Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1839-08-22

tee, where the man that IS last paId, worst
paid, and what is worse still, worst used,
Is Their Physician, or what they quantity
term, heir Doctor. From considerations
of this character he had come to the con-
cluson that the city was the only place for
man OF science. But he had forgotten
that II Is one thing to merit professional pat
roDage, and another thing TO obtain it,
that one required talent, the other tact; the
one meriEA the other, too often, low cam
hlRg lie had, however resolved 10 estab-
lish himself in this city; but, in taking up
such cross, he well knew his native BASH
tulness would have to pay the forfeit
There WAS an old and tried friend of his ia
Tiers IN the city, whom he had often seen
at his fathers house, whose counsel, if not
patronage he might rely on. This was
Mr. c., a Journalist of the ole school. He
was one of those pIum and line merchants,
who squared every motion and act by pre-
ciseIy 80 degrees. If he were tying an
envelope and his life depended on dispatch,
he wonld coolly stop to correct any obi
putty of the lgature, while the coachman
was crying out at the top of his voice 81
can't wait another instant His hair was
powdered by precisely so many shakes of
the puff, and cued by just so many twists
of the ribbon, the bow of which had not va
fied three hairs distance, for thirty years.
Mr.. c. had about this time married his
second wife ); an amiab!e lady, much
younger than himself; her nervous sys-
TEN had become so diseased from feeble
state of health, and high, nervous tenn
permanent, that she was subject on the most
-, 81 ~, tbo nd
notifying fits II laughter, which no medi-
cal treatment had as yet been able to cor
rect, and no mental effort on her part to
suppress. Not only mis- family, but the
whole circle of her acquaintance, had be-
come so familiar to those fits of cachina-
ton, that they always avoided any notice
of them, to save her the pain OF reflection,
after they were over.
This brief DEPRESSION and preface are me-
cessary, to explain what follows. Tho
time had arrived, when our young debn-
tdnte must appear on the worlds great
stage. He had screwed up his courage to
a sticking point and determined TO leave
for the city the next day. The family had
prepared every thing to his hand, knowing
that in his fits Of abstraction Ito which he
often the case, something essential to his
comfort. His letters of presentation were
in his trunk, and every thing in readiness,
when IN one cold morning in November,
he took leave Of the village Or. 1t
WIS late in the evening of the next day,
when he arrived In this city. AS the stage
coach stopped, the door of. the Inn opened
on crate of vivid coal fire, that was so
tempting to our shlvering passenger, that
he aighted, and seated himself by the fire,
without once inquIring for his baggage.
After supper he called for light, and re-
quested the servant to take his trunk into
his chamber, when, 10 and behold no
trunk was to be found. His wardrobe, and
what to hun was vastly more important, his
credentlaI letters, &c. We're gone, and here
he was, in the city, alone, and stran-.
ger lie went to his chamber and began to
upbraid himself, for this habit of abstrac-
ton, which had before caused him so much
trouble. He soon retired to bed, musing
on the past, in order to preclude any anti
oipation of the future, for he had now half
resolved to leave the city, trunk and all,
and never return to it again, as he began
to find himself unfit for that kind of society
WuiCtl nc loISSdW iiiuot p'Guh up Ills IIltuS0
paroxysms of thought, and restore him to
the world. He knew his talents and ac-
quirements, and he also knew that IN his
first interview with fashionable society, he
should make a shipwreck of them both,
should any trivial crcu Instance cmbarrass
him; aud thus excite his ever dreaded
bashfalness. He must meet females in So
ciety; and those he dreaded; for he would
Jump over a fence any time, tn avoid meet
ing one, provided he could do it without
observation. With such musings. he
passed the night--morning came-he arose
full of anxiety and self-reproach, and after
breakfast he set off for prntlng-office in
in order to advertise his trunk, aud forget
ting where he was, he took the most retir-
ed and circuitous route, and after long
walk, as he was passing through Pearl
street, he was aroused from his reverie, by
the voice of one who was welcoming him
to the city. He turned round, and found
i, to be the old and faithful friend Of his
family, Mr. c., whom we have before
named. After some mutual enquiries Of a
domestic character, he related to Mr. C,
his misfortune, aud when Mr. G. had adj
vised what course to pursue for its recova-
nv, he insisted that DIR. X should dine
with him that day, as Captain B. "a quon-
dam captain in the East India service, an
old crouy of his fathers wouldsbe there