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"Only think," said Therese, as she drew him towards the circle of guests, "only think, Herr Hohenheim will leave us in the morning, and has ordered post horses for Leipzig."

The whole company rose unanimously and surrounded poor Ludwig-beseeching him with prayers and entreaties to remain. Fridoline alone stood quietly at a distance, and ventured not among the petitioners. They spared no caresses, no threats, each and all had so much to say to him, that there appeared to be a contest among them, who could use the most flattery, the most eloquence.

"That Iceland letter is to blame for this," said the Frau Von Saar with a most mischievous smile, "who knows from what beloved hand it comes?"

"A letter from Iceland!" said the amazed Therese, "how so? when? where?"

"Amos announced it," answered the young widow.

Fridoline let her hands fall from before her face. At this instant, the full moon bursting through the scattering clouds, shed her mild glance through the twilight of the trees, shrubs and flowers, and over the fair form of Fridoline, as she stood like a gentle angel before him, her eyes fixed on him, their glances full of love and grief, "Go and forever," said she, after awhile, "go and be happy." 'No, Fridoline! that I can never be." "And I"-she could say no more.

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"Then must I myself depart."

"And wherefore can you not endure my presence? will you not look on me? how have I angered you thus ?"

This produced a new storm, but Ludwig remained unmoved, and adhered to his resolution of de- "You have not angered me, Hohenheim, never, parting in the morning. There was now a general but this must not be remain till Sunday evening, call for the Iceland letter, and their mischievous it will only be three days longer; then I also go : mirth had risen to a great height, when the an- ask me not why, mention it not to the guests-will nouncement of supper induced them to postpone you promise me?" the cause till after that important meal.

Each gentleman selected a lady and led her across the garden to the house. Ludwig, however, remained leaning against the window, till remark

"I will."

"And you stay till Sunday evening ?"
"Certainly."

She gave him her hand, he pressed it to his

ing that Fridoline was left without an escort he heart, and they rejoined the company. silently offered her his arm.

They had proceeded but a few steps, ere Fridoline, disengaging herself from him, took out her handkerchief, and pressed it to her eyes; Ludwig bent over her, “You weep," said he with an uncertain voice. She answered not. He attempted to take her hand, but she withdrew it, and said, "I pray you leave me, Herr Hohenheim."

"Are you angry with me dearest ?" "No."

[To be continued.]

THE BIRD OF PARADISE.

BY MARY E. HEWITT.

O'er a bright blooming isle in the far Indian seas,
Soars aloft a gay bird, in the face of the breeze-
Soars aloft, while the air with his glad voice outrings,
As the wind rushing by smooths his gossamer wings.
Away through yon ether thy pathway doth lie,
High upward, and onward, brave bird of the sky!

"Do you also wish me to give up my journey He who guideth the tempest, aid to thee doth impart, to-morrow?"

"No, by all means go to-morrow-to-night." “And is it then a matter of indifference to you?" "No, yet go, indeed you must, it will be pleasant to me, very pleasant."

"Well, since it is so agreeable to you, I will go; Oh! Fridoline, would I had never known you. I am most unfortunate, you know not how I am situated; I am very, very unhappy. The thorns indeed are mine; I must depart, my destiny calls me, I am deceived through my own folly, an extraordinary caprice of fate has destroyed me; I make thee but one prayer Fridoline, only one, do not think me false, continue in my absence to cherish at least a feeling of kindness for me."

Still no answer.

"Look on me," continued he, in a supplicating voice then after another 66 pause, are you indeed so displeased with me ?"

Giveth force to thy pinion, and strength to thy heart.
Where the strong-plumed eagle soars up and away,
'Mong the bright clouds of morning, thy mates are at play;
Then mount thee in gladness! swell thy clear notes on high-
Ah! why hast thou wandered thus down from the sky?
Thy gay wing is drooping, thy plume wears a stain,
Thou hast stooped thee to earth-thou may'st ne'er rise
How like is the spirit that soars to be free,
In its flight-in its fall, oh, thou bird! unto thee.

again!

New-York.

SHE IS THE LAST.

She is the last of all that God
Hath given to our hearth,
Two brothers sleep beneath the sod,
They perished at their birth;
Ah! fondly did we hope that she
Would live through her sweet infancy,

She is the last, and there she lies,

Beneath the locust tree.
We've laid to rest with streaming eyes
The last of all the three:

We've heaped the clay above her breast,
And left her sleeping with the rest.

