The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-27

CONVENT OF GRAY NUNS AT TOLEDO, o.
The following gives altogether different aspect
to the affair, account of which We published
few days since.
The facts which have come to our KNOWLEDGE
since the issue of yesterdays Blade materially in
terfere with the prominent features of the story of
the rescue of young lady from a convent in this
city. These facts are mainly obtained from citi-
zens living near the so-called convent of Gray
Nuns, on Cherry street. beyond the canal, and are,
in our opinion, worthy of confidence.
In the first place, there is no convent there it be-
ing no more than an asylum for Catholic orphans
under the charge of GRAY Nuns with only a suffi
cient number of these for the proper management
OF the institution. We assured that there is no
more seclusion or secresv about it or its inmates
than about similar establishments of other denomi-
nations
Elizabeth Starr. and claimed to be the daughter of
gentleman OF the same name, member of the
Canadian Parliament. She came to the ASYLUM
me five six weeks since. Soon after her arri-
val she introduced herself to the families of the
neighborhood { mostly Protestants), and made
herself especially familiar and at homecoming
and gong without restraint or surveillance, in some
instances spending the night with her young ac-
quaintances. Her account of her education &C.,
agreed mainly with that in the Detroit papers and
her accomplishments in music and other depart
ments OF ornamental education, were unusually
high out IN the common courtesies and proprieties
vi NE, sue eVlnceu want OF ordinary training,
much at times as to make herself burdensome.
She said she was nineteen years old and that
sne came here of her own free will, and that she
expected to come to Ohio when she left Montreal;
and at no time did she intimate that any restraint
had been attempted upon her perfect freedom
Soon after her arrival, she sought the opinion of
neighbor as to the policy of her becoming a nun,
showing that it was not fixed purpose to become
such. She had story of her engagement to marry
a man in Montreal that her father opposed the
match on the ground that her suitor had a wife
living, &c. ....
During her stay she wrote several letters to her
father and others, some of which were left at the
neighbors for mailing. In one of these, as stated
by herself, she requested her father to come for
her, and gave very minute and detailed directions
as to the best manner of finding her. We believe
she was not well at the time she left although she
had been about the neighborhood up to within a
day or two of that period.
1t is proper to state, that the lady superior in
charge of the asylum at the time Miss Starr left
was there temporarily, having come from Montreal
since the arrival of the latter. The gentleman who
took Miss S. away exhibited much excitement real
or affected, and addressed the lady superior in
very strong and offensive terms
ASIDE from the representations made to the editor
OF the Detroit Tribune the has very little OF
mystery or special interest 1t looks as if petted
and spoiled child had become crossed in some love
affair or otherwise, and had ancied that the seclu-
sion OF a convent would be most congenal to her
feelings and that when the realities of that mode
OF life pressed upon her, she relented and again
sought her fathers house. We will not undertake
to explain all the questions to which the two state
ments OF the case have given rise; but far as any
force restraint is concerned, there certainly is
no evidence OF them, and we take pleasure in dis
charging simple duty to our Catholic friends, by
making the above exclamation ToLedo RLode