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Send for Circulate, deecribiug the Abeorption Cur* and the revolution it i? ceuiiug in the eclenee of medtdue. Byrpepela Belt, $3. Fever and Ague Belt, Tonle Kelt, 93, and Influifl Belt, ?1* Theee Delte will t>eeent to euy addreee free of poetege v ?a receipt of $2.00 each, or 91.00 for Infant's Belt. AQB5TTS wanted in everj oountjr in ill* United States. Addr*?s, FISHER MEDICATED BELT CO. 282 Illinois St., Chicago. Feb 21 K 8m J. 0. WALLACE, ATTORNEY AT LAW -AND TRIAL JUSTICE, UNION C. II., So. Ca. WILL practice in all Courts of this State.? Prompt attention to business. Trial Justice business transacted without delay. Ofliee opposite Hotel, iu JI. L. Gobs' new Hjuilding. April 1R If. oiu O. C. C U LI* , ATTORNEY AT LAW. O F F IC E 0 V 1511 S II A XD A MUX II O, Mill practice in the Circuit and ftupreme Courts of the .State. Jnn <1 CtJM, SAMUEL S. STOKES, TK I .A T, .TUSTIC K, Union <*, II., S. ('. All tyjsiness in the jurisdiction of a Trial Justice attended to with promptness. olhcc over Stoedmnn & Itawls' law oflicc. .Ian 3 1 tf Oltf ^aptTH for Htile. \ T^XQCIJ!? A'. < nice. I THE RANGER'S CHASE. a. ' ' f,' u A Western Story of th? War'of 1812. BY J. L. M'COHNEL, AUTHOR Of "TALBOT J? ' AND VERNON," ETC. \ CHAPTER 111, " 1,1 THJJ^C^ASE-endkd. No more Man\he first gray streaks of bi dawn had shot up-frdtn the eastern horizon, f0 when the .disappointed rangers were again a6tir. Their horses?which had been picketcd upou the prairie, each with a long rope, hi after the ranger fashion of feeding?were ra tomt take* to (I little streiun to <1rink, ail I then moved to a fresh place, to graze until ev their riders were prepared to mount. Such d? provision as they had made against their own hunger was then dispatched without hi delay aud with little preparation. Fortu naicty, nowcver, tne wedding feast had turn- Ul ished viands onough for niorc than ten times jv their number; and with the readiness of tho women of those days, each had been pro- s;( vided by wife, sister or sweetheart, with ce supplies, ample and well selected. un It was now plain, that the chase before ]jd them was a long one ; and it was no cquir- foe ocal augury of their resolution to follow it fr( to the cud, that they thus set out with svstcmatic prudence. an Jly the time they hnd finished a hasty |h breakfast, and each taken a deep draught ar, from the stream where they had watered 1 their horses, the gray of the dawn had |y deepened into red, and the dew-drops upon ro tho bending grass were sparkling like dii- gr monds in the opening light. The birds 0f within the grovo were fluttering, full of he matin songs, from branch to branch, or float- cv ing off?in long and graceful flights?fur jyj over the vcrdaut plain : the grouso came ho out upon the knolls, where the herbage was )y short and green, and strutting pompously th fromside to side, clumsily plumed thouisclvcs he in tho morning beams : on tho ridgea, farthcr oft", the deer stalked out from sheltering i,0 hollows, aud stamping daintily upon the (J, ground, or tossiug proudly up their antlercd a t heads, snuffed vainly at the rising wind. wj 4 1 /v n a iuw, mini sign, as 01 a passing spirit, floated?scarcely audible?along the jew- ?;l eled gross, and shook the jewels gently from the blades. The stars went slowly out, or ?W-br?g,h?wBWig"hm> <uf lieaign^' ~aI> the shadows that still lingered round the tc> groves were fading rapidly, or deepening jjjt iuto shade j the red in the east grew yellow, |ja and au arc of white annouueed the. sun's 0j] approach. The day had takeu full posses- bu sion of the earth and sky. "There is light enough now, boys," siid Edgar, rising to bis feet, "to begin tho search for the trail. Let us saddle up and Ai be oft.' ui, Time was never wasted by theso men ; p., within live minutes all were in the saddle, and extended along the northern and western skirts of the grove, in search of indi- sj, cations left by the enemy. A signal was Cy given by one at tho cxtrcmo north?the trail q? was found, and the whole company at once tin galloped to tho placj. Edgar sprang to the nc ground, and examined the truck. tci "Just as T suspected, boys," said he, rem- we ounling. "There has hecu but one lied skin or hero, and he has been sent this way, to build that lire and at'.ract us from