OJE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOAVANDA : . I Thursday Morning, June 23. 1859. Stltdtb BUILDING UPON THE SAND BY ELIZ t. COOK. "Tis well to woo, 'tis well to wed, ! 1 For so the world has done I j Since myrtles grew, and roses blew, j j And morning brought the sun. But have a care, ye young and fair, Be sure ye pledge with truth ; Be certain that your love will wear Beyond the days of youth. j . For if ye give not heart for heart, j I As well as hand for hand. | ' You'll find you've played the " unwise *' part, And " built upon the sand." ; 'Tis well to save, 'tis well to have, A goodly store of gold, And hold enough of sbiuiug stuff, For charity is cold. j < But place not all you r hopes and trust ; • In that the deep mine brings ; We cannot live on yellow dust Unmixed with purer things. And he who piles up wealth alone. Will ofteu have to stand Beside his coffer chest and own 'Tis '• built upon the sand." i 'Tis good to speak in kindly guise, And soothe whate'er we can ; For speech should bind the human uiind. And love link man to man. 1 I But stay not at the gentle words, la.-t deeds with language dwell ; The one who pities starving birds. Should scatter crumbs as well. The mercy that is warm and true, Must lend a helping hand. For those who talk, yet fail to do, But " build upon the sand." .? clr 11 c b <T ;t 11. [From the Atlantic Monthly.] LOO LOO. A FEW MINES FROM A TRIE HISTORY. CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK. Front that time she maintained ontward calmness, while in his presence ; ar.d her in ward uneasiness was indicated only by a fond ness, more clinging than ever. Whenever she parted from him, she kept him lingering, and lingering on the threshold. Ishe followed him 1 to the road : she kissed her hand to him til! lie was out of sight ; and then her tears flowed unrestrained, ller mind was filled with the idea that she should be carried away from the home of her childhood, as she had been by the rough Mr. Jackson—that she should become the slave of that bad man, and never, never see Alfred again. " Bat I can die," she often said to herself, aud she resolved in her mind various means of suicide, in case the worst should happen. Madame Lahasse did not desert lier in her misfortune. Sue held frequent consultations with Mr. Helper and his friends, and continu ally brought messages to keep up her spiiiis. A dozen times a day, she reported. At last the dreaded day arrived. Mr. Help er had persuaded Alfred to appear to yie'd to necessity, and keep completely ont of sight. He consented, because Loo Loo had said <he could not go through with the sccue, il iie were pres cnt ; and, moreover, he was afraid to trust to his own nerves and temper. They conveyed her to the auction-room, where she stood trem bling among a group of slavos of all ages aud all colors, from the iron black to the highest brown. She wore her simple dress, without ornament of any kind. When they placed her on the stand, she held her veil dowu with a close, nervous grasp. " Come show us your face," said the auctiou cer. " Folks don't like to buy a pig iu a poke, I you know." Seeing that >he stood perfectly still with her head lowered upon her brea>t, he untied the bonnet, pulled it off rudely, and held up her face to public view. There was a murmur ol applause. " Show your teeth," said the auctioneer.— But .-he only compressed her mouth more firm- < lv. Alter trying iu vain to coax her, he ex claimed : " Never mind, gentlemen. She's got a string of per Is inside them coral hps of hern. No use tryiu' to trot her out. She's a Utile sot up, ye see. iih being made much of. Look at her, gentlemen ! Who can blame her for beiu' a I t proud? She's a fust-rate, fancy article.— Who bids Before lie had time to repeat the question. Mr. Grossman said, iu a loud voice, " Fifteen hundred dollars." A voice from the crowd called out, "Eight een hundred." "Two thousand," shouted Mr. Grossman. " Two thousand two huudred," said another voice "Two thousand live hundred," exclaimed Mr. Grossman. " Two thousand eight hundred," said the in cognito agent. The prize was now completely given op to the two competitors : and the agent, excited by the roa'est. went beyoud his orders, untii be bid so high as four thousand two hundred dollars. !' " Four thousand live hundred," exclaimed 1 the cot tun broker. There was no use in contending with him.