bama, Shenandoah, Florida, and Georgia, and for the issue of bonds of the United States for the payment thereof, was referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs. In the House, on the 14th, in connection with the consideration of the Appropriation bill, the salary of the Chief Justice was fixed at $8500, and that of each Associate Justice at $8000. January 20, in the House, an amendment was offered to the sixth section of the bill providing a Territorial government for the District of Columbia, conceding female suffrage. The vote stood: yeas, 55; nays, 117. The Senate, in executive session, January 13, by a vote of 31 to 9, confirmed the nomination of Vice-Admiral D. D. Porter to the grade of Admiral. The Georgia delegation in the House was sworn in January 16. It consists of three Democrats and one Republican, the latter being a negro. income tax, on the ground that so large a portion of the revenue thus derived is eaten up by the expense of collecting it. A comparative statement has been prepared at the Internal Revenue Office, showing the number of persons assessed for income in the several States and Territories in 1869 and 1870, from which it appears that the total number in 1869 was 272,843, and in 1870, 275,248. This is complete, with the exception of the Eleventh New York District, for which returns for 1870 have not yet been received. The following shows the number of persons assessed for income in 1869 and 1870 in each of the classes below mentioned: 1st. Tax of $20 or less: number in 1869, 107,997; number in 1870, 112,424. 2d. Tax over $20 and not over $50: number in 1869, 69,184; number in 1870, 68,501. 3d. Tax over $50 and not over $100: number in 1869, 41, 196; number in 1870, 40,584. 4th. Tax over $100 and not over $500: number in 1869, 45,002; number in 1870, 44,496. 5th. Tax over $500: number in 1869, 9464: number in 1870, 9243. Total number in 1869, 272,843; total number in 1870, 275,248. assessed in 1870, are relieved from the income tax altogether; and 95,662 persons in 1869, and 94,323 persons in 1870, would each return a tax of $50 less. The recently assembled Legislatures of the several States have elected United States Senators as follows: That of Louisiana, F. R. West, to succeed J. S. Harris; of Arkansas, Powell Clayton, to succeed Senator M'Donald; of Georgia, Under the act of July 14, 1870, raising the exFoster Blodgett, for six years from March 4; of emption from $1000 to $2000, 177,181 of the Missouri, Francis P. Blair, to serve for the unex-persons assessed in 1869, and 180,925 of those pired two years of Charles D. Drake's term, the latter having been appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Claims; of Maine, the Hon. Lot M. Morrill, the present incumbent; of Massachusetts, the Hon. Henry Wilson, the present incumbent ; of New Jersey, the Hon. F. T. Frelinghuysen, to succeed A. G. Cattell; of Delaware, Levi Saulsbury, to succeed his brother, Willard Saulsbury; of Minnesota, the Hon. William Windom, the present incumbent; of Illinois, John A. Logan, to succeed Senator Yates; of Michigan, Representative T. W. Ferry, to succeed Senator Howard; of Nebraska, P. W. Hitchcock. The election for State officers in Georgia took place December 22. The result was an overwhelming Democratic majority. Three men, named Shimp, Carroll, and Francis, were murdered by the Indians near Puscatt, Arizona, on January 6, and General Stoneman has issued the following order: "It is the desire and intention of the Department commander to inaugurate and prosecute a vigorous, persistent, and relentless winter campaign against the Pinal and Tonto branches of the Apache tribe of Indians." a The order also causes to be established a dépôt of supplies near the centre of the Pinal country, and directs commanders of scouting expeditions to provide arms for civilians who desire to accom The Connecticut Democratic Convention met in Hartford January 17. The present State offi-pany them. cers were renominated. The resolutions adopted arraigned the present national administration for its financial policy, its exorbitant tariff, its unnecessary burden of taxation, its weak and vacillating foreign policy, and its interference with elections; and denounced the scheme for the annexation of San Domingo, the continued disfranchisement of our citizens, and the concession of immense land grants to railroad corporations. The Virginia Senate, January 17, by a party vote appropriated $600 for the purchase of a portrait of General R. E. Lee, and by the same vote refused an appropriation for a portrait of General George H. Thomas. The month embraced in this Record has been unusually crowded with tidings of disaster. The Spottswood House, in Richmond, Virginia, was destroyed by fire on the morning of Christmasday, involving the loss of eight lives. Richmond has won an unenviable reputation as the "City of Disasters." December 26, 1811, a theatre was burned, and seventy persons, including the Governor of Virginia, perished in the flames. In 1865, just