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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874. i tardy twilight's gone; •n sank redly In the weit enks of haze ; now with night’s dawn “~i glows warm, like one carest; as all the long day through, # and think or you, Darling—my darling. Darling—my darling, long ago was It you went my kissi leannot count, they teem so long, If weeks or inontos have passed since then; But In my soul a wisttul song Sings low an I calls you b ick again— Sings all the night and all the day, Softly. as unseen angels pray, Darling—my darling. TRAVIS. A STORY OF THE NORTHWEST. by THE AUTHOR OF “ DUNCAN M'lNTOMI,’ ■ “LOUIS MACON,” “THORNTON,” “IN OTHER LANDS,” Ac , Ac. 1 Written for Nnuday Emqwlrer. (COPY RIOUT SECURED.) k ♦ CHAPTER I. THU GREAT RIVER. The groat valley of the Columbia is still ft region of wonders, with its border* of fraud mountains and rich stretches of Magnificent laud, to which the attention of the emigrant from all parts of the j -world is turning. Forty years ago it bad here und there a little fort where the •gen’s of the Northwest Fur Company lived, and the trappers, principally French and Indians, worn the only persons who knew aught of that land of undeveloped . wealth, which is yet to be the dwelling place of the richest and happiest people $ of this great country. t\ Why Louis Travis should have gone into that region puzzled his friends in the East, who knew him to be eduoated, k handsome aud wealthy, with prospects of greatness, such as aie promised to but few. Those who were very intimate with him immngined they had discovered the cause. Iiut the more they thought it f ovor the more difficult it became to re- oncile his conduct with his proud spirit, lia father’s cousin, Henry Jordan, had one out to take charge of one of Astor’s Jgtious on the Columbia, and he took With him hi* family, consisting of a wife, Julia, a daughter of nineteen, and two tons, both younger. Owing to a law- • anit,.involving the title to a largo estate inherited from a deceased uncle, Henry f Jordon, who was defeated, grew’ to hate his cousin, the father of Louis Travis, who was successful, and for years before Jordan left for the far West, the families bad not ouly been on bad terms, but an attempt ou Air. Travis’ life was charged to Jordan, and the proof was so strong that he was glad to leave the East on the promise that he should not be prosecuted. Three years had elapsed since then, Louis’ father was dead, and he, the only child, ?f; became heir to his large estate. “Why then should Louis go West, into the very land of his father’s bitterest foe?” was a Question that was often asked, but never - truthfully answered, for it was not known i/s that Louis had often met and never '“v*- ceased to oominunioate with the beautiful 3 Julia Jordan, even when their fathers were at dagger's points. This was the loadstone, nud its power to draw him was I Increased l>y his life-long desire to see nature in her wildest forms, and to live for a time as did the hunters of the far West who had been his heroes since the surreptitious readings of early boyhood. Leaving his estate in the liAnds of an \ attorney, in whom he had confidence, he took \tilh him a negro servant named . Hal and started over-land on what T seemed a wild and fruitless expedition, k When be left homo he imagined he oould 11 reach his destination on the Columbia in rl six mouths, but more than two years bad R&- elapsed before he reined in his horse on w' the bunks of the blue Columbia, two hun- | dred miles above Fort Wala, as the station Henry Jordan had charge of was called. It would be thrilling as a romance, were t it not foreign to our story, to record the adventures of Louis Travisand his faithful WP- servant Hal from the day on which they Bp left their homo on the Hudson till that ’ when they stood by its grander western m counterpart, battles with warlike Indians, I* kind acts from peaceful ones, captivity, starvation and poverty, aid from the Kr- mountain trappers who turned up at the most unexpected times. Rough journies on desert plains on foot, till at “? last, as Hal expressed it, “it was no / ';?*'■ nse a goin on, for the mountains keep »•- a gittiu higher, Ihe water saltier . an skercer, an the game smaller an thinuer, mu so mass Louis I reckon it M would only be the same if we was to keep I, , goin for a thousau million year." Much as Hal loved bis young master, be £ ViPfc evidently began t« doubt bis sanity, aud at limes when their position seemed par- “No, ye nebber had no beard till since ye leffed home.” “I suppose you would like to be back Hal ?” “Can’t say I would Mister Louis. I kinder likes dis life, if it was not for da scnlpin.” “Why an Indian conld’nt soslp you ” “Data trno, Mister Louis," chuckled Hal, as be felt the crisp top of his baio head, then added, “But then it ed hurt me jest as bad, if dey was to try, as if I had long har like you.” “I have no doubt of it Hal, but fortu nately there is no danger in this region, the Indians nro all at peace with the whites.” “And with de blacks too I hope.” Louis Travis laughed at this turn and assured him that the Indians were at peace with all men. He bad scarcely done speaking when his Attention was attracted by a oaune containing three men that shot into the stream from the wooded shore about a mile ahead. “Can yon make out those men Hal?” asked Louis, as he