Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-05-09

hours past midnight; aud who, on passing
across the deep bay near the Castle of En-
rope, was startled by perceiying two caiqles
hearing lights, lying npon their oars in The
centre Of tho stream. HIS curiosity being
excited, he desired his boatman to pull To-
wards them, when, at the instant he came
alongside, he discovered that they were filled
with police officers; aud at the same mo-
ment, female shrouded in yaslmac, anc
with the mouth Of sack, into which hcl
whole body had heen thrust, tied about hel
throat, was lifted in the arms Of two mcr
from the bottom of the furthest caique and
flung into the deep waters of the bay Al
no weight had been suspended TO the sack
the miserable woman almost Instantly re.
appeared upon the surface, when she was
beaten down by the oars of the boltmen
and this ruthless anderevoltng ceremony
was repeated several times ere the body f.
naliy sunk.
! My friend, heart-sick at the spectacle to
which he had so Unexpectedly become a
witness, demlnded of the principal officer,
by whom he had been instantly recognized
the crime of the wretehed victim who had
Just persisted; and learned that she was the
wife of jannissary whom the sultan had
caused to be strangled some weeks prcyi-
ously; and who in her anguish at the fate
Of her husband, had since rashly permitted
herself TO speak in terms of hatred aud dis
gust of the government by whose agency
she had been widowed
On that fatal smorning she had paid the
price of her indiscreton.
The ministers of death waited yet a
while to convince themselves that the body
would not reappear; and my friend fingered
/ from feeling which he could not explain
evcnio himself The dawn was just break
ing in the sky, and streaks Of faint yellow
were traced above The crests of the dark
mountains of the FAsian coast One long
ray Of light touched the summit of the tall
expresses above the graveyard of lsari, and
revealed the eastilated outline Of the topmost
tower of the ianssaries' prison, and all
around looked so calm and peaceful, that he
could scarcely persuade himself that he had
Just looked on earth when the deep voices
OF the men in caiqucs behind him, as they
once more plunged their oars into the stream
am. prepared to depart, aroused him from
his reyer,c; and, motioning TO his boatmen
to proceed, he found himself ere long on
the terrace of his own palace.
While | am on the subject Of executions
| may as well relate San DER true tale,
communicated to me by the same individual
Nearly four years have elapsed since the
occurrence took place, but tits so character
istic Of Turkish manners that it will not be
misplaced here.
An eminent merchant at Stamboul, ex-
tremely wealthy, and considerably past the
middle age, became the husband of very
young and lovely woman. AS Turkish fc-
males never see the individuals whom they
marry previously to the ceremony, but are
chosen by some matronly relation of the per-
son, who finds it expedient to bestow him
self IN wife, and who, having seen and
approved the lady, arranges all preiminarles
with Der parents; so il may well be ina
gincd that the bride is frequently far from
congntulating herself on her change Of po-
sition; and such, as it would appear from
the result, was the case with the young wife
10 which ! have just referred, and who was
destined to become the heroine. of fright
! fol tragedy.
Two years passed over Fatima Hanoun,
and she became the neither of a son; but
Der heart was not with its father, and, un-
happily for the weak victim of passion and
disappointment, it had found res.ing-place
elsewhere.
The merchants house was situated near
mosque, from the gallery of whose nina
ret all the windows of the harem were over
looked. The sun was setting on glorious
summer evening, when the imam ascendcd
to his gallery, to utter the shrill cry Of the
muezzin which summons the faithful to pray
er. Ere he commenced the Invocation, he
CHANGED to glance downwards, and he start.
ed as he beheId man clinging to a shaw
which had been flung over from above, and
making his way into the harem Of the me-
cham through an open window. Nor wa:
this all, Toy the quick and jealous eye a
once assured him that the delinquent was Z
Greek; that the wife of mussulman hat
stopped to accept the love Of Christian
and he we'll knew that in such case there
was no mercy for the culprit.
The imam who was stern man for one
moment only wavered; and during that mo
ment he raised the ample turban from hi
brow, and suffered the cool evening breeZ'
to breathe lovingly upon his temples; ant
in the next he bent over the gallery ant
spat upon the earth, as he murmurcd to him
self, "'rhe dog of an in6del-May his faith
: er's grave be defiled! May his mother ca
dirr' aud having so testified his contemp
and adherence of the ill.fated lover, b
l0ed bis gaze to the clear-sky, and tn
rigning cry pealed ont.
ola Ala, lila AllalA MahOmed Resor
Allah"
c His duty done the imam descended ii
I dark and narrow stairs of the minaret, an
Il left the mosque, and in another ins,a 1t !
$ had put of his slippers at the entrance
y Tho salemlick and stood before the sofa;