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Chiu* antr StvAml COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18 ‘fhf Enquirer kiw! the Know Kothings. The Columbus Enquirer calls ihe new order the Americtn parti/. YV e cannot follow its example. It . is not American to make religious faith a test of qualifi- j option for office; it is not American t<> honor or da- i grade * man oo account of tLo accident of birth. 1 his • by the way. After an ominous silence of many months, our re spected cotemporary has taken n position on the new political movement of the order of Know Nothings. It is not a very decided position it is true —the conductors es the paper are still on the fence, but both feet hang ever to the Know Nothing side ; and we are folly con vinced that if they were compelled to jump off instan tr that they would land on that tide. are sorry the Enquirer did not take position before, or had held its peace a little longer. Uncharitable opponents will charge that the course of the Enquirer has been influ enced by the position lately taken by Messrs. Toombs and .Stephens, especially as it but echoes the sentiments of those adroit party leaders. Tho Enquirer claps its wings and makes a great fuss over the discovery that we oppose the Know Nothings because the defeat of the Democracy will b I involved in their triumph. Well, what of it? We did ; not attempt to disguise the fact. We religiously believe j that the D< mocratic party is the only political organize- ! tion that is truly constitutional and republican; and j that will, in its triumph, respect the rights of the eiti- , sen, and preserve the institutions of the South. We, therefore, deprecate i*:o overthrow of the party as a public calamity, especially, if the Government is to pass into the hands of a party of whose principles we Know Nothing and whose representative men are Wil sou, Harlan and Turnbull. Does the Enquirer prefer the triumph of such men over the great leader* of the Democracy ? Or is the Enquirer so gangrened with party prejudice that it sympathizes with any party or organization that promis es to crush the old enemies of the Whig party, regard less of their principles ? “But,” says the Enquirer , “in the spirit in which the movement appears to have had its origin in the South—a movement which may justly be termed a National movement —we do sympathize ; especially in that aspect which proposes to bury tho ancient and dead issues which have for years served only the mis chievous purpose of keeping party strife alive ; the cur rent results of which were observable chiefly in the success of demagoguism and tho division of the spoils.” In a proceeding paragraph it confesses that it has “no means of knowing what their principles are, beyond what we gather from the statements in tho public press ” What authority has it for saying that the Know Nothings of the South entertain d.fferent opinions and purposes from thoso of their brethren of the North ? In tho North, they have elected free soilers, in every instance, to national office. Is this no evi dence of what their principles are ? Does this look like burying “tl e ancient and dead issues” of the post ? Will the Enquirer bo good enough to indicate what principles avowed by the Know Nothings show that their movement is “a National movement?” They avow but two objects that we can find, viz, the disfran chisement of foreigners, and the exclusion of Catholics from office. Are these National movements ? Does the Enquirer sympathize with these avowed objects of the organization ? Speak out, friends, and let us know where you stand. The rights of our fellow citizens are involved in these issues, and a political press has no right to keep silence under such circumstances. This movement is either right or wrong, and the Enquirer must havo formed opinions upon it. Docs it hope by silence upon the purposes avowed by the order which are hateful to the classes proscribed to re tain their good will, and still to have the co-operation of the order in electing Whigs to office? The Enquirer says in effect that the long contest be tween the now dead Whig party and the still living Democracy has resulted chiefly “in the success of demagogueisin and the division of the spoils.” The Enquirer has the right to speak for the Whig party and we have no question of the correctness of its judg ment upon the occasional success of its party friends. Deniagogueism unquestionably triumphed in the elec tion of Harrison and Taylor; and after the “spoils” were divided the party which elevated them to power fell to pieces. Very different, however, has been the result of Democratic victories. The Piotective Tariff; and the National Bank were the victims of Demo cratic triumphs. French Spoliation bills met with a similar fate. Missouri restrictions have been repealed. The aea of American freedom has been extended.