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Broad, expanding plains—the city receding behind us, as the horses, leaping onward to the music of the chiming bells, make for the broad, boundless country.— The fir forests are clasped in a shadowy, ghostly slumber. Far away on our right are those pathless funeral grov es where the wolves congregate in hun dreds- To the left rises a ridge of hills sloping down to the river, which is locked up in the iron manacle of the Winter King. Ahead, and right before us—whither we are bound— over waste, and plain, and clearing—lies a snugly-sheltered village, the head-quarters of the "lumberer" and the voyageur. Our destination is not quite so far. ~ , •tid destination is a broadly-spread, low-1} ing larnistead, with its almost num berles “ut-houses, consisting of cattle sheds and dairies, corn stores, roofings for winter hyldei, wood stacks, and other con comitant- surrounding the dwelling, all palisaded by zig zag fences to protect the, cerufortable citadel. Within it, warm fires blaze and sparkle from the huge and oder ous logs crtekling on the broad and boun teous hearth. In the great wunnon cham her, raftered and picturesque gothic ball, ale warm hearts and flashing eyes. Beard ed men and fair women are there—laugh ing maidens and strapping young hunters, who have just shaken the snow offtheir furs at the portals. be-pite the stern, yet musical baritene of the singing wind, as it goes by, stinging chee , ting noses into purple, and makinerthe • oe, shout& of mirth and laughter rise above the boreal blasts ; and our leaping sleigh, gliding— flying along rather—to the music of the soft musical hell, im fast, fast approaching it. terminus "Irk the to..avi time," ask,. the reader, •"echo thi , •leigh I haaten to an si% Firlt: there %%as your humble servant, the narrator. lark Harding by name. but a few ni..i.ths I. k 11-ota the banks of the Isis, Roh the ••bar" in prospect. I add a few of my per,onal are77lJ. Rather gocil looking : a fair , hot : can hit with wonder tul t Igor straight out from the shoulder ; am foe :eel tell and rowing ; can play the „i game of pool, and have the temper of an angel. I had been one of a party of adventurous sportsmen, "getting in" for something worthy of Alexander, and. with fishing tackle, spears, and "shoot ing irons," had done no inconsiderable ex execution among the denizens of t Ca nadian woods and sounding -rapids7 and hunted the bear in his own bold and pie turesqUe fastioNstisnes Enough of myself. Now for my com panions. Place at. by/lei, therefore—for nestling by my side, vrns.fped up in rugs and warm furs, is Lou' bnglit-eyed rosy lipped, laughing Canadian, an lovelyt girl woman of seventeen as glance of ma •ver rented complacently upon. The Canadi an mother and the French father were expressed in her name. Her playful lam bent eyes had exercised their sorcery upon the ere this ; and the modulations of a voice unequalled for its low, soft sweetness completed the young syren's triumph.— This by the way ; for we had exchanged no confidence as yet on a subject very near my heart. - We were bound to a merry sighing party at Windy-gap farm—ostensibly to hunt upon a vast scale, which accounts for my two rifles and amunition lying in the sleigh, and for the noble deer-bound, the third •individual," who had curled up his great body at our feet, and aided to keep them warm. I had known her brother— a young officer in the Canadian Rifles— had killed "bar" at the "Salt licks" with him ; had met Lota and her family on board a St. Lawrence steamer, and was now a guest at their house, enjoying their frank and bounteous hospitality. "Hurrah !" Through the keen, sonorous air. sleigh and horses bound along "Cling —Clang !" go the chiming hells. "Crick— crack !" goes the long-thonged whip, with a sharp, cheery significance. My "Mada waska Cariole," a sleigh which is the per fection of locomotion, is not less perfection than the fiery steeds, with their sinews of elastic steel, which I drive. Driving a sleigh tandem is the easiest thing in the world, wAen you are used to a.