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THE MADISONIAN.
VOL. IV.-NO. 87.] WASHINGTON CITY, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1841. [WHOLE NO. 648.
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A1
NAVY SLOP CLOTHING FOR THE YEAR
IMI.
Navy CoMMissioNEn*' Orricg, Aphil 20,1841.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed " Proposal*
for Slop Clothing," will be received at thin office
until 3 o'clock P. M of the 13th May next, for fur
nishing and delivering at each of the Navy Yaid*, at
Churl<'?town, Massachusetts ; Brooklyn, New York,
and Gospoit, Virginia, the following article*, via.
H00 hlue cloth Trowner*
H00 white ffannel Shirt*
?KM) white Mannel Druwera
HIM) white linen Frock*
tiOO white duck Trowser*
tiOO white Ueriuan linen Trow?ei*
I |wir? woollen Stocking*
100 pair* woollen Sock*
1,000 pair* of thick uewed leather Shoe*
<>(10 pair* of sewed leather Pump*
4tM) Blanket*
The hlue cloth trowsers, llannel shirts and drawer*
aro to he made from material* of American manufac
ture. All the article* are to lie fully e^ual to the sam
ple* which are deposited at the Navy \ aids near Hoe
ton, New York, and Norfolk ; at which place* sche
dules, showing the size* of the dillerent articles of
clothing, may ulso lie seen. Where the articles are
to lie of moie than one size, two-thirds of the number
furnished are to he of the largest size, and one-third
of the smallest *ize, excepting the shoe* and stock
ings, which must be of assorted size*, and which will
be specified in the contract* that may lie made.
All the said article* of *lop clothing must lie sub
jected to such inflection ami survey a* the Commis
sioner* of the Navy shall direct, by instruction* to the
commanding officer* of the respective navy yard* of
delivery ; and no portion of the aaid slop clothing will
be received that i* not fully equal to the samples or
patterns, both in material* and workmanship, and dot1*
not conform in all other res|iect* to the stipulations
and provisions of the contracts to lie made.
Tnc prices to lie asked for the several denomination*
of articles enumerated must be mean or average prices,
without regard to the size*, and must be calculated to
cover every ei|ienso attending the fulfilment of the
contracts, until the aiticles have passed inspection,
lieen approved and received, including the necessary
metal navy buttons.
The whole must be delivered, in good.tjght,substan
tial, and dry packing boxes oi hogsheads, and in good
shipping order, at the expense of the contractors, anil
to the entire satisfaction of the commandants of the
yaids.
Separate proposals must lie made?first, for all the
shoes; second, for all the stockings; thiril, for all the
blankets; und/uurM, for all the other articles?as dis
tinct contracts may be made for each class.
One fourth of the quantity of each article to he de
livered at each of the navy yards must lie delivered on
or before the first of July next; one fourth on or be
fore the fifteenth day of August next; and the re
mainder on or before the first day of October next.
And in case of failure on the pait of the contractors
to deliver articles within the times specified, the Com
missioners of the Nuvy to have the right to direct pur
chases to bo made to supply the deficiencies, and any
excess of cost to be charged to and puid by the con
tractors.
Person* making offers must stipulate sjiecifically
that they will furnish under the contract* to be made,
any additional quantity of any of the kinds and des
cription of articles embraced in their respective pro
liosal*, which the Commissioners of the Navy may re
quire within the year 1H41, not to exceed the quanti
ties and descrijitions named in this advertisement, upon
receiving sixty days' notice to that eject.
Bond* in one-third the amount of the respective
contracts will he required, and ten per centum in addi
tion will he withheld from the amount of each payment
to lie made, a* collateral security for the due and faith
ful performance of the re?|iective contracts, which will
on no account lie |iaid until the contracts arc complied
with in all respects, and is to be forfeited to the use
and benefit of the United Stutes in the event of fail
uics to complete the deliveries within the prescribed
periods. Atler deducting ten |ier centum, payment
will be made by the United States within thirty days
after the said slop clothing shall have been inspected
and received, and bills for the same, approved by the
commandants of the respective navy yards, according
to the terms of the contracts, shall have been presented
to the navy agents.
The Board of Navy Commissioner* reserve to
thonwolves the rijjht to reject all otler" frnm iiersnn*
who have heretofore failed to fi Hi I their contracts with
the Navy Department.
opril 2-1?eo3w
5"V To be published three time* a week in the Na
tional Intelligencer, Madisonian, Boston Daily Ad
vertiser, Boston Atlas, New Yoik Express, New York
Commercial Advertiser, Philadelphia Daily Stand
ard, North American and Daily Advertiser, Balti
more Patriot, Baliimorc American, Norfolk and Ports
mouth Ilerald, and Norfolk Beacon.
