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£ber|f? ill ffoejfeto dlioHS.
Kossutii at Washington.-Tlic illustrious Magyar ar
rived at the Capital on the 30th ult., and was immediately
conducted, with very little parade, to Brown’s Hotel, where a
, e su ite of rooms was prepared for him and his companions.
On” New Year’s day he visited the President of the United
’ g tates accompanied by his suite, Mr. Webster doing the hon
ours of presentation. Mr. Kossuth read an address to the
President, and the latter made a brief reply. The ingenuity
aswe ll as fervourof the great Exile are displayed in his ad
dress, which strongly intimated his hope and expectation of
national sympathy and aid. The reply of the President,
while full of personal kindness, and properly declarative of
the public sympathy with him and his country, gave him no
encouragement to hope for any departure from our national
policy of non-interference with the affairs of other govern
ments. On the sth inst., M. Kossuth was introduced to the
Senate in their chamber, and took a seat. He was subse
quently introduced to the House. On the 7th he was compli
mented with a Congressional Dinner—which went off with
eclat. It is understood that no opportunity will be afforded
him of addressing either branch of the Congress. He is to
visit Annapolis, at the invitation of the Governor of Mary
land. There is no probability that he will come further South.
Rumour declares his discouragement at the official reception
he met with in Washington.
Smithsonian Institute.— Messrs. Colcock of South
Carolina, Fitch of Indiana, and Meachem of Vermont, are
the three Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, on the part of
the House of Representatives.
Great Conflagrations in Philadelphia.— The last
week of the past year was an excessively disastrous one to the
Quaker city. Two very destructive fires occurred upon its
grand promenade, Chestnut-street, one on the 27th, at the cor
ner of Sixth-street, and another on the 30th, at the corner
of Seventh. In the former, the whole blocks of buildings
known as the Hart and Shakspeare buildings, on opposite
sides of the streets, were destroyed, together with an im
mense amount of merchandize. In the latter fire, the beauti
ful block called Swaim’s Buildings was burned. The upper
part of it was occupied by Barnum’s Museum—which had
been recently purchased by Mr. Spooner. His loss was very
heavy, as also that of the occupants of the stores beneath it. —
The Columbia House, on the opposite side of Chestnut-street,
was repeatedly on fire, and saved with great difficulty. One
remarkable feature of these fires, is the heavy loss experienced
by the book trade. In the first fire, the great law book-store
of the Johnson’s was totally destroyed, and the valuable
stocks of Lindsay & Blakiston, and J. W. Moore greatly
injured by water. In the second fire, Mess. Henderson & Cos.,
lost nearly all their extensive stock. The total value of prop
erty destroyed in these two fires, is estimated at about $400,000.
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PICKINGS FROM PUNCH.
COURT GRAMMAR.
Considering the attention paid to sci
ence and education by the highest per
| sonages in the realm, we think that simi
lar respect should be shown by those
about the Court to the ordinary rules of
grammar. We fear there is a little laxi
ty in these matters among some of the
Court functionaries, and we have been a
great deal puzzled by the following copy
oi a letter from one of the equerries of
Her Majesty, which is exposed in the
window of a West End pastry-cook :
‘■Mr. is commanded by the
Queen to thank Mr. M’lntyre for the
cake of gingerbread, baked by his own
hands, which accompanied his letter.”
Now, according to this intimation, it
appears that Mr. M’lntyre’s own hands
possess all the baking properties of an
oven, and that such hands, being curiosi
tles i ll . their way, he has actually sent
them lor inspection to Her Majesty 7 . Such
l! ? the only interpretation that can, con
sistently with the rules of grammar, be
put upon the equerry’s phrase, ‘‘his own
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
hands which accompanl <?d his letter.” We
could understand a ma. rfs forwarding his
legs by parcels’ delivery if he happened
to wear cork instead oF real; but we have
never heard of moveable hands as be
longing to anything but a clock, and we
call upon Mr. M’lntyre to lay his hand
upon his heart and tell us how” the letter
oi the equerry can be accounted for. We
have heard of people tu. ruing oft’ old hands
and taking on new, but we cannot under
stand such a feat with, the hands as has
been attributed to the ingenious confec
tioner.
