New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-09

Will the reader bear US company on long
journey We must change the scene for .one
very different, leaving the crumbling cliff, with
its lone house and stretching sea view, far away,
and plunging into the tangled thickets Of an In.
dian vale. Shaddocks, Expresses, and banians,
clothed the hillside glittering in every variety
of green, In the distance, bathed in rainbow
hues, the snowy nlounta-peaks and sunset
clouds were richly blended ;and, in dark relief
against the purple, geld. and crimson in the
sky, lowered q gigantic pile Of Moorish masonry,
the mausoleun of forgotten kings. Minarets,
cupolas, tounts, and pillars of marbles and gran
lite, We're streWn around under the shade Of
palms and spomegranates. IL was a scene Of
strange desolation. but not of solitude; for q
traveller, with the numerous retinue usual in
India. had halted tor the night amongst the
ruins, and pitched his tents between two winged
figures OF colossal size. The greater number Of
the party were natiyes--the grooms, elephant
drivers and coolies. that make up a cavaleade
in the East /, but their master was an English :
man, q tail, swart man. with eyes of the hue
and brilliancy of flaming birthstone He had
strolled away from his servants, and stood
musing before an arch of exquisite workman
ship, evidently of Hndeo architecture, its en-
tablature sculptured over with odd figures, re- :
presenting the mythical warfare Of the eagle
borne silva with the rebel Datyas But the
travellers ponderings were not long undisturbed;
for, in d few moments. a fantastic figure, with
ef-locks, and wrapped in a Cashmere shawl,
stood before HIM = She muttered a request for
aims. He turned. away to avoid her impor-
tunity. But the Zingara was not SO easily put
off; she followed him querulously, asking 10 tell
his fortune, and mnging hundred entreaties,
| threats, and prayers IN sentences from assmany
tongues. He threw. her money II but by this
time averal men oftthe gipsy gang had issued
from the sepulehre where they dwelt, and
gathered round him--so strange in habit, and
50 weird in gesture, that they might have s,lg-
gested to painter many an attitude fit for the
demon haunted mem Of Gadara. whose dwelling
was amidst the aarksome tombs. But listen
" hat was it in their babble that could fright
him So What was it that made him press his
brow, and hearken to the eroakilgs of that beg
gar brood, as though their words were oraeles
This rhyme, shouted in shrill clear tones above
the songs of reyel from the camp, above the loud
petitions Of the crowd, above the howlings of the
tawny iaekal: sr' ~
Say, shall rose of shiras's plain, ''''='- 's-
Tended with what care soever, ~
Join its parent stem again ~ s. .H4
Never. ... ....
But if thy pearl, Q, blae-eyea stranger
Heir OF hope aud promise blghted,
Cleaye to the rock in spite OF danger, .tFH
Motherapd child shall be united .s Il. +,
The moon arose behind the Aioslem dome, but
no shadows moved amongst its ruins, for those
wild words were full of meaning, deep and
ominous. to Gerard fredale; and with all haste
he bade his servants change their course at
once, and speed 10 the next seaport. Fl
It had been . dreary autumn day, ushered in
by strong breeze from sea, which hourly in
creased, until, while darkness was not near by
an hour Or two, it blew perfect hurricane. A
driving mist, which had saturated everything
all day, cleared off. Tho visitors and inha bi-
tstnts of II small watering place at ahe foot of
Rhudglaih Cliffs, and every one that could, had
come cut upon the sea walk to look at the noun
tainous waves. which, after breaking furiously
over reef of sunken rocks, spent themselves
On the beach in quickly reiterated succession
OF stunning reports, which, at q little distance
inland, sounded like. continuous roar. The
fishermen aud boatmen, after dragging every,
thing as far out of harms way as possible, were
collected in groups, and, scarcely speaking in
more than monosy yllables, looked gloomily on.
The terrible grandeur of the scene had equal
attractions for all grades; so delicate ladies
staggered and struggled in the blast, as boldly
| as stalwart sailors, Amongst these was one in
whom we are more particularly concerned She
was a young girl, perhaps about seven years
| old, standing on raised stone platform which
| formed one end of the heaeh-WaK. Her full,
| dark eyes were looking out to sea they neither
dimnaed nor did the dark 7tr;nged lids quiyer in
| the fierce gust. Her little bonnet Maa blown
backwards, discovering hair strangely dafk teg
Il etill's ba'bw, twas slsiii replaced hD@eser.
with the mingled ,sf sid Htayiiifssss u u astfp
ht a.sl,ff. Es Sita isy Wstl, lEy s,,,.ai,r, .i,