— j lie a,i, evidently willing to stake ail his for tune upon victory. " Gon.g | Going ! Going P repeated the j' XuCtioaeer, slowly. There was a brief pam>e, i i curing which every pulsation in Loo Loo's i I' dy setmed to stop. Theu she heard the j terrible words, "Gone for four thousand five i i dollars ! Gone to Mr Grossman !" ii 1 htj led her t3 a beach at the other side of' THE BRADFORD REPORTER. the room. She sat there, as still as a marble statue, and almost as pale. The sudden ces sation of excited hope had so stunned her that she could not think. Everything seemed dark and reeling around her. In a few minutes, Mr. Grossman was at her side. " Come, my beauty," said he. " The car riage is at the door. If you behave yourself, you shall be treated like a queen. Come, my love !" lie attempted to take her hand, but his touch aroused her from her lethargy ; spring ing at him, like a wild cat, she gave him a blow in the face that made him stagger—so powerful was it, iu the vehemeuce of her dis trust and anger. llis coaxing tones changed instantly. " We don't allow niggers to put on such airs," he said. " I'm your master. You've got to live with me ; aud you may as well make up your mind to it first as last." lie glowered at her savagely for a moment ; and drawing from his pocket an embroidered slipper, he added : " Ever since 1 piehed up this pretty thing, I've been determined to have you. I expect ed to be obliged to wait till Noble got tired of you, and wanted to make up with another wench ; but I've bad better luck than I ex pected." At the sight of that gift of Alfred's in bis hated band, at the sound of thosecoarse words, so different from his respectful tenderness, her pride broke down, and tears welled forth.— Looking up in his stern face, she suid, in tones of the deepest pathos : " Oh, Sir, have pity on a poor uufortnuate girl ! Don't persecute me !" " Persecute you?" he replied. " No, indeed, my charmer ! If you'll be kind to me, I'll treat you like a princess." He tried to look loving, but the expression was utterly revolting. Twelve years of unbri dled sensuality had rendered his countenance even more disgusting than it was when he shocked Alfred's youthful soul by his tain about " Duncan's handsome wench." " Come, my beauty," he continued, persua sively, " I'm glad to see you in a bad temper. Come with me, and behave yourself." She curled her lip scornfully, aud repeat ed : "I will never live with you ! Never !'' " We'll see about that, my wench," -aid he. ' I may as well take you dowu a peg, first as lost. If you'd rather be iu the calaboose with niggers than to ride in a carriage with me, you may try it, and see how you like it. 1 reckon you'll be giad to come to my terms, before Ion?." lie beckoned to two police-officers, and said, " Take this wench into custody, and keep her on bread aud water, until I give further or ders." The jail to which Loo Loo was couveyed was a wretched place. The walls were diugv, the floors covered with puddles of tobacco juice, the air almost suffocating with the smell of pent-up tobacco smoke, unwashed negroes, and dirty garments. She Had never seen any place so loathsome. Mr. Jackson's log boose was a palace iu comparison. The prison was crowded with colored ]>eople of ail complex ion-, and almost every form of human vice and misery was huddled together there with the poor victims of misfortuue. Thieves, murder ers, and shameless girls, decked out with taw dry bits of finery, were mixed up with mo lest iooking, broken-hearted wives, and mothers mourning for the children that had been torn from their arms, in the recent sale. Some were laughing, and singing lewd songs. Oth ers sat still, with tears trickling dowu their sa ble cheeks. Here and there the fierce expres sion of some intelligent young man indicated a volcano of revenge seething within his soul.— Some were stretched out drowsily upon the fil thy floor, their natures apparently stupefied to the level of brutes. When Loo Loo was brought in, most of them were roused to look at her : and she beard them saying to each other, " By gum dat arn't no nigger !" "What fur dey fetch her here V "She be white ladv ob qu ility, she be!" The tenderly-nurtured daughter of the weal thy planter remained iu this miserable place two days. The jailer, touched by her beautv aud extreme dejection, offered her better food than had been prescribed in his orders. She thanked him, but said she could not eat. When he invited her to occupy, for the night, a small room apart from the herd of prisoners, she ac cepted ,the offer with gratitude. But she could not sleep, aud dared not undress. Iu the morning, the jailer, afraid of being detected in thc.