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UNCLE 'roM’s canny. CHAP. xvii.—( Cnnclmled.) The Pursuit.-—Phineas I"‘letclier's Generalship.

-The Attack.—What is Heroisni !—Discom-

titure of 'l‘oin Loker.—'I‘he First Law of

Nature.

A Lirru while after suppero large covered wag- on drew up before the nor ; the night was clear starlight, and Phineas jumped briskly down from his seat to arrange his passengers. George walked out of the door, with his child on one arm and his wife on the other. Ilis ste was firm, his face settled and resolute. Roche and Simeon came out after them.

“ You t out a moment,” said Phineas, to those inside, “and let in»; fix the back of the wagon. there. for the womeii—folks and the boy."

" Here are the two bu Ziloes," said Rachel. " Make the seats as comfortable as may be ; it‘s hard riding all ni . '

I iin came out first, and carefully assisted out his old mother, who clung to his arm and loo anxiously about, as it‘ she expected the pursuer every moment. ‘

" Jim, are your pistols all in order!" said Geor e, in at low, firm voice.

“ es, indeed," said Jim.

“ And you've no doubt what you sluill do, if they come .' “

“ I rather think I haven't." said Jim, throw- ing open his broad clii-st, and tak' adeep breath. “ Do you think. I‘ll let them get mo- tlwr a in "'

During this brief (‘OIIO( u Elisa had been taking her leave of her kin lyriend Rachel, and was handed into the carriage by Simeon, and, creeping into the back part with her be , sat down among the liiifiilo-skiiis. The ol wo- niili was next handed in and seated, and George and Jim laced on a rough-board seat front of them, an Phineas mounted in front.

“ Farewell. my friends 3" said Simeon, from without.

- “ God bless you !" answered all from within.

And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frosen road.

here was no opportunity for conversation, on account ol' the roughness of the way and the noise of the wlieels. The vehicle therefore rumbled on, throu h long. dark stretches of woodland, over wiile dreary plains, up hills and down volleys, and on, on, on the jo d, hour after hour. The child soon fell as eep, and lay heavil "in his mother's lop. The poor, fri litened olif woman at last forgot her fears : am even Elisa, as the night waned, found all her anxieties insuflcient to keep her eyes from closing. Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and lieguiled his long drive with whistling certain very un-quoker- like son as he went on. at it ut three o'clock. (u‘eorge's ear caught the hosty and decided click ot'a horse's hoof coining behind them at some distonce,nnd jog d

Phineas by the e bow. Phineas pulled up iii; \ horses and listened.

“ Tint must be Michael.” he said ! “ I think I know the sound ofhis gallop ;" and he rose u and stretched his head anxiously back over the

we .

A man riding in hot haste was now dimly

descricd at the top ofn distant hill.

" There he is, I do believe!" said Phineas. ' sprang out of the wagon before they knew what they were doing. All stood intensely silcnt, with their faces turned towards the ex cted messenger. On came. Now he went own into a volley, where they could not see him ; but they heard the sharp, hasty tram , rising nearer and nearer: at last they row in emerge on the top of on emi- nence. within hail.

f‘_Y0s, tImt’s Michael !" said Phineas ; and, fill! his voice, “Holloa, there, Michael!"

“ P ineos! is that thee .1"

" Ycs : what news !——are the coming!"

_“ Rt ht on behind, eight or ten of them, bot WM‘ 1534].. "swearing and foaming like so

many wolves. o brecoe brought the

_And just as he s , 5"“ '°'“‘d_°I Duo g horsemen towards them.

‘_‘ In With you-quick, boys, in.'‘' said Phi_nsos. “If you must ht, wait tillI t you ' fill‘. tho the wo , both |_||“| rose to a run, the orsemon keeping close bosid. M], The wagon rattled, jumped, _olmoot low on; the

men . ; but ploi_ncr, ondstill loincr, come noise of pursuing horsomon hind. The women heard it, and, loooking anxiously out, for in the rear, on the brow odjg. tunt ° , o of men loomin u ogoiooo the rod "inky of corl do:n. pAIiothur hill. and their pursuors body evidently coughs light of their wogo , w white, cloth- covcrcd top mode it colic icuous at some dio- hnoe, and o loud yell o brutol triumph came forward on tlm wind. Elisa sickened, and strained hsr’:iliiEIdclosor to her nligsoni ; the cl: woman pro nod, a floor on Jim clenched their fistols with the 53°. of tIespoir.. 'I‘lis ptirlttsrn incd on them do, the carriage mode n on turn, and brought them near _n ledge of u use overhanging rock, ‘hut ross in on isolated dge or slump in o In lot, which won, all around it. quite clear