PANORAMAS -ALL HOT.
By way of attracting the public to the
very interesting Panorama of Jerusalem,
at Hyde Park Corner, during the very
cold season, the Proprietors announce
that—
“ THE HOLY LAND IS WARMED.”
Other Exhibitions wi 11, of course, adopt
the same mode of assuring the public of
protection against the inclemency of the
weather ; and we shal 1 be informed, no
doubt, that —
The Arctic Regions are heated by gas ;
The Falls of Niagara, arc supplied with
warm water pipes;
The Nile is keptdryr with hot water;
and that
The Great Globe is never without se
veral large fires.
Os course, during thc3 hot weather, the
tone of the advertisement would be ne
cessarily reversed; and instead of stating
that provisions have been made for
warmth, it might be announced, that —
The Arctic Regions are kept cool by a
ventilating apparatus;
and that —
A patent refrigerator has been added to
the North Pole, for tlie comfort of the
numerous visitors.
RATHER TOO MUCH OIF A GOOD THING.
We see advertised some “Crying
Dolls.” We must p rotest against this
new kind of amusement. J ust as if the
real thing was not enough, but we are to
have an addition to am evil, that is al
ready sufficiently “crying” in every
household. We wish tlie inventor of this
new toy (which migh t be called “ the
Disturber of the Peace of Private Fami
lies”) to be woke up regularly in the
middle of the night, fur the next twelve
months to come, by one of his own
“ Crying Dolls,” and tHenhe will be able
to see how be likes it ! Let one of the
Dolls also be “ Teething;” for we should
not be astonished now to hear of “ Teeth
ing Dolls,” and “Coughing and Choking
Dolls,” with other infantine varieties, and
then the punishment of this monster in
human form” will be complete. Dr.
Guillotine perished by the instrument he
invented. The inventor of the “ Crying
Dolls ” deserves a similar fate. He should
be shut up with all his toys “ in full cry,”
until,like Niobe, the crying was the death
of him, and he was turned, by some of
fended mythological Deity, into the
“great puinp,” of which his invention
proclaims him to be the effigy.
HEAVEN.
BY MRS. SOUTHEY.
0, happy, happy country ! where
There entereth not a sin ;
And death, who keeps its portals fair,
May never once come in.
No grief can change their day to night—
The darkness of that land is light.
Sorrow and sighing God has sent
Far thence to endless banishment.
And nevermore may one dark tear
Bedim their burning eyes ;
For every one they shed while here,
In fearful agonies,
Glitters a bright and dazzling gem,
In their immortal diadem.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
THE SPELL OF KOSSUTII.
**The Herald of the Union , (to which we re
fer elsewhere in this number), thus graphically
describes the magnetic influence of Kossuth on
the good people of Gotham. The picture is
scarcely exaggerated, we should suppose from
contemporaneous records, and it certainly indi
cates the possession of some extraordinary and
even magical power by the illustrious Exile of
Hungary. We are cool enough now 7, as we
write of him at our long remove, but we doubt
if we could resist his actual presence.
“The great Hungarian has left us, and
we breathe free again. There is some
thing in the very air, and in men’s faces,
which tells us that he is no longer here.
What has he been doing since he land
ed on our coast % lie has been magnet
izing the nation. lie has bewildered the
brain, and captivated the heart of our
people. Orators were speechless before
him; and those who spoke uttered for
the most part only meaningless words.
Divines of all creeds accepted him as the
annointed apostle of anew political gos
pel. Lawyers adopted his opinions, and
sage judges bowed to his decisions. His
torians sat at his feet to learn the hither
to unread scroll of the history of nations.
Women loved him—they pressed round
him —their eyes filled with tears —their
cheeks crimsoned and t heir hearts throbb
ed painfully when he appeared. Even
the hard hand of the veteran editor which
had chronicled the events of a quarter of
tt century, and thereby ceased to grow
tremulous in recording the fluctuating
passions of the hour, was paralysed when
Kossuth spoke ; and almost without the
form of comment he was left to speak
for himself. Old men and young chil
dren attended his steps, and bade him
God-speed on his mission. The theatres
were emptied, and dry goods clerks stood
idle behind their counters or gazed va
cantly from the windows. The churches
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