going to the infirmary to stay to-night, as the Sister told me to come, that she Would give ine some medicine." They laughed at the idea of her taking medicine, as she was in perfect health. In the walk to which I referred, Miss Miller remarked to t person who was walking by her side, that, if her brother did not come for her, she would run off. The individual thought nothing of this at tiine, being ac eustoinedto- hear Miss 'Miller use exaggera tion.= in speech. It is well known to all our pupils that Miss Biller Ras not confined or punished by depri yations Of food, and that no one ever concern ed herself in any way ahout her religious per suasion or practice. We are convinced that our nntnerous pupils of the Protestant church es, who are at present under our care, or who have returned to their homes, after seven years' sojourn with us, can bear ample testi mony to the fact that neither persuasion nor coercion is ever used to induce theta to change their religion. principle,; nor do we presume that the public in general will do us the in .instice to belie% that we have uur , ued or do pur,ne a cour4e .o oppostid-to the krliFtati - ir :IS well as ; but 1 deem it duo to truth to state that the assertions re specting punishments having been used or means employed to force Miss Miller to em brace or Tractice Elie Catholic rxli•rion ' are P entirely and absolutely fal,c, We are not disposed even to think that her adopting Catholic doctrines or practices would be at all of benefit to the Church, whatever such a course might prove to herself: • In a short time after Miss Miller's de.par ture she was missed and search made for her, but without effect, till our overseer finally . overtook her the next day, as he states, be tween 11 and 12 o'clock beyond Mount Wash ington. Ile conducted her to the tavern there. On his return I immediately wrote a letter to Dr, Mattingly, requesting him to go to her, authorizing him to take her to Bardstown, awl thence send her to Nashville in the stage.. lie *as kind enough to start immediately, iiridlitomised Miss Miller that he would him self accompany her, if she desired it, to Nashville. But she refused to come with hint to town. lie on leaving her, advised her to reflect on what he had said tip her, ancti,old her if she choose to come to I.l,trdstown w h en th e stage passed, that his house would he open_te her, and he would attend tu , lter----departure for Nashville, mil even as -he had previ• nusly promised, to accompany her there him self. My object in en ding , for her Willi by nn means to have her re-enter the schonl T -b-rn merely'ro send her in a becoming manner to the place whence she came. Her trunk I - sent on the morning of the lith inst,, to the Mansion House in Bardstown, directed to Nash Instead of preventing Miss Miller from forming her friends of her condition, as she states , , I strongly urged upon her to write to an uncle who, she said, resided Dear Nash• ville, to Cinsle for her. A.nd I myself wrote to another gentleman residing in Nashville, that she named as I,eing her un , (4e, and in lvhose family she had lived, as'she said. My first letter being unanswered. I wrote agnin to the same gentleman alter her leaving, stat. ing the manner of her departure, and std , e• (went fail:. To this letter he replied (my first not bavin , - been received) that he had never heard of her, nor had she ever resided in his Family. 11,,ping that v4ai gill give an Parly in sorlion to thim simple !-tat(!tdent of la,vts. :un Aiwrtfullv vuurs, I'ttnsrt:s GAntusEu, :11 , ,th(-!r :Superior. Sale of the Main Line. Some time niece the Howie of ltepreyeota tit•e.i di:Teteil the Committee of Ways twil ,Nientis to prepare a hill fir the, sale ix the Liise ool• the Work,•. Tio.• i!iittee took the i•iithieet in !mail awl dors wen!: reportiol a bill of Which the follow- ing is on outrnn ° lt preyillei t hut' 1111111elliately after it.''',l,Ll , 4- sa"e. the Governor shall advertise a notice in the Philadelphia, Pittsburg, 1341tiniore. Riston, New York and I larrislairg paners, that the Line will he offered for sn.le at the Merelatet,' Exchange; on a day to iles . ni,mlitcd-by him, not more th a n 40 days lifter the passage of tlli, ant. Any person - or ' L lorsons, or railroad or calla! company incor porated by the ,State, linty hecleae the pur elia.crs, for any sum not less than seven awl a hall ntilli , ,lo:4ir(!nl'arN. If ilocesh;try the Company purchasing 'nay increase their eapi tul stock or ,l/orro‘y money and issue their hoods to any — am. , tnit not exceeding 50 per Celitllltl abort tile :11111.11111t of the .puroliase ease individtmlm plircluvw, the .llovernor is empowered to ihenrporate them. Ni Lid will he reeeived unless the bidder dc posites in the hands of the Governor $lOO,- 000 in cash or State bonds us a forfeit. If the highest bhlder fails to comply Nvitli the net, the tioVel'llilr 'lllll.y, if he thinks proper, tewler the 11'orks to the next hidder. If the. Pcansylt 'min Railroad company he roine the purelmsers. they are required to pay .;1.500,000 in addition. whole pureluise m inov to Ine paid in five- per cent. bonds ..f pay:11.)