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Letters from Mrs, B. in Europe. Rees Genoa, March 20, 1852. Chevalier Wikoff m Prison—His Appearance—His Folly—His Lies—His Crimes, and his Punish- ment. Here I am at Genoa, where I arrived the other day, having left Paris to try a change of air, and to get rid of all its ¢racasseries and dissipation. T was ubsolutely over-fatigued hy continual parties and increasing invitations. A day or two after my ar- rival, permission was obtained to see the prison, and I went, accompanied by my sage and venerable ‘Mentor, and with some other company. I could not repress my curiosity to see the well known American Chevalier, who is confined within its walls, the only American who has a special and legitimate title of nobility, conferred upon him by acclamation at the original suggestion of the New York Henaup. By tho by, it is curious that your joke should have had ch an extensive run as to give this title for a con- stant and serious appendage to the now unfortunate diplomatist, as he styles himself. The poor Chevalier looks: just the same as evor, with the exception of being a little cast down. Ho thas, he told me, a bedroom and parlor, with a ser- vant to wait upon him. Hoe is dressed, as usual, perfectly like a gentleman, and altogether is not so much to bo pitied as many other chevaliors who snuff the free air. Of course, we only were admitted to see him at the entry room or public reception par- lor. He has yot eleven months to be in, having boon ‘condemned to fifteen months “imprisonment, for an offence which, by the account I have seen of it in the Police Tribunal, if he had been tried for it in England or America, would have been treated as a joke, and thoroughly laughed at. The lady herself, lwho was nominally the prosecutor, acted, as I have been informed, against her will, and at the dictation of the English Consul here, who for some inexplicable cause, never having known Wikoff before, took a most inveterate hatred against him, and exerted all his powers to have him condemned. From the offi- cial account of the trial, published in Italian, though Wikoff is certainly not without blaine—on tho con- trary, though he acted very imprudently and fool- Ishly—yet the lady herself is quite as much to blame as himself. They had known each other for fifteen years. She is, like him, an American born. Her letters betray a warm affection for him. She had promised him marriage repeatedly, and thon re- peatedly drew back, till finally she refused to see him. At last he got her, by a manceuvre, into a private room, in Genoa—there he played off the part of a dying lover; tried to get hcr to marry him; got her to sign a promise to do so; and then, after the farce had been carried on for some hours, he drepped it, and let her go, unharmed and unhurt. She stopped with him voluntarily at the last, eat a hearty good supper with him, and then they walked out togethor, in the most endearing manner. And it is for this he is in prison—an offence which they call sequestration. I gather all this from the official account, which gives all the testimony in full, and from the judge’s sentence, which, as it (after a ro- view of all the facts) passed condemnation upon him, you may be sure is not at all in his favor. The Chevalier himself asserts that it is the English go- yernment which detains him. There is certainly much that is complicated and rather mysterious about the matter, which I cannot pretend to under- stand or unravel. Iam not disposed, however, to take the part of Wikoff. Everybody knows 1 have no cause to do so; but justice to an American in misfortune, and to the truth as itappears by the publication of his enemies, obliges me to say what I have said. Of one thing I am convinced, that though he ought not perhaps to bein for what he is, yet he richly de- serves to be in for what he is not in for, and that is for drawing the long bow to an enormous stretch, and telling lies without compunction. In fact, as I have been eredibly informed, he is really shut up for lying, and for the worst kind of lying, viz., talk- ing and bragging about ladies with an unbridled tongue, of whom he had no right to talk at ail. I have learned that the first. cause of the lady turn- ing against him, and breaking off the ‘intended mar- riage, eriginated from his boasting to her of his great importance with a certain great man in New York (who must be nameless), and asserting that the aforesaid gentleman had offered to engage him (the Chevalier) to accompany his wife to Russia, for which he was to be paid a thousand pounds. ‘The poor lady swallowed this big tale with all ite absur- dities and improbabilitics; and supposing he had the power and the influence, which he boasted seri- ously of possessing over other ladies, who (for she had never seen the lady) she heard were younger, and perhaps she suspected might be fairer than herself, she broke off with him in a violent fit of jealousy. Hence his present situation, so that he richly deserves his fate, and I wish that all men who tell lies of ladies, and boast falsely of their power and prowess with them and their husbands, may be treated like him, and have at least fifteen months of it. They often cause sor- row and misery, not for a few months, but for years and for life. Miss Gamble herself, the lady he ope- rated upon, related to my informer the above fact, as being the first thing which led her to reject him. So you see the Chevalier is in for his own vanity and for his lying about New York ladies, and I think he richly deserves it on this score. He js also infor the crime of ingratitude; for the por- son of whom he told such a monstrous fib, is the very person to whom he is indebted for the honora- ble title which he bears in the world, which has made him so much known, and gives him such dis- tinction. The sun is shining beautifully; 1 must go out aud take my morning walk; it isa lovely climate, and the promonades are delightful. Yesterday 1 went some miles out of the city to sce the fine gardens of Count Palanchim, situated upon a high mountain. They are the glory of Genoa, and cost several mil- Wons of dollars; but there are as fine natural gardens and mountain walks as this, without costing acent. H. A. B Panis, April 7, 1852. The Spring Fashions--Longchamps in Parts— Politics—-Chit Chat—-Tro Cavaignacs—-The next Presidency in the United States. . 