serge turned up with
green. These were the most indifferently made, as were his large, coarsely
greased slouching boots; one of which he very commonly dispensed with,
leaving his kneeband unbuttoned, and his stocking about his heel. A huge
sabre and a single order completed his ordinary costume; but on grand
occasions his field-marshal's uniform was covered with badges, and he was
fond of telling where and how he had won them. He often arose at midnight,
and welcomed the first soldier he saw moving with a piercing imitation of
the crowing of a cock, in compliment to his early rising. It is said that
in the first Polish war, knowing a spy was in the camp, he issued orders
for an attack at cock-crow, and the enemy expecting it in the morning,
were cut to pieces at nine at night--Suwarow having turned out the troops
an hour before by his well-known cry. The evening before the storm of
Ismail, he informed his columns--"To-morrow morning, an hour before
daybreak, I mean to get up. I shall then dress and wash myself, then say
my prayers, and then give one good cock-crow, and capture Ismail." When
Segur asked him if he never took off his clothes at night, he replied,
"No! when I get lazy, and want to have a comfortable sleep, I generally
take off one spur." Buckets of cold water were thrown over him before he
dressed, and his table was served at seven or eight o'clock with
sandwiches and various messes which Duboscage describes as "_des ragouts
Kosaks detestables_;" to which men paid "the mouth honor, which they would
fain deny, but dare not," lest Suwarow should consider them effeminate. He
had been very sickly in his youth, but by spare diet and cold bathing had
strengthened and hardened himself into first-rate condition.

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

United States.

Public attention, during the month, has been mainly fixed upon Kossuth, in
his addresses to the various portions of the people of the United States
with whom he is brought in contact. After the banquet given to him,
December 16th, by the New York Press, noticed in our last Record, Kossuth
remained in New York until Tuesday, the 23d. The Bar of New York gave him
a public reception and banquet on the 18th, at which he made a speech
devoted mainly to the position, that the intervention of Russia in the
affairs of Hungary was a gross violation of the law of nations, deserving
the name of piracy; and that the United States was bound alike in i