!0 said bonds to l~ a lien upon tho Main Line: tea per cont.ivliert'of shall fall due on the Ist of 111141 the renmind'ye in ten equal annual instalnwrits thereafter. Up in the ex ecution and delivi-ry--o-t:,saitl bonds, the l'enn sylvattia Italloiml Company anti the llarris burg and I.ancaster Railroad ('oippany shall Le r 'e a sed from the payment of the tonnage Tax IThw "arc-- Pennsylvania Itailroml. Company zt:so to be released from all other taxes it ylosed by the State. Tke...pitreltasers. of the Alain Line may purelitt‘e or lease the llarrisburg and Lancaster Railroad. or con struct a road from Ilarrishurg to_any point, on the Cnlumliia road. They may extend the Columbia road to the .I)elaware river. awl al ter the route of the snow. The,pttrelmstrs are required to keep the canal and railroad pen from 11 llldnyslitTr'gli - i - Philadelphia, and so min' of -the estern 1)i Vision as lies ' tlyeem 111airs‘ - ille .and Pittshurg until the Nortli-western Railread Shan lie opened for from Blairsville "to the .111eglivey River, and furnish motive pot - I - or for the use of transporters. The purehaseN mav lease any nortion of the Camtl for a perio lei ten years, suldect to the same conditions. The i:riee fixed in the bill (remarks the Lancaster Intelligencer,) is low enunr,h, in all conscience, but xvhcit we see that the first payment is not made to fall due until the year 18',10, and only ten per cent. of the amount, at that, and the remainder in ten equal annual it looks very much like a ! , rad farce. We doubt very much whether a single raliona/ man, uninfluenced by gain, cottld, he induced to vote for such a bill. It would he worse than giving away. For if presented to somebody the State would be released at once from any further - charge, but if sold under this bill, the parties purchasing, can use the line for 30 years, without making any but compulsory repairs, make a princely fortune, and then forfeit their $lOO,OOO pleded, let the contract fall and compel the State to take the works back. ' That would be disphsing of the State debt with a—hook: Chinese Diweovery of ..bniTica Fourteen "bemired Years Ayo.—A correspondent of the San Francisco Bulkin, James Hanley, a , Chinese interpreter, directs attention to the fact that Chinese history contains descriptions of a vast country many thousands of miles eastward from them which they called Fu sang, and which it is contended must be Cali fornia and Mexico. Their account states. that in A. D., 459, Buddhist priests had gone to Fu , ang, (or America) and distributed Buddhist tracts and images among the inhah-- - - itants. In A. P., 499, forty rears afterwirrds, several Buddhist priests arrived at Ilingclm, and rep irted various particulars in reference to this country. Tice Chinese - historian calk the country lusang,, from the name of 41 par ticular tree that grew there. The IZev. Mr. Eller, of Mt. St. Marv':, ha:. it is 'tatcil. been appointed Catholic, Bi:nhop of Natchez, 3liss. F. Packer, (our next (overuor) was 30 years of age on she `—'nd. iu6t. 11C== "Taken Away r' 053" The editor of the &far is evidently i under the castigation he received a • week ago, and consequently has devoted anore than a column and a half of his last is little to unmanly, whinning complaints against the 'Compiler, for having exposed him in his i true light. His "simple notice," as he now !calls it, of pretended facts in relation to the lad mho left Mount St. Mary's College, was treated according to its deserts. Each and every material allegation was pronounced a ~ fiztre/sood—mal the conduct of the officious in termeddlers in the case was truthfully char acterized as "disorderly and lawless"—the attempt to make some little political capital for bankrupt Know Xothingisni was 'good burnoredly ridiculed as "a flash in the ixtn," and the tenderly-philanthropic profe - s - Sions of the editor and other smpathisers, received the very name that best describes them.