Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-12-30
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SATURDAY EVENING. DECE1o0ER 80.
THE NEW YEAR.

be issued, we beg leave TO anticipate little, snd
to salute our friends. our patrons, and our acquan
tance with the compliments ofthe season, and to
wish each and all happy .Nt~ Year.
In doing this, conform to the rigid rules Of long
established custom; which has decreed, that when
the New Year, slips into the Old Years Shoes,
something shall be said either witty, smar',or pa
thetic and il we fail to do so, shall be consoled
with the reflection that this is not the only time that
we have failed to accomplish our wishes, and that
our patrons will excuse US, when they remember
that the subject, like fourth Of July oraton, has
become exceedingly old and thread bare.
There is something, however, plea.ant-yet there
j. something still more impregnatcd with melan-
choly interest, when we look back, upon by gone
days, md review the scenes and trias through
which we have past. Within the little period Of
IA year, many OF our valued friends, then in the
spring tide oflfe have descended TO the sravs-oth-
ers upon whom we doated, have migrated to distant
regions. and the gay circles in which we then min
glcd, have been comparatively disunited by the
hand Of dc ath.
Yet five arc left 10 lament the fate and fall Of
those held dear, there are happier reflections to
cheer the dreariness Of lifes brief pilgrimage. The
times it is true have changed-but in that change
thero has been much improvement in the facilities
oflifc, and much 10 cause US to rejoice. The hand
Of industry has heen at work--our happy communi-
ty has thrived, and we have been steadily marching
on to' ards the goal Of municipal greatness.
The whole aspect Of the town has changed, and
by the exertons Of individual and collective labor,
we are advanced towards that point to which we az.
pired. Streets havo been formed, lands have been
located where Tho water once flowed, and where
Nature seemed to forbid that man should display
the wonders of his ingenuity, stately edifces have
beea erected, which, in point of splcndcr and mag
nfconce, vie with the proude:t efforts Of European
architecture.
| II is now mid d-winter, and entering on the busy
scenes of n New Year, lie. US commence as We would
! cud and at the commencement enter on tho per-
formancc ofthose duties which when discharged,
add to our individual happiness, and diffuse light
and pleasure around US. There among US,
those whose necessities call loudly for aid and who
in the broken language of misery, appeal to our
benevolcnce, TO assuase their distresses, AMI to
wrest from their lips the bitter cup of woe. "Now's
the time and now's the hour" for the generous and
the humane to visit the habita,ions Of the distres.
sed the lonely mansions ofthe widow an the ia.
theress anu to give comfort to the wounded spirit
What employment can be more noble, more god
like than that Of relieving the disresses Of the dis
trcsscd, and Of administering the balm Of GileOd to
those who mourn Us if they nd no hope. II we
have aught to spare let give. to those who pine
ami idst sadness and eorow md like him of old, say
TO ,b.., receive nuus OF our charity live and
be more sorrowful.
The benefits Gerivable from the m-ly donation
of our charities, at this season Of the year, when
suffering humanity is Ia id PROSTATE and desolate
are not confined TO the moment they are salutary
in their effects at after periods, and more thar
have saved the neces,itous from the actual commits
sion of crime, To illustrate this position, will
by way ofepisode relate cdote, recited to US
hold this article, WILL we hope, pardon US for ropea-
ting, what was communicated to Us in all the couf-
denco Of partial endship.
Eliza --, was The daughter Of a wealthy
! merchant, who with an anxious solictude for the
welfare of his children and anxious for their sus-
tanning an elevated circle in the societies Of life
had bestowed unrer,itted pains upon their educa-
ton. Eliza, the youngest of them all, possessed
charms of no ordinary cast, which added to tho Al.
luremcnts ofa finished elucation encirclcd around
her, suitors who feisned or felt fame" Among
others who solicited her hand, was young mer.
chant, whose family and whose standing gave hin
| decided rank among the circles of the town ;-ht
was tha chosen object other afec:ions-hs suit wa
approyed-.o be short they were welded. Th'
golden dreams which fancy pictured to them, for
while were realized, and as they went the gdd.
rounds of society, they little dresmpt OF the aflc
tions that awaited their subsequent days.
Times nltered-trade took an unusual change
an embargo was lnid-commorce was cut of-an
in the little period ofa year. Charles found hinse
reduced to the very verge ofruin. This was NOR
than he could bear. To relieve his Affections, an
to dispel his sorrows he mady placed 10 his lips III
inehriating cup, and though it was nectar to hi
lips, il was poison to his soul. lie soon became
worshipper Of Bacchus--poverty came ncxt-an
the little family, which once behsld themselves sur