1 told you, when I last wroto, that it was to be m; last letter; but I have told you that so often, that T fear you will not believe me any more. This, how- over, L intend to be the last, as 1 cannot keep from giving you a description of the famous Longchamps —the annual spring exhibition of Parisian equi- pages, fashions, and millinery. This exhibition -is, for the moment, as great an affair bere, as the World’s Exhibition was at London last year; and 4ll Paris, high and low, rich and poor, flock to the scene of display. As it is new to me—never having seen it before—I must give youinmy way a little account of it, and of what I saw. As to dirty po- Jities, [do not think I shall trouble you with a word about them, exeept to say that Louis Napoleon is going on bravely, making all sorts of reforms and improvements in his despotie way; andthe world begins to acknowledge that he is (as I remember you always said he was) a greater man than they at first took him to be. By the by, spoaking o¢ politics, I have had some hard thumps about them here, where my letters seom to have roused up the feelings of many people, and more than one kind friend has hinted to me that they were rather out of my line, and I ought to attend exclusively to fashions, chit chat, slander, table talk, and the ladies’ toilettes, &e., &e., Ke. Your Paris correspondent, above all, told me that his friends had spoken to him on the subject, and requested him to advise me not to meddle with poli- tics in my letters. In that respect he is right; and here I must remark, that in all I have said on 4-9 subject, | have only given statemonts coming from the best sources, and founded on the first in fact, T have abstained from giv- ing expression to my own views or feelings. My Yiy, however, is, U think, not g complimented by the mortification which my re- marks have inspired equally to. both parties; for thoge who are in fuyor of Louis Napoloon say that I havo depreciated him too much; and those who aro opposed to him, aro mad with me for not having abused him more. Tn abjuring politios in this letter, and giving you an account of the famous Longchamps, I would not have my reprovors imagine that I am following their advice, and going to devote myself entirely to la- dies’ dresses, and a description of the shapos of their bonnets, &c.—I Joaye all that sort of stuff to my various cotemporaries—yours and other correspond- ents here, who, I am sure, are more profoundly ac- quaiated with such matters than I am, or than I ever pretended to be. They know all about such things, from the crown of the head to the solo of the foot—from the cut of # shoe to the adjustment of a ribbon. Longchamps is the great day of fashion, at which the servile world learns how to dress itself, and what cut or color of a coat, or of a frock, they are to pursue for the ensuing year. Lomg before the day arrives, the tailors and milliners, and modestes, are hard at work to prepare for the great show, and bring out thoir new fashions and inventions. The procession or promonade tasts threo days; and strange persons, strange sights, elegant equipages, and splendid dresses, are to be seen filing along, one alter the other, in the long greon alloys of the Champs Elysées and Bois de Boulogne. What a subject of talk and conversation is thus afforded for nine days after to all the gossips of Paris, you may well conceive. At evening meetings, in all draw- iog rooms, table d’hotes—in short, at every possible assemblage of human beings, in any form, and of all degrec, nothing is talked of for nine days at least, but of Longchamps, and of what each person saw and noticed there. Each person at theso gossips of fashion is anxious to bring to notice what he or she prgjcularly saw most strange or most to be ad- mired, in the variegated display. One spoaks of a curious bonnet, another of a handsome new carriage, another of a remarkable hat, another of excessively rich flounces, another ofa rich veil, and another ofa new and peculiar shaped parasol; one admires a lady’s coifure, another is in raptures about her close waistcoat and gilt buttons; and others say, sneeringly, such and such a dress was very well, but it was not the dernier mode. I heard this last re- mark myself, made of a lady whom you know. So they talk—some of shape, some of beauty, some of noses, and some of feet. Nothing escapes remark. As for myself, I went out of mere curiosity, and not as one of the exhibitors; and yet, unpretending as I was, and in a hired carriage, I did not alto- gether escape notice, and fell in for my share of criticism. The whole promenade is like a great fair, for, as you may imagine, such an assemblage of fashion- ables draws together all the unfashionables and sans culottes of Paris, to gape at and admire the fortunate possossors of a distinguished pair of cu- lottes. The milliners’ girls’ and the tailors’ boys form an important ingredient in this spectacle of fashion and novelty. Their masters and mistresses dress them up in their best and gayest fashions, and send them to strut upon the stage of fashion, and display in the sylvan shades the inventive genius and fertile fancy of their several shops. In fuct, Long- champs has degenerated into a field of advertise- ments, and, as I am informed, no longer is what it used to be in by-gone years. The manufacturers of Paris, of all kinds, send carriages and hacks to join the procession, filled with men and bi who ex- hibit in a glaring manner the distinctive products of their chops. This is so much the ease, that many of the real beau monde stay away, for fear of being confounded and taken for dress makers or modestes. The promenade, as I saw it, however, was lively and diverting, though by no means equal to the Parade at Madrid, on a fine day, such as I have described it in a former letter. The Prince President appeared in a enifi- cent Jandau, with postilions and out-riders in splen- did livery. He can well afford this display, as he has twelve millions of francs a year for his private purse. As to politics, however, Ishall say nothing more except to observe, that my reprovers, whe charge me with a great mistake, in saying that General Cavaignae was warmly engaged on the side of the President, have themselves fallen into a mistake. What I said is true ; General Cavaignac is devoted to Louis Napoleon and the new order of things. But there are two Generals Cavaignac, and I did not say that the one of whom I spoke, was the one to whom I suppose they refer. Apropos:—I hope you will not forget to help along my favorite candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylva- nia H. A. B. This moment the talented Mr. Thrasher has just come into my parlor. He has just arrived from Spain. He is destined to make a noise in the world, for he is a man of great talent and energy of cha- | racter; and also exceedingly gentlemanly and kind iu his manner. He has promised to dine with me to-morrow, and relate to me the entire history of captivity, arrest, and so forth. I look