New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-03
His experience with our own countrymen was

during the four years OF his consulate
than in all his preceding life. From some cause or
other the tones Of their voice seemed sharper their
manners more defiant, and their figures and faces
more angular, than he had ever imagined
them to be at home. His mind was haunted by
their way Of speaking Of him as "My Consul" as if
they had robbed him even of the property of his
own person. "Ihey often came to the Consulate
in parties Of half dozen or more, on no business
whatever bat merely to subject their public servant
10 rigid examination, and SEQ how he was getting
on with his duties. These interviews were rather
formidable, being characterized by certain stiff
ness which l felt to be sufficiently irksome at the
moment though it looks laughable enough in the
retrospect. 1t is my firm belief that these fellow
citizens, possessing native tendency to organisa
ton, generally halted outside of the door to elect
speaker. chairman, or moderator, and thus ap-
preached me with all the formaltes of dcputation
from the American people. After salutations on
both sides, abrupt awful and severe on their part,
ard deprecatory on mine,---and the national core-
mony of shaking hands being duly gone through
with, the interview proceeded BY series OF calm
and wG-consdored questions or remarks from the
spokesman, mo other Of the guests vouchsahng to
utter o word and diplonatical responses from the
Consul who sometimes found the Investigation
little more searching than he liked. fator myself
however, that, by much practice, STAINED consd-
cradle skill in this kind of intercourse, the art Of
which lies in passing of commonplace for new and
valuable truths, and talking trash and emptiness III
such way that pretty acute auditor might mis-
take it for something solid. II there be any better
method Of dealing with such junctures,-when talk
is to be created out of nothing, and within the scope
OF several minds at once so that you cannot apply
lyoursolf 10 your interlocutors indiyiduali,y,-i
have no; learned it,
4 Among the stray Americans who appealed to the
patriotic symrathies of the Consul, were variety
Of cratic character whose whimsical adventures
furnish exuberant materials for hi ncisve pen. One
vas an ole man who affirmed that he had been wan
dcIng about England nearly thirty years, vainy az
tempting 70 get back 10 his homo in Philadelphia
Another was dron specimen Of Connecticut Van.
kee who had left lis LITTLE country store for the sake
ofhaying an interyicwvith the Queen, who had pre-
viously given gracious reception to the photograph
OF his wife and children.
A still more extraordinary case shall be presented
II the authors own words:
Az AMERICAS DIVINE OF HIS TRAVELS.
parcel u letters hid been accommodating ~ TIE Goa
tuatc ior two three weeks dfecsG g. ctitAh pe
lios 4 Divinity Who had icn America b, taiiag
racket AID y IS s.. upon the sea. IL due time the zee
SCI arrived AID t.c Teytlefd Iociu palc ne 'lst
lie q lnelcoL!ng middle aged gentleman per'cc
model OF clerical lropreiy scholar IKE vet VIII the ~
Of nan u ilc world Iailor than student lorri
oVeTsTTeod I'D tie graceful fDciiy OF iopahf no
trovoli,n divine. part Of vho.e duty i rs ne 70 *
empty tho natural Gccoicancc between Chfntihntl ant
good breetinS III sceuet Aiiio excited a. al Amer
= itan apt to be first arriving IN Knrlsnd. bet oen
y,fsed with Intelligence - stL srnst,on IT Gsini
himself - agreeable the, hs v stood out IL consdsf
Ale ro.-nf from froncforT ~ MY daily cprmonr~ce
- ieaTs ID Com sst,riie sources b, w-s 500 80 ia
disinrusrc IN Ls. region lc frso- and eio.venc'
= IL the pulpit but now compelled 70 rclreyish
temporarily los the parpuse o. renov~'ihs ~ inlnrs
II he44tA b. a. e1tc.atc tour - fufupr IT ."f y
die IN ne lie TOOK ~ lie buaale u. .ei'cr' ana N~
sway.