She is the last,-we give her up,
With silent lips, to Heaven:
Submissively, we take the cup,
"Tis bitter, but 'tis given;
Enduring still, with faithful trust,
We yield our last hope to the dust.

TOGA CIVILIS TO AN "OFFICIAL MILITARY SEAMAN,"

In his "reply," the gentleman has not offered a single tenable objection to any position I have assumed. He has not "come to his feet" in a cool and candid spirit; but he has permitted prejudice or ignorance to warp his views and lead him to utter sophistry for argument. His attacks upon the not much loved medical chief I care not for: that person will meet his deserts one of these days, (if he has them not at this moment,) but the injury he has done will not be soon repaired. The medical corps of the Navy, however, is not and should not be made responsible for his acts: in justice, we ought to look to the power that appointed and sustained him.

There is evidently an attempt made by the author of the "reply," to convey the idea that Dr. ON THE RULES and regulations for THE GOVERN- Barton is the originator of the discontent existing

MENT OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES.

August 28th, 1843.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOU. LIT. MESSENGER.

in the medical corps; that there is not the smallest cause for complaint in any respect by the medical corps, and in support of this view we are told, (page 457) but untruly told, "it is the delightful pri

Dear Sir:-I have just read "a reply to Toga Civilis," contained in the "MESSENGER," for Au-vilege, and even blessing, of the Surgeon of a shipgust, which I hasten to remark upon, although I of-war, that he moves in a path of duty, where no one presume any communication now made must reach has either the desire or the capacity to interfere, you too late to appear in the number for September. and that he is thus exempted from a participation The writer of the "reply" misrepresents my in the personal conflicts, jealousies and annoyances, views on the subject under consideration, not in a that beset the subject of an ever present and active single particular, but in every respect and gene-military rule," implying that the Surgeon is not rally; and presuming he loves truth better than suc-"the subject of an ever present and active military cess in a bad cause, I will endeavor to point out rule:" it is also charged that the medical corps, what I believe to be the errors into which he has (part of it, at least ?) by the prompting of this same fallen. Notwithstanding the gentleman shows some unfortunate chief, is striving to attain entire indeirritation of feeling, and occasionally soothes it by pendence of all military rule and subordinationa flippant and personal allusion to my vanity, bad-that it is selfish and striving to advance itself at the spirit, rudeness to captains, querulousness, &c., expense of all other grades, and finally, that it is and although he complains of my verbal criticisms, hostile to the whole service without motive. and finds it a fault that I quoted Johnson's Dictionary, (and I quoted accurately too!) I will let it all pass. If he had overturned a single position or important assertion, made by me, I really believe he would have done the cause of the Surgeons in the Navy more injury, and himself more credit, than by gratifying himself in personal attacks upon myself, or Dr. W. P. C. Barton. Thus far, in spite of its effort, the exercise of his wit has proved to be a harmless amusement; I shall offer no objection to his indulging in a pleasure so innocent as this seems to be.

In support of these serious charges, the gentleman has not alleged a single fact or circumstance in proof, and has totally failed to show that his statements, that is, opinions, are even plausible.

The truth presents a different picture. Very many members of the medical corps have performed duty, both ashore and afloat, without meeting many obstacles from commanders of vessels, and have deservedly gained the approbation of all with whom they were associated. No one, perhaps, manifested any desire to interfere in the path of their duty; and we have heard "Official MiliI am proud of the notice an "Official Military tary Seamen" take credit to themselves on this Seaman," has taken of my tiny effort; and, if per-point, in language something like this—“ Whenfectly agreeable to you, MR. EDITOR, I shall be ever the Surgeon reported to me that any thing most happy to discuss the differences of opinion existing between us. If he prove me to be in error, I will cheerfully acknowledge it, and profit by his instruction; but let us avoid personal epithets and citations from witty authors in foreign tongues, for we may not be equally expert in the use of such weapons; a rifleman, with choice of distance, ought not to match himself against a small-swords-man.

was necessary for the sick, it was instantly granted and got, if money would procure it—if he said it was necessary to send a man to a hospital, he had it his own way." This is emphatically true, and how lowly sunk must humane feeling be if it were untrue: humanity to his patients is advanced to prove that the Surgeon himself has no reasonable wish ungratified! It may be remarked here, that if there be one trait of character more strongly marked

than another, among “Official Military Seamen"| nothing as a right; while all in the vessel, whether afloat, it is their disposition to comfort and succor above or below him, have rights which can be althe sick. Surgeons, who have cruised much, know ways sustained on the ground of law or usage. how unexceptionable the custom is to furnish delicacies to the sick from the officers' stores. If a balance were struck between credits of this kind, and the unholy charges contained in the infamous "liquor circular," the Navy Department would be deeply in debt.

