tongue.  Now all the talk, articles, and “leaders” go for nothing, since Mr. Goldrich acknowledges “the priest is right; she is his sister.”  But did not that clamorous press, that bellowed and hallooed on the rabble to rob, murder, and destroy,—­did it not recall its words, apologize for its naughty language, and retract every charge groundlessly made?  Like a convicted felon, did it cry peccavi—­I have sinned, been misled, or misinformed?  No; not a sign of repentance has been manifested, not an apology made, not a word of retraction uttered by these self-styled philosophers of the press, who think they are responsible to no law, human or divine, and who say they have a world to redeem, and nations and peoples to regenerate.  We have read countless folios of calumnies, misrepresentations, and black libels on every thing sacred and venerable on earth, by the American press, during several years that we have read newspapers; but we never yet found one editor to retract, apologize, or mend his manners and language, except when compelled by the cudgel or by the law.  What an anomaly does the observation of the conduct of the world present to us!  They refuse “to hear the church,” or be guided by the teaching of men who have spent their lives in preparing and qualifying themselves for the office of public teaching; and they submit themselves blindly and without control to the guidance of men whom they know not, who have not always the best moral characters, and whose training, in most instances, does any thing but qualify them for the dangerous office they fill.

The instance which is here given of the almost unanimous hostility of the press to the cause of justice, truth, and honor, illustrates what we say; and the obvious conclusion is, that the “fourth estate” itself needs reclaiming—­the great modern reformer needs reformation.

Soon after Mr. Goldrich’s return home, he called on Father Paul O’Clery, and, with a great deal of good nature, congratulated him on his very providential discovery of his sister, “my dear adopted child.  And now, reverend sir,” said he, affectionately, “I beg to tender you the hospitalities of our house.  As your sister has been for so many years one of the family,—­and not the least loved one, I assure you,—­I hope I may, without impropriety, by right of relationship by adoption, claim you as a member also.”

Father Paul answered by assuring him he appreciated his kindness; that he acknowledged the honorable connection in full; and that, though this very affectionate advance had not taken place, Mr. Goldrich would ever be regarded by him with feelings of veneration and love, on account of his affectionate kindness to his sister, in giving her such a superior education, and treating her on terms of equality with his own children.  The highminded and liberal gentleman, after having shed tears at the idea of losing his dear adopted girl, departed, having previously extorted a promise from Father Paul to attend a great party in honor of Aloysia, at the palace, on the evening of the next day.