" Jt only requires to be known to te certain of support."
(A general exclamation.)
ALBANY LOCK HOSPITAL.
Dr. COOKE.
THE unfortunat' are respectfully informed that
the Albany Lock Hospital, established and mo
delled afler tb much celebrated Eurojs-an Lock
Hospital, hu' many yean since lieen founded at Head
Cluarters. No. 3 Norton street, Albany, N. Y. To
those (^acquainted with this institution, it is necessa
ry ir mention that it h;ui for its object the cure of all
ti diseases as syphilis, scrofula, strictures, diseases
of the urethra, lumbago, Hour alhus, impotency, dis
eases of the womb, Keminal weakness of both sexes,
nodes, caries of the bones, gonorrhoea, gleets, with all
venerial complaints, Jtc.
Persons, ignorant of the nature of Disease, are not
aware that many stages mark its progress from the
commencement to its lull development, originating in
a most simple form, anil through neglect or injudicious
treatment, assume a more aggravated state of discaMC,
and occasion abscess, ulceration, |iscudo syphilis, can
cer, premature old age, too otlen ending in a protract
ed incurable state ot miserable existence.
This institution is under the superintendence and
management of Professor Cookk, M. D., D. D.,
LL. D., of the city of Albany, N. Y., who will oive
his |iersonal attendance at the Dis|icnsary, attached
to the Institution, at all hours to invalids requiring his
professional services. He having had much more
experience in this branch of medical practice than
usually falls to the lot of any one member of the pro
fession, therefore feels such confidence of his ability
to give universal satisfaction, that he assures all appli
cants, none need despair of u complete recovery.
The unfortunate therefore, who have suffered from
the want of success by those less exjierienced, are in
vited to visit the Hospital, which only requires to lie
known to lie sure of sup|iort, where the most perfect
secrecy may lie depended on, and the utmost privacy
will attend those who call. The whole house is cx
elusively appropriated to the use of |iatients, who will
always lie received into segiarate apartments, and at
no time, unless at the request of tlie |mtient, will a
third party be |iermitted to lie present.
Professor Cooke-has a numlier of handsomely fur
nished private chambers, at No. 33 Green street,
where he will receive gentlemen who may require
medical aid. Residing himself on the premises, he
will thereby be enabled to dedicate more than ordina
ry attention to his patients. Gentlemen will find it
Isith convenient, as well as economical, in all cases of
disease, to retire to these furnished rooms.
The Pectoral EssenceoJHoneset, universally known
as an excellent cough medicine, is prepared at this in
stitution. Its efficacy licing decidedly su|ierior to any
s|M<cilic extant, is every where recommended in ail
eases of coughs, colds, asthma, croup, hooping cough,
as well as in all complaints of the chest anil lungs.
Travellers, therefore, ministers of the gospel, orators,
public speakers, ami families, should never lie without
their abundant supplies
As long as Professor Cookk desires to lienefit the
public, it is projier he should continue his advertise
ment, for the good of strangers, as it is well known,
people are extremely shy in speaking of case* of a
delicate nature, even where a physician is pre-emi
nently successful.
Communications, jMist liaid, to the address of Pro
fessor Cookk, M. D , D. D , LL. IV, Albany, N. Y.,
enclosing a bank note as a counselling fee, will have
attention?(none others will lie received)?or a iier
sonal consultation may lie had at all times as usual, at
the Disjiensary, which is projierly fitted up and ar
ranged with separate office* for confidential inter
views.
rvc ^oitnftclling ftTH ariil charg**#* rraaonablr,
foffice .No. 3 Sorton street?Hou*c So. 33 Green
etreet, Albany. mar 3 if
Cortical. _____
/?Votn the Urothcr Jonathan.
THE DEATH OF HARRISON.
BY N. r. WILLI*.
What! ?onr'tl the old eagle to die at the nun !
Lie* he mill with spread wing* at the goal he had won!
Are there *pirita, more bleat than the planet of even,
Who mount to their zenith, then inell into Heaven ?
No waning of tire, no quenching of ray,
Hut liaing, at ill lining, when pausing away f
Farewell, gallant eagle ! thou 'rt buried in light!
God *|?ed unto Heaven, I oat atar of our night!
Death! Death in the White Houae ! Ah, never before
Trod hia skeleton foot on the President'* floor!
He ia looked for in hovel, and dreaded in hall?
The king ill hia cloaet keejw hatchment and pall?