at the close of the rebellion, a portion of the city was laid waste by fire. To these may be added the fall of a chain bridge in 1869; the loss, last year, of fifty-six lives by the fall of a part of the Capitol; and the immense deThe Indian Council at Ocmulgee, Indian Ter-struction of property by the more recent inundaritory (mentioned in our last Record), convened for the organization of a Territorial government of Ocklahoma-to consist of a confederation of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and other nations of the Indian Territory-after the adoption of the preamble of the Constitution and Bill of Rights submitted by the commission appointed to draft it, adjourned to meet at Ocmulgee Creek in June, 1871. General Pleasonton, the new Commissioner of Internal Revenue, advocates the abolition of the tion. Still, since the close of the war, Richmond has attained to a degree of prosperity unknown before the war, and has now a population numbering 50,000. A few miles below Memphis, January 3, a railroad accident occurred, a car being precipitated from an iron bridge. The car took fire, and a number of negroes were burned to death, besides those fatally injured. The United States steamer Saginaw, of the Pacific fleet, went ashore on Ocean Island Octo campaign will assume superior proportions. I count on a sufficient force, good arms, a good amount of munitions, and all other resources splendid, because upon its triumphs depends the salvation of the country. Baez is the enemy against whom we fight. This administration is not acceptable, because its cruelties, its abuses, and its tyrannical acts impoverish the country. Baez is faithless to us. In exchange for gold he wants to sacrifice our independence; and our in ber 29, 1870, and went to pieces November 14. Lieutenant Talbot, the executive officer, with Peter Francis, quartermaster, and three sailors, started in the captain's gig for the Sandwich Isl-needed by the army. The revolution will be ands, November 18, to procure assistance. After a weary month they came in sight of Kauai, but were so exhausted with toil, exposure, and hunger, that, in attempting to land, all but one of the party, William Halford, were drowned in the surf. Halford reached Honolulu December 24, and dispatched a schooner and steamer with ample supplies for the shipwrecked men, ninety-dependence we must maintain, as the only thing three in number, on Ocean Island. On the 23d of December there was an explosion at the Hoosac Tunnel of fifteen hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine. The superintendent of the works was killed. The steamer T. L. M'Gill, from St. Louis for New Orleans, was burned in the Mississippi, on Shoo-Fly Bar, at nine o'clock on the night of January 14. It was estimated shortly after the accident that fifty-eight lives were lost. 29. Mrs. Belknap, wife of the Secretary of War, died at Washington on the evening of December She was a Southern lady, daughter of Dr. Her Tomlinson, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. brother was an officer in the Confederate army. He was taken prisoner near Meridian, Mississippi, and it was through his sister's efforts to secure his release that she first became acquainted with General Belknap. George Holland, the veteran comedian, died at his residence in New York city December 20, aged seventy-nine years. He was an Englishman by birth. Hon. John Covode, member of Congress from the Westmoreland district, Pennsylvania, died suddenly at Harrisburg, of heart disease, on the morning of January 11. He was nearly sixtythree years of age. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. On the 13th of December Caballero Pe Rodas, Captain-General of Cuba, in compliance with instructions from Madrid, turned over his command to the Count De Valmaseda. The wife of President Cespedes sailed for New York January 12. we have, and as the most precious jewel we can bequeath to future generations.' After the victories that Cabral had obtained before Azua he was prevented going further, on account of the rainy season setting in, the low banks being swamped. re Advices from St. Thomas, December 31, re port the progress of the revolution in Venezuela. The fort and town of Maracaibo had been taken, and two rebel men-of-war, the Mariposa and the Bolivar, captured by Guzman Blanco, who is now in possession of the whole country. EUROPE. Our last Record brought the Franco-Prussian war down to the recapture of Orleans by the Prussians, the retreat of De Paladines's Army of the Loire upon Blois, and then upon Tours, and the flight of the French government from the latter place to Bordeaux. De Paladines, whose failure may have been caused by M. Gambetta's attempt to control an army many leagues distant, was deprived of his command; and the army was divided into two bodies-one commanded by General Chanzy, the other by General Bourbaki. Another army was also raised, called the Army of Bordeaux, but very little has been heard from it. After the sortie made by the French