- 1 was a member of the "Tandem Club," and reckoned a crack hand, of course. I exulted in my skill now, as I bore my rosy companion through the air, and the whip went "crack—crack !" like a double-barrol going off, and .tbe sweet bells sane and chimed. "(Ali ! sweet echoes of far distant wedding-bells!" I thought—and the crisp snow was split and shattered into diamonds under tLe grinding of the hoofs and the attrition of the "runners ;" end with an exhilaration I could not repress, I gave a vigorous "hurrah !" which conveyed itself to Lots, wrapped up in moose and bear skins, and warm as a toast. A sweet, &xi ish laugh echoed my exulting shout. "You appear to enjoy this, lir Hard ing !" she said. - "If I don't—" "Crick—crack !" filled ui the hiatus. What a pair of beauties ! Plicebus Apollo never drove their like down the steeps of the heavens, The wily Ittuic can never "raised" such cattle when he cleared the stables of Rhesus of his horses! &ate .strret. 11.1 ••Crick —crack !" and the horses neigh and t their arching necks, and the bells are chiming and tinkling. and the matt exult ing rush uplifts one like Wine. I remark, to myself, that the sky has fail %X A ICT - 0 7 4 If I=l OBSERVER, deepened into an intense, still darkening blue—darkening with a strange, unearth ly, teziebrious juiciness, betokening a com ing snow storm. No nutter—`•Wtnely-gap" is right ahead, and the welcome lights will blaze out of the comments soon. for the af ternoon is wearing. On we go—but Ido not see them yet and yet—but no—it's all right I "Are you warm--quite snug, dear Leta?" saichl, half turning to look at the ratty, ex quisite face peeping forth with; SO much furtive.coquetry Iron) itm end-aarmtnt of white cosy furs. "Oh, so cornfortsble '" .he answered, with a nestling movement, and a smile which made my h , •nrt leap - joyously up• ward. But my attent was called away to the creepinf, ctert-ettlar inkiness of the sky. It was light. t et not daylight, butrelso light —to coin a word, the wintry hue of livid darkening steel, always the poreursor to a fierce change in the weather. This only made the long level plains of snow-gleam with a lustre the more daszling and internee. I remarked this, hut with a momentarily divided and wavering sense. I had never. familiar as we had grown (and I was "honest as the skin between your brows." as sA4 was, in fact}---I had never said "dear Lout" before, and the words were yet in my ears like a sweet old burthen. I loved her with all my heart and soul, but I had never told it. i yearn ed to tell her so now hut I thought it scarcely fair—not up to - the mark of my manhood—to take what seemed en unfair advantage of the protection I wee suppos ed to extend over her. I magnanimously re solved to wait—choking down the words.--- but not for 104'. Meantime, "crick--crack !" went the long whip and still "cling—clang" went the chiming bells, and the hinses held on with unabated pace and splendid vigor, but—where had "Windy-gap" gone to all this time for the time was up, and we should be there by this. " "Goodness!" exclaimed Lots, all at °nail. "how strange the sky looks ; we shall have more snow—a heavy fall, too." "I fear so." I replied "bat a'nviportr, we'll soon be out of it." "We are very lonic.. I fancy," she oottun ued, reflectively • "you have driven there quicker than this before. Oh, Heaven she cried, with,the suddenness of a revela tion, "can we have /ow tiie troth?" The blank question harped with a horri ble jar on my most vivid nerves. Now In never was the time to be quite cool. "No, I think not." I replied, with as sumed carelessness : "we shall tome to our landmark, preqently ; " "A clump of firs—an old mill, farther on ; yes," she added "I recollect ; but we should have Framed them long ere Ltda.— Oh. I fear we are lost'" A cold chill seized me as I tacitly admit ted that she wll4 in the right t could not account for tit" error, it such ys al the cas. I looked mun i the- horri:or.. h ut b e h e ld no f r i e ndly sign . was only a circle gath ering closer, atoi growing darker all the while Suddenly, my br ,ve deerb , .und lifted up his head, and uttered 4, kov growl. Tha horses gave a 4.tari1....1 j ust A , s , j ,i_ denly. A ange, liigubrp,us, but appal ling sound cline all at enee trom tlie windward, waildig like a death ery—a prolonged awful, gro,.lling discordnno_•— evor the white. ,:l•-uminp. •ninw , and then it died awa) The horse., bolted, trewilling ; only cue shivering tinkle of bulk broke the death silence th.at tell like an eolspse over "What LS AU , i " MANI Lot's, in a 'bud derin4 whisper, as she clutched my arm. I listened. - •h is the wind sighing and dyinz aw .) tn the pine forest, - 1 an swered. - And we do not near die iorual.,".he &id. -Hark ' there It tr , again. Oh, what —what can it Again the in.leritiatily loth:vie" and lugubrious broke forth ; cleamr— nearer. It lecreased .it multiplied ; the horrible crusee,a . boa ling, shrieking, and