-e acts of indulgence, 'old her, apologetical ly, that he w as obliged to requst her to return to the comiuou apartment. Having recovered somewhat from the stun ning effects of the blow that had fallen upn her, she began to take more notice of her com panions. A gang of slaves, just sold, was in keeping there, tiil it suited the traders conve nience to take them to New Orleans ; and the parting scenes witnessed that day made an im pression she never forgot. " Can it be," she >aid to herself, " that such things have been going on arour.d me all these years, and I so unconscious of them V What should I now be. if Alfred had not taken compassion on me, and prevented my being sent to the New Or leans market, before 1 was ten years old , r — She thought with a shudder of the auction-sale the day before, and began to be afraiu that her friends could not save her from that vile man's power. She w as aroused from her reverie by the en trance of a white gentleman, w horn she had ne ver seen before. He came to inspect the tra der's gang of slaves, to see if any oue among them would suit him for a house-servant; and before long, he agreed to purchase a hrigbt lookiug mulatto lad. He stopped before Loo Loo, and said, " Are you a good seamstress T " She's not for sale,*" answered the jailer.— " She belongs to Mr. Grossman, who put her here for disobedience." The mac smiled,as be spoke, and Loo Loo bla<hed crimson. " 110, ho," rejoined the stranger. "I'aisor ry for that. J shoold like to buy her, if I could." He sauntered around the room, and took PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. ! from his pocket oranges and candy, which he distributed among the black picaninnies tum bling over each other on the dirty floor. Com ing around again to the place where she sat, he put an orange on her lap, and said, in low j tones, " When they are not looking at you, re move the peel and, touching his finger to his lip, significantly, he turned away to talk with the jailer. ! As soon as he was gone, she asked permis sion to go, for a few minutes, to the room she had occupied during the night. There she ex amined the orange and found that half of the skin had been removed unbroken, a thin paper inserted, and the peel replaced. On the scrap of paper was written : " When your master comes, appear to be submissive, and go with him. ' Plead weari ness, and gain time. You will be rescued. De stroy this, and don't seem more cheerful than you have been.*' Under this was written, iu Madame Labusse's hand, " Soyez tranquille, ma chore." Unaccustomed to act a part, she found it difficult to appear so sad as she had been be fore the receptiou of the note. But she did her best, and the jailer observed no change. Late iu the afternoon, Mr. Grossman made his appearance. " Well, my beauty," said he, " are you tired of the calaboose ? Don't you think you should like my house rather bet ter V She yawned listlessly, and, without looking up, answered : " I am very tired of staying here." " I thought so," rejoined her master, with a chuckling laugh. " I reckoned I should bring you to terms. So you've made up your mind not to be so cruel to a poor fellow so desper ately iu love with you—haven't you ?" She made no answer, and he continued : " You're ready to go home with me—are you not ?" " Yes, Sir," she replied, faintly. \N ell, then, look up into my face, and let me have a peep at those devilish handsome i eyes." He chncked her under the chin, and raised her blushing face. She wanted to push him from her, lie was so hateful ; but she remem . bered the mysterious orange, and looked him in the eye, with passive cbedience. Overjoved at his success, he paid the jailer his fee, drew her arm within his, aud hurried to the earri i age. How many humiliations were crowded into i that short ride ! How *she shrank from the 1 touch of ins soft shabby hand ! How she loath . Ed the looks of the old Satyr ! But sheremem j