The ywuth in hit- birth-place, the old man at home,
Make clean from the door-atone the path Ui the toinb;
Hut the lord of thia manaion waa cradled not here ?
In a church-yard fur oil' atanda hia beckoning biei !
He ia here an the wave-creat heave* Hashing on high? j
A a the arrow i* atopp'd by ita prize in the *ky?
The arrow to earth, and the foam to the ahore?
Death find* them when awiftnea* and sparkle are o'er.
Hut Harriaon'* death till* the climax ot ?tory?
He went with hi* old *lride?from glory to glory '
Lay hia sword on hi* breaat! There'* no *jh>1 on it*
bludu
In whone cankering breath hi* bright laurel* Mill
fade?
'T wa* the drat to lead on at humanity'* call?
It wa* atayed with aweet inercy when 'glory' wa* ail!
A* calm in the council aa gallant in war,
He fought for hi* country and not it* ' hurrah !'
In the path of the hero with pity he trod?
Let hiiu paaa with hi* aword to the preaence of God !
What more! Shall we on, with hi* a*he*1 Vet, stay !
He hath ruled the wide realm of a king in hi* day !
At hia word, like a monarch'*, went traaaure and
land?
The bright gold of thousand* ha* |?Med thru' hi*
hand?
la there nothing to ahow of hia glittering board 1
No jewel to deck the rude hill of hia aword 1
No trapping* 7 no horaea 1? what had he, but now 1
On ! on with hia nahea !?he left but his plough !
Hiave old Cincinnatua! Unwind ye his sheet!
Let him alecp aa he lived?with hia puree at hia feet!
Follow now, an ye liat! The first mourner to-day
la the nation?whose father ia taken away !
Wife, children and neighLor, may mourn at hia knell;
He waa " lover and friend" to hi* country, aa well!
For the atara on our banner, grown auddenly dim,
Let ua weep in out darkness?but weep not for him!
Not for him?who, departing, leave* million* in tears!
Not for him?who haa died lull of honors and yeara!
Not for him?who ascended Fame'* luddei so high
Fiom the round at the top ho lius step'd to the sky !
It i* blessed to go when so ready to die !
fHfscrllnttrous.
THE APRIL FOOL.
BY ABBOTT LEE.
The morning of the lirst of A prill, anno Do
mini no matter when, shone out with all the smi
ling sunniness of youthful coquetry. Very beau
tiful is the first bright smile of coming spring.?
In fact, we believe that the first of every thing i*
always the best welcomed ; it has the charm of
novelty ; is the loveliest, the dearest. The first
Hash of a beautiful face, the first gush of song,
the first breath of perfume, the first tint of the
llower, the first hour of the morning, the first of
a friendship, and O yes! very certainly the first
of a fit of love ! the first thought, the first feel
iug, the first emotion, the first perception, bring
us only the brightness, and lagging after comes
that gloomy thing the shadow.
The sunshine of that April morning on that
certain anno Domini shone brightly into a very
little room, very scantily furnished, belonging to
a very little cottage, being one of a very little
row, hanging like a little bit of fringe on the
skirts of our greut metropolis; and in this room
was a very scanty supply of those things which
oiviliuatiou Itao agroud to aall thn noooBturico of
life ; for instance, half the number of chairs to
the double number of people who were to sit
upon them; only one table, and unfortunately
what the table held in the shape of breakfasts*
hie viands bore but a faint relative proportion to
the mouths they were to fill; in fact it was the
very idea of a breakfast rather than breakfast
itself, being as unlike as possible to hams and
eggs and patties, and chickens and dried salmon
and marmalades, as could possibly be, and boast
ing only?no, we will not tell of what, the de
tails of poverty can never be palatable?boasting
of very little indeed.
Now it very frequently happens that the rich
and the poor seem to be playing at cross pur
poses; the rich sit down to plenteous boards,
and cannot endure even the aroma, whilst the
poor have appetites altogether so nrovokingly
good, and nothing of the wherewithal ; and thus
it was that the very little group of children that
surrounded that scanty breakfastable eyed the
rough bread loaf with very loving looks and
swallowed portions of it as though it had been
ambrosia; and whether or not the gods would
have considered the thick dry slices fit lbi Olym
pus, those children would have been infinitely
sorry to have divided them with Jove himself.
Now whether or not moil ft pre was satisfied
with the fare that hunger had so richly flavour
ed for his children, our history telleth not. Some
thing, however, like April clouds of sorrow and
discontent darkened over his brow, and some
thing like April showers gathered in his eye as
he pushed away the untastcd morsel, and, pro
bably to hide a face that was indexing a dis
quieted soul, rose and wiilked to the little lattice
of that narrow chamber.