raving, was t:ot that ot the wind this time. "Merciful ticmd " easped Lota ; " Tea - WOLVES !" I never understood. till that moment, what the concentrated essence of literal, deadly horror might mean. I never expe rienced the shock before, or since. and I have, in my hunting excursions, faced uny danger and played out the game nuniffilly. To have lost the way was terrible enough ; but—the wolves:---and Lota: An instant I was numb and dumb. It was true. however. The severity of the weather, the migration or scarcity of tle animals on whom these unclean crea tures preyed had made their hunger a rag-__ ing, devouring madness. They were en croaching on civilized territory, and losing their usual characteristic and craven cow ardice, were approaching the habitation's of men, haunting village and settlement.- Woe to those in their path : As the infer nal howl rose lingeringly again the horses darted away with a shrill neigh of fear, and I guided them—begining torecover myself —in the opposite direction, while "Terror" my noble hound, stood up with every fang bare, and every hair on end, waiting for the enemy be had already scented. If my good hories hail gone on no ad mirably at first, they aped off now like ar rows from the bow r for the madness of fear added wings to their speed, as tfiat of hunger did to our panting pursuers. I was growing cold; Lota was pale but calm. I felt proud of her. though it was certain that if we escaped not speedily the brutes would run us down, and then, horror of horrors ! what a &fate fur her I leff two rifles. a revolver, ammunition, a spear, and a wood-hatchet in the "sleigh." I conveyed my intention to Lota. "Can you load these weapons with those - cart-- ridges?" I asked. "Yee," was the ate3wer ; and she loaded a "Fuller" and a "Manton" with true hunter's skill. I took one rifle—looked back—the pack was increasing. I fired, and Lota loaded • and one after another fell, to be devoured by their ravenous corn , rades; and still the horses sped on. - The accursed things were. for all this, gainin4 ground. Doubts, fears, hopes, trembling were at my heart as I turned to the s veet girl whose life or death were all in an to me, and mid • "Lbts : if we die together, remember that I &weirs—none bur you! I ten it now, if I may4ver again." " • me first," she whispered. "I hear your words ; I echo them. You have my heart. Richard—" "Qh Lots bei.t. beloved! what a mo ment to confess • and I know not if I feel pair pr gladness most." "There are now no secrets between or," said Lots, smiling ; "take this rifle ; give me- , -the pistol ; one kiss--so : they come. Save me from them at any cost." I thought. my ears would have split at their dreadful yells, for they were now upon us, opening out to surround us . and though the horses held bravely on, I dread ed every instant that- sbeer terror would paralyse them. It is i-carcely poosible to conceive the unutterable horror that was circling us both young lovers with beat ing hearts, forever, frotn that hour, inter changed with each other With lolling tongues. eves of flame, hoarse. deep vrocrls. they had ceased to bay and howl ; they were closing in upon us. I remarked one huge monsteel in advance of the rest ; his object evidently being to leap into the sleigh from behind. I fired $1,50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE NUMBER $8 —and missed him The next moment his huge bulk cane scrambling over the back; bit paws were on me ; his fiery breath on my cheeks ; and 4 expected, as I murmur ed a short prayer, to feel the fangs of the abhorrent brute in my flesh. A flash !-4 crash I—a gush of%lood—and the creature tumbled backward, shot through the neck. to the spine, by my brave Lout Then I plied hatchet and split skull after skull, while the sleigh tore on ; but I was giving up all hope, and turning round—oh, Rear en I—to spare my darling a more hideous fate, when shots and shots rang around, and troops of_dogs and hunters came swift ly to our aid, and—and we were both anyd! - Providisnee had directed the sleigh to "Windy-gap ;" our firing reached the hear ing of our friends, and brought them out in hot haste to aid us. We tore saved; and as I bore her fainting form into the hospitable hall, and clasped her tenderly to my bosom, you may guess how sincere was the gratitude I breathed in silence to Heaven. It was the prelude to a wedding, which occurred soon afterwards ; and you may be sure I never forgot my fight with the wolves, how pluckily my noble Lota back ed me, or