bered the orange, and endured it all stoically. Arrived at his stylish house, lie escorted her to a large chamber elegantly famished. "I told you I would treat you like a prin cess,' he said, "and 1 will keep my word." lie wou'd have seated himself ; but she prevented him, saying, "I have one favor to ask, and I shall be very grateful to you, if you will please to grant it." \\ hat is it my charmer ?" he inquired. "I will consent to any thing reasonable."' She answered, " I could not get a wink of sleep in that filthy prison ; and am extremely tired, l'iease leave uie till to morrow." " Ah, why did you eoni]>el uie to send you to that abominable place ? It grieved me to cast such a peail among swine. Well, I want I to convince you that I am a kind master, so 1 suppose I must consent. But you must reward me with a kiss before I go." This was the hardest trial of all ; but she recollected the danger of exciting his suspi cions, and complied. He returned il with so much ardor, that she pushed him away impet uously : but softening her manner, she said, in pleading tones, "I am exceedingly tired ; in deed I am !" He lingered, aud seemed very reluctant to go : but when she again urged her request, he said, " Good night, my beauty ! I will send up some refreshments for you, before you sleep."' He went away, and she had a very uncom fortable sensation when she heard him lock the door behind him. A prisoner, with such a jailer ! With a qnick movement of disgust, she rushed to the water-basin and washed her . lips and her hands ; but she felt that the stain was one no ablution could remove. The sense of degradation was so cruelly bitter, that it seemed to her as if she should die for very shame. Iu a short time, an elderly mulatto woman, with a pleasant face, entered, bearing a tray of cakes, ices, and lemonade. " I don't wish for anything to eat," said Loo : Loo, despolidingly. " Oh, don't be givin'np, in dat ar wav." said the mulatto woman, in kind, motherly toue-, "De Lor a'n't a-gwine to forsake ye. Ye mav jus' breeve what Aunt Debby tells yer. l'-e a poor ole nigger ; but I hub' 'sarved that the darkest time is allers jus afore de light come, hat some ob dese yer goodies. You onghter keep yoursef strong fur de sake ob yer friends." Loo Loo looked at her earner lv, and re pealed, " Friends ? How do you kuow I h ire any friend? ?" " Oh, I'se a poor ole nigger," rejoined the mulatto. " I don': knows nottin'" The captive looked wistfully after her, as she left the room. She felt disappointed ; for some thing in the woman's ways and tones had exci ted a hope within her. Agaiu the key turned on the outside ; but it was no*, long before Debby reappeared with a boquet. " Massa sent young Misses dese yer flowers." she said. " l'ut them down," rejoined Loo Loo lan guidly. • " Whar shall I put 'em ?" inquired the ser vant. " Anywhere, out of my way," was the curt , reply. Debby cautioned her by a shake of her fin ger, aud whispered, " Mass&'s out dar waitin' fur de key. Dar's writtio' on dem flowers." • She lighted the lamp?, and, after inquiring if anything else was wanted, she went out, say- I ing, " Good night, missis. De Lor semi ye ; pleasant dreams." Again the key turned, and the sound of foot . steps died away Loo Loo eagerly untwisted ; the paper around the boquet, aad read these " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." words, "Be ready for travelling About mid • night your door will be unlocked. Follow Aunt Debby with your shoes in your hand, And speak no word. Destroy this piper." To this Ladame Labasse had added, " Ne craiguer rien, ma chere." i Loo Loo's heart palpitated violently, and the blood rushed to her cheeks. Weary a she was, she felt no inclination to sleep. As she sat there, longing fur midnight, she had ample leisure to survey the apartment. It was. indeed, a bower lit for a princess. The chairs, tables, aud French bedstead were all ornamen ted with r< ses and lillies gracefully enter •twined on a delicate fawn-colored ground. The . tent-like canopy, that partially veiled the couch, was formed of pink and white striped muslin, draped on either side in ample folds, and fastened with garlands of roses. The pii ' low-cases were embroidered, perfumed, and j edged with frills quilted as neatly as the pes tals of a dahlia. In one corner stood a small i table, decorated