The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-24

only because he is supposed to have no appa-
ratus. and because 30 much depends on expe-
riment.
We speak what we have here spoken IN oil
seriousness. We do NOT know much ourselves,
il il true, but for precious little OF what we DO
know, are we indebted to any college, though
we went to one. We learned Il all after we
left college, and could have learned il just a.
well WITHOUT ever having gone there. So far
az we were concerned, our college life was an
amount of time and money thrown utterly
away. We tell any young man, who may
feel desirous to do il, that he has it perfectly in
bis power 10 acquire classical education, il
he wish il, without assistance from any college
or teacher. Some of the most profound scho-
lars Of the world have been selftanght. 1io'
bon taught himself all he knew; SO did Eu
gene Aram; SO did Alfieri. The first OF these
went to Oxford, il is true, but he tells US that
he left il without knowing even the Latin
Grammar. He repaired the want of know
ledge by study after leaving College. The
last did precisely the same thing. Eugene
Aram never went 10 college, or, we believe,
even to school. With such examples before
him. no young man who wishes to acquire
knowledge ought TO hesitate. Let him say, l
wish TO learn this thing, and will learn it,
Many are pushed, we know, for time. their &C.
equations not admitting Of the leisure to pro-
secute their studies. Let such, if they thirst
for knowledge, learn all they can, If not all they
wish. Courage and perseverance, they may
be assured, are all that are wanting to success,
in this, as in almost every other pursuit.
KossUTH.-We have already followed Kos
suth in his wanderings through the United
States, from the time when he entered New
York with all the pomp and ceremony of a
victorious General-through the western States
and down the river to Few Orleans-thence
by the overland route to Richmond twhere he
displayed his heroi,m in an omnibus) and back
to New York-and we have but one more cir
cumstance 10 relate, connected with his final
departure, which we find in the New York
Herald. That paper gives the " Kossuth chap
ter 10 the United States in an article of two
columns, the concluding portion of which we
copy: "sf
The circumstances attending Kossuths de-
parture form a strange contrast to those of his
arrival. and furnish an eloquent homily on the
instability of popular enthusiasm. His ORGANS
had announced that he would embark for Eng
land on day named, and had thus set at rest
all suspicious as to his movements. 1t was
whispered, and generally believed, that he had
got into some pecuniary difficulties arising out
of the contracts for munitions of war, into
which he had been deluded. and that legal
proceedings were about TO be instituted against
him. We cannot say whether it was the anti.
cipation of this, which induced Kossuth to
leave here by the Africa on Wednesday, instead
Of Saturday, the day first named, assuming u
fictitious name-Alexander Smiih-as if ne
| were common felon or malefactor eluding the
| pursuit of Justice. He entered the city with
all the pomp, and ceremony, and enthusi-
| asm, which of old attended the victorious gene
raj in Roman triumph, and has left it secretly
and in disguise, without solitary huzZa to bid
him God speed. This is, indeed, a profound
depth to which Kossuh has fallen. The Kos
suth chapter in America will be recorded in
| history as monument OF presumption, arro-
gance, vanglory and absurdity, and will serve
| in future to deter those who might attempt
with sacrilegiOns hand, to up root the deer
ia.a..sster rstfiers OF the republic.
Peculiarly suited to the latitude of New
York, are these lines. They don't apply here
The "Maguire" didn't get much aid and com.
fort in our good city.