strained his eyes to discern the occupants of the boat. “Dey look like two white men an a In jun," answered Hal, as he shaded hiB eyes from the declining sun. “So they seem to me. They are cross ing to the point where I had made up my mind to camp for the night since it caroo in sight. Well, I atn glad wo are going to have company at our camp fire to night. Remember onr assumed names Hal, it might be dangerous if they got to the ears of Mr. Jordan at the Fort.” “Ob, I knows All dat, my name’s Jean, jist as sure as you'r Mister Paul Cannot.” “Very well; seethoy are watching us.” Louis, we shall continue to use the proper names, at once plied his paddle and under its impetus his canoe shot down to where the strangers were slowly crossing, and he come up with them be fore they had gone two-thirds of the way over. “Good evening gentlemen ! Is there a good camping place near by!” asked Louis as he quickly scanned the by no menus prepossessing faces of the men be fore him. “Yes, there is one at this point, wo are going there for the night,” answered one of the men as he eyed Lonis keenly.” “Would you have any objections to my joining you?” “Certainly not. Follow us.” The mou in the strange canoe directed it to the point indicated, and Louis fol lowing in a few minutes, they landed. “My nnmo is McGrath, “said one of the roon, holding out his hand us Louis advanced, “ray friend’s nnme is Brosque, and this Injin is Chinook.” LoniR shook hands and gave his assumed name with that of his servant. Then pulling the canoes out of the water, a camping place was selected, a fire lit, and Hal, aided by Chinook, soon busied him self in preparing a supper, both canoes being omply provisioned with fish and game. CHAPTER II. As every new village site in the far West is now callad a “city,” so formerly every solitary while man's house, or tra ding station, was called a “fort, * and Wala whs no exception to the rule, though it presented more advantages, natural and artificial, for defense, than the majority of places wiili tho same warlike name. Situated in a beautiful valley, above tho great Falls, which barred the passage of canoes, it was the restiug place for (hose moving up from thecoast aud the compa ny’s store house for the products coming down from the river above. A half dozen block houses, in the form of a square, with a huge ting staff in the centre, constituted Wala proper, but about it, particularly along the river, were the shnnties of ag ricultural settlers, the wigwams of the Indians, and here and there the cabin of a trapper, inhibited for the most time by his Indian wife aud her half-breed chil dren. Thero were fields of waving corn about Wain, and great patches of ground devo ted to vegetables, with hero and there a square of yellow stubble, that showed where the rich wheat crop had been har vested. Toe principal residence at Fort Wala, at this time, whs tho homo of Henry Jor dan, a large double-log house, with an abundant garden behind it, and before it ilowers that bloomed with the luxuriance of an eastern spring, showing in their careful borders and elevated beds, that they had the care and culture of a feminine hand. To the right of the house was the store, whioh always contained a stock of gro ceries, arms, ammunition, cloth und othor articles of trade, whioh were always bartered off for tho rich furs, which were stored in the commodious structuro to the left. Tho other bouses were the abodes of employees aud stables for horses aud cuttle. Henry Jordan was not a popular man at the Fort. He did not know how to appenr liberal, and his gloomy, morose mauner, could not be appreciated by the free hearted hunters. Still he was knowu to be a man of immense strength and un doubted courage, which, with his position, gave him great influence with tho rude man be was brought in contact with, while his fine business qualities and miserly closeness, made him a valuable oifici the company. A few days before that on which Louis Travis started down the Columbia with his cargo of pells, Henry Jordan was en joying a smoke und the cool evening tioularly desperate, he debited with him-1 breeze hefore bis house. His wife v self the propriety of tying his master’s bauds when he slept and then starting back with him to the East. During this time, however, Louis had mastered all the secret* of the hunter und trapper, aud become thoroughly acquain ted with the Indian character. Ho had been two months trapping ou the upper Columbia, and, having socured a canoe cargo of pelts, bo determined to take it down to Fort Wala, where helearned from tho companies’ trappora Henry Jordan had charge. He knew the character of tho man and ho decided so to disguise himself on entering the fort as to pass for • French Canadian. Hi* bronzed face and dark silken beard, with bis perfect knowledge of the language, enabling him to do so without much fear of detection. Leaving the animals in charge of some friends in the mountains, they launched out on the broad river, aud borne by its mighty current they headed for the great Pacific. For the l“.st aix months they bad be:*n living in a rich and beautiful country, and hM Hal’s respect for his mas ter's windom aud intelligence had returned, and very often he congratulated himself ou never having attempted the strategy ao often contemplated. It was a beautiful day in September and Louis sat in the stern, guiding the graceful ernft as it