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.
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"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.
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