the somewhat original but opro pos mode in which "I told my Love:" A ARKAZILABLZ CIMARACTICIL-Tht Wash ington . correspondent of the St. Louis "Evening Bulletin" thus -notices a gentle man well known in that city : "I met., today, a remarkable character. Colonel Pitchlynn, for many years the chief of the Choctaw Nation. He has long been in the habit of visiting the federal capital during the sessions of Congress. His na tion, numbering some 32,000 persons, en joys, under the protection of the United States Government, the privilege of com plete intestial self-regulation. He is a fine looking man, of middle age, with some physical traits of aboriginal stock. Edu cated at a Southern University, he is high ly balers :led, and, from his account, his people are far advanced in civilization, cul ture and prosperity. The Colonel's moth er still lives, speaking only the Choctaw tongue. Her descendants to the fourth generation numbered nearly one hundred —many of them being doctors, lawyers. &c., and good classical scholars. One the merchants and agriculturists of the na tion, a Mr. Jones, possesses large commis. sion houses and real estate in New Orleans, besides five plantations on Red riser, pro ducing *cotton crop of $lOO,OOO per annum. This Jones was an orphan and destitute boy, educated at the expense of the pres ent chief. A stringent and absolutely pro hibitory liquor law has been rigorously en forced since 1542., the possession of even thn smallest quantity, under any pretext, being summarily punished by a heavy fine. For horse-stealing the penalty is, for the first otieuce, one hundred lashes ; for the secilhd. death. There is no law for the collection of debts; persons who abuse con fidence lose sli credit, which is found quite effectual. All officer:, are elective, on the model of the States. Churches and schools are flourishing. -Does not this sketch read more like Ifore's Utopia. rather than a 4tatArnetit of tacta, gleaned in a brief ccm‘er-atioti, from the head of a couiruunety located in the -oath-eastern corner of the Indian territory, on the borders of at kansas and Texas, and intersected by our -‘-aithwest ern Pacific mail route? Yet it is hut a glimpse into the interior et this interesting people. No one alio converses a moment with Colonel Pitchlynn can suspect him of the slightest exaggeration or disposition to magssily• ilia people unduly." THE COCRTING ors SIEI•RP OF BCIII - is a fast man, a sharp man, a man of busineas tact, and when Pitts goes into a store to trade he always gets the lowest cash price, and he says : "Well, I'll look abotti, and if I don't find anything that suits the better, l'U call and take this." like all fal-t wen. is iartial to wo me•n, and young one. , in particular. Now, quite lately Pima said to hmtself lam get tin' rather long to years, and guess I'll get married.' His business qualities wouldn't let ham wait, .o off he trave;s, and, calling upon a lady friend, opened the conversation by remaaking that he would like to know what she thought about Lis getting mar ried. Mr. Pitts, that is an affair in which I am not so very greatly' interested, and I prefer to leave it with yourself." "But," says Pitts, "you are interested, and. my dean girl. will you marry me The young lady blushed very red, lie - itatevl, and finally, as Pitts was very well to do do in the world, said morally, financial ly and politically of good standing in so ciety, she acee.pted him. Where.upon, the matter-of-facet Pitts responded "Well, well. I'll look about, and if I don't find anybody that suits the bettor than N mine back." lEZZCIIIM tor Dueh the moon stay herself to lec ture every dog that bayeth at her Doth The lion turn aside to rend each cur that barketh At him 7 Do the stars Celiii.3 to shine bee woe the nightingales reprove theta tur their dimness! Doth the soul stop his course becaui.e of the officious c lo u d winch veils it" Ur dot!) the river stay because the willow dipped/ its leaves ton its water Ah, no ; God's universe moves on, and if men will oppose it, it heeds them not. It is as God bath made it ; it is working together for good, and it shall not be stayed by the censure nor moved on by the praise of man. Let your bows. my brethren, abide. Do not be in a hurry to set yourselves right. God will take care of you. Leave yourselves alone; only be valiant for the Lord God of Israel, be steadfast in the truth of Jesus and your bow shall abide.