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BY T. L. GANTT.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
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The Rise and Fall of Col. Clarke's
Republic.
0Y ALBERT WiNT&R.
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fyxxftctUy foepartd for the QgUt&orpe JZdKo.
NUMBER VII.
During the time that the Colonists had
remained subject to the mother country,
they were stinted in the land they own
ed, it being the policy of Great Britain
to grant as little of it as possible to the
aettlers. After the war had ended in fa
▼or of the Colonists, and they found
themselves in possession of the vast
territory lying between the ocean and
the Mississippi river, a reaction came on
—natural, it is true, but which was the
cause of infinite trouble.
The people had been left very poor,
and they looked upon the public lands
as the means by which they were to re
trieve their fallen fortunes. This spirit
jvas fostered aad encouraged by the poli
py adopted by several of the States,* that
pf offering grants of land to actual set
tlers and sometimes to others. It is not
natural to suppose that tiie speculators—
pi class that has existed since the time
the Saviour drove the mouev-liaei.
gers out of the Temple—were disj osed
to let such a rich mine pass them un
corked. Almost as soon as the smoke
pf battle had died away, schemes were
put on foot by means of which the lands
that had been gained after years of strug
gle and bloodshed were to pass into the
hands of a few speculators. While the
masses of the people were willing that the
public lauds should be divided among
themselves, arguing that to the victor be
longs the spoils, they very properly took
the ground that to give away the public
domain to men who, in many cases, never
smelt the smoke of battle, was a robbery
pf the people. In consequence of this,
the various schemes that came before tlie
several State Assemblies were defeated
pntil the one known as
THE YAZOO FRAUD
SasHcd the Georgia Legislature in 1795.
.s I stated in my last, Mathews was at
the time Governor of the State, and his
course in regard to the sale, nominal, at
least, of the public property was more re
markable, taking in view the policy pre
viously used by him toward Clarke and
‘followers.
' Only the year before, when General
Clarke and his friends had seized the ter
between the Oconee and Ocmulgee
rivers, intending to form an independent
Republic within the limits of the State,
Matbe#s issued a proclamation ordering
them to return to their homes, or at least
to give up theirplan of forming a State out
of what did riot belong to them. This
movement on the part of Clarke and his
friends came very near resulting in a
bloody conflict between them and the
General as well as the State Government,
and the danger was only averted by the
prompt and eneigetio action of Mathews.
General Elijah Clarke, the leader, was
a man of very strong passions and preju
dices, whose descendants had settled in
Wilkes county before the breaking out of
the Revolutionary War. He served him
self with great gallantry throughout the
entire struggle, having enjoyed the con
fidence of tfee people and the Continen
tal Congress. As I stated before, the
people imagined that all of the land ly
ing within the limits of the State, which
had not been granted away, belonged to
them, and in persuance of this idea
Clarke and his friend* determined to have
a lion’s share in tilt spoils. As soon as
Mathews issued his proclamation order- (
ing the settlers to remove, a warrant of
arrest was issued against Clarke as the
leader of the refractory settlers. He im- j
mediately gave himsfelf unto the author
ities, and at a court held in Washington
he was acquitted of all crimes against
State or General Government.
Emboldened by this, the Settlements
were pushed with vigor. Forts were
built as a protection against the Indi
ans, rind it seemed that Ciarke was, in
fact, the founder of anew Republic. As
showing the spirit of Giarice and his fol
lowers, I qhdte the letter written by him
to the officers in coyaaxaud of the difier
ent garrisons; ‘ .
ffeiif -U)V ance, sth Sept., 1 m
GENTbEMiSt*S-*-Ybut raVorm fne.fi instant
is now before sue. Accept ray thanks lor
your fnformalfefh ami attention to what may,
if ever neglected s<* materially, injure our en
terprise. (consider myself honored by the
UiMnnnTOUs voids of till the officers belonging
to fhe different garrison*. I shall always
endeavor tb acquit mvse! f worthy of the com
mand committed to niy charge. The informa
tion von have received agrees with mine from
August- foehrtiilery of Augusta are or
dered #> be In read .ness to m arch in eight or
ten days, ana one-third of tlie militia are
directed to 5e draughted. It has been tried in
Burke‘and &U?hmond counties, but quire un
successful : thetroops declare that they will
not fcght against us. lam happy to tind the
disposition of the people with yon so exactly
agrees-with mv own friends here: I believe it
to be the of every garrison.
