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IKttrarg Iflisttllanjt. COROLINN. A PERSIAN - TALE. CHAPTER V. After a hurried march over the plain, night overtook them, and they encamped near the ruins of Perscpolis. Closely pin ioned and secured as Everington was, he was none the less carefully guarded; and his present situation, added to the prospect before him, did not suffer him to rest. Morning came, and with it the march was resumed; and before noon, Everington found himself fettered, and close within the walls of Sehiras. No sooner had the party, with the fugitives, entered the city, than they were met by a messenger from the prince, who held a short conference with the chief, at the close of which, Everington was taken from the horse, blindfolded, and then, with a guard on each side, marched a considerable distance, when they suddenly halted for a few moments. Soon the harsh and heavy grating of some massive door on its hinges, told Evorington that they were entering some building, though what and where it was he could not tell. When the door closed behind them, the transition from the hum and bustle of the city, to the total and death-like silence around them, spoke plainly of the thickness of the walls with which they were enclosed. After descending a flight of steps, another door opened, and from the hollow reverbera tions of the echoes, it appeared-they were traversing a subterranean passage. Another flight of steps was succeeded by another to be traversed, at the extremity of which the third and last door opened. Everington’s hands were now unbound ; the irons taken from his feet; the door was partly unclosed; and still blindfolded, he was thrust through it, and the door instant ly closed upon him. He tore the turban with which he had been blinded, from his head, but impenetrable darkness met his eye ; and he heard the harsh grating of the keys, as bolt after bolt was turned upon him. “I am buried alive,” said Everington aloud, and he started at the hollow and un earthly sound of his own voice ; he remem bered the accounts he had heard of the dun geons of Schiras, where kingly vengeance immured those victims it did not dare open ly to immolate. He called aloud, but was only answered by echoes gloomy as the dungeons that gave them birth. The chilliness and dampness of the air proved that he was far under ground j and the only thing that gave him hope, was, that once he fancied he felt the winnowing of a bat’s wing, as it flitted around him in the pitchy darkness, and that, he thought, demonstrated the certainty of some communication with the upper air. He moved a few feet and his hand struck against a wall. “I will at least know the extent of my dungeon,’’ said Everington, as with his hand upon the wall, which was covered with mould and dampness, he slowly groped his way along. * * * * How the time passed away he had no means of knowing, but a painful sensation of hunger and thirst —a sickening faintness which attended the least movement —a con fusion ofideas, and debility of body, demon strated that he had breathed a pestilential air, under the influence of which the pow ers of life could not survive. The inclina tion to sleep was excessive, but he dared not indulge it, for his sleeping moments were more dreadful than his waking ODes, and that dread was not wholly owing to the harassing effect of his imagination. Once when he attempted to sleep, he was sudden ly aroused by finding a snake, qold and chilling, endeavoring to force its way’.be neath the clothing of his body, and coiling its folds around his neck. The instant he was motionless, reptiles of various kinds began to gather around him, and, he felt as if they had already marked him for their' prey. How gladly would he have welcomed death ! At last, when hope had fled, when he thought that his feelings had been rendered callous by the intensity of suffering, a slight sound in the subterranean regions of his dungeon aroused him from his lethargy.— Listening with ears which had been render ed acute by misery, he heard voices, and then footsteps in the passage that led to his dungeon. Again he heard the numerous holts withdrawn, and at last—joyful sight! a gleam of light darted through the open ing door, and greeted eyes which had so long been deprived of its exhilarating in fluence. As the door opened a soldier en tered, whose countenance manifested much surprise at finding the prisoner living. “Frank,” said the soldier, “you are sent for j let us first put this turbary over your eyes.” Everington did not refuse, and turban was again taken from his eyeS?%e was standing before the prince, Abbas Mir za, in the hall of justice. The prince did not deign to notice him, but sat with his eyes fixed, apparently, on the magnificent carpet whic*|overed the divan. Near him, sat the cadi®r chief justice of the city, waiting the orders of his superior; and a circle of officers and guards of the prince, completed the list of persons present. In a large mirror which was suspended against the wall, Everington saw his own figure, and was shocked at the change'which had taken place in his appearance—pale and sallow—his eyes hollow and sunken —his countenance ghastly, and his person cover ed with the filth of the dungeon—the whole conspired to prove the pestilential and foul condition of the place in which he had been immured. Everington was roused fromtfte contem plation of the persons by wjfisur rounded, and of his own haggard appeimLnce, by a person whose business it was to act the part of public accuser, and who, kneeling before the prince, said— ‘‘Most just and glorious prince, Abbas Mirza, the prisoner awaits your pleasure and your justice.” ‘•He has had a taste of our justice alrea dy replied the prince, with a nod to the cadi, “let him be brought forward.’’ Everington was then brought forward and placed immediately in front of the divan, and with silence awaited the charge. “brauk,’{ said the cadi, (among the Mo hammedan nations of the East all Europe ans are called Franks,) fixing his eyes firm ly upon Everington, and stroking his long beard with great complacency, “it is not the habit of the children of the sun to punish offenders without giving them a hearing ; we require you, therefore, to answer such questions, as, by order of his highness the prince, will be proposed to you.” Everington remained motionless. “Are you acquainted with Corolinn Her man * “I am/' “What was your motive in endeavoring to carry her off, against her will and wishes ?” “It was to add to mine and her happi ness.’’ “You acknowledge that it was your inten tion to carry her away from the dominions of the prince, which may Allah preserve ! and marry her “I acknowledge it.’’ “It is enough,” said the prince ; “the pre sumptuous infidel stands convicted by his own confession. Proceed to judgment.’’ The cadi then rose, and, after recapitula ting the offence, and mingling his expres sions of regret with praises of the clemency and mercy of the prince, proceeded to con demn him to the punishment of the boat. The punishment of the boat was one which was reserved for those guilty of of fences against the king; although it was allowed in extraordinary cases, or where by torture government wished to extort con fession. It was called the punishment of 4he boat, from the shape of the engine by which the torture was accomplished. This resembled two small boats laid together, with holes cut at each end, in one of which was placed his head and the other his feet. The miserable wretch condemned to the boat, was, with his hands and feet securely pinioned, laid on his back in the machine, his feet placed in the notices made to receive them, and then the upper part, which at those places was nipely fitted, so as to prevent the least movenfent, was put on and securely fastened down. All that could now be seen was the head and the feet; the former supported by the projection of the machine, the face upper most and exposed to the burning rays of the scorching sun, and the confined and immo vable situation producing the most intense agony. Into the lower part of the machine was poured water, mixed with honey and treacle, with other ingredients, to invite the wasps and flies, with which the country abounded. To add to the torment, and prolong life as long as practicable, food is furnished in profusion; and if, weary of existence, the wretched creature refuses to eat, sweetened milk is poured down, so that he is unable to effectual resistance. But the most intense misery was that felt by the sufferer, when, as wSs frequently the case, the eye-lids were fastened open, and that most sensitive organ' exposed to the di rect rays of a mid-day sun without the pos sibilityiof closing them. Such was the dreadful punishment Ever ington now saw before him. They were already on the banks of the Bendemer—the instrument of torture was before him —an immense throng had col lected to witness the fearful catastrophe. The chief ordered the attendants to strip Everington of his outer garments, a com mand which was at once obeyed. After he had been pinioned', with a presence and firmness of mind which drew murmurs of applause from those who but a moment be fore been so riady to curse the 1 infidel <l%, and-.exult in the prospect of his ap proaching punishment, Everington laid him self down in the him, and was instantly and immovably secured. Remarkable Esoapes of Eminent Men Last century a young man holding a sub ordinate position in the East India Compa ny’s service twice attempted to deprive him self of life by snapping a loaded pistol at his head; Each time the pistol missed fire. A friend entering his room shortly afterward, he requested him to fife it out of the win dow ;it went off without any difficulty. Sat isfied thus that the had been duly primed and loaded, the young man sprang up, exclaiming, “ I must be reserved for something greatand. from that moment gave up the idqp of which for some time preyious, had been uppermost in his thoughts. Thatjyoung man afterwards be came Lord Clive. Two brothers were on one occasion walking together when storm of thunder and lightning overtook them. One was struck dead on the spot, the other was spared; else would the name of the great reformer, Martin Luther, have been unknown to mankind. The holy St Augustine, having to preach at a distant town, took with him a guide, who, by some unaccountable means, mistook the usual road, atadfell into aby path. He afterward discovered that his enemies, having heard of his movements, had placed themselves in the proper road with the design of murder ing him. Bacon, the sculptor, when a ten der boy of five years old, fell into a pit of a soapboiler, and must have perished, had not a workman, just entering the yard, ob-* served his head, and immediately delivered him. W hen Oliver Cromwell was an infant SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. a