forward to it with pleasure. After you shall have aided, according to my wishes, in the election of the good Pennsylvania statesman to the Presidency, I want you—in the autumn—to come over to Europe, and accompany me to Egypt and the Holy Land. T want to see these countries—J must see these countries. I have now seen and travelled over all Europe—north and south, east and west—J want to see Egypt and Palestine, but I want you to accompany me. You have often desired to see Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre, and now T think you should embrace the opportunity QT New Granada. (From the Panama Echo, April 15. £1 Correo, of the 11th, gives a notice of the as- sassination of Gen, Carmona, of the village of Cienc- ja, on the night of the 20th of February, taken from Santa. Martha papers. The substance of the state- ment is, that in consequence of serious altercations had between Carmona and two citizens of the mentioned place, in which one of the latter unded, a riotous mob broke open his doors, aud put him to death. All this was done in the resence of the Jefe Politico, who, according to his own statement, could not control the popular fury. The Correo farther says :—This deed, in conjune- tion with others which have equally disgraced the republic during the last two years, confirms us in our way of thinking respecting the sources whence arise and will continue to are these lamentable disorders. This assas-inati wid that of Gonzalez, in the province of Antioquia, and that of Alvarez, in that of Mompox, and that of Angulo, in that of Carthagena, and that of Pinto and Morales, in that of Cauca, and the thousand equally disgrace- ful, which have been cornmiltte in this last province, and in those of Buenaventura and Popayan, all confirm the same cause; and this enuse is in our conception, the exaggeration of the democratic idea. This idea, badly explained to some, and worse understood b; there, has led a great number of our compatriots into one fatal error, which is tho belief that the sovereignty, or call it the social power, is vested in a re-union of men combined by one sympathy or # common interest. With this persuasion, itis not strange that, to de- cide upon a most atrocious transgression of law, is thought to be the exercise of a most perfect sight. To the view of superficial observers, the opinion which we have advanced, will appear paradoxical. j us observers, those who believe in the © facts, and who know, that the repe- tition of certain acts is that which gives the measure of morality of these villages as well as individuals; these are given the reason, and they endorse our judgment. These agree with us—that the con- ve of the country has sufiered very severe blows with the systematic’ affirmation of the destroying doctrines—that now it is necessary that well mean- ing writers of all parties should oppose to this fatal predication, the teaching of good principles and of republican virtues, Ang: ew of General Carmona in SENTENCE ron MunpEn.—At the Court ef Com- mon Pens, at Ainberst, N. H, Inst’ week, Kate Virginia Veole Was arraigned upon an indiciment for the murder of hev infant child, (by throwing it from the window of the cars). She pleaded “guilty of murder in. the second degree udye Sawyer then seatenced her to twenty any hnprisument, and confinement at hard liv her tn te prison during her maternal rhe KOSSUTHIANA.: ‘The Hungarian Exile in Boston. Boston, May 4, 1852. The Movements and Speeches of Kossuth in Dfodern Athens. Thore is a good deal of morriment in Boston at Kossuth making the Bunkor Hill monument @ pro- phet, and getting it to sing to him ‘more sweotly than the harmony of an angel’s song,” It is re- corded in the Bible, that ‘a dumb ass spako and re- buked tho madness of the prophot ;”” but it is tho first time that I have ever heard of stono and mortar singing. If the monument sung or said anything, Kossuth alone heard it; and if it did sing or say any- thing, it must have been somewhat in the tone of Balaam’s donkoy, and rebuked tho madnoss of the Hungarian prophet. Shakspeare says there aro ‘sermons in stones ;” if so, thero is not a stono in Bunker Hill monument that does not preach against the intervention visions of Kossuth. Tho consum- mation which that monument commemorates, was brought about by practical, steady mon, not mero poetical dreamers and abstract philosophers—men who did not run away in despair, but rosolved, in their devotion to liberty, that the snows on which theirbase and bloody feet trod, should bo their wind- ing sheets rather than surrendor themselves or thoir aims to their tyrants. Sueh mon could not be con- ucrod. Very difforent, indeed, these mon from the Hungarian armies, who, when 120,000 strong, went over en masse to the onemy. Tho revo- lutionary army of America nover numbered 20,000 men. And ferent was. Wash- ington and the leaders of the American army, from Kossuth and the other Hungarian loaders ay, and from many of the present American feather bod generals and colonels, and majors and captains, who Kossuth, and boast to be the worthy sons of tionary sires, but who entertained as great an lon to the smell of gunpowder as the cclone} in fewark, whom Kossuth alluded to in his banquet speech, in that city. Doos not Bunker Hill monu ment rebuke Kossuth that he did not cut off Gorgey’s head, and that he retreated from the posi- tion he had assumed and fled to Turkey. Mon who Legin revolutions or foment them by their declama- tion and agitation, ought to ‘ride upon the whirl- wind und direct the storm.” How differently did Washington deal with the treachery of Arnold— and his, too, was “ the iron will” of which Kossuth tulks so much as his own attribute. He said little, but did much. Deeds, not words, were his, and na discouragement could break him down. He per- severed with unflinching heroism, till by his wis- dom and valor he drove tho British to thoir ships, and left a heritage of freedom to these United States, such as the world has never seon. It is enough to make the blood of every true American hoil with indignation tosee the name of Washington placed en a level with that of Kossuth by the repre- sentatives of thé Bay State—the State in which Bunker Hill is situate.” 1t arguesa sad degeneracy, and awant of appreciation of the glorious cha- racterof Washington, who stands alone in the page of history--a star before whose brightness the light of men hke Kossuth grows so pale and dim as to be scarcely visible. 