I think that Macaulay could have been distinguished as a poet, if he had so pleased; but he would have been a literary poet like Wordsworth or Tennyson or Coleridge,not a man who sings out of his soul because he cannot help it, like Byron or Burns, or like Whittier among our American poets.

The Custom House was opened on the 18th, with Lieutenant-Colonel Whittier as Collector, and the Internal Revenue office, with Major Bement as Collector on the 22nd.

Washington, George, and the Ordinance of 1787, 239; Farewell Address of, 252; the example of, 266 Weitzel, Gen. Godfrey, 119 Whittier on Lincoln, 201 Wilderness, battle of the, 140 ff. Williamson, Hugh, 237 Wilmington, capture of, 167 Winchester, third battle of, 149 Winder, Gen., and the management of the Southern prisons, 190 Wisconsin, troops from, 165 Wisewell, Col. F.H., 144 ff. FOOTNOTES:

" [Footnote: About 1868, the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH healed Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient pulmonary consumption.