—Spurgeon. ram Two colored ladies, "Old Aunt Kan des," aged 103 years, and "Zylply Scheme," aged 119 years, died in Monmouth oounty, J., a few days since. Theformer dis tinctly remembered the battle of Mon mouth,*and once escaped from the gritish by biding under a brush heap, while her master was killed and his dwelling burned. The latter died at the residence of Mr. Disbrow, with whom she had lived nearly all her life. These women were always ac quinted with each other, the tatter remem bering the birth of the former. They were bliried in the same week in the same ground. GON s H °its. /Lemminger, the South Carolina seccession agent, left, Richmond for Charleston on Thursday - last. He was escorted to the Southern oars by members of the joint committee of the Legislature. The Southern oonference scheme will not be aooeded to. Virginia Kentucky, Ten nessee, Itagylszid, Texas and North Caro lints, will det follow South Carolina out of the Union on frivolous grounds. . PRIMLY Poov.s., a noted Boston Know Nothing, has been appointed Clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relation.; in the tiouse. The fellow is so opposed to Atli foreigners that it is a winder he would accept a situation that had anything to do with Foreign Relations. A Laing Hact..—The Cashier of the Rhode Island Ilehange Bank has not on ly proven a defaulter to the Bank for $72,000, but is a defaulter to a Savings' in stitution in Providence, in the additional sum of $36,000. I TALINto OUT lINC POISON : A bssorbno lir sieving you( DION , Mistook loor rod lips for the loss; Theft 11 ,, soy to swat wore so Solly, X ,, loins so nest nes blots. It IlekW, and naked ber —lsbell dailies Her band on the Intradont bus. It Moog hoc sad Dolly, awed sapplog, Came pouting and crying to nie. Said ►M, 'Take th► Mae oat i play your What way I was petaled SO try, Aad ► trilling wart I'd lay you You'd bey* bees a► isselk pooled ►► I. rd based About inieldag est poise A cling is u poidemode dart-- 8o Iftlyed bon—the set rasa. iii. me; The wog tows' Ito way to say brut Ax Alumna &Poss.—A few days since we called attention to the fact. thatgreat excitement existed in Zanesville, Ohio, with regard to the disappearance of a Mr Curtis, who, it is said, had divulged the secrets of the Sons of Malta, and had been spirited away by the members of the Order, to the great distress of his family and the astonishment of the public at large, who scarcely knew what to think of the bold - ness of the proceeding. It turns out now that the expose which gave such ofWice to the Order, was not written by Curtis,. but by his wife, who comes out with an avowal of the fact, and gives it as her opinion that the Sons are not to blame for his disap pearance. Mrs. Curtis writes a very amusing ac count of Mr. Curtis and a Mr. Smith be coming Sons of Malta, and the natural curiosity of herself and Mrs. Smith to_find out the secrets of tbi• order. The two la dies agreed to have themselves proposed as members, and got Mrs. Smith's cousin to attend to the matter. "Well." Mrs. Curtis goes on to say, "we were proposed and elected, and Joe came down into the store where we were and told us, so we hurried through with the dressing, and went up to the ante-chamber and sat down all in a row. We hadn't eat there long before two men came out to us, from the inside room, all mused up in gowns; and having a kind of tin hats on their heads which covered their faces. They asked us for $5 each ; and Joe handed aver the money for us and himself, as we had given him nearly our amounts, and promised him thereat soon." Then there came two more men like the other two, whb formed us in to a line, (they call it a single tile,) and told us to walk right along. They bad swords, and one of them walked before Joe, who •Nas in front, while the other walked behind me It was dark, or nearly so, when we paesed in. I was glad of the darkness. because, having on a suit of my husband's clothes, I was pot sure tliat they fit i'eiy She nest describes some of the scenes inside as she saw them, and says 1 was not frightened ; for I am not one of your tenel-people, being reared to ride colts, shoot pistols, skate and swim. So r got through all the manoeuvres, prenlicras to that coat bteeness, pretty well. Bat when the conductor said, "Can you swim, sir ?" l raid - Yes :' "Can you swim in/nu:teen tee: . ' I sa;cl. "Yes: the deeper the better:" "Well, take off ydur coat and try yourself !" Now when he said "take off your coat," that seared me, be cause 1 had put ou a loose sack on purpose, for reasons you will *see yourself. Howev er. I thought a moment and thi.n said, "No, sir ; liever heed the coat—l can swim as well with as without it;" "Very well," said the conductor ; "your peril will be upon your own head. Now hold up your right hand, sir !