The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-12-27
TALE pP sCnElERIzlDR.
BY EDGAR i. POE, ESQ.

Truth y stranger than actioa.-Ok saviss.
Asevery thing connected with the late
EDGAR A. PoE, receives additional interest
BY the recent departure from The stage d
action Of that singular man, perhaps we
could not make our readers ! moro accept.
able present than BY publishing ono 81 III.
unique and entirely Characteristic produc-
tons. But, in fact, we have scarcely for.
given him tho hoax passed OF upon Us, in
common with many others, about three
yesn since, in bis ssveritable" history Of
the dead man resurrected through the eli
potent influence of Mesmcrism--but let
that pass.
The following srticls has been 10 our
possession for some time, and We now
abridge It to bring il within our limits
We premise then BY saying that Mr.. Poe
protested 70 have obtained the following
tale from tho zellwenor Isitsoornot, a We
~ rare oriental work, whose veracity, from
its title we should Judge to be questionable.
10 turning over the pages Of this remarka-
BILE work Nj. Poo was very much astonish-
ed Every qui.e) to discover the ignorance
that rests upon the literary world 10 res
poet to the fate of.he grand vizier's daugh-
ter, Scheherazade, as depicted 10 the cara
bian Nights"
It will be remembered, in the usual YER
sion Of those tales, certain monarch, hav-
ing good cause to be jealous Of his queen,
not only puts her 10 death, but makes .
vow BY his beard and the prophet, to es-
pousc each night the most beautiful maiden
in his dominions and bowstring her in the
morning. thing but little more pleasant
than hanging, only triae more genteel.
The grand sizer's daughter, Scbeherazade
by name, conceives the idea Of removing
this tax upon the most beautiful Of her sex
after the king had for many years scru-
pulously cxacted it-snd makes known to
her father her intention Of marrying the
king. After much persuasion the fond par
ent yields and the fair heroine retires "a
bed with her doting husband-the polite
damsel having taken the precaution to
place her sister in bed within conversa-
,iopal distance. Just before cockcrowing,
she takes care to awaken the good king,
her husband and to entrance him, until too
late for bowstringing, with . beautiful tale
Of ! blue rat and pink horse; and % Sche-
herazade, with the tact peculiar to her sex,
mansges to defer the bowstringing until
the THOUSAND and secondth night, when she
begins to retail . tale told . caliph by one
Sinbad. who being on IN island sees .
strange beast approaching through the wa
ter, on top Of which are stranger animals
resembling men. Afffiehsed, Sinbad took
to his heels but was soon overhauled BY the
man-animals, brought back and duly install
ed on the back Of the strange beast. The
narrative then proceeds thus:-ED. DAv-
ExPoRr GAZETTE.
"Sinbad went on in this manner, with
his narrative to tho caIiph-'I thanked The
man-animal for ito kindness, and soon
found myself very much at home on the
beast, which swan Ut prodigious rste
through the ocean; although the surface Of
the latter is, in that part Of the world, by nd
means fiat, but round like q pomegranate,
40 that we went--so 10 say--either up hill
or down hill all the time
'That, think, was very singular inter
rupted the king. 81.
Nevertheless, il is quito true,' replied
Scheherazadc.
4 have my doubts,' rejoined the king;
but, pray, be 50 good a. to go on with the
story
Il will,' said the queen. The beast,
continued Sinbad 10 the cslipb, Swan, %
have related, up hill and down hill, until 81
length, we arrived at an island, mnny hum
dred miles 10 circumference, but which,
nevertheless, had been built in the middle
OF the sca by colony OF IttIo tnIngs HAe
caterpillar : ss1a''h
HUM said the.king.
Leaving this island said Siobad-(fol
Scheherazade, it must be understood, took
no notice Of her husbands ill-ma nnerd ejac-
misunderstanding this island, we came "a
another where the forests were ofsolid stone.
and 90 hard that they shivered to pieces
the finest-tempered axes with which VIC en-
deavored to cut them down. I
sThe coraltes. iss@ f.s
| +sOne of the most remark able natural curiosi-
ties Of Texas is petriied forest, near the head
OF Pasigno river. 1t consists Of several hundred
trees, in an erect position, all turned to Stone
Some trees now growing are partly petrified.-
This is startling fact Tor natural philosophers
and must cause Il EN- 10 modify the existing the