Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-11-04

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met with any interruption or heard the least noise IN
the passages. The thick shruhbery around them and
the grateful perfume of dewy flowers, informed mem
that they in the garden of the Pacha's palace
The lady still hurried on, through an uncovered
walk, until they came 10 door in the wall.
She now. for the first time, spoke
"You are the first that issued forth from this
quarter, save the doomed 10 meet their death.
vessel bound for Jafia, lies waiting for You at
Bulac,~ at the end of the French per. Your lives
hang as by hair, till you on board and Carlo
ia far behind Farewell remember the Jewess,
Naomi
Wingate, in whose breast the low musical tones
Of that voice thrilled like the strains oil an iEotan
harp upon the senses Of wanderei in strange land,
turned 10 make reply, but the port c'osed-she
was gone He fingered there, as # entranced, ill
Roderick who cared not second time 10 breathe
the air of dungeon, by absolute force dragged him
away and conducted him TO the vessel which their
delverer had named.
They were expected and no sooner had hey set
foot on board Than The vessel was underway. She
was trim craft of small dimensions. The wind
was couple of points free, and with every sail set
she soon cleared the river and was darling along
the waves of the Mediterranean, with the speed OF
the antelope.
"Now let them overhaul us if they can p sid
the captain. rubbing his hands.
"Who employed you in this affair" demanded
Wingate.
"You should know that better than l." replied
the old man, suiprized at the question, but il you
do not there must be some urgent reason why, aud
shall drop the subject. Discretion Ia J3wei OF
price-it has earned me many gold beyzant!
Wingate found all his attempts TO gam 1niorma-
ton it'll regard to The Jew. Intellectual. Tho sum
of the information obtained from the captain after
all his pumping was that the owner Of The craft bad
been employed TO tran port them IN Jaia, and that
.ha. -, J,,,, sta
The next evening at sundown. they arrived at
their destined port, and Wingate, wearying OF the
squallidness and poverty of the town of Jafa, bred
a party of Arabs 10 conduct him 10 the ruins OF Pal
myra Once more mounted on feet Arabian, and
bounding along the plains of Syria, he so far forgot
the dark eyed Jewess to exhibit portion OF his
naturally exuberant spirits. The route which they
pursued gradually became desert aud solitary, con-
ss,ng of barren hills and rocks, parched levels and
wastes of arid sand here and there interspersed with
clumps of wild figs or sycamore trees, and in the
fierce ardor of the summer sun, the streams were
dried up, or ifihey continued 10 flow. their stag
nant aspect any thing but tempting even to Inc
thirsty traveller.
Towards the evening of the second day, they
came in sight of the far stretching silent RUNS oil
PALMYRA. Al their approach troop o. Jarka's
started up from behind fallen column, and gallop-
ed away among The surrounding rocks and stunted
underground.
The Arabs soon set about preparing supper; and
after having pariaken Of the frugal rePas, Nngaie
wandered away TO commune with hiinseli IN ule
solitude. The evening shades had fallen-the
moon was aloft in the heavens, round and bright
The far waste was streaked with the shadows OF
the crumbne fabrics. Temple after temple, colon
nde after coonade. pillar after pillars stretching
away in the dim distance, told the magn1hcence thai
once characterized the place. Where now We're
the vast rnultitudes that whom thronged lis gates
where the gay Jewellers that sat long at the flowing
board, and met nightly 10 minge strong drinks
where tho frail but beauieous beings whose bland,
ishments whled away the tedious hours ot the royal
princes and disspated mobiles ? where the pfanclns
steeds and gay equpaGes. and swift ohariotS, thal
..raged in the streets and josed ore against anoiher
in the broad way'' where the thousands OF wretch
ed slaves, that wore ont the prime OF lie IN heaplha
nm these monuments Of the vain mans VANITY
Aces since pulyerized by the hand Of Time mo
dnet-the qunlessence Of the sovereign, the slco-
nhant. and the slave. perchance. blowing about IN
The dnst that the wind whirs up from the RUNS. or
.nrinunr in the surted vegetation mat Struggles Tor
life AGAINST the fiery beams Of the desert sun-and
4heir works are fast following them. How strange
The contrast The song Of the voupuops courteSan
s chanped for the boot of the owl IA he sits III 'ne
shadow of the crumbling wall. The steaiihy step
of the iackal has taken the place o!the roar Of
,ranplng rnyrads-
"And happily in the palaces Of KINGS,
Some gaunt hyena laughing aione;"
10 The only Representatives of the wassai Of the gay
and dsspated r.,
Winea,e continued to saunter on I'll he tonno
himself opposite vast pile, whose mighty coiunh''
towering in the moonlight, and exquisite archlec-
,ure. drove every other thought from h's mind
The better to examine the ruin be kept moving to
and fro, until he got within the area OF the walls.
a slight rus,lins caused hun to turn about, and he
found himself opposite the muzzles OF two long
Turkish pis.ols whose butts were grasped oy one
of the most savage looking beings his eyes had ever
rested on A party Of six or eight worthless, male and
female in disguises equally grotesque and uncouth,
stood ut a little distance looking as though they had
been interrupted most Unexpectedly in their evening
meal Wingate leaped aside, and cold sweat be-
gan to steal from his pores.
,sWhat seek you here 2" demanded his opponent,
In a voice that sounded like The growing OF grz-
ely bear.
,My object in coming was merely to survey the
ruins,'' was the reply.
.sIf YOU seek your own ruin. you have come 10
.the likeest place in the world TO find II =
Gas 10 that, am not particularly emu ous TO be
rlassed with the far-famed remains Of ladmar re-
piled Wingate, assuming composed tone. well
knowing the effec, that bravado will sometimes have
,unon ruffian "Besides, my ruin might involve
thai of all these bon comar11es here, winch would
be repurnant to my feelinga, utterly"
Here one Of the emales sprang forward. "Hold'
father for the love of God hold exclaimed sne'
''lt is he-i is my preserver
The old man dropped the muzzles OF his weapons
and eyed Wingate closely
Gala mad