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The frequent occurrence of instances, showing the want of rank in a naval or military community, created a dislike to the sea-service and a discontent in the minds of most Medical officers, which was not lessened by comparing their own with the situation of their professional brothers, either in To return to the point-the kindness of officers, other services or in our own army. On the necesin aiding the Surgeon to procure appliances for the sity of an established rank, and of the justice of relief of their suffering shipmates, certainly has claiming to be placed on an equal footing with little bearing upon the question of the Surgeon's Medical officers of the army in this respect, the personal rights and privileges-it would not be corps became gradually unanimous in opinion. The urged, that, because the public store-rooms of the want of a head, a representative of the corps, had ship contain all the tools the exercise of his trade long been felt; and a majority of the corps berequires, the carpenter himself is enviably situated!lieved, that the interests of the country would be Military subordination, on duty, was not, and is advanced by the creation of the office of "Surnot offensive; nor has much complaint been made geon General of the Navy," and years past, Conon the score of physical privations. Medical offi- gress had been asked to create it, and many becers, in the Navy, are placed in a position to see lieved this must be the first step towards improving men, not unfrequently inferior to themselves in the position of Surgeons in the Navy. This proevery mental accomplishment, pass them, by be-ject, however, was most wantonly, furiously and coming lieutenants, by becoming commanders, by insanely opposed by the very man, who was (carebecoming captains-time advances all their asso- fully ?)"selected"" from among sixty Surgeons of ciates, but leaves them fixed. They are denied the Navy," to fill the office the moment it was inassimilated rank, “ a distinction purely nominal;"stituted, although he declares in an address "To the and for the want of it they are obliged to submit in House of Representatives," (Feb. 28, 1843,) that it silence to all the outward demonstrations of social is an office "he neither sought, wished for," nor apinferiority, in a community where the apartment proved*-and his sentiments remain unchanged. slept in, the place occupied at table, the precedence, The corps was disappointed the Navy has been (or in their case sequence,) in leaving and entering disgusted by the mental antics of this chief who a ship, the place of promenade on deck, and even has neither the sympathy nor approbation of his the fashion and decoration of his clothes, are defi- corps. Even in creating the Bureau of medicine nitely determined by the grade or rank of every and surgery, a stamp of inferiority was set upon man on board. This community is chiefly made the whole corps, if not upon the whole medical up of men who are drilled from youth upwards to these aristocratic distinctions; they are taught to read a man's worth, officially, by the buttons and bullion on his coat, and to respect him accordingly. This is truly the very foundatoin of discipline. But the medical officers are admitted to this aristocracy, at an average age of, perhaps, four and twenty; they have been cast in the faith of democracy, and have stiffened in the mould-they cannot bend and "Should this dynamic office be created, with all its speare not readily taught to feel socially inferior to like the balloonist, by inflation and the levity of the air ciously projected utilities, it and its incumbent will soar their new companions, who treat them as inferior within, to a great height. On its first rising, the community members of the aristocracy, because their buttons- would gaze at it in wonderment-commend the boldness of hieroglyphics of the military profession-do not the aeronaut who could venture to ascend in so fragile and indicate any rank whatever. To be without rank unsubstantial a machine. He will soar still higher and higher, in the midst of an aristocracy is worse than being until he shall become dimly seen in reduced dimensions, without money any where; it is the misfortune of and will finally be lost sight of, obscured from visioninstruments, advantages, life-preserving apparatus and allmedical officers to feel themselves worthy of a in clouds of disappointment. The gazers would disperse nearer approach to social equality with their fellow and he be not heard of again, until we should learn, by the servants of the people. But medical officers have public prints, that he had precipitately descended, after many no rank. Every privilege depends upon the cour-and precarious attempts to direct his baloon on a straight tesy of their associates; and if the Surgeon be course in his aerial voyage, at a place of landing, far distant from its rise, or perhaps that he shall have met with inju fortunate in his shipmates, he may have no cause to ries, or loss of property or life, in the venturesome feat." complain, but if not, he will break the bread of Believing in his own prophecy, he was too modest to wish bitterness till the end of the cruise. He holds to exemplify its truth in his own person.

profession; its chief was assigned a salary of a

*The reasons why he did not wish the office, are, perhaps, contained in the following extract, from “a polemical remonstrance against the project of creating the new office of Surgeon General in the Navy of the United States," addressed to the naval committees of both houses in Congress, "by William P. C. Barton, M. D., a senior Surgeon in the United States Navy," &c. &c.

jority of the signers of that paper were personally hostile to the very man who was to be earliest benefitted by the success of their petition.

