The southern press., 1851-10-24
cesrsy. sAe Hs.garIA. rr.,s.r.

Dir. Brace writes to the New York Ir i6une,
the following description of Georgy, the Arnold
of Hungary:
In regard TO Georgy, one OF my friends here,
lately remarked. that be was the opposite Of
hossuth-"Ko was Hungarian and no.
th'ng else-Georgy was anything but Hunga-
rian %
There is much truth in the remark-Georgy
never has d the last sympathy with either tho
virtues or The weaknesses of his countymen.
a man Of cold stern nature, of few words and
Tremendous deed he al lxays laughed over tina
Magyar hre, and eloquence and patriotism. Des-
pite tne ialseness he displayed at last, there is
something very striking about his character. Ii
he was traitor, he was no common one
lis career commenced in characteristics way
by his hanging up, when he was only a major
one of the first noblemen in Hungary, for treacb'
cry, as sterniy and indiferenty as if the man
had been runaway drummer The aft air made
great noise, and brought his name very promi-
nenIly before the public. His after course VIVA
consistent with this--as cool in discharge of
grape, his officers say, as he was at the council
board.
They have told me they have often seen him
in the midst of fearful ca arge around hir.
sitting quietly on his horse, with pistol in
hand-but not for the enemy. The moment he
saw MN finch, he shot him as uDrelantiDgly
as if he had been dog. lie seemed to Others
utterly indifferent to what men usually long
after. He always profossed, amid his most
splendid achievements, lie would rather be
teaching chemistry, than leading an army
When kossuth sent him. on one occasion 600.
900 euilders (lOO,OOO) to make provision for
his future, and in order not to off nd him, in
closed IT to his wife, he sent it back, with the
remark :" 1t fall, | shall not need it, and NV
VIE can be governess again, as she was before;
i we are conquered, and escape, can be pro-
lessor abroad; if we conquer, and survive the
victory need no money now"
After one of his grand victories, the ministry
sent him certain decorations and orders of
honors he put them aside with n sneer. that
such gew gaus were not the things for a re.
public
People have told me that after the stormino
OF Ooen, the only words on the lips of the
people and of the army, was "Georgv,
Georgy" but with all the demonstrations he.
fore his quarters, be never showed himself, and
remained coldly withinz-indeed, expressing
himself, that this very bombardment was the
ruin of Hungary"
tic always sneered at everybody, even the
friends who idoIized him !; and was almost the
only man in Hungary who was perfectly indf.
ferent under Ko,suths eoquence. Amid the
spendldly dressed Hungarian officers, he al.
ways appeared in his old majors coat and in
boots, which he had not taken off, perhaps for
week.
lady told me that she met him after the
taxing OF Oben, in vile looking coat, with
great hole in one of the elbows
She demonstrated with him for wearing sncb
thing "Poh |" said he I'll be known through
all my rags!'
He,' said she, pointing to the rent; ssee the
Diogenes peeping through the holc!" at which
he seemed very unusually Disconnected And
have no doubt the lady had hit the matter ex-
actly. 1t was not that he was Indifferent to
peoples opinion, lie took this very course to
show his own prde--his ruling trait seems to
have been mean, selfish pride. He was un-
speakably jealous Of Kossuth, and would rather
see Hungary hundred times ruined than that
It should conquer under him. There is little
dltieretce of opinion even now, in Hungary,
about the amount of his treachery. The gene
raj voice, however, pronouAces him traitor.
| may speak more of the details hereafter; for
myself, have no doubt that he was meanly,
btsely false to his country But in consistency
with his character, he was determined his
treachery shonld not be forced upon him, and
he did not consunate it until he had shown by
mastery retreat and series of splendid
manGvres, what he might have done, had he
wiled
Whatever may be said of his early course. for
his last act of uncondi ional surrender and be-
trayal at VHlagos no excuse. or palliation can
be found. He could not have lost more. had
he fought out the war, TO the last inch Of ground
on the hungarian Pusztas All his faithful com.
rades VINO had stood by bis side in uany hard
fought held, and had messed at his table, were
left TO the gallows or the axe The brave SOL
diers who had followed him through his long
and weary retreat with mistaken confidence aid
love, believing that "their Georgy" would come
out right at last were abandoned to Austrian
dungeons, or left to be drafted into the "impe
rial regiments"
He saved nothing but his own miserable life
No man in Hungary believes that he did this
malignant treachery for gold II was all from
his diabolica pride. His reward has been Door
enough; residence in a small town of Styria.
under the inspection of Austrian spies n mar.
row stipend from the government, and the howl
OF detestation and wrath following him from the
whole Hungarian nation. He is said to he pur
suing his study of chemistry quietly in Klagen-
fruit where probably he will die The Interest
punishment for the proud man, the scorn and
contempt of the world, has met him, and we
may leave him to it.
O'CoNNELL's TAcr IN CRoss-ExAMrNIse. He
was once examining a witness, whose inebrety,
at the time to which the evidence referred it was
essential q uroyP He ouickI,, d;soo,aroJ al