The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-03-07

49, W A0i ms uu' lHey may mar DlZzy s
prospects,
True, LizEy might not be allowed to
marry mechanics grandson if it were
known that she was only mechanics S
daughter
Frederick Charleion with some cccen.
trclty possessed many excellent qualities.
HIS father had bestowed on him all the ada
vantages Of liberal education, and after
completing his studies he had spent several
years in Europe While abroad his father
died, and his oldest sister married; so that
on his return, lie found the old mansion pas
sed into other hands, and his favorite sister
Lizzy, an inmate of Julia's stately mansion.
Ills paterna inheritance insured him COM
petence, and resolved 10 marry as soon as he
should meet with woman capable of real
lzing his notions of domestic happiness
1t Is not 10 De supposed that the rich and
travelled Mr.. Carleton, (whose three thou
sand dollars of yearly income was more
than doubled by many-tongued rumor,)
lacked opportunities Of selecting compan-
ION Tor lie. But among the maleuvring
mammas, and displaying daughters, he had
as yet seen no one who equalled his ideas
OF womanly lovelness. A true American
in feeling he had lived long enough among
foreign lolles 10 despse them most heartily
and especially did he abhor this attempt to
establish an exclusive system in society,"
i am no agiarian,' he would often say,
nor have any utopian notions of perfect
equality ; | am therefore aware that there
must always exist different classes in socie-
ty, such as working men and men of wealth
men gifted with in tellect, and others only
one remove from idiocy, but let us never
acknowledge that worst of all tyrannies, an
oligarchy ofmere wealth. A man of en-
lighlened mind and virtuous principles is
my equal, whatever be his occupation,
and whether his hand be hardened by the
blacksmith's hammer, or soiIed by the ink
OF The learned professions, it is one which
can grasp with respect
His notions much displeased his fastid-
ious sisters, and they took great pains to
convince him of his folly. But it was in
vain they tried to initiate him into the mys-
ieries of modern fashion ; he would neither
conceal half his face beneath an overgrowth
of moustaches and beard, nor would he
initiate the long cared asses Of South Amer
lea in the longitude of his superb raven
rocks. He even refused to carry the in
dispehsible cane alleging that since such
sudden lameness had fallen upon the spin.
men offashion it was the duty
of those who could still boast some solidi-
ty of understanding to depend on them
selves FOR support. The ladies pronounc-
&c him "ery handsome, but shockingly un-
fashionable; while the gentlemen. who
found that his rent-rOll was not likely 10 be
either at the billiard table or the
race course. discussed his character as they
picked their teeth on the steps ofthe Broad
way hotels, and wondered how he contnved |
to spend his money.
The simple story of Jessie Murray had
deeply affected Carleton, and the remem-
Drance did not tend to decrease his inter.
est How much of self mingles in the
best feelings of humanity Had Jessie
been lreckled, red.haired, snub-nose girl,
Fred, would probably have soon forgotten
her sislerly devotion, but she was too pret-
y to vanish quickly from his mind Some
how or other, il happened almost every
morning that he found it necessary to see
MS sister at an early hour when he was
sure of finding them in sewing ROOM
lis presence became at length quite un-
leeded by Jessie as well as by his sisters,
md while be amused himself in rompns
With his little nephew, or quizzing the
changes of fashion which usually occupied
lis sisters thoughts, he has constant oppor-
unIies of studying the character of our
Iessier He noticed her quite good sense
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