prepared to
repeat them word for word and to stand by every thing he had said on those
occasions. General Cass also made an eloquent speech avowing his full and
most cordial assent to the doctrine that the United States ought to
interfere to prevent Russian intervention against the independence of
Hungary. Senator Douglass also expressed his concurrence in these views,
but said he would not go for joining England in any such protest until she
would do justice to Ireland.

Kossuth left Washington on the 12th of January, for Annapolis, where he
remained when this Record was closed.

In Congress no public business of importance had been transacted. Both
Houses spent several days in debating the subject of Kossuth's reception.

The Legislature of New York met at Albany on Tuesday, the 6th of January.
The Assembly was organized by electing J. C. Heartt, Speaker, and R. W.
Sherman, Clerk--both Whigs. In the Senate, Ira P. Barnes, Democrat, was
elected clerk. The Message of Governor Hunt was sent in on the same day.
He states the aggregate debt of the State at $21,690,802, which the
sinking funds provided will pay off in seventeen years. The aggregate
taxable property of the State is set down at $1100,000,000. The canal
revenues of the last year were $3,722,163: after meeting all
constitutional obligations there remained of this, the sum of $964,432
applicable to the completion of the Canals. The funds devoted to school
purposes amount to $6,612,850. The number of children taught during the
year was 726,291 and the amount expended in teachers' wages, was
$1,432,696. The whole number of insane persons in the state is 2506;
convicts in the State prisons, 1714. Referring to national topics, the
Message regrets the feelings of hostility sometimes evinced between
different sections--saying that "the Constitution having wisely left the
States free to regulate their domestic affairs, the dissimilarity in their
local institutions furnishes no just ground for mutual complaints and
reproaches." He trusts that the spirit of disunion and that of fanaticism
will both exhaust themselves without endangering the stability of our
national institutions. Considering at some length the condition and
prospects of the African race in this country, he warmly commends to favor
the scheme of colonization, and the societies formed to carry it out.

The Legislature of Pennsylvania organized at Harrisburgh, on the 6th. In
the House, John S. Rhey, Dem