shot through whirliog rapids, or floated lazily over broad ex- E arise* of lake like water. Hal, brave earted, reclined in the bow and watched the bronzed face of bia yonng master vrith undisguised admiration. “Dey woold’nt know ye if dey was to ye ober on de Hudson now Water •aid Hal, breaking a long d- sitting in the door sewing, bis boy trying their skill in arching before the store with some young Indians aud Julia with uncovered sunny rioglets, was bend ing over her flowers. “What flowers aro those ?” Asked her fa- thor as he puffed out a volume of smoko and pointed with his pipe to a mass of bell-shaped variegated blossoms, that hung from tho delicate shrubs in profu sion. “They are fuchias, papa." “Fuobias! Where did they come from ?” “I brought the plants with mo from the doar old Hudson. Don’t you remember what trouble I had in saving them when we crossed that terrible Isthmus?” “No, I don’t,” ho growled, resuming his pipe. “Poor papa has too much to remem ber,” she said with a nigh, as she turned her large blue eyos on him, then resuming her labor she added, “I thought if I could Hive thorn they would remind mo of home, and they 1hvp." “Remind you of homo, girl!" Why, what is there about the old home that does not suggest a curse ! Destroy and forget the old home, and everything and every creatnre connected with it. You are iu a new home and all your thoughts should be connected with it.” “We cannot always control our thoughts papa.” “But we need not express them. is right, I did not think I could hurt bia feelings by my words, and great •a ia the pleasure the flowers sire me, if ' will gladly sm ight have made, was prevented by the sudden appearance of a short, heavy sot man, whose garb reminded Julia as much of the East an did her fuchias, aud who had boon a frequent visitor to Fort Wala of late. “Hello, Van Smith ! When did yon arrive?" asked Henry Jordan as ho advanced to the new comer and shook hie hand earnestly. “Just got in from Astoria, Mr. Jordan. I have some matters of importance for yon to attend to when you havo time.” As Mr. Peter Van Smith spoke he pulled a thick bundle of papers from tho arnplo inside pooket of his full coat. “Got a mail ?” “Yes and a good oue.” “Como into the house, whore we can talk undisturbed.” Van Smith followed Henry Jordan iu, Rtopping nt tho door to salute Mrs. Jordau, a sweet pale-faced woman who looked as if she wore struggling to keep down a grief that ever sought expression in her pale, thin lips. Entering a room that looked, with its desk and account books, like an ofllce, Mr. Jordan motionod his visitor to a chair, then going to a cup board be took out a bottle of brandy and two glasses, remarking as bo set them be fore Van Smith: “I will order yonr supper, in tho mean time I presume you will not ohjoct to a little refreshment of this kind.” “Certainly not Mr. Jordan, for though I am not considered a drinking man in New York, indeed touching spirits when home but rarely, I find the ardent most grafoful after the long fatigueing and la borious journies which one is forced to make in this country, I will therefore drink to you,” so saying Van Smith Ulled a glass, drained it without stoppiug to take breath, and then, pretending to shudder at the powerful potion, he smacked his lips and again drew out the plethoric bundle of papers. Heury Jor dan, as was well knowu in the East, could drink auy man in the State drunk with out showing it,“and his going West hud not impaired this peculiar ability, as could be seen by the practised ease with which he tossed down the goblet of brandy, and he affected no more disgust at it than if he had been drinking milk. “Now Van Smith I am ready to hear you,” said Jordau, wiping bis bonded month on bis coat sleeve and throwing himself into a chair. “First, then, you know what I told you before ?” asked Vail Smith, in tho touo of a lawyer about to cross-quest ion, and lay ing his fat hand on tho package of let ters ah if it were tho book ou which his witness had just Hworn to “tell tho truth, the wholo truth and nothing but the truth.” “Yes ; Robinson thiuks ho seos a de fect in the titles to tho Travis property. That if Lonis Travis, who started West and has not been heard of for two years, should turn up dead, why there will be no contestant and I can claim tho estate,” replied Jordau ms he eyed the man before him in n questioning way. “Exactly, ex actly, bat Finley Robinson, my partner you must remomber, makes its condition that in consideration of his services and my labor und zoal in behalf of justice, that you sign an agreement, whioh you havo not done, making over to us one- third the value of tho estate.” I remember that; but one-third ia an imiueuso sum. How much would that be ?’’ A little ovur two hundred thousand dollars, which is not neatly tho amount that would come to you if Louis Travis should never bo hoard from again, and we had the proof thut he was dead.” “If ho has not been heard from for two years,” said Jordan, lighting the lamp on tho table, for it was growing dark, “I think it issafo to presume that he never will bo hourdfrom.” Not so safe as you think Mr. Jordan. He has been seen within lire last two mouths.” Mr. Van Smith pretended as he spoke to bo very busy wi'b bis papers, though ho did not fail to notice the blanched face of the mail before him. ‘Seen within two months!” excluimed Jordan as he gasped for breath. “Yes, seen within two months; but be fore I can pursue a subject of which I have grown tired, sud which I havo travelled seven thousand miles to perfect, I must osk if you intend Kigniug this agreement?” Vau Smith rubbed out all the creR'CA aud handed the paper to his companion. Jordan’s only reply was to seiza tho pa per, glance over it mechanically, then huriedly sign his name at the bottom. “We will want a witness to this Mr. Jordan,” said Van Smith, eyeing tho pa per with ii professional air. “Will my daughter do?” “Certainly.” Henry Jordan, as if anxious to have an unpleasant duty over, rose hurriedly and opening tho door, culled for Julia. He then came back and had hardly taken his seat, when Jnlia made her appearance. “Mis* Jordan you know your father’s writing ?” asked Van Smith. “I do, sir.” “Then please to writo yonr name hero os a witness to his signature,” Vau Smith pointed at the proper lino. Julia without hositating signed her name, then being assured that that was all required, she bowed and left tho room, ller own chamber adj > ned this room, and tho wooden petition presented but a slight barrier to the sound of the voices on the othor side, so slight indeed, that when she entered her room, shortly after her father left tho garden, h'io caught tho words of the speakers, and haviug her at tention arrested, by hearing tho name of Louis Travi«, she listened with rapt eager ness and bated breath, and her feelings can better ho imagined than portrayed, when she heard he w»»s living, perhaps very near, and that Mr. Van Smith and her father would be happier aud richer if he were dead. With a throbbing heart she returned to her room nnd assuming her former atten tive attitude, she listened to the further conversation of Van Smith and her fa ther. ihay nuke him unhappy I • ib.” •ft id whatever rtply bar fithar ham parish. Julia's sysfl filled with tsars as aha CHAPTER III PLOTTING. The door had not well closed behind Julia, when Mr. Jordan, examining tho lock to sec it was well fastened, turned and asked in a breathless tone, “Did you say Louis Travis hud been seen alive within the last two months?” “I did.” “Then he must bo in this region ?” “Jle most assuredly is,” replied Mr. Van Smith, who seemed to grow cooler and more indifferent the inoro Mr, Jordan became anxious and excited. “For Heaven's sake tell ino all about it at once, and do not have, iuo question yon!” “Hark, I bear somebody at tho door calliug supper. Wait till I havo eaten.” I can't! Here, swallow some brandy; “Yes, I have met him several times.” “Cool fellow is McGrath, but not a steady worker I Judge ?” “No; but tell me where he saw Louis Travis!” “Oh, McGrath did not see him reeent- ly. Yon see I have had him out on the search ever since I came, for I heard rumors that pointed to the whereabouts of Lonis. To shorten the matter, McGrath came down to Astoria from the upper Columbia about two weeks ago, and he told me ho had learned definitely of the whereabouts of Travis and bis servant. It is not customery, I believo, for trappers to havo black servants?” said Mr. Van Smith in an inquiring tone, as he stopped to take another aip of brandy. “No sir, I never heard of the like.” “1 suppose not. This fellow goes by tho name of Paul Cannot, and his servant answers to that of Jean. Ha la reduced in circumstances, as he baa not been able tocommnnicste with the East for two years (hough ho takes uaturally to a trapper's life, and if McGrath was rightly informed, he was gotting a cargo of pelts to carry down to Fort Wala." “Coming here?” asked Henry Jordan excitedly. “Yes faith, I don’t think he oould come to a hotter plaoe.” “He shall never reach here, if I have to go out myself and prevent him.” “You must be the judge of that. If ho comes, in my opinion, it will be in dis guise and under his assumed name. Would it not be best to let him carry out his pur pose. They say in the East that he has iiu affection for your beautiful daughter. Can this bo true? if ho, it explains his motives.” Van Smith drained his glass and looked complacently into the ashen faco of his companion. “No; it is an infernal lie! They never met since they were children, and Julia entertains the* same hate for him that I “Glad to hear it, she is a beautiful, spirited girl, nnd if married to the proper ” hore Van Smith straightened him self up und assumed a youthful society hy she would adorn the first cir cles of the metropolis.” Never mind that. The more I dwell on it, the mere convinced I am that it would be folly, ruin, to havo him come here." ‘How enu you prevent it ?” Where is McGrath now !” ‘Here at Fort Wala.” ‘Then I will land for him at once.” ‘First Assert yonr hospitality by get ting me to the table ; I am actually fam ished." floury Jordan excused himself, and with a bad grace led Mr. Van Smith to the diniog room. Julia appo red noon niter, aud taking her place at tho head of tho table poured out Mr. Van Hmith’s coffee, and after the first formal bow aho never raised ber eye*, though she was painfully conscious that his were fixed on hor all the time. 8he answered his questions in polite monosytables, and was heartiiy glad when the uicnl was over and hor father led Vau Smith back to his room. She was as deeply m'erested in the con versation, indeed more so, than either of them, so that when they left she guvo n few hurried orders to an Indian domestic, then stepped back lightly to her room