with very elegant Parisian tea-service for two. Lamps of cut glass illu minated the face of a large Psyche mirror,and on the toilet before it a diamond necklace and . ear-rings, sparkling iu their crimson velvet case. Loo Loo looked at them with a half scornful sini'e, and repeated to herself : '• He bought me somewhat high ; Since with me came a her lie- couldn't buy.'' She lowered the lamps to twilight softness, and tried to wait with patience. How long the hours seemed ! Surely it must be past niid ! night. What if Aunt Debby had been de tected in her plot ? What if the master should come, in her stead ? Full of that fear, she tri ed to open the windows, and found them fast eued on the outside. Her heart sank within her ; for she had resolved, in the last emergen cy, to leap out and he crushed on the pave ment. Suspense became almost intolerable, j tihe listened, and listened. There was no 1 sound, except a loud snoring in the next apart ment. Was it her tyrant, who was sleeping so near ! She sat with her shoes in her hand, her eyes fastened on the door. At last it opened, and Debby's brown face peeped in They passed out together—the mulatto taking the precaution to lock the door and put the key in her pocket. Softly they went down stairs, through the kitchen, o'ut into the ad joining alley. Two gentlemen with a carriage wertf in attendance. They -prang in. and were whirled away. After riding some mile-, the carriage was stopped : one of the gentlemen alighted aud handed tlie women out. "My name is Dinsmore," he said. " 1 am uncle to your friend, Frank Helper. You are to pass fur my daughter, aud Debby is our ser vant." "And Alfred—Mr. Noble, 1 mean—where is he ?" asked Loo Loo. He will follow in good time. A-k no more questions now." The carriage rolied away ; aud the party it conveyed were soon on their way to the North by an express train. It would be impossible to dc-cribe the anxi iety Alfred had endured from the time Loo Loo became the property of the cotton broker until he heard uf her escape. Froin motives of policy he was kept in ignorance of the per sons employed, and of the measures they in tended to take. In this state of suspense, his I reason might have been endangered, had not Madame Labas.-e brought cheering messages, from time to time, assuring him that all wu carefully arranged, and success nearly certain. When Mr Grossman, late in the day, dis covered that his prey had escaped, his ruge knew no bounds. He offered one thousand j dollars for lier apprehension, and another thou sand for the detection of any one who aided her. lie made sncce.-<ive attempts to obtain an indictment against Mr. Noble ; but he wa proved to have beeu far distant from the scene of action, and there was no evidence that he had any connection with the mysterious affair. Failing in this, the exasperated cotton-broker swore that he would have his heart's blood, for he knew the sly, smoothspoken Yankee was at the bottom of it. lie challenged him : but Mr. Noble, notwithstanding the argument of Frank lL lper, refused on the ground that he he! 1 New England opinions on the subject of duelling. The Kentiickian could not under stand that it required a far higher kind of cour age to refuse than it would have done to ae- I cept. The bully proclaimed him a coward,and shot at him in the -treet, but without i; Aiding ; a very serious wound. Thenceforth he went armed, and his friends kept him in sight. But lie probably owed h\< life to the fact tint Mr. Gn>-man was compelled to go to New Orleans suddenly, on urgent bu.-iaess. Before leaving, the latter sent messengers to Savannah, Char leston, Louisvilie, and el-ewhcre ; exact de scriptions of the fugitives were posed in all public places, and off rs of reward were dou bled ; but the activity thns excited proved all in vaiu. The runaways had travelled day and night, and were in Canada before iheir pursu ers had reached New York. A few lines from •Mr. Dinsmore announced this to Frank Help i er, in phraseology that could not be understood in case that the letter should be inspected at the post office. He wrote : " I told you we intended to vi-it Moutrcal ; and by the date of this you will see that I have carried my plan into execution. My daughter likes the place so much that I think I shall leave her awhile iu charge of our trusty servant, wh.le I go home to look after my husiuess.'