Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 18, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 8 May 1830 — Page 4

FOR THE PALLADIUM. As lonely by myself 1 walk'd, Viewing1 creation's plan, I mused upon a sinful world, The fallen race of man: I viewed him in his infant state, His mind on folly bent, 1 viewed him in childhood's days, On pleasure's ways intent. I viewed him in the bloom of ynuth, For happiness he sought. Though he posatss'd all India's wealth, Jt cannot her be bought. 1 viewed him in manhood's prime. Aspiring to be wise, llu bosom with smbition fir'd, For noble enterprise. I viewed him in declining age, His locks were bleached white; He ey'd the children of his love. With pleasure and delight, I view' j him in his latest stage Of infancy again, His mind ws fraught with many cares. His limbs were full of pain. I view'd him on a dying bed. His friends stood weeping by; 1 view'd him numbered with the dead, For death hud cloa'd his eye. I view'd him carried to the tomb, (Tae course of nature's plan;) I view'd him low laid in the dust, This is the end of man O! man thy days on earth are short, No mwrtal power can sve; Thrn let us seek true happiness, That lit a beyond the grave. E. C. ADDRESS TO A HUSBAND. By Miss Porter. O jrrant my pryrr, and let roe go, Thy toils to share, thy path to smooth; 2a there a want, a wish, a woe, Which wedded love Can fail to sooth! At morn when sleep still seals thine eyes-, My hand thy temp' ate meal shall spread; At night my smiles shall check thy sighs, And my fond arms support thy head. And if thy vexing car es should dart " Somehsfy word, my zeal to chill; Still this unchanging tender heart, The sacred vow 1 made shall fill.

THE ARABIAN STEED BY THOMAS HAVNES BAYLY. Ada was the daughter of a powerful rajah, who, in the reign of the emperor Akbar, dwelt in a superb palace on the banks of the Jumna. The r;jah wa3 proud of his beautiful child, and loved her, as far as his stern nature was susceptible of such a passion. But the duties of his situation, and his- warlike pursuits, called him frequently from her: and much of the daik-eyed Hindoo's time was spent in dreary solitude amid the garden3 of her father's palace. Beautiful as those gardens were, sparkling with gilded pavilions, the air cooled with silver fountains, and rei dered fragrant by the odours of every rare plant, still this perpetual solitude wearied her, the society of her female attendant? failed to interest her, and as she reclined beneath the pendant branches of a date tree she felt more like a prisoner in a cage, than a princess in the pleasure-garden of her palace. She had dismissed her attendants, and' lay thoughtfully leaning hrr hea-1 upon her hand, when a rustling amid the branches of an orange tree, attracted her attention, and she started to hi'r feet in an instant, with an exclamation of alarm or surprise, a9 6he distinctly saw among the clustering leaves and blossoms the bright tyes and dark glowing features of a man. The branches hastily parted and a young JVIahomedan rushing forward, knelt before her. 'Who art thou?' she exclaimed, mercy, mercy, I am defenceless; spare me V 'Mercy!' replied the Moor, "tis I irmst crave merrj of you I am defenceless, fair lady. 1 am at your feet, and in your power.' 'What brought ou here?' she replied.' 'Know you not the danger?r 'A dinger I have braved too often to heed i for an instant now.' 'Often! what mean youf Daily at this hoar, the hour of your solitary ramble, 1 entered these gardens; daily have 1 lurked behi' d the shrubs that surround your favourite bwer, daily have 1 gazed on you unseen.' For wha purpose?' My purpose? madness --death!' 'Death? tome who never wronged you, who never injured a human beingf 'To you lady no no rot to you. I would not harm you for the world. 'Death to whom, then?' To mjself.' 'Why what brought vou here? Accident, or perhaps idle curiosity first brought me, and 1 looked on you for the firt time; need I sav why daily, a . si r alter 1 had once oeneld you, 1 came again? 'Oh, if you are seen,' cried Ada, nothing can save you from my father's rat;e;you know the barrier, the awful impassible barrier that divides your race liom mine madman, begone!' lhe young Moor, whose lace and form were such as might have been

