New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-08

made to have them corrected To save the cos. Of en-
poyirs ar'is;s you had some Of the drawing on the
wood dome SO ruie'y as 10 be quite inadmirsble;
among them angels without joints and man 90 stills
two inches high. And ysu, yourself, worked ont an
impossible landscape. True, You did rot figure 9
nan lighting b; PIPE at candle p. se,a BY woman IN
as that. or any other ia Hogarths famous plate Of
P.rsu.c,ve sent you a sketch after the manner Il
those ~ the margin OF seanen chartsl u the low and
distant corsts forming the harbor Of Rio. Tais you
determined Ia make into picture. and wrote 10 me,
saying: " lou will perceive thet In the entrance Ia
Rio, lave given more perspective by high.eninS
" The rcarsr objects" les, you Heightened The Ting
TIL il became 80 laughaby absurd that wrot, you
about II. But II WAS too late. Inc cut vas sohe.
To 90 II over would be loss, 80 INFO tne inaS afns
went, and there II remains, memorial OF your SKI
in making sheet OF water rom one s.is OF pyramid,
with ships sailing mp H. md is liquid apex gltsenng
high over All the country round. Was there ever
m Arf, however penurious who for the sake Of ono
dollar, or hundred, would have put his name "a such
picture as that
VIA; you say about qualify in magazine xtcles
IS tie only smart line in yoNr letter. The rect, though
equally spitciG is De, seasoned with atom OF spice.
Whether received more or less thsn the value Of
nine you cannot tell With little assistance, ]
think you can. You know what was paid now attend
to what B. J. LOSING thought and wrote from Hsr-
per's establishment OF their qualify OF tls first
ore, IL greatly pleased with the article and think
1t wi. make au excsecir ely attractive one Tor the
magazine. They tell me IS opinion Of yoar MS
second, From your varied and interesting ms,cial,
Mr.. Harper is DESTROYS Of having you prepare an ar
cle on Religious obseryances, to be fully illustrate
ed. He desired me ~ write 10 Won immed ately.'
In subsequent letter the alton is strongly
commended as 4" valuable magazine article" Il this
CROUCH to meet the little semi-pious ting-or shall
add more a
Your account of my getting angry at Harpers Office
is ref, shiny especially OF my using language I'M
becoming that Won were conscientously mp~iled to
rehuke me" in the most courteous manner, now
averl" There il no denyiug the mirmity. ] an,
somewhat ap. say, and in plain Anglo Saxon, what
think Of proiessedly plous and honorable men NAH
ing attempting u make, me their victim and alro
wholly 20 disregard the soft suggestions OF Interested
and courteous apoogists. Did you SIR in your aim
phcity expect me Ia sner in silence, and hope that
would improve on the Gospel text by yielding my
purse instead Of my cheek to reyiers 7
" Ii gal teclneatcs" Be rational, and say lega!
and moral deficiencies. But this suggests what had
forgotten. Pray, why you, who knew more about
the affair than any else, not present 10 adj tho
weight If his testimony Ia that Of your partner,
Fletcher Harper and nephew We wished you to do
this And three separate days officer sought to
compel You by subpoena 10 do II. You WERE Vn each
visit non est, and you best know Why
Your closing remarks are pretsrnatuTslly cool AMI
serene. After hsrassng me tor over year 10 law
putting me To no small expense in money, time and
iseng-and charging me nnovery indirect terro with
lack of moral principle, you request me to apply 10
your employers in your behalf In what school out
theirs could such assurance be acquired To be can
did, think servity will be justly punished by their
declining TO pay and so think not few of your friends,
who hope that the lesson just taught you-that THRIFT
ts effects your future life. The cup you have 50
perseveIngly pressed to anohers lips is now at your
own, and DO one will be surprised il your employers
leave You Ia drain it. Why should they not : fou
know what is said about no friendship IN trade
and they know, 10 use holnely phrase, without IN
tending otleDse, that "the dog wags his tail not at
them, but at what he expects TO get from them;
Suppose they don't pay, what is your loss Nothing.
HI Lilo. h.at atAIa n rbala
charges had been looked at and evidence furnished
that the few cuts for which you wanted over 500
would gladly have been done by other q firms" for
less that 500, and you kindly credited me with
500 paid you on account by the Harpers the balance
was considerably under that. Then, You doubtless
charged at the same rate for double the number
done for my articles in the magazine-ssy, between
six and seven hundredinstead VI loss, your profits
on both lots are only some $780, instead of about
double that sum. Is il for you, Sir, 10 deliver
fences like the Seer of Poughkeepse, and to whino
over the decay of piety and patriotism
And now accept word Of advice, which the trouble
you have given me, if not my knowledge Ut you,
instifes me in ofleriDg
I. Never enter the public arena a. champion OF
your employers again-not even as Squire ~ Sir
Fletcher. Iou may worship their fair aud honorable
lineaments ardently as a kright-eraDt the bright
eyes of his lady, but you had better do IL in private.
You are not the man to break lance on their behalf
in either joust or tournament and rest assured that
when for them you lose your spurs The consolation
they will offer will not pay for splnters and pgsers.
.. BE somewhat lees: Yon have written much On
Revolutionary Relics, but are not yet Herddotus
Thucydides, and before you can rival either you
be less xious Of turning historical knck
into coin. ODD
3. Moderate your patriotic compaisances, Pstriot-
ism consists of something than lauding the viz
tues of Washington and denouncing cowboys and
tories That is the cheap, modern recpe-ths doc
rne of quscks. II serves the purpose OF thousands,
and has made you rich. Supposing nothing selfish
entered into your visits to Revolutionary characters
and places, no Yankee pedder's trips ever equaled
them profit. Unlike Robert Paterson Old Mortality
you mix lucre, If not the love Of lncre, with your
reverence for the Fathers. lie revived the memorials
of Scotch victims Of tyranny for nothing; while you
have turned the fields, fences, dwellings, furniture,
arms wives, children, tombs bones, and everything
else belonging To American ones, into money. Your
letter is Indicative Of pe. Few, think, can read it
without concluding that its gist il not character but
cash. Guard, therefore, against the approaches OF
avarce. If il get fairly into you, no nesmers-
ing friend can draw the devil ont II will pervade
every Of your soul, faint every act and wilt
and wither whatever reputation you may acquire.
The same devil ruined one who once as full Of
patriotic feryOr az yourself-ArnOld.