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hrsted by the'Persiam fur the death of the Caliph
r Omar. Thlty eriers l petradVel which they
• fix an jostle, disfigured and deformed as much as
'Wits to
Addressing. tbeajoelres to the image. they.
'Wets to ',evil. it .for haviog supplanted Ali, the
lawful saarcessor of the prophet-4 at length hiving
exhissied till their eapreasioris of abuse, they end-
dimly attack the image with stones and sticks, WI
they have shattered .t into pieces. The inside is
hollow mud full of sweetmeats. which are greedily
devoured by the mob who attend the ceremony.
4, We shall say nothing of the festivals instituted
iu cemmemoration of some of Mahomit's miraclea ;
such as the cleaving of the moon. the parturition
of the stone, the apeaking camel, dec. The reader
who is not intimately acqnainted with the history of
that impostor, Ins), nit be aware that one of the
chief miracles attributed to him is that of cleaving
the moon in two. The parturition of the stone is
not less surprising :—A poor man having lost a
camel, winch was ~II that be peetesard, was over-
whelmed with grief; Mahoruet. moved *ith cont.
porsion, amid( a stone; a camel instantly *prong
out of It. Rod he Kaye the •11111131111. to the poor fel-
low. The story of the camel seems lobe an.allet.
gory, in whir h the Arab is exhorted to have com-
ras4ion on that useful animal when it is grown old.
A net:lrby merchant, of Medium, kept several
camels for Ina commercial pnrsuits. and when ago
and hard work -lied reduced their strength, be
turned them out to shift fur themselves. A camel
which had .experienced this treatment went to Ma-.
hornet, and complained to him of the injustice and
cruelty of his toaster; Mahomet sent for the met-
cliaot, reprimanded him for his conduct, anti com-
manded hint in fature to keep every camel worn
out iu his service till its death."

INTERESTING STOT Y.

[Fromm • New York Paper.]
...—...

In the year 1814, a trader married a heantirul
squaw of one of the mind distinguished families in
the °merit:ow nation. Thie match, on the part of
the Innitisnd, was induced by the fillowing eircum-
stances.:—lleing• an active, intelligent, and enter.
prising man, he had introduced the American
trade to the Mimmuit Indians. anti had gained great
i..flaence tuntingst them by his bravely and ingenu-
ous deportment. lint be at length perceived that
his influence was gradually declining, in come-
glience of the preeence and wives of many rival
traders, to whom ht» enterprise had opened the way,
and that his customers were gradually forsaking
him.

Thal circumstanced, in order to regain the
ground he had lott, lie determined to seek a matri-
monial alliance with one of the most powerful fstni•
lies of the °snowball's. In pursuance of this reso.
lotion he selected a squaw, whose family and friends
were such as he desired. Fie addressed himself to
he► parents, agreeably to the Indian custom, and
isiforintil them that he loved their daughter; that
he was very sorry to see her in the state of poverty
common to her nation. and although be possessed
a wife among the white people, yet he wished to
have one also of the Omawhaw nation. If they
would transfer their daughter to him in marriage,
he would obligate himself to t her kindly ; and
as he had commenced a permanent trailing esta-
blishment in their country. he would dwell during
a portion of the year with her, mad the remainder
with the white people, as the nature of his toecaps-
Con required. Ills establishment should be her
home stud that of her people during her life, us be
never intended to mbaudon the trade. In return
he expressed his expectation, that for this act ►he
nation would give him the refusal of their peltrier,
in order that he might be cobbled to comply with
his engagement to them. Ile Nailer promised
that if the match proved fruitful, the children
should be made known to the white people, and
would probably be qualified to continue the trade
after his death.

'rhe parent► replied with thinks for his liberal
otters, and for his dniposition to have pity on them,
they souk! n.t object to the connexion, and hoped
that their dsughter would accept of hits as a bus.
ban I.