* , After the excitement had somewhat subsid ed, Mr. Noble ascertained the process by which his fnmds had succetded in effecting there-cue. j Aunt Debby owned her raa-'er a grudge for I having repeatedly sold her children ; and ju-t i at that time a fresh wound was rankling in her hear, because her oulv son, a bright lad of I eighteen, of whom Mr. Gro>.-man was the re puted father, had been sold to a slave-trader, to help raise the large sum he had given for Loo Loo Frank Helper's friends having re covered this state of affairs, opened a negotia tion with the mulatto woman promising to send both her and her son into Canada, if -he would as-ist them in her plans.—A not Debbv chock led over the idea of her master's disappoiuim nt and was eager to seize the opportunity of be ing reunited to her last remaining taild The lad was accordingly purchased by the gentle man who distributed oranges in the prison,and was sent to Canada, according to promise Mr. Grossman was addicted to strong drink, and A nut Debby had long been in the habit of preparing a portion for him before lie re tired to rest. " 1 mixed it powerful, dnt ar uight," said the laughing mulatto ; " and 1 put iu something dat the gemmen guv to me 1 reckon he waked up awful late" Mr. Dins more, a maternal uncle of Frank Helper's,lmd been visiting the South, and was theu about to return to New York. When the story was to! 1 to him, he said nothing would please him more than to take the fugitives under his own protection. SCENE V. Mr. Noble arranged the wreck of bis affairs as speedily as possible, eager to be on the way 'to Montreal. The evening before started. | Frank Helper waited upon Mr. Grossman, and j said : " That handsome slave you have been • trying so hard to catch is doubtless beyond ! your reach, and will take good care not tocome ; within your power. Under these circumstances she is worth nothing to you ; but for the sake of quieting the uneasiness of my friend Noble I will give you eight hundred dollars to rcliu i quish all claim to her." j The broker flew into violent rage. " I'll see you both iaiauei fir-t," lie replic i. " I shah j trip 'em up yet. l'i keep the sword hanging over the cursed heads as long as I live. I | wouldn't mind spending ten thousand dollars j to be revenged on that infernal Yankee." Mr. Noble reached Montreal in safety, and j found his Loo Loo well and cheereful. Word are inadequate to describe the emotions excit ■ ed by reunion, after such dreadful perils and ; and hairbreadth escapes. Their marriage was solemnized as soon as possible ; but the wife being an article of property, according to American law, thoy did not venture to return to the States. Alfred obtaiued some writing to do for u commercial house, while Loo Loo instructed little girls in dancing and embroid ery. Her character had strengthened under! the severe ordeals through which she had pa- j sed. She began to que.-,lion the rightfuless of living so indolently a- she had done. Those painful scenes in the slave prison made her re flect that sympathy with the actual miseries of life was better than weeping over romances. She was rising above the deleterious influences of her early education,aud beginning to feel the dignity of usefulness. She said to her husband " I shall not be sorry if we are always poor.— It is so pleasant to help who have done .-o much for nu.' And Alfred, dear, I want I to give some of my earnings to Aunt Debby .The pour .-ou! is trying to lay up money to piv thai lriend of yours who bought her .-on aud him to Canada. Surely I, of all people iu the world, ought to be willing to help slaves wh) have,been less fortunate thuulhave. Sometimes when 1 he awake in the night, I have ven solemn thoughts come over me. It was truly a won lerful Providence that twice saved me from the dreadful fate that awaited me. I can never he grateful enough to G1 for send iiig me such a blessed friend as rnv good Al fred." Tlioy were living thns contented with their i humble lot, when a letter from Frank Helper announced that the extensive hou-e uf Gr- >.