— Upon this subject we refer our cotemporary and our readers to our last weeks issue, in which they will find ; an tmperfeert sketch of what the Democracy have done for tho country. It is unnectssary to recapitulate : them. Until the facts therein advanced are icfuteJ, j we must be permitted to doubt the summary condem nation pronounced upon the Democracy by the Colum bus Enquirer. We are very happy to concur with the Enquirer in ; the opinion that “secret * rgauizations Ur the purpose of J carrying out (even) desirable political objects” are nei- i ther necessary nor politic. We had rather be governed . bp the people than by a Grand Council. Democratic Meeting in Pike. A Urge and respectable Democratic meeting assem bled in Zebulon on the lllh inst. Messrs. T. f). King, 11. Green and YVrn. P. Irvin were appointed delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention to be held at Milledge* ▼ill© on Wednesday, oth June. The meeting also re solved to send delegates to a Congressional Convention to be held in Frsyth on the fourth Tuesday in May, and Messrs. S. N. Braswell, S. O. Jones and Wm. 11. F. Ilall were apj*ointed delegates. The following Resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That the Democracy of Pike, have undoubted and unshaken confidence in the gieat Republican principles asset louh by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and again reaffirmed by the Democratic Convention which as sembled at Baltimore in 1-48, and which have been the po lar star of the Southern Democracy ever since. Resolved That the General Government of the United States has been administered, with tew exceptions, by Democratic Presidents ever since its organization, and governed by Democratic policy, and as its prosperity has not a pa atlel m the history of the world, we are unwilling to abandon its principles. Reso.ved, That we advocate no proscription, nor any system of policy, except that which grants equal lights , and equal privileges to every true American, ai.d that we j deprecate any policy which requires its advocates to take j an oath which is degrading in tis character, i. e. to vote for j the nominee of his party, betoie he can possibly know who ! that nominee is to be. Resolved, That we have implicit confidence in the pa triotism and inter ty of the resident of the Unit, and Mates, aod cordially eudur- hw policy m relation to Kansas and Nebraska Legislature of MwKaehWug, j y&ss*d a W which tfii* (iovaraor ha* gpptoved giving I •**•*}? hgM* C’i fh# Uv, thy vkk?t:y#, j Burclareon** Proceedings of the Massachusetts Legislature. It will be remembered by our readers that every member of the Massachusetts Legislature, except one, is a Know Nothing. Well, this body appointed a com mittee to examine into the condition of schoo', nunneries, and other public institutions in the State. There is at Itoxbury, a female seminary under the control of the Catholio church. It is occupied by def useless women, j Grant that their faith is wrong, their sex should have j protected thorn from blackguardism and indecency.— ; Such, however, waa not the view taken of the matter ; by the committee of the Know Nothing Legislature. It ! afforded them an opportunity to indulge their fanatical and persecuting spirit with impunity. Below we give the comments of the A. 1. Herald upou this brutal outrage. The authority will not be disputed in this instance, as the N. V. Herald is well known to sympathize deeply with tho Order, under whose auspices this deep wrong was inflicted not only upon public rights but public decency. We concede gladly that the members of the Order at the South will 1 joiu with us in denouncing the conduct of their breth ren at the North. It should, however, teach them the danger of panJtling to religious fanaticism by mak ing religious opinion an element in political strife. The | Mobile Register in commenting upon this unfortunate ’ occurrence say*: “We understand that the steady old Wh ; gs of the , State—the memos property and substance, who, although notjuterpreting the Constitution of the country i with the most wise and liberal spirit, were nevertheless ; immeasurably safer depositories es political power than | the ism elements which have now obtained the maste- ! i ry—-are looking with dismay at the turn of public i ! affairs, and well they may. When a Siate outs loose I ! from the established order of things, tramples upon ; i time honored principles of liberty and of right, and i gives a loose rein to passion, prejudice aittJTanatical ‘ | fancies, there is no sounding the abysses of evil and of j j danger to which it may descend. The worst form of ; tyranny is not that of a single despotic mind, backed jby the brute force of a subservient army. A legisla | tive assembly, as in revolutionary France, ora numeri ! cal majority, defiant of law and infuriate with sectarian ! or sectional hate, may prove a worse tyranny than that i of Czar, Emperor, or King.*’ Head also what the N. V. Herald says : : Burglarious Proceedings of the Massashu setts Legis lature.