—take this life preserver and—." Here he gave me a push and I went over backward, and as soon as I alighted I went up again, flying—then down and up in the same way,, until I thought all my brains were flying out of the top of my head, and then everything swam round and round until I did 'not know anything at all, for I had fainted. The next place I found myself was in the ante-chamber, or rather, just being led into the ante-chamber by two men, and I was first conscious that I must have been sitting in a bath tub with my clothes on. I think that the cool air brought me to my senses. The two men looked very scared and sorry. I looked about for Mrs. Smith and Joe, but they hia gone as soon as they heard the noise made in inliVairtro me. 1 asked one of the men if Mr. Curtis was in the lodge. The man said he was. I said 1 would like to see him a minute. The man went into the lodge roclm, and pres ently out came my beautiful husband, all muffled up. I just whispered a word or two in his ear, and maybe he didn't pull off his gown and hood in short order, and walk home with me. He left rue that night in anger and mor tification, and I have not wen him since, But then he had no need to be angry, be cause he has always known that f have been in favor of "Women's Rights," and have always held that women are as capa ble as men. But when it comes to the - Sons of Malta" I think Women's Rights' is a failure ; they ram lot do it. Ido not sup pose any of the members recollect my in. itiation, but they will recollect the matt who fainted, unless there have been others who have fainted as well as myself—which last I think quite prohal.le." Mrs. Curtis ,tops here. tier htlibutpl, we may add. is yet missing, and not likely soon to turn up, hut site blames herself for the whole thing. wa,- A railroad accident took place a while ago in Maine. upon which occasion the attorney of the road visitesi, the scene of disast4 r. to .titisfse the claims of the in jured parties. After paying for black es es, bloody nos.•cand era(' ked crovnto all round, at the appraisal of the injured, he supposed his business over, when he was saluted by a tall Yankee. with feet like snow-shoes, a bell-crowned hat, and a blue coat over his arm, with--Well, Squire, what we you going to show hie :" ••You !" said the at torney—"where are you hurt ?" "Oh, iso where to speak of. Squire, but 1 was most terribly scant, and I think that's worth about a dollar, the way you've been pay in' on 'em." The dollar came, of course. THE ' TARNEL SLAVE Povza.—jt is related that a good old lady. who had • resided in the country, innocent of railroada,but well supphed with AbOlition newspapers and documents, made her first visit to a town acquaintance. In the street a locomotive drawing a heavy train was seen approach ing. puffing and, blowing to its utmost : "What on mirth is that ?" said the old lady. "That," rejoined her friend, "why that is a tooarnotive." "A locomotive!" said theold lady; "why bless my eyes. I thought it was thaftartial slave power !" Del.. An eminent physician of Yam York city got on board the cars of oho etthe city railroads, a few days since. Belted just entered the car when be said; ."Ladies and gentlemen, there is a 11111/1011110. case of small pox on board this car—.l2E64i it." In a moment the car was stopped and the passengers fled, all but ode, and' that a woman closely veiled. The doctor asked her to lift her veil. She did, and he beheld a most dreadful case of that foul and dan gerous disorder, She said she was on her way to the hospital—her attendant was on tips outside. ND. The lady editor of the Rockford i Ill.) Standard says the Daughters of Mal ta Are distinguished, and seem to be quite as benevolent in their designs as the Smi of Malta. Their object is said to be to re lieve widowers, destitute bachelors. dan dies. Hottentots and orphan male children. By the time the Sons obtain the control of the Island of Cuba the Daughters confi dently expect to subjugate the Ids of Man. Oft.. An old duke) , was endeavoring to explain his unfortunate condition :—"You see." remarked Sambo. "it was in thews as far as 1 'member. Ftuit my fadder died, and my mudder married main., and den my m udder died, and fodder married . agai n . an d somebow I does not teem to 13111) -AO parents at all, nor no Immo nor no gnaw "