He had not stood many moments before a lit
tle hand, on one of the fingers of which was
bound the bandage of wedded love, was pressed
upon his shoulder, and, without seeing them he
was conscious that a pair ol rich swimming
eyes were soliciting a meeting with his own ;
but being perfectly aware that tears, refractory,
unmanly, bitter tears were gathering in his own
orbs of vision, he turned them away from their
bright wooers, and would not even look on his
lady-love.
"You are sad, dearest," said the kindest voice
in the world ; "how dare you be sorrowful whilst
1 am with you / whilst you are surrounded by
these dear faces !"
"O Helen," replied the father and the hus
band, " it is because you are with me that I am
sad ! For myself, I think I could have borne all
? the privations of toil and poverty ; but to see you
wanting the very necessaries ol lile ??"
"Now will I preach to you," said the wife
with a smile ; " to you who preach to others ; to
you, Reverend Benjamin Blytlie. Now tell me
what is there that 1 want, saving and excepting
to see you smile? Believe me, 1 dread to see a
dismal face more than?I was &oing to say?the
plague; but you know it is a sort of plague-spot,
for it never shows its dark slain, but it spreads.
I should not be surprised, if you keep this dis
mal face, but that I shall catch ii myself at last,
and then what will you do?"
" What indeed !'1 said the husband with a
bitter sigh.
"Nay, my bird, that is not a musical note !
You know that you are in your cage, and you
must sing."
"You arc my good angel!" said the hus
band.
"Nay, nay, I will not be flattered out of my
sermonizing," said the wife ; '' you shall have
it. So, shall 1 Itorrow your surplice, and give a
regular firstly, secondly, and thirdly, in true or
thodox style, or will you have it extemporane
ouly and non-olficial V
" As you are not in regular orders," said the
husband, getting tip a miserable smile, " not re
gularly ordained, ordaint-d only to be my bless
ing, 1 think we may do without the surplice and
the book."
" Well, be it no ; my morning gown shall be
a bishop's vestment*, and my cap his mitre.?
And now tell me, it in the balance your bless
ings or your sorrows have the heaviest weight ?"
"My blessings! my blessings!" said the hus
I band with tearful emotion ; you and my chil
dren. Could I have greater 7"
" 1 should think not," said the wile. '' Such
children!" and she glanced her eye towards
them with a lace full of the most amiable vanity
in the world, the vanity of a mother. And such
a wife!" she added, with an aich sweet smile
turned upon her husband ; " such a wife !"
''Yes, such children, and such a wife!" re
peated the husband "aud to see them wanting
the necessaries of life ! 1 preached to others, it
is in vain that 1 repeat the lesson to myself.
" 'Thy bread shall be certain, and thy water
shall be sure,'" repeated the wile.
''Ay, literally bread and water!" said the
husband, with some bitterness.
" As much as we need, and more than we
deserve," resumed the wife. ''Attend my sermon,
sir."
" Ay, dearest. These ?ke bitter sermons; my
own preaching to others brought home tomysell.
ill is in vain that I repeat, if these privations lell
only on myself, that I could cheertully submit;
hut this uiornHis?nay, do not deny it, dearest?
1 saw you push back the untasted morsel ; and
I atn weak anil impotent to help ; 1 am shut out
from the common Inliorrr's daily hire, and I see
you, daily, wanting even bread !"
'* Not absolutely," replied the wile. "And
now tell me, would you choose to see our cher
ubs mixing with disease in the midstol luxury,
| or thus well and healthy, with hearty appetites
' for this same homely bread?"
I ''Even as it is," ivplied the husband, "even
as it is, with thankfulness."
" Then smile again," said the wile, "lest a
worse thing come upon thee. W hat! do you
dare to look sorrowful in the midstol happy faces !
j O believe me that smiling lips are better than
rubies, and joyous eyes more lustrous than dia
monds! anil can you, cun you look sad, with Un
blessed sun thus.shining full upon you this glori
I oils morning ? O fie,tie upon you ! Let the sun
j shine reach your heart! See how the wateris
sparkling and leaping with joy ; and the trees in
their new holiday green, and the birds chirrup
ping from the house-tops! every thing lull ol
hope, yet you are sad. Take the sunshine as
a happy omen. 1 prophesy from it that the
clouds are passing away, and that prosperity
shall come to us loaded like a castled elephant
with sacks of rupees and sacks of gold-dust."
" Look at your type, dearest," said the hus
band with a mournful smile.
lllack clouds were gathering over the scene
and one of our April showers began to patter,
down. .
