New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04

Bono descriptions OF severe cold ID Casads ana
aberia, which have rsad, state that u such tunes
the air occasions iiDgkDg, smaTtpg sensansn In
the tAIsas and lungs, bat experienced sefnlns
81 IL
TIN 10 Arctic travel, II last. By Odia, il Is s'e
Tious! The saoeo,h, firm road, crisp and pure a.
alsbsster, ever which our slegh runners talk WIZ
the rppl Do, musical muImur ofsummer oreohsi 'oe
spa, h6ng, breathless armament; the gorgeous rosy
ho.h Of morning, slowly deepening until tne orange
dc of the sun cuts the horizon; the go'den o'aze
Of the tops of the brooze frs; the ehterng si thf
e.s.v brehes; the long, drca'y sweep 81 the land
,cape; the icy nectar Of the perfect ar; che ans'
line of the reused blood in every veio all alert 10
guard The outposts of life against the besiegine
oN-u 10 superb. The nat wee themselves spoke
Of the cold 90 berg unusually severe, and We con.
erstoIs ed Ourselves all the more On our easy endur.
aDce Of it. Esd We judged only by our own senss
sioDs, We should not have believed the temperature
to be nearly 30 low.
The sun rose little after ten, and have never
seen anything finer than the Illumination OF The
forests and snow. fields in bis level orange beams
for, even at mid day, he was not more than eight
degrees above the horizon. The tops Of the trees,
only, we've touched: still and solid a. iron, and Gov.
cred with spark ing frost CRY stas their trunks we're
changed " blazing gold, and their foliage to fiery
orange brown. The delicate purple sprays Of the
brcb coated with ice differed like wands Of topaz
aud amethyst, and the slopes Of virgin snow,
stretching toward the sun, sbone with the forrest
saffron CLEANS. There is nothing equal TO this 10
the South-nothpg % transoendently rich, dazzling
add slorious. Italan dawns aud twiishts caono'
surpas those We see every day, not like those,
fsoug rapidly into tho sshen hues Of dusk, but lin
eeriDg for hour after hour with scarce decrease o
splebdor. Strange that Nature should repeat those
lovely aerial effects IN such widely different zones
and seasons. thought TO find in the Winter Land
scapes of the far Nsrth q sublimity of death and
desolation-s wi d, dark, dreary monotony of OK
pressiOn-busI have, in reality, the constant en-
Joy ment of the rarest the tel derest the mo4t en-
chanting beauty.
The people we meet along the road harmonic
with these unexpected impressions. They are
clear-eyod and rory as the morning, straight and
strong as the fir sapDes in their forests, and sim.
pie, honest and Sophisticated beyond any class Of
men ! haze ever seen. They are no mi)ksops,
either Under the serenity of those blue eyes and
smooth, fair faces, burns the old Berserker rage,
not ea,ily kndled but terrible as the Lightning
when once loOsed. IL would like 10 take all the
young men north of Sundsvall,' says BREASTED
put them into Kansas. tell them her history, and
then let them act for themselves" 1.-The cold in
cline are cold in blood" sings Byron; but taey are
only cold through superior set-control and freedom
from perverted passions. Better is the assertion
of TeDnysoD:
"Tb.. bright and fierce, and fshle !, the South,
And daIi, and true, and tender u the North
There are tender hearts in the breasts of these
Northern men and women, albeit they arc a. undem.
onstratve as the Epglish-Or we Americans for that
matter It is exhilarsting to see such people
whose digestion is sound, whose nerves are tough
a. wbipcord, whose blood rGns in q strong, full
stream, whose impulses are perfectly natural, who
are good without knowing it, and who are happy
without trying to be so. Where shall We find such
among our restless communities at home
We made two Swedish miles by noon, and then
took breakfast Of fred reindeer meat aud pan.
Gales, Of which we ate enormously, TO keep up o
good supply Of fuel. Braistsd and consumed
about pound Of butter between us. Shrek not,
young ladies, At our vulgar appetites-you whs sip
spoonful Of ioe.cresm, or trife WITH diminunve
vsringue, in company but make amends on cold
ham and pickles in tho pantry, after you 60 home
sbsll tell the truth though it dhgust you. This
intense cold begets necessity for fat, and with the
necessity comes the taste-a wise provision of Ne
ture, / have no doubt shall be able to reish
MOL and tallow candles before we have done
with Lspland.
I had tough work at each station TO get my head
out Of my wrsppings, which were united with my
beard and hair in one solid lump. The cold In
creased instead Of diminishing, and BY the time We
resched Gumboda, at eutk, it was 400 below zero.
Here We found . company Of Firms travelling
southwark, who had engaged Eve horses, obiging
us to wait couple of hour. We bad already
made forty miles and we're satisfied with our per.
formance, 20 We stopped for the night When the
thermometer was brought in, we found the mer-
curry frozen, and on unmuffing / found the end Of
10y nose scared as if with . hot iron. Toe inn
was capital; we bad warm, carpesed room, beds
of clean, lavendered linen, and ali civilized appi.
aDces. In the evening we sat down to Christmas
dinner Of iausases, potatoes, pancakes, rsspoe'r,
Jam, and bottle of Barclay & Perkinss best por-
ter in which We drank the health of all dear reiA-
tves and friends in the two hsmispheres. And this
Was in Umea Lsppmarh, where we had been told
We should stAye At bedtime BREASTED took out
the thermometer again, and soon brought 1t in with
the mercury frozen below al the numbers on the
scale.
In the morning, the landlord came in aud ques-