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Show A correspondent of the New York Tribune, who last month visited the venerable Kossuth, at his country residence near Turin, describes him as still enjoyiug vigorous health, and though seventy-two years of agoj scarcely appearing to be sixty. lie-1 ferring to the recent published canard with regard to his poverty and destitution, desti-tution, he said: "It has annoyed me somewhat, on account ac-count of my son;, who occupy honorable and lucrative positions, and who ,r- gfrJ it as a reproach to them that it fhnuid t over be reported that their poor old filher was compelled to tench the languages for a living at a franc a les;ion. So far as I niy.-t-ii urn concerned, I caro not. It is no discredit to a man who has held tho supreme power of a kingdom, and had the absolute control of iu millions of resources, re-sources, thai he shou d retire to private life with his hands empty but clean." |