Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-14
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KOssuth-A Forgotten Celebrity.

hOSSuth-A Forgotten Celebrity.
The following advertisement appears
every now and then in the C0rriere iii
Torino:
Lessons in German, English, and Hun.
garian given, at moderate rates, by
j., KOSSUTH,
"lG4 Strada Nuova.i
The advertiser is none other than the
once celebrated Dictator of Hungary. He
is now almost utterly forgotten, even in
Hungary he has grown very old, and Is
now so poor that he will gladly give you
lesson for a single franc. This would
seem very humiliating for him, and yet he
is proud ofhis poverty.
He say:
"Three years ago my friends at home,
in Hungary, offered me present of fifty
thousand forms. | rejected this Offer and
never regretted il, even when | was hun
CRY, and had no money to pay for fire. y
l had occasion, the other day, to call
upon him. l was no stranger to Kossuth
Twenty years ago he had given me,
in London, great deal of valuable imfor-
nation for my book. Hungary in 1919"
1 found him in very small room, in
the fourth story of dingy old building;
He sat alone in an easy-chair, porting
over an old volume. When l entered he
did not recognize me. | recognized him
and was shocked, What a change these
JWeuty years ndN pTOuWteu III MS OuCe
handsome and interesting face! His hair
was entirely white, his cheeks wan and
hollow, and his eyes utterly dim. His
form, once erect and proud, was now pain
fully bent. He almost groaned as he rails
ed himself to bid me welcome.
He was deeply moved when | informed
him who / was. His face frightened as
he warmly clasped my hand.
ooh, yes, oh, yes, - he said, in German,
EnOW Won now EVarVbOuU fOrupt q
me, no one calls upon me; no one cares
any more for me! Why should / remem-
Der those who once were my friends?'
| To this objected. / asked him how he
could be forgotten when his friends in
Hungary wanted him to return to his ma
tive country, and take again an active
part in its affairs.
Kossuth smiled very bitterly.
| "Oh, yes" he said, "return to Hungary
| dishonored with an oath of allegiance to
| the Hapsburgs, who murdered my fri ends
| and kinsmen, and who set a price upon
| my head. 1 am neither Deak nor an
Andrassy.n
asked him how he got along.
WE'LL" he said, sadly, were my good
children and my poor wife alive yet,
would be happy, even in my old age anC
poverty. But they are all dead, and / am
very lonesome. That is what renders my ex'
lie here, where people are so kind TO me,
so distressing. 1t would be no better in
| Hungary, j have no kinsfolk anywhere
but in the New World"
"Why, then, not go to America again,
where your name is still revered?" / ven
! tured to say.
| "Oh, he replied, IT have often been
soreiy tempted TO go back to the United
States, but there are two obstacles in the
way. In the first place, it would cost
more money than ! have to spare and
! 1 oil that Z no
unable to bear the sea voyage"
All this was very melancholy, and i
| fastened to change the subject of our con-
versation'
/ showed him the proof-sheets of the
| chapter on Andrassy in my new work on
Austria. He put on his spectacles, and
! holding the paper in his trembling hand
read carfully what 1 had written.
Meanwhile 1 had time to look around
in the room. Against the rear wall stood
narrow, clean bed. On the walls hung
portraits of Mazzini, BXo, KisZ, anC
strangely enough, of Louis Napoleon
On the book shelf by my side motto,
ed Victor Hugos Anne Terrible, u
Kinglake's Crimea,n and ten oil
| twelve well worn grammars. On table,
close to the bed, lay loaf of bread and
plate of dried meat.
TO my dismay L found that my glanc-
| ing round the room had attracted Kos
suth's attention.
Eyes" he said, with q smile, "you
see for yourself now that l am very poor,
and yet when l left Hungary in 1849,
/ was charged by all the mean organs OF
the Hapsburgs with having enriched my
self at my country's expense. DO you
know what my whole income was last
year? Within q fraction of eight hun
dred liro?" LESS than two hundred dol
lars,)
/ shook my head sorrowfully. He
! told me what he thought about the chap
ter on Adrassy, gave me plenty of valua-
BILE and interesting information OH the
subject, and then dismissed me, saying
that it was time for one of his pupils to
make his appearance.-Tr Translated from
| Appelton's Journal.