Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-12-16

duau 10 lhcn, And now, my dear
] friends, those branches of my education
which, in my first despair, | thought utter
!. ly lost me- have assumed their right pc.
sllion, and household ,drudgcry takes its
subordinate place
"When know that the material wants
of my family are provided iory devote
mysolftol the intellectual education ofmy
children.
THE SOLDIERS SON-lNLAW.
A young Englishman, from gambling,
love affairs, and other such gold scatter.
ing cnjoyments, had so nearly reached
the dregs Of his great grand fathers her.
edltary portion, that he could calculate the
departing hour Of his last guinea. As
one evening when he was returning home
| from one OF those haunts OF dissipation
which he had habitualIy rrequented, feeble
/ in body as in mind, aud for the first time in
his life casting firm look upon the ruin
Of his fortune, no could not well deter,
mine whether he should end his troubles
10y drawing a trigger, or by throwing
hmseltinto thei Thames.
While he was thus wavering between
fire and water, the very profound idea oc,
CURED to him not to lay violent hands up,
on himself, but to allow himself to be
conducted out of the labyrinth of power
| ty by the fair hand Of some wealthy bride.
With'this consoling thought he went to
bed, and already in his nocturnal visions
the rapid racers flew, the fair girls frisk-
ed around him, both of which was happy
in thinking, he might maintain. nlfuture
the dowery of his wife.
On the following morning he reflected
anew upon bis plan, and found it unex'
ccptionable in every point excepting the
very slight circumstance Of not knowing
when or where he was to find the rich
heiress he wanted. In London, where all
the world regarded him as a spendthrlt,
| il was not once to bethought of--he ssaw
shat for the! future he must set his net
elsewhere
After much agitation and searching he
hit upon an old rich colonel, living upon
his estate, about twenty miles gfrom the
capital, who fortunat ely had no acquaint-
ances in London and was the father Of an
only daughter,
Into the house Of this gentleman, by
means Of friend, to whom he promised
half the booty, he got himself introduced
and received. The daughter Of the colo
mel was an awkward country girl with
round chubby.cheeks like Ruben's cheru
bins, aud looked particularly odd in the
hand-medown attire Of her sainted moth
or, which did no. fit her, and was, Of
course, not OF the most fashionable cut
Her mind too, was as attractive as her att
tire; she could only talk Of hens and
geese; and when any other topic came
above-board her conversation was limited
to "yes, yes" or ''no, no;n ali beyo
this seemed sinful.
This wooden puppet was indeed nigh
ty contrast 10 the sprightly, gay and live.
ly nymphs with whom the young Britain
had, until this period, been toying; but
he carefully confined to the solitude Of
his own bosom the disagreeable feeling Of
his heaven and earth distant difference
His hatiering tongue called the girls sill
ness celestial innocence and red swollen
cheeks, he lkened to the beauty of the full
blown damask rose. The end of the
song was, he turned to tie father, and
sued warmly for his daughters hand.
The colonel, during his sixty years ca
reer through the world, had collected this
much, knowledge of mankind, that how
ever Silly the young man had masked
himself, he could, nevertheless, discover
he fortune hunter, peeping through the
disguise. At first, therefore, he thought
refusing him permission to
WOO his daughter; bat on the other hand,
ne thought, "the youth is fashionable, and
perhaps may be doing him injustice; he
IS yet betrays no anxiety about the por-
ion, why should the girl, who is mar
remain longer at home! His
equest shall be granted-but his appa-
ent diSinterestedness shall stand deci- '
i've trial" r
The sutton was then informed that the k
ather had no objo ciions to the match, pro- |
'ided his daughter would give her con
ent; and she poor thing, replied, as ~ du. 1
y bound-"Ny fathers will IS NINE. Q
indeed, could any thing else be expected d
In the course of few weeks the mar p
iage ceremony was performed al the n
Of the colonel, and ne ms