I '-Beit my type," replied the wife; be it my
type! Unbeliever look!"
Even while she spoke, the sun. gathering up a
thousand rays of beaming light, painted with
them that glorious bow in the heavens which
hath ever been a covenant of promise.
The husband took the little hand of his wife
within his own. '' ^ ou are the betterpreacher,
he said, "and what is more, tin' better practiser.
You know that for these last three months 1
have gone daily forth t. seek our daily bread,
have offered myself a- a literary laborer, as a
hireling scribe, as auytiling and everything that
might not utterly disgrace my sacred functions,
and you know that as often as 1 have gone with
hope, 1 have returned with disappointment.
Nevertheless, at thy word 1 will go forth once
more."
"If there were a,fate, " said Helen, you
know that Queen Elizabeth thought that 'per
severance might force Fate tochange her.mind,'
but there is something better than a late?there
is a Providence."
The Reverned Benjamin Blythe once more
donned his rusty black coat, and once more
brushed his beaverless hat, and once more drew
on his well-mended gloves, and once more sal
lied forth in search of the laborer's hire.
My dear reader, if you happen ever to have
had a wife and half a dozen children, who hap
pen to have good appetites, while you happen to
lave a purse quite unpolluted with filthy lucre
in your possession capable ot being trasniuted
either into bread or gold, you may be just able to
guess the very comfortable lone of mind upon
which our poor hero sallied forth upon this fore
lorn hope expedition. What a mockery to the
poor man is the luxury of the rich! rl he rolling
equipage, the extravagant attire, the pampered
mentals, the luxurious dwellings, the shops all
arranged to tempt self-indulgence, glittering
trinkets, costly liqueurs, and a thousand shapes
of fanciful confections made to entice the eye as
well as the anpetite?all these are so many snares
to envy for tlie hungry.
Sorely tried that April morning was the Kev.
Benjamin Blythe. It seemed to him as it every
body to whom he applied, every body Jo whom
he spoke, had got one malady, an ossification of
the heart; a malady that aiiects the voce, the
gestures, the mein, of every creature under the
infection. The Reverend Benjamin Blythe pi
tied every body he saw, hut most ot all he pitied
himself. . ,
In fact the Reverend Benjamin Blythe began
to think that some curious fatality ol disease pre
vailed over every creature with whom he spoke;
some were afflicted with blindness, soni/ wiili
deafness, some with dumbness some with loss
of memory, for even his former friends did not see
him when he went up to them, did not hear
him when he spoke to them, did not answer when
they heard him, did not remember when they saw
hitivso with the unheaped measure ol (illy and sev
eral separate disappointments in his heart, with a
mind worn out by anxiety, and a body sinking
with fatigue and want oi' sustenance our poor
hero tnrned his steps homeward.
All. home?word that should thrill the heart .
and it did thrill the heart of our unfortunate hero,
when he thought ol turning his ste|?s thither
ward, and carrying the great burden of his disap
pointment, that load seemed more than he could
carry there, so he made a dead stop in the middle
of the street, and despair at that moment seemed
to have bound up his faculties.
Just nt (his jnnctnre the large folding doors of
a lofty gloomy looking mansion opened, and a
youngman who seemed to move like a harlequin,
came Hying down a (light of about a dozen steps,
which nasty mode of perambulation brought him
! quicker than thought into juxtaposition with the
Reverend Benjamin Blythe. Now it seems that
the first impulse of locomotion would have itu
pelled the harlequinade to have leaped over him
in the abundance of his bodily agility, but just
as this feat seemed to be on the point ol accom
plishment, the actor slopped short, and with a
slight dancing step drew up, exclaiming. "All,
is that you? What, in the name of fun, are
you looking so miserable abouI ?"
The reverend gentleman tried to smile. ' I
j might as well ask you why you are looking so
j gay- 1 hope thai you have as solid cause for
contentment as 1 have for gloom.
"Gloom! how 1 hate the word ! Why, you
solemn sensible people never do any thing but
look miserable. Miserable in ihe morning from
expe ctancy; miserable at night from remem
brance. Miserable o-e day, because it is too
| hot; miserable another, because it is too cold.
Miserable when y ou are well, for fear youshould
be ill ; and miserable when you are ill, for tear
you should never be well."
" There are," said Blythe, ?' many real causes
| of sorrow in this world."
