New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-12
AUSTRIA.
Tho Family of kOssuth.

A correspondent o. the Dai!y Ne'rs ties from
Presburg On the goth Dec follows:
A paragraph las zone the round Of tho German
papers giving the world TO understand that TIE
mother and children Of Kossuth have been set a.
liberty; that upon leaving their prison st Pesth
they came 10 Vienna ia order 10 provide them
selves with passport to Turkey The only WORD
of truth in tbs story that this "nobe old moth
err" with her three grandchildren, left their prise
Mt Pesih, but il was 10 enter new jail at Pres.
burg; aud such n iail When these helpless lc
ings were consigned 10 the hospital OF the Schlo.s
berg, the cholera and typhus were both raging
there and Death busiest from couch 70 couch
teI ded the sick The cholera and typhis have
done their work, and death is not 40 busy now
among the patients the grandmother and the th'a-
ht,ie hossuths are stu there thank God all well
Yes thank God. and not the Austrian for that.
Let us hope. however. for the honor Of MANKIND
that the mother and children Of kossuih were not
committed to a holc rocking with deadly iuiec-
ton, spita devastated with double pla -ur,
with a design. No there could be no 6osi-D.
No Government, not even the Austrian, could
play the part % such cowGrdly doviL Ihe
they are oil We. YOU may take my wcfd tic
PLY stefan who attends them has just told
my friend 81. The children OF Guyon are also there
behind that tail black wall, pierced with little square
holes, that runs round the top Of the conicai hla
overh ranging the town. You are not To understand
that, because they are in prison hospital they co.,
in a ward mixed with either the crowd Of sick
criminals. Their apartments are such as, sePara'.
Cd from such a nci,hhsufhood, and uuhauntod b!
such terrible associations would probably content
their modest wants The children have tutcr
appointed by the government An attempt wa
made lattcrly 10 induce NsdRmc hoseuih By o.
offer Of liberty and comDlodious residence else
where 10 leave the children. with what success may
be imagined lfshc Ind bscn their mother lnstca-
OF Their fathers mother the proposition could not
have been rejected with greater soon. Wher,
the wife is remains L. this tnomcat profound SO
cret Tho children consist Of two tile boys AMI
girl The youuses, boy Is \ charming h.ile fellow
lulI Of inlantlne malice. He says . tho AustIel
o,accrs, Wat / WI draw ycu psPss pic
ture - snd then no scr.bhlcs ore Of those naive
ovas which pass current with such artists ior syn
ols of the hniaan head divine with lot II scratci
Is al one end 'or tie beard. Sometimes lie pre-
teajs % smueele something IN as be passes tie
sentinel who cres ont, " Show me " bat y0g have
in your hand, sirrHh T. Iae little Isl, after some
sham reluctance, expands, and shoWs-noihius
Then OF he bounds IN ecstscies =! laughter suri
as might have burs, from Puck when he, is
aud bean FED bolsc begul,ed. neishing Ia likeness
OF hlly fosl' One can never look up 81 those
dismal walls without thinking oi the - noble oil
mother and that pretty little fellow singing in rs
stony csrc Nor are these the only family az Pres
burg struck 10y the Hungarian calamity. Ther.
- tho widow 81 Gen Lei-'ngen there Il the WI
ow Of Gen. Damiari-h, free indeed, both. 10 carr
their sorrrws and dest uron whittier they pleas,