The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-21

| KossuTH AND HIS COMPANIONS. - The Pre-
sident of the United States has communicated to
the Senate, the corr espondence between the Secre-
tary of State and other Ministers of the Govern
ment, relative to the release of Kossuth and his
companions in exile, from their present detention
in Turkey, and their removal to the United States.
| The correspondence is voluminous. The National
Intelligencer selects from it. the most interesting
documents at the present moment: First A brief
letter from Mr. Webster to Mr.. Brown, Dragoman
of the us. Legation at Constantnople; Second.
Mr. Browns reply to the Secretary of State; and
Third A long letter from Mr. Webster, the Sec
rotary, dated department of State, Washington,
February 2s, 1851" addressed to "Geo. r. Marsh,
Esq, Constantinople."
| This last document embodies all the interest.
| Mr.. Webster refers to the previous instructions
| by his predecessor to Mr.. Marsh to offer to the
Sublime Porte to receive Kossuth and his compan-
ions in u s. national ship; and regrets that the
Sutans offer to Austria to detain these persons for
one year, prevented the acceptance of the offer.
Mr.. w. represents the feeling of universal appro-
baton = gratitude it might be said - with which
the people of this country hailed the action of the
Sublime Porte in refusing to deliver up the Hun
garian exiles. He follows this up BY sustaining
the position then taken by his Imperial Majesty as
the only bne worthy for an independent Prince.
The reasons for the Sublime Porte having the
| exies removed from his frontiers, and requiring
them to repair to the interior, then considered
in spirit of candor and Justice
But" says the Secretary, all possible appre-
tensions of danger or disturbance, to result from
their liberation, have ceased
The melancholy fate of the associates OF these
exes is pictured, and it is shown that the uncuti-
waited lands of America, have greater charm for
those now in the dominions of the Porte, than any
European associations.
Mr.. Marsh is requested to say to the Sublime
Porte, that if Mr.. Kossuth and his companions are
allowed to depart from the dominions of his Impe.
rial Majesty, at the expiration of the year COM
mencing in May, 1850, they will find conveyance
to the United States in some of the national ships
now in the Mediterranean Sea.
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WoRDs.-Dr. Johnson, in the preface to his die
tonary, says that the ancients deemed things, the
sons of Heaven, words, the daughters of Earth.
The Pennsylvania, IN spite of its gray hairs and
dignity, has been flirting with some of the young
est OF these misses. He rdicules the use of GER
tain words, such prestige, diosyncracy, upper
tendon, aesthetics. The last word, however, he
admits, if people will only use it correctly. He
gives the best definition Of the word, which really
supplies vacant line in our language:
The word " 1stzetics," derived from the Greek
is adopted to denote the science of the beautiful
whether applied to the works of nature or art, and
involves the ideas of harmony, simplicity, grace
accuracy, elegance, and utility, all in combination
1t is good suggestive and descriptive word, when
properly applied One of the examples is that in
reference to architecture. But in some of the
works of the day it is strangely perverted, being
used in reference to of the elements instead OF
the combination of all, constituting beauty in its
most elevated sense
The EXILE OF ERIN.-A writer in the Boston
Transcript asserts that Campbell was not the
author of this pathetic song 1t is very strange that
Campbell should have claimed for himself or by
his silence allowed others to claim for him, lines
which were not his own. Some years since, ii
said that Wolfe did not write the burial of Sir
John Moore, but that it was the production of a
Scotch schoolmaster. But we believe the claim
was dsregarded
the author Of that touching song, The Exile Of Erin 1t
write, by George Nugent Reynolds. an Irishman, on
the exile Of his friend John McCormck for having par
.apaed in the lrh rebellion Of 1885, and set
County Ireland, and knownand By hundreds long
before rbomss Campbell ever went to Hamburgh.
facts were ected and proved beyond the shadow
the -Four Courts, In Dublin few SINCE the result
which called forth the OF the press Campbell
having claimed its authorship