Soon after his arrival in New York, we find him in possession of the farm at New Rochelle, A portion of the house in which he lived (at this period) is still standing: here he had a small room, the furniture of which embraced a miserable straw bed, deal table, a chair, bible, and jug of spirituous liquors. His breakfast table is thus described by an eye witness (Mr. Carver) : "The tablecloth was composed of newspapers ! on it was a tea-pot, some coarse

* '• One evening (says Grant Thorburn) Mr. Paiae related to me the following anecdote. He said it was in the reign of Robespierre, when every republican that the monster could get in his power was cut down by the knife of the guillotine. Paine was in the dungeon, and his name was on the list, with twenty-four others, ordered for execution ne.xt morning. It was customary for the clerk of the tribunal to go through the cells at night, and put a cross with chalk on the back of the door of such as were to be guillotined. In the morning, when the executioner came with his guard, wherever they found a chalk, the victim was brought forth. There was a long passage in the cellar of this Bastile, having a row of cells on each side containing the prisoners ; the passage was seeured at each end, but the doors of the cells were left open through the day, and the prisoners stepped into one another's rooms to converse. Paine had gone into the next cell, and left his own door open back to the wall, thus having the door inside out. Just then came the chalkers, and probably being drunk, crossed the inside of Paine's door. Next morning, when the guard came with an order to bring out twenty-four, and finding only twenty-three chalks, (Paine being in bed and the door shut,) they took a prisoner from the further end of the passage, and thus made up the number; so Mr.