Th isolo

In smooth. to hd pile, or range of

I. rglsc up block o inst the bri toning skv. and sscinsd to prom shelter ‘ll ooncsolinont. It was I known

this untinghynond it wostogninthls at is rsss. "N01 for It!’ said he. suddenly dsskhg

his horses, and springing from his seat to the ground. “ Out with you, in o twinklin , ever one, and up into these rocks with me. ichoe , thee tie tliy horse to the wagon, and drive ahead to Ainariah's, and ge ' and his boys to come back and talk to these fellows."

In ii twinkling the were all outof the carriage.

‘ h re." said lrlhineas, catching up Harry, “ you each of you, see to the women ; and run, now, if you ever did run.

There needed no exhortation. Quicker than we can so it. the whole party were over the fence, mo in with all speed for the rocks, while Michrie , throwin himself from his horse, and fastcnin the bri e to the wagon began driving it to idly away.

Come lfiletltl !" said Phineas, as_ the reached the rocks, and saw, in the mingl; starli ht and dawn, the traces of a rude t plain y marked footpath leading up among them: this is one of our old hunting dens. Come up !"

Phineas went before, springing up the rocks like ii goat. with the boy in his arms. Jim came second, bearing his treinblin old mother over his shoulder, and George and in brought up the rear. The rty of horsemen come up to the fence, and, wit mingled shouts and oaths, were disniounting, to repare to follow them. A few moments, scromb ing brought them to the top of the led ; the path then passed between a narrow deiifi, where only one could walk at a time, till suddenly they came to a rift or chasm more than a yard in breadth, and beyond which lay a ile of rocks, se rate from the rest of the ledge, standing full thirt feet high, with its sides steep and rpendicu or as those of a castle. Phineas easily leipped the chasm, and sat down the boy on o smoo , flat platform of crisp white inoss, that covered the top of the r

oc .

“ Over with you !" he called : “ spring, now, once, for your lives 3” said he, as one a another sprang across. Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breastwork, which sheltered their position from the observation of those bcl0W'

“ Well, here we all are,” said Phineas, p- ingiovcr the stone breastwork to watch as- sai ants, who were coming tumultuously up under the rocks. “ Let ’em get us, if the can.

hoover comes here has to walk sin e file between those two rocks, in fair range of your pistols, boys, d’ye see!"

“ I do ee," said George; and now, as this matter is ours; let us take all the risk, and do all the fighting.”

“ Thee s uite welcome to do the fighting, George," said Phineas, chewing some c ccker- berry-leaves as he spoke; “ but I may have the fun of looking on, suppose. But see, one follows are kinder debotin down there, and looking up, like hens when t ey are goingto fly up on to the roost. IIadn't thee better give ’em a word of advice, before the come up, just to tell ‘em handsomely, they'll shot it they do!"

The rty beneath, now more apparent in the light (ifufhe dawn, consisted of our old acquaint- ances, Tom Loker and Marks, with two con- stables, and a see consisting of such rowdics at the last tavern as could be engoged byo little brandy to go and help the fun of trapping a set

of iii rs.

H Hall, Tom, yer coons are forly treed," said one.

“ Yes, I see ’em gp up right here," said Tom; “ and here's a pot . 'm for going right up. They can't jump down in o burr , and it won t take long to ferret ’em out.

“ But, Tom, the might fire at us from behind the rocks,” said I arks. “ That would be ugly, you now."

“ Ugh! ” said Tom, with s sneer. “ Always for saving your skin, Marks! No danger ! Ni rs are too pla uy scared !"

“ don't know w I:Iiouldn’t save my skin,” said Marks. “ It's t s best I've got; and iiig- gers do fight like the devil, sometimes."

