The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-01-30
IfHE B A yNER.;
Foreign News Items.
TSossuth's Dcse,ase,.
The f,llowing letter, defensive oEKos

: correspondent ot Inc lxOnuOn DdHy NGCS.
s.1ie walls of Buda, ,he cilndel OF
soyerlooks tho beautiful City Of
4 pcsth, and its truns1uvial suburbs, are
still inthe condition in which they were
left by Gorgey, when battered previous to
ssthe finulsassault. Bnda is interesting as
the poin, where the empire was probably
saved from!acstrnc,ion by the formidable
defence made by the gallant Hcin,z, and
the determined disobedience of Georgcy.
fOnthis subject, people here are amused
by ,he rank nonsense written, by ram
bling correspondent, Of The Times, who
s asserts lha, Gorgey committed the grave
/, tst.ligof stopping to bcsi"ge Buda, instead
Sof pressing forward 10 Vienna. against
J, T his, owl, inclination, and by the positive
order Of Kossuih. Now the very reverse
= il ir,oioriousy lie chsc. Gorgey received
peremptory instructions from Kossuh to
y ieaye corps Of $4,000 men to invest Blu
fsla, and to press forward with his whole
force to Vienna and OlmulZ. Gorgey
add 5precisely the contrary, and sat down
s.ssil., 80 900 men and !,@@0 hussars be-
fore tBuIa, which he losi his time by bat
.tfring with htwelve- Founders and his men,
by attempting 10 storm without having
made a breach. After these failures,
e ], eGs;orgey wrote 10 Kossulh, proposing to
abandon the siege, and Kossu,h then re-
piled that aficr having committed so great
stai,error as his disoIelence, and after
snchen failure, Buda must be taken II, any
j cost .sys az; sff " tf"
.s,j S33%t.A {ha,tering train was then brongh,
fl,p, snlld the .piace succumbcd. This is
ihereal version Of the transaction, which,
/, If | am not mistaken, has been given al.
ready in your columns. The very order
sto.morch CT, Vienna addressed to Gcrgcy
III lie first Instance, | have read in Tur.
key. II is matter Of history already, and
sl9Wisl, only to observe ,hnt | find every
. one here as perfectly cognizant oflhc fact
ms mysciff, 50 tina, am at loss TO know
,slWhcnce The Times correspondent can
hive derived his miSinlnrnation. At the
Z Hungarian theatre at Pcslh, was wit
ness 10 a curious scene. In the vuudc-
vile, Of which the plot turps on the en-.
barrnssment OF the heroineat the supposed
return Of her absent husband after her
re-m'srringe, occurred the remark, "tha'
those only absent arc sure TO turn up and
qrc,urn some day This observation
was taken as political ailusion to the re-
sponded to by momeninry burst Of ears
nest sen,husiusln.sl,astily suppressed. a
few weeks back even such dcmonstra.
tion would have had serious consequences,
but the government has its hands loo full
to continue noticing such outbreaks Of q
feeling which it would fill oil lis prisons
81 iy, =, .pn III nndc.,yor ~ rcprncs
"The promulgation Of The new Consli-
tuition ineetsiwith the most serious OBJ
stacles fromlhc passive resistance Of The
few ex.loyalist families who refuse TO fil
sany$public situations, and talk seriously
3pf emigrating, while the mass Of the peo-
pie treat il, with contempt, as mere in
sulling series of ephemcral regulation.
In the Bnkonya, Wald n considerable
guerrilla was on loot, possessed Of twelve
pieces Of cannon. Atthc commencement
Of last month they surprised and cut to
pieces 400 tAustrians. a large force was
being concentrated to sweep. and it was
ssuid cut, down (2) this forest. Two bat
teries and :h!ree batteries had left Pes,h.
Ihayc, however, since ascertaincd tina,
about The 22d, a-recen Commissary Of
sKossnth conveyed TO them tho order 10
bury their cannon and n,uskes and dis
4 spsrse. What an extraordinary rcpu,a-
lion this man Fossulh l,as left after him.
From 10 Vienna, by water or by
tlnhtl. dly ever pass ten minutes
in lie ~ ''ou do not hear mention
Of liislnalno, .m in Pes,h, where the sale
.1s$nf his ips5r,raii is capital offence, the
thlagyars.uiub together TO purchase n sin
glescopy at M exorhitant price, and tear
il into fragments, which are shared be-
tween item"
rs THE accounts Of Austrian crnc!lics,
published from time 10 time, have frc.
squcnily been said TO be overcllarged, the
London Dispatch publishes copy Of an
ofiicial proclamation, list of those TO be
lashcd, among them nrc 40, Erncatu
Cali Of Gganlonn, aged 30, an opera sing
er, 40 CUTS" and ''2O, Marin Cont OF
Florence, aged ls, an opera singer, 80
e2cu,s;' 1.-Two Young girls, favoriie public
singers, stripped naked to their waist,
AM lashed by bruies. rs dangerous 10
Field Marshal Radc,zky and his gallant
Austrian .Army!E
p{ltWe'iiave accounts from COnsnniinople
ofthc 29lh ult; they confirm our las, let.
icrs. The refugee question has been set,
fled, and the publications. to the agree.
: mcnt on this subject are now alone wan.
ting TO make the settlement detin,ivc.
The Poles who have embraced tue Ma.
liomc,lan faith are 10 be Withdrawn.
Great Consideration was caused in a
ball room, in Granthum, England, by a
young man named Henry O. Nickols
falling stone dead while promcnading tho
I room with his partner. a post morton
examination disclosed The enusc of deaf!
10 have been the pressure of large guam.
,ity ofbloo'l which had accumulated or
the rightside Of the hcnrt, had ruplured q
+ valve, and caused death as instantaneous
" as though a blllle, had been sho. into