Southern shield., 1852-01-24
Is ths gity of New York the United States?

N
 ThaF~is question which will be soon de- cldeu.. lhe dinner party ot gentlemen who passed kossuth resolutions unani- mously will find, before they are many year c4er, that they do not constitue the Onltad ate of North A nerica. One of the prilI pal personages vho figured at this mccall, ad made a. very enthusiastic speazA D 9ayo of taking up the cudgels for < 'ssSs5lssssssS Judge EdmondS- Jadae ,ef the S'gperio. Court ot tnat cIty. We ob- serve that ihis speech is commented on by some of our contemporaries as being mpor. tant on account of the source from which it proceeded. If the charges of some respec- table newspapers of New York be true, and we see no reason 10 doubt them, the speech Is ot no importance on that very account The New York Journal of Commerce and the New York Day Book charge that Judge Edmdnds admits not only that he is a believ- CT in he trapping spirits" but that he is in the habit of consulting them upon difficult questions which are raised in his court! A second Daniel! We fancy that all that parsonage can do for Kossuth will be to ''caIl spirits from the vasty deep." A pleasant and profitable time may he have with his invocations!
 About year ago, Jenny Lind arrived in New York. She was greeted with a burst ot frenzy quite as furious as that which has saluted Kossuth. There was no public procession it is true, but there was genera rush of all New York, mankind, wommkind, childrenkind, to hail Jenny. For nine days she was the wonder and the the idol of all Gotham. and then the deliri- um ceased. Jenny may now arrive in New York and depart without exciting more attention than any ordinary Swede New lions and lionesses have succeeded her. lossuth is at present the hero of the hour. But he ought to recolect the fate of Jennyand the other stars. He must study New York character. It is as exctable as the set. It is as fickle as the moon. It must always have god or goddess. It is never satisfied except when its lips are glued to the heels of foreign celebrity. Nothing is necessary then to it's perfect hap piness, except to be kicked by the aforesaid heels, after the fashion of Dickens and oth- CT !pagnateS.
 Had Lola Montes arrived in the Humboldt unaccompaned by Kossuth, she would have created an almost unparalleled excitement in New York. The theatres would have been crowded and the public prints filled with accounts of her sayings and doings. But the sun of Hungary is in the sky, and Venus is scarcely visible. Nevertheless, the enteprising editor of the New York Tribune has seen Lola, and from his ac- count ofner charms, we have no doubt she would have drawn hugely if KoSsuth had not beei starring il at the same time. Lo- la says that she considers kossuth a hum buzz We are sorry to see this touch of professional jealousy. There is room enoud in this western world for all the passelgers of the Humboldt.
 Butlo return. There will be no inter- ventiq1. The New Workers may pass tip sy reslutions over their wine, but the Rus sian Har need not be alarmed. This is a great country, but New York is a mere speck upon it--a fy-spot on the otherwise cIeanlg surface of the body polite. Ii is a city sadly given to man-worship. Should the Union ever be divided, New York wouldhave king in fifty years thereafter. He wuld no doubt be foreigner at that, with ;n unpronounceable name, theatri- cal cotume, hairy all over like Esau.
 Richmond Republican.