I am deterrninately fixed to risk every thing
■with' my In® upon'the issue, and for the suc
cess of the enterprise. Yon will apply to the
inclosed orders how to conduct yourself towards
inimical individuals. In case of a body a[ -
peariftg, yoh will give me the earliest infor
mation If yon summoned to surrender
ipfe M©glctl|or|ic ®cll|of :
in the garrison, you must refuse with a firm
ness ever accompanying the Jsrave. Inform
those who apply, that if you have done
wronc. and to** grand jury of die county have
cognizance of your crime, cheerfully
submit to be tried by a jury of your fellow
citizens. But ymj will consider any orders
from the Secretary of War as unconstitution
al. The Governor's proclamation, as deter
mined in Wilkes, illegal, &e.
Yours, <tc. E. (Slab®.
As bearing on the question, I quote
also the charge of Judge George Walton,
who had been one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, delivered
to the Grand Jury of Richmond county,
during the time the excitement was at
fever heat. Says Judge Walton :
Should the spirit which generated the plan
of this new settlement still urge its pursuit,
what mischiefs may it not produce to the
community. A young country, scarcely re
covered from former ravages, but with means
of progressive amplification and aggrandize
ment, to be in a civil war, with all the evils
incident to it, will have the effect of arresting
its progress, and putting it back of any pres
ent calculation.
It is already known that the President of
tlie United States has directed, in the event of
other means fail ing, that the settlement should
he suppressed by military coercion. And
shall the blood of cifzens be spilled to sup
port the pretensions of a small part of the peo
ple,—pretensions without law, and resting
not on the foundations of justice? But, it is
said, they have expatriated themselves. This
is neither fact, nor capable of being ma le so.
The d’strict, the object oftheir contemplation,
■is still Georgia; and they must be either citi
zens or in -argents. W ould that these new
settlor? might attend to the voice of reason, of
benevolence, and moderation, before they
plunge themselves an 1 their country in dis
tress and trouble. A i'tie time will extend
our limits, and we shall then be all upon an
equal footing.
But suppose that the State, from the recol
lection of the past services of the principal in
this adventure, an i a tender regard to h s ad
herents the l u ted States out of view for the
moment , should be disposed to wink at the
‘srablisnment of this intended settlement, is
the extent of the precedent perceived ? The
richest jewel the State of Georgia possesses,
and the real basis of her future wealth arid
rank in the Union, is her'western* 4 territory;
and if one set of men should be permitted "to
take possession, and keep a part of it, without
the consent of her government, will it
not be an example of right for any other set of
men to do the same with any other part or the
whole of it?
lienee, 1 conclude, that if General Clarke
has the same regard for the State lie lias here
t >fore given so many proofs of, he will desist
from an enterprise su pregnant, of evils to her.
It is not to be wished that the Federal Gov
ernment should have occasion to exert its
power upon any occasion. It might (Sfce day
give color to pretensions not consonant with
the interests of the State. There ought to ex
ist no fears at present; but who can keep pace
with the progress of.time and revolution.
In the last clause the learned
gave expression to a fear that has been
realized, in its fullest force, in the latter
days of our Republic—the danger of
Federal interference in State affairs; and
it seems that he had foreseen what so
receritly came to pass.
Emboldened, as I have said before, by
the action of the Justices who had ac
quitted him, and by the sympathy ex
pressed for him and his enterprise in cer
tain localities, Clarke declared his inten
tion to hold the territory he had seized
at all hazards.
Mathews ordered the militia to be held
in readiness to move at a moment’s no
tice, and sent Generals Twiggs and Ir
win to Clarke to induce him to remove.
They visited him at his post on the Oco
nee, but were unsuccessful in their of
forts, and everything began to wear a
warlike appearance.
General Twiggs soon after gave Major
Adams orders to cross over the river to
Clarke’s quarters, and use his powers of
persuasion to induce Clarke to abandon
the settlement. Adams’ life was threat
ened bv some of Clarke’s followers, which
so exasperated his friends that a meeting
was held in the neighborhood at which
it was determined that Adams should be
sent to Augusta with a request that
Mathews order the troops to dispossess
the intruders by force of arms.
