The true Democrat., 1855-04-24

IS Kept by seven Catholic ladies' and ncInd. tweiVe pupils, all young ladies between tba ,'eS a,e o1 ten and fifteen, who, with an Irish man @oeS @ want, constitute the whole household TI TIT committee consisted of seven persons, but tba ne LOOK with them outsiders, so that the wb'}y company niled two twelve-seat omnibuscs notlce was gwen ot their visit, nor did theco~,s ~ mlttee exhibit thelr authority. The Bosta' Daily Advertiser says: ''oh
 Nineteen ladies, twelve of them less ,b.. fifteen years oi age, could not of course o,nalu any eifectual obstacle to the entrance oftwentr'' four full grown men into common honso a' had the ladies known the rights guarantied tbor by the constitution and laws of Massacbn0n,,n and had they been disposed to maintain b@ tboas rights by force. The gentlemen Owe preq,,rs we must call members of the Legislature b, tLi title) roamed over the whole house from at.. r.s to cellar. No chamber, no passage. no cIosS' no cupboard escaped their vigilant search T' part of the house was enough sacred or enonaL protected by respect for the common courtos;o1 of civilized life to be spared in the examinat;no The ladies' dresses hanging in their wardroha. were tossed over. The party invaded Is chapel, and showed theil respect as Proto,. ants, we presume, for the one God whom, or christians worship, by talking loudly with tba; hats on, while the ladies shrank in terror ''. a. the deSecratlon of spot which they be6o,oI hallowed. 'eu
 While in the chapel the ladies declined boI1 Ing any conversation with their persecuors. L,t Hi another part of the house the principal eU pressed her perfect willingness to answer on, question propounded by "the committee /" '' One of the gentlemen" accordingly pats bo, afectionately; pats her on the back with ona hand, turns over the rosary suspended about bar neck with the other, and asks her if she is cor tent with her sltuatlon-whether she can 1aavo when she pleases. The young ladies were of course, subjectedto to questions even more rude whether there are any boys boarding in the es tabllshment, what punishments they suffer for mlsdemeanors, etc. It IS scarcely necessary to describe such conversation in detail the reada, can readily imagine what the scene mu.t have been.
 The examining party of course had cve.ythinc their own way, and when their searches and their insults had been protracted to the extent of their pleasure they took their leave"
 So extraordinary astatement, on such respec table authority, could not be passed by without notice ill the Legislature, and on the same day
 
 Houses and in both members of the commit. tee on nunneries denied the charges.
 In the House motion Tor committee of in. qury was voted down, on the ground that it was disrespectful to the committee on nunpe. rles A motion that the several committees authorized to visit institutions out of Boston report how many persons other than members ot said committees had been invited to accom-. pany them, and at what expense to the Con- monwealth, was also voted down. The speak CT advocated the first motion, and said that in some instances members of the committee had exceeded their powers This gave offense and the speaker explained that he spoke only in the PlckWcklan sense.
 In the Senate 1t was denied that any of tle committee visited any place to which they were not preceded by the Lady Superior 4 joint committee of inquiry was ordered, and the order came down to the House while the same subject was under discussion, and was con- cured in.
 The above statement, being compilation from the Boston papers, is copied from the Provi- dence Journal. The Boston Bee so far as we have observed, is the only journal in that city which has attempted to defend the proceedings of the committee. It characterizes the state ments of the Advertiser as unjust, and in some particulars untrue. What the Bee admits may be gathered from the comments made upon it's article by the Atlas, which we copy entire:
 The Bee contains semi-official account Of the visit of the illustrous seventeen to the boardlnS-school in Roxbury. The Bee asserts that " the entire investigation was conducted with propnety." The strongest point made by that paper IS that the committee did not go into the cellar, which 1t evidently regards as won- derful piece of selt-denial. It admits that a simple lnqulry'' was made by member of the committee which caused "an expression of dis pleasure upon ehe countenannce of young lady pupil" The Bee forgets to tell us what this inquiry was but, without doubt, it was sufficiently simple' We are told that eight or ten ot the party'' entered the sanctuary" fin the most silent manner," although one of the committee conversed with female "in low tone of voice. still, we suppose, fin the most silent manner" Being told that no conversa. tlon was allowed in the chapel, the loouacious gentleman invited the lady into the entry. where according to the Bee, in the ardor of converse tion, he " casually took hold of the rosary which was suspended about the lady's neck. This will do. This settles the matter. After this h'DoSAS C'tii lCluoc tO DCllGNc that the entire lnvestl 5atlon was conducted with propriety." A gentleman, who. after an acquaintance of five minutes duration, takes the liberty of hand Ing lady's ornaments, has code of polite- ness of his own quite beyond criticism and inca pable of reformation.
 The Worcester Transcript says that the Con- vent committee visited the city of Worcester some time ago and inspected the Catholic seminary at Pacachoag." The members of it behaved in such an undignifed, ludicrouS, peeking, bombastical manner, according to all accounts, that they obtained the appellation of the smelling commttee.' We believe that there was one young gentleman amongst them who had the good sense to laugh at the trans actions