Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-11-12
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1859.


ing the greatest man in the universe, and
knowing that he was looked up to as great
quence as he first entered upon the duties OF
his office.
In the Capitol, at Washington, very differ
ent idea was entertained by many. At the
time Mr.. Blatherskite was elected, revolution
had taken place in the politics Of New York.
The Secretary of the Treasury had considered
it his duty to meddle in the domestic affairs in
the political family of the Empire State a great
split had taken place in which the party bad
been sundered; many reeking their vengeance
upon the administration, while the faction that
had received the favors from the government
clung to it with q tenacity that nothing but an
| office-holder is capable OF doing. Those who
clung to the administration had their doubts
about having majority in the House on many
of the important questions that were to come
before that body during the esession. The great
question: among the knowing ones, to be solved
was, would Mr.. Blatherskite go with the regu-
| lar party or against it, At every turn the in
| quiry arose, "will Mr.. Blatherskite support the
Kansas Nebraska bill viii he be hard or
will he be a soft Or, in other words, would
ne vote with tne uemoefats OF Wouiu ne go
with the oppositionF Iime alone wouid &C.
velope. But there was one thing certain, he
was the lion OF the day everybody knew him
to be great man, and everybody courted ms
| friendship and influence.
y u =
While Mr. Blatherskite was being elevated
| to the seventh heaven, by the great men of the
nation, Frank Baker was incarcerated in
prison for the fines and costs for an assault
and battery ease. Time rolls on and yet no
deliyerence came. Those that had professed
so much friendship for him, previous to the
election, did not even inquire what had become
of him now, when he was in trouble But
there was one faithful being who paid him fire.
onent Waits and administered to his wants;
one friend that, though she neither possessed
wealth or influence. stood by the fallen man
and smoke kindly words to him. 1t was one
who had never been corrupted by the whiles
of the politiciau or mingled in his bachanaian
reyelry-that was the miserable mans wife.
She had borne The scoffs and ieers of the rab-
Bile. as well as the neglect Of those who had
ruined bor husband. without a murmur. She
had seen her quiet home desolated that another
MIGHT he made cheerful; that on the ruin of
b.r lomest;c hanpiness. tho bright homes of
the prcat had been built; glad hearts and
smiling countenances had been coined from
her sichs and tears. Did she utter one word
sold every earthly thing she possessed, she
went bitterly. but no exclamation passed her
lips; without one ray of hope to light her
future life, she loved her Frank. It did not
matter how far he had fallen, she was still the
partner of her lows sharer of his misfortunes.
Whenever an opportunity would offer, she
would steal away from her friends and walk
the FIVE weary miles to New Castle, and spend
an hour Or two with her husband This would
have been no pleasant visit to any one but
devoted wife, for Frank had fallen so low that
his clothing was worn out, and had itnot been
for a little mending that Helen did, while she
was on these visits, he would have been COM
pletely in rags. Fortune looked very black on
the future. No friends to counsel no sympa-
thizing voice to lend one single word of COM
fort all was dark and drear 1t isa notorious
fact that while prosperity smiles on a man, and
money jingles In his pocket, he will have plen- |
ty of friends to 6utter around and fatter him |
but let adversely once mark him for her victim
and these butterfly associates will fee him like |
pestlence. The knave, who to-day eats at
his board, and luxuriated in his hospitality, |
will in the day of adversely spurn the hand !
that welcomed him, and turn upon his heel |
from the man whom he had lavished so many |
fayors Alas, poor human nature, fral as it is, \
has some redceming traits among the poor and |
humble; but yery few among the would-be I
great the brainless beings who set themselves
nm as the aristoracy of the land.
~. ....o,s .,n. nohlon,or noror ioots
,,;t, d;.a.,,s. ,,non Tho noor and bu,rblc IL Is
..,. ~. a,,a,, a.;..oo.ac, ,,ho cons;dor tban,.
.a,,,o. for enno,ior ba;nga IN the humble me-
cbanic who earns, by his honest toll, his daily
broad Frank was down Mt the bottom of the
hill Of adversely; no one could descend to even