The southern press., 1851-08-13
From the New York Herald.
Arrival of Hungarian Warriors.

The packet ship Devonshire, from London
aud Portsmouth, Captain Hovey, arrived in port
on Saturday forenoon, having left Portsmouth
on the I'd of July. Among the passengers are
forty-seven officers and men Of the Hungari-..
army, among whom are Felix Spetesok, lady,
and two children Col. Feckner and lady; Mr..
Almony, ex-government Secretary of War; Mr..
Slilkalonch, high sheriff ; Col Kehasy, Major
Shemertauge, Major Biso, Captains Shemer-
tauge, Bskonch, Woeff, Dannis, Zazetny, Kas-
talanie, Bencha, Nazerhofer, Meyito, Bengrai,
Pongrantz and Moher; Leutenants Grassinger,
Leng and Zathmany; Count Duyeii Harizy FIJI
lopp Kernandy, and son Saniha M Bolagh
Luca, and lady; Polaisek, Agel, and lady Kish,
Gran, Kclman, Ban, Belkey, Rchtannkys, Ben,
Harvatk, and several non. commissioned officers.
With the exception of three Of the above,
who have been in London for some time past,
all the Others have recently come from Constan.
tinople, having been set at liberty by the Turk
ish government, who paid their expenses to
Southampton They all came out as cabin
passengers in the Devonshire. They generally
seem to be men Of high responsibility, and as
evidenced by documents which ,aany of them
have brought with them, belong to some of the
first families in Hungary. The British govern
meHt provided them with means to dcfray their
expenses while in England, and also to cross the
Atlantic. We conversed with several of the Of
fcers, and they feel isanguine that Kossuth, their
former general and present companion in misfor.
tune, will soon be at liberty to seek an asylum
in this or some other country. The Hungarian
ladies' who accompanied their husbands in the
Devonshire, appear to be Of the first class, and
Notwithstanding that their bouyancy of spirit is
much broken down, yet they breathe the luing
atmosphere cf balmy and happy days. We un-
derstood from several of the officers that they
would be willing to occupy themselves in any
way, even in manual labor, by which they could
earn competency in this city. Many of them
are young men, not yet past twenty years Of age
yet they bear the indelible stamp of the battle
field on various parts Of their bodies, and we
have been assured that one of these Youthful
patriots has fought in eighteen different battles
The Devonshire brought out three hundred
and eighty passengers (including the Hungari-
ans) about thirty of whom were Germans; all
the others were English, who shipped at Lon
don. The majority of the passengers are Of
respectable and intelligent class. A large num-
Der OF the Englisbmen are what is termed in
Britain, gentlemen farmers sons, who intend to
purchase tracts of land in this country or in
Canada There was no sickness among the pas
sengers, with the exception Of one man who
came on board afflicted by the small pox AS
soon as this circumstance became known to the
captain, the patient was placed in the stern boat,
hanging at the davts, several feet from the ship,
over which tent was erected, covered with tar
pauins. Here the patient was nursed and at
tended by the physician and officers of the shin.
He is now quite well, and he never left his ro-
mantle domcil during the whole course of the
voyage. This timely precaution, taken by Capt.
Hovey, prevented the disease from affecting any
of the other passengers.