chosen by a sculptor who wished to represent the perfection of eastern beauty, spoke not, moved not; he continued kneeling before the agitated girl, while his dark brilliant eyes fixed upon her countenance, seemed to read its varying expression, (hat memory might have a store of sweet thoughts to live upon, when the reality should no longer stand stand before him. Ada could not bear the earnest gaze of those fondest eyes; where was her anger, her indignation at the intrusion of the stranger? gone! She called not for her attendants; no, she trembled lest they should come. 'I await my doom,' at length muttered the intruder. I scorn to fly; my dream of secret love is over; my stolen watchings, so dear, though so hopeless,

are at end; you will call your father's guards, and 1 shall die.1 'No, no you shall not die not if Ada can save you; I will not call them, no 1 dread their coming.' ' 1 hen you forgive my boldness? 'Yes only begone ?ave yourself.' 'bhall we meet again?7 'Never P 'Then I will stay and die; better to die here, at your command, in your presence, than to go hence and linger out a life of hopeless love, never beholding you again.' Poor Ada had never been addressed before in love's own language. Her hand had been sought by princes and nobles, who, secure in laer father's sanction, had addressed her in terms of admiration, but whose looks, and accents were cold andspiritless,when compared with the ardor of the youthful lover who knelt before her. 'For my sake, if not for your own, go,' fhe cried. 'Then we may meet again?' Yes, only leave me now, you know not half your peril. To-morrow is the annual festival in honor of Vishnu, I shall be there, and will contrive to speak to you hark!1 She pointed to the orange-trees. A footstep was heard at a distance. The Moor grasped her hand, pressed it to his lips, and was lost among the orange blossoms, just as the chief officer of the rajah entered to inform Ada that her father desired her presence. She cast one anxious glance round her, breathed more freely when she found that her lover lay unsuspected in his fragrant ambush, and followed by her attendant, returned to the Palace. There was no festival in Hindostanso splendid as that celebrated annually in honor of Vi?hnu in the province over which the rajah governed. The gardens on the banks of the Jumna were splendidly decorated for the occasion, and at noon were filled by crowds of persons, all eager in their various situations either to see or to be seen; to pay due reverence to Vishnu, or to be duly reverenced. Kettle drums sounded, golden armour glistened, downy feathers waved in costly turbans; cavaliers bearing silver battle axes, rode proundl) on their milk white steeds, and princely ladies borne in glittering palankeens on the backs of Elephants. Ada was there, pale and sad; her stolen, mysterious interview with her unknown lover, was so recent, so unexpected, so unlikely to end happily, that she lay on her rose colored cushions, fanned by her favourite slave, without taking the trouble to draw aside the amber curtains of litter, to look upon the festivities which surround her. Towards eyening the gardens were illuminated with thousands of many coiourea lamps; sue raised herselt and looked around her, but glancing over hnght vistas and radiaut bowers, her eyes rested on a wide spreading tree beneath whose overshadowing branch es a comparatively dark space remained. She there saw the form of her un known lover; he wa leaning against the tre, with his eyes hxed upon her: she told her slave with assumed levity, that she had vowed to gather a cluster of the blossom? of that tree, alone lo gather them, and desiring her to await her re turn, she hastened beneath the canopy formed by its boughs. Selim was indeed there. 'Speak not,' she earnestly whispered, 4I must not stay for an instant I dare not listen to you but mark my words, and if you love me, obey them. I do not doubt your love, I do not doubt your tonstai cy, but I shall appear to doubt both when vou hear my request.' Speak, lady, I will obey you,' said the Moor, J J 'Go,' whispered Ada, 'buy the swiftest of Arabian steeds, ride across yon plain three times in every day; in the morning, at noon, and in the evening and every time you ride him, swim the Jumna on his back.' Is that all?' said Selim; 'It shall be done.' 'It is all,' replied Ada, to prove your love you will readily do it, but to prove your constancy, or rather ensure our safety, it must be done three times every day for the space of one year.' 'A year!' Yes, and at the expiration of ths