Adams called on the Governor, and
receiving the proper instructions, a few
days afterwards a company belonging tq
Colonel Fouche’s dragoons crossed the
river and took one of Clarke’s lieuten
ants a prisoner. Arrangements were also
made to cut off supplies from the various
forts held by Clarke and his followers.
Large bodies of militia crossed at various 1
points, and Clarke finding that, in spite
of all of his efforts at strengthening his
forces and lorts, he would be unable to
cope with the forces opposed to him, he
surrendered on the promise of General
Irwin that himself and men should be ,
protected in their lives and property.
The forts were seized and burned, and
thus ended an enterprise which, at one
time, hid fair to involve the parties en
gaged therein with a conflict with the
State authorities.
But this attempt was not the last one
made to gain possession of some portion
of the territory belonging to our State.
The next year 179"), a greater effort was
made, and with success—the great Yazoo
Fraul was consummated. Governor
Matthew-;’ connection with this infa
rhbnv measure has left a stain on his
name which will never leave it.
But, as this sketch has already grown
to too great a length, | will devote my
next to a history of fhe great Credit Mo
belierof our early history.
TriE Philadelphia Enquirer says there
is another gleam of hope that Charlie
Ross rnav yet be recovered. Some days
ago J. Western elt, the brother-in-law of
Hosier, the burglar who*was shot and
killed at Bay Ridge, Long Island, was
induced to vis’t Philadelphia for a con
ference with the police anthorities rela
tive to the case lie now occupies a r cel!
in Moyamensinjr prison, and it is repor
ted there is ?f Itiirbf inducement against
him, based, it is said,on admissions made
bv him in some of his statements imply
ing a knowledge of the abduction. The
arrest i3 considered an important one.
The way to he happy —take the Etho.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1875.
DETILTEIBS.
—Self-made men are very apt to wor
ship their maker.
—is suprising how long it takes a
hen to lay an egg when you are waiting
for it.
—“I wish I was a pudding, mamma!”
“Why ?” “ ’Cause I should have lots of
sugar put in me.”
—A book has been published, called
“Half Hours with Insects.” The author
was a regular boarder.
—A dancer once said to Socrates:
“ You cannot stand on one leg so long as
I can.” “ True,” replied the philosopher
but a goose can.
—Now is the time to gather and burn
decayed garden vegetation, such as old
vines, broken medicine-bottles, dead cats,
broken shoes, and old rubbers.
—A Kansas woman went into court
and identified four quarts of white beans
which had been stolen from her and
mixed with a whole barrel full.
—A Kentucky paper endeavored to
pay a delicate compliment to a favorite
actress by calling her “a sweet little red
haired chandelier kicker.”
—The lightning rod man and the nur
sery tree agent are once more abroad in
the land, and the price of dogs has gone
up in the rural regions accordingly. ~
—ln New York, fashionable clergymen
have commenced their hacking cough
in anticipation of heiug sent to Europ
this summer lor the, benefit of they:
health.
—The report of a South Carolina hang
ing says: “ The large crowd in atten
dance upon this occasion proved to be a
decided advantage to the merchants in
the matter of trade.”
—Among the improvements noticed
by a Western paper is the mention that
“our friend Shaw has set out two shade
trees in front of the house he cheated his
mother out of.”
—A newspaper biographer trying to
say his sulvect “ was hardly able to bear
the demise of his wife,” was made by the
inexorable sprinter to say, “wear the
chemise of his wife.”
—A Portland chap who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry beginning:
“Was it a Gleam of Golden Hair,” was
mortified after marriage to see her hand
that “.gleam ” over the back of a chair.
—A man who had been indulging in
the great North American privilege—
getting drunk—says he was holding to a
lamp post, and as soon as he let go, the
post fell down. That’s the last thing
that he remembers.
—And now Dio Lewis says that re
frigerators are unhealty; so we advise
our readers to stop eating them. We
never cared much for them ourselves
anyway, because they are so hard Ig? di
gest.
—“Tell me angelic host, ye messenger
of love, shall swindled printers here be
low, have no fedress above?” The shin
ing band replied : “Tous is know ledge
given ; delinquents on the printer’s books,
can never enter heaven.”