— They were told that such barefaced "hypocri sy" could deceive no one. If an honest and honorable man by any ac cident publishes statements affecting the char acters of others, which are immediately de nied as false and slanderous, his course is clear. He at once either substantiates them by satisfactory proof ; or; as a true gentleman, acknowledges his mistake,retracts the charges and thus makes theproper amend. Ile does not strive to make new issues, appeal to exist-, ing prejudices, invoke the sympathies of big otry and stir up and hatred against the ol t iect of his attack. He does not seek to hide his discomfiture, and cover his cowardly retreat under a shower of words. The editor of the ,sigr, however, has a pol icy of his own, rules of honor anil morality somewhat different from these, and of course pursifes his own taeties. Convicted of as !unity falsehoods us there are material alleg,a thins :in his article, duos he retract all or anv of them? Not he. Catch a Hark Lantern e litor i!oing Cat' ., .' Does he then attempt to prove his acensations ? 'Oh, lw : i,ut hr prate. with the solemn and almost-heart rerid• ing ehitmence of a hypocrite in fear of heing unmirskeil, about, wil the 11/01 , 7•4 qUi!slion, 1)1It "Je:•1116SIII, " . 1.111! epirit Of malignant ile famaii.iit," "diatribes of iovectiv e ;" liuiiklev, the eseiipeil novice," ".Miss t '-`Kings," .41ta e lc-;," .•ftuigeons." •'i amelessTurin yes," ttl'ree In tittitions,"-catholirEurope,"•Wark lantern liiikre-," ttProtestant America," "a free Press," t'llowling, Misting," "Impotent anathema.," and as many more subjects relevant. and then conclude, this grand fire-work dililay of ?cords with the , 1 ., 1- 011111 a.-z4eVe:'atioll,that the a Ise of light and Trutloand Justice in the Providence of (hod must art will triumph." Adinirahle rtrTu in'nt eloquence!! But unfortu na:ely it doe , : not touch a sin , zie point in r i ne.ition. Anil 'vet with the solitary exeep tion r,f one state.umit. resting as yet on'at very questlonalile liasis, arid wind], true or false, prove" nothing to the purp nainely,the as-' s ekion, th l t ..;wael , thly recu r red a civil note • from the I,ov's guardian, the entire article♦ eontitins nt t: ing more, besides abuse of the' Vompiler,which it call scarcely stoop to notice. — His first ..and most important accusation, for, if substantiated, it might give some co loring of probability to the rest, wa - c - tliat, the lad in goestiou trqs. curdy from the c n il ege in c o n se q iirnec of communications made by spit / 111'1101'r gentlempri to the child's Newts at Lyntilster—moreover, that. a 'gen tleuiau Lancaster rrus authorized to de ?wind the diswl l ifiwp ( rum ti To the last f ; ,,,ltinlor this, charge was pronounced a jirbolmo , /. tin undertake to prove its truth? Not a Word of the kind. Does he. thertrilike an honest man and good christian. letraet the slander ? lie Ji2,4l . ains such old-fashioned morality, and like a true member of the dark lantern order, having set in circulation a good. round false hood, he can't bear to give it, up. sticks to it es well as he-can. hastens to show oft' 'mice more the dear little bantling,- (though rather , ashamed of its pateriljty this tune,) treats an darliorizeit cont. wham?) of the sander with genuine Know Nothing indifference. shouts "tdefamation",against the Compile/. at the top of his lungs, and tries. - by words of :Might in fluence with ignorant - bigots, to raise a cloud of dust and snipke, under cover of which he may escape. as the pickpocket in our large cities sometimes evades the hands of justice by crying' "stop thief!" louder than anybody else. Now it is either trite or false. that the lad' was . bil,-,n u i rp because his guardian - tva4 6:contented with his treatment at the College. The editor t I the Star knows that it is absolutely false: yet he has the effron'ery to repeat it. and to , preten,l still to believe its truth. The same remark applies to every alleg,ation, which has teen characterized as false and slanderous.