snatched him from his cradle, leaped with him through a garret window, and ran along the leads of the house. The utmost alarm was excited among the in mates, and various were the devices used to rescue th# child from the guardianship of his newly-found protector. All were una vailing ; his would-be rescuers had lost cour age, and Were in despair of ever seeing the child alive again, when the monkey quietly retraced his steps and deposited its burden on the beck On a subsequent occasion the waters had well nigh quenched his ambition. He fell into a deep pond, from drowning in which a clergyman named Johnson was the sole instrjpnent of his rescue. At the siege of Leicester a young soldier about 17 years of age was’drawn out for sentry duty. One of his comfades was very anxious to take his place. N%, objection was made, and this man He was shot while on duty. The young: man first drawn afterward became tlj© author of the “Pilgrim’s Progress.”! Doddridge, when born, was so weakly an |nfant it was believed to be dead. A nurse sfltndingby fancied she saw some signs of vitality. Thus the feeble spark of life was saved, from being extinguished, and an eminent author'and consistent Christian preserved to the world. John Wesley, when a child, was only just preserved from fire. Almost moment after he was rescued, the roof of--the house where he had been, fell in. Os Philip Henry a similar instance is recorded. John Ivuox, the renowned Scotch reformer, was always wont to sit at the head ofth§ table, with his back to the window. On one particular evening, with out, however, being able to account for it, he would neither himself sit in the chair nor permit anyone else to occupy his place. That very night a bullet was shot in at the window, purposely to kill him: it grazed the chair in which he sat, and made a hole in the fcotof a candlestick on the tabl.o Many years have now elapsed since three subal terns might have been seen struggling in the water off St. Helena; one of them, pe culiarly helpless, was fast succumbing. He was saved, toslive as Arthur Wellesely, Duke of Wellington. The life of John Newton is but the history of a series of marvelous de liverances. Asa youth he had agreed to ac company some friends on board a man-of-war. He arrived too late to go; the boat in which his friends hkdgone was capsized and all its occupants drowned. On another occasion, when tide surveyor of the port of Liverpool, some businofH bad detained him, so that he came to hisjpoat much,,later than usual, to the great surprise of those who were in the habit of observing his then undeviating punc- He went out in the boat as hereto- inspept a ship, which blew up before he reached her. Had he left a few minutes sooner he must have perished with the rest on board. ~ —■» • o-f' Religion of .th* -Presidents —The religious belief of the deceased Presidents of the Unitej«&tti£jßß, as indicated by their attendance uSu public worship, and evi dence afforded in their writings, may be summed up ps follows : Washington, Madi son, Monroei,Harrison, Tyler, and Taylor, were Episcopalians ; Jefferson, John Adams, and John Qpincy Adams, were Unitarians ; Jackson, PqFk, and Lincoln, were Presby terians ; Yap Buren was of the Reformed Dutch Church. The surviving Presidents are Fillmorej a Unitarian; Pierce, a Trini tarian CongregPtionalist; Buchanan, an Episcopalian ; and the present Chief Magis trate, Johnsou, who is a Presbyterian. Mbs. GAsklll’s Death— The death of this distinguished authoress was even more sudden than the account in the jour nals led the public to suppose She was at tea with her daughter, Mrs. Crompton, wife ot the son of the judge. Strange to state, they were talking of the subject of death, when, after some remark by one of the com pany, Mrs. Gaskill, holding a tea cup in her hand and raising it halt way to her lips, observed, “ Well, I /’ when she tell back in her chair and was no more. 0 1 Unhappy Mauriages among Men of Genius.-- The rare occurrence of genius with domestic comfort is perfectly awful. Take Dante, the exile,' who left his wife, never wishing to see her more ; take Tasso, wifeless ; Petrarch, wifeless; Ariosto, wifeless; Milton, thrice married, but on ly ofcce with much comfort; Dryden, wedded, like Addison, to a title and discord ; Young lived alone till past fifty; Swift’s marriage is no mar riage ; Sterne's, Churchill’s, Byrou s, Coleridge s marriage, broken and unhappy. Then we have a set of celibates —Herrick, Cowley, Pope, Thomson, Prior, Gay* Shenstcne, Gray, Aken side, Goldsmith, Collins, Cowper, and I know not how many more of our best poets. Johnson had a wife', loved, and lost her. It is almost enough to make women tremble at the idea of allying themselves with genius, or giving birth to it.! Take the philosophers —Bacon, like his fa mous legal adversary, Coke, seems to have en* jupyed little domestic comfort, and speaks,'- for, as he says, certain grave reasons,” disapprov ingly of his partner. Our metaphysicians TTobbes, Locke, Bentham, Butler—are as soli tary as Spinosa and Kant, The celibate phi losopher Hume conducts us to the othpr great bachelor historians, Gibbon and Macaiilay, as Bishop Butler does to some of the princes ot English divinity—Hooker cajoled into marrying a shrew, Chijliiag worth unmarried, Hammond unmarried, Leighton unmarried, Barrow also single. I only take foremost men, the list might be swelled with monarchs and Generals in mar riage. The