The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-22

Of simple habits-not to employ, as he did,
men who, while publicly pleading their poverty,
stood bedixzened with gold, to usher republican
visitors. with sort of imperial pomp into his
august presence-but
"For the glorious privilege
OF being independent"
Kossuth is dreadfully disappointed at Gen.
Pierce's mal-administration of our government
He speaks as if he had been elected school
detail to tell what things he has Left undone
which he ought to have done. The fact that
our newly-appointed ministers are not yet
abroad, he says is q negligence SURPRISING
Imagination degradation of national dig
nifty bordering upon ridcule, if not upon the
contempt of and from the civilized world"
What can be done? Alas alas that we have
come to this Had we but a Kossuth amongst
us always such things would never happen We
might possibly then. shine in the lustre-bor-
rowed, it is true-of his own unequalled SUGGEST
Kossuth in this correspondence has commit
ted another grand mistake He has encountered
a treason worse than Georgey's; he has betrayed
himself! The orator, the warrior, the statesman,
has descended to petty fault finding and impu-
dent dictatorial comments upon affairs which
the people of this country think that they
have the right to manage in their own way
We have our national weaknesses and might
be fat tered too far; but if Kossuth hopes by
his imperous jeers to taunt US into his support.
he might as well spend his breath in whistling
against the north wind.
Finally. the peurile and whining tone of Kos
suth's last letter, and the INCONSISTENCY Of pur-
pose which it discovers would disgrace school,
boy. He has concluded that the prospect of ac-
comprising the good which he had hoped to by
his letters is dim and gloomy, and he wishes to
be released from his engagement What then,
Chief of Hungary! is this the spirit with which
you led your countrymen, and hope again to
lead Them before the deadly and raking fire of
a furious foe? Was it in some such hour of
weakness that you resigned the Office whose
title you still wear? Is there no more stead
fastness of purpose, no more manly courage in
your heart than this would Indicate?
"Men should be made Of sterner stuff
We are sorry to see the pen Of Kossuth en-
ployed in idle complaints against the first re-
public on the face of the earth and in compost
tions manifesting degree of weakness which
can crafty none but his enemies. II he has no
better employment for his time his country has
little to hope for at his hands.
OLD FOGYIsM IN THE NAvy-Sx MILES AN
HouR-With all the remodelling. and with all
ba 1,r;lo nd hot hoxyo hoop
put. under the management of the old fogies OF
the Navy Department, into the steamer Prince
ton, it appears they have not been able to OBJ
tain greater speed for the ship than the
astounding maximum of sir miles an hour
Yet Commodore Shubrick. it seems thinks the
Princeton will do for the fishing banks from
which We may infer that there is no steamer OF
the service conveniently at hand capable OF
doing better things. But the Princeton is not
the only case Of vast expenses and troublesome
notifications to no purpose among our naval
steamships. Excepting the Mississippi, which
lie an old stager, there is not perhaps a single
steamer in the navy that has not cost three
four, or five times the amount of money neces
sary in private hands to build far superior
vessel out-and-out. Is there frs. class steamer
in cur navy, even in the matter of speed
Not one.
This business will be proper subject for a
sitting investigation by the next Congress. In
the meantime. what is Mr.. Dohhin about? l.
he. too. an old fogv, or how? With Europe
trembling upon the verge of continental war
and with the possibility before US of struggle
at 70 distant day for the freedom Of the Gulf o.
Mexico and the balance of power in North
America can it be that Mr.. Dobhin is an old
fogy. folding his hands and quietly consentn2
that a naval steamer shall be tolerated al
six miles an hour? We have entertained
the most iattering anticipations Of ".retrench
ment and reform" from Mr.. Dobbin. We have
been induced to think that he would prove, upon
pinch to be a man Of progress, if got q real
" fast man." But ifhe is persuaded much longer
to permit a steamer Of the United States
to stand in commission at six miles all
hoar we shall be compelled to classify Mr..
Dohbin among the old fogies and old grauries
of the Navy Department Six miles an hour
With such resources a. rosin pitch. tar and tur-
pentine, as there are in North Carolina. the
thing ia intolerable will the Secretary of the
Navy be good enough to wake up? Six miles
an hour Positively shocking.
The MAINE LIoUoR Law LAID OvER-TIGur
FIGHT-FUN AHEAD.-And so the Assembly yes-
terday decided against the Maine liquor law
fifty four to G1y-si Tight fit. Just escaped
and that's all. What next ? The question goes
before the people. The Temperance Alliance
including the Women's Rights Associations will
rally as one man to the rescue-women and all
1t will be made the ruling shibboleth in the No
vember Legislative election. 1t will make
some ugly holes in the calculations of both the
old parties. 1t will make the approaching can
vas spicy. interesting graphic aud funny. Can
didates will have to toe the mark on the cues
tiuu Of liuuor or no liCuor Root beer and Yin