—lt is an interesting fact that those
bed-bugs Which have been grafted flour
ish best. Graft ’em on a bed-post, says
the almanac, at the begining of winter,
and they will come out of their own ac
cord, fresher, and stronger, and better
than ever, in the spring.
—A good story is attributed to Sheri
dan’s son Tom, who, being told by his
father that he had made his will and cut
him off with a shilling, said he was sorry,
and immediately added: “ Yon don’t
; happen to ha,ve the shilling about you
1 now, sir, do you?”
—A little girl at school reads thus:
“ The widow' lived on a small limbacy
left her by a relative.” “ What did you
call that word?” asked the teacher; “the
word is legacy, not limbacy.” “ But,”
said the little girl, “my sister says I must
say limb, not leg.”
—“She was small footed, but very
plump ; he was large footed, hut gaunt;
and he had bis boot legs made to fit.
He wagered her a pair or gloves that she
couldn’t get his boots on. She gazed
scorn fully at his splay feet and greedily
accepted. And then he didn’t have to
get the gloves.”
—“Stay,” he said, his right arm armiud
her waist, and her face expectantly turn
ed to. him, “ shall it t>e the kiss pathetic,
sympathetic, graphic, oriental, intellec
tual, paroxysmal, quick and dismal, slow
and uhetious, lomt and tedious, devotion
al, or what?” She said perhaps that
would be the better way.
A Brooklyn lady, whose husband
has an unpleasant habit of railing at
her, has hit upon the plan of calling id,
her servants when he begins to let out
his temper, and then turning to. him and
saying sweetly,“Now, my deaf, please
goon with your remarks. 5 ' lie doesn't
go on, at least not as hebegan.
—A young lady in Milwaukee under
took to climb a ladder that had been left
standing against the side of a house, but
before she had gone a quarter of the
way i\p, miite Vcrowd assembled, per
ceiving wdiieh she began at once to de
scend. observing with much feeling :
“ Well, now there ain’t going to be no
free circus here this afternoon, you bet.”
—This is the delicate way it is put by
j a journal of a neighboring eity : “Heads
lof families would be ve*y much obliged
to tlie young men who go about at night
sixging for drinks if they would call be
fore bedtime. It is rather inconvenient
to get up at midnight, or after, and fum
j hie about in the pantry 'or spirits, not to
I speak of the risk of breaking the wares
; on the shelves.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—How to make good puffs—send the
publisher fifty scents a line for them.
—Galena, Illinois, claims q hen which
actually lays two eggs daily. Another
hen helps her cackle.
—lf you would preserve your looking
glasses, don’t hang them where the rays
of the sun can fall upon them.
—Reports come from Washington of in
creasing coolness between President
Grant and Vice-President Wilson.
—A negro who died of hydrophobia
in Nashville, believed to the last that he
had been bewitched by a fortune-telling
aunt.
—China has engaged the Confederate
General Ripley to construct extensive
works for defence of the coast and princi
pal rivers.
—lt has been revealed to Brigham
Young that the Indians are to join the
Mormons and exterminate the United
States army.
—There are forty-ope Baptist churches
in New Orleans, thirty-nine of them
belonging to colored congregations, and
two to white.
—President Grant, it is said on good
authority, favors the “humanitarian
movement” of shipping all the negroes
to Cuba and St. Domingo.
—The first blood shed in a conflict
between the Colonists and the King’s
troops was at the battle of Alamance, in
North Carolina, on the 16th of Mav,
1771.
—A small piece of paper or linen just
moistened with turpentine, and put into
the wardrobe or drawers for a single
day, two or three times a year, is a suffi
cient preservative against moths.
—The Siberian bloodhound is the
most powerful and ferocious,and perhaps
the most treacherous of the canine fam
ily. He never forgets an abuse, and
months or even years after receiving an
injury, will fly at the aggressor.
—Gen. Johnson did not surrender to
Sherman at Charlotte, N. C., as stated
by a correspondent of the New York
Herald , but at the house of a Mr. Ben
nett, near Durham Station, between
Raleigh and Greensboro.
—Eggs containing the germ of males
have wrinkles on the small ends; on the
contrary, eggs which are smooth at the
extremities, and nearest to round ness,
produce females, while those pointed at
the end usually engender males.