'To compare the Magyar with Pat- rick Henry might be borne, but to reduce the giant rwoyortions of George Washington to the stature of Lewis Kossuth, is an insult of tho grossest kind, and one, it is to be hoped, that the independont and pa- triet citizens of this State will know how to re- sent, when the Beopen time come: Those who, like moths, which caught by the glare of a candle, plunge right into it, are in cesta- cies with Kossuth, for everything is particularly tickled with his allusions to local names and loci) history, and they conciude he is an ‘admirable Crichton,” who knows everything. Why, the whole mystery is very plain. Pulzsky and others procure all the books they can relating to the history my particular place to which Kossuth is going. read and “stuff” him for the occasion, or if he has leisure, he reads the books himself. The ing crowd imagine be had made their local his particular study in Hungary or far Asia. Such ‘is the clap-trap and stage trick with which too many are humbugged. Of the innecuraey or recklessness of Kossuth in his stutcments in relation to newSpapers, the report of his Lanquet speech published three days after in the Com- mor weuth, extending to four columns in length, is a remarkable instance. 1took notes of that speech.and the memory of every person present will tell him, that Kossuth said an article had been publ: i the London Times, on the very morning of in England, ridiculing the idea of his going about the country, under the guidance of Lord’ Dadley Stuart making bad speeches, being of course unable to speak the English language. Jn the report cor- ieeted by himself in his organ, the Commonwealth, the Augsburg Gazette is substituted for the Times. He never mentioned the Augsburg Gazette at the 1 uct, and this reminds me of the charge he made against “a certain paper in New York,” (the Courier & Enquirer,) in his first great speech in Jour city at the press banquet, i. ¢. he bad the charge written, aud it was so printed at thesofiice of his organ, the Times, which furnished slips to se- veral papers, and it actually appeared in one of those papersnext morning, thongh he afterwardsstruck the athe out of the manuscript, as all the reporters now and did not deliver it. The charge being that al article was written in the eal j {i «i that he had seen a copy of it be! appeared, being furnished to him y a spy he had in that cabine Colonel Webb wrote Cosratt a note on the subj and Kossuth backed down. It cpr fe en PS SS SSS SSS SS SS SS shire paper is probably a hoax or n good joke. Wo shall soo. One of the rs hore aays, Kossuth haa received in this State $27,000, and will get $50,000 before ho Ieaves it. A cail is published by tho freo sailors to deliver another speech at Fanouil Hall on Tucsday ext. Genoral Pillow ia hore, operating with the nows- pers and politicians, to get the nomination for he Vico Presidoncy of the United States. Don’t ho wish he may get it? No drink to bo got in any house hore after 12 o'clock, licensed or unlicensed. An effort is being made to ovorthrow all the unliconsed public houses, and tho publio and othors are going to work to ac- complish that object. Thore is no oity in the world for its population where thore is so much drinking done on the sly. Tho clergy and the temperance men are nevor to bo seen at the bar of a hotel, or any retail drinking ostablishment. But do you know how they manage it? They go to tho wholo- sale stores, and if by chance they should be soon there, why it is only purchasing a little wino for tho -sucrament, or for medicinal or mechanical purposes. Tho Methodists have taken Congress in hand. A tition has been presented before the Genoral Con- ference, now sitting in Boston, for aid to build a place of worship in Washington in the hope of re- claiming the lost sheep of Con; ress. God knows they neod some lessons of Christianity. A site bas boon purchased ncar Ponnaylvania ayonuo, at a cost of $8,000. and it is expected that $10,000. will be raised in Washington, and the Conference is ox- pected to do the rest. It is a very urgont case. The Liquor bill hasfinally passed, this aftornoon, by a vote of 187 yeas to 16] nays. TELEGRAPHIC, KOSSUTH AT LYNN. Lynn, (Mass.,) May 6, 1852. Kossuth arrived here to-day, at one o'clock, in a special train from Boston, accompanied by the committees of arrangement and reception. A great crowd had assembled, and a procession was formed, which passed through the principal streets to the Lyceum, where a large audionco was waiting for him, having been admitted by’ Hungarian bonds. y Tho Mayor welcomed Kossuth in a short speech, and stated'that the Magyar would not be ablo to address them at length, as ho was unwell. Kossuth thenrephied, paying some compliments to the people of Lynn, wha, he said, consisted of me- chanics, agriculturists, and fishers. Me said that either America or Russia must soon rule tho world, At the cioso of his speech, the procession again formed, and escorted fins to the special train for Salem, in which he left at threo o'clock. There being no military in Lynn, a volunteor Kossuth guard was got up for the occasion. KOSSUTH AT SALEM. Sanem, May 6—10 P.M Kossuth arrived here between three and four I. M., accompanied by the Committee of Arrango- ments, with Stophen C. Phillips, chairman, at their head. He was conducted to the City Hall, whore he was welcomed by Mayor Upham, who, in a neat speech, enumerated several objects of revolutionary intorest in and about the city that ho desired to show him. Kossuth replied, in a speech of about fifteon minutes in length, and was then taken—under an escort of thirty horsemen, and about a dozen car- riages—through several streets to the Common, where 2,600 school children were passed in review. Kossuth was then conducted to the Monument in the outskirts of the town, where he again;spoke for a short time. He then proceeded to the Essex Hotel, and dined in a private way; and at eight o'clock, in the even- ing, he was conducted to Mechar Nall, where he was again welcomed in a speech from Stephen C. Phillips, and responded in an address of some length. About $2,000 was received for Hungarian bonds, which admitted the holders into the hall. At 10o0’clock, Kossuth and suite returned to Bos- ton in a special train. ‘To-morrow he visits Lexington and Concord. Lay Convention of the M. E, Church, at Philadelphia, (From the Philadelphia Bulletin, 5th inst } The convention of lay members of the M. E Church, in favor of the Church as it is, and in op- position to the proposed changes in somo of its or- ganic forms, with special reference to a lay repre- sentation inthe annual and general conference of the Church, assembled this morning, at 10 o'clock, in St. George’s M. E. Church, in Fourth street, bo- low Vine, and was temporarily organized by calling George Ireland to the chair; and having been opened with singing and prayer, a committee of five was appointed to nominate officers, and