Phenomena of Lightning. —A very cu rious paper has just been addressed to the Acad emy of Sciences, by a physician who, for a long period, has occupied himself with observing the phenomena of lightning. It is no. usually known that a great many persons are annually killed by the electric fluid in Fiance. From 1835 to 1863, a period of twenty-nine years, $,333 persons were killed—the largest number in one year being one hundred and eleven per sons ; the smallest, forty-eight. Besides those killed there were 6, injured It is remarked that a much larger proportion of men are killed than women, owing to the material jf which female dress is composed. Os 880 victims, from 1854 to 1863, only 233 were women. Dr. Ban don mentions several very singular cases. He had met with two persons, each of whom had been struck twice, and one man had three times been rendered insensible by lightning—each time in a different dwelling. One-fourth of those killed had taken refuge under trees The mountainous regions of the South and east of France are those most subject to accidents from l’ghtning—a very small proportion occurring in the north and central portions, where the land is more level. Professor Brunnow, an American citizen by adoption, has been appointed Astronomer Royal for Ireland, and Professor of Astronomy in Trinity College, Dublin, in place of Sir Wm. Hamilton, deceased. The Children’s Prayer. ‘■Ofisu h is the Kingdom of Heaven.’’ Three white clad forms beside the bed, * Wito little hands upheld, When all their toys are laid away, And the noise of day is quelled; And mother hears them each repeat, With voices earnest, low and sweet, The simple prayer She teaches there: “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child.” Fond kisses and “good nights” from all, As rosy cheeks are laid On snowy pillows, then calm sleep Till dreamy nights shall fade. Good angels bend aboVe each faco That silent lies in smiling gractj! Though toil and care Our 1 ves must shard: “ Gentle Jesus, meek anc| mild, Look upon a little child.” - O, loved and sinless little ones, When years hsve led you on, And she who lingers e’er you now To her reward has gore; When the toys of life rre laid away, And evening comes, still may you pray, With faithful hearts, As life departs, “ Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child!” George Cooper. ; , Rsrifk Church Etiquette —lt is fashiionable with many to come late to church, long after the services have begun ; to the edification of the curious in the congregation, and the com fort of the nerves of the pulpit. It has lately been decided on high authority, that the following rules are to he observed on all such occasions. Let the lady advance one pace beyond the door ofthe pew she wishes to en ter, halt, about fapg, and salute. The pew must then he vacated by such gentlemen astare in it, by flank movement. The squad should rise simultaneously, wh#«&he£|a<lypr esents herself, and face Iby the right flank, then deploy jnfcj the aisle, the head man facing the lady, and the rest walking to his right and rear, the direction of the line being ohanged by a right countermarch, and forming again into line, up and down the aisle, still faced by the right flank. The lady, when she sees the coast isjtfeax, cmnpleteajier salute and advances to her position in the pew. The gentlemen break off by files from the rear, and resume their places. Great care should be taken, of course by other parties, not to enter the aisle when this evolution is in progress until it is completed. Sign Post Advertising.— The Roches ter Union says: A. man who is too mean to ad vertise his farm land he wants to sell, has put up a written notice on a post in Arcadia Hall, in this city. A man who was inquiring for a small farm was Tainted to the notice on the post. He rep’ied :—“I can’t buy land at a fair price of any man who does his advertis ing in this way. He’ll steal the fences; the pump handle, and the doors/ before he gives up possession.” 'J We once saved the life of an infanjrwhich had been inadvertently wuh laud anum and fast sinking into the' sleep from which there is no wakening, by giving if strong coffee, cleared with the white of an egg, a teaspoon full every five minutes, un til it ceased to seem drowsy.-— Dr. Hull. Professor Saunderson, who occupied so distinguished a situation in the University of Cambridge as that of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, was quite Wind. Happening to make one in a he remarked of a lady, who had just Teh the room, that she had very white teeth. The company were anxious to learu how lie had discovered this, which was very true. “ I have reason,” observed the professor, “to believe that the lady is not a fool, and I can think of no other motive of her laughing in cessantly, as she did foya whole hour together.” At Sydney, in Australia, among other adver vcrtiseiucms on the first flo»r of the printing office, is a tablet informing visitors that the editor cannot be spoken to unless paid for his valuable time. Accordingly, everybody, with out exception, is invited to buy a ticket of ad mission at the door of the waiting room—one hour costing ten shillings; half an hour six shillings; fifteen minates, six shillings. An Irish glazier was putting a pane of glass into a window, when a groom, who was standing by, began joking him, telling him to mind and put in plenty of putty. 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