New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-26

The first number OF this work, the appearance
OF which we noticed yesterday, is rich IN power
fully-written and thrillingly interesting matter
worthy of being transpanted to our columns
To-day, however, we will content ourselves with
the following tale, which conveys more graphic
picture of life in the Desert than we know where
to look for elsewhere.
ATALE OF THE PLAINS OF ERRuR.
Aylia WAS The comelIest OF the dark eyed daugh
tiers of the desert Sixteen tropical summers had
already rpened form modelled in that exquisite
nerfection winch Nature is wont TO hesIow upon
her widest works, and the native symmetry nj
the sylph.llke maid was vet unblemshed by any
of those barbarous Improvements wherein her na-
ton delight. Her sparkling eye. iringed with
long silken lashcs, In bri,liancy eclpsed the pei
pazel that ever bounded hy her SIDE; and III.
graceful gambois of the sportive lawn would seem
to have been INSPIRED by the fairy ioos.ep of lts
blooming mistress. LuXurlant hair tell IN e-llke
tress.s over her ebon shoulders Teeth OF IVORY
wilderness were revealed by radiant smile lha,
ever played over her animated features; and few
indeed of her virgin charms yelled under
the folds of the slender drapery that belongs TO
the Bedouin shepherdess
The maid tended her fathers fiocks in the vale
of Errur, which forms constant scene OF preds
tory Inclusion on the part Of the ruthless savagos
that hover round the border. When least en-
pected, the Gala war-hawks of the adlacen,
mountains were wont 10 stOop from their rocky
Businesses, and to sweep away the riches OF the
Woema. The treacherous Eesah. although ready
to extend the hand which should have denoted
friendship, was nothing 10th TO the appropra-
ton of other mems chaltes; and throughout all
the nomade Adel hordes. whose tents were erect
ed during the more sultry months, the feud and
the desultory skirmish favored the nroads Of the
foe Among the surrounding clans, even her
own tribe was not notorious for It's honesty, and
BY frequent dcpredatons abroad, it invited the
foray of reprisal. Thus the braw and the mortal
encounter would follow the stiffness of indolent
existence with rapidly not less startling than
frequent, and none knew what the next hour
might bring forth
But fear had no place in the breast of the daueh
ter Of old Ali. Nursed in the lap OF strife, the
Bedouin blood of her rowing sure coursed through
her young veins, and she pursued her Arcadidn
occupation beneath the spreading boughs of the
venerable acacia, chanting 10 her gael the wild
ditty that revealed the thraidom oi her heart or
listening TO the beat OF her black faced lambs
from the Heiaz. Often had the shnil war-whoop
rung Though the wlld valley, ana The rush OF the
mons, arrested her plalnlive song, buI only lately
had 1t caused her 10 spring 10 her feet with DO
som throbbng aucibiy; and now she would sigh
as she sank again upon the smooth bank that
formed her favorlte seat. for the swain for whom
her soft eyes had been strained across the flicker
ing desert was not among tic number Of those
that had swept past, and she knew not why nor
whittier he had gone
Many were the ardent sui,ors who had wooed
the hand of the blooming Aylla and often.times
had she been sought from her avarlcious father,
who viewed the suit expanding attractions "i his
daughter certain source at increase 10 his Ill
gotten and doIzed wealth. None, however. had
yet been able tn produce the pncc SC, upon the
1amsel's charms, neither had any possessed au
advocate in her eoquercc. Her heart had al.
ready been tacitly rehnqulshed, but her hand she
knew to Dc IN the gut ol her SIRE and therefore no;
her own to bestow.
Ambeesa it was who had silently gained this
ascendency over the green affections of the maid.
The mich goats OF lripra, his mother, were by
her driven daily to pasture, and his wigwam was
within spears throw Of her own. The twain had
known each other from earliest infancy, for they
came upon the worlds stage in tho sclfssmc
hour. They had Toasted and they had played
together as children; aud now that their youn,
hearts had become en,wned, it WAS his wont To
accompany the nymph into the vale, where they
would hold converse the livelong day The vapid
language of the savage admits of but liInitcd
embodiment of the softer passions but the SIM
pie courtship of the uncultivated was ably sus-
tanned. AyIia felt the force OF her charms when
she saw the warro. grasp the spear and the
shield, without which no Bedouin ever crosses
the threshold OF his cabn-in order that he mig h,
chase the fawn that she had coveted or when nc
drew water from the well in her gourd, 10 rep!eu-
ish again and again the oxhide that formed
drinking trough Tor her thirsty flock. And Am.
beesa felt himself amply rewarded, when the
slender fingers of the blooming girl dcckcd his
hair with the aromatic HERDS thai she had pucked
in the wild meadow, Or she counted over The
ewes that they were shortly 10 possess in cont
mon.
Ambeesa was ever in the foremost rank when
the spear was thrown over the shoulder of the
brave and. successful in every foray, nc had won