whore »be could hear to advantage. I remember seeing Miss Julia when sho was a child. I whs not old mysolf then to be sure. But she has grown wouderfully, wonderfully beautiful. If I were not a bachelor of thirty-five I would think. I was getting old.” Van Smith was ten years older, if ho was a day, but Mr. Jordan, who did not heed niH remarks, asked abruptly : “What do yon Hay to sending for McGrath ?” “It might be a good idea.” “Tlion 1 will do so.” Henry Jordan went to the door, called a half-breed, and directed him to bring McGrath thero at once, an order that speedily complied with. In a few min utes after McGrath, a burly, dark whis kered man with a white film over his left eye, ontero 1 thejroom like a dark shadow “Have some brandy, McGrath ?" asked Henry Jordun, pointing to the glass and bottle. “Don’t mind if I do, seeiu’ as how it's you, an’ I nint had a square drink of good stuff in many a day.” McGrath filled the glass and draining it at a gulp, then looked into it and around it, as if amused at tho small quantity so big a looking gloss held. “Go on, take more if yoo want it,” said Henry Jordan, divining the man's thoughts. “Thank you. Them glasses is more denivon than a tin cup, an don’t givo a feller a proper kinder allowin', if he has only one pull ut them.” McGrath took another glass, then re moving for the first time his brown fur cap, as if the brandy had given him man ners, he took a seat. “McGrath, you know of this man Travis?” asked Henry Jordan. “Ouly wbut I heard fellers up the river say of a man corresponding with his ap pearance, as Mr. Van Hmith thar gin it to me.” “You would know him if you were to see him ?" “Sirtin sure, more partiolar if he had that black chap with him. I don’t faucy fellers that goes trappin' with niggers.” “Of course not. I understand he is about to come down bere ?” “That’s what they reported up the river." “I have my reasons for it, but that man must uot coiuo to Fort WalA, and if you cun prevent him I will make it worth your while.” “For how much ?” “Five hundred dollars when I learn there i* no fear of bis coining bere.” “Can't work on sack terms. Give me two hundred down, for I mast have a p.miner, an' then your promise for five hundred.” m McGrath looked liko a man who was sacrificing his professional services to help n friend. “What do you say to this, Van Smith ?” asked Henry Jordan. “Ob,I can havo nothing to do with spend ing money. If Finley Robinson was hero he would answer at once. He ia Travis' attorney, nnd would gladly pay to send him back home—the way ho came! But I can advise nothing.” Jordan, on whoso nerves the excite ment and brandy eoemod to be working, handed McGrath two hundred dollars, taking therefor a receipt, or rather due bill, which McGrath signed with a cross, and which Vun Smith witnessed. “Now give me the promise to pay me an’ Bos<jua five liuudred when I send this chap ImcIc." .McGrath winked his good eye with a fiendish expression. “Give a memorandum eontraot specify ing as a consideration certain fees, to bo deducted.” Van Smith drew up the paper MoGrsth rose, looked at the ornpty brandy bottle and took • alow step to wards the door. “You want another drink, I nee.” “Mr. Jordan, ye're oue of the men that has a nat'ral born faoulty for gettin’ at the bottom of a feller's thoughts,” said Mc Grath, as he removed a quid of tobaoco from his month to make room for the anticipated drink. “No objections to my takin' it as be fore, I suppose,” asked McGrath, an he held a full glass in his hand and turned his red eye on the bottle. “No, only be quick about it and send Ohinook here.” McGrath tossed off two glssse*, replaced the tobacco he had in his hand, and then started out on bis mission. He had been gone but a few minutes when a light rap was heard at the door, and in answer to Jordan's “come in,” a tall, graceful, young Indian made his appearance. “Chinook, I waut yon lo go up the river for a week or teu days with your canoe. McGrath and Bosque will go with you, and I will pay yon well on yonr return, beside* furnishing you with plenty of pro visions for the trip.” “Whon do you wish rae to start ?” ght to-n it won’t take you long. I am too imps- quickly, banded it to Jordan, who, having tient to wait.” Henry Jordau poured out read it aloud, signed it and gave it to Mc- two glasses, and handing one to Van ! Grath. Hmith he quaffed the other himself. “Very well, to relieve your anxiety I will tell you the Rtory as it was told to me,” began Mr. Van Hmith, assuming an attitude intended to look oosy and busi- seas like by crowing bia legs and toying with the glass, at which he sipped, evi dently forgetting to make • wry face. “You know McGrath?” he continued. “How soon will you be ready to start ?” asked Jordan. “By the first streak of day, if I can get Chinook to give me his canoe, or better still, to go along and help ne up the rir- er ’“I will see that be it reed/. Mow go out and see that Boeqoa is iatownid, and •end me Chinook.” “By daylight to-morrow “I will be ready,” said Chinook, turning to denari. “Won't you have aome brandy, Chi nook ?" “Fire water ?” “Yee.” “No, it is killing too many of my raoe now. Good night.” Chiuook walked out with a light, quick step, and for a moment he stopped 'mid the iuan*es of flowers, recognized ouly by their odor in the darkuess. He had often gone there at uight, in order to stand where the beautiful white girl had