—Twenty-one negroes and one white
man were added to the list of peniten
tiary convicts from Noxubee county,
Mias., week before last. Twenty-six
negroes, no whites, are now in the coun
ty jail, awaiting trial at the present term
of the Circuit Court,
—Take a quart of warm water, and
place in it a pint of corn, add a spoon
ful of pew tar, and stir untT the tar was
thoroughly mixed, then feed the corn to
chickens was a sure remedy against the
cholera. This is a simple remedy, and
worthy of trial.
—Any number of figures you may
wish to multiply by 5 will give the same
result if divided by 2—a much quicker
operation; but you must remember to
annex a cipher to the answer, when
ever there is no remainder, and
where there is one whatever it may be,
annex a 5 to the answer.
—Mr. Seth Green, who knows a great
deal about fishes, and has spent much
time in studying their habits, thinks
they cannot hear. fie once asked a
band of musicians to arrange themselves
around a tank of fish, and at a given sig
nal to blow their loudest blast. This they
did, but noc a fish stirred.
—The latest wrinkle with the woman
of fashion is to have a model of her bust
made, stuffed w : th wool and covered with
cambric. This is deposited at her dress
maker’s and upon it her new dresses are
fitted, saving the aforesaid woman of
fashion all the arduous labor of “ trying
on,” etc. What next?
—Bengal, slowly recovering from a
terrible famine, is now' suffering from
another scourge not quite so fatal, bu,t
much to be dreaded and far more singu
lar. This scourge is a plague of rats.
Hosts of the rodents sweep over the
country, destroying the crops, and by
their depredations forcing the desertion
of entire villages.
—Paper is now used very successfully
for making boggy boxes, baskets, belting
for machinery, boats, clothing, house
hold utensils, etc. For huggv boxes its
utility is highly appreciated, as there is
no danger of its shrinking or cracking,
whilst it is almost impossible for a
horse to kick it and make any impression
on its surface.
—On Wednesday night fast a circum
stance occurred at one of the pas-es of
the Mississippi river.whieh illustrate the
uncertain condition of those outlets. It
was at Passa-L’Outre, and near the
channel. During that night an island,
comprising an area of about eight acres,
rpse up out of the deep, and now is
fujlv eight feet high above the surround
ing water. %
—The Soujicgaa National Bank of
Milford, N. FT., was robbed last Octo
oer by ma-.ked burglars. .The detectives
failed to find any trifle to the stolen pro
perty. After all efforts In this direction
had been abandoned the President of the
bank received a telegram from a preten
ded dqtectl ve in Bait; more which - indu
ced mm to visit that city and grant
an interview. Several interviews were
held between the President and the
robbers, and the former, becoming satis
fied that the stolen property could he ob
tained in no other wav, was persuaded
to bring on £40.000, the sum demanded
for its restitution, from home.
TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jaokey, Hi* Ha and the Sunday School
Teacher.
[Baltimore American.]
Jackey crept up and sat down by his
mother’s side as she was looking out of
the window yesterday morning. After a
a few minute# of silence, he broke out
with :
“Ma, ain’t pa’s name Jacob?”
“Yes, Jakev.”
“If I was called young Jacob, he’d be
called old Jacob, wouldn’t he ?”
“Yes, my dear, what makes you ask
such a question as that?”
“Nothing, only I heard something
about him last night.”
Mrs. Watts suddenly became iqter
ested. “What was it my son ?”
“Oh, nothing much ; something the
new Sunday-school teacher said.”
“You oughtn’t to have anything your
mother can’t know, Jackey,"” coaxingly
plead Mrs. Watts.
“Well, if you must go poking into
everything, I’ll tell von. The new teach
er says to me. ‘What’s your name, my
little man ?” and when i said Jacob, he
asked me if I ever heard of old Jacob,
and I thought that was pa’s name, so I
told him I guess I had, but I’d like to
hear what lie had to say about him. He
said old Jacob used to be a little boy once
just like me, and had bean-shooters and
stilts, and used to tend cattle’ ”
“Yes, I believe he said his father used
to keep a cow,” interrupted Mrs. Watts.
“And he hogged his brother out of
something or other, and he got struck
with a young woman named Rache\
[Mrs. Watts became still more interest
ed,] and was going to marry her, hut her
old man fooled him and made him marry
his other daughter ; but pa said he guess
ed he was nobody’s fool, and married
them both.”