"And many good cause- of mirth. Why, I
could lau^'h only at the sunshine because it sveins
smiling at me, and a smile from anything that
can smile, always sets me laughing. 1 laugh to
see people look like so many Lord Gluuis and la
dy Lackadaisicals. Why, if 1 only look at you,
1 must laugh ; for you have pulled out your lace
into such an enormous length, such an elonga
lion of forehead and nose and chin, that ha !
ha ! ha!?you are a perfect caricature ol your
self."
"I hope you may never have the same cause
for a long face."
"IfI have, I shall look at mvsell in my glass,
and laugh at myself as I now Jo at you. How
uiany Cruikshanks ihere are in the world, it
they did hut know their own genius! Such
twisting and jerking, and winking and stretch
ing and 'lengthening,?all such capital carica
lures."
" Different people see things in different points
of view."
" A most profound observation that. Why,
yes, you are as solid as?lead. My dear fellow,
do tell me, were you ever guilty of the sin of
laughing 7"
'* Not very lately," replied poor Blythe, with
a sorrowful smile.
" Were you never so lucky as to he made a
fool of, and obliged to laugh al yourself?"
" 1 am afraid 1 should noi have found the
jest. Nobody sees the wit of which they are the
sport."
"Don't they? I'll experiment on that some
day soon. A good ihotiglil; but I suppose I am
detaining you ?"
" No," said the poor reverend with a sigh, "my
time is not ot much value."
" In a lit of humility, ha ? But I thought you
were in haste to see Lord Wycherly ?"
The reverend shook his head.
" Then you have seen him ?"
"No."
" Written to him again ?"
" Not again ; 1 did so a few months back; but
that is all over. 1 heard that he was about to ap
point a Secretary ; it was a forlorn hope, but I
asked his lordship for the post. 1 did it only be
cause I would leave nothing undone, not that I
had any hope?therefore had 1 no right to be
disappointed."
"Then you have not heard from his lordship
this morning."
" No."
" My dear fellow, 1 congratulate yon. I have
but now left his lordship, and he assured me that
he had just despatched your appointment. My
dear fellow, 1 wish voy jou with all my heart.'
The Reverend Benjamin Blythe clasped his
hands together in such an emotion of joylul
thankfulness, as to make Mr. Winkler start.
The blood rushed from his heart to his lace, in a
crimson tide, leaving the treasure-house of hopes
and feelings a vacant tenement, and then rushed
back again to make the citadel of life rock, and
reel, and throb with its overpowering fulness.
None but those who have lived long upon hope
deferred, lived upon medicine rather than food,
can tell what our hero experienced. Bright vi
sions of happiness trooped before his eyes ; his
children rosy with health and joyousness his
wife smiling with contentment, his household
hearth the centre of comfort, his board plente
ously spread, something for his brethren the poor,
the means of education for his little ones, the
thousand things that he knew they wanted, and
then for himself?O, he was to be unspeakably
happy in beholding their happiness!
"My dear fellow," said Mr. Winkler, "vou
look like anything but a philosopher, ir you had
only been on the stage, that attitude and those
eyes would have made your fortune?quite
stamped you as a first-rate tragedian ; but now
that it is over, pray go in at ouce, and thank
Lord Wycherly for your new prelerment. W hat
a fortunate thing that 1 should have happened to
have met with you."
" Had 1 not better go home and consult Ins
lordship's letter? and then 1 could tell my wife
and the children."
"By no means. It would delay you too long,
and make you seem indifferent to your good
fortune. It will be quite time enough when you
have seen his lordship. I think it an exceed
ingly lucky thing that I met with you?he would
have thought you so tardy. Pray go at once.
Hatha! ha! I can't for my life help laughing to
see you look so amazed. Now go. 1 left his
lordship quite disengaged. Wonderful that 1
should happen tojumn with you exactly at the
door. But hark you, Blythe, you must not men
tion who told you of your appointment; his
lordship might think it olliciousness in me."
"Certainly," said Blythe, "certainly not."
" And will you just be so good," continued
Mr. Winkle, as he hastily took from his pocket
book one of those envelopes that fashion has
made almost universal in our own most polished
days and wrote what seemed to be a memoran
dum'within. "Just be so good as to give my
lord that little memorandum ; it contains some
information essential to him to know. You
must say nothing about it; it will explain itsell;
He will perfectly understand it. And don't men
tion my name at all, Blythe : I know he would
ihink me a very officious fellow. Ha ! ha . ha
I wish you joy ! What a lucky fellow you are !
Ha! ha! ha! Good-bye; good-bye."
The Reverend Benjamin Blythe walked up
that lofty flight of steps without perfectly know
ing whether he accomplished the ascent on Ills
head or Ins heels. His brain was in a perfect
bewilderment; his limbs trembled, his knees
shook, his tongue clove to the rooj ol his mouth.
