The New York herald., 1851-11-22


military and diplomatic cotemporary Of the Csssiv
element. Let Governor, or bank, or the Uni
ted States Senate, extricate him from one scrape,
and he forthwith involves himself in another Hav-
ing been relieved of the diplomatic difficulties at
tendant upon the United States mission to Austria
he appears now to have assumed the still more DIFF
hcult duties properly belonging to the Austrian
Minister in the United States 1t required some
$52, to solve the problem Of the United states
Bank how much may be involved In TINS pre-
sent defence of Austria against kossuth, Is quite
another affair. 1t may possibly be mere LABOR OF
love fer the gracious consideration received at the
Court of the Hapsburgs. 1t is seldom that man
pulls the oar so hard against wind and tide, for mere
amusement.
Five mortal columns OF the Courier of yesterday
morning, were devoted to the aAnihiation OF Nos
sutA and the cause Of Hungary. We make out
that to be the object, and that the main points at
tempted to be proved in this interminable harangue
are, that the war in Hungary was not war against
Austria and Russia, but q war OF local races
amongst the Hungarians themselves; that Kossuth
is monarchist; that his cause was the cause of
petty despotsm, and that his republicanism is all
CANNON. These are the kernels which we extract
from the hogshead Of Austrian chat in which Kos
suth and the Hungar ians are attempted to be smo-
thered alive
Wha. does all this mean! II the object is to
destroy kossuth and his mission in the United
states, is is mere chaf strewn against the wind.
It will help the cause, by reaction The labors
Of General Webb have generally resulted in his de-
featne himself His explanations of the terrible
campaign against General Duff Green, with those
mahogany stocked pistols, if they proved anything,
proved that our neighbor did not quite come up to
the scratch In fact his history for the last twenty
years, is history Of varieus experiments in hot
water, by hich he has been so toughened that he
st ands it like salama mander. Hot water has become
his great necessity. 1t was hoped that the study
Of theological subjects, under the rubric OF the
Episcopal Church, would have somewhat softened
down these belligerent proclivities. But we are
Disappointed for we spprehend that If war
should break out between the United States and
Spain or any other nation, our military neighbor
will be Just as ready 10 serve brigadier general
as in the war with Mexico.
In undertaking to wade through this Austrian
rgmarole of General Webb, the reader will be
struck with the pecuarities Of his style of reason
ing. This document affords striking example of
III.
a theory perfectly untenable, and the conclusion is,
TO prove the argument against himself he is
Dot satisfied with man Of straw. lie must have
windmills OF nothing. But, like fly in cobweb,
he seems to delight in hard exercise, as II utterly
unconscious that he is spinning himself all the
tighter il his net by every gyration. We have
heard of a panel Of country fence being made of
rails so crooked that the pigs, in creeping through
always came out on the same side. So it appears
to be With our chivalric cotemporary Of Wall
street He labors like Sysiphus; but the stone
always rolls back upon him. His mind works in
circle, like stick OF timber in the whirlpool below
Niagara Falls, moving round and round, ire
sistibly, in the current, but making no heasway,
till, with a sudden plunge, it disappears, the Lord
knows where As specimen Of the circular style,
we commend this Austrian manifesto to the careful
attention of all believers in perpetual motion.
We find that ell these newspaper attacks upon
Kossuth emanate from whig authority. Perhaps
this Of the Copria has been suggested by Mr..
Webster. The Nafi0~ai fataligenc9 has a leader
Of the same general drift The result will probably
be that Kossuth will become the champion Of the
democracy. In that event, Mr.. r j. Walker will,
ioreign policy of non Intervention, and a home
policy Of free trade and annexation. And the
CossIa is contributing TO these results
TELEeRAPns AND TELEsRArHING IN TIE UNITED
STATES Our readers will find, in another part Of
this days HERALD, an interesting original article
on the present state of telegraphs in the United
states. To tn ose who are not intimately acquaint-
ed with the extent Of our telegraphs, the mode of
operating them, and the mirsculouf uf facility and
speed with which MESSAGES are trsn,mitted from
one end Of the republic to the other the intslli-
gence impaired in that article will be very accepta
BILE.
The extent Of telegra phs in the United States
and Canada is estimated at from twelve TO fifteen
thouSand miles, and II is increasing every day. No
one not familiar with the subject, form an ade
auate idea Of the immense benefit which the cleo
trc telegraph confers upon the people at large or
Of the advantage which 1t is to comm ercial and
business men generally. So great are they, that II
BY any contingency this mode Of tran shifting in
telligencs were permanently stepped, the loss would
be a calamity But these are not the only advan-
tages We derive from the telegraph. Its power Of
concentrating and Of consolidating the republic
is the most important Of all. By its all, the
government at Washington-the great head
Of our political system-can aamsst instants-
Heously communicate with all parts Of the
country, North, South. East, and West In this
rspect, it is as petest as absou.ism or dsspOtism
ia in the Old World. This vast country, three
thousand miles long and three thousand broad,
can be a. easily managed and governed, by the aid
Of the telegraph, az a single city. But the tele-
graph system in the United slater is only in its in
fancy. II NUT increase with the growth Of the
country; and, before twenty years, the republic
will be covered with a net work Of wires that will
embrace distance Of probably hfy thousand miles.
This viii not be the case, however, the principles
on which Judge Kane based his decision, in the
controversy between Morse and Balm are to pre-
vail Ifthat decision be confirmed by the supreme
Court Of the United sta:es such future is before
us. Monopoly will arres; the extension 81 the tele
graph, and destroy the competition which now
exists The wires will, in such ease, become an