The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-08-22
NJ MTSCELLAN E0US.
For the Herald and Correspondent.
LIZZIE LAVE ENCE;
or, The Consequences of Mistaken Ideas
of Happiness.
BY EDITH MELTON.
CHAPTER /.


aWell. Lizzie are you not satiated with
the vanity and gayety of the winters at the
ST Charles? Here we are. both arrived at the
dignifed ages Of twenty and twenty four and
are passing our time most unprohtably as
sure YOU. | have always considered this self
enslaving, fashionable life a bore, and am de-
lighted that the season is drawing to close"
~OhI Ad, you are as sedate and matronly
as a woman of forty. I'll warranty 1T your
Young beau idcalof Glenville, instead OF wor-
Shipping at the shrine of Minerva, would trans
fer his worship to yourself at this time and
place, you would be as eager In the pursuit
of pleasure, within these walls as am, and
as 10th to leave them; but as said idolater IS
elsewhere, and otherwise engaged, and you
are so fastidious as not to admire the lumlna-
ries that nightly cluster around us here, you
wish to be off, understand you perfectly
You would rather marry Frank Bailey, with
his one thousand year, and immune yourself
within some little cottage Of GlenVllle, and IN
due time personify Burns picture OF the Cot
ter's Saturday night,
tAtlenpth his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
TIL expectant 1CeethiHgS toddlin' stacher thros
To meet their Dad wi hiteherin noise and giee eteo
than accept the courtly, elegant, accomplish
ed millionaire, Henry Mansfield-to luxurlate
in a marble palace, and to be surrounded by
the charming elite of this fascinating city and
by the influence of your position IN society,
have scores Of admirers subject to your sway.
O. give me wealth, and the power it gives,
and you confer upon me supreme happiness
ssDearest Lizzie, it pains me to hear such
sentiments from one so dear to me- Have the
i. rs ,c hepn erected IL
vain for your mental vision, and have even
the LIGHT. deluding romances you read with
so much avidity, not enlightened your mind
sufficiently TO convince YOU of the will-o'-the-
wisp nature of such happiness! Il IS tue,
tbaE wealth affords boundless comforts, ma
nv pleasures and the ability to bestoW good
upon others, for which reasons IT Is 20 pc ae-
sired but, my dear girl, it does not possess
the talismanic power OF conternng happiness
You would make the terms, wealth and happl-
ness, synonymous, but time, that brings VIII
/ Il the irresistible tide of human affairs, and
truth upon its surface, will teach you diner
ent lesson. Nous Uerrosas.D
ssGruces pour gotre honastse ma ehef, pa'
-e convinced against my viii,
am Of the same opinion still
There is poor Edward Smiley, whose melan.
eholv smile took possession of my heart long
since. will never possess this hand, for | IN
tend to ACCEPT the proposal made to me BY the
brilliant. prineely Mat Cotton at the mas
anerade last night. will then rejoice IN the
realization Of the bright aerial castles that
| have been dancing before my minds eye fol
wears. Will YOU not congratulate me, Ad
upon such bright hopes Of happiness e
| It would rather be congT gTatulatlng you up