Had some sudden misfortune befallen l'>mi
could not have fell more prostrate in mind. And
it was true, because be had been in training lor
sorrow. Grief upon grief had dogged his very
footsteps, as step by step he hail advanced in
the dark road of adversity, and its glooms had
gathered more and more heavily ; but bis eyes
were now well used to the murky pathway, and
when, instead of denser darkness, the beams of
prosperity shone on his path, he was well nigh
blinded by the unaccustomed light.
But pass we before our hero up those formal
steps, through that stately halt, along those spa
cious corridors, over a long suite ot rooms, into
the very presence of the peer. IJ *r a' ^a!J
stern stiff, severe propriety ; the chairs looked
as if they were never designed to be sat upon,
the floors never meant to lie trod upon, the ser
vants as if they were never to be spoken to,
every thing as if, could it have uttered words,
it would have said, "Sacrilege to to touch me !"
The solemn quiet of a lolly dignity pervaded
ihe whole mansion. No hurry, no bustle, no
flying here and hurrying there. Silence seemed
to echo itself, and answer "silence"
And the lord of the mansion, the peer of ihe
i realm, the accredited representative of some cer
I tain share of the wisdom of the nation ; where
was he? what was he doing ? what was he
like??why, he was in his library, he was writ
ing. and be was like everybody else, like nothing
but himself.
1 Yes," said Loid Wycherly, telling himself
the news, "I have made un my mind, I havede
cide.l, 1 will make Mr. Winkler mv secretary
It will do very well for a young man wilhoi t
i ncumbrances, and by-and-bye I may pu?h hint
up lull a little. Yes, I will write tO Mm din 11
|v ; 1 know that he loves a jest, but 1 do not at
the bottom of my heart see the sin ol a jest; that
i*. of course, on proper occasions.^ I eopl<? say
that 1 am a severe man: ?m I 7" Lord Vy
clierlv look'd at himself in the large glass which
faced his library table, and asked his own stern
severe counterpart, the question, with an impos
ing threatening air. "Severe, am I ? Need
wonder if the world calumniates me with sc
verily, thai it should calumuialV .
with levity ?"
Lord Wycherly dipped the pen 1li
but, like all oilier steeled articles, it wouV
ther break ihau bend. Not a single mark wo^
it make, though it was a real imieut, to further
ing the nomiiialiou of Mr. Winkler to the im
portant office of tlie peer's secretary. He dipped
again, but the obstinacy of the auunal was in
vincible. It might be a bad omen. Lord VVy
cherly, however, was above omens, so he took a
quill that had once belonged to a sensible goose,
and in which wisdom might therefore be here
ditary.
Lord Wycherly again frowned upon Inuisell
in the ({lass, and not upon himself only, but on a
servant who had been bowing to his lordship's
bark three minutes and a half without venturing
to make himself further audible or visible, but
who, now, tendering a card, presumed to utter
the word "Wails," in the very ghost of sounds.
?' Show him up," said my lord, and the Ilev.
Benjamin Blythe was shown up.
The Reverend Benjamin lily the never after
wards could tell how he had got up those stone
steps, or across that lofty liuU, or along those
corridors, whether he walked in the auti|>odeau
fashion, or only managed the journey in the or
dinary way. But there he did siand in the pre
sence of the peer, at all events.
Something like a perception of a dark frown
ing brow bent upon him, and of glances taking
the measure of his poverty-stricken ^nrl>t <!nl
flicker around the confined whirl ol the poor
gentleman's brains, but his eyes were too full of
tears to see distinctly. In a husky voice, al
most inarticulate wilh emotion, he tried to speak,
hut llie words came not trippingly. ''Your lord
ship's goodness?my gratitude?untiring [exer
tion?devoting all my abilities."
My dear reader, if you were ever in an O'Con
nellised state, that is, in an agitation, and the
person to whom you were uttering the words
which you could neither organize nor control,
listened to you liken snow figure or an embodied
east wind, and waited till you had done, would
not you think him very ?olite7
Thus polite was Lord Wycherly. Our poor
hero had broken down, and had listened to silence
for a full minute and a halt before his lordship
replied, and then the cold words, like the utter
ance of a statue, if statues ever speak, came
cuttingly to the ear of the Reverend Benjamin
Blythe.
" I am at a loss to understand you, sir. Have
the goodness to explain."
" My name is Blythe, my lord." Poor Blythe
thought that would explain everything.
llis lordship bowed.
" Three months ago I took the liberty of so
liciting to be appointed your lordship's sccreta
ry."
His lordship bowed again.
