for appropriating a part of the smuggler's cargo to his own use! and how much more did he wonder when his own first-lieutenant, the friend of his bosom, appeared as his accuser! A deep curse rose from his lips on the villain, and, under a violent feeling of resentment, he struck him a blow that felled him to the ground and deprived him. of life. The venerable dignitaries before whom he stood were horrified; and before any of the officers of the court could apprehend him, he was far out of the reach of their power. Rewards were offered for his head, but he succeeded in escaping to France, where he stood in defiance of the vengeance that awaited him in the British isles. Here he did not long remain inactive; he soon was in the command of a noble brigantine, with a daring crew, and he put to sea with a determination to harass the enemies of his peace as far as he could.

Years rolled away, and every day brought accounts of the feats of the "Flying Pirate." The most aggravated cruelties he practised, and he showed no mercy to any who fell into his hands. Frigates and ships of the line were dispatched against him; yet he contrived to escape all, and still continued his devastations on the deep. He was well known on all the coasts of England and Ireland, and his appearance off any place was very seldom unattended by some dreadful tragedy. No wonder, then, he was feared by all, and the very mention of his name brought terror to the listeners.

We will return to the deserted partner of his love. Emily sunk when she heard the extraordinary termination of his journey; and her constitution gradually withered, until at length the once lovely girl was reduced to a thing of blight, and a victim to misfortune. Her fond father tried every method to stimulate her to exertion, and his efforts were not altogether unsuccessful. She had a strong mind; but she never could recover the "lost bouquet" of her happiness; and she lingered on, passing her days in a sort of mechanical order, unmovable by any

event, but listless and without reflection. Four years passed, and she still remained little altered; and then it was that a formerly rejected suitor put in his claim for her hand. The old commodore was sinking to the grave; and he greedily snatched at the protection thus afforded to the last tie of affection that bound him to the world. Emily cared not for herself; indeed, when marriage was first proposed to her, her former energy arose for a moment, but then it fell lower than before, and she passively became Sir William De Carton's bride.

The brigantine was lying-to under the verge of a mountain, on the west coast of Ireland. There was a dead calm on the waters of the Atlantic, as I have described in the commencement of this sketch; but, after a short time, a breeze sprung up off the land, and the pirate-schooner moved rapidly away before it. She held on her course during the night, and the next morning brought her in sight of a vessel of her own size, under a heavy press of canvas, on her weather bow. The pirate pursued; and, as night came on, they came within range of each other. Without waiting for the morning's light, she ran down on board the chase, which proved to be an English packet, and in a few minutes grappled her. Then came the deeds of blood., The pirates fought with savage ferocity, and the English deck was soon strewed with the brave who defended her. The pirates, as was their custom, commenced butchering their prisoners, and at length they dragged the last passenger from his hiding-place on deck. He was evidently a gentleman; and his noble carriage in some degree repelled the brutal conduct of his enemies. Torches blazed around, and the scene of carnage, lighted by their yellow glare, had a dreadful appearance. One ruffian stepped forward, and raised his cutlass to bury it in the body of this last victim, when he drew a small stiletto, and struck the wretch to the heart. His companions now rushed from all sides, crying, in savage tones, "Down with him! down with him!" when a female

and threw herself between the murderers

and their aim.

"Back, ruffian !" screamed she: "he is my husband! Strike me, avenge your wrath on me, but spare him !"

Appalled, the grim pirates shrank back a moment; then, as if with a signal, a hundred pistols flashed in the darkness, and the poor victim fell without a groan. Macarthy, who till now had been a passive spectator, rushed forward just as the gentleman fell, and then he encountered the maniac eye of the lady. He staggered backwards a few yards, and she, as if suddenly struck by lightning, gazed fixedly for a moment on his features, and then fell prostrate on the

Heaven, 'tis Walter !"

Macarthy now hastily advanced to raise the lady, but he only clasped the corpse of the unfortunate Emily. He knelt down on the bloody deck, and bent for a time over the lifeless clay of the girl he still loved; then raising his eyes to heaven, with hands clasped on his breast, he seemed to pray fervently for some minutes. He then slowly arose, and having taken a last lingering look of the wreck of beloved loveliness, he went on board his own vessel, followed by his ruthless crew. His brigantine was soon under weigh, and the deeds of that night ended the sanguinary career of the unfortu nate, but noble-hearted Walter Macarthy.