stood, aud to imagine her presence in the blos soms, aud her voice in the gentle wiud. “Chiuook!” he was about to hurry sway at the sound of his name, like a robber discovered before an altar, when he felt a baud on his arm, and turning, ho bowed bis bead, for Julia Jordan was before him. “You are my friend, Chinook ?” “Let my life auswer, if proof be noces- ■ary.” “You will keep my words in your heart, nor ever speak of this meeting ?" “Your words sIiaII be sacred beside yonr imago.” “You sre going up the river in the moruiug, and you will oontinuo until you meet a canoe coming down. In that cauoe there will be a tall white aian and a black man. There is danger (o them from Mo- Grath aud Bosque, and I would warn them, for they are good uien, and like you, they are friends of mine. Here is a paper; it says everything, will you see that the white man gets it if you meet him ?" “I will.” Chinook hid the paper in the pooket of his huutiug shirt, and taking the little hand extended to him he bowed over it and with a trombling heart hurried away. CHAPTER IT. AN UN1UIEPARED FOU ATTACK. Louis Travis was not |irepo.*sessodby the two white men, on the coutrary he made up his mind they were desperate charac ters, that would beur watching, and vet he oonld not reconcile their evideut char acters with that of the noble looking young Indiau, their companion. The eup- per over be took occasion, under the plea of seeiug that his canoe was well secured, of conveying his impressions to Hal, and urging on him the necessity of remaining awake dtiring the uight, and keeping his arms in readiness. “Fore do Lord Mister Louis dats jest wat dis chile’s been thinkin’. Dem coons has beeu weighed in de baiauoe nnd foan’ short." “We must not start with them in the morning, if the night pn*sos peacefully. Our canoe wants a little repairing, and we must stay behind till it is done.” “Jest so; sho leaks." Master and man walked back to the fire which, iu the charming climate of the Columbia valley, feels pleasant every night in the year, though there are but few days even in mid winter when it is necessary to comfort at noon. Pipes were lit, and leaving out the inoral aspeot of the group, it was oertain- ly picturesque, as its surroundings were grand. White man, Indian and negro wore represented in the circle of smokers, and the fire threw a lurid glare on the mighty cedars above them, over the broad river and on the white rocks, that looked, in the uncertain light, liko the ubodea of the river nymphs by the shore. “This is not the fur seuson in the up conutry ; reckon yonr stock is last year's,” said McGrath, turning his one eye on Louis, who was smoking opposite to him. “All the fur ia last Spring's; but my stock ia principally iu sk us, deor, oik, bear and mountain lion. There is a good demand for them, I understand, at Fort Wala.” “Yes ; ther jist as good aa gold. What do ye reckon yer cargoes worth ?” “About a thousand dollars.” “That’s a heap of money. I suppose you and Jean are partners?” “Ho far as dividing the profits, we are.” “Never been to Wala ?" “Naver. My life West has been spent principally on the head water* of the Mis souri. “Jest so, but I reckon yon corn'd, like myself, from the East.” “Yes, I was born there.” “Ho was I, iu York Hi ate, on tho Hud son. Whero inout you come from ?” “From Canada, as my name must show you. ’ “I was in hope you an’ me inout turn out to be country men ; but as it is you aud Bosque here belongs to the sauo crowd.” Bosque, a gaunt, cadaverous looking man, addressed Louis in that barbarous patois which the lower Cauudians call “French,” and he was not a little uinazed at being answered with wouderfully fluen cy ia the same tongue; and being satis fied on this point they again returned to English. The conversation of tho evening was not interesting because tho parties were not congenial, so it gradually slackened. Blankets were spread, and to one ut a dis tance it would seem that tho people by the camp fire had gone to sleop ; hut not ho, Louis and Hal were vigilant, Chinook was watchful from bis bed in the canoe, and on the opposite side of the fire Mc Grath and Bosque, who lay under the name blanket with him, talked iu whis pers. “It’s too heavy a eontraot to take on equ* 1 chances,” urg* d ' fcOraib, iu answer to a HUgges'ion of Bosque. “Then I don’t see how yer gwiue to fix it unless yon take Chinook in. “Praps that would be best, though I ain’t got much faith in him no how; but the best way to git an Injun is to trust bim. I’le go down an' see him.” McGrath rose quietly and walking over to where Chinook lay, he found him •wake, and said ? “Chinook, I’m aatiafied these two atran- gern mean to attaok us either to-uight or to-morrow. 