—I cannot be satisfied, my dearest friend! blest as I am in the matrimonial state, —unless I pour into your friendly bosom, which has ever been in unison with mine, —the various sensations which swell with the liveliest emotion of pleasure, —my almost bursting heart. I tell you my dear husband is the most amiable of men, —I have now been married seven weeks, and never have found the least reason to —repent the day that joined us. My husband is both in person and manners far from resembling —ugly, cross, old, disagreeable, and jealous monsters, who think by confining to secure— —a wife, it is his maxim to treat as a bosom friend and confidant, and not as a —plaything, or menial slave, the woman chosen to be his companion. Neither party —he says, should always obey implicitly; but each yield to the other by turns. —An ancient maiden aunt, near seventy, a cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady, —lives in the house with us; she is the de- light of both young and old; she is ci- —vil to all the neighborhood round, generous and charitable to the poor. —I am convinced my husband loves nothing more than he does me; he flatters me more —than a glass; and his intoxication (for so I must call the excess of his love) —often makes me blush for the unworthiness of its object, and wish I could be more deserving —of the man whose name I bear. To say all in one word, my dear, and to —crown the whole—my former gallant lover is now my indulgent husband; my husband —is returned, and I might have had a prince without the felicity I find in —him. Adieu! may you be blest as I am un- able to wish that I could be more —happy. DOUBLE-FACED CREED. The following cross-reading from a history of Popery, published in 1679, and formerly called in New England _The Jesuits’ Creed_, will suit either Catholic or Protestant accordingly as the lines are read downward in single columns or across the double columns:— Pro fide teneo sana Quæ docet Anglicana, Affirmat quæ Romana Videntur mihi vana. Supremus quando rex est Tum plebs est fortunata, Erraticus tum Grex est Cum caput fiat papa. Altari cum ornatur Communio fit inanis, Populus tum beatur Cum mensa vina panis. Asini nomen meruit Hunc morem qui non capit, Missam qui deseruit Catholicus est et sapit.