The Arkansas advocate., 1831-01-12

 Iifindostan so splendid as that celebrated annual. Fly ill honor of Yishnuinthe Province over which the rajah governed. The gardens on the banks Iof the Juna were splendidly decorated for tie occasion. and at noon were filled by the crowIs ot persons. all eager in their variens sitaatie either to sec eaor to seen; pay due reverence | to Vishnu, or to be duly reverenced. Kettle drums sounded, golden armour gliste.s- ed, downy feathers waved in costly turbans; cay aliers bearing silver battle axes, rode proudly O. their milk white steeds, and prneeIy ladies borne D glittering palankeens on the backs of Ele- ,hauts.
 Ada was there, pale and sad her stolen, r,ys- ferous interview with her unknown lover, was so recent, that clay onhcr rose colour cushions, famed by her tavorite sistse, without taking the trouble to draw aside the amber curtains of her litter, to look upon the festivities which surround led her.
 Towards evening the gardens were illuninals led with thousands of many coloured lamps; she raised herself and looked around her, but glan- cing over bright vistas and radiant bowers her Ieyes rested on a wide spreading tree beneath whose overshadowing branches a comparatively dark space remained. She there saw the form. of her unknown lover; he was leaning agaas a tree, with his eyes fixed upon her; she. told her slave with assumed leyity, that she. |thattree, clone to gather them, and desiring her ..s asai return, sit. lasteied beneath tine canopy formed by It's bougils.
 selim was indeed there.
 $ peak not, sine earnestly whispered, must aot stay for an instant-I dare not listen to you, put mark my worsis, and if you love me, obey T shall appear to doubt both when you hear my re |quest.'
 Speak lady, will obey you,' said the Moof sso,' whispered Ada, sbuy the swiftest of : lrabian steeds, ride him across von plain thret il the evening; and every time you ride hin swim the j unaa on his back. is that all?' said Selim; it shall be done.' atisall, replied Ada, sto prove your love you twill readily doit, but to prove your constancy. | or rather ensure your safety it must be dohf (three times every day for the space ofonc year. "A yearp
 sYes, and at the expiration of the year, at this festival, on this very day. if neither courage nor iconstancy have been wanting, meet me again this spot. can wait for no reply--bless you. lbless you.
 l Ada. with few leaves of the tree in hel 1 trembling hand hastened back to her palankeen, laad Selim again alone, gazed from his shadow hiding place on the gay festival, in which hls leyes behcld one form alone. How brief seem the retrospect of one year of happiness! Hos sad, how interminable seems the same space q lime in anticipation, when we know at its close Isome long looked for bliss will be obtained, some cherished hope realized!
 1 Selim bought steed, the whitest and the Iswiftest of the province, and he soon loved T dearly, for it seemed to be aliying link connect ling him with Ada.
 I He daily three times traversed the alley, and ttfrice he iorded the deep and foaming rlyer; ne lis lie from her but if his eyes did not deceive him, he occasion |ally saw a female form on the summit of her fa- Ether's tower, and snow white scarf was some times waved as he speeded rapidly through the 1valley.
 To Ada the year passed, slowly, anxious; of lten did she repent of her injunction to the Moor, when the sky was dark and stormy, and when the torrents from the mountains had rendered tthe Junna in1petuous and dangerous. Then on taer knees on the Rstial tower, sie would watch l for her lover, drcading at one moment, lest fear Eshoud make him abandon both her and the en- iterprise, then praying that he might indeed for Isake both rather than encounter the teFrors of the foan,ng flood! Soon she saw him speeding from the dark forest; he plunged fearlessiy into til, river; le buifrted iti't iii' waves he gained the opposite shore; again and again she saw him Ibrave the difficulty, again he conquered t, and lagain it was to be encountered. At length line annual festival arrived, the gardens were '- di,rieS v: garlands, and resounded with mu-
 sic and gladness; once more, too, Selim stood be- meath the shadow of the wide spreading tree. 1 lie saw crowds assembl le, but he needed them hot: he heard the crush of synbals, and the meas iured beat of the kettle drum. inc tajitif passed ear him, witEi his officers and armed attendants, Ia,d these were followed by troopof damsels: