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"I was accompanied by my companion of yesterday; and as we were both well-mounted, we galloped over the openings toward Lyon Lake, at a rate that brought us in a few minutes to the white sand-beach which The marks of an Indian fringes that beautiful water.

trail were here easily discernable; and following the
foot-marks dashed in the yielding sand, the frequent
print of mocassins soon led us again away from the
shore into a tall wood beyond. A morass, that shook
for yards around as our horses' hoofs encountered the
sagging peal, was next to be crossed; and then pass-
ing between two small lonely-looking lakas, where a
tall pine or two lifted its sweeping cone above the
tapering tamaracks around, we struck at last into a
dense forest. Here the numerous deer-runways, with
the flocks of wild turkeys, and innumerable tracks of
racoons, wolves, and bears, showed us that we were
upon a favourite hunting-ground of the Pottawattamies.
As for the wolves, they are little disturbed by the
Indians, who consider them fair hunters like themselves,
They generally
and privileged to go unmolested.
abound around a hunting-camp; and soon grow fat on
But bears-
the offals of game slaughtered near it.
though the successful hunter invariably takes his dead
quarry by the paw, calls him his grandfather, and asks
his pardon for killing him, being compelled to it by
being compelled to it by
necessity'-are hunted with great avidity; and you
generally find a tamarack swamp the favorite cover to
these animals, in the vicinity of a hunting-camp.

We had ridden for about a mile through the heavily-
timbered land, when reaching the banks of the Notta-
waseepe, a branch of the St. Joseph's, I heard the
sound of children's voices, and descried two or three
red urchins wading through the shallow stream, on
stilts, while others, of a similar age, were amusing
themselves in shooting bows and arrows on the opposite
side. We immediately forded the stream; and maning
our way into a swamp, where the horses sank to the
knee at every step, came unexpectedly upon a piece of
firm ground, some eighty yards in diameter, and found
ourselves in the midst of the camp of Warpkesick.
was composed of three or four wigwams only, but they
were large, and probably contained several families
each. The day being mild for the season of the
year, the indwellers of these simple occupations were,
at the moment of our arrival variously occupied in
several groups on the outside.

It

Some of the men were cleaning their weapons, and others were arranging a bundle of muskrat traps; while one old fellow, whose screwed up features, peering from under a mass of grizzy locks, indicated the cunning of the trapper, rather than the boldness of the hunter, was occupied in The women alone, flaying an otter but just taken. however appeared to be assiduously engaged-the men having all a lounging air of indolence incompatible

with the idea of actual employment; pressing skins was the occupation of the former; and they sat grouped each like a bare in its form around a collection of boiling kettles over which the skins were suspended,

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A tall virago of fifty, whose erect stature, elf-locks, and scarlet blanket floating about her person, would entitle her to flourish as Meg Merrilies in the frontispiece of Guy Mannering, stood up in the midst; and, had it not been for some tolerably pretty faces among her junior co-laborators, might have been taken for Hecate herself, surrounded by the weird sisters of the cauldron. A pack of wolfish-looking curs, about twenty Warpkein number, completed the assemblage, sick himself, the chief of the gipsy band, issued from his lodge while I was thus studying the appearance of his adherents. He was a young man, not more than thirty, with a handsome though somewhat voluptuous His cast of countenance, and remarkably fine eyes. stature was rather below the middle size; and though the upper part of his person was extremely well formed, with a deep chest and broad flat shoulders, one of his legs, whether from deformity or misfortune I did not like to inquire, was so twisted under his body as to be worse than useless. He supported himself upon an ashen staff about eight feet in length, and terminating at the bottom in a round ball, to prevent it, probably, from sinking too deeply into the earth while in rapid pursuit of game; the chief being, in spite of the unsightly incumbrance he is compelled to drag after him, when bounding like a stricken panther on his prey, one of the keenest hunters of his tribe.