The parents then reti,A, and opened the subject
to the itiogliter ; they awned her that her proposed
husband was a great man, greater thaii any of the
Oniaishaws : that be would do much tUr her and
for them, and concluded by requesting her to ac-
quiesce in the a i+lies of the white tu.w. She replied
that all they said was, without doubt true, mid shut
agreeable to his request, she aliewilliug to become
his wife.

The agreement bring thus concluded, the trader
mode present., agreeably to the custom of the
mown, and conducted his laden-slit% prize to his
house.

The ensuing autumn she had the pleasure to see
him return, having now conceited fur him the most
tender attachment. Upon his visit the following
season, she presented him with • 6ne daughter, bout
in his absence, and whom she had nursed with the
fondest attention. With the infant in her arms, she
had daily seated her.elf on the bank of a river, and
followed the downward course of • stream with her
eye, to gain the earliest notice of his approach. Thus
time pas►ed on. The second year a father greeted
a son, and obtained his squaw% reluctant consent to
take their daughter with tim.oti his return voyage
to the country of the white people. lint no sooner
had lie commenced his voyage, although the had
another charge upon which to lavish her caresses,
than her maternal fondness overpowered her, and
she ran crying ■nd screaming along the river-side
in pursuit of the boat, tearing out her long flowing
hair, and appearing to be almost bereft of reason.
On her return home, she gave away every thing
she possessed, cut off he hair, went in deep mourn-
ing, and remained inconsolable. She would often
say that she well knew that her daughter would be
better treated than she could be at home, but she
could not avoid regateling her own situation to be
the same as if the Wsliconda had taken away her
oil'apring for ever.
One day, ite company with six other maims, she
was engaged in her agncultand labours, her infant
boy hems secured to his cradle-like board, which
she had carefully reclined against • tree at a short
distance. l'hey were discovered by a war party of
Sioux. who rushed towards them with the expecta-
tion of gratifying their veogemice by securing their
sculps. An exclamation from her companions di-
rected her ettentiou to the common enemy, and in
hier fright she did precipitately; but suddenly rc-

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'collected her child, she 'swiftly returned Tell in the
face of ifte Soul, 'snitched ber'cltild frets fin tree,
and turned to save its life, more precious than her
own. She wee closely pursued by one of the
enemy, when she arrived ate fence which separated
her from the tending-house. A moment's hesitation
here would have been fatal, and exerting all her
strength, she threw the child, with its board, as far
el rhe could on the opposite ►ide.
Four of the squaws were tomelsawired, and the
ethers escaped, of which number the mother wani
one, having succeeded in bearing off her child un-
ittjored.

-The trader, on his arrival et the settlements,
learned that hie white, or civilised, wife had died
daring his absence, nil ober a short interval de-
voted to the . formalities of mourning, lie
united his destinies with another and highly amia-
ble ',icily. The second season his wife accompa-
nied him on his annual voyage up the Missouri, to
his trading-holm, the abode of his squaw.
Previously to his arrival, however, he dispatched
■ messenger to his dependants at the trading house,
directing then to prevent his squaw from appearing
in the presence of his wife. She was accordingly
sent off to the village of_ her nation, a distance of
sixty or seventy miler. But she could not long re-
main there, and soon returned with her little boy on
her back, and accompanied by rnme of her friend.,
she encamped near her husband's residence. She
sent her son to the trader, who treated him affec-
Aonately. On the succeeding day the trader sent
for his squaw, and utter making her some firearms
he directed her to accompany her friends who were
then on 61;4 rimy to their hunting grounds.
She departed without a murmur, as it is not un-
usual nit!) the 0111HWillW11 to send off one of their
wives, on some occasions, while they remain with the
favourite one.

About two months afterwards the trader recalled
her. Overjoyed with what she supposed to be her
good fortune, she lost no time in presenting herself
before the husband whom she tenderly loved; but
g►eat was her disappointment when her husband
demanded the surrender of the child, and re-
nounced fur the future any association with herself,
directing her return to her people, and to provide
for her futute well-being to any way she might
choose.