the pur- nt)l suit." t , , nit "Indian like," said White; "tliey have m!l used our own vigilance, to circumvent us. ci:i Hut we'll never give it up so, Captain." ti0 "Never," was Edgar's decided answor. I'ltlll \vr? Intl. frnil nnd muet rn .. cover it. We must separate into small par- a? ties, and contiuuc the chase. We arc pretty an nearly due cast from the Portage, for which, I thiuk, they are making?at all events, 8tr they will not go south of it. We will meet an ?in the evening?there; or, if the trail 8t( should turn northward, wo may come to- pj< gether soouer. Let no one linger ou the st, way?we have lost too much time already." UK The company was soon divided into (.,) squads of two and throe ; Edgar took with j,ii him White and George Fielding; and, re- b), pcating the injunction not to linger, rode away to the north-west. The three other cu divisions set out at the same time, upon di- sa] verging lines; but all maintaining the same ,ji, ! general direction. W1 For an hour, those in the centre kept all 81( the rest in view ; but, at the cud of that cn time, the undulations of the prairie, and the rapidity with which they traveled, had completely separated them. Edgar, and W( the two companions, whom he had chosen ne as well lor tlic excellence ot their horses, sa as for their well-known courage and coolness, were upon the extreme right, or North- he cm flank?n post which the young cap- ih tain had selected, both on account of its danger and for the advantage it gave him, ab should the Indians turn to the north. It is if with him that wc must continue the chase. Several hours passed away, during which pi they had crossed the belts of timber which t0 grew upon the banks of two or three prairie streams; when, on approaching one !' the or Caliokin, they suddenly found themselves j0 upon the trail of a single horseman. Keeping away rrom the timber, it stretched to- U( ward the north, parallel with the course of tli the stream, disdaining the concealment if which might have been in the wood. Tho bt three drew up, and Edgar dismounted. "It is the same Indian who kindled the k, W,"r4ie saM!, after a ihort scrutinJ^F-dp *pk. ^Wbat think you ?" ?That if we follow hiin," White replied* Wo Shall be ltd away from the chase, fie iBies too muck pains to show us whjeh war c has gone." _ - ' * a "You are right," -Said Edgar; "for he as passed hire since sunrise, and hie bored as as fresh as when he left the grofe.*^ he water is all brushed from his tracks, at is not disturbed between. We'll dot llow him." And, without further consultation, he irang again to the'* saddle, and' resumed s original dircctiou^Yfci^^Mndejjl, tber from Than-logard tbo^lltarr^Uliosc little indications?-lA* d > <???*.?? ? >i?i idoncc?more convincing than positive :clnrations, or more apparent signs, satisd him that this was an attempt to draw m off. He smiled at the shallowness of the tccit and rode away. His companions iderstood his rcasouiug almost instinctive. [The fact that the grass was dry in the ?ckat proved that they had been made ice suurisc ; becauso the dew must have ased to drip from one blade to another, id its being undisturbed between cstabhed the fre. ucss of tho Indian's horse, cause every bound was a clear spring jm the ground.] Fifteen minutes brought cm to the outskirts of Cahokin timber; d, after a rigid examination of this, ev issued again upon the prairie towd the West, maintaining the same tourso. They were now approaching a more densewooded couutry. Tho prairies grew narwer and were broken, here and there, by oves and strips of timber, along the banks numerous little streams. The ground came uneven, in places even hilly ; and ery thing denoted tiro approach to the issiesippi. This continued tor about three >urs, during which they had made scarcefive miles an hour : it was noon, too, and o September sun was pouring upon thoir ads the overpowering heat of the season, halt becauio necccssary. both for men and rscs. Edgar rodo within tho shelter of c timber, and dismounted on the bank of ihalluw stream?the first they had seen th a gravelly bed. "We must rest awhile, boys," he said, nd recruit our horses, or we shall break wu Dciorc nignt." Ilis companions followed his example ; <nrtttc<IlTicir^arirtoghoiBC5 to the stream, driuk of its clear sparkling waters. But lgar drew his