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BY T. L. GANTT. HISTORICAL SKETCHES. <>♦■ + The Rise and Fall of Col. Clarke's Republic. 0Y ALBERT WiNT&R. o 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 i L- /• * * - *