—The whole evidence has been published and it now stands confessed to the world that a committee of the i Legislature of Massachusetts have violated the highest laws | of the land by forcing their way into a private seminary at ; Roxbury, and trampled under toot the rules of decency by | insulting the harmless, defenceless females w’hom they found there. The Legislature had no right to appoint, a 1 committee to en*er any private dwelling house, whether used as a school or for any other purpose. Such an act | was beyond their powers ; and it the owner of the semina ry they entered had shot them dead on the threshold, the j law would have held him harmless. There was no danger I of anything ot the kind, the house being occupied by ladies, ; and the committee proceeded on their task fearl?ss'y. Having entered the building, they proceeded to acts of i blackguardism and indecency which the worst mob could j hardly have exceeded. Some scattered and searched the | private rooms of the institution, leaving but one linen closet ; which happened to be locked unsearched. Others followed ! the Superior, questioning her in a inde indelicate manner, j and benaving as they might have done had the building j been an asylum for penitents instead of a private school.— : One brute forced himself into a bed room where a poor sick ; girl lay in bed, and approached her so closely that ‘‘she | felt his breath on her face.” Another actually placed his : hands on the person of a female teacher. Several of the j party thrust themselves into the chapel and by their rude irreverent language frightened away a lady who was in prayer at the time. And the men who did these things are members of the Massachusetts Legislature! So far as these individuals themselves are concerned, the bare statement of their conduct is more crushing than any epithets however severe or however merited. But the American party has a duty to perform, which cannot be neglected. The Massachusetts Know Nothings must purge themselves of the society of such men as these. The members of the order in the other States can have no com munion with individuals who break into houses, or insult defenceless females; and if the Know Nothings in the Bay State do not cleanse their ranks by expelling such agents of defilement, the order will cut itself adrift trom the coun- J cils of Massachusetts. Fuller’sTlCom putiug Telegraph. Mr. Fuller, tho patentee, has had the kindness to ! leave with us, for inspection and use, a copy of this very ingenious invention. The facility with which the I most complicated nri hmeiical and geometrical problems can be solved with tho aid of the Telegraph is vvonder : ful. Its operations are simple, rapid ami accurate. In j woiking the equation of payments, average of accounts, I computing dividends and interests, testing the accuracy of balances, and its unfailing capacity in tbe detection of errors in long and intricate calculations, render it an invaluable Vade Mecum to the Banker, Merchant and ’ Mechanic. It is decidedly a labor saving machine, and is adini j rably adapted to a fast age. We have no time to waste in long columns of figures, when the labor oan be avoid ed. This the Computing Telegraph will enable us to do. Accompanying the Telegraph are full instructions for its use. It requires a very short time to master its intricacies. And the best of all is that in these tight times it is sold at a price within the means of ail who Deed it. Mr. Fuller is stopping at the Perry House and may ; be found there or iu the streets; for he resemble* his invention in this, that he is a time and labor savioo j ■. n ‘ machine himself, aud does his work with dispatch.— : No business man should be without the Computing Telegraph. But to be spprtciated it must be seen and j tested. Farm Surveys. Mr. J. B. Cunningham, of this oiiy, has shown a a beautifully executed topographical map which he ha i just finished, of the plantation of It. L. Mott, Esq. ! We commend Mr. Mott's example to planters generally. Every field should be accurately surveyed, and the • whole plantation mapped off and preserved for reference, j The advantages of knowing the precise contents of each field are apparent, in pitching, working and estimating the crop. Most planters rely npon estimates made by stepping the fields, or from the time required in plowing them. These estimates are, of cours* 1 , unreliable. Mr. i Cunningham, who has an office in Columbus, is a com petent Surveyor, and we recommend agriculturists to avail themselves of his services. Books at Cost. —By reference to our advertising columns, those of our readers who are fond of Books will he pleased to find that Jordan L. flow. 11 offers to ! sell his largo and varied stock of Books at cost, for cash. An opportunity is afforded those who have the money to procure many o>’ the choicest works in the language upon the most fhvoruble let ms. Call and look through his collection. Mr. Ctrisr tN Charlbston. —Every paper from Char- j ’eston brings gratifying proof of the success of Mr. Crisp j .nd his Company, in that refined and elegant city. Miss j Logan is likely to become as popular in Charleston as she i in Georgia. We#se that the Council grapUd the petition of Mr Crisp Iff givv Theatrical f|s CMfhston Thefcjr#, *‘di; fm Further by the America. New York, April 14. It has been officially announced that Napoleon and Eu- \ geriia will visit Queen Victoria about the Middle of April. Vienna papers states that Spain and Portugal have joined the Western Alliance. This, however, wants confirmation. ’ Hong Kong dates to the 15th February, state that the I insurgents were besieging