EATING AND DRINKING WITH THE DRUNKEN.
N. P. Banks, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, and ex-Governor of Massachusetts, was welcomed to Chicago, recently, by a grand railroad supper and ball at the Briggs House; in which two clergymen, and a number of prominent laymen, participated. One of the clergymen in attendance is a Unitarian, the other an Episcopalian, and one of the laymen a Presbyterian elder. Wine was abundant at the table, and sentiments, offered by Christian laymen and clergymen, were drank in wine. Mixing with the world, at wine-bibbing suppers and dances, is becoming so common, that the Devil finds little or no difficulty in finding clergymen to introduce the revelry with prayer for the divine blessing. Rel. Telescope.