The Texas Republican

We find the following in a telegraphic dispatch to the New York papers, of the 2nd inst. The discussion about the girl alluded to, has been for some time carried on; some of the papers asserting that the girl was with her friends, and others that she was not.

Boston, March 2.—Some weeks since, an Irish girl, about 17 years old, named Honora Cochran, educated in the Catholic faith, but recently converted to Presbyterianism, mysteriously disappeared from her home in Charlestown. Her disappearance caused much anxiety to her Protestant friends, and her guardian, a wealthy and respectable merchant, has spared no efforts to learn her whereabouts. The community became excited on the subject, and handbills, calling a meeting of citizens, "opposed to religious oppression and imprisonment for opinion's sake," were posted about the streets.

The Irish Catholics became excited, and, to prevent a riot, the authorities of Charlestown ordered the military and fire department to be in readiness—one hundred special policemen were also enrolled. Four military companies of Boston, were now under arms at their armories, by request of the Mayor of Charlestown. The mob, numbering about five thousand, gathered in the vicinity of the Catholic church, in Richmond street, and began to break down lamp posts, fences, &c., and also commenced the demolition of a small wooden building close to the church. Mayor Frothingham, finding all his efforts to disperse the mob, unavailing, then read the riot act, to which no attention was paid.

Orders were then sent to the Charlestown Artillery, and City Guard, (who were in readiness at their armories,) who promptly appeared at the scene of the riot, with their muskets loaded with ball cartridges. The mob gave way to the right and left as the military advanced, and very suddenly dispersed. At a quarter past 9 the affair was over, and Richmond street very nearly deserted.

At half past nine o'clock the bell on the Rev. Mr. Ellis's church, on Main street, sounded a fire alarm, and a number of officers immediately repaired thither, when they found a crowd of some three hundred Catholics gathered about the church, and ascertained that the alarm was false. Immediately knocked down and the fellow escaped. Additional officers coming, three persons were arrested, and the crowd gradually dispersed, until half past 10 o'clock, all was comparatively quiet, but few people except those on duty, being in any of the streets.

On the 3d instant, the excitement at Charlestown was on the decrease, awaiting the production of the girl. It is said, on the best authority, that, on the 28th, the Priest gave the Catholics orders to stay at home on Wednesday night, and offer no resistance to the destruction of the church by the mob, as it was their intention to soon tear it down, to make room for the erection of a cathedral, and it was better to have it torn down, and to recover damages, than to sell it or move it away.—True Delta.