" Which your lordship has been pleased to
honor me with."
" Have I, sir?"
"And 1 am come, my lord, to offer you a gra
titude beyond all expression. If your lordship
could know?could feel"?and here again poor
Blythe broke down.
Lord Wycherly gathered up his majesty and
said, " I am at a loss, sir, whether mistake or
something less excusable has procured me the
honor of this interview. Suffer me to assure
you that 1 do not in the least understand you."
The Reverend Benjamin Blythe staggered
at these words : they had all the torce of a blow ;
he gasped for breath. The peer read all the
marks of dissimulation in his discomfiture.
Suddenly our hero remembered Mr. Winkler's
note?the thought revived him. He presented
it. "That, my lord, will explain all."
The peer took it, opened it, read it. His
coldness was gone in a moment; the storm burst,
the tempest raged, the red blood rushed into his
face, fire-works scattered themselves into his
eyes, thunder boomed from his tongue.
''Take back your miserable jest?your con
temptible lampooneryand suiting the action
to the word, Lord Wycherly threw the open pa
per in his face, and waving him away, said,
" There is the door, sir '.?there is the door, sir .
Our hero, perfectly sickened with amazement
and apprehension, caught the paper in his grasp,
and read the words that had thus had power to
convert the frozen mountain into a volcano.
He read the words, and out readers may do the
?me?
An April Fool! . T_, ,
We say that the Reverend Benjamin Blythe
read those words, and their effect was magical.
The veil was torn from his eyes. He saw, at
once, that lie was the victim of a miserable jest,
the medium of a heartless insult, and, dashed,
in a moment from the eminence of his prosperi
ty, found himself again a beggar, and his wife
and children starving. Miserable man! he at
tempted to stagger out of the lordly presence,
but famine and misery had done their otlicc,
and he fell senseless at the feet of that said noble
When consciousness returned to the Rev.
Benjamin Blythe, he found himself lying on a
sofa; lie had been bled, his arm was bound up,
and lie was surrounded by several of the domes
lies of Lord Wycherly's establishment.
Lord Wycherly retired into the antechamber
and beckoned the doctor, who had been hastily
summoned, to follow him.
" And you think him ill"?
" Yes, my lord, and not slightly."
" And his complaint?"
" Starvation."
Poor Blythe remembered what had passed?
his faculties gathered themselves together again
? he staggered to his feet, endeavored to grasp
his beaverless hat and his worn out gloves, and
to totter forth into the wide and pittiless world
again.
Lord Wycherly approached.
"My lord," said Blytbe, in accents almost in
articulate through weakness and agitation?" my
lord, it was never my intention to approach you
wiili an insult?I was myself deceived. 1 did ii
innocently. 1 will go."
" Not yet," said Lord Wycherly, and he nod
ded for his attendants to leave the room.
''And now, Mr. Blythe, if you arc well enough
to converse for five minutes "
"Certainly, my lord," gasped |>oorBlylbe.
"Nay,oblige me by sitting, and I will do the
same, and now swallow ibis glass of wine, it
may help lo remove this faintness."
The generous wine flowed through Blythe's
very heart, and lie partially rallied.
"My Lord, 1 thank you?J wish you could be
lieve that I never intended to insult you. In all
the unhappinessofmv disappointment, the worst
stitig is, that my sacred profession should biar
the odium of offering wanton affront."
" 1 believe you, Mr. Blythe, and I am sure you
will be able to explain."
And Blytbe attempted to do so. He hurried
over the history of that day?its dark page?the
buffeting, the scorn, llie coldness, the contumely
?dUappoiniment unon disappointment, despair
upon de-pair, hopelessness upon hopelessness,
until lie had met with one whom be had unsus
piciously believed a friend; and then came the
history of that friend's deception, which had in
volved him in his present trouble.
"And his name?" asked Lord Wycherly.
" Pardon me, my lord. He bade me noi tell
it, and 1 heedlessly promised; but however
lightly a promise may be given, it should be so
lemnly kept. Your lordship will not ask nie."
" I will not?I will tell it to you."
My lord !"
"It was Mr. Winkler. You need not answi r
me. 1 happened lo have a Idler of bis before
me when you arrived, and the writing condemns
him. I bad then the pen in my hand to tell him
I had resolved on accepting his nroffered service*
?for he ban connexions who nave importuned
me strongly in bis favor, and I was yielding to
them?but now I would sooner send to 'I"' 11
charily school! 1 owe him, however, oneobliga
lion?he has been the means of introducing t" 1
personally to me." .
" I thank you, my lord, f?r tliii* generous y
quilting me,"