The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-08

SMYRNA. IL was also submitted to the legation
of America at Constantinople. Alter thes
formalities, Captain Kosta was furnished wv
presume by the American legatioD) with tee
kereh Ia passport = to repair to Constantlnople
and TO return to Smyrna, whence he was u
start for New York"
Such are the facts-not the facts" of thu
/ TimeS-officially vouched for by Mr.. Brown
! Charge dAffaires of America at Constantine
pie. This is one sample, out of million, ol
! the 4" accounts collected" and palmed upon
! the public by the veracious Times. That jour
nal has become as false in its " accounts" as II
is infamous in principle. These pretended
accounts were no accounts at all. The Aus
TRAN had rummaged the Parliamentary discus
sion and one or two French journals and, on
imperfect information, dressed up the distorted
garbled version that it impudehtly christened
itS " account"
1t is false that Captain Kosta gave formal
promise not to return to Turkey.
1t is false that he smuggled himself back to
Smyrna.
Ii is false that he possessed no passport.
Ii is false that the Americans had no more
legal right to rescue than the Austrians had to
kidnap him.
These falsehoods, direct, constructive, or i'm
piled, are the falsehoods of the TimeS--tbat
laundering slave, who never tries to serve his
Austrian master without stupidity damaging
him.
The Times, wriggling with this blister on its
back, hunts for some wretched satisfaction. Ii
finds, or it affects to find it, in the courage of
the Austrians "The captains" it protests,
n d. l.. IL Il avI
were quite ready to fight it out in Smyrna har-
born This account the Times derived, we
may be sure, from its own special correspond
ent; or, perhaps, from as special inspiration.
But the Vennd Lloyd improves upon the Times,
which, after all, is but fumbler The Aus
trian Gazetteer, pur sang, describes to us the
Austrians on board the Hussdr, burning to en-
gage the Yankee. They were not merely will
ling to risk life, but they disdained" it
disdained life, like an Austrian soldier" A
hint for the Times, which, we trust, will not be
lost, in it's next Austrian leader.
There some little circumstance which neither
the Times nor its Vienna brother has remark
ed. When Captain Ingraham anchored next
the Austrian brig, and got all ready to engage,
Austrian gGlette, the Artemisid, (signalled by
the brave HuSSar) hove to on the other side of
the American who was thus between two fires.
The Times and the Lloyd having both forgot
ten this unimportant circumstance, we are in
ignorance if the very gallant Artemisians dis
dained death as we'll as the Hussars. Whilst
we cannot but admire this martyrizing spirit
we are delighted at the prudence that accompa-
MED it; for, nobly disregarding their thirst for
immolation, these clfdenying heroes did give
Kosta up, and did not blow themselves into the
air.
Nor has the Times nor the Vienna Lto,d,
nor the Gazette Of V'enna, thought it necessary
to chronicle two or three episodes, not uncon-
nected with the piece. All these estimable
Austrian scribes who "disdain death, i" we dare
say, like Croats disdain truth as much or
more.
When Martin Kosta was brought back to
land, to be consigned to the charge Of the
French Consul, he was met on the quay by an
immense crowd, comprising the most respecta-
BILE merchants of Smyrna, who greeted him
enthusiastically
In the evening, o steamboat, brilliantly illu-
minated, engaged by the Philharmonic Society
of Smyrna, serenaded Capt Ingraham.
The political refugees at Constantinople fol-
lowed the bad example of the Smyrniotes, and
gave another brilliant serenade" to the
Charge dAfaires of America.