“The wretch !” ejaculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr ; Watts’ slippers.
“He said old Jacob had a dozen or two
children, and ”
“Did I marrv him for this?” exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, jobbing and throwing herself
on the.sofa, making all the springs hum
like a set of timing forks.
Jackey aaid he didn’t know what she
married him for, but she wouldn’t catch
him telling her anything very soon again
if she was going to kick up such a row
about it, and went out of the room high
ly indignant.
When Mr. Watts came home he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall, with a very red
face, who pointed her finger at him and
jerked out the word “ Villain !” and asked
him if he could look his innocent wife
and infant son in the face. Mr. Watts
showed that he could by staring very hard
alternately at Jackey and Mrs. Watts.
“I know where you go, sir, when you
stay, away from ho'tue,” continued Mrs.
Watts; “I’ve heard the story of your per
fidy. Can’t you teli me how Rachel and
that other woman is to-day ?” she asked
with forced calmness. Mr. Watts con
fessed his inability to enlighten her on
the health of the ladies about whom she
was so solicitous. Mrs. Watts said that
she always knew that something like this
would occur, and ended* with another
hysterical interrogation after the child
ren’s health, but not receiving any sat
isfactory answer, she threw herself on
the sofa- again and sobbed and asked her
self a few times why she had ever left her
mother’s house, and then she called Ja
key to her and told him that they would
have to live alone in a little house and
be very poor, and maybe not have enough
to eat, which made that hopeful utter a
series of most doleful howls and hasten
down to the kitchen to examine the
larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
in, and Mrs. Watts confided’ to her the
story of her husbamfs villainy. Of course
Mrs. Lewis was very much shocked, and
tried to impress upon Mrs. Watts the
necessity of being philosophical, and left
with the observation that she had never
yet seen a man with a mole on his nose
who did not, sooner or later, prove to be
a rascal.
Toward evening Jakey was sitting on
the steps, having recovered from h ; s
grief of the morning, when the Sunday
school teacher chanced to pass by, and
Jakey hailed him with : “ Sh\, mister, I
told mother what you told n\e about
old Jacob last night, and there has been
the old scratch to pay ever since. Ma
called pa a villain andabloody thief,and
tried to break her back on fche sofa, and
said that there wouldn’t be anything to
eat, and there aiu’t been such a time since
pa offered to kiss Aunt Jane good-bye.
Maybe you had better drop in and see the
old lady, mister; she ain’t so bad as she
was.”
The teacher after some pressing, ac
companied Jakey inb) the house, and was
presented to Mrs. Watts in the parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for
disclosing her husband's perfidy, but he
disclaimed having (Tone anything of the
kind, and at length, after considerable
talking, it was discovered that Jakey had
misapplied the story of the patriarch
Jacob. Mrs. Watts started right out to
hunt up Jacob, and when she found him
astonished him again by being as loving
as she had been distant. Jhkev is con
tented in the fact that there is /> imme
diate prospect of a lack of > applies,] a,the
family, and Mrs. Watts would he per
fectly happy if she could only shut Mrs.
Lewis’ mouth.
—The march of life is sometimes long
and weary, but beyond the shadows He
sweet fields of rest.
—MV S , stennouse says Mormons often
niarrv their mothers-in-law.
To Rent. —Will bo rented, until the
Ist oi January next, the store in
Crawfor l, owned by Mr. Lane.
reasonable, and possession c'vcn at oner
applv t-o R. R. ‘ y°ock, or
R. S. \T 4 TTW
VOL. I-NO. 33.
A 002JJUGAL LBSSQIT.
BY DAJ? DE QTJILLE.
After having been married some weekn
it came into the head of&younghusbftfKi
in Virginia, one Sunday when he had lit
tle to occupy his mind, to suggest fa bv*
wife that they should plainly and honesty
ly state the faults that each had discov
ered in the other since they l id been
man and wife. After some hesitation the
wife agreed to the proposition, but stipu
lated that the rehearsal should be made
in all sincerity and with an honest view
to the 1 vaitering of each other, as other
wise it would be of no, use to speak of
the faults to which marriage had opened
their eyes. The husband was ->f the
same mind, and his wife asked him to
begin with her faults. He was some
what reiuctant, but his insisted that
he was the first to propose the matter,
and as he was the head of the house, it
was his place to take the lead. Thus
urged he began the recital. He said:
“My dear, one of the first faults I ob
served in you after we began keeping
house was that you a good deal negletu
ted the tinware. You dou’t keep itscour
ed as bright as it should be. My mother
always took a pride in her tinware, ana
kept it bright as a dollar.”