Canton, and had taken Tigers- j lort. They plundered tne surrounding villages. It is not correct, as has been stated, that the Vienna con ference has proceeded with the fourth point. Everything hangs on the adjustment of the third point. The Western j lowers did not demand the demoliation of Sevastopol, but merely the reduction of Russiau power in the Black Sea They offered in return to evacuate the Russian territory. The Russian plenipotentiary stated that he had no power to act on this matter, and referred the subject to the cabinet at St. Petersburg for instructions. The condition of the Allies at Sevastopol are improving. A formidable Russian force has been formed. Eupatoria is virtually beseiged. Lord Raglan's latest dispatch announces a steady fi e by the Allies on Sevastopol, without, however, any change in the aspect of affairs The Russians are actively strengthening their positions. Nightly encounters take place between the Russians and the Allies. Nine ships, the advance of the British fleet, have sailed from Deal for the Baltic. Forged bills of lading have appeared in the Liverpool market, to the extent of $14,000 The word hundred was inserted alter units iu the body of the bills. New Orleans Races. i Matajrie Course, April IT—Jockey Club Puree j S3O0 —Mile lie its —beet 3 in 5. j VV. T. Cheatham's eh. e. Henry Perritt , by imp. , Margrave, dain by Thornhill —3 y.o 1 1 1 ! A. Lecom'e *fc Co’s eh f. Gallatina , by Gallatin, out of. Eliza Mills—3 y. o 3 2 2 • A. L. Bingaman's ch. g. Joe Blackburn, by imp. Glencoe, dam by Frank—4 y.o “33 ! VV. J. Minor’s ch. c. Vandyke . by imp. Belshazz tr, tut of Brittaunia—3 y. o 4 dis. Time: 1:50$ -1:40 —1:40. The Pennsylvania Liquor Law. Harrisburg, April 13, 1855- Governor Pollock has signed the new L'quor law o! this State. Nomination for Congress. Norfolk, Aptil 13, 1835. Captain Samuel Watts has been nominated by the American party for Congress from this district. Testimonial to Lieutenant. Maury. Washington, April 13,1853. The King of Prussia has ordered a great medal for science and a golden cosmos medal to be presented to Tveut. Maury for the wind and current charts. Another Cuban Outrage —Armt and Imprisonment of Dr. Peck. Charleston, April 13. A letter to the Courier , by the Isabel, states that anotli , er American citzeu, Charles A. Peck, dentist, atTriuidrd i de Cuba, was arrested on the Bth, carried to Havana, I and placed in the barracks. Mr. Peek de< lares himself j totally ignorant as to the nature of the offence charted ■ against him. His wife and mother live in New York. Negro Voters Killed Off. Albany, April 13, 1855. Yesterday the abolitionists of the House adopted, as the ’ amiable Clerk announced, an amendment to theconsiitu ; tion, allowing negroes to vote at elections. It was lead in I the Senate this morning, and laid on the table. If the dictators undertake to run it through the Senate they Will find an opposition which they little anticipate. Massachußotta Legislature—Judge Lorlng’s Case—lhe Ten Hour Law. Boston, April 13, 1855. Tho House to \lay rejected an amendment to the report recommending the removal of Judge Luring, by 31 ma jority. Tbe amendment proposed was that no State Judge shall hereafter act as Unittd States Commissioner. The Ten Hour law was rejected iu the Senate this af ternoon by 20 to 11. Boston, April 14. In the Massachusetts House of Representatives, to-day an address to the Governor, to remove Judge Luring, w.ss carried by a vote of 207 to 111. It now goes to the Senate. The Nunnery Committee Investigation. Boston, April 13, 1835. The Committee,of Inquiry into the doings of the Nun j nery committee held its dosing session last night, which • was protracted to a late hour. Mr. Hiss, a member of j the Visiting Committee, generally negatived the charges i against himself personally, but the other evidence was sub | stantially the same us before. fcqneelu-s were made by several members of the Nunnery Committee, and the edi tors of the Advertiser put iu a dosing statement in writing. The committee will report in a tew days. Mr. Hiss is abo chaiged with having a woman with him when the committee visited Lowell, whose bill, while stopping at the Washington Hotel ell night, Ate., was charged to tbe State. Tb s matter will also be investi gated. Death cf a Missionary. Boston, April 11. Rev. John Scudoer, Missionary of the American Board in India, died near Capetown, .\irica, cn the 13th of January, ol apoplexy. Ho had left Madras and taken residence near Capetown, for the benefit ot Lis health. Washington Items. Washington, April 11,1853. At the Treasury Department to-day one hundred thousand (iol ars worth ot United States Stocks were re ceived for redemption. The Government makes pour headway in getting suita ble vessels to reinforce the Gult Squadron, and poorer stiii id getting men to man them. Commodore McCauley will soon sail with sealed in.. struct : ons. Doubtless tin y d.rcct him to pursue and give action to any Spanish vessel of war that eftc-rs any iudig- ■ nity to the American Flag. Messrs. Corcoran and Riggs have paid into the Treas- j urv about $1 OH,OOO--attached in their hards by Govern- ’ mem—being about one fourth the amount fraudulently | obtained by Gardn r under a decision of ihe board of Mexican Commissioners. Conspiracy Discovered in Paris* Paris, March 2*2. I)i;y before ycsUrJay a conspiracy tn assassinate the Linperor of hranee wsdiscovtltd at a critical moment, mid the parties are now in the State prison of Mazis.