Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-15

REVIEWS
HELEN MULGRAvE, OR JEsUIT ExEcUToRsHIP.
VOL PIP 3l2. Published by De Witt 4 Daven.
port, Nassau street, New York. Sold by Gray 4
Ballantyne, Washington.
Seldom have we read work of such alb
sorbing interest, describing as it does, the pro-
cess by which young inquiring mind is led to
cast of the formula of the Catholic faith, in
which it was trained, and the prosecutions to
which it is in consequence subjected, extend
ing through every relation Of life.
The book contains many truths Of vital i'm
portanoe. G.
The CONVENT AND THE MANsE. By Hyls. Bos-
ton: John P. Jewett 4 Co. cleveland: Jewett,
Proctor, worthington Sold by Gray Ballan-
tyne, Washington. l vol. PIP. 242.
We are here presented with delightful pic
ture of clerUman's home-a home where
intelligent industry presides, and governed by
the sweet law of love; where the heart is free
Us mountain winds to gush forth in loving
words and deeds or in merry play with the
happy spirits that surround it--s little heaven !;
NOT the heaven where no sorrow is but where
it comes as q mnistering angel to turn the
thoughts more trustingly upward, and make
the tried and purified spirit beam with more
heavenly lustre. Perhaps the author is cler-
gyman's wife, and her own home sat for the
portrait. If so, we envy its inmates, one and
all-from the happy husband down to the Irish
servant girl.
In strong contrast is presented the life Of q
convent where the glad gushings Of the heart
Of youth are represented as fettered by unnat-
ural restrictions. The author arraigns those
parents who, to crafty selfish ambition, and
gain political influence, send their daughters
away from free and happy homes, where they
have been tenderly reared by the hand Of ma
ternal love, and shut them up within gloomy
walls, where, he says, they are subject to the
artful persuasions and insidious teachings Of
Jesuits and Sisters, miscalied Of Mercy. He
holds, that forbidden to think, to judge, to act
for themselves, il is impossible that their minds
should be as thoroughly disciplined asin schools
where free discussion and inquiry are encour-
aged; and hence that they the more readily
receive the specious falsehoods and complicated
dogmas taught them for truth. To beiisve and
obey is their duty, and not to reason and r.fect
Consequently, they soon learn to consider their
parents heretics, and in the end fall into the
arms Of Holy Mother Church" G.
LIBERAL FEELINGsAT WHEELING, VA.-We
learn that Mr.. Greeley Of the New York Trib.
une, who leotured at Wheeling few evenings
since created some sensation, il not by his
lecture, at least by the simple fact Of his pres
ence The Wheeling Times says Of him;
"No man regretted more than we did the
accidental advent Of Horace Greeley to our city,
and no one has more abiding dislike Of every
act with which he has been connected than
we. He is disorganizer Of the worst order,
the advocate Of the worst isms ever invented in
any country, opposed to the Union, and pos
sessed Of no one characteristic excepting ener-
~ and intellect, which Is congenial to us and
to Virginia We did not hear him, did not
even notice the fact that he spoke here, and
sincerely hope that he may never again dark
en- our soil with his presence His lecture, we
learn, was IN able one, and purely literary,
and we are well assured that his usual current
Of lectures would not have been tolerated for
an instant by his auditory
Bah, Mr.. Tines Don't betray your folly
so freely the world viii discover it in good
time without any direct efforts on your part 10
illustrate it,
% THE COMMITTEE Of the House Of Rep
resentatives appointed TO inquire how far IL
is expedient for the public interest and consist
ent with our civil institutions, to employ mill
tary men on our public works." consists Of
Messrs. Stanton, Of Kentucky, chairman; Daw-
son, Of Pennsylvania; Dickerson, Of Mssss-
chusetts Faulkner, Of Virginia ysnssnt, Of
Maryland; sapp, Of Ohio; and Keitt, Of South
! Carolina.