year, at this festival, on this very day, if neither courage nor constancy have been wanting, meet me again on this spot. I can wait for no reply bless you, bless you.' Ada, with a few leaves of the tree in her trembling hand hastened back to her palankeen, and Selim again alone, gazed from his shadowy hiding place on the gay festival, in which his eyes beheld one form alone. How brief seems the retrospect of one year of happiness! How sad, how interminable seems the same space of time in anticipation, when we know at its close some locked for bliss will be obtained, some cherished hope realized!

Slim bought a steed, the whitest and the swiftest of the province, and he goon loved it dearly, for it seemed to be a living link connecting him with Ada. He daily three times traversed the valley, and thrice he forded the deep and foaming river; he saw not his love, he received no token from her; but if his eyes did not deceive him, he occasionally saw a female form on the summit of her father's tower, and a snow white scarf was sometimes waved as he speeded rapidly through the val ley. To Ada the year passed slowly, anxiously; often did she repent cf her injunction to the Moor, when the sky was dark and stormy, and when the torrents from the mountains had rendered the Jumna impetuous and dangerous. Then on her knees on the Rajahs tower, she would vat h for her lover, dreading at one moment, lest fear should make him abandon both her and the enterprise, and then praying that he might indeed forsake both rather than encounter the terrors of that foaming flood! Soon she saw him speeding from the dark forest; he plunged fearlessly into the river: he bufteted with its waves; he gained the. opposite shore; again and again she saw him brave the dilliculty, again he conquered it, and again it was lo be encounter ed. At length the annual festival arrived , the gardens were adorned with garlands, and resounded with music and gladness: once more, too, Selim stood beneath the shadow of the wide spreading tree. He saw crowds assemble, but he heeded them not; he heard the crash of symbals, and the measured beat of the ketile-drum. The Rajah passed near him, with his officers and armed attendants, and these were followed by a troop of damsels; then came Ada the Rajah's d aughter. She was no longer the trembling and bashful girl he had seen at the last festival. Proudly and self possessed she walked the queen of the procession, her form glittered with a kingdom's wealth of diamonds. Sehm's heart sunk within him. 'She is changed, she will think no more of me!' he involuntarily exclaimed. But at that moment her dark e)e glanced towards his hiding-place. She spoke to htr attendants, and the procession paused as she approached i the tree alone, atd atlected to gather some of its leaves. 'Are you faithful?' said she in a low tone, 'nay I wrong you by the question ; I have seen that jou are so; if you have courage9 as well as you have constancy, you are mine, and I am yours hush where is your steed?' Selim held its brsdle rein, 'Then in your hands I place my happiness,' she added ! 'these gems shall be our wealth, and your truth my trust away ! away !' Selim in an instant bore Ada to the back of his Arabian, and ere the Rajah and hia attendants were aware she had quitted the cavalcade swift as the wind he bore het from the gardens. The pursuit wa3 instantaneous, and uttering curses and indignant reproaches, the R ijah and a hundred of his armed followers were soon close at the heels of th fugitives. 'Follow ! follow!' cried the foremost, we gain upon them, we will tear her from the grasp of the Mahomedan. They approach the river's bank! and turbulent as it now is,after the storm of yesterday, they will either perish in its waters, or we shall sitzethemoa its bank.' Still they gained upon them; the space between the pursuers and the pursued became smaller and smaller, and the recapture of Ada seemed certain. When, lo! to the astonishment of those who followed him, Selim's well trained steed plunged into the foaming torrent, battled bravely with its waves, bore his burden scfely through them, and bounding up the opposite bank, continued his flight ! The pursuers stood baffled on the river's bank; their horses having been trained to no such feat as that they had just witnessed, it would have been madness to have plunged amid the eddying whirlpools of the swollen Juuna. Every tale should have its moral. What then will be said of mine, which records the triumph of a disobedient child in a 6ecret, unauthorized attachmeBt! A temporary triumph which so rarely leads to happiness! For this part of my 6tory 1 have no apology to offer; but from this little history ef Se