“I am glad that you have mentioned it,
dear,” said the wife, blushing a little,
“hearafter you shall see no speck on cup
or pan. Pray, proceed.”
“I have often observed, said the hus
band,” that you often used your dish rags
a long time without washing them aud
finally throw them away. Now, when at
home, I remember that my mother always
used to wash her dish rags when she was
done using them and then hang them up
where they would dry, ready lor the next
time she would need them.”*
Blushing, as before, the young wife
promised to amend this fault.
The husband continued with a most
formidable list of similar faults, many
more than we lia?fc space to enumerate,
when he declared that he could think of
nothing more that was worthy of men
tion.
“Now,” said he, “my dear,you may be
gin and tel! me of all the faults you have
observed in me since we have been uiar
ri -
The young housewife sal in silence;
her lace fiashed to the temples, and a
great lump came in her throat which she
seemed to be striving hard to swallow.'
“Proceed, my dear ; tell me of all the
faults you have observed in me, sparing
none.” . •
Arising suddenly from her. seat, the
little wife hurst into tears, and throwing
her arms around her husband’s neck,
cried :
“My dear husband, you have not a
fault in the world. If you have even one
my eyes have l>een so blinded by my love
for you that, as long as we have been
married, I have never once observed it.
In my eyes yon are perfect, and all fhat
you do seems to, he d,one in the be*t
manner, and just what should be done.”
“But my dear,” said the husband, hie
face reddening, and his voice growing
husky with emotion,
I have many—ten times as manv faults,
as you have or ever will have. Let raa
hear them.”
‘‘lndeed, husband, it is as I tell you ;
you have not a single fault that I can see.
Whatever you do seems right in mveyes,
and now that I know what a good-for
nothing little wretch I am, I shall at once
begin with the work of reform aud try to
make myself more worthy of you.”
“Nonsense, my dear, you know I some
times go away, and leave you without any
| wood cut ; t stay up town when I ought
to be at home ; I spend money for drink*,
I and cigars when I ought to bring it honrm
i to, you ; I—”
I “No you don’t” cried the wife; “you do,
! nothing of the kind. I like to see yon
| enjoy yourself; I should be unhappy
were you to do otherwise than exactly as
you do!”
“God bless you, little wife!” cried the
now thoroughly subjugated husband.
“From this moment you have not a fault
in the world ! Indeed, you never had* k
i fault, I was hut joking—don’t remember
a word I said.” And he kissed away tba
tears that still trcabled in the little,
woman’s eyes.
Never again did the husbandscrntinirOr
the tinware, nor examine the dish rag;
never so much as to mention one of the
faults he had enumerated, but soon
neighboring women were wont to say :
“It is wonderful how neat Mrs. M
keeps everything about her house. Her
tinware is always as bright as anew dol
lar ; and I do believe she not op.Jy wash
es but even irons herdjah rags!*' And
the neighbor inen were heard to say r
“What a steady fellow M has got to
be of late f He don’t spend a dime now
where he used to spend dollars, and can
never be kept from home half an hour
when he is not at work. He seems al
most to worship that wife of his."
A ITabjjx Family.— A Biehmond
find ) newspaper vouches for the truth,
of the following story: “The lion has
not yet been observed to lie down with
the lamb, but something equal to it has
happened. A white cat, with four young
kittens, set up house-keeping in a box
where there happened to he two young
rats. Instead of devourin'* tb"'ip M
would have been natural, lje fSdopte l
them, and afforded them the same nour
ishment that she supplied to her kitten*.
One of die kittens and oneof
Yesterday we called to see the
! family, and found the three kitten an 1
the rat drawing their daily snstero-'-e in
happy promiscuousn ess. The mother
cat bestowed frequent caressed her
little ones, and the rat came in for a
full share. It seemed to enjoy the‘‘ love
lick.” in ns affectionate a manner ns possi
ble for a rat. A fur all. as a rrritrr ef
prudence, that young rat had better mnva
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