Now, when the voice of the corps just begins to make itself heard, and its cries are responded to by the sympathy of the whole profession; when it asks for what cannot be reasonably denied-to be placed on a level with the army Medical Corps, after it has won applause in all quarters, and receives it liberally from the hand of its warm opponent, (the author of the "reply,") its members are denounced as "disorganisers," as selfish, and are falsely charged with secking their own advancement at the expense of the whole Navy. We are told to be content; and to make us so, we are praised, flattered, threatened, and appealed to in all ways. But I tell the gentleman it is vain: we must have a hearing; and after we have been patiently heard, we will abide the decision--not of the Navy alone-but of the nation.

thousand dollars a year less than the salaries of vice-a hostility without reason or provocation; the coördinate bureaux of the Navy Department. and which, it may be remarked here, is not likely To call attention to this invidious distinction, a of itself to advance the views or interests of those memorial was addressed to the Secretary of the who take it as a principle of action." (Page 452 Navy, signed by all the Medical officers who were of Messenger.) at home; and how strongly the corps felt this dis- This is error, and some may be disposed to chatinction is shown by the simple fact, that the ma-racterize it by a stronger term. I do not believe that any members of the Medical Corps entertain hostile feelings, recent or old, against "the sea-officers of the service," in the sense here implied, and I have some doubt whether the writer himself seriously entertains such a notion. But, the Surgeons of the Navy have long felt, there is some undisclosed reason, perhaps of a personal nature, why their claims to consideration, on several occasions, when Regulations have been proposed, have been unceremoniously and disrespectfully cast aside. This very "paper" is a fair specimen of the sneering tone of the replies heretofore made to their petitions for amendment. The Surgeons ask for nothing that is calculated to injure any one grade in the Navy, or in any respect lessen discipline; but they cannot be persuaded that it is necessary for the interests of the Navy generally, or any grade or grades, that they alone of all classes in the Navy should remain without rank or personal rights and privileges, and continue to receive every thing as a personal favor from the Captain or first Lieutenant of a ship; a Medical officer was once told by a captain, in reply to a petition he preferred at sea, to have a place assigned him to sleep, (stating that midshipmen occupied the staterooms, usually occupied by officers of his grade, and that he was obliged to sleep on deck or in the beds of officers while they were on watch,) that he had all the law allowed him-"show me, sir, any Regulation which entitles you to a room, and you shall have it-if you do not like your situation you may write to the Secretary of the Navy, but don't trouble me any further on the subject." Yet, your correspondent tells his readers that "no one has Of the importance of a highly qualified corps of either the desire or the capacity to interfere" with Medical officers for the Navy there can be no the Medical officer "in a path of duty." Tell your doubt; nor is there much difficulty in devising the correspondent that it happened once: a Fleet Surmeans of obtaining and of keeping such a corps. geon, a man much loved and universally respected, Offer as easy a position as proper discipline will on account of his official as well as his private permit and an adequate pay to tempt poor men of qualities, was directed by the commander-in-chief talent from the beaten professional course, and the to visit a vessel of the squadron on special duty. inatter is accomplished, provided always that the Boards of Examination carefully discharge their duties to the government.

Does the gentleman think that medical service in the Navy is so very popular, in the profession, that it will be always in demand? How many resignations are now taking place? Is the gentleman aware that of the five to whom commissions of Assistant Surgeon have been recently sent, three only have accepted? Unless there is reform, the Medical Corps cannot be kept filled by properly qualified men; and the result will be the destruction of the system of examinations, there will be no standard of qualification, and it requires very little discernment to foresee who will be the sufferers, or who will become to sea-officers" the companions of their minds and the guardians of their health."

But let us examine more closely some of the positions and assumptions of an "Official Military Seaman."

He reported the Commodore's order and requested the first Lieutenant (now a commander) to give him a boat to enable him to obey it. The "Official Military Seaman," replied, after a moment's hesitation, “I have just ordered a boat for the wardroom steward, and you can take a seat with him." The "reply" states that the paper of Toga Ci- The Surgeon declined the honor, not that he obvilis "places in open view the new and alarming jected to sitting in a boat with the ward-room hostility which some members of the Medical Corps steward, but there was something annoying in beof the Navy, under the guidance of its present ing associated in "a path of duty" with a serrepresentative, the head of the Medical Bureau, vant. The seaman rejoined, “Then sir, I shall give have imbibed towards the sea-officers of the ser- you no other boat." At this moment, the Com

in the formation of these Regulations, or he speaks under instruction of some one who was there.