THE NATIONAL BAPTISM.-It is often said that the few have to think for the many, and there certainly appears good foundation for the remark. Witness the action of the comparatively few minds, who, thinking out the then mystified problem of the rights of man, laid the foundation for America's compact as a nation. They, realizing in man an inherent right to self-government, not only as an individual but as a people, yearned to free themselves alike from the tyranny of despotism and the thraldom experienced under monarchical rule. But it was with uplifted eyes that mentally, ay, prayerfully, the aid of their Maker was invoked, and man must ever be thankful that God heard the prayer. What a grand retrospect is there to those who perceive their noble, generous aim of individual advancement, to be obtained only through the common weal; good to self through good will to all!

Were they men imbued simply with feelings of humanity? Nay, they were beings in the image of God, beaming with enlightened intelligence, evincing that his laws were written in their hearts. Philanthropy thus rose as a beacon-light in the Western World, bidding the nations rejoice in hope for the future release of mankind from not only temporal, but also from spiritual bondage. Hope? Yes, hope; for there was still to be a fearful struggle that awful baptism of fire and sword through which the pioneers of liberty had to pass, in order to regenerate and bind themselves in the brotherhood that should constitute them a distinct and independent nation. 'Twas passed, and they became Americans, brothers in one family, children in liberty, and no longer a mixed body, claiming different fatherlands. Patriots became they, loving their country, the country for which they had just fought, and whose elevation among the nations of the earth had been achieved.

will towards their fellow-man, without endangering the liberties so dearly purchased? Such were the questions presented to the intelligence of the founders of this noble republic; and although the American mind had been developed, yet that it might possibly degenerate through neglect, or otherwise become overpowered by the enmixing of extraneous views, were their reflections, and, as such, should always prompt Americans to cherish the all-wise admonition of the great father, "beware of foreign influence." It is only by cultivating and nurturing similar fundamental convictions to those entertained by their forefathers, and by giving to them tone and expression throughout the land, that the children may hope to avoid withholding the privilege of citizenship from foreigners, (yet to arrive,) or the necessity of struggling against them for the maintenance of present liberties.

It has been said that foreigners fought for this country, and consequently that foreigners have a right to enjoy equal rule in it. Curious logic! An equally pertinent question would be, against whom did they fight? Was it against foreigners? If so, then, since those who fought for the country and remained steadfast therein, became Americans, it naturally follows that their children and children's children should have the right of election, to avoid getting wolves and sheep into the same fold.

The benefits resulting from that trying baptism through which their sires and grandsires passed, should be preserved by them inviolate against the inroads of all foreign powers; always remembering, that that baptism which assimilated minds and tested their fidelity has passed; and may God forbid that there should ever be need of a renewing through a civil strife, or that the safeguard of an oath of allegiance, from which a foreign potentate may grant absolution, should ever prove too frail a bond for the safety of Ame

EDUCATION AND RELIGION.-The squabbles that have been and are still going forward in the Political Church, on the subject of popular education, have afforded a correspondent materials for the following pleasant dialogue.

RESULTS OF EDUCATION.-From the letter of "A Roman Catholic," and the answers thereto made by the Boston Pilot, we frame this dialogue. The Romanist correspondent (R. C.) refers to the Irish exodus as having been "excited through no other means than the lack of that education which has made this country what it is, and what Ireland would be, were it possessed of the same godlike element."

The reply of the Boston Pilot (B. P.) is, that "Irishmen are not exiled through the want of education. Ignorance rather tends to keep people at home;" that "Education has not made this country what it is. Its magnitude, vast resources, newness, and distance from Europe, concur with education in being principal causes of the present apparently prosperous state of things in America."

R. C.-"Example and experience teach us that the elevation of the Irish population, in this country, consists in becoming educated, and availing themselves of the free and liberal institutions so providentially open to them."

