More Plucking of the Goose.
--The famous Japanese swindle has been outdone; publicans have been found who surpass the Lelands, and
Albany eclipses New York.
Mr. Lincoln and his suite are more prodigious feeders and drinkers than the No-Kamis.--They remained for less than one day at the
Delavan House in
Albany, and a bill was rendered to the amount of eleven hundred and twenty dollars. As there were eighteen persons in the party, two of whom,
Mr.Lincoln and
Mrs Lincoln, did not dine in the hotel, the expense for each person, three-quarters of a day, was just seventy dollars! Included in this bill was a charge of three hundred and fifty-seven dollars for wine, or above twenty- two dollars or nine bottles a head.
We are not surprised, after such drinking, at a considerable charge for Congress water.
Neither is it wonderful that the breakages for stoves, chairs, and so forth, were set down at a hundred and fifty dollars. Fellows with nine bottles of liquor under their belts must have been in a state to break everything about them, even their necks.
Shakespeare makes Iago say that ‘"your Englishmen is the most potent in poting; your
Dane, your
German, your swagbellied
Hollander are nothing to your
English.
He drinks you with facility your
Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to over throw your Almain, and he gives your
Hollander a vomit ere the next bottle can be filled.
Oh, sweet
England."’ But
England is a two-penny mug to your genuine American, according to the hotel bills.
When
the Prince of
Wales was at
Albany, with a retinue of thirty persons, his bill at Congress Hall for two days was two hundred and fifty dollars, including sixty dollars given to servants.
How moderate in comparison with the traveling party of the
President elect!--
Mr. Lincoln being a rigid temperance man, the keepers of the Delavan have probably taken their revenge upon him in this manner.
N. Y. Post. 
