American mechanic and home journal., 1849-12-22
From the Neto York Herald, l7th THE HUNGARIAN PATRIOTS IN NEW YORK

From the Ne,o York Herald, l7th. THE HUNGARIAN PATRIOTS IN NEW YORK. On Saturday evening the steamship Herman, captain Crabtree arrived port from Bremen-haven in Germa nv having board General Count Ujhazy, the late civil governor of Comorn Miss ApOlenia Jageo and other dis sngushed refugees from Hungary We went early board yeaerday morning to meet them and accompany them to he Irving Asor Houses where they had been invited take up their quarters
 INTERvIEw-THE
 Here introduced the noble refugees and had the pleasure of skng them by ;he hand. The Governor, La asas Uihazy (ponounced Wehazy venerable looking old man. apparently about 60 years of age. He a long flowing grey beard and has singular striking aud rable appearance. His smpe unaffected and large hereditary fortune, the greater of which has been sezed and by the Austrian government His lady and daughters like himself in n,anners-simple belonging by brth habits and educaon the highest class of European tocracy.
 HUNGARIAN
 We pleased with the personal appearance and of Miss Apoonis, the Hungarian heroine who ruor reports has foug ght many battle for the liberties Hungay-She the Irving House. She is fine, bloom ing handsome young lady, about twenty five years of of pleasing address and manners with fine color her cheeks, and quite femenne and in her No would suspect on seeing her, that those hands, enshrouded in delicate white kid gloves ahat slender had been dashng among crowa conbatants the field of battle mounted hus- sar on h"eback, and dealing wounds and death the enemy win flashing sword in hand She seemed herself quite unwilling the fact, speak upon il, yet showed us her h>sar jacket in which she attred Sne would no noweer, tell how many she had kill ea we eaneo rom other sources, however, that her chief participation in the Hungarian war had been at the head of of the military .osntas where with her own hands, she had waited upon s~k and wounded and had nused and taken of them all womaus tender We also learnt that she had only fought when driven by necessity the approach of the enev to the city of Pesh, and then she fired them from the window and several mounted and assisted to drive them from the place She together her fellow refugees stopping at Southampton, in Englaud was much noticed. informed, by the gentry place and the ladies of the of Southampton ved with each other in showing honor and them a inviting them to their houses Where there people who have not felt sympathy and admiration for the brave Hunga risns and the English unquestonaby among the sniost of generous peopie:--- ~7-
 
 The Governor of Comorn was accompanied by his lady daughters and four Of his family, three mere cddren o unrpe years not yet able fully 10 epPre- cate the loss of country home fortune e all them. We much interested with the appear and behaviour of the whole family and pecaly the unconscious children attracted sympathes, for they seemed rather enjoy the excitement of the city of their situation and their advent into new world To these e creatures all the change vcssItude and adversties of their family their innocence and good fun, and doubt not they enjoyed bet ter they would done had remained home, school and live in the regular monotony of daily fe uninterrupted the shock the collisions of mighty armies. the revolutions of nations Happy innocence happy ignorance of youth happy careessness Our troubles com enough let then potract, as long as we the days of simplicity and enjoyment We addressed these interesting children in Latn that formerly the language Hungary which all their youth educated to speak, aud which spoken their legislative halls and
 
 they did not understand it. kosuth, among the many re- forms of which he has been the has also succeeded in causing the of the Latin language to be abandoned and the guttura tongue, national 10 be sub su!ed its place. The Governor cOrversed good deal in Magyar, the genuine Hungarian language, and could perceive not destitute of harmony and force from the and richness with which flowed from the lips of those who spoke Meantime the little scious of their parents and their counr disasters played about the grand saloon the Hote smiling, laughing sdning the crowd of visitors and specatorshe beginning of world and second fife them in a hemisphere
 
 We much interested with the heard oi the of Comorn which the gallant Governor the brave KaPka the gallant Pragay figured largely before Europe and the world. They bravely held long time agains the combined forces of Austria and Russia, with all their i'm posing artillery, and only yielded last honorable which strongly of the bravery of the besiegsd and the fears of their enemies. At time wards the close of the segn, the famine ragged severely ronp those last and bavest relics of Hungarian ndepen dence The price of at this period, the in eefsn sd fof een 1 E1e 1as and mce hae their vaue and sold for considerable great the of food in the besieged place. They happy who parted with their money to obtain mouthful of food than who 6led their purses with high price, w. told of rich and fond of money, who sold th last mouhfu he had for immense and perised o Iae have parted with all his wealth. for only day. existence-so far valuable is life than 70 incapable is money Of prolonging ie
 ATROCITIES HUNGARIANs
 We heard with horror of the numerous cruees and atro cities of which the triumphant Austrans guilty conquered e-conquerrd, by Austrian bravery conquered by the force o the Kus conquered sod betrayed by the base and sorG mind of the traitor Georgey who for the sake of persona wealth snd abundance of gold. sold to the enemy the which had been conded him, and the people who ha placed confidence in his integrity We read in the Bible the cruelty of Herod, and, read it, tempted believe such atrocity impossible Little did think that, the nineteenth centuyn the heart of civilized Europe what called Christian country, and by those who cal them selves Christian peopleworse and more wanton cru cities and atrocities have been perPetrated We were toll of 300 infants in Hungarian city, the borders Waacha who taken and butchered by the Austria solders They took them from their mothers and them to death the most manner holding the ttl feet and flashing their brains out against tn walls of their parents houses and some eases throwIn them into holes heaps alive, and buryng them alive Tn Russians said were not half brutal and cruel tn Aassrirns, sfer o before their sreacherous conqueet