the conven- tion then took a recess for one quarter of an hour. The convention is attended by about 200 dele- gates, from twelve or fourteen States. Upon the body ‘re-asecmbling, the committee on officers made report, nominating Dr. Thomas E. Bond, of Har- ford, Md., as President, assisted by twelve Vice Pre- sidents and six Secretaries. Dr. Bond, on taking the chair, addressed the Con- vention briefly in reference to the objects in vi and in support of the forms of the Church exist. He said that he had been reared in the church, and owed all be had and was to it. The movement in progress to change certain of its forms had given hin much concern, for he bad been familiar with a similar movement some twenty years ago, and well remembered and deplored the ill-feeling it engender- ed, and which was also likely to flow from this, if «they was untrue. “The revised report in the Com- menwealth shows it was equally untrue, that th Times had said what he alledged at the Faneuil Hall banquet. He has now given up the pract of charging the newspapers, opposed to his inter- vention scheme, with being under Russian and Aus- trian influence; being, no doubt, advised by his | friends, that he Would make himself very ridiculous by such assertions, when everybody knew the reverse. ‘There are now too many papers and too many peo- ple opposed to him, to permit the charge to have the @ightest semblance of probability; and, there- fore fe is now reduced to gencaal insinuationsabout Russian and Austrian intrigue, without telling with whom, how, where, or when. Whenever anything goes wrong with Kossuth, he sets it * tinence of Austria and Russia, Wh r the course ef Lola Montes does not ran as smooth she di sires, she attributes it to the influence and the bri- bery of the Jesuits. who have honored the occasion with your preeenc permit me to introduce to you Louis ‘Kossuth, vernor of Hungary. (Cheers ) Kossuth said -— ‘ T did not expect to be called upon to addthe concluding words to this interesting oceasion. 1 am confident the young gentlemen whom you, sir, con- et in the puths of learning, will prove, through their future life, true to freedom and to liberty. ‘The welfare, eecurity and happiness of acountry ‘is the intelligence of its citizens. Education is the grentest benefit a country ean bestow. The only gratitude that humanity and the country will ask of these young men, is, that they will ever conserve ® warm sentiment of liberty, and will never employ their efforts in any other direction than will pro- mote their eountry’s welfare and the rights of hu- manity. I will ever preserve a pleasant recollection that during my short stay in this vicinity, I have seen that place where the minds of young men re- ceive that stamp of intelligence which so di: tinguishes the people of Massachusetts. (Tremen- dous cheering. ) z Boston, May 5, 1852. Visits of Kossuth—Material Aid to Hungary Contribution from the Women--Capt. Long, of the United States Navy--The Way the People in Boston Drink, &., &c- §c. After the cremonies at the College, Kossuth called at the residence of Rev. Dr. Lowell, father of Mrs. Putnam, who wrote a book about Hungary. He next called at the house of Mr. James Russell Lowell, where there were a number of ladies and gentlemen waiting to be introduced to him. A lady, who refused to give her name, contributed $100 as “material aid.” If she were a widow, it might be called the “widow's mite"—the secrecy with which she gave the charity being like the widow in the Gospel, and very unlike the bunkum contributiong paraded in the newspapers. He did not dine with Professor Longfellow, but returned at five o'clock to the Revere, when he commenced laboring at his | speech, for the factory girls of Lowell, with whom | he will “have a fine time’? to-day, He goes to Salem to-morrow, and on Frit ay, he kisses ** he blarney stone of New England.” | The New Hampshire Gazette, of yesterday, has the followin © We undeisiand that Kossuth will visit Exeter, next week. in compliance with the invitation of Capt. Long wf the United States navy. The citigens of that town | Will, therefore, have the privilege of hearing from the | | arian. the words of eloquence for which ly distinguished This may betruc, but | doubt whether captain of the United State vy could so far forget himself a gentleman, and the service to whieh he belongs fs an officer, to play the sycophant to a iwan who } only Inst week abused him at Springticlt asa cow: | nid, one out Whom the s¢ n Nev | were given and returned, | sentiments of attachment and national sympatl 1 feeling was in any manncr allowed to influ: her its supporters or its opponents. He ur; the importance of Christian forbearance in all th actions towards those who differed from them—as they had a right to do—and trusted that every dif- ference of opini on might yet be setitled without im- the usefulness of the Church. He then pro- nt upon the itineraey, to show its importance, its difference from all others, and its fulness. Under the Providence of God it had reat instrument in enlarging, strengthen- vilding up the church; and the member- wed it to t ch, #8 an important binding ain it against all encroachments Committee on Correspondence, throngh their chuinman, James B. Longaere, then submitted a syLopsis of their corresponies 2, embracing letters from some 200 different societies, in. the (Genesee, Baltimore, Troy, New York, Ohio@Philadelphia, iver, New York Eest, Towa, New Har ermont, Erie, da, New Jersey, Pitt Western Virginia, Indiana, and North Ohio conier- onyention then, on motion, appointed avom- ee of five, consisting of Dr, T Bond, James B. Lon, , of Philadelph: . Howe. of New Dr. 8. H. Williains, iria, Va., and Thomas T. Mason, of Phila- de iphio, to prepare business for the convention. After apy the convention ad- Journed until 3 o’clock. Tue Deter Frigate Prince oy Onance av Non- Fox. —The Norfolk Mevald of the 5th inst., says Sinec the Prince of Orange has been in our harbor, large numbers of our citizens have visited her, and expressed their high gratification at the polite and courteous attention paid them by her gentlemanly 18, While her neat _and elegant condition and style of equipment, and the excelent discipline of her crew, are no less themes of admiration and The Prince of Orange is a frigate of the class, mounting sixty guns, and presents 4 able and imposing ‘appearance, creditable alike to her noble commander and his officers and crew, anid to the national flag which she so gallantly hears. We are gratified to observe that Capt. De Vroe and his officers are receiving the most marked attention from our citizens and the officers of the nayy at this station. On Monday they visited the