Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-09-18
From the N. Y True Sun
The an.eS of Life.

Not day older do we grow with
out perceiving that while to some life
wears an equahle aspect. and every
da, s concerns are so regular they may
be almost posted in ledger and ex
pressed IN numerals, TO others there is
a constant succession of events which
are curious, strange and romantic
From our own brief experience we
could produce series OF pictures that
would be full of lighl aud shade of sun
shine and of darkness, OF brilliant skies
and gloomy horizons. We now know
men who were constantly unfortunate
IN business. though possessing great
tao, and high integrity. until they reach
ed the meridian of life. Their indom.
table courage and good character at
las, enabled them TO stem the adverse
tide. and lhev are enrolled among the
most wealthy of onr citizens. On the
other hand. we have seen the heads of
houses whose operations extended over
the world, whose residences were pal
aces, and whose equipages were prince
",
clusion, and receiving the reluctantly
duled pillance of some wealthy connec-
ton. as their only means of subsistence.
Families of the highest influence and
wealth have entirely disappeared from
public OBJ servation, while those origin.
ally in the very meanesi Of employ
ments now attract the public eye by
the gorgeousness of their equipages,
and the stylish character Of their resi-.
dences.
There is among the upper ten tllous-
and of New York very handsome and
fashionable parsonage, who has associ-
ated and lived abroad with the English
nobility on terms Of friendship and
whose husband has been honored with
some high trusts of an official charac
ter, by the British Government, who
was some yaars ago mllllner III this
city.
There is on the other hand a virtu.
Gus and excellent lady who in youth
was the charm Of the gayes. circles IN
New York. and We, now maintains her.
self bv her needle and by the skiiful
use of her pen-a lady whose society
was couried by the rich and the great,
and whose relations {some of them al
leash are now remarked for their show
and habitual display
There are merchants IN dis city who
few wears ago could not geI credit for
siftv cents, and are now rich; Others
who recovered themselves msnfully
from their emharrassments and vet
whose paper was often thrust under
their noses before II had malured, AT a
prufered discount of a most alarming
amount. There are cashiers no, thou.
sand miles off from us. who swept ont
and made the fires in the first banks
they were ever inside of. There are
others who have welded millions Of
capital that are now barely able 10 ex
isl. The former wife of steamboat
steward is now living in splendor with a
husband worth half million Of dollars.
We know person who but a few
years since. was clerk in a small dry
goods store. who is now repu,ed TO be
worth 800 900, all Of which he has
made by a series of successful specula.
tons, and by advances To persons who
were not his match in business.
There are others again who were in
sthe possession Of large fortunes, wha
by psnics, pressures. and the general
derangemen, Of business few wears
since. saw their property swep, away
in few weeks. -
There are men of splendid talents
whom we meet daily unable with al