New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-17
eugene Sues new Novel.

Eugene sue new ANOEcls
the WAxpRgryc JEw,' Of which the copyrieh'
has been purchased By the Patis Coashtviimei
for $4,000, 50 that it is to appear originally in
the columns Of that journal, is to be issued in this
Country, both in French and English, By Win.
chester, in advance of its appearance in Europe
MIR. W. having paid some $50 fora transcript
of the manuscript in advance of lis original pub
LEGATION. We have no doubt that this will prove
a profitable enterprise. Some delay has occurred
in the receipt and translation Of the first part,
which was sent to Washington and back; but 1t
will appear (the English yersion-tanslatcd BY
w. HrRpER1) on Friday morning. We are
permitted TO copy the
PROLOGUE. The Two Worlds.
The Polar Ocean binds, with girde fetcr-
nal ice the desert shores OF Siberia, and Of North
Amerca-thosc last limits OF the Two Worlds,
separated by the narrow channel called Behrlng s
Straits.
The month Of September is drawing 20 a close.
The Equinox has brought in It's train darkness
and the Northern whrlwind; nights about to
succeed to u short and gloomy polar day.
The sky, ola dull blue color, tinged with pur
pie, is ieebly Illuminated by The heatless sum-
whose wan disk, barely emerging from the hori-
zon turns pale before the dazzling brilliancy of
the snow, which covers, farther than the eye can
reach, the boundless immensely of the Siberian
steppes.
On the North, this desert s bounded by a coast
hristling with black gigantic rocks; at the foot Of
these Titanic piles, the petrlicd ocean lies en-
chained its motionless waves form ridges Of
mountains, whose blue submits arc lost in the
distance amid snowy haze.
To the East between the two points Of Cape
Oulikiuct on the Eastern side of Siberia, is per-
ccived line of dusky green, upon which huge
white iccbcrgs slowly float along.
These are Behring's Straits
Finally, on the farther side OF the Straits, and
towering above them, rise the granite masses Of
Cape Prince OF Wales the extreme Western bound
ary of North America.
These desoate ATTITUDES form no part Of the
habitable world. The cold is so intense that
stones burst in pieces, trees split asunder, aud
earth cracks, throwing up showers Of icy
spanges.
II would be thought that human being could
withstand the solitude of these regions of eternal
frost and tempest, of famine and of death.
Yet, incredible as ii may seem, traces of foot
steps are TO be perceived upon the snCw, which
remains immaculate in every other direction, as
YOU approach the limits of the two Continents
divided by Behring's Straits.
On the American side, the imprint of the steps,
small and light, shows that woman mas passed
by. She has directed them toward the rock lu'-
ting over the Straits, from which can be percclv-
ed the snowy deserts Of Siberia.
On the Siberian size, the imprint is of larger
and deeper character, giving evidence that man
has passed that way. He has also gone in the
direction of the Straits.
1t would be imagined that this man and Wa.
man, arriving thus f,om opposite directions, al
the extrcmties of the globe, had hoped to catch a
glimpse of each other across this Straight which
pepnrates the Two Worlds.
And what is still more strange, this man and
this woman have travcrsed these solitudcs during
the raging of u trightiu tempest.
Some blackened archtrccs, which had before
been standing in this desert, like crosses GENE
terry, have been torn up by tic storm, splntcred
in pieces, and carried away upon the wings OF the
whirlwind.
This furious tempest which uproots large trees
sh!vers the icy mountains, and hurlS their masses
one against another, with the noise of thuade.-
this furious hurricane these two travellers hat
wlhStood.
They had wi,hstood it, without deviaiing for 9
moment from the lnvariable straight course which
they had pursued. This is percepliblo from thci
measured, straight, and tirn.-set steps.
What are, then, these all-pcwcriul footsteps
which, amid the convulsions--the overthrow o
Natsre, proceed always surely, always calmly, al
ways slowly F?
Be- it chance, or will. or fatality, under the iron
shod solcs of the man, seven p1olrudiug mails
formed the figure OF a cross
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