Navy Yard and ship Pennsylvania, where every attention was shown them by Commodore Breese and Captain Saunders. At night they were entertained in handsome style at the residence of Myer Myers, Fsq., the Consul of the Netherlands. But to give a more Lota character to the hospi- tality and respect which it was the desire of our community to offer to these representatives of a na- tion with which the United States have always held the most friendly relations, the corporate authorities of the city yesterday gave them a civie reception and entertainment in the City Hall. The recep- tion took place in the chamber of the Com- mon Council, at half-past one o'clock. His Honor the or addressed Captain De Vroe in behalf of himself and his officers, in terms of bearty welcome and sentiments of cor- dial friendship and respect, to which @apt. De Vroe respended very happily ; und a short period being devoted to mtroductions and conversational ex- eban, he city fathers, with their honored guests, proceeded to the chamber of the Select Council, where an cams repast was spread for their enter- tainment. Here, any little reserve which might have restrained the perfect freedom of expression of thought and sentiment, was soon removed, and the uests might be said to have found thon selves, in a ittle time, quite at home among vld acquaintances. ‘The gentlemen of the committee, and indeed those of the court and councils generally, exerted all their powers to please, and performed the rites of ho: tality most felicitously. The usual national toasts and others complimentary to the naval gallantry and commercial enterprise of Holland and the United States; but the warmth of feeling and earnestness of the sentiments with whieh they were accompanied, showed that they were not merely complimentary, but the result of gonuine eulogy binding the two countries together ina bond of com- mon interest and fraternity. After passing » de- Vg hour in this soetal and joyous int “ Oy 99 and hig of heis lowe, Wookt The Publio Lands, WASHINGTON, May 4, 1852; To Jamas Gorvon Bennert, Proprietor and Editor of the Herald: Stn—Boing a friend to your paper, and a constant aubseribor for two copies of your daily, I think, war- rants mo in calling your attention to some recent statements of yours respecting the Western and Southwestern States, in which the public lands are situated, You have, very unexpectedly to your nu- merous friends and patrons in the West and South- west, takena vory active part in the formation of that public sentimont in the East—a mistakon ono I humbly conceive--which is destined to defeat all our long cherished hopes of aid from the general government, in the way of land grants for the con- struction ofrailroads in contemplation or under way. Of this, not doubting the sincerity of the hostile views to which you have time and again given ut- terance in your able editorial articles, wo do not complain, however much we may and do regret your course on this question. But we havo a right to claim justico and common fairness. from you, and for the purpose of obtaining that at least, I’ take leave most ctfully to call your attention to. the extract which I quote below, from your leading editorial article in your paper of the 30th ultimo. It is in these words :— the present session, Congreas has been perfect with petitions asking for donations of lan i f railroads, and, in accordance housands upon thou- Duri ly bese to aid in th with the desi sands of acres have been given to them Now you aro correct as to presentation of a largo number of petitions praying for lands for tho purpose mentioned; but you are wholly incorroct in your statement that * thousands upon'thousands of acres have been given them.’’ Not one acro has boen given, granted, or otherwise conveyed to any of the new States fi i Is, or river im- ments, of ing tho present session of tern man and re- resentative. judging from the bitterhostility which has been manifested by the Eastern members in the House of Representatives, | have to say, with the ppest regret and disappointment, that 1 have cely a hopo that any of our railroad bills, for any stale, will bo passed at this or any future sés- sion of Congress, until we get the balance of politi- cal power Wost of the mountyins. opt for one road—the Chicago and Mobile, so ‘Congress has never appropriated an acre of land for railroads in any of the new States. Mis- souri, one of the oldest of tho public land States, and having seventeen millions of acres of unsold public domain within her borders, has never received agrantfor a road, river or canal, or any other grants than such as were made to all at the time of their admission. The conditions of the proposod grants to the now States are most onerous. Tho government reserves as much land as it grants, and for that thus reserved demands as its minimum $250 per acre—double price, which our citizens have to pay. Wo would make somothing out of the grants—the government wouluiiecaa ween by making them. Most respectfully, your obed’t serv’t, i OWA. Message of the Governor of Connecticut. Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, delivered his annual mossage to the members of the Senate and Houso of Representatives of that State, on the 5th inst. The Governor recommends tho adoption of a law to pro- vide forthe exemption of homesteads, and the re- Heel of the death nena The finances of the State are ar Ree to be ina most satisfactory condition. In relation to colonization the message I desire to direct your attention to the present j for et condition and prospects of the great project ing the coast of Africa. Like every pr ecting any great purpose of reform or bene its growth, for a long time, was slow, and its to accomplish anything uncertain. | But re- Gent davelopements have-raised the hope of greater progress in that quarter, and have furnished new inccntives to persevere in the humanizing designs of the society. Several hundred miles of the African coast have now been settled by colored emigrants, mostly fr this country--carrying with them into that diet land a considerable of experience in the arts and sciences, and the seeds also of moral improve- > great and pnefits may be ex- rted from their ttlement on that As this is a subject which has truly a national bearing, | have thought it not out of place to commend itto your favorable regard, as # to national matte the business relations of nost of those subjects wh i the councils of the na- settled on what appears to be a per- Whatever diversity of opinion may to exist in regard to the imposition of forcign importations, with a view to reve- or any other purpose, a return to a high rate of duties seems to be not only unn sary but