lim and Ada, this small grain of moral inference may be extracted: Ladies will do well to try the integrity and prove the constancy of their lovers ere they many, and lovers should endure trials and delays with fortitude, and thus prove the unchanging truth of their affect ion. Plate Tax. An order was made in the house of lords in May, 1776, "That the commissioners of his mnjest) excise do write circular letters to all such persons whom they have reason to suspect to have ae, BS aso to lnose wno have not paid regularly the duty on the same.3' In consequence of this order, the accountant-general for household plate sent to the celebrated Jhn Wesley, a copy of the order. John's answer was laconic: "Sir, "I have tzco silver tea-spoons in London and livo at Bristol. This is all the plate which I have at present; and I shall not buy any more while so many round me want bread. I am, Sir, "Your most bumble servant, Jon:: Wesley."

Hit Portland Clock. In the Portland Courier is adve rtised a clock of a new and curious construction. B-side3 keeping correct firm , it will rir g a bell at any stated periods of each da), and Sunday will toll the bell at the hours of church. Might it nol be improved still further, so as to play the organ, set the psalm, name the text, whip out the dogs3 and wake the sleeper?? Cancellation. Papers IViiloio. The first weeping willow in England was planted by Alxnnder Pope, the poet. He1 received a present of tigs from Turkey, and observing a twig in the basket, ready to bu d, he planted it in his garden, aud it so u, became a fine tree. From this st.itk, all the weeping willows in England and America originated. S-lecttd. Advance of Fortune. The present Lord Mayor of London was tornn ily a journeyman printer; b Ux'se grada tions in wealth and ra: k which industry & honesty always beget, he became proprietor of a nev-spapar, and hence through all other advanc es, to the highest cilice in UU native city. London Paper. A Seriovs Charge. O e of the candi dates for Governor in lhe S ate of Rhode Island is Dr. M sser late President of Brown University . One of the Providence papers opposes his election because he milks his ozsn cows and retails a portion of the milk. The editor of the Boston G.izt ite thinks the candidate ought not to be blamed for that, as lhe salary of Governor in Rhode Island is so insignificant, that he must of necessity milk his own cows, if he have any, or da some other small business to ena hie him to support his station with dignity. Coming to the Point. "Madam,5' said an old toper, "have you any water in the house, that you can give a pour mill a drink c beer, though I like cider best, and should like a little whiskey. I very seldom get no cider at all at home; my orchard is very small consisting of only one scattering ires, J Y. Constellation. Among the acts passed by the Massachusetts legislature, is one changing the names of about one hundred and fifty applicants. Nabby is tunu d into Fiances Isbosheth into James Muses, the son cf Medad into Lafayetle. Look to your Fruit Trees. We are requested to inform all persons who feel an interest in preserving their fruit trees, that there is now to be seen on ail the trees, a small web or nest, more than an inch in length, which contains a catterpillar that these nests can now easily be removed and destroyed, but if left till May, the trees will be over run with destructive catterpillars. We hope this brief hint will not be lest. Thirty boys belonging to a boarding school in the vicinity of Roanne, were skating on the Loire a few days since, when the ice gave way, and all were drownedthe next day the master blew out his brains in despair. Cash! Cash! The Subscriber will give $10 PEH MONTH For good laboring bands at Portsmouth on tbs Ohio, 1 15 miles above Cincinnati. A passage up on a steam boat will cost from 51 to 1 50 cts. The work on the Caoal has ju3t commenced, and hsnd3 will find employment at al times. LEMUEL MOSS. February 1S30. 8-Srn tCJr Persons coming per steam boat, an engaging for the season will have have their passage paid, and no charge aae tbereof. i

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