back, suddenly, before he d touched the tide ; and, arresting the lcrs iu the same manner, pointed to the ttoui of tho rivulet. "Is not that a horse's track ?" lie asked, iicating the spot with his rifle. "Yes," said White, "and here are more ! rid here, to the left, they are plainer, and >ro numerous. Our visitors must have ssed this way, and are not going to the triage !" The tracks were but faint prints in the il'ting gravol of the s'roam ; and to the es of less observaut men, would have been itc void of meaning. It was, however, 3 peculiar faculty of Western Rangers vcr to overlook anything ; and their atltiou once attracted, but a few moments re consumed in determining that fifteen twenty horsemen had ridden along the il of the stream ; that they were Iudiaus, d traveling in haste. It might seem a ire difficult matter to fix, even approxiitclv, the length of titno which had ,pscd since their passage ; but the invcuu of rangers was seldom at fault. ''(Jcorgc," said the captain to Fielding, ct on your hor*e, and rido up the stream lew rods?as fast as ho cau walk?iu ?ong those tracks." Fielding obeyed ; and turning out of tho cam a short distance above, came back d dismounted. The little party now ipped their horses of their harness; and ?kcting theui upon the sweet herbage, -etched themselves upon the sward at the irgin of the stream. As soon as the agi:ion in the waters had ceased, Edgar fixed s gaze upon the footprints?plainly visi3?of Fielding's horse, and watched tho adual process of their filling up by the rreut. Scarcely a pebble or a graia of nd was washed iuto one of them, that ho il not note ; scarcely a minute passed lose influence he did not cstimato in wly obliterating the trail; and when.at tho d of an hour, he rose and walked nearer the water, but a few moments of scruti were sufficient to determine how long it nild bo before the new tracks were as arly filled up, as were the old when he w them first. TIiav nrn ntiifrt civ 1?aui?o /?P 99 VJ Ml V ?j ill vv OIA IIVUIJ UUUUU I'l UJ?J s said; ''uud tomorrow night will see cm, before we will." "They must be making for tho ford*, iovc the Piasan RlufTs/'said White ; "and po. will not cross the Mississippi." "That is rather too far north," Edgar reied; but we will follow them, if they go the Starved Rock." So saying, he threw the saddle again upi his horse, and?imitated by his companns?remounted for the pursuit. "I think, George," said he, after a mince's reflection, "you had better rido on to 10 Portage ; the men will all be there by ic middle of the afternoon. Tell them to tit their horses for an hour and then fol An 0I1Mruction to tin- navigation of tho lUiiml*, now lowu as "Apple ( rock Itar." ffeooth of the THinoi* by saunse to-morrow. Unless the trail should lead us ?x> *iu$h oat of the way, we will wait forJUfan there.. If yon do not find us there, lookjfor three OotamriS of amokc, ranging north find south, sod ntako iH haste to come up/' ' Fielding made uo reply ; but pjttttfngF spurs to his horse, turned his bead to tho West, and was sooo out of sight, whlta Edgar and White,.bow left aloue, took theirJ" way as rapidly as was possible up the banks of the stream. It was a small force with Which to attack twenty savages; but, had the odds been ten times greater Edgar's eagerness a??d White's scad Would bate felt no check. WhaT'they might not effect by tho strong hand they trusted to stratagem to compass; i and even the savage was no match for the 1 ranger, in cunning. ] The two adventurers had gone scarcely 1 a mile wheu they were brought suddenly to i a halt. The trail was about equally divided i ?one half the party keeping up the bed i of tho ntream, aud tho other half issuing i toward the left, and leading off westward. < This was embarrassing. The prisoner could i not bo with both divisions and it was o*. 