The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-20
From the New York Herald Of Monday.
The Hungarian Patrlots In New York.

Inc RECEPTION 81 we eL- governor % Comorn-Mgdemoi-
seils Apolonia Jagslo and other Hungarian officers.
| Interesting Scenes :....
On Saturday evening the noble steamship Hermann,
Captain Crabee arrived in our port from Brcmehaven,
General Count Uhazy, the late civil governor OF Comorn,
Miss Apolonia Jasello and other distinguished refugees
from Hungary We went early on board yesterday morn
ing TO meet them, and accompanied them to the Irving
and Astor Houses where they had been invited to take
up their quarters, .s..
The INrERvIEw--rHE vIsIrERs.--Here we were in.
taking them by the hand The Governor, Ladislas
Ujhazy, pronounced Wehazy) is venerable looking
old man. apparently about sixty years OF age He wears
long flowing gray beard, and has singulary striking
and venerable appearance His simple,
affected, and unostentaous yet he Is nobleman by
birth, and was the possessor OF large hereditary for,
tune the greater part OF which has been seized upon and
coniscae by the Austrian government His lady and
daughters are like himself il manners simple and unpre,
as nSE esgss y sa ana
The HUNGARIAN HERoINE.-We were much pleased
with the personal appearance and manners OF Miss Apo
onla the Hungarian heroine, who, ruor reports has
is al the Irving House, She is fine blooming, handsome
young lady, about twentyfour twenty five years OF
age Of pleasing address and manners, with fine color
her cheeks, and quite feminine and lady like in her
manners No would suspect seeing her. that those
delicate hands, enshrouded in delicate white kid gloves,
and that slender FORM had ever been seen dashng among
hussar horseback, and dealing out wounds and
death to the enemy with flashing sword in hand. She
seemed herself quite unwilling TO admit the fact or speak
upon it, yet she showed her hussar jacket in which
she attired She would not, however, tell how
many she had killed We learned from other sources,
however that her chief participation in the Hungarian
had been at the head Of OF the military hospitals,
where, with her own hands, she had waited upon the
sick and wounded, and had nursed and taken of
them with all womans tenderness We also learned
the approach OF the enemy to the city of Pesth, and then
she fired upon them from the window, and on several
occasions mounted on horseback and assisted to drive
them the paca She together with her fellow ref
ugees, on stopping at Southampton, in England was
much noticed, as we were informed by the gentry of
that place and the ladies' OF the town OF Southampton
Wed with each other in showing honor and respect
them ALL inviting them TO their houses Where is there
generous people who have not felt sympathy and ad
mration for the brave Hungaans And the English
PROFESSIONALLY among the foremost OF generous peo-
The CHILDREN-The governor of Comorn was &C
companied by his LADY, two daughters and four Oh
his family three children OF unrpe years. not
yet able fully 10 appreciate the loss OF country home,
fortune, title, connexions-al lost 10 them. We were
much interested with the appearance, manner and beha
vour OF the whole family and especially the unconscious
children attracted sympathies for they seemed rather
to enjoy the excitement OF the novelty OF their stua
ton and their advent into world To these poor
little creatures all the change, yicissude, and ADVERSE
ties of their family were, in their innocence and gno-
better than they would have done had they remained
home, to go to school, and live the regular monotony
of daily life, uninterrupted by the shock OF empires,
the collisions OF mighty armies the revolutions Of ma,
tons Happy innocence! happy ignorance OF youth
happy carelessness Our troubles commence enough;
lei US, then, prorac long we can the days of sim
children in Latin that formerly the language OF
Hungary. which all their youth educated to speak,
and which was spoken in their Legislative halls and
OF justice; but the mother answered for Them and
said they did not understand it. Kossuth, among the
many reforms OF which he has been the nsgator has
also succeeded in causing the Of the Latin language
TO be abandoned, and the cultural Magyar tongue,
more national, to be substituted in its place. The Gov
ernor conversed good deal in Magyar-the genuine
tongue not destitute of harmony and force from the ease
and richness with which flowed from the lips of those
who spoke it, Meantime, the two little ones, uncon.
scous Of their parents and their countrys disasters,
played about the grand saloon of the hotel, smiling,
laughing and adnrng the crowd Of vsters and specta-
tors-the beginning OF new world and second life to
them IN new hemisphere.
The suTFERINGs THE sIEGE-We were much inter
esed with the accounts heard OF the siege of Comorn
in which the gallant governor, the brave Kapka, the
gallant PIagay figured largely before Europe and the
world. They bravely held out long time against the
combined forces Of Austria and Russia, with all their
imposing artillery, and only yielded at last honorable
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At tune, towards the close OF the siege, the famine
ragged severely among these last and bayest relics Of
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lars, and small hall. starved chicken sold for fifteen
dollars Even rats and mice had their value, and sold
for considerable sums, great the OF food in
the besieged place They more happy who parted
with their gold to obtain mouthfu Of food, than those
who filled their purses with the high price We were
told OF man. rich and fond OF money, who sold the last
mouhful he bad for immense sum, and Perished for
want in the midst OF his treasures wishing when it was
too ate TO have parted with all his wealth for only
days exisence-so far more valuable is lie than
money, and so incapable is money OF prolonging life
! The ATROCITIES OF THE AUsTRIAss-We heard with
horror OF the cruees and atrocities Of which
the triumphant Austrans guilty the conquered
foe conquered not by Austrian avery; no, nor yet
even conquered by the overwhelming force OF the Rus.
slams; but conquered sold, betrayed, by the base and
personal wealth and abundance OF gold sold the
my The army which had been confded to him. and the
people who had placed confidence in his integrity We
read in the Bible of the cruelty OF Herod and read
IT, tempted 10 believe such atrocity impossible Little
did think that in the nineteenth centuryin the hear
of civilized Eyrope-n what is called Christian coun
try and by those who call themselves Christian people
worse and wanton crueles and atrocities have been
perpetraed We were told OF three hundred infants
one Hungarian city, the borders Of Wallachia who
were taken and butchered by the Austrian soldiers
They took them from their mothers arms, and put them
10 death in the most wanon manner, holding the little
nnocents by the feet and dashng their brains out agans
the walls OF their parents houses, and in cases
throwing them into holes in heaps alive, and bmyinp
them alive. The Russians, is said, were not half
brutal and cruel the Austrians after before their
treacherous conquest.
TIE HUNGARnS COMMITTEE OF New YORK CITY,
While we engaged in conversation with the inter
esng party Just arrived from the of horrortht
refugees OF noble nation which had struggled in yair
for their Independence depuation arrived from the
committee Of the citizens Of New York.
II This committee met Saturday evening. II consisted
Of the Mayor Of the city OF New York, Myndert Var
Setback, Moses H. Grinnell, VIM T. Havemeyer, Shep
herd Knapp, H. ID. Morgan, s Draper, and others
The Inequalities OF the Irving House and Astor House