The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1819-11-10

cr turns a deaf ear 10 sincere applicant.
How 'iucn more delightfully."- would their
moments pass, than thus buring their
honor and prospcrity, their hralthand in,
dusiry, inan nnlinleiy grave Of debauch-
cry aid excess. tiNt sNa A.
took riy departure from this scene,
ms my isi,ud told mesltscrr Was yeta
higher sphere Of vice To visi,---and We
| shortly entered large brick house, and
found a suite 81 rooms splendidly fur
nishcd ard !lgh,ed-- several card tablcss
suuonndedMith persons, play my, whist
and FARO. We were introduced formally, (
iWccremony was maintained in this tenn
pie, rs they werealI, ,gentlemcn thcre--a!l
Whose debts Wcrc debts olAoUor. On a
side lab,c refreshments were placed, ard
was invited, in the most nattcring man
ner, TO take punch, the hospitab!c host,
no doubt, intending to ply me with liq-
uers in order to " scrcwlmy courage To
the sticking point" ~i
The Whist play CTS were amusing them
selves with paying for SO dollar points,
a mere rjHe; and one observed, that he
should quiz whist and try faro, if he loss
more than S SEQ. Finding so little in
tercst in. looking OH, ] placed myself near
the faro table hetc were several ven.
turing with all the zeal ol 4 most unnat-
ural and hectic excilement--,heir l:.ccs,
the alternate pictures Of hope and dcs-
pair-iear, joy, anxiety and agitation
prevailed: here was one filling up checks
OH The bank and losing them quickly,
yet going INTO Till even to rumation---
another with pile Of notes and half ea-
gles before him, on which lie ever and
anon stole a greedy and delighted glance, :
while his opposite neighbor, who had
lost his all, fixed his wan and sunken
eyes OH the glitterng store, IN deep des-
pair--herc was one striding rapidly up
and down the room, beating his head
that g lc, the folly in and the dear reason
oui''-there another pouling down glass,
after glass, to drown reAcclion--whilc u
third SAT gna.ing the ends OF bis fingers,
and n,u,tcring curses loud and deep"
Monstrous inla,ua,ion. TO what viii
this avaiicc--ilis ani saera f,ames,"
lead men to |? | recognised, among these
last morlals, gentlemen Of lamily andres
spectabiity ity-sevcral merchants who SUBJ.
sequcnt'y storpcd payment, but could
give no account of forty thousand dollars.
Here they were DESTROYED tic hopes Of .
their family, aud sinking their peace Of
mind in gaming house, while the fond
and estimabe vii. counted the sad houk
Of their absence, and aol,e. in their sump-
tuous dwellings, waiting night after night
Tor their returl--incing the room IL per- !.
turbation--rakng together the expiring
embeIs-narkng the glinmerins OF the
dying tape.--staring at every sustlip0<
sound--her heart, which should be tram
quill, beating with alarm, until the trunnt
husbands we'll known knock r,vives and
anin,atrs hcr--wlen hi, disoidered jrcssA..
his pale and angcied countenatcc, and
the dcep-drawn sigh Of misfortune d,aws,
from his heart broken companion, The 81
len, tear Of agony while coIdald coms. |;
fortress, with aching head and heart, he
n
throws his listless person on his bed, and. /
groans the live-loLg night with poor-l
wife, whom his vices have made wrctclss1t
observation-disclosures, &C. that Inal slS1<ns
permit his reason to be thus sacrificed bA
an inordinatc thirst Of gain, a nliserableyi
misguided inlatuation. No gaablcf cSss,
= died rich--;hough fortune for ycaisS'
may have deiuded him with smiles, M .
she deserts him at his utmost needa a -
bread which honest labor earns, is swy'
or to the appetite, and greater cord;s q
the soul, than the luxuries purch -
the gaiis at play, gains acquirerse,asI
be again lost--gains obtained at the
lense OF the peace, happiness and ~
pcrity OF whole families. a/,4k2