"This Board was informally called together, by the honorable Secretary of the Navy, for the purpose of revising the Rules, &c.," previously prepared by himself and the Attorney General of the United States. "In the progress of their revision, the Board found it more convenient, with the consent of the Department (Qu? Secretary,) to adopt a new, (the present) form."

modore appeared on deck, and the Surgeon stated that Mr. refused to give him a boat, unless he would share it with the steward. "Give the Doctor a boat, sir." It may be well to state, there was no personal unkindness existing between these gentlemen; on the contrary, they had been friends. I must add for your information, Mr. Editor, that "the first" would not have said the same thing, either to a Commander or a Lieutenant, or associated any "Official Military Seaman,"-I am glad the gentleman likes this appelative—“ in a path of Again, says the "reply," "when the Board conduty," with a ward-room steward; and I humbly cluded to enter upon its duties, it was immediately believe that the Fleet Surgeon would have been observed and regretted, that no Surgeon was prespared, on that occasion, had there been an assimi-sent-(why?) but, upon inquiry, it was ascertained lated or correlative rank established for Medical that the chief of the Medical Bureau was preparofficers. It is such instances that has driven Medi- ing a system of Rules for the government of his cal officers to seek for the establishment of laws own corps. The Board would have preferred the and Regulations to protect them from the annoy-personal coöperation of an intelligent, sea-going ance of the petty exercise of petty tyranny; and Surgeon." when they see an attempt made, either wilfully or The "Reply" further states that the Secretary of through ignorance, to fasten upon them the "abuses the Navy approved of the labors of the Board and of the service," can you be surprised if they re-recommended its work to the protection of Consist, even at the cost of being charged with "a hostility, without reason or provocation" "towards the sea-officers of the service." Instances of a similar character can be cited, almost without number; yet your correspondent assures you, " any complaint of former ill-treatment comes with a bad grace from Medical officers," (page 458.) Why? Because, says "an Official Military Seaman," "They were the first to have their pay increased, and the double examination, regulated by their own will, gives security and permanency to the honor and intelligence of the corps." Does the gentleman really think, because they were the first to obtain from the representatives of the people, a very small addition to an almost contemptibly small pay, they should bear ill-treatment in silence, whether present or past or does he think they should submit to injustice, because they pointed out and secured the way of making the Medical Corps honorable and intelligent, by causing Medical officers to be twice examined before receiving the commission of Surgeon, and consequently securing for the "Official Military Seamen" and others in the Navy, when sick and hurt, efficient professional assistance-not only that, but protecting them from the fatality, ever following in the track of ignorant (misnamed) physicians. Because they have done this, they are called upon to submit, nay, not only so, but to submit quietly to injustice from the very men who are most benefitted by their successful efforts to elevate the standing and increase the intelligence of medical men in the Navy!

The second paragraph of the "reply," gives us some very significant information in regard to the formation of these said Rules and Regulations; and of course this information is to be relied on, for the reason, that an "Official Military Seaman" speaks as if he himself were present and took part

gress, and urges this as a reason why every body should be content with the Rules and Regulations thus prepared; and the Secretary thought they must be good because the Board approved of its own work-at least so he says in his report-but the reply says, "the members of the Board were desirous, that the code drawn up by them should be suspended for another year, in order that the accumulation and comparison of professional opinions might improve what they had done in a short time, and under the pressure of other duties."

In his report to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary does not mention the Attorney General as having participated in drawing up the Rules and Regulations, but he says, distinctly, that "the code now presented is the result of their labors, (the Board) conjointly with my own"-but the reply says, "the Board found it more convenient to adopt a new form.”

The reply tells us there was no Surgeon on the Board, and it was regretted; but the Secretary declares "the different grades of the service were engaged in this duty," adding, "the fact that the Rules and Regulations, as now presented, are approved by all of them, affords a strong presumption that they are right."

Besides the contradiction of the parties quoted, it is worth remarking the manner of obedience accorded by the high functionaries of the land to the joint resolution of Congress, dated 24th May, 1842. One of them, delegated his share of the work to four others, in opposition to the implied will of Congress on this subject, as expressed in the debate on the proposition for a mixed commission, and the other one, as far as report goes, neglected the subject altogether. It may not be altogether out of place to ask here, what has become of the answer to a resolution of Congress, (session

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