n fit out and man his two vessels, the Advance and
Rescue, which he offers for the purpose, and send them out, accompanied
by a store ship and a propeller. The Maryland Institute, and a large
number of the citizens of Baltimore, have also addressed a similar
petition to Congress. It is certain that, what with the efforts of our
own countrymen and those of the British government, the subject will not
be abandoned till something positive has been ascertained with regard to
the fate of Franklin and his companions.

Congress has continued in session, but has accomplished little or no
useful legislation within the month. The time has been mainly occupied
with debates on foreign intervention, on giving the job of printing the
census to the publishers of the _Union_ newspaper, and on the abolition
of the law giving the delegate from Oregon only $2500 mileage. The
census printing question occasioned a rencontre between Senator Borland,
of Arkansas, and Mr. Kennedy, the Superintendent of the Census, in which
Senator Borland got into a passion and knocked Mr. Kennedy down,
breaking his nose, at the same time that he vehemently expressed a
desire, to the bystanders who interfered to prevent further violence, to
get at Mr. Kennedy in order that he might "cut the d----d rascal's
throat." Mr. Stanly, of North Carolina, and Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, have
had a passage of personalities in the House, which has been quite
universally condemned by the press and public.

Kossuth has continued his career of triumph in the west, and besides the
ovations of the people, has received a large amount of the material aid,
which he especially seeks. Wherever he goes, he receives contributions
of money and offerings of arms. A good deal of attention has been
excited by a letter from Mr. Bartholomew Szemere, one of Kossuth's
former friends, and even a minister in the Hungarian revolutionary
cabinet, charging him with cowardice, weakness, and a fatally irresolute
and vacillating policy in the administration of affairs. Szemere also
denies that Kossuth has any just right to call himself the Governor of
Hungary, or even the leader of the Hungarian people. On the other hand,
Mr. Vukovitch, who was also a minister in the same cabinet, who is now
in Paris, has published a letter on Kossuth's side. To Szemere's letter
Mr. Pulszky has replied from Cincinnati, repelling the charge of
cowardice against Kossuth, and showing that Szemere himself had fled
from Hung