— rhe Emperor was about to review a portion of ihe Jm : penal Guard, which is about to stall tor the* Cr.ntva, in ; the Const “t the ! uille-rit-s. During ihe review he was | tu have been assassinated, hut by what means has n< ? I become public. Ai! that the public know, is that arres-t ; were made jt the moment when the r. view was about to [ commence, that the per.-vons ; rri st-'l were convey. <1 to Mazas, in separate •• hs t-.nd interrogated Some of the highest families in Paris among the legitimists. are <i to be impi.ealed in the conspiracy. The attempt is at tr.huteu to the feeling which is growing up in the conn try against the Emperor, who d<*es not consult the inter-- es'.s, much less the opinions of any < f his people, Hiid whose conduct ot the war is not -<-nsid.red eminently satisfactory. That class of p <*pie wlm have s*ri.,u< in terests at s'ake, to whom toe honor and prosjiei i'.y of their native c<U'stry is a ptr-niiount object, and win,, have hevetoture bad s .uje port of i v.ea hi the a m n s’rat'ou of pnniic affairs, n*>w find that those preeiou.- tut* s- st are placed in the hands of r inan who scorns alike tht ir g.>*d or bad opinions—whp puoducts the affairs of ,Ste with an absolute sceresy and indifference to ihe or} lions of others, 4* if be SiiuiiU ft4t tJit body* Rftd gGj); of i'j£ x.gqfry if if* iffl|**s:rd* Pat this Daje Ihiftjjf eat) | -a> f)SR'N kdijp'r.'*-#, V* itnqtyfe'ifi. LATER FROM MEXICO. ARRIVAL OF.TIJE ORIZABA. The steamship Orizaba, Capt. T. Forbes, arrived at New Orleans on the 11th inst., which port she left on the Bth inst. By the arrival of the Oriz-tba, we have received dates from the City of Mexico to the 4th, and from Vera Cruz to the Bth inst. There is but little news of importance. Gen. Alvarez had been met and defeated by the Gov ernment troops at Cnjones. Ilis army was completely annihilated, and ho waa forced to save himself by flight. All his cannon, arms, aud camp equip paged were cap ; lured. i Nothing is done iu Mexico during the Holy Meek— even rascality takes time to breathe then, which will ae~ ‘ count for the scarcity of news. Washington Correspondence of the Mobile Register. The result of the Northern Elections- The round of Northern State t lections is complete Rhode Island having finished the list. That State has ; gone wish the others that h;ve*re?entlv voted ; that is, ! f-r the Fusionists. All the non slaveholding states, with the exception of Illinois and California (democratic] are now in the hands of the cnenii.s of the South. This is a startling faet, and one \vh! h the Slave Stales should se- j riously rt fleet up<n, it is u>t at all improbable that the j >n xt President will bo elected by the 1 louse of Represe i- j ‘at Tr’s. Delaware, it is feared, cannot be relied upon by i ihe South. So litre are fourteen Status certain, and ■ probably fifteen, that will go for an anti-slavery President, j pledged to the i obey of Northern fusionists. To dtfeat j this scheme, tbe Save States must present an unbrok-n j front. If they Jv), Illinois and California will readily join j them. But will the South c-uina up as a unit ? That's the question. It inu-t b confessed that there is too much reason to fear that Hie will not. It is certain that she will not, if the Know Nothings oan prevent it. Know NothingiMii has strengthened Aboliiiouism in the North, ‘Ut tbe demagogues, who are laboring to propagate the Order in the South, will endeavor to blind the people to ; ibis fact. Thr-y will do so if they can. The Massachusetts Know Nothings are inanoeuvf ring jin favor* of Nathanitl P. Hanks f>r President. Mr. i Banks is one of the ablest and most aeeompl.slud men i in the Union, but he is as decided in his anti-slavery sen ! timents as Charlts Sumue*\ New Orleans Races. The Great Race. —The great race betv.ecu Lexing- I ton and Leeompte was ruu on Saturday last, at New Orl ■ eans, in wlfich Lexington, as was expected by the know. ! dig ones, proved victorious. “Old Kentuck” still lit ads j the column. The race was run in two straight four mile j heats and rumor given the unprecedented time ot 7.22;-. and a repeat in 7.23, both beating Leeornpte's brag time | 7.26. This is hard to swallow, but we are prepared t<- ! believe anything in these days in reference to horse flesh, j after ihe race of Lexington in 7.13*. j Much interest is f!t in the match race for the 2ist, in ! which Gokbby’s Alabama horse, Brown Dick, the best | three niiler on the turf, runs with Lexington and Letcaip ! te—four mile heats. Hie friends of Brown Dick are sanguine ; but there | is a vast difference between the endurance of three and ‘ four mile horses, : s Col. Johnson used to say, “the fouith • mile is the telling one.”