-s --man A Co., had stopped payment. Their hu man chattels had been put up at auction, and among them was the title to our beautiful fugi tive. The chance of capture was consich r-.d so hopeless, that, when Mr Helper hi 1 sixty j two dollars, no one bid over him ; and she be-! came his property, until there was time to ! transfer the legal claim to his friend. Feeling that they could now be -afe under their own vine and tig tree, A fred returned to the United States where he became first a , clerk, and afterwards a prosperous merchant His natural organization unfitted him fur con Act, and though hi- peculiar experiences huu j had imbued him with a thorough abhorrcttci of slavery, he stoo l aloof from the tvcr-ii ;crea> ing agitation on that subject ; bat every New Year's day, one of the Vigilance Committees ' for the relief of fugitive slaves received ou hundred dollars "from an unknown friend."— As his pecuniary means increased, he pureha ed several slaves, who had been in hi.- eatplo) at Mobile, and established them Ok servants ii Northern hotels. MadameLabas.se was invit ed to spend the remainder of her days undci his roof; but she came only in the summers, tjt-iiigr unable to conquer her shivering dread ; of snow storms. Loo Loo's personal charms attract* d atten tion whatever she made her appearance. At : church, and other public place-", people ; oiut j her out to straagers, saying, " That i- the wife of Mr Alfred Noble. Site WAS THE OH h N daughter of a rich planter at the South, .-.mi had a great inheritance left to her ; Imt Mr Noble lost it all in the financial crisis of 1 -37 " Her real history remained a secret, lo< k ulwith |in their own breasts. Of tiie.r three children, the youngest was nam- d Loo f.u >, a ! gr-al ly resembled Iter Uautiful mother. When >b. w as six years old, her portrait was taken i i gipsy hit garlanded with red berries. Sin was dancing round, a little white ii-g. -mil 1 ng streamers of ribbon were fl >ating behind her. Her father had it framed iu an arched environ- I ment of vinework, and presented it t" th-wif. on her thirtieth l>irth-dj. Her eyes moisten j ed as she gazed upon it ; then ki-.-.i g his hand, she looked up in the old way. and .-aid, " 1 thank you, sir, FT buying me." [THE END j Prinkenoff makes a distinction thus: " Too much whiskey is too much, but too much , lager-bcer is .-boost right." I CrifFoote expressed the behef that a cer taiu miser would take the beam out ut his own eye, if he knew he could scii the timbers. Why are the strongest parts of a wall as weak a- a woman's hair ? Because tbey are buttresses (but tresses.) Woa'd you be exempt f-om uneasi ness. do nothing yoc know or suspect to be w ropg. VOL. XX. —XO. IS. Looking glass for Business Men. How cross von nrc ! Yes, hotr cross yon arc—and it is hijrli time you knew it. You are cross in llie morning, cross in the evening and cro-s all day ; cross when you gooutand cross when you come in ; cross to your wife, and cross to your children, and cross to everybody; cross when you go to bed and cross even in . your sk op ; and your friends wait in fear le.-t I thut infernal po-.-ion shall continue through life and be "strong in death." Yourcharuet . cr is known and read of uil men. it leaks out , or spiils over continually, and there is no u-e in attempting to conceal the matter. Now we | intend in this discourse to touch only on one -in_da development of your position, "viz : itsre iaif-m to business, to your prosperity ; and leave your minister to give you other necessary Ho?pel teaching. We. will begin this ventila tion by remarking : i ls t That cross men are usually despised by ,! everybody. 2d. That cross men art always in want uf , j friends •I 1. That envss. men can't depend upon per manent prosperity. 4th. That cross men, when in trouble, are left alone and let alone, and "are of ail men • most miserable." oth. That cross nteu are the last men srfoi should nsk for favors. 6th. Tiiat cro-s men arc cut ofT from the af fecfinas, good will, and sympathy of partners, clerks, customers, and—everybody. Lastly. T iHt cro-s men, when tliey depart which " i-. far better," leave behind a short process.o i and but few mourners. In view of this object, we venture further to say, that when you speak cross to your part ners you are making a muss generally, which will hive a tendency to reduce materially tiw profits of yonr business, and render your suc : cess m >re diflkrnlt.