The North-Carolina standard., 1849-09-12
SAD NEWS FROM HUNGARY!

By the arrival of the Steamer Niagara, see anoth-
er colnmn,) we have the latest dates from Europe
and sad news from Hungary. Gorgey, it appears,
has surrendered all hope for Hungary has been
disspated; and Kossuth and Benz, who were for
holding out to the last had fallen back, and Were
perhaps flying for safety to the Turkish Territories
This intelligence is depressing and so meiancho-
| ly that we have heart to write aboutit As the
New York Express truly says: g The cloud Of Des-
potim darkens fearfully Europe! The last hope
Of Hungary is extnguished. Russia and Austria ride
triumphantly over her embatted and blood-drenched
pains Her patriots fleeing for refuge to the do
minions of the Sultan, while such of her armies as
have not yet laid down their arms to the unholy al
lance are in full retreat and combating, alas now
no longer for the shadowy phantom of National In
dependence but for their very lives. The vanqufsh-
ed are given up to the Cossack, who, if our tele-
graphic dispatches speak truly, is executing fearful
y but faithfully, the ferocious threatenings of Hay
nau the Hyena.'
The Express continues the mournful picture:
Disastrous, indeed, beyond all parallel, is the
news we publish this morning from the scene OF
warfare and it will send THRILL sure, to the
heart of this nation which will reverberate and re-
spond to the quiverings of the electric telegraph,
from the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf of Mexico. The
last resting place of Continental Liberty is invaded,
and the last faint CLEAN of Republicanism is over
shadowed and put out with suddenness which al
most amazes and confounds
The drama is done The last act of the Europe
an tragedy is before US, and the curtain drops upon
scene terrible enough to alarm the friends of Gber-
al principles in whatever part of the world they are
now to be found-in Great Britain in the United
States! The sword is sheathed, and Monarchy is
the victor.
Thus ends the grand series of events that follow
ing in the train of the Partisan Revolution of lS48,
gave birth to hope that mighty and combined ef-
fort to be made for the disenthrament of Europe
The effort has been made, and has cost rivers of
blood, but in France, where it began, it has eventu-
ated only in contemplate farce-in Italy come
dy-in Hungary tragedy.
The Magyars, however, transmit heroic memory
to after generations, who, at future time, may
unsheath again the sword, to accomplish what the
present generation has failed achieve,-not from
any want of determination their part,-for how
fixed and consistent that, from beginning to end,
the world has witnessed with admiration,-but be-
cause Of the tremendous power the opPressor has
vengefnlly hurled at them.''
If this intelligence be true-and we but few
reasons to doubt it-Europe is Cossdck at last! But
Kossuth and Hungary immortal:
"They never fail who die
In a great cause The block may soak their gore;
Their heads may sodden in the their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls
But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years
Elapse, and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world at last freedom"