— Alabama Journal , 17 lh. j Anti Slaveiy Resolutions Passed by tho New York Legislature. i The New York Advertiser says :On Tuesday eve | ning the concurrent resolutions in relation to slavery, and : to saeret political societies, were before the Senate as the : special order ot the day. Those referring to slavery eer j tairilvcannot be charged with ambiguity or lukewarm f ness. r I hey call upon Congress -,o enact a law declaring ; that slavery shall not exist except where it is established |by the local luv cfa state, thus, by positive enactment, j excluding it trom all tcimoiios ; and they affirm that the [ people of the State of New York will n< t consent to the adm esii.u into the Union of any State that may be form ed out of the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, unless its constitution shall prohibit ihe admission of slavery within its limits. They also affirm that tl e repeal of the Missouri compromise has released the free States from all obligations that may bo expressed or implied in anv com ! promises on the subject of slavery outside of tho federal eonstititution, and that the people of this State regard the l fugitive slave law of 1850 as “a violation of the constitu i tion, an encroachment on the rights of the several Statis, ; an outrage upon die principles of justice, and disgraceful j to the spirit and eiviliz ition of the age in which we live,” I and therefore demand i’s re; cab ! The next resolution denounces all seciet organizations | for political purposes. The resolutions were adopted seriatim by yeas 16 nays 9. Withdrawal from Know Nothing Lodges —Forty j six members of the Council at 1 larpet ‘s Ferry, Virginia, i have withdrawn and publicly announced the tact. They ! state thatch others have withdrawn. Among tho 40 there ! are eight whigs. I The Richmond AVhig has an article iu relation to this j withdrawal, in which its ys : “The sole reason of llieir ! withdrawal was tbe refusal of the Kuow Nothings to nominate Charlts J. Faulkner [Deni.) for Congress. It j says that Faulkuer wished to get the private nomination of tiie party, so as to secure the votes of Lis party too : Lut being unable to accomplish his purpose, lie forthwith comes out in denunciation of the order, and the few friends he Lad in the council at Hamper’s Ferry became also dig gus ed because they were unable to turn the order to j Faulkner’s benefit, and, therefore ktt it. ilfost of the . men, it says, who left, were injthe employ of the Federal ; government, and therefore, compelled to do the bidding *f Forney and his satellites.” Barnum's Baby Show. —The Buffalo Democrat pitch ! es into Barnum’s proposed baby show as follows : “This is a very disgusting business—offi.ring premi ums for those irregularities- in th-3 law of human repro ; ducticn, by which four children are brrn instead of one | —specuiat ug out c*f unfortunate triplets—and making i the little twins arcuud tho country sources of gain to an ; impudent charlatan. This whole affdr of baby showing |‘S vulgar and coarse. No wi mm of delicacy aud refine* ’ inent would publicly engage in it. Proposed as a joke in Ohio List year, it was thoughtlessly aud frolicsomely en tered into by many mothers, who had no idea of the number of women who w-oiid mirih'u'iv accept the in vitation. The result proved a cumbersome, fatiguing, of fensive bore, which will never be repeated in that .State, j and would never have been imitated in ours, except for ! the presence in it of a man who owns a roust um of worth less curiosities, which he is naturally anxious to keep full j of visitors. A woman mu-t he very coarse who would subject her. ffspring to a public competition for the price of fatness, or who would publicly stiuggle for a reward , of £7O for having given birth to three children at once.— Course as bricks would she be —and riot much more deli cate wool 1 be she mother who would risk mortification i and grief in die com pel ion for a prize- of beauty and **x | cellence, of the little creature dealer to her than iff.— The whole thing advertised for exh bitioti mi the o;!i o’ June next, is vulgar and filthy. Obese children ! A j s.-,o p,-; z . f„r the fattest bog of a boy or girl under Id years old!! The fabricator of the Woolly Horse, of ; course does not know that excessive pittguitudein ich ldren is a do in. she inflietion, and a source •ot r* gn t and shame to both parents and off spring. But if he did not knotv ir, the fact would not de ter him from making moorv out of tint dtfornti'v. This is his trade. Novel Religion j? Movements. —(Jetret Smith. B-rri ah Green, and a f< \v oiLu r sprits of that older have bite. Iv 0.-en ’lidding a meeting of several days at 0.-wego. N. \ to adopt measures to break up ail o’J religious de n ininat iu sand oigaivziiions, and bu Id i p anew sys 'vn of their own. to fake place of < v ry other. They ‘•••Id iha: ~!! seetarintbsin wr'-ng. that theie ehoii’d be hut one univctsHl church, and that horns y should he the “idy !• s rqjir*d to enti'le a person t*> the right* ot membership, and so L n.