— orie;s own knowieilye, Ihat some of them are absolutely false, and that he has no good reason for believing any of them. The wholv case is simply this : a calumnia tor has been exposed, .hypocrisy unmasked, a few pennies of political capital lost, and the editor of the Star finds himself in about the same ugly fix as a forger dragged to justice with a pocket full of his own counterfeits. \lark. how he writhes and strives to wriggle oat Of the tight place. in which he has put himself. Thus lie begins : MT Or JESCITISM." "The simple notice in last week's lo cal department of the Star, of the escape— recapture—and subsequent removal ofa lad —from Mount St. Mary's College—has arous ed the Jesuit sympathizers and their masters, who control the Compiler, and rekindled the spirit of malignant personal defamation," &c. "The simple notice . ' ! Why it contained at least half a dozen of malignant slanders on the officers of a neighboring institution, who are respected by all who know them in this community ! They were represented as "cruelly whipping and maltreating" rut or phan child, accused of stopping "his comm ni cations with his uncle mai friends," of ploying *'active spies," &c., and of being compelled. (for this manifestly was the im pression intended to be produced,) by the ••indignantv guardian to re/ease the boy o n deli/ n/1 of a person at/thorbq to ta4o! him a car/ from these inhuman persecutors o f i n . necent childhood. There's a "simple notice" fir. you ! Does the writer and publisher of this "simple notice" know anything of the value of a good character ? Is he then so hdtituateit to the task of vilifying his fellow men, that with him and in his paper, the foulest calumny is but a "simple notice"? But mark again, how he would, if he could, sneak out of the responsibility he has incur red: "The statements contained in our arti cle. carefully given to the reader without note or comment, were based upon the representa tion,: of respectable citizens conversant with the lat.ts, who lia.l seen and conversed with the lad and with the gentleman who had re looted him front the Institution. These gen tleruen have called upon within it day or two and re-assert the correctness of the state met.ts." A pretty good dodge. most voraci ous editor of the Star —but you - shu'n't - - I shuffle out of the scrape so easily—you sha'n't ' shift the responsibility at will. You aro ac cused of slandering your neighbor, and it won't do, while you repeat the calumnies, t o plead the old pretest of all convicted slander ers : '•011, I wily repeated what others told me." But is it so ? Were you really told all these things ? and did you believe them on the I , authority of those to whom you refer as your informants? Yes, for "these gentlemen." you say. "re-assert these statements " Then they "re-assert the statement" that the child was taken away by a guardian discontented with his trtlitment at the College, which you and they too. Mild know to be kir/he/400d_ and all the other slanders dkounced a week - I ago, and known by you and them ,to be nothing, but shinder.i. Such are your' backers, the• witnesses to prove your character for veracity!. No wonder they break down in the first at tempt. You thought you had escaped the• hands of justice. that you wet e clear ; and yet. you have only proved. - at best, that others are as guilty 113 yourself. Admitting they did tell you these falsehoods, were you bound to• believe them? and to publish them, too ? Don't you know the principle of law, that the receiver is as had as the thief ? Moreover, you have republished these slanders in your last issue, and made kgreat show, as if you. still • believed them ; though they had been fully contradicted, stood without a particle of proof, and could no longer he credited by any rational man. Are those to whom you refer• as your authoritie'l to bear the responsibility of this double breach of !God 's commandment: I "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy. neighbor." But mark once more the shuffling of a de tee ed calumniator. "With the question of' veracity raisA by the Compiler, as between the lad and the officers of the institution, at which he alleges be was su cruelly maltreat ed, we have little disposition to interfere,' Really, this is the smartest dodge of all. "The question of veracity between the lad and the officers of the institution" !!! Isn't that cool? Why, 31r. editor of the Star, the only yesponsible person, when veracity is in question, is your.silf, unless you still I insist on dragging down your compurgators with you. You puhlishea a tissue of slan ders against the College and its officers. When they are indignantly CAlntraalict*o and qualiliod by their proper naines i _and. there is not left a shadow of doubt; that they are pure, uuntitig,tted and malignant , false bood,i, you ~,,Tdo , hin gl y rui;lish 'them :wain; and vid , Pe you try to fathertlhem upon others, still affect to credit them youviself ; and then you talk of "issues of ver.mily , !"