B. P.-"Example and experience teach no such thing.... Look at the sons of Catholic Irishmen who have received the training given in our common schools. There are among them many excellent Catholics, many 'fine fellows; but there are also many who are 'educated' to be ashamed of [the abounding ignorance of] their fatherland, of their religion, of the Paddy Church. There are many who secretly feel ashamed [of the ignorance] of their fathers and mothers;

Some who openly avow their shame. How many of them get the finely-sounding names of Edward, Henry, Caroline, and Emma! how few the names of Patrick and Bridget! .. How many Patricks sign themselves P., which may mean Patrick or Popopoodle! These are little asses, by the way. And how many Bridgets sign themselves B., which may mean Bridget or Badoura! Well, this shame [of ignorance]. is a direct effect of the State education you talk of. One ignorant but pious Patrick or Bridget, in these calamitous times, is worth more to the republic than a whole drove of your Popopoodles, or your Badouras. [Oh!] Who are the freesoilers

...

of the North, the disunionists of the South, the Cuban pirates, manifest destiny men, native anarchists? They are the victims of State education. And who are the most crazy supporters of freesoilism, Kossuth, and other dangerous humbugs? Your ministers, your Parkers and Beechers; your graduates of State colleges. And look again: Who saved Carolina and Massachusetts from revolution at the last elections? . . . Precisely the recently naturalized Irish Catholics, the very men whom you propose to elevate. God keep them from the elevation you recommend for them! No, sir, example, experience, and faith, teach that the elevation of Irishmen consists in keeping them good, pious [ignorant?] Catholics."

R. C.-"In that unhappy country, [Ireland,] I ask, were they possessed of such a system of edu

cation as I have so far hinted at, would they be, as they are, so enslaved ?"

B. P. "We cannot tell, for Ireland is a country which cannot be judged by common rules."

R. C.-"No, education forbids it; ignorance is the slaveholder. The land is trodden down under its polluting foot. . . . The records of the overflowing poor houses in Ireland, of our prisons and courts of justice here, all answer, Ignorance!"

B. P.This is mere schoolboy declamation, very proper in the mouth of a graduate of State schools, however."

R. C. "I consider it [the Boston Pilot] as only having half done its duty, in not giving parents in general sound advice as to the education of their children, in not interesting itself in the cause of their intellectual development, which is the polish of religion, and their only antidote against their becoming in this country to as low an ebb as that of their ancestors in Ireland."

B. P.-"The sound advice you want (and we grant that you sadly need it) is readily obtained. Ask it of your bishop, of your pastor. They were sent to teach you and us about these things; to give us, not only sound advice, but a sound commandment."

R. C.-"It is only in the full development of their faculties that we can secure them against the depredations of ignorance, and secure to future generations a pervading influence in favor of virtue and goodness.'

B. P.-"Wrong again. Virtue and goodness are not the result of a full development of the faculties. He, and only he, who obeys the law of God, as expounded by the Church, is virtuous and good."

R. C.-"Knowledge, so far as it is true in every branch or science, is so much of divine religion."

B. P.-"Where is your catechism? Where did you learn that human knowledge is a part of divine religion? Did the saints possess divine religion? How many of them knew nothing of

human science!"

R. C.-"And what do they mean by 'mixed' education Nothing more than the impropriety of those of different persuasions pursuing together their researches after knowledge."

B. P.-"Another shocking mistake. It is the independence of secular learning from [sectarianism, not from] revealed truth, [nor] from theology, that constitutes mixed education. It is [not] the denial of the supremacy of revealed truth over human knowledge, of theology over science-[being harmonic therewith-but] of the Church over the school, of the Pope over the professor."

R. C.-"If our faith be a divine gift, and arises in no manner from what you call human knowledge, how then, I ask you, can faith be tarnished by it?"

B. P.-"How? By going through a course of 'education,' which makes you lose your faith; by learning that some things may be true, although they contradict an article of faith.”

R. C.-"You will probably say the Queen's Colleges were invented to enslave the youth of our flock."

B. P.-"We condemn the godless colleges, and you, if you be a Roman Catholic, must condemn them, because the Church has condemned them. For us, this authority is absolute and final. And so it must be for you," [and all mankind?]

R. C.-"Having lately visited the 'Public

Schools,' among the young aspirants for 'education,' I was particularly pleased at the constant and regular attendance, and, in many instances, high standing in their respective classes, of our Irish Catholic children. ... Degrade the schools, or give them no countenance, and you inevitably degrade the people, the result of which is ignorance, crime, anarchy, and poverty."