— Pouhkceps.'e ‘Eagle Seizure of Smuggled Segars. —Th* To arury Depart n-dol have advices of the seizure of a los of seg trs <3 '£ 500} on bsiard pi tas Eu'riift u}:as at Boston, from Mrptan-Ase, Cub*, under the nhargn of haiog prr, t£gi.d ; sl#o, of anoti; r R‘i of OMO K.3iig| if Ikißup, C 4 Ihi jrlg fyoijj Patrick Calhoun, father cf John C. Calhoun. The name of Calhoun was originally written Coiquhr,.. | Cohoun,) and emanated trom the Celtic ii; - I lands of Scotland, ilure is something more than a “ I ‘dition that the Clan, ‘Jiving on a dangerous coast of tho 2 sea-airt land, were skillful wreckers, and received tho- ■ name from a French term for a peculiar boat in u?e am.'; • 1 them. Colhoun, was the manner of writing ihtinarne s(*[ | alter the appearance ot the family in America, but w*, I gradually changed to Calhoun, being so pronounced g(* ne , I orally, even early in the boyhood of the Senator. ‘Flier*, fl are some old men among us, however, who still speak 1 Colhoun. The Highland Clan, seems to have been very respectable I botii in numbers and military character; according to I books of Heraldry, the Bearbeny [Arbutus urn ursi , yr 1 in Gaelic, Braoileag nan con,) was honored as their devir-. I or badge of distinction. ‘Their Tartan, as we learn front I the same source, seems to have been sufficiently msgniti- I cent; the following were its colors in the older of their nr § rangement: blue, black, blue,black, white,green, red.ore t; ; I white, black, blue, black, blue. A fish has also be. : , I claimed by certain knowing ones of the family as; 1 part of its ancient coat of arms, in connection with which I quite a characterise anecdote is told of the Senator—-ip t lustrative of his republican contempt lor all such silly lies of a darker age A iemaie relative once inquired t.f 1 him “how it was the family got this device ot the fi-b “Why it is very easily accounted for,’’ he rep bed, “in th. : | old haunts, they foil into the very bail habit of’ steal l fish, and have judicroudy placed a memento of it on thr, I escutcheon.” l’atick Calhoun, the father of the Senator, emigrated at I the age ot 12, sometime between the tears 1735 and l'ro, | from Donegal county, Ireland, to America, accompa nied 1 v his mother, Catharine Calhoun, and several t>ro- { th*"f. Ilis father had died previous to this event. They settled first in Pennsylvania; but hearing of better lands in Virgin- * ia, the whole family shortly alter removed thither, u-q 1 formed a settlement in Elizabeth county, western Virgin!', i Here, Patrick having become of age, married his first wit,* aud lost her soon afterward by death. Overwhelmed wall j grief at his unexpected misfortune, he resolved to . \ k r , - lief in exile trom a seen-*, in w hich he could no longer be happy; and setting out alone threaded his way to the wilds ot South Carolina. Tuc Waxhaw settlement, on a eroek ot the same name, in the northern part of the present Laii ca:*ter uistriet, had been establi.-lied, and tie found it a convenient resting place. At the same period, the portion ! . ot count!y now known as Abbeville., was an unbroket ■ wilderness, except the single settlement of Old Ninety-Six, j wtiose village stood on tbe hill now crow ned with the in-’ j teresting remains of the old Star loit ot Revolutionary m.>- ’ mory. Jt bad been lor ages the hunting ground ot the lu j chans, and was recently become famous among the. adven turous hunters of the nearest white settlements. Calhoun I met with a party of these, and received from them m> ! glowing an account of the flatwoods—of the exceedin ‘ : ieitliity of the soil and abundance of game—that he j termined to visit it himself. ‘J ho hunters had scaicely ,A ----j aggerated their description; he lounu it the most desfralii-. spot lie had seen in America, and being an excellent pi.v ----: Deal surveyor, laid off a large body of land, and haste!,.! back to Virginia to persuade, il possible, ilie rest of the : ily to return, and occupy it with him. lie was succr---|iij i all ot them joined him, and they founded there, 1756 ilia | present Calhoun settlement, just eight years before tin’• ar i rival in the same neighborhood of the French Refugees from Abbeville on the Somme. For some time, after fixing himself thus permanently, it j stems that lie was much oltener employed with ms. ( J pass and staifin the surrounding country, than in the mo; | qoiet wo;k of a farmer; and it was in one of these exj-- | unions, that he tirst met, under somewhat romantic ( i | cumstaiices, the young lady who afterwards became his j j cond wile, aud the mother ot hisiliustrious son. : John Caldwell, a citizen of Charlotte- county, Virginia, ! ! and whose larnily origin, and exodus, had, we believe,Uy 1 similar to those o> ihe Calhouns, found about the sain.