unjust. The industrial inter of this country of every kind and description, are destined to flourish best and mu- tually contribute to the growth and prosperi i each other, under that system which affords equal protection to all alike. Nothing inthe constitution, which is the bond of our Union, permits anything Leyond the point which is touched by the general welfare. We sce occasional efforts to employ the treasures ofthe getiésal govertmient om works of ono kind aid snother, which du not partake of a national charac: ter. If such efforts could be crowned with success, the revenues of the country would not be sufficient to meet the vast outlays which the adoption of so dangerous a policy would imperiously req doctrine so unsafe in itself, and so directly at vari- ance with the true natwe and design of our form of government, cannot be too closely watched at all times. The progress of our republican institutions is be- | ing to be felt throughout the world: and those lutions in the publi irs of nations, which have sprung from hatred of oppression and a determination to be free, may be owing in a imea- sure to the example which this country affords The fact that such may be the tendency of our institutions to produce changes elsewhere, in con- | fuimity to them, must ever be sufficient, if nothing else could move us, to enlist our sympathies on the ride of those who struggle for freedom How farthe genius of our country will permit us It is fortunate fo State and country that several years since ugi tion, have by nd the lineof policy which has hereto- | fore usually controlled in our public $ question to be determined here q | of the coffederacy buta mission of peace which requires us to be pi pared at all times for the maintenance of the x tiowal honor. Thave heretofore expressed my satisfaction with the late adjustments of the questions which had | disturbed the public peace of the country. The Ucment must be rded, T think, as final and be- youd possibility, it is to be hoped, of any seri renewal of thore strifes and unfortunate sec controversies which have since given place to tie prospect brighter futu Much as we may deplore ing opinions on subjects connected with those di sified interests which our country affords, there must ever be room enough left for the exercise of natural forbearance. Something is due to the tre dem of that range of thought and action, which the genius of our institutions so warmly encourages nnething to those feelings which are the growth of different localities of the same great contedera- tion. No extreme perhaps can be wholly wrong or dangerous—the cloud that sends forth the lightning sends forth also the drops of rain to refresh and in- vigorate the earth. Having, as a State, taken part in the construction of our admirable form of government, it will be its highest glory to contribute to the perpetuity of the work of a patriotic ancestry. | Rain ano Hatt Storms at tug West —The Cleveland Herald, of May 1, says:—About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the rain fell in torrents | for sbout half an hour, and the wind blew a gale. An hour afterwards a hail storm began; and such hail'—each bailstone as large asa hickory nut. The storm lasted a quarter of an hour, and did much damage to skylights and exposed windows. About eight o'clock the windows of heaven were opened again, and the rain fell until midnight. The streets were flooded, cellars deluged, and much damage | was done in various parts of the city From eighty to one hundred feet of emhank:nent | ; and track of the C. C. and C. Railroad, boyond Brooklyn hill, were swept off. Men arc laying the track on the side hill, and cars will pa to-day. On the track of the Cleveland and Pitt burg Railroad, the earth was cut away from under the ties in several places—all, however, between the city and the outer depet. A day or two will be re- quired to repair these damages. The Pittsburg train, this morning, started from the outer depot, and a most formidable array ofomnibuses, carriages, cabs, drays, &c., were in requisition to convey pas- prs, baggage, and freight, from town to the ot. he Lake Shore Railroad was somewhat damaged, but will be in order by Monday. At the junction of Pittsburg and Eagle streets, the water cut a chasm entirely across Pittsburg | not reasonable to ex | in the « | consideration, IT hay throo thousand Ii ne ob glass in hia hot houses, aay destroyed most of his early vegetables. p During tho storm a new brick dwelling which waa boing erected on Euclid atreet, by Mr. J. R. Taylor, was struck by lightning, and the side walls pa trated. Not a joist, window frame, or stick of timber waa loft standing. It is a od that a antity of iron ore in the cellar attracted fluic The Cunard and Collins Steamers. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. No. 39 William stroet—' hursday.. Sit:—In the spirit of fairnoss which always ohme racterizes your journal, allow mo—an Englishman— to stick up for a hobby, and to arraign the figures of “Americus,” with reference to his ocean steam. ing statement in your paper of tho 6th May, in which ho looks closely after your mistakos, but overlooks his own. If he goes over again the ave- rage of the Asia and Africa’s eastward passages, he will find 11 days 6 hours 56 minutes the result, in- stead of I days & hours J] minutos, thus giving 44 minutes in favor of the Cunard boats. If he, be- ing 2 man of figures, will take the trouble to look into Hunt's Merchants’ Magazinefor the yoar 1864, ho will find in the total average ofthe year, tho Agim and Africa have beaten the total averago of the Collins line by two hours or 80, for that period. At the sometime, not the most obstinate Engliah- ny that the Cunard line, as a wholo, hag by the Collins for that year, and wolll man will d been be: beaten, We live in hope, and wait patiently for 1858, to bring very differont rosults regardiug the relative superiority of each linc. In the meantime, | aw, your most obedient, ANGLICUS Trade with the Sandwich Islantla, From the Polynesian, Feb. 7.] We have been favored with the following corres- pondence, which shows in a strong light, «ome of the ns Why the interests of the is!ands require a modification of our t y relations with the Uni-+ ted States. Wo are happy to. know that the subjest has heea brought to the notice of Mr. Reynolds, Vice-Presi- dent for Oahu, of the RH. A siety. It could not have fallen into better hands. We ozrnostl hope immediate action will be taken in the promi ses, and are sure that such a8®'on will be strongly sustained by the planters and bu-iness men gonpealiy of the islands. Ke time should be lost. A mceting of tho executive commuitteo of the R. H. A. Society, we