Ova rpowered by her feelings on this demand and
repudiation, she ran from the house, and finding a
peringue on the river, she paddled over to the op•
posite side, and instle her escape ante the forest
with her child. The uight was cold, and attended
with a Fell of snow and hail. Reflecting upon he►
disconsolate condition, she resolved to return again
in the morning, and with the feelings of a wife and
mother, to plead her cause before the arbiter of
her fate, and endeavour to mitigate the cruel sen-
tence.

Agreeably to this determination, she once more
approached him, upon whom she bad claims para-
mount to those of any other individual. " Here is
our child," s■id she. " I do not question your
fondness for him, but he it still more dear to me.
You Pay you will keep him for yourself, •nd drive
me fir from you. But no, I will remain with him;
I can And some bole or owner into which I may
creep, in order t• be year him, and sometimes to
see him. II you will not give me food I will never-
theless remain until I starve before your eyes."
The trader then offered her • considerable
present, desiring her at the same time to go sod
leave the child. But she said, 44 Is my child • dog
that I should sell him for merchandise ? You can-
not drive me away; you rimy bent me, it is true,
and otherwise abuse me, but I will still remain.
When you married me you promised to use me
kindly as long as I should be faithful to you ;
that I have been so no one can deny. Ours was
nut s marriage contracted fur a season. it was to
terminate only with our lives. I was then a yo•ug
girl, and might have been united loan Omawhaw
chief, but I am an old woolen, having had two chil-
&en, and what Oinawhaw will regard me ? Is hot
my tight paramount to that of your other wife ;
she had heard of me before you possessed her. It
is true her akin is whiter than mine, but her
heart cannot be more pure towards you, nor her
fidelity more rigid. Da not take the child from
my breast, I camiut bear to hear it cry, and not be
present to relieve it ; permit me to retain it until
the spring, when it will be stile to eat, and then,
if it mist be so, take it from my sight, that I may
part with it but once." _

Seeing her thus inflexible the trader informed
her that she might remain there if she pleased, but
that the child should be immediately seut down to
the settlement..

The affectionate mother had thus far sustained
herself during the interview with the firmness of
conscious virtue, and successfully resisted the im-
pulse of her feelings. but nature now ridded, the
tears coursed rapidly over her cheeks, and, clasping
her ham's, and bowing her head, she burst Turn an
agony of grief exclaiming, It Why did the Wah-
condo hale me so much as to induce me to put my
child again into your power."
The feelings of the unhappy mother were, how-
ever, soon relieved. Mr. Dougherty communicated
the circumstances of the case to Major O'Fallon,
who immediately and peremptorily ordered the re-
storation of the child to its mother, and infdrmed
the trader that any further attempt to wrest it from
her bliould be at his

NAVAL IN'PALLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH. yovointa 5

Amived the Catherine, Bowed, from the Downs thr South
America ; mad the anther and Pelter, firm Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, NOVIMBeIt 4.
Arrivril she Fermis, Henley, in IS days from Newfound-
land ; the spoke the Salisbury Falmouth packet.

raLstocrrn, MOVIMBRIL 4.
Sailed the Enterprise, Raskin, fur Loudon.
DIAL, MOVIIIIIIR 5.
Cane down from the River last night mid sailed to-day
Its Wrstbrouk, Hall, fur Jamaica ; Williams Harris, Harris,
fur ditto; Active, Patirro,a, for St. Vioceat's ; Esther, Lao.
tiger, for Sierra Unser ; William Maaniag, Smith, fur Si.
Kon's ; Sir Charles M.Carthy, for Siam Leone ;
Thalia, Shied, for Jamaica; rehire Repeat, Taylor, for To-
bac° ; Caledonia, Bruno, fur Giese& ; and Elko, Tifton,
fur Madeira mad Honolulu'.

The Sistlra, fro. 11 h to Loudon. is lost •n Frying.
pen Shook; crew saved.

A great many home, beasts, and 'sheep, were at
Grantham fair on Saturday teinuight, and many
Writ' sold, taut at prices ruinous to the graziers.