Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-29

- = lac writ was granted, and the officer
discharged from the sheriff's arrest BY Judge
Kane. The present action 10 to attach the
sheriff for obsying the process Of the District
Court.
We venture to hope that the good sense of
the judges hearing the case (Knox and Lewis
will avert the OWL of collision
The New York Express conductors
of this journal, whilom claiming to be conser.
vative, are sadly bitten by the prevailing
mania, and accordingly devote their editorial
columns, for the most part, to efforts to argue
the public into the belief of the truth of the
thousand and one silly falsehoods against their
Catholic fellow-citisens with which mon who
seek to crafty tho preju iices Of ignorance and
to indulge the passion Of malignant haired
under the cloak of intense zeal for Protestant
ism, are now flooding the country. This
habit of wholesale slardering of tho Catholics
seems to be epidemic in this country; while
in England it RACES perpetually. 1t prevailed
here about the time of the burning of the
Catholi, female seminary near Boston, and Of
the Catholic churches in Philadelphia, by
mobs. 1t broke out again in this country
simultaneous with the recent cutting of the
Catholic church in Newark by q mob OF
drunken Irish, English, and Scotch haters Of
a Christian sect, who desscra ted the cause OF
Professionalism by committing the outrage in
its revered name, and also about the time
that some midnight incendiaries blew up with
powder the roof of the Catholic church at
Dorchester, Massachusetts,.
The conductors of the Espress are at least
sufficiently informed concerning the history
of the times, to know we'll that in accusing
their Catholic fellow.citizens everywhere OF
all sorts of crimes and evil intentions, they
are scattering falsehoods broadcast over the
land They know that, as citizens and chris.
tians, the Catholics Of the United States do
their duty to society in all respects quite as
cOnscientiously as any other class of American
churchmen. Under these circumstances, hon
orable men cannot fail to view their course
with the intense disgust, which display of
sinister motives always generates in the breasts
of the right minded. Acts, such as theirs
that might be overlooked in the conduct of
the VIGOROUSLY ignorant or weak in precep
lions of right and wrong, cannot be forgotten
when Dig racing journal conducted by men
who for long series of years have made pre-
tensions to erudition and conservatism 1t is
somewhat remarkable that the Express has
:rQ,
other New York daily, although none has
surpassed it in the ability with which 1t has
long been conducted. From its course in
sezing up and gloating over every "McSwish'
roorback, which brutal ignel ance and licen-
tious animosity are now engaged in manufac-
turing in the hope that the prejudiced and
ll-informed in the community will be imposed
upen by them, it strikes US that its habit must
have been to play the demagogue after the
same fashion, upon questions appertaining to
the local affairs of New York This is the
only rational key at hand to that journals
notorious want Of influence at homo.
Bold Roorbacks .-We find the following in
the New York Tribune of the 18th instant:
A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HOLLAND.
Special Dispatch to The ~ Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Nov. 81 Il learn from reli.
able source that tho Administration contem-
plate a naval demonstration in the ports of
Dutch India, to open the way for American
diplomacy in that Obstinately bigoted country.
demand will first be made at the principal
seaport town for the pay ment of the hundred
thousand dollars due to Captain G,bson, and
upon refusal to pay the town will be bonn
barded. But it Is Lot expected that this will
be Necessary the authorities will pay at once
under protest, and then negotiations will be
transferred to WashDg'on-just what the
President desires. Tho President has no au.
thority to declare war technically, but he can
resort to such methods az this to enforce de-
mards. After the settlement of the affair in
question, the Government intends then to send
out to Java Government agent uniting con-
sular to diplomatic overs, 10 compel TINS peo-
pie, after the fashion Of Japan, to forsake her
exclusive system for more enlightened one.
Now, We have to say, that there is not one
word Of truth in this statsment-not O word
This special telegraphic correspondent of the
Tribune has been most egregiously imposed
upon by some one or other. We have satisfied
ourself that the reliable source from which
these stories came. has not spoken a single
word of truth throughout the budget The
regular special telegraphio correspondent of
the Tribune is usually 90 careful to steer clear
of such impositions, that We take 1t for granted
that some tyro, not that writer, has been gam
moned in this instance.
Still Another Pension Forger Arrested
VIM. Martin, of Detroit, Notary Public of
StockbIidge, Michigan, has been arrested for
forging pension vouchers, and drawing pen
sion monies in tho case Of Mehitable Porter.
who has been dead for some years Vouchers
were recently presented to the agency a. De-
troit, purporting to have been executed since
the 9TH of September last, for the purpose of
drawing her pension from the 4th of March,
1854. to 4th Of September, 1854, which, of
course, were forgeries. He has been arrested
and ex amined, and for want Of bail Ia now in
prison awaiting the action of the grand jury.