1 beard them talkin’, an' I know they're spies from the Hudson Bay, who's Alina been opposed to us. 1 don’t went ye to help me or Bosque, only de- with • suppressed ourae, i to the fire, though uot at all he disposition he had made of to Meta, she’s my wife of your tribe, an' it will get her five hundred dollars from Mr. Jordan, down at Wala.” McGrath handed him the paper, whioh Chinook hid in hia breast, saying as he did so, “I do not think there will be trouble, certainly not to-night, unless you bring it on, nor in the morning, if we leave hefore they do.” “But they are spies!” “Then let them he dealt with at ike Fort." McGrath, with a suj walked back regretting the disposition the contract, for he felt sure it would he safe in case of harm to himself, and he had no persou to leave it to but the wo man whom he called wife. Tho morning's dawn found the whole perty awake, ea would any hour of the night McGrath seemad anxious to go on, he and Bosque having decided to attack the catioo at a point about twenty miles below where the river was so narrow that nquirrel could be ahot across it, and the current ao swift that a party in a canoe would need every nand to keep the craft from dashing against the rooks. During the preparations for the hurried breakfast Chinook found ao opportunity to slip the note into Hat’s hand, whisper ing as he did so, “Hide it, and show it to tho white man when we are gone.” Hal did so, and he was not a little re joiced when Chino k's canoe floated off, the ooonpauts hoping, verbally, to see Mr. Carmot at Fort Wala in a few days. Wheu they had disappeared Hsl quickly explained and handed his master the note. It wan the contract Jor Jive hundred dol lar e tigned by llenry Jordan. Louis Travis was puzzled; there was something in it he could not fathom, thero was evident danger, though this paper did not give a oluo. After debating the matter till noon, he determined to carry out his original design and push on for Fort Wala. It was nearing sunset again, wheu turning a bond in the broad river, it suddenly contracted and plunged in foaming rapid between parallel walls of rook. Louts oould aeo to the other end, and bracing himself for the labor, the canoe, half covered in the seething foam, plnnged into the oauldron of roaring waters. High above the dash and fnry a series of sharp yells burst out, accompanied by the report of rifles, and the men on the bank saw the canoe upset, and then lost to sight with its oocnpants, in the mad dened waters. [TO BB CONTINUED.] JOSEPH P. POU, Attorney at Law, and Judge of County Coart* Practice! in all other Court*. OUlc* over store of W. U. Hobarts A Co., llrosd St. JaXft J. M. McNEILL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practice* In courts of Georgia and Alabama. Ofllce 128 tlroad flt., (over C. A. Ho ld A Co.’a) flpecial attention given to coliectiotiH. Jail INGRAM * 4RAWFORBN, AUtrssys at Law, Will practice In the State and Federal Courts of Georgia. Preor, Illge* A Co.’s etoro, northwest corner Broad and St. Clair St*. Jot A. A. ROSIER, Attorney and Cotin sellar at Law, Practices Iu Stato nud Federal Courts In Georgia and Alabama. Office 12(1 Broad t t., Columbus, Ua. Mark II. BLAMiiroRU. Louis F. Gahrard. BLAND FORI) A GARRARD, Attorneys aad Counsellor* nt law. Office No. 87 Broad utreot, over Wittich A Klu- sel’s Jewelry Store. Will praotico iu the Statu and Federal Courts. ae|>4 Jas. M. BcaasiL. OuAsJ.BwirT. RVAHELL * SWIFT, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Will practice in the Courts of Uoorgia (Chattahoochee Circuit) and Alabama. Otilco over 0. A. hedd k Co.’s store, Broad street, Columbus, Ga. jut L. T. DOWNING, Attorney and Mollelfssr. U. 8. Com’r and Bugister iu Bankruptcy. Office uov2‘)| over Brooks’ Drug 8tore, Columbus, Ua. R. J. MOM Eli, Attorney aud Counaellor nt Law, ralnswa.; wm. mow, nk.es*, H.U. «d mgm rtmmm Old Oflrthorp cornr, (*M MS ~ ‘•'*""*"11 tlni|l« —Niucsb waa fourteen uilea long, tight mile. «ldo, and forlj-aii mile* round, with a wall 100 fact high and thick enough for three chariota abreaat. llabylon waa fifty miles within Ihe welle, Dentists. W. P. TIGNKU, Dentist, posits Strapper's building, Ilandolph 8t. COLEMBUM DENTAL ROOMM, W. T. Pont., Prop’r, Georgs Home Build lag, Oolumbns Georgia. Builders and Architects. J. G. OHALMERM, Hsuae Carpenter nnd Rullder. Jobbing doue at short notlco. Plans and spoclflcnliona furnished for all style* of buildings Broad Htreet, next to G. W. Brown’s. 1a<» Cninmli Will eontraot for Honss sRflatMMMiM LOUIS WKLLF (Bucosssor Wttel Under Georgia Hi Prompt and polits I ALUSHI, SB. TUST.I Cr.wford It., mxUr I Tobsooo, Clapp, j i. Os. ■AIM Bl If you wul to n}fy a | Boots and Shoes. WKI.Lf) A OUKTIS, whioh were Rewonly-ftwe feet Ihiak ami • Ho. la llroad St., sign nr the lllg Moot, 100 feet high, With 100 brazen gate*. | na.i.uu, i. The ieuiplo of Diana at Epbeu* was 420 1 feet to the support of the roof—it wm 100 B ° o11 ***** 8hw! "’ Leather and Findings, years in building. The largest of the i pyramids woa 481 feet in height and 8K3 feet on the sides. The base oovered I Dealer In aad 1 mall; pay the highest market prloo for eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in length, aud the layers are 208. It employed 350,000 men in building. The labyrinth of Egypt eontaina SOO chambers < sud twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, pre- j ■ents rains twenty-seven miles around, I and contained 950,000 citizens and 400,- ifidea. N. B.