B. P. "There is the old sing song again. Why, man! one would suppose, to hear you talk, that you think that our Lord sent, not preachers, but schoolmasters, to redeem the world; that he had sent, not St. Peter, but a Board of Education, a Horace Mann. Your language is not Catholic."

R. C." I know of no worthier, nobler, or holier cause the united influence of the 'Catholic and Irish Press' of this country can be devoted to than to the elevation of their rising generation, and those constantly landing on these shores."

B. P. "Nay, but it is our duty to encourage them to be Catholics. That is the beginning and end of our labors," [and nothing more?]

R. C.-"The preservation of our civil and religious rights, property, and reputation, and religion itself, require and demand unwearied action in the cause of education."

B. P." Mr. Roman Catholic, that last proposi tion is downright heresy. The preservation of religion, thank God, depends upon something better than a school-house. . . The Church and the family are the only legitimate education. Any interference of the State, not authorized by them, is tyrannical. State education must, of necessity, end in producing a generation of infidels.”

A VOICE FROM IRELAND.It is always pleasing to witness the spirit of patriotism, wherever it hails from, and we like now and then to drop an example of the sort into the apathy-eaten noddles of Americans. It is a fact that, notwithstanding the enslaved condition of Ireland, with a nationality lost and a bleeding dependence, or rather submission, there is not on the face of the whole earth a people more patriotic than her own. Her curse has been, not a lack of the home sentiment, nor a want of true nerve, nor an imperfect desire to be free, but the crushing incubus of a besotted priesthood, who, by the cultivation of ignorance, have for ever enchained the souls as well as the bodies of her people.

The warm, bright glow of their earnest love of country is continually beaming forth through the links of their fetters, and ever and anon a new batch of overpowered patriots are brought either to the block or the dungeon, or wafted into exile. But what we want to look at just now, as especially deserving attention, is an appeal made to the Irish people in the city of Dublin, on the 12th of December last, calling upon them, as one

means of independence, to consume their own products, instead of sending abroad for their wares and merchandize. From that appeal we clip a couple of extracts, which apply with equal force on American ground :—

"Fellow-citizens: We address you once again, urging you to prefer the manufactures of your own country to those of any other; however homely the one, however showy, however glossy the other. In this single prayer, in this single purpose, are con tained the elevation, freedom, and happiness of your country."

"We call upon the mothers of our growing gen eration to assist in this great, this last effort. Mothers! will you, in this season of general distress, lavish your money upon the frippery and trumpery of foreign nations? Will you teach your young to value, to pride themselves in the tinsel and the pinchbeck gewgaws of foreigners? Will you debase their young minds with a habit that will surely lead them to neglect, or despise, or betray their native land? Will you effeminate your sons, the hope of the country, with a mean longing after every thing abroad? Will you fill the heads of your daughters with sickly notions and desires for foreign dress, which no industry can support, and which, sooner or later, must pull them down to poverty, as it has already pulled down thousands? Will you, educated mothers, plant the seeds of national decay in the very hearts of your own offspring? You may not live to see the result upon your children of this false teaching; but we forewarn you that it will lead them individually to poverty, and the nation of which they shall form an unworthy part to decay !"

This is Irish doctrine, Irish patriotism; but to a nation like ours, which is sending upwards of $40,000,000 annually to Europe for dry goods and iron, with the natural elements of which our whole land is teeming, it comes in the light of an admonition.

COMING TO THEIR SENSES.-We have not toiled in vain. The people and the press of our country are fast awakening to a true sense of duty. Who would have believed two years ago that the New-York Sun would have uttered at any time such sentiments as the following? Yet it has uttered them, in an article entitled "The First Duty of Americans :"

"There is no doubt that the autocrats and emperors, who are conspiring against liberty in the Old World, look upon this country with intense hatred. They regard it as the nursery of all those ideas which grow up to trouble them, by leading men to think they were created to be something better than mere slaves. They would gladly sweep our institutions and our name from the face of the earth; and assuredly they will attempt to do so;-not by fire and the sword, for they know that, in such a conflict, and acting on the defensive, we are already able to stand against the world.