- wiien you speak cross to j your clerks, you discourage, inflame, prejudice them so that very soon they will care little for i you or any of your concerns ; when you speuk ! cross to a customer, even if he is unreasonable and deserves it, you disgrace yourself, and do a wrong which cannot easily le repaired, 110 will not forget t if you do, and the worse the the man is and the more he deserves it, the more he will abuse you. Wherever arid whenever you are cross, you damage and belittle yourself, and all peacea ; Llo men w.ll make trunks, give you a wide berth, get out of sight, and instinctively ahuu you as they would a wild elephant. Lastly, i o money can compensate you for the los- of a good or even a tolerable disposi tion. Therefore, don't indulge a bad temper. \"U may be a Rothschild, or even a Crte-us, j yet if you are a chronic cross man, you will lie a poor beggar—a poverty-stricken soul—with out a crumb of solitary comfort up >n which to -at sly the cravings of poor human nature. Your partners, your cierks, your customers, and the public generally, including your poor dog and cat, will breathe easier when you die and ar* 0 tof th-' w. y, unless you reform. Will you m ike the experiment ? Begin then with a -in : !e. Follow up that smile with a iirm reso lution to persevere to the end. Let what will coin", k 'cp your temper. If you can't restrain yi ir-elf, 1 g kind. Try Old Hundred, Alear, or , \vii } i ikee Poodle. If that don't answer s k the (pen a'r, and roar at the wind. Try your lungs with a uorwester, and give us a •veord of your experience. Go to Niagara Falls, and amid the thunderingsof that mighty I cataract, give ns a trial of your uttermost cap acity that shall ever after satisfy you. I)o any thing further than not become a—reformed mau.— lnrfrprndmt. How THE INDIANS BADE STONE ARROW-HEADS. The head- of the Indian arrows,.spears, jav id.ns, Ac., often found in many jairls of our continent, have been admired, but the process I .1 funning them conjectured. Tue Hon. Caleb Lyon, ou it recent visit to California, met with ' i party of Shasta Indians, aud ascertained that j hey still used those weapons, which in most | tribes have been superceded by r fles, rat least ,by iron-pointed arrows and .-pears, lie found a man who could manufactn-e thera, aud saw him at work at all parts of the process. The description which Lyon wrote ami communica ted to the American Ethnological Society, through Pr L H Pa vis. we copy lielow : Idle Shasta Indian seated himself ujon the 110 r, an.. laying the stone anvil upon his knee, which w~s of compact t i loose slate, with one Aof L,- ag I ;v cbicd HE M p..ra'td the obsi •ii in pebble ia*o two parts, then giving anoth er i low to the fractured side he split off a slab ' -<>iue fourtii o; an inch in thickness. Holding tin* piece against the anvil with the thumb and finger of ills hft i.ai.d he commenced a series ••t continuous blows, every one of which chip ped tiff fragment* of tlie brittle substance. It I- idudllv <f p;ued to acquire -hape. After fin i>!;ing vhc b i.-e of the arrow head (the whole ' b. iug only little over an inch in length) he be gan ?tiik.ug gentler blows, every one of winch 1 cXfx-cted won' 1 break it into pieces. Yet such was their adroit application, Ids skill aud dex te'i'y tiiat in little onr an hour he produced S prefect ob- dian arrow-head. I then reqwst cd him to carve u ooe from the remains of a • rokeii port r liottle, which (after twofaduresy e succeeded in do .g. He gave as a reason • r !iis i'i success., he. did not uuder-iand the grain of the glass. No sculptor ever handled a ci. scl ;:i gr -uter piccsion, or more careful v ima-ured the weight and effi-ct of evcrv w, than this ingewtoos Indian, for evcu imoiig them, arrow-making is a distinct trade or profession, wheh many attempt, but in • which fi w attain excellence. He understood the capacity o! the material he wrought, a\d 1 in fore striking the first blow, by surveying the pebble, he could judge of its availability as well .i> the Mtd lor judges of the perfectnrss of a l!o kof I'ariau. la a moment all that I had read upon the -object, written by learned and speculativeantirj<inaug of the hardening of cop. per, f->r the working of Unit axes, spears, ch;t seis. and arrow-bead*, vanished before tbesitu • p! st mechaueal p oeess. I felt that the world • had been bettc. served had they driven the pet • less, sad the- plough more !
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