from Paris at the close of November General Ducrot's army still remained at Vincennes, outside of the city, waiting for Chanzy to make some movement with which he might co-operate. King William issued the following general order to the German armies from Versailles December 6: The Mexican Congress on the 13th of December passed a bill authorizing the construc"We have again arrived at a crisis of the war. tion of the Tehuantepec Canal from the Pacific When I last addressed you the last of the hostile armies which at the commencement of the campaign Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The government confronted us had, by the capitulation of Metz, been grants the company the full profits of the canal destroyed. The enemy has since, by extraordinary exfor ninety-nine years, requiring no tax or contri-ertions, opposed to us newly formed troops, and a large portion of the inhabitants of France have forsaken bution in return; after that period the canal be- their peaceful, and by us unhindered, vocations in comes the property of the government. order to take up arms. The enemy was frequently superior to us in numbers, but you have nevertheless again defeated him; for valor and discipline and consus-fidence in a righteous cause are worth more than numerical preponderance. All attempts of the enemy to break through the investment lines of Paris have been fices-as at Champigny and at Le Bourget but with a firmly repulsed, often, indeed, with many bloody sacriheroism such as you have every where displayed toward him. The armies of the enemy, which were advancing from every direction to the relief of Paris, have all been defeated. Our troops, some of whom only a few weeks ago stood before Metz and Strasburg, have to-day advanced as far as Rouen, Orleans, and Dijon, and, among many smaller victorious enNear the close of December General Cabral, Amiens and the several days' fight at Orleans-have gagements, two new important battles-those of leader of the revolution in the Dominican repub- been added to our former triumphs. Several fortresses lic, published an official report claiming victo- have been conquered, and much war material has been taken. I have reason, therefore, for the greatest satries over Baez's forces in four several encount-isfaction, and it is to me a gratification and a duty to "With these triumphs," he adds, "the express this to you. I thank you all, from the general Madame Juarez, wife of the Mexican President, died January 2. To this affliction tained by Juarez another was also added in the execution, by the Cuban authorities, of his sonin-law, Don Juan Clemento Zenea, the Cuban poet, for being a bearer of rebel dispatches. The presidential election was the absorbing topic in Mexico at the beginning of January. Juarez, Diaz, and Minister Lerda de Tejada, were the principal candidates. The result of the election has not yet transpired. ers. to the common soldier. Should the enemy persist in a | Chanzy's loss in killed, wounded, and prisonfurther prosecution of the war, I know you will continue to show that exertion of all your powers to which we owe our great success hitherto, until we wring from him an honorable peace, worthy of the great sacrifices of blood and life which have been offered up." ers is estimated at forty thousand; that of the Germans at twenty thousand. Fifty thousand French troops that had left Cherbourg to reinforce Chanzy were cut off by the breaking of Notwithstanding the terms used in this state- the railway communication at Alençon. ment, it is true that for nearly a month subse- We turn now to the Army of the North, comquent to the order the French armies occupied manded by General Faidherbe. After the dea very favorable position for attack. These ar- feat of the latter at Amiens, he had retreated mies had met the enemy, and, though repulsed, northward to Arras. On the 3d of January there had not been destroyed; they had gained in disci- was an encounter between his forces and those of pline, and were superior in numbers to their antag- General Von Goeben at Bapaume, northeast of onists. Led by a soldier like the first Napoleon, Amiens. The result was reported by Faidherbe and uninterfered with by the civil authorities, they as a great victory for the French; it is clear, could yet have wrested victory from the jaws of from later reports, that the Germans, after a apparent defeat. General Chanzy's position south-hard-won victory, were compelled to evacuate west of Paris, at Le Mans, may be compared to that of General Grant in his operations against Richmond. His army could draw on the country for rich supplies, and from the several sea-ports ined the capture of Peronne, a fortified town on the his rear he could be supplied with arms and ammunition, carried directly to his front by railroad; and inside of Paris was an immense force eager to seize upon the first opportunity for effective co-operation. Such was the confidence in the strength of his army that Bourbaki, with a large army, was dispatched eastward