The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-01-09
We greet with much pleasure our old friend
JAaUEs. We are always unwilling to delay
introducing him to our readers.

last evening IN December, " to see the old
year out, and the new year inn
OLD Time, in his flight, hath again pass'd
the bound es,
In mans view which crosses his mystical
round
The events of the last year are fx'd, right or
wrong,
And with minutes well noted he trudges
along. sT
Those brief memoranda shall one day appear
To each mortal the cause of rejoicing or fear:
Then let us whose consciences dread not the
view,
Bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the
new.
Since our last anniversary changes have been,
And exits and entrances varied the scene:
For lov'd ones departed, to memory dear,
We offer the tribute of feeling-a tear.
Such changes have been, and shall meier cease
to be,
Till duet seek its kindred, and spirit be free.
Then with deep, chasten'd feeling, to sympa-
thy true,
Bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the
new.
The pleasures which sparkled in Hopes mag
iok glass,
Anu CIldFH1 u US 10 Dku the WOFIQ lDeTFlIY pass.
May have wither'd and faded and sorrows
deep cloud
Ger their cold lifeless relicks have fall'n. as
shfoud:
For deception life's pathway with false fow'rs
hath strew'd,
And pleasure beams brightest at distance when
view'd.
Then enjoying the present, the future in view,
Bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the
Yet, tho many vision of bliss may have fed,
And our hearts DER the fond wreck in sorrow
have bled;
Still blessings unnHmber'd are ours, and have
been,
While millions have VANISHED, to be no more
seen.
IT'S folly to look to the past with regret,
While much of enjoyment remains to us yet.
Then with mingled rejoicing and thankfulness
due,
Bid farewell 10 the old year, and welcome the
new,
! Fill the wine-cup, and lett pass menily round,
| And musick It's changes of harmony sound;
And while mirth and good fellowship heighten
our cheer,
Let us hallow the dFaught by remembrances
dear;
With the warm CHERISHED feelings of life's early
day,
Pledge, with fervent devotion, 6 our friends
far away
May they, happy like US, with devotion as true,
Bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the
new. JAQUES.
From the Boston Commercial Gazette.
At a Meeting Of the Paper Manufacturers,
from vnrious parts of New-Englamd,
Held at Clark's Cofee-Hoase, IN Bos-
ton, on Wednesday, the 18th of Deem
Der, 1891, the folloguing Das unanimous
~ adopted as the sense Of the meeting /:
We regret that the practice of calling
Rags, unknown in this country, until
within few years. has become so seri-
Gus an evil, as to render an appeal TO
the publick necessary. Did we not be-
lieve that the people are duped by this
dishonest practice for the benefit of a
few individuals, we should have but lit
tie confidence in the utility of calling
their attention to this subject. This dis
honorable speculation, (which is principal
ly carried on by pedleY and nwkers,
must either be abandoned, or the Manu-
facturers will be compelled to change
the present system of collecting Rags
which is simple and easy, and from long
practice has become familiar-for one
more complicated and difficult; that of
collecting the different qualities, by
themselves, with the prices of the diff
ferent kinds SO regulated, that their ag-
gregate will amount'to the same as the
whole collectively.
We confidently expect that all honest
men will discountenance'the practice of
culling or sorting Rags before they are
received by the Manufacturer, under
whatever pretence it may be attempted.
This practice connot be defended upon
any moral principles, or upon the COM
mon and ordinary rules of trade, so long
as its object and effect are to purloin
from one individual that which belongs
TO another, by taking from the Rags that
quality which constitutes their principal
value, with the expectation of vending
the residue, without having the fraud
detected.
The Manufacturer will, in future, eth
er refuse to purchase Rags which have
been culled, or buy them at a very re-
duced price and traders and others,
who purchase TO sell to the Manufacture
err, are requested TO be very particular
as TO the quality Of the Rags which they