Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-10-01
VOL. XII. NO. 46.--WHOLE NO. 2Os5.
THE CHANGES OLE Lice

Not a day older do we grow without nerceivino
that, while to some, life wears an eouiabe asnocf
and every days concerns are so regular. that thew
may be almost posted in ledger and expressed in
numerals; to others there is 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 light and
shade, OF sunshine and darkness, of brilliant and
gloomy horizons We now know men who were
constantly unfortunate in business though possess
ing great tact and high integrity, until they reach
ed the meridian Of life. Their indomitable cour-
age and good character at last enabled them to
stem the adverse tide and they are enrolled among
the most wealthy of our citizens. On the other
hand, we have seen the heads of houses, whose
operations extended all over the world, whose resi-
dehces were palaces, whose equipages were prince
~, afterwards living in poverty and secusion and
receiving the reluctantly doled pittance of some
wealthy connection MS their only means of subsis-
lence. Families OF the highest influence and
wealth have entirely disappeared from observation,
while those originally in the very meanest of en-
Payments now attract the public eye with the gor-
geousness Of their equpages, and the stylish char
acter of their residences.
There is among the upper ten thousand of New
York, a very handsome and fashionable parsonage,
who has associated and lived abroad with the Eng
sh nobility on terms of friendship, and whose hus-
band has been honored with some high trusts of an
official character by the British Government, who
was some years ago inilliner in this city.
There Is, or the other hand, virtuous and ex-
celIent lady who in youth was the charm of the
gayest circles in New York, and yet now maintains
herself BY her needle, and by the sklfu use of her
pen--a lady whose society was courted by the rich
and the great, and whose relations (some of them
at east) are now remarked for their show and ha-
btual display.
There are merchants in this city who few years
ago could not get credit for fifty cents and are now
rich; others who recovered themselves manfully
from their embarrassments, and yet whose paper
was often thrust under their noses before it had
matured at preferred discount of most alarming
amount.
There are cashiers not thousand miles off from
US who swept out 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 to exist The former wife of steam
boat steward is now living in sPendor with hus-
| band worth half million Of dollars What is
the moral of all this, and what should be the de-
auctions from such curious facts as these?
One unquestionaby is, never to despair There
are some people who have high moral and consti-
tutonal courage, and act on the principle that while
there is life, there is hope These look at the
scenes before thcm and know they are forever
changing They are determined therefore, to play
their part out, though sometimes they have been al
| fault, and needed the prompter. There are thous
ands and tens of thousands of these persons in the
world, who seem to conquer their fate. They make
in the end the more useful citizens, having gained
that experience, the want of which caused their
past fficulties.-.NetD- York Sun.