learn, will bo called next wook, as proliminary to a public meeting, to take the sub- ject into consideration. ForriGn Orrice, January 31, 1852. Sin:—In the absonce of the honorablo’ Wm. L. Leo, President of the Royal Hawaiian Agrioultural Foviety, Lhave tho honor to submit to you, as Vice- President of the same, for Oahu, the doouments un- dermentioned. a. Tam strongly inclined to the opinion that for proper equivalent for the produce of California hero, the United States government might be induced te admit our sugar, coffeo,* and tobacco, free of duty in the samo ports. The information sent to me hy Mr. Jarves, on the subject of his interviews with the honorable Mr. Clayton, and with Mr. Hunter, and the declaration to the King, by tho present worthy Commissionor of the United States, at his reception on the 17th of January, 1851, remove all doubt as to tho spirit of liberality with which the government of tho United States will receive all proper suggestions for the amelioration of the subsisting treaty ongagemonta with this kingdom. The question appears to me to be one of the great- est importance, not only to the agricultural, but to the mereantile and shipping interests of this king- dom; and as such, I submit it to you, who have ever taken an active part in every measure calculated te advance our national panera I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humblo servant, R.C. Wyunim. To Sternen Reyvnoups, Esq., Vice President of R. A. Society, for the Island of Oahu. * Coffee now enters duty free, COPY OF P. 8. TOMR, WYLLIE’S PRIVATE LETTER OF MAPCH 12, 1850, TO J, J. JARVES, ESQ. P. §.—Although I do not send the copy of No. 46 to Mr. Judd, to interpose any difficulties in the way of the treaty, yet there would be no harm in your reading it to Mr. Clayton. I have the utinost confi- dence in his honor and good will, and believe that if he finds hereafter, that the treaty could be improved, he will do it voluntarily, even after its ratification. The declaration of the President, in his message about the islands, I like much; but why not agree to guarantee their neutrality, as is proposed in ree gard to the Nicaragua Canal? If the Senate con- sent to the one, they may just as well consent te the other. I shall consult the King about the notice you su; gest to Great Britain and France, about the termi- nation of their treaties. Perhaps, before giving the notice, it might be well to hear from Judd, for the; may voluntarily adopt the principles of the Ameri- can treaty. Sin:—Referring you to the copy of my No. 46 to Mr. Judd, and to my No. 26 to you, with the view of sh you how unequally and oppressively the sixth article of the British and French treaties, (through the principle of parity contained in the treaty of Washington, of the 20th December, 1849,) operates, under the American tariff, I enclose hero- with extracts from that tariff, by whieh you will see that while, through the aforesaid principle of parity, the productions of America are only to pay 5 per cent duty ad valorem, a great variety of articles ei- ther now produced, or which can easily be produced on these Islands, ave subjected, some to 40 per cont —others to 30 per cent—others to25—others to 20— others to 15—and others to 10 per cent ad valorem, and that only « very few trifling articles are admis- sible under 3 per cent ad valorem. Under cireumstan 4 DrrarrMr' 7 OF Forrian RELAtions, Hono.uv, April 19, 1850. No, 27. inequality, it ia t that the King can acquiesce tract < and justice of such treaties, those with Great Britain and France, of 26th re, IM46, and with the United States, of 20th December, 1819, or « to desire a concert between those three great uthropic nations, with » view to their concurrence in treaties having a fairer and more reciprocal effec Viewing the treaty th December, in connee- tion with the American tariff of 1846, it appears to me, that under the perfeet reciprocity of flags, Ha- waiian coffee will be recei in the ports of the United S duty fr With much respect and the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, bumble sery R.C. Write. To Jamys Jackson Janves, Esq , H. H. M.'s Spe- cial Commissioner and Plenipotentiary to the United States, &e., &e., &e. te: PXTRACTS PROM AMERICAN TARIFF OF 1846. Sehcdule B—40 per cent duty.—Preserved vegetables, ments, poultry Schedule of all kinds, eb gar, syrup of * Wool, all 30 per Sehe » Sched napus, beef, per cent duty —Brooms, and brushes coral, grapes. molasses. potatoes, su- r. tobacco unmanufuetured, wood di nt duty. per cont duty.—Matting per cent duty.—Arrowroot. bacon, ba- Hy Ke. boards, &e , butter, ur phur, fruit, Indian corn, Ds and limes, paving stones, p! ». pork, rice or paddy, sult, skins tanned HL Kinds flour. yams. Brimstone crude. wnd tea free The following act, proposing ar between the ds and the L 1 States, is offi- i peblished in the Polynesian :— CIPROCAL DUTIRG OF CERTAIN R= D STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, ing, the Promior and Chiets o€ neil assembled :~ siprocal trade . the produce of into all the ports of the United ame terms, 2 ‘The evidence that articles proposed to be wimitted fnto the ports of ths kingdom, under the pre- eetion wince or manufacture of the t effect from the from which such articles are hall be ne sneh consul resident’ to that effect from the col na take effect the day it is eon- of the United States, and nuvliod hy the goverment of the the United States—Provided st- « to any stich annulment, the govern. at pr ment desiring lo make the same, shall give twelve months notice of their intention so to if Done at the Palace, in Honolulu, this first day of Marcle, «rot our Lord. one thousand eight hundred (Signed) (Signed.) in the y and fifiy-two. KAMEHAMRIUA KEONIANA gence. ATURE. —The Legisiature of Rhoda Island met at Newport on Tuesday. Alfred Bosworth, street, and excavated a gulley both wide and deep, om the brow of the hill to the canal.. We notice several bad cuts on Lake, Sheriff, and other streets. The Cuyahago rose rapidly, flooding much of the low land on the southwest side, and carrying away the pontoon bridge, whish effected a landing oppo- site the foot of Bath street. Mr. 8. V. Maleomb, a gardener who resides three miles from the city, on the Kinsman ri suffered about S22 from the hail, w yas whig, was elected Speeker of the House, The votes for State officers were canvassed in grand committee, There was anelection by the people in each case, with the ex» ception of Ldentenant Governor, For that officer the 617,752 Necessary to a choice. . Samuel G. Arnold bad, Wm. B. Lawrence....++ 008 Schuyler Fisher os #1 Scattering... . ones Ww The cholog wi OW derolre BPW tae Logulatann