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Pipes were now lit, and Ten-Garters, who was too unwell to smoke himself, politely, after a few whiffs, tendered me his; while my companion, who could partially speak the language, was supplied from another quarter: we were soon perfectly at home. picked up from the floor of the lodge, on entering, a rude musical instrument—a species of flute, of imperfect tones, but having a rich mellow sound-when as I was trying to squeeze a tune from the gamutless pipe, Warpkesick rose abruptly, and stating that he had to start at once on a trapping expedition, signified that we should take our departure. An Indian pony stood at the door, and leaping at one bound into the wooden saddle, an immense bundle of steel-traps was handed to the chief by a bystander; and accompanied by an Indian on foot, almost as sorry-looking as the miserable beast he rode, our abrupt host disappeared at once into the woods. I was lingering behind to purchase the flute, and had conciliated the squaws wonderfully by tearing out the silk lining of my frock-coat, and giving it in shreds to their children, when my friend, being already mounted, told me we had better move off. I had barely time to cross the saddle, when a whoop rang through the woods, which, while it made my horse spring almost from beneath me, would have awakened Rip Van Winkle from his twenty years' dose. The piercing cry from the forest was echoed with an exulting shout from every wigwam. A dozen dusky figures leaped through their flimsy porches, with as He of the heron many rifles gleaming in their hands. feather was the first that caught my eye, and as his gun pointed in the direction whence the first whoop came, immediately behind me, I could not help, in spite of the undesirable propinquity of its muzzle, admiring the eagle eye and superb attitude of the young warrior

Not a soul advanced three paces from the covert whence he sprung. There was a dead silence. The children held their breath, and Meg Merrilies,' who had stepped on a fallen tree at the first outcry, now stood so still that her eldritch form, were it not for the elf-locks streaming over her scarlet blanket in the breeze, might have been mistaken for a figure of stone. Another whoop, and the cause of all the commotion at once appeared. A noble buck, roused from his lair by Warpkesick, comes bounding by the camp, and buries his proud antlers in the dust in a moment. A dozen scalping-knives pierce his leathern coat, and the poor creature is stripped of his skin almost before he has time to pant out his expiring breath."

BAD WEATHER.

From Leigh Hunt's" Companion."

APTER longing these two months for some "real winter weather," the public have had a good sharp specimen, a little too real. We mean to take our revenge by writing an article upon it after a good breakfast, with our feet at a good fire, and in a room quiet enough to let us hear the fire as well as feel it. Outside the casement (for we are writing this in a cottage) the east-wind is heard, cutting away like a knife; snow is on the ground; there is frost and sleet at once; and the melancholy crow of poor chanticleer at a distance seems complaining that nobody will cherish him. One imagines that his toes must be cold; and that he is drawing comparisons between the present feeling of his sides, and the warmth they enjoy next his plump wife on a perch. But in the country there is always something to enjoy. There is the silence, if nothing else; you feel that the air is healthy; and you can see to write. Think of a street in London, at once narrow, foggy, and noisy; the snow thawing, not because the frost has not returned, but because the union of mud and smoke prevails against it; and then the unnatural cold sound of the clank of milk-pails (if you are up early enough); or if you are not, the chill, damp, strawy, ricketty hackneycoaches going by, with fellows inside of them with cold feet, and the coachman a mere bundle of rags, blue nose, and jolting. (He'll quarrel with every fare, and the passenger knows it, and will resist. So they will stand with their feet in the mud haggling. The old gentleman saw an extra charge of a shilling in his face.) To complete the misery, the pedestrians kick, as they go, those detestable flakes of united snow and mud; at least they ought to do so, to complete our picture; and at night-time, people coming home, hardly know whether or not they have chins. But is there no comfort then in a London street in such weather? Infinite, if people will but have it, and families are good-tempered. We trust we shall be read by hundreds of such this morning. Of some we are certain; and do hereby, agreeable to our ubiquitous privileges, take several breakfasts at once. How pleasant is this rug! How bright and generous the fire! How charming the fair makers of the tea; And how happy that they have not to make it themselves, the drinkers of it! Even the hackney-coachman means to get double as much as usual to day, either by cheating or being pa

thetic; and the old gentleman is reolved to make amends for the necessity of his morning drive, by another pint of wine at dinner, and crumpets with his tea. It is not by grumbling against the elements, that evil is to be done away; but by keeping one's-self in good heart with one's fellow creatures, and remembering that they are all capable of partaking our pleasures. The contemplation of pain, acting upon a splenetic temperament, produces a stirring reformer here and there, who does good rather out of spite against wrong, than sympathy with pleasure, and becomes a sort of disagreeable angel. Far he it from us, in the present state of society, to wish that no such existed. But they will pardon us for labouring in the vocation to which a livelier nature calls us, and drawing a distinction between the dissatisfaction that ends in good, and the mere common place grumbling that, in a thousand instances to one, ends in nothing but plaguing everybody as well as the grumbler.

LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS.

FROM A VARIETY OF THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES,
INCLUDING COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM

"Le Petit Courrier des Dames"- " Journal de Paris et des Modes, L'Observateur des Modes et L'Indiscret"-" Le Follet Courrier des Salons"-" Le Mercure des Salons,," &c. &c,

We are as yet not far enough advanced in the season to proclaim a predominant style, or point out definitely a range of modes, beyond whose prescribed limits the votaries of fashion may not for a time proceed. Besides, the uncertainty of the weather, coupled with the caprice, which is as much as ever identified with fashionable life, and creates an independence in costume to suit individual taste, are now instrumental in causing a diversity of design in the present modes, which, offering the fairest latitude to good taste, sinks the journalist of the Beau Monde for a moment from Arbiter Elegantiarum to a mere chronicler of the modes for the time being.

Were the public taste in these matters well directed by a democracy, it would be our place to look on and admire, but we suspect that the sovereignty of fashion cannot be long unrecognized, and we, as her ministers, must ever be ready to issue her mandates. Until the "revolution of another moon," we will content ourselves with registering a few of the costumes the most remarkable for taste and splendour, and in the meantime, will extract an article from a Parisian contemporary the "Follet," which, though of an unusually ancient date, will, we presume, excite some little interest in those of our readers who have embraced no opportunity of witnessing a scene so splendid and varied as it describes:

"One fashion has scarcely destroyed another than it is annihilated by a more recent one, which, in its turn, gives place to the succeeding favourite, thus continuing a succession of changes; such is our frivolity; during these revolutions a century passes away, and the costumes belonging to it are placed in the rank of things gone by thus the most curious and ancient style again becomes the most admired."

This reflection, written in 1680, may be applied to the extraordinary representation given in January last, at the Italian Opera House, whilst the dilettanti of the Pit hung upon the sweet notes of Madlle. Grisi, and the frequenters of the stalls gazed at the fine eyes of the singer; we, as faithful observers, took notes of the brilliant toilettes which surrounded us on all sides.

To begin with the DRESS CIRCLE. General appear

ance.

Coiffures en cheveux, side curls interwoven with pearls, the back hair half raised, bandeaux à la ferronniere, with golden filigree torsade on the forehead; the hair raised en natte on the top of the head, and adorned with golden arrows; the tufts at the side frizzed out and set with épis ornaments, brilliants, or precious stones; the back hair raised on the top of the head, and maintained by a large clasp set in precious stones. Many of the coiffures were ornamented with garlands of flowers originating from the top of the head, to the ends of which were attached bunches of flowers on the temples, which, hanging loosely, followed each movement of the head; the garlands of others, often taking rise at the back of the head, fell in large bunches on each side of the forehead; some few were in the form of diadems; a few others had flowers scattered in the hair. Some of the most elegant women had blue or cherry-coloured feathers streaked with white. Many dresses were in white worked organdi and woollen gauze, short sleeves were ornamented with ribbon nœuds; jewellery was worn in profusion in the shape of necklaces, bracelets, rings, &c., the latter on the front finger of the left-hand; fans and bouquets in plenty, the former seldom in the style called à la princesse, but frequently antique, and more commonly still à la jardinière.

Second tier. The style here was hardly of a character so recherché; caps were much worn, with long barbes descending low on the shoulders; hats with a single feather falling gracefully over the neck; tocques à la châtelaine; velvet and satin dresses in abundance; many en camée; blonde scarfs and tulle handkerchiefs à la Médicis.

Third tier. Here was a manifest degeneracy, and the more perceptible the higher we directed our eyes; we could observe in this region more showiness in color, with less attention to lightness and elegance in the tout ensemble, more overloading with coques, flowers, &c., with no lack of Simon capôtes, which might be observed dangling from the front seats of those who were somewhat straightened for room; there were also a vast number of little blonde caps ruché, ornamented with flowers and ribbons, now discarded by our élégantes. Next to a dress of gros de Naples, a woollen muslin, could be perceived, as if in the very spirit of incongruity, one of satin; a plain merino dress in another situation neighbour to a damasked satin."