to the Vosges, to operate upon the enemy's communications, and to raise the siege of Belfort. Bapaume, the French army having been largely On the 19th of January Faidherbe sustained a severe defeat before St. Quentin, west of Amiens, losing 9000 unwounded prisoners and six guns. The total loss of the French was 15,000. On the same day that the battle of Bapaume was fought General Von Bentheim had a severe engagement on the Seine with the French troops from Havre. The French were completely surprised by the attack, and were routed after a short, sharp, and decisive battle. The Germans took four standards, 1000 prisoners, and four guns. The French retreated upon Havre. But General Chanzy waited. Meanwhile the Prussian armies, conscious of their inferiority in numbers, were largely augmented, receiving, before January 1, reinforcements to the number of 150,000 men. Bourbaki's army failed to cut off a Owing probably to Bourbaki's movement tosingle train or a single recruit. Some idea may ward the Vosges, the attack on Havre was abanbe obtained of the necessities of an immense doned, and General Manteuffel was placed in army on a foreign soil by the following facts: A command of the German Army of the Vosges single factory sent daily to the Prussian armies in the East. General Bourbaki advanced stead80,000 cans of preserved meats. Up to De-ily northward, and on January 14 we hear from cember 24 there had been sent to these armies from Germany 65,000,000 letters, 45,000,000 thalers, 1,000,000 parcels, 35,000 official packages-all sent to the front through the post-office in the field, which covers 5700 English miles of road in length, and requires the services of 360 officers, and 5000 clerks and postillions. On the 21st of December Ducrot made a sortie, but beyond the capture of several hundred Prussians it had no substantial results. Subsequent sorties made on the 10th, 11th, 15th, and 19th of January proved equally ineffective. In the mean time each of the French armies about Paris. had, one after another, sustained defeat. General Chanzy's army at Le Mans moved against the left flank of Prince Charles's army at Vendome. While making this movement he was attacked by Prince Charles and driven back, while the Duke of Mecklenburg, commanding the German right wing, advanced to Nogent-le-Retron, to cut off the French line of retreat northward toward Cherbourg. General Chanzy had then no alternative but to fight a pitched battle. He fell back upon the heights cast of Le Mans, since he would thus present a more compact front to the enemy's attack.. But Prince Charles, on the 10th of January, instead of attacking all along the lines, massed on his wings. After a sharply contested battle of two days, the French right was routed, and the left and centre compelled to make a rapid retreat. The German armies followed up the retreating columns with an effective pursuit. General Bordeaux of his capture of the villages of Arcy and St. Marie, and that Dijon, Gray, Lure, and Vésoul have been reoccupied. Advices from Versailles, January 9, on the other hand, reported Bourbaki's defeat by Von Werder, south of Vésoul, with a loss of 800 prisoners. A day later he was again, from the same source, reported as defeated at Villersexel. On the 15th and 17th Bourbaki attacked Von Werder, purposing to raise the siege of Belfort, but was in both cases defeated, after severe engagements, and compelled to give up his attempt. The bombardment of Paris commenced with an attack on the eastern forts-Rosny, Nogent, and Avron. The latter, not casemated, was abandoned by the French before the close of December. It is the most advanced of the French outworks east of Paris, and crowns Mont Avrona considerable elevation six miles from the city. On the night of January 8 the Germans captured the French battery at Notre Dame de Clamart, situated on the left bank of the river, on the railroad line, seventeen hundred yards in advance of any former point of Prussian attack on the southwest. The guns were immediately turned against Fort Issy, and much damage was sustained by the French. This advanced battery was advanced one mile further, and has complete range into the city. From this time Paris was reached in many places by the enemy's shells, and several persons were killed or wounded. Shells have fallen into the garden of the Luxembourg palace. Sèvres is completely in ruins. Advices from Paris on the 18th stated that the number of deaths in the city from the bombardment was estimated at fifteen per day. The splendid conservatory in the Jardin des Plantes, the best collection of exotics in the world, has been destroyed. The Luxembourg difficulty, almost as soon as it arose, seems to have become simply a matter for diplomatic investigation. In December six English ships were sunk in the Seine by the Prussians, for the purpose of obstructing navigation. An explanation was demanded by the British vice-consul at Rouen. The Prussian government at Berlin apologized to Earl Granville, offering pecuniary indemnity, and