At this moment George appeared on the top of u rock abovedtliem, and, speaking in o calm, clear voice, soi —

“Gentlemen, who are you down there, and wliatwdo you wont! ’ f o ” _d “ cwont o o runawn niggers, sai Tom Loker. “pfliliiay George Hiyrrls, ond Elisa Harris, and their son, and Jim Seldon, and on old woman. We've got the oficers here, and a warrant to take e’m ; and we're going to have ’em, too. D'yc hear! An’t you George Harris,

that belon to Mr. Harris, of Shelby county, Kentucky.” “I am eorge llarris. A Mr. Harris, of

G did call me his proper . But now I'm a free man, shndin on God s free soil; and my wife and my Id I claim us mine. Jim and his mother are here. We have arms to defend ourselves, and we mean to do it. You can come up, if you like; but the first one of you that comes within c range of our bul- lets is a dead man, and the next, oud the next ; and so on till the last." " Oh, conic ! come !” said o short, pufly mou, ste ping forward, and blowin his none as he ' so. “Youn mun this on‘ no kind of talk atoll for you. on see, we're cflcers of justice. We've t the low on our side, and the power, and so orth : so you'd better 've up peoccobly, mu pee; for you ll certainly vc to give up at t. '

Kentucky,

" I know very well that you've got the kw on your sidc,ond the war," mid Georpu bitterly. " You mean to u my wife to sell n Now Or- lconli Ind put in boy like a calf in o trodsr's pen. and send iin's old mother to the brute that VIII and abused her before, bocousc he couldn't u use her son. You wont to send Jim and me hock us be whip and tortured, and ground down under the is of them that you coll masters : and your Iswsuill licor you out in it-more slums for you and mom l But you lmven't got us. We don't own your lows; we don't own our country; womnd hers no lives, under God I sky, as you ore: and, by die God that made us, we'll Ifit-hr our till we die." '

Gcor stood outin foir sifit on he topof the , us he made his dccloroln Mindo- ponilonoc; the glow ofdnwn govu"o Ind U his swortky chum.» und. btttw ludlgnotlm out

dcspoir gove Ire to his dark ; and, as if op ling from man to the jus cc of God, he ro his hand to heaven as he spoke.

If it had been only a Hungarian youth, now, bravely defending in some mountain fsstness

retreat of fu itlves escaping from Austria into America, th is would ave been sublime

ism; but as it was a youth of African de- scent, defending the retrest of fugitives tbrouglh America into Canada, of course we are too we I instructed and patriotic to see any heroism in it; and if any of our readers do, they must do it on their own private responsibility. When despairing Hungarian fu itives make their wn‘y,:ogoinst all the seam -warrants and au- thorities of their lawful government. to Ameri- co, press and political cabinet ring with up- plause and welcome. When despairing Afri- can fugitives do the some thing, it is what is it!

Be it as it may, itis certain that the attitude, eye, voice, manner of the speaker, for a moment struck the party below to silence. There is something in boldness and determination that for n time bushes even the rudest nature. Marks was the only one who remained wholly untouched. He was deliberntel cockng his

istol, and in the momentary sl ence that fol- owed George's speech, he fired at him.

“ Ye see, ye t jist as much for him dead as alive in Kentuc y, ’ he said coolly, as he wiped his pistol on his coat sleeve.

eorge spron backward--Him uttered a shriek-— the bal had passed close to his hair, hod ncorl graced the check of his wife, and stuck in t e tree above.

“ It's nothing, Elisa," said Goorge, quickly.

“Thec'd better kee out of sight, with thy spcechifying.” said hineos; “they're mean scam . '

" ow, Jim,” said George, “ look that your pistols are all right and watch that ss with me. The first man that shows himsel Hire at ;

ou hike the second, and so on : it won't do, you know, to waste two shots on one,”

“ But what ifyou don’t hit! "

“ I shall hit," said George, coolly.

“ Good! ow, there's stuflin that fellow," muttered Phineas, between his teeth.

The party below, after Marks had fired, stood, for a moment, rather undeci ed.

“ I think you must have hit some on ’em.” said one of the men. " I heard a suieal ! "

“ I'm going right up for one," said Tom. “I never was afraid of niggers. and I ain't going to be now. Who goes after? " lie said, spring- ingiup the rocks.

eorge heard the words distinctly.‘ He drew

up his pistol, examined it, pointed it towards

that int in the defile where the flrst man woul appear. One 0 the most courageous of the party fol-

lowed Tom, and, the way being thus made, the whole party began pushing up the rock—the hindcrmcst ushing the front ones faster than they would vs gone of tliemiu-Ives. On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom apeored in sight, almost at the verge of the c asm.

George iirod—the shot entered his side; but though wounded he .wcuId not retreat, but, with n ysll like that of a mad bull. he was leaping right screen the chasm into the pony.

“ Friend, ' said Phineas, suddenly to the front, and meeting him with a " thoe isn't win here.

Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes. logs, loose stones, till he luv, bruised and groaning, thirty feet below. The fall might have killed him, had it not been broken and moderated by his clothes catching in the branches of o large tree; but he came down with some force, however-—morc than was at nll agree- nblc or convenient.

" Lord, help us! they are perfect devils!” said Marks, heading the retreat down the rocks with much more of n will, than he had joined the ascent, while all the party come tumbling precipiinicly nflcr him—the fut constable, in particular, blow- ing and pulling in a very energetic manner.

"I on fallen,” said Marks, “ you jist go round on pick up Tom, there, while I run and

st on y horse, to go back for help—ihst’s yon;" and without minding the hootings and jesrs of his company. Marks was as good as his word, and was soon ssce galloping nwoy.

“ Was over such a sneaking varmint!" said one ofilis mun. " To come on his business, and be clear out and leave us this yer way!”

“ Well. we must pick up ilm feller," sold an- other. “ Cues me, if I much care whether he is dead or alive.”

The men, led by the groans of Tom, scrambled and crackled through stumps, logs and bushes. to when that bore lay groaning and sweating with alternate vchsmencs.

" Yo keep it o-going pretty loud, Tom," said one. '* Yo uch hurt!"

push from his long arms, I

now. Get me up, can’! ye? Blast that infernal Quaker! If it had not been for him, I'd u pitc some on’ciIi down here, to see how they iksd it.” ith much labour and groaning, the fallen hero was to rise: und, with one holding him up under such shoulder, they got him as for as dis hornos. -

“ If you could only get me a mile back to that or hvuni. ve me o handkerchief or some- thing, tostnf into this place, and stop this inferlml blocdin .” look over the rocks, and sow them trying to lib the burl mm of Tom Into the mddlc. After two or three inefl-ctual attempts, lie roolsd, and fell heavily to the ground.

“Oh, Ihape he isn't killed!" said Elise, who, with the party, stood watxehlng the

ngs. --wpy not!" sold Phineas. “semi him

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" Heouss after death comes the judgment." mid Rliso. “Ycs," mid d woman who had

got on their horses and rode away. When they avers pita out of sight, Phineas began to bestir imsc .

" Well, we must go down and walk a piece,” he said. “I told Michael to forward and bring help, and be along him here with the wagon : but we shall have to walk a piece alon the road, I reckon, to meet them. The Lord

nt he be along soon! It's early in the day : there won’tbe much travel afoot et awhile; we an’t much more than two miles roni our stop- ing-place. If the road hadn't been so rough ast ni lit, we could have outrun ’em entirely.

As t ie rty neared the fence. they discovered in the distance, along the road, their own wagon Eominbgwk ck, accompanied by some men on

one .

“Well, now, there's Michael, and Stc hen, and Amariah," exclaimed Phineas, joy ully. “hNow,we are made—as safe as if we'd got t ere.’

“ Well, do sto , then," said Eliza, “ and do piomcgpipg for t at poor man ; he's groaning

res u "

“ It would be no more than Christian,” said Georg? let's take him up and carry him on."

“ d doctor him up among the Quakers!” said Phineas ; “ pretty well, that! Well, I don't care, if we do. Here let's have a look at him!" and Phineas, who in the course of his hunting and backwoods life, had no uircd some rude experience of surgery, knccled own by the wounded man, and began a careful examination of his condition.

“ Marks," said Tom, feebly; “ is that you, Marks .1"

“ No, I reckon ’t sn't, friend," said Phineas. “ Much Marks cares for thee, if his own skin's safe. He‘: oil‘, long ago." ‘

“ I believe I'm done for,” said Tom. “ The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone ! My poor old mother always told me t'would be so " -

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“ La, sakes ! jist hear the poor critter. He's got a niammy, now.” said the old negress. “ I can't help kinder pit in‘ on him."

" Softly, softly; on’t thee snap and snarl, friend,” said Phineas, as Tom winced and push- ed his hand away. “ Thee has no chance, un- less I stop the b ceding.” And Phineas busicd

imself with making some ofl‘-hand sur ical arrangements with his own pockct—bandkerc ief, and such as could be niusterdd in the company. _“ You pushed me down there," said Tom

thingy. . “ 'ell, if I hadn't, thee would have pushed us down, the sees, said Phineas, as he stooped to apply his hands. . “ There, there-—let me ' s bonda . a mean well to thee; we bear no malice. Thee shall be taken to a house where they'll nurse thee-first ratc—as well as thy own mother could.”