The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-03-13
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NO. L.
At the first ] pitied the poor lads, that l
thought had fed forever and ave from their
native country, TO Bengal, S~eringapatam,
Botany Bay, or Jamaica, leaving behind them
all their good friends and old Scotland, as
they might never hear of the goodness of
Providence intheir behalf. B ut-wait awee.
Would you believe il? as sure,s the death
whole was but a trick played by that mis-
chievous.loo Blister and his chronies, upon
one that was a simple and soft headed cali
ant. Dell a halt was in the one pistol but
a puff of powder; andin the other a cartridge
paper full, of blood was rammed down upon
the chargel, that which, hitting Magneezhy
on the ee brow, had caused a business that
seemed 10 have put him out of life, and near
ly put me, through one ofthe yolunteers, out
of my seven senses.
UPS AND DOWNS IN LIFT IS
useful as well as interesting to notice the
changes for the better or worse, which ten
or fifteen years serve to operate in a ON
muniiy.
| know a business man on Main street who
was refused credit in 1880, for a stove worth
twelve dollars. He is now director in one
of the banks, and is worth 10000 dollarsat
least. Every cent of this his been made in
Cincinnati during that period.
know another business man, alsool Main
street, who was refused credit III 1925. by a
firm in the drug line, for the amount of five
dollars. In 1880 that very firm lent that
very man five thousand dollars upon his en-
dolsed note.
L know an extensive dealer ia the city,
now worth 100000 doIiais, and who can
command more money sn a short notice, for
sixty, ninety, or one hundred and twenty
days, than almost any man in Cincinnati. 10
whom |, as clerk for a grocery house here in
1881, sold a hogshead Of sugar, with great
misgiying and reluctance, under some appre-
hension Of not getling the money when i be-
came DUE.
know a man whose credit in 1890, was
such that when | trusted him for a ken of
salipeire, my employer told me | might as
well have rolled it in the Ohio. Since saat
period was worth in 1897 one hundred thou
sand dollars; again a bankrnp, in 1871, aud
now worth twenty thousand dollars.
1 knowa man good for thirty thousand
dollars, who ten years ago exhibited a NOM
hey through The streets Of Cincinnati, for a
living.
know a heavy business man, a bank d.
rector, who sold apples in a basket when a
boy through the streets.
Ar1tg f n fs5 spe @4I1los e cod hEfs AZ npss af P5aioa n lou our
bought entire blocks of the city on credit, a
director in one OF the banks, who within len
years c. that period, died insolvcnt and in
temperate.
Another influential man of that day, whose
credit was unlimited, being president of one
Of our insurance companies, and also a bank
director, died within Ave years, insolyeni and
Incorporate.
Another individual, who was considered
in 1887 worth half a million of dollars, has
died since, leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual, of credit equal 10 all
his wants, and worth, at one time, twelve
thousand dollars, and a Judge of the Court,
died in our city hospital, and was buried at
the public expense. | have seen him once
and again presiding at public meetings.
The founder of the Peniteniiary system, in
Pennsylvania, and we'll known in that State
and elsewhere as a public man, died a pau
per in the Commercial Hospital in that city.
| have seen him addressing the Legislature
of that State, at Harrisburgh, and listened 10
with the attention and Difference that would
have been paid TO John Quincy Adams, or
any other public man of this age.
know a lady, the descendant of a dis
tinguished governor of Massachusetts, who
supports herself by her needle, and the niece
of a governor of New Jersey, still living, who
washes for subsistence.
know a lady, who, thirty years ago, in the
city in which | then lived, was the cynosure
of all eyes, one of the most graceful and
beautiful of the sex, and moving in the first
circles of wealth and fashion, now engaged
IN drudgery and dependence, at one dollar
and fifty cents per week. All these reside
in this city.
What are the fluctuations Of romance wri-
tiers, compared 10 some of the realities of hui
man life?-Cist's Advertiser.
COLONY OF CoLoRED MEN IN CANADA.-The
colored men who have escaped al different tiniss
from slavery IN the United States, have formed