After the above lively description, come we now to a few examples of the latest toilettes observed in fashionable society, which we shall have the means of considerably multiplying in our next.

DRESSES.-A black satin dress, with the lower part plain and closefitting, and the upper, draped, was clasped in the folds by a diamond clasp, which retaining a chain, was followed by another, in the same way

connecting a third to the ceinture; no other piece of bijouterie was added to this toilette, with the exception of a white aigrette for the hair, to the lower extremity of which was affixed a magnificent bouquet of diamonds, with foliage and branches, which had a dazzling effect introduced in a black velvet turban.

At the theatre, with many of the black satin dresses, which are now very generally worn, merely black ribbons are used, of other colors accasionally, but mostly dark.

Redingotes, similar to those which appeared last autumn, of silk embroidered in lively colours, will now be as much worn as ever. The elegance and richness of the under dress which usually accompanies this open style, affords much scope for talent in personal adornment, and the variety to which it gives rise, from its very general applicability to a multitude of tastes, must conduce to its popularity.

A dress of garnet-coloured velvet was ornamented in front by two rows of nœuds figuring tablier, these nœuds were composed of five ribbon coques of white satin, forming a rosette, in the midst of which sparkled a flower of many coloured precious stones. The folds of the draped corsage were retained by similar nœuds in the front and at the side, the turban was of white gauze embroidered in gold adorned with a white aigrette.

Down a white crape dress, was placed a row of nœuds of similar kind to the above coques with a clasp of opal surrounded with emeralds. Three large plaits folded en biais tied the sleeves which were gathered up at the shoulder by three clasps of opals and emeralds, assuming a large fan-like appearance, and figuring a small bouffan, a second small sleeve of crape was perceived, which falling a little on the arm, was trimmed with a narrow blonde edging placed flat. A green velvet Castillian hat, ornamented with a white feather on the brim, and on the top by a bouquet of precious

stones.

HATS CAPS &c.-A little cap of blond lace, ornamented with a double peach blossom and a ribbon of red satin had a pretty appearance.

A capote of a very simple character, which was in lilac coloured gros de printemps, was adorned with a single sprig of Spanish lilac.

An emerald green velvet hat, was elevated in front and slightly contracted at one side, was ornamented with two long white feathers.

A Moorish turban in green and gold had a very rich effect.

With the small and elegant hats that we have before mentioned, an elegant description of turbans has lately been brought up, ornamented with a bird of paradise feather, appears to dispute the preceding; it is generally in green or lilac velvet and has an air about it which is not so confined in its suitableness to to the style of features as is generally the case.

VARIETIES.-Cloaks may be said to have given way to the palatines to a very great extent, which, for the ball and the theatre seem to be much prefered.

A wide satin ribbon worked in the same or in a different shade and fringed at the two extremities, is placed as a scarf on a satin dress, and is attached to the neck by a pin of chased gold.

At the theatre, the gold bandeau on the forehead is still worn, enriched with precious stones, and the nosegays are generally of natural flowers.

Scarfs are worn white without regard to the colour of the dress.

Feronnières are not abandoned, but bandeaux with a single row of fine pearls are frequently used in their stead.

For fans, which are indispensable to the toilet of a fashionable lady, the Pompadours are most in request; they are now larger than they have been hitherto worn, generally of mother-o' pearl inlaid with gold in the most beautiful designs.

MATERIALS & COLOURS.-Black is at present a very predominant colour, and what has been lamented in one of the fashionable journals, is that it is suffered to invade the ball room, and give a sombre appearance to even the admirers of Terpsichore.

At the theatre we have frequently observed satin dresses embroidered in rose color, white or blue, with long skirt and corsage ending in a rounded point.

For the rest we may say generally that the same colors and materials are used for the present month as for the past month or two.

Charming negligés of lilac or marsh mallow green reps or satin are often worn.

India muslin from infinite variety of designs and general applicability is likely to be still a favorite, particularly as the mild weather advances.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.

PLATE 1.

FIGURE 1. AND BACK VIEW.-EVENING DRESS.Half high mounting corsage, edged with blond satin, ornament similarly edged, and figuring pélerine crosses under the ceinture-short sleeve caught up by a ribbon nœud, skirt elegantly embroidered, a satin piping and deep lace figuring redingote ;tulle cap, ornamented with several feathers.