D Tie Doctor howe,er filled 20 msf. hs srfesfarc
AZ a.uLei ',-c " % ~ fnfze 80 res das iof ~ 10
spnoe Gl ia TIE cCLse " day ~ Two r4efe. ofeY
al lbolt HIN concluding ai tt mast have 80 forth 81
Is cou-ne- u tlascs -, psl i ~ca Dc bed sf"oae.
ori at our i-t.g.!e~. bai by and hl received cal
lfou tie mGstes q tie yesftl n which h1 had arrived
G lie We in sora ia % about Ait Itsohger Tt'tS ,1f
gage remerel ga siph,s-d bot o; whom n",hi"r "a
been -eAid ~ seen .i.ce sAc io's.' % ~ "a. 49,
fro.1 tie COIs-lst We cuiE'cd iogtitgi, Nt '-p
tain nd etoui lie e1Hlcaey - .eiirs th' ponce VI
= tue tTtlag az any wvfu h. ull.l ~ orr FLr.she
j. friend bl. t1iTgcL tn tlo god CAPTAIN 8 e. ~
10 Eglasy TeilceLt and that there as scneii.Df hit
nous 10 fcy loinis tn BE- hinied - rsL va
H
lur-.afd that Tie Intimacy o. ~ o. stipboHa nj,
- lase taught Inn more about To rcTrTrrl gelucfna
q than. og zone reason or olef. De deemed prert
q reveal - bono. M on B4utc country "orll A9N
looked % The Doctors personal safety Bad le his repr
lotion tate caIe u itself know NJ tali ts good f,G
Of itoELg1e sanity clergl men would aupy dazzle 90
sur lsine.fsls EST on .inrs tro'hefs chsract-'
q But ID fcolfal and nvidlds tgapd on TIE id,a tlh
j. tic credit o. tie sscTed Office VI nsssrsby nrys,e
= g. iav discretion ] could not endure .ti ~, sahe
American Doctor, 81 Divinity generally. that ths PAR
tcar Doctor slonld cot igrobe figure IN the polio
i reports oithe Lagsh ne"sP g' except al ths .'i 20
" cessity The clerical holy. ] tatysr Inyseh vii ~
i kaovedee tlat acted on taer principle Be,des
ii wa aov - late TIE mischief and violence II AZ.
had been impeding Wcfe not Of o ti1d Which i 70
quircs tie better ytrf o. weeh 20 IeiIetrfic AID Z
sun ND the entire matter f.li crisiu from good den
Il somewhat similar experience that. II Tie missi'
Doctor eth tfshkef this vital alr. he would tam sp
tie Consulate 40 5oOD 90 III money sAoGd DC sieA q
Precisely week after tbs revcreni perfons dsnY
peaTance. there came g. my Office ti middle as %
CentleglEn 81 blue military suftOrt braided ~ M
seams bat ,ut at olboHs ehf o. shabby ~ tie ""no
had toon byognckiug IN IT throughout Cr.me@n oan
pagn. II was tutonedup 10 the very chin except whcF,
ee OF four Of tie Duitona were ni uof wm tLerf any
glimpse OF white shirt collar Eliminating tho rrA'
black Gravel grizzly musiacho was just beginning
- roughen the strangers upper lip he looked dau y
ntablc - the last degree bat h had ruined air II
good society Gnmer1r about I'm Ike few rpaeAt o.
polish a sword bsdc that las lain cofoding N nnd
uudCir. took hin % be some American maflDo 0icer.
Of dlsspated h1D-ts' or Peihs easN.tol Al',1 ~
major stumbling into the wrong quarters through TIE
unocifcd be9lldermeDt ~ the h-t Aghit debauch ne
greeted however with roiiic familiarity. as tloufh
we had been previously acquainted; wLercupon drew
codly back (os scuFble people naturally do. whether
from strangers or former 1ends when too evidently az
odds with ttune) and requested to know who NY Wis
lior might be- and what lin business at tie Con
sulate y" An then 80 clangedP 10 exco!med witt a
vast depth of tragic iutJnaton; and after ite bd
and pe udeied AK behold the truth flashed upon
/, was the Doctor Of Divinity II had mednlted a
scene 0r oOHy de hrdfTe could not have contriFed
more efecuai than by s simple and genuine dih
Guilty u recognition. Tie poor Divine must have felt
that he lad Os bis personal identity through Tie misad
ventures Of little week. And "a Esy ,he truth he
I,fr.. q T,I Of