1 tremcly difficult to determine which to fol- t low. ] "Wo are at fault," said Edgar. "There is a sign which may set us right," exclaimed White, pointing to a little strip of some white stuff which fluttered upon a bush, but a few puces from the water.? "The briars have befriended us at need." Edgar rode rapidly to the place. A narrow strip?cvidontly torn from Jano'8 bridal dress?hung fluttering upon a briar, as if caught in passing. lie halted at the distance of several yards, and cautiously approached on foot, closely scrutiuiziug the. grouud at every step. The horses had passed, without doubt, near enough to brush against the briars; but directly beneath the fragment, a small dry twig was broken, and the leaves about it were flattened to tho ground. ."A mocassined foot has been set there," he muttered. And on directing the examination to the fragment, his suspicion was confirmed, that it not accident but design which placed it there. The fabric was not drawn, as it would have been, had it been torn inpnesing; and it bore marks of a large i baud than Jane's. "They arc trying to outwit us, White," I . !.i ii.. . i.i - . -i * siuu me capmiu ; --out incy uon t Know with whom they Ikiyc to deal. This little piece of muslin is a Redskin lie?though itfelid come from Jaua Fielding's dress. We must keep up the stream, and let those decoys go on their way." "It has been ascertained," says Chateaubriaud, "that the white man, in America, is capable of enduring more hardships and privation than the Indian, and is decidedly his superior even iu his own mode of warfare and thence he deduces sundry propositions about dilfcrences in race, and other unproGtable speculations. Rut the facts, about which there is no dispute, instead of being the result of generic distinctions, are the effects of a much later cause?superior iutollectual culture. Not that the rangers of those days were highly educated mcn,iu the ordiuary acceptation of the term ; but any degree in the scale of civilization, by the providence of God possesses measureless advantages?in all the pursuits of lifo?over every lower grade. And though these were decidely ignorant men, their evident superiority over their enemies?without contra UikllUU 111 ItllllO I1U3 (IIU 1 Kilt U1 HJCir intelligence. 1 We cannot linger to detail the minute and. to other men, imperceptible signs, or the acute and logical reasonings upon these, which led the adventurers unerringly upon their way, though all would illustrate so ' clearly the principle above. They followed \ the trail alter it left the stream, several 1 miles toward the north ; when, on entering 1 the broken couutry on the head waters of ' the Piasan, it verged suddeuly to the left, 1 and led, almost "as the bird flies," directly 1 toward the Illinois river. A. little before sunset they reached the banks of this tran- 1 (jail stream ; and but a moment's examination was sufficient to determine that the fugitives had crossed here some hours before. But this was not the only inference that Edgar drew from the signs of their halt.? The footprints of several horses led off from the river, in different directions ; but it was in that uncertain winding way which auimain take while grazing, nnd from tho extent of these paths, it was evident that a halt of some duration had been made.? While minutely examining the ground, the captain suddenly discovered the print of a small shoe, and following it a little aside, he approached the river bank, and discovered the impress of both of Jane's feet in the soft loaui. Directly over these, upon a willow branch, hung a strall shell comb? evidently placed there as a signal for him. Besides her footprints were thoso of two savages, who had sought her, and dragg3d her roughly back to the halting point. Edgar noted these things with the coolness, but also with tlio fierceness of the ranger; and grasping his rifle tighter in his hand, walked back to his companion. "They must have halted here two or Ihree hours," said the latter, "They think they outwitted us and arc safe," replied Kilgnr. "But they cannot be more than throe hours ahead of us, and 1 V think we may overhaul theui to-night." V4P*. "Thov are twenty to two," said White. "We thus* wait for the men." * ;Wc cgu cross the riror," Edgar as- vswesed, "and ride on as long as we have * ' light. Bj that time we can see which ' t direction the Indians bare taken ; jou can 4 M thcfiiVeturn here and hasten up tlio men, j this point beforo mid- VIt required imk few mxn'dtCa.to. cross the - J river, which at this Miaofe Is .aWrnys low. \ Up&h the western bank the trail "was atijl t ,JB* uiore appnreht than upqn the easter^.r* "^Ef Here, also, there had been a halt, th.wgh vi not so long. "Three honrs of daylight, now," thought Edgar, "and wo should overhaul them.' He forgot that his force was but one to ton?that