pect and sympathy, and their
anxiety as individuals to see Hungary independent. Mr. Cass indeed went so
far as entirely to endorse the doctrine of Kossuth respecting intervention
to insure non-intervention. Kossuth is now in the state of Ohio, and he
probably will remain in this country long enough--since the French
revolution has at least deferred any great and united movement of the
European democracy--to visit all the principal cities of the valley of the
Mississippi.

But little important business has yet been accomplished in Congress,
though numerous bills have been introduced, as is usual in the early weeks
of the session. On the morning of the 24th of December, a portion of the
capitol, occupied by the national library, was destroyed by fire, with
nearly sixty thousand printed volumes, and many MSS., maps, medals,
portraits, sculptures, and other works of art.

The legislature of several of the states are now in session. Those of
Ohio, Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin and California, met on the 5th of
January; those of New-York, Pennsylvania and Delaware, on the 7th; those
of Maryland and Massachusetts, on the 7th; that of Indiana, on the 8th;
those of Virginia and Illinois, on the 12th; that of New Jersey, on the
13th; that of Maine, on the 14th, and that of Louisiana, on the 19th. No
great national questions have been prominently before the state
legislatures, except that of our foreign relations, with special reference
to Hungary, upon which the assemblies in the several states appear to be
less conservative than Congress. The most important subject of local
administration, is that of the suppression of the sales of intoxicating
liquors. The law of Maine, enacted last year, will probably be sustained
in that state; in Massachusetts a petition with more than one hundred
thousand signatures, has been offered in the legislature for such a law,
and similar efforts are being made in New-York and other States.

In Mexico there is a continuance of the imbecility of the government and
the agitations of factions. Rumors, constantly varying, in regard to the
conduct and prospects of Caravajal, leave us in doubt whether any thing of
real importance will grow out of his attempts at revolution in the
northern provinces. The administration appears to have acted with
decision, but probably with impotence so far as the final result is
concerned, in regard to the Tehuantepee railroad contract.

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