—Plasterers’ Hair always on huud. Jy4, Boot and 8hoemakers WM. MEYER, Hoot anil Hhoemaker. Itoulrr iu Lent har and Findings. Next to 0. A. DAJMbR. Dealer In Family Gi tween Ogl P No charge 000 slaves. The Temple of I^elphos wan ' Prompt and strict attantiou give •nation that it was plundered |lvl ' J. H. SLAJtnSSiU wbwiwMi* ms mrnemmm Junction of Franklin, ^ ao rich in donation of $60,000,<X)0, and the Emperor Nero oar-1 ried away from it 2(0 atatnea. The walls of Rome were thirteen miles around. —An intelligent writer in The Jiritish Medical Journal says that an imperative uoudition of health on the African gold coast is that flannel Hhirts should invaria bly be worn, and in no oaae linen or cot ton. The moBt experienced army officers in such climates liuve all reootnmemled flannel, uh have also the best writers ou the hygiene of the tropica, auoh as Obe- vera, .Jeffreys, Moore, eto., and from ex perience at various places ou the western coaHt of Afriea, it is protective against malaria. Another point, ia tho oare of the feet. At the gIoho of every day, the feet should be bathed, and the aoeka washed wbeuever they are soiled ; if the feet ohafe, the nook* should be rubbed with common soap where they oome in contact with the sore place*; rubbing the feet with oil or fat of auy kind bafore walking any great diatanco ; and, if blis ters form on the feet, they ought not to be opened until a halt, wheu a needle and thread should he drawn through, and the fluid will gradually ooze out. —The Utah Mining Journal states that the level of the Great Halt Lake is now 12 or 14 feet higher than in 1847, when the valley waa first settled. From 1847 to 1852 there waa no noticeable change. From 1852 to '50 the water rose about <» feet. From 1850 to 1881, the level sunk about 2 feet belew that of 1852, and the lake contracted to three-fonrths of its previous area. From 1801 to 1805, the lake again rose, this time to a height of 12 foet above tho level of 1852, while its atea increaHed one-half its original aize. Since 1802 it has gained slowly, its alter nate rise and fall not exoeeding 2 feet. Jf monument has been placed near the shore of the lake to indicate its changes. Messrs. Bird A Go., of London, have lately brought into notice a new and im proved wheel, with Iodia-robber tire, which is claimed to be capable of wearing as long as, or longer than an iron tie, and to have the great advantage of perfect noiselossness and absence of iojurions jar. The draught of the carriage is said to be reduced by the nse of this tire near ly one-third. It appears to be simply a tire of solid rubber, fastened on the exte rior of an ordinary wheel by bolts, such as are used with iron tie*, aud it may be thinner than the usual kind, merely serv ing the purpose of s band woodwork firmly together. —A most deceptive imitation of leather is manufactured, according to a process discovered by Dawidowski, from parch ment paper. It is as soft and pliabls m leather, and resembles it perfeotly in color aud finish, and, like it, can be glued, pressed, stamped, gilded, oto. It, there fore, forms a perfect substitute for fancy leather for very many purposes. As bind ing of books it resiats abrasion extremely well, and ia not affected by dirt or even water. It is also free from the objections to leather as s lining for hats, since it is unaffected by perspiration. —The Troy and Boston Railroad is nearly 5 miles long, 25 feet wide and 20 feen high in the centre. The tunnel f iroper is finished, but the tracks are not aid yet. The tunneling was done from 3 headings, one at eaoh end and in ths oentre. and from 180 to 180 fast mode at each heading. It ia not yet decided whether the State will hasp the toanal in itaown heads and aollart the toils, av ftnd jemelf, end if 1 dia give this paper | Uaee it oat to railraad aoaipeniea. __ Tailors. G. A. KGCHNK, Merchant Tailor and Cutter. A full atock of Fronch and KnglUli Broadcloths CaMluuTHi and Vostlnga. aprlfl No. 1:14 llroad Struct. HENRY 8ELLMAN* Cutting, Cleaning ami Repairing Dona in tlia bait «tylo. J?r24J > ^^^^Corn«M>awforininin^|nnMG* Dress-Making. Minn M. A. UOLLI Nun WORTH, Druurt-Maklng, Cutting and Fitting. Turin*cheap. Be* I dun cu andidio|i In Brownsville. ' novltt Tin and Coppersmiths. WM. FEE, Worker In Tin, nheet Irou, Copper. Order* from abroad jiroinjitly attuudod to. No. 171. Broad flt rue Confectioners. I. G. NTItUPPKlt, Candy Manufacturer cm E ast India manioc a. AlJonur and StBkTinMtf IU, J'lUMlntUmfOSM, ptuxi— Kii—nn, Brand, P«MkMM*< Wheat Orlta, Oal Ml Rye Flour, Pleklaa, Chow-Chow, Main. All hloda of Obi Buckwheat, I Florida Syrup aadC Imported and I Win.i of Fraaaa,! f.H h. F.eaauei AT THE CASH All kinds of Confectionery and Fruits, Stick C'audy IS cents. Full weight guarautued Iu each box. Hotels. PLANTER**' HOTEL, Nest to Columbus Bank Building. 1’orter* at all thu train*. Jnia MKd. W. F. SNIDKB, Fropr’w. Livery and Sale Stables. ROBERT THOMPHON, Livery, Male sud Exchange Nlnblea. OuLKTHonrs, North or Iurdolfu 8t*., •ctao Columbus, Ga. A. GAMMEL, Livery and Male Nlablrs, OoLXTUoKrc St., Columhum, Ua. rParticular attention given to Foudiug ami 8al« Horae* aud Mulu* boarded Iu stable* by the month or day. ont2» Fresh Meats. J. W. PATRICK, Stalls No. 10 and 18, Market House. Freah Meat* of evury kind nud bust quality — . Oho*<* .aw On, Bawl at ,1 V* gallon. Atmon’a cel.braud | FIDO Toaa, Orta, aad ] Extra Chute. Trlih Oat Meal (LMiat'i). llukon’ Pramlua ( Extra Oholea BuUar, I Uaal, Flour aad ■m.aoOlHM. D.ltr.rad fra. «f Mfl Tonal oaah. Rorr a LAWYINS. FERN K. W| Attorney at Opelika, I. T. COOK, Freah Maata of All Kind., »»pq fltalls N il, lft nud 17. Cun and Locksmiths. PHILIP EIPLER, Guu and LockHWith, Crawford streut, next it Johmou’* turner, Colombo*. Ou. Jufi WILLIAM 8CHOBER, Gun and Locksmith and dualor in Gunuinir Ma terial*. Ka*t of fltrupper's Confectionary. Plano Tuning, So. HINIfl Attorney W ILL practice la the 1 or any where ske. I’UiusD. “Pay me er nm fl W. A. ▲ttornt] GUSSET A, C r8peolal atti I>r. T. W i A