announcing that the military commander who was guilty of the outrage had been courtmartialed and dismissed the service. Thus it will be seen that in this Council, which has the right of proclaiming war, Prussia has less than a one-third vote. The conference of powers on the Eastern question assembled at London January 3, and, after being formally opened, was postponed to January 24. Spain has crowned her king at last. There was intense indignation throughout the country at the choice of a foreign prince for the throne. The vote in the Cortes, November 17, in favor of Amadeus was 191 to 120, the Carlists casting 12 blank ballots; and this vote probably fairly represented the popular sentiment. The opposition of "Young Spain" was a prominent feature. University professors who, as members of the Cortes, had voted for Amadeus, were hissed and hooted by the students. There was considerable disturbance in some of the provinces. The only notable instance of personal violence growing out of this indignation was the assassination of General Prim, who died December 29 of wounds re in his carriage in the Alcala on his way from the Parliament House to the War-Office building. Count Bismarck on the 13th of January announced that, owing to the treatment of the Prussian merchant navy by France, the declaration was withdrawn, made at the beginning of the war, exempting from capture French mer-ceived by him two days previous as he was riding chant ships which have no contraband of war on board. This new programme was to go into effect after four weeks from January 13. Shortly after this announcement the Nord Deutsche Zeitung stated that, according to the treaty of 1779 between Prussia and the United States, Prussian men-of-war can not capture American vessels carrying contraband of war, but may stop their voyage until the end of the war, or may take possession of the contraband portion of the cargo, at the same time giving bond for future payment for the same. Baron Von Beust, in his reply to Bismarck's dispatch notifying the cabinet at Vienna of the completion of German unity, says "that the restoration of the German empire is not only received with satisfaction by the people of Austria, but is personally gratifying to the Emperor Francis Joseph. Austria," he continues," sincerely wishes to cultivate the friendship of North Germany. This would be a pledge of enduring union and lasting peace."-On the 18th of January, exactly one hundred and eighty years after the coronation of the first king of Prussia, Frederick I., King William accepted the title and crown of Emperor of Germany. Under the new Constitution the imperial government consists of the crown, the princes, and the parliament. In parliament the power is distributed according to population; thus the Reichstag consists of 382 members, elected by ballot and universal suffrage, in the proportion of one member to every 100,000 of the population. Prussia is represented by 240 members, or nearly two-thirds of the whole. The Imperial Council is to consist of twenty-five princes of Germany. The votes are as follows: Emperor (King of Prus sia) Bavaria Saxe-Coburg-Gotha... 4 Lippe-Detmold.. 4 Schwarzburg-Rudol- 3 Schwarzburg-Sonder- 2 Reuss Schleitz. 1 Schaumburg-Lippe.. 1 Reuss Greitz. Mecklenburg-Strelitz... 1 Hamburg. Saxe-Meiningen.. Anhalt. Total.. 1 Lubeck 1 Bremen Notwithstanding the violent opposition against the Italian prince, his progress from Carthagena to Madrid was a brilliant ovation. On the 2d of January he accepted the crown, and swore fealty to the Spanish constitution. The new cabinet was constituted as follows: Serrano Beranger Sogasta.. Ulloa... Ayala. President of the Council. Minister of Marine. The Italian Chamber of Deputies, December 23, by a vote of 192 to 18, passed the bill for the removal of the capital from Florence to Rome. Advices dated London, December 26, announced that the work of excavating the Mont Cenis Tunnel had been completed. The length of this tunnel, from Fourneaux in France to Bardonnéche in Italy, is a little over seven and a half miles. The work was begun in the spring of 1858. Premier Gladstone's cabinet has been reconstructed. The Right Honorable Chichester Fortescue takes the Presidency of the Board of Trade, vacated by Mr. Bright. The Marquis of Hartington goes to Ireland as Chief Secretary. ASIA. Advices from China, of October 12-27, indicate that the foreign residents at Tien-tsin have been reassured by the arrival of Admiral Rodgers with an American squadron, and by the action of the English and French governments. The latter, since the establishment of the republic in 1 Paris, has taken a very different view of China 1 from that formerly held by the imperial government, regarding it from a political stand-point, and not as a field for religious propagandism. 1 Two of the officials of the Chinese government implicated in the Tien-tsin massacre of last year had been banished to the Amoor. Twenty of the criminals (or substitutes hired to take their place) had been executed. The buildings which i had been destroyed were being rebuilt.