The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-17

| frmness as Webster, scarcely moving the bodv
while there is an ncessant and graceful play of The
arms and head His gestures, always easy and
| appropriate, are very varied and show a natural
gift for that mode of.physica expression.
lie was not at all bosterous or even impassioned
| pnt simple, PLAN, Direct and quietly in earnest
| Many OF his remarks were in the familiar style
OF conversation, though there was the constant
u,a.o . tendency when his thought senti.
| ment rose In dignity or value, to vivacious and
even vehement ut,erance. His eeqt tones are
| strongly sympathetic, and we can well CONCEIVE
hlspower over an audience when some great theme
| unison.
There is in his look, tone, bearing and whole
appearance, the consciousness of power beyond
any display that he is making at the time. One
reels that no single effort gives out the whole of him.
but that back of all the external manifestations,
there Is vast reservoir of strength. This, we
should say, was one of his principal characteris
tlcs. Orators are often superficial sort OF men,
like the Italian improvsitorcs, with exhaus,less
lertllty OF uterance, but without profound refi.c
lion and feeling Kossuth does not appear, from
our first sight Of HIM, 10 be OF this sort. His flu
ency comes from The fullness rather than the shall
owness of his mind YET in the reflective and
logical faculties, we should not compare him with
Webster, an English writer has DONE Hs is
not so ponderous as Webster, and resembles, in
facility and ease OF manner, the more spontaneous
Clay. IN. Y. Post
Teas Public De6t.-The last Austin Gazette
contains the report Of the Auditor and Com proller
on the public debt of Texas, giving a clear and in
tellgible description and classification of the char
acter and amount of the liabilities of the late repub
lie. 1t appears that the whole ostensible or face
value of all the claims filed according to law, is
S9,647, 253 Ia, OF which the par value is 81 8O7-
1854 81 and the whole amount not filed So 1885,
73S 30 worth $2,0l9,Jl4 27, making the total
ostensbe debt SIP 436, 991 "a, or $6,s27, 27S Ga
par. This includes interest The debt is CLASH.
fled as follows
First class-Conssting of audited or ascertaned
claims.
Second cass--Claims sufficiently authenticated
to be admitted to be audited under the laws of the
republic
Third class-ClaiIns not sufficiently au,hen,i-
Gated to authorize their being audited under the
laws OF the republic.
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Thiid g? $.s Is Il sss5 g g
IA ,25s IA sl,s07, 76i 81
The first class embraces all Consolidated Fund,
Funded Debt, Treasury Bonds, and audited paper,
including the claims Tor naval vessels, loan from
U nted States Bank, etc. etc.
The second class embraces claims not audited,
but for debts contracted by the Government under
the sanction of law
The third class embraces claims not provided for
by law, though many Of them are highly meritori-
Gus. Among them are many claims for losses sus-
tanned during the war, from the appropriation or
destruction Of property by our own army or that of
the enemy. The Legislature has already given
pretty strong indication of determination not to
open the door to claims Of this character.
The Board state that they have audited the claims
of those who performed military service where the
needtul evidence was file regardless of any ap-
pllcation of the claimants, holding the certificate
subject to his order that of his legal representa-
tive. They say that as many of these parties are
now deceased, the proceeds of these claims should
inure to the benefit of their heirs and therefore re-
commend the enactment Of the necessary law to
protect the rights of the widows and orphans Of
those who may have fallen in the defence of the
country by prescribing the necessary regulations
to prevent persons from administering for the pur-
poses Of speculation.