--of an -issue of veracity" hetween• a• spoilt. child of twelve years and those sanreegentle hien w hose characters you have vainly tried. to blacken ! ! No, there is but one irs.tre, and , you shall not change it. Benedict. Arnold charging. his hruthcr bfliecrs in the ltevolk.:- tion with treason, or Judas Iscariot amusing other Apostles of pert dy,rnight be a le :es co:, temotible, but not a more amazing sl•i"tar la than the editor of the Slat. questionim: the veracity of men, whom, though they 1 ever offended him, he has twieeslanderud and the serond time at least, with fall) knowledge and deli lierate,inalevolenee. Destructive Fire in Baltimore. Rarfift Areideo and Loss of Life—A lima• bci Y . Person.? ..`serientsla and Pa!ally in. ju red . A few minutes after 8 o'clock, on Tuesday evening, it was found that those large and handsome five-story warebnuses, Nor. 37, 39 and 41 South Charles, a few doornortii of Loinhard - streetTlytimore, had .teen net on fire, and were hurtling briskly. Flames Meric first seen illutninitirthe windows near ilo) stairway'-, which runs sideway of the build ings, and owing to the large quantity of in flammable material, ouch as cdoths, paper, &c., the former used in the mannfocture .of by the Baltimore Can Companv,whoge apart ments were in Elie upper stories, and't he lat ter kept in a lower s t,,r. 2t r o ma, the fire spread with evusiderahle rapidity, until ,t!ie three houses *became cnvei.vetl in flames. The fire et Ininntniented fr,q,a,t he rear of tin) stores on Cliarles street to, tae largo four story iron • store of F. L. Parker tt Co., oil Lbinbartl street, Nrhich. with in, con te n t s , wa s entirely destroyed.—'The tire Own :Trend to the dire() story stores east of Parker's build- ME The first store was Decupied by Hodges Etnack, hardware merchants. The nest by lianby &Br as it whole-ale grocery : and the third by Gilpin Sc Bailey,,as a wholesale drug store. They were 'entirely consumed, with their contents. A small two story !mild ilig between Parker's and Hodges &Emack's store's, was also eo n slinu v i i. About hi llpast ten o'clock, while a num ber of persons, siipp,,sed to beat leaet txventy, were on the first ti“or of the grocery store of Hanby A: Bro., the upper part of the build ing, as well as those I )11 hi ,th sides hying in flames, the door above fell upon them, envel oping them in flames null covering them with the ruins. A number of theta were got out, seriously burned aitd injured. Up to Titursday evening. thirteen dead bodies had been taken from the ruins, and three persons were still missing. Nine were wounded, several of thew fatallv. This tire is the most ruinous and memora ble that has oceurred in Baltimore for many years. That of June, 1821, on MeElderry's wharf, when the aggregate loss was nearly a million of dollars, alone being greater in its destruction. Later from Nicaragua. Defeat i t f t;eneral Leekridge.—Terrihip Steam boat Exidwdon and Lnms o/ Life. NE ‘y VoRK; April 16.—The steamer Ten nessee, from San Juan, arrived here this morning,. It appears by her advises that Gen. Lock ridge, instead of capturing, Castillo, as re -II irted in the filibuster stories brought by— the George Law, has actually abandoned the attack and retreated, leaving the important post of Serapiqui and the whole of the river San Juan in completepossession of the Costa Ricans. He retreated without striking a blow, destroying on his way down all thefor tifeations below . Castillo. Subsequently he formed a new battalion of his scattered ftirce:i and would endeavor to juin Walker by way of Panama. The steamer J. N. Scott had been blown up on the San Juan river, during the retreat of Lockridge, and ever sixty officers and men were either killed or wounded. The wound ed were sent in the steamer Rescue to Punta Arenas, while I.‘ ekridg,e remained up the river with his remaining force. lie was well supplied with provisions Good Appointment. ---AN DREW HorK Esq., the able editor of the ll,u•risburg' Pa triot and Union, has been appointed Register of the Land Office, in the Nehama District, Nebraska Territory. Ile has richly merited-- this appointment aud his many warm friends throughout the State will be highly drat ified to hear of his g:aul fortune. Ide , i DA/di-I.—The death of Col. Edward Schley, a prominent citizen of Frederick, which to.k place on Sunday night last, was cansc lyv a violent attack -of pneumonia a few - day , : previous. Mrs. Mary Ann F. vi tt died Llealy in the same city on 3Luda y night, of apoplexy. I==l
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