- i time with th*in, anew home iu bouth Carolina. Kxplo;. t I ing the coimtiy tirst in search ot an agreeable situation, t j had settled w ith Ins wile, on Mill ciet k, in Newhun | district. Miss Martha Caldwell, his sister, w-as also an in -1 mate of his family; she left a pleasant residence in Vi.gii i . j to cheer her sister-iri-iaw in tbe w ilds oi Carolina, the hu- I smess oi Mr. Caldwell, (lie too being a piofessed surve\..i j detaining him frequently, several days together, from In* ■ fiieside. This excellent family were living happily on Mill civ k • when Tatrick Calhoun, surveying on a certain occasion, in the forest of Newberry, met John Caldwell ’ the same business. They were strangers, but congenial iu spirit and blood, a short cemented a” liitn*l ship that lasted fl rough hie. Caldwell invited him to l.b house, aud iutrocueeu him to Ins wife and sister, a circum stance quite common in the free, unrestricted hospitalrv ol the country, but which led in this instance to great results. lie became enamored ilh Miss Caldwell, perhaps on first sight, add!owing her soon after, they w ere married and set | tied on Calhoun’s Cicdt, iu Abbeville Distiict. Here, happy and respected, they lived through ihe suc ceeding Indian wars, and tjie- dark years of t c Revolu tion; he surviving till V>%, and she to 1802. (Fora de scription of the old homestead and surrounding scenery, now become a classic spot, see issue of the Banner, Maid/ 15th.] The father of Martha Caldwell, was a soldier in Brad duck’s w r ar, and bad been long dead; aiier him th*-y nam ed their first son, William. James, the second son, was named lor a venerable uncle, the Rev James Caldwell,a Chaplain in the army of Wa-huigton, aud who tell at 121;/. | abeth Town m in New Jersey, a martyr, basely murdered ! by the enemies of his country. A thrilling account of tlm i dastardly act, appeared in the Banner some six month -5 ugo under the head ot “ Revolutionary Martyrs.” ltseenw | that he was singled out hy the Royalists us a special v: j tun, on account of his talents, influence and devotion : > i the cause ot liberty, jhe brutal soldier suborned to m j patch him, suffer* and capitally for the ofieuce. [See Dr. | Murray’s history of the Presbyterian < hurchat Liizab-th ; Town j Besides John Csldwell, there were three other i brothers of Mrs. Calhoun, viz; Wilhaui, Janies and David, j —AlbeviLe S. C. Banner. , Arrival of tlie Illinois at New York —Later from Cliili and Peru—The Mormons. Chili.—The condition of things in Chili is flattering ra ther than otherwise. The agricultural and ini >*-ral wee Is i | of tho country continues to fbe developed, and trade v. . ! active. Public education is well attended to. ‘The pom.- I cal news if unimportant. In the Argentine Republic commerce is paralyzed, by reason of recent failures among the prominent houses - The Argentine confederation w-as going to be appealed ! for the purpose of adjusting the difficulties between Buu ous Ayers and Paraguay, Appropius, extensive prepare- * • tions are being made by the former to crush the latter Pow ! er, which, in wever, would be resisted. It was hoped that J an amicable arrangement of tho difficulties would bo i brought about, Peru.—'The slaves who have been liberated in Peru proto ! rather troublesome. They refuse to work, and to mit: I steal. The owners of hacienda? are reduced to a deff ! rafale state; their crops being ready lor harvest, a; and no L ! borers to cut them. The Diario, of Valparaiso,has an - i terestiuy summary of South Aineiic3U politics, wh ch v ! be found in another column Utah.- The new? ol'Coi. Steptoc'sappointment ha? rea< it* i l ed Utah,and had taken the Mormon- by surprise. It was thought, however, that no opposition would be made t J his assuming the office. The. readei doubtless remeiii ‘o. I in this connection, that intelligence recently received from the same quarter, by way of Independence, was to the ef fect that Col. Steptoe might not accept the appointin’ or, in any case, that Brigham would still continue the hu gest man in the Territory. There had been a row’ bet we. a number of the polygamists and the U. S. troop--, glow ing out of some difficulty in a drinking shop, heveral * sons were shot—none fatally, however—and the ?!< ; 4 were fortifying tfiem-elves in ifieir barracks for the thr* ‘’ f_ flowing Oay?. ‘The j*eople ot the territory are building waffs around their town* by way of protection against tfi j Indians.—;V. V. Herald. Cur Relations with Cuba. Washington, April 12. 1 Son. Rumors ere prevalent here this morning that important despatches from Havana have just been received at Ghaile-- ton or Savannah, i.nd are now en route for this c;ly. Their contents have not transpired here. A meeting ot the Cabinet was called lor to-day, and a numb.-r of tne nnembers being absei t, it was found uece.sa ry to send rnes-engers after them. Tne cause of the excit ;• ment had not transpired. Senator Douglas, left here this afternoon for Chiczc''. via Pittsburg. The Supposed Kutineers. His Honor, Mayor Anderson, received a despatch tes terdav from tiic Mayor of Baltimore, ordering th rt-vir-s? o! seven seamen, paitof the crew of the ship Janies Civ s ton,supposed to have mutined,murdered the Cuptam,ai.-d scuftJei the ship It will f*e remembered that a despatch was received from Wilmington that the Captain had ar rived safely in that pint, and the prison- rs were eor-- ‘jiientiy diachatged upon giving bonds. The C’nptaiu how ever, has up to this time laded to make his appearance, aid it is believed that the telegiapho concerning his safety, s *rit to this city, and to Baltimore, were forgeries by th.* mate, the accomplice of the mutineers. In accords;. s with the request, the seamen were pe arr. eicd yestardnv afternoon, ihd cow lodged la jail ta await further do- VciopOiei.’s, Vv tlhotit prt'jitdging the ea?£ t whieii V. hi now * 4