ho was more thau a hundred utiles from any settlement, in the Liiid.it of a vast solitude, where he could meet none but enemies. Nor would the reflection have disturbed him, had it occurred. lie Saw but nnr> imnr?i> V.?l-1 . VIIU HV'ipiUra captive iu the hands of his most hated foes; lud, cool and cousidorato as he usually was, io would not have hesitated to eucouuter he whole baud, with his single strong arm. Fortunately, perhaps, no such opportunity teemed likely to be offered him, for, aftor finding about for a few miles among tUo duffs, the trail nsceuded tho ridge which livides the two rivers, and here turning igain toward tho north, the fugitives hadncrcascd thoir speed. The loug twilight, oo, was deepening into night, and the fear rf ngaiv WtnijifDiiW uvuip-ot * lIUlS, ?? 10 soon ns the truoks became invisible. They followed, however, with all practicable speed, for an hour longer?dismounting at overy offshoot from tbo main ridge, * to ascertain their direction ; but, at the end >f that tiuie, it was no longer safo to proceed,ind Edgar reluctantly drew up. "You bad better return to the river now, White," said ho, "and bring the men up asast as possible. I will expect you before laybreak." "If they do not come up, I'll return myclf," said White; and turning about ho -ode away to the south. The hardy ranger was now left alone, inhe midst of the wilderness. Night had1 ;losd in moonless, and the stars twiuklcd >ut faintly down through tho woodi. The find?as is usual in the country?had subsided toward cveuing, and sunset had ceen followed by a dead calm. When the footsteps of White's horse died away in tho listancc, the silcnco of the grave added icpth and awe to the solitude. Not a branch waved?scarcely a loaf stirred; and' even the trickling of a little spring, in a ravine near him, only served to make tho stillness audible, as a glimmering light but renders darkness visible. Edgar dismounted, and led his tired horso1 in the direction of the sound ; and having illowed him to drink, divested him of his larncss, and picketed him on a slope of >rcon grass near the spring. Ilis ovvu thirst latisficd, he then seated himself at the foot >f a tree, and drawing his blanket up over lim, endeavored to sleep. The stillness vas broken only by his horse eagerly cropping the sweet grass, and the monotony of ho dripping fountain, combined with his 'utigue, soon brought on that half-dreamy itate which precedes oblivion. Indeed, lis head was thrown back against the tree,, md his eyes wero closed, when he suddenly iprung to bis foot, and standing as uiotioncsr as the trees about him, assumed the ittitude of profound listening. [to be continued.] Deep and Shallow Ploughing.? Few subjects attract more attention and jive rise to wore discussiou and want of igrcemcut than that of the depth of ploughing. Many do not consider the very important fact that deep or shallow ploughing depends upon the nature of the soil. The truth is, there are many soils in which if odc ploughs deep he may find great profit in so doing; but, on tho other hand, there arc thousands and thousands of acres of land where it is sheer madness to plough deep. On fiat clay land, where water cannot drain rapidly away, and whore the lack. of drainage is the banc of the cultivator, it is found by experience that a shallow but rich surface soil is much hotter than a deeply stirred one And the reason is obvious : If water be an injury, and it cannot get into tho soil by reason of the hardness of tho subsoil, the rain will pass over the surface to tho open ditches, which always have to be mado in a flat country. If we loosen such soil deeply wc only harbor inoro of our liquid enemy, and this counterbalances what otherwise might be a good thing in a deep soil. Besides these, there aro other considerations. IF the surfitco soil be poor, nod we turn this down into a still poorer subsoil we bury what little good there might have been in tho surfuoo soil far below tho reach of the roots. A little learning is undoubtedly a dangerous thing in farming. There is no department of industry where circumstances alter cases moro than in this. While deep f.loughing is an excellent thing when circumstances suit, there are innumerable casos when it is wise to go on tho other way.? drrmantoion Telegraph. This ends thii column, hook abovo.