Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-01
The Arabian Horse.

A most moving incident, in illustration Of
the extraordinary strength as well as attach
ment of the Arab horses, is given by Lamar
tine in his beautiful Travels IN the East:
IAN Arab chief, with his tribe, had attack
ed, in the night, a caravan of Dama's, and
plundered it; when loaded with their spoil,
however, the robbers were overtaken on their
return by some horseman of the Pacha of
Acre, who killed several, and bound the re-
mainder with cords. In this state of bond
age they brought one of The prisoners, named
Abou ell Marck, to Acre, and laid him, bound
hand and foot, wounded as he was, at the en-
trance to their tent. As they slept during
the night, the Arab, kept awake by the pain
of his wounds, heard his horses neigh at a
distance, and being DESTROYS to stroke, for the
last time, the companion of his life, he drag
ged himself, bound as he was, to the horse,
which was picketed at "a little distance
: Poor FRIEND said he, what will you do
among the Turks! You will be shut up UNI
der the roof Of a khan, with the horses of a
pacha or an aga no longer will the woman
and children of the tent bring you barley,
camel's milk, or DoURRA, in the hollow of
their hand no longer will you gallop free as
the wind of Egypt in the desert; no longer
will you cleave with your bosom the water
of the Jordan, which cools your sides, as pure
as the foam of your lips. If | am to be a
slave at least may you go free. Go-return
to our tent which you know so well tell my
wife that Abou ell Marck will return no more /:
but put your head still into the folds of the
tent, lick the hands Of my beloved children
With these words, as his hands were tied,
he united with his teeth the letters which
held the courser bound, and set him at liber-
ty but the noble animal, on recovering its
freedom, instead of bounding away TO the de-
sert, bent its head over its master, and, see
ing him in letters on the ground, took his
clothes gently in his teeth, lifted him up and
set oil at full speed towards home. Without
ever resting, he made straight for the distant
but well-known tent in the mountains of
Arabia. He arrived in safety, and laid his
master down at the feet of his wife and chill
dren, and Immediately dropped down dead
with fatigue. The whole tribe mourned
him the poets celebrated his fidelity, and
his name is still constantly in the mouths OF
the Arabs of Jericho. "-Lamartine, Voyage
dams II Orient, vi. 236, Edin. 1876.
This beautiful anecdote paints the manners
and the horses of Arabia better than a thou
sand volumes. 1t is unnecessary to say, af.
W as 'hd' tHO -hiduS arr anu ever Will ne,
the first horsemen, and have the finest race
of horses in the world.
TURNING SCRIPTURE To Coon ACCOUNT
1t is said that Bishop Doane, of New Jersey,
is strongly opposed to Temperance, and his
sideboard and tables are loaded with gin,
brandy, wine, &c. A short time since, Rev.
Mr.. Perkins, of the order of the "Sons," di.
ned with the Bishop, who, pouring out a
glass of wine, desired the reverend gentle.
man to drink with him, whereupon he repli.
ed
Cant do it, Bishop, Wine is a mock.
Take a glass of brandy, them"
Cant do it, Bishop, strong drink is ra.
ging.'"
By this time the Bishop, becoming some.
what FESTIVE and excited, remarked to Mr..
Perkins,
you'll pass the decanter to the gentleman
next to you.
mo, Bishop, | can't do that: two unto
him that putteth the bottle to his neighbour
What was the peculiar mental condition Of
moral state of the Bishop, at this stage of the
proceedings, our informant did not state.