Daily American telegraph., 1852-02-09
NEw York, February 7, 1852.

New YORK, February 7, 1852
The Kossuth mania has almost entirely died
away, and the public sympathy is enlisted in be-
half of some two or three score of Hungarians
who are said to be suffering for the want of the
necessaries of life after being Toasted for weeks
together at the Irving House, at the expense
Of the city This affair has cost the city upwards
of twenty thousand dollars
The last Common Council were particularly ex-
travagant in the matter of entertainments, hay
ing availed themselves Of every occasion to give
dinners to people who had no reason to expect
them. They revived the tea-room, after having
voted to themselves per diem Of four dollars in
lieu thereof Now they draw the four dollars,
and have, besides, splendid supper at every
meeting, costing the city some two or three
| thousand dollars a year. The new Common
Council is just like the old, only they are of diff
ferent politics Few of them pay any personal
tax-few of them would be recognised as gentle
men in respectable society-most of them are
the results of party nominations at late hours in
grog-shops. Beware, 0 Washingtonians, of min
Cling party politics in city affairs
The State legislature is overwhelmed with APP
plications for stringent law against the sale Of
liquor, like that of Maine; but it is doubtful if
any will pass. If it should, its effects would be
felt but for short time; for it would be almost
impossible to enforce it in New York city, what
ever might be done in the county. The truth is,
that we should have but little to complain of if
the laws already on the statute-book were en-
forced, which political aldermen are afraid to do
lest the influence of unlicensed rum-sellers should
be excited against them. The law passed last
winter with regard to gambling which is very
stringent, has never been enforced. The temper
ance movement is creating some fear of third
partynext fall and all are afraid to NEEDLE with it,
Anderson, the juggler, who styles himself "Pro-
lessor" and :" Wizard of the North" gave away
two handsome silver services last night to the
makers Of two very poor puns, on the award of
two juries-one of women, the other of men. His
audience, instead of 1900, as he expected, was
but about 1000; so he did not make much by
the operation.
Public attention, so long excited by the Forrest
divorce case, has been diverted from the lady
in court to the lady on the stage, for going upon
which she was at first censured; but the fact
that she was in debt, that her alimony is not
forthcoming until her case is passed on by the
Court of Appeals, that she had, some time since,
made an engagement with the manager, Brough-
am, to break which would occasion him serious
damage, which she would have to pay, and above
ALL the fact that she succeeded and appears to be
an accomplished and graceful actress, have in
measure, changed the tide of feeling back again.
Mr.. Webster has just declined to deliver an
address on Washington, for the National Monu-
ment Society, at Metropolitan Hall.
The streets here are a mass of melting snow
and slush.
At Albany, although the ice is melting, there is
good sleighing, and the passengers on the Hudson
river railroad are carried across the river on the
ice CIyIs