FIGURE 11.-BALL COSTUME.-Corsage plain, deep cut at the shoulders, with large ribbon nœud at each extremity, mantilla trimmed with a double ruche, short sleeves, ornamented with similar ruches. A nœud is fixed to the point of the ceinture, which has two long ends of equal length, two rows of ruches figure tablier down the skirt. Hair, à la Chinoise, ornamented with a few sprigs and flowers.

FIGURE 1. AND BACK VIEW.-Corsage draped, lace eut in the middle of the bust, draped, short sleeve with noeud at top. Ceinture of satin, with narrow blond edging. Hair, à la Berthe, plaited noeud, and long curling ostrich feathers.

First and Second.-Capotes of silk, crown and brim rather elevated-the second possessing the peculiarity of being very much cut away at the top of the brim, and the crown unusually long.

CENTRE HAT AND BACK VIEW.-Round open shape with ornament, bird of paradise feather. BLOND CAP.-Ornamented with roses.

PLATE II.

FIGURE 1. AND BACK VIEW.-Evening dress, Canton crape dress, draped on the bust, which is ornamented with a scolloped edging of blond, down the center, are placed small bows-the short sleeves which are terminated by double bouffans, are ornamented at top by a ribbon nœud and embroidered sprigs. A satin biais commencing from the point of the ceinture, pro

ceeds obliquely towards the bottom of the dress, where it terminates by a nœud-the others are placed parallel to this, with nœuds at both ends-Hair ornamented with feathers.

FIGURE 11.- -WALKING DRESS.-Satin pelisse, collar pointed behind, and edged with black lace, cape falling very much over the shoulders, cut in towards the middle of the back, forming a kind of inverted cone, terminating at the ceinture, edged in like manner with black lace. Small open shape hat, crown rather elevated, and conical, ornamented at the extremity with a ribbon coque and sprig of flowers-another of which is placed on the side between the brim and the crown.

FIGURE 111. AND BACK VIEW.-EVENING DRESS. A tissu memphis dress; corsage, close fitting, but draped at the bosom, in the center is a loop cord with tassels, as well as on the extremity of the shoulder, short sleeve, the top of the dress is edged with scolloped lace; silk cord passing once round the waist and looped in front, falls in long ends down the dress, a connecting cord passes obliquely to the bottom of the dress, which is looped up by it at a slight distance from the hem. Turban of China muslin, ornamented with a single feather and precious stones, one end hangs low by the side of the face.

FIRST HAT.-Silk, of round open shape, ornamented with a feather, which being fastened to the inside of the front, curls over the brim.

SECOND HAT.-A printed satin, round open shape, with large high crown, single feather curled at the end.

TURBAN AND BACK VIEW.-Of scarf muslin, with a fringed end hanging low on one side. PLATE III.

FIGURE 1.-BALL TOILET AND BACK VIEW.-Organdi dress worked in worsted, Corsage plain and closefitting, mantilla in a treble form with blond edging, ornamented at the extremity of each shoulder with a satin rosette. Two flounces parallel, placed high on the skirt, and caught up by two similar rosettes to those on the shoulders. Hair ornamented simply with nœuds.

FIGURE 11.-EVENING DRESS.-Pompadour satin robe, half high mounting draped corsage en pointe, ornamented with three small nœuds in front, round the sleeve which is short, small nœuds with ends are placed at equal intervals. Down the skirt at each side of the front figuring tablier, are two plated satin braids, four similar rows cross horizontally. Hair adorned with flowers.

FIGURE 111.-And Back View.—Satin dress, corsage close fitting sleeves, short and full, skirt plain, with a worked muslin pélerine. Blond cap ornamented with ribbons and flowers.

FIRST HAT. In velvet epinglé, high shape, decorated with ribbon bows and flowers.

SECOND HAT. Of similar shape and material, round crown gathered at the back, with large nœuds and curtain.

HAT AND BACK VIEW.-In velvet, round open shape, ornamented with feathers.

PLATE IV.

FIGURE 1.-BALL COSTUME-LACE DRESS-Pointed corsage, plain, closefitting, surmounted by a muslin draped ornament, gathered up occasionally by satin, spirally entwining it. Sleeves short, in four bouffans,

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