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1852.] £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. — 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 23