-Mr. 1 Seward and his party left Tien-tsin for Pekin .58 October 27. Editor's Drawer. Twith winds and clouds and changing skies; That through the snowy valley flies.-BRYANT. In nominally bidding adieu to winter, and welcoming what purports to be spring, let us present to our readers a few prose and poetical texts designed to inculcate the duty of looking on the bright side: Mirth is the medicine of life; It cures its ills, it calms its strife; 66 Here," said he to the first, "you must practice; now hear me!" and bursting out in a sonorous laugh, he fairly obliged his pupils, one by one, to join, till the whole were almost convulsed. "That will do for once," said the Doctor, "and now mind you keep in practice!" The Drawer says "ditto to Dr. Griffin." WE are indebted for the following to an official of one of our prominent benevolent institutions: Some months since a certain minister in Indiana gave notice that, on the next Sunday, a missionary of the American Sunday-School Unlook-ion would lecture in his church. After service a hearer asked, "What business has a missionary to come here? Why don't he go off among the heathens?" But he attended the Sunday-school meeting, seemed pleased, and subscribed two dollars and a half toward a library for the new Sun Dr. Johnson used to say that a habit of ing at the best side of every event is far better than a thousand pounds a year. Bishop Hall quaintly remarks: "For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg, let him be thankful it was not his neck." Charles Lamb says: "A laugh is worth a hun-day-school. When the missionary visited him dred groans in any state of the market." As welcome as sunshine In every place Is the beaming approach Of a good-natured face. As genial as sunshine, From a good-natured heart. No man does his best except when he is cheerful. A light heart maketh nimble hands, and keeps the mind free and alert. No misfortune is so great as one that sours the temper. Until cheerfulness is lost nothing is lost. I love a laugh: this world would be If heart could never speak to heart, Then frown not at a wild, gay laugh, There is nothing equal to a cheerful and even mirthful conversation for restoring the tone of mind and body when both are overcharged. Some great and good men, on whom very heavy cares and toils have been laid, manifest a constitutional tendency to relax into mirth when their work is over. Narrow minds denounce the incongruity; large hearts own God's goodness in the fact, and rejoice in the wise provision made for prolonging useful lives. Oh! smiles have power a world of good For while a smile illumes the eye, Dr. Griffin, when President of Williams College, convened the students at his room one evening, and told them he had observed that they were all growing thin and dyspeptical from a neglect of the duty of laughter, and he insisted upon it that they should go through a company drill in it then and there. The Doctor was an immense man-over six feet in height, with great amplitude of chest, and most magisterial manners. at his house he was very polite, asked after his family, and "what his maiden name was," etc.; and being asked, in turn, if he were a native of Indiana, replied, "Yes, only I was born in North Carolina." But, some weeks after the organization of the Sunday-school, a neighbor said to him that Schuyler Colfax presided at the last anniversary of the American Sunday-School Union. "There now," said he, "I was afraid of that all the time. Grant and Colfax is at the head of this Sunday-school business, and I won't pay one dime of my superscription!" In the early stages of his ministry the celebrated Dr. Strong, of Hartford, Connecticut, preached some time in a neighboring village. One day a committee called upon him to settle with him for his services, and, after stammering a while, signified to him that his further services were not desired. "What does this mean, gentlemen?" asked the Doctor. "Why," replied the spokesman, with some hesitation, "the people have got the impression that you are inclining to universal salvation." "Gentlemen," answered the Doctor, "I never have preached that doctrine; but if I ever should, I promise to make the people of this town an exception!" PERHAPS many of our readers have never discovered the grim humor that lurks behind the scene in "Measure for Measure," where Barnardine is called forth from his prison by Abhorson to be executed, the latter being accompanied by the Clown. This is the dialogue: ABHORSON. "Is the axe upon the block, Sirrah ?” news with you?" "How now, Abhorson? what's the ABHORSON. "Truly, Sir, I would desire you to clap into your prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come. night, I am not fitted for't. BARNARDINE. "You rogne, I have been drinking all CLOWN. "O, the better, Sir; for he that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day." There is given in the Gentleman's Magazine for January an anecdote which has brought this |