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/ V t ? THE NEW # SOUTH. Vol. 3, No. 9. P?rt Royal, S. fc., Saturday, December 3,1864. Whole No. 113 $ftc ^outlt. j published etkry batd ddat vornlno by j J. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor.! price: Ost Copy Five Ce ate. PebHuxdbeb, ,....$3 50. th&eb uomus, 0 50. TERMS CASH. Advertisements Twenty-Five Cents per line fo eael? insertion. Office, IhoenLt Building, Union Square adjoininO l\m Office. November Poems. Is there no lesson in the year, Running her latest seasons out ; No type or shadow in onr thoughts, Whilst fading leaves are strewn about ? ^ Surely we have a sympathyMade true by all our hearts have known, ' Of faded hopes and ended joys? With flying leaves and flowers blown. ' !l Are those not things that tonch a springWhere scenes, both sad and dear, hath lain In memory's immortal bower, * "*? ?inw> luck again ? TliU nuica uic i-o. ? w Do they not mind us of the time When we must also leave the light? ^ When the last bloom upon our cheek Shall turn into a deadly white ? When, from its watch-tower, ths soul, ? ? Li a a leaf foiling from its bough. Shaking and twinkling to its goal. Must draw its gaze, and trembling, go. YUSEF EL CASLAJj. .AN" EGYPTIAN TALE. In the city founded by Moaz, n Ara-, biau caliph, and called by him El Kakirrh or Cairo, you may find in the Frank j quarter, in the street Muskih, nearly op. i nosite the tKmib hanoot, or wine shop. of Herr Datelbaum, a true Cairone coffee i house. The water-pipes, wade of a t ocoan it and two pieces of fishing cane, the lit tic tirtjaiut, or crockerV coffee cups with bras 1. older i, the squire seats made of: cane, the fur.)ace with charcoal fire, and ; the large mortar in >\hich roasted coffee , is pouuded, comprise the entire outfit, anil may be bought for a few dollars. If you understand Arabic, and sport the i tarboosh, or red purple felt cap ot" the j country, can sit cross-legged juid smoke j in turn the shish ih, of water-pi e, as it! pass d tr ound, and c.an drink Arabic cof- j fee neat, why, then you may hear a story like the following, told by u black-eyed, j * 1 f W111 \ 11UOK-Ili'MTU, Uitll-SWU fvu nuv thus earns his coffee, a few pwns; and a pull at the water-pipe by amusing the ireqnenters of this and other ot the thou- j sand coffee shops in Kl Musr. He tells th's with the greatest glee siuce it has for its hero a man resembling himself, and 1 contains an apology for bis own aimless and almost shiftless existence : Theie once lived in a beautiful city, in 1 the days of Sand Pasha, two brothers ol j the tnbj of .Yhmrik, thi elder of whom was named Yusef el Lkislftn, or Yusef the ' Idle, while the youuger one was called I Ali el Mash pool, or Ali the Busy. On the i death oi their parents they divided their 1 roperty, the eldest brother, Y'l.sff, so in vesting tiis share that he could just live on a small income it yielded, while the } ouuger brother, Ali, true to his name of; mashpool or busy, ut once placed his property in a fruit shop, and made money diligen tly. Now, it happened that Yusef, surnamed ; the Idle, had a iriend who acted as drag-' oman to the ever-wandering Franks, and who was called Abu ben Blah ralah, or Abu the son of the Restkss ; and this Abu, over many pipes andjinjanq of coffee, taught Yusef the language of the Franks, and the two wasted days in the idle talk (for it is well known Uiat words base no bread.) But in course of time Yusef could converse with fhe Franks, and, behold, lhey understood every word in six he spoke to them. Ue also passed iiis time, like a very idler, gatneriug dowers and making carious periumes, in company with an old Jlikim, by boilii g them in queer glass vessels looking like | u gourd with a very long thin neck ; and one of the perfumes was so delicious that it was called "lire Dream of the Harem," and a trader in the 'funis bazaar once offered Yusef a thousand piastres lor the recipe, Hut Yusef refused it, saying, "I am uot in the fancy-soap and perfumery business, and don't want to be. 1 will give it to the Pashn, and perhaps he will invite uie to visit tae Gaiden of 8houorah next time he goes there with his families." Then Y"user, who was always idle, discovered a certain dye SiUll that gave a tint like the rosy red of morning to the wliite cloth made of cotton, and the dyers, with arms all bine with indigo, saw the beautiful color and said, '* i>e one of us, give us thy secret : and thou shjdl go into our business, and have pieuty oi piastres, so that there shall be Lutakiali in thy pipe, and bouza in thy cup, aud scveial maidens to keep tlicc in music." Hut luset turned a deal ear to the dyeing men, and told them that he preferred to be clean. So they left him in wrath, ;ind he and bis dye whs troubled by tuem up more. One day, when Yusef was sitting near that turnoie-down rock-grotto in the islaud of likodo, idly looking at the ohouw palm, and thinking what a good cook nuture was to cause gmgerb.eul fruit all ready-made to grow ou tout tree, he drew lrow his girdle some dried dates, aud, while eating them, he rememoereu the dehcious taste of a date sausage mud. | of fresh dates aud almonds smiled in au- ( telope casing, aud determined to propose taeir inaiiuiaetiue to a newly arrived h'rank, an Italian con eciioner, who lived near the Esbekieh gardens, aud was a mau of money and enterprise.? ; JL'hus musing, lie rose from repose, aud crossing over in the ferry-boat, waudercu j around the city until Ue c.une to the i Turkish bazaar where his brother, Ah j the Busy, sat on his seat in his small shop, smoking a schiboub. and waiting patiently for customers. But his biow was wrinkled when he saw his brother lusef so calmly walking along, neither buying nor selling, nor bartering, nor huckstering, nor trading, and he lifted up his voice and said to him : " Sou of my lather, are you still busy loafing?" Then Yusef meikly replied, " Ali, my : brother, i have tallied under the paim , trees in the pleasant Shade, and with the j soft breeze perfumed with flowers I have j reposed lor a long time dreaming 01? ; perpetuul mction." ' rerpetu.U melons!" answered All the Busy, ironically. ' While you have been idle, I have been busy. How many ligs do you think 1 have sold this morning r " Njiv, I know not," replied Yusef. I " But tjnexs," replied the bu>ybody.? "7)o guess,?tor the love of Allah." " \\ ell," said Yusef the Idle, " about seventeen millions eight hundred and ? ??? Imi n .1 . > n. l mi^-iour iuuumuiu umc uumu&u <? ?<.? , twenty-six." "i'ou go to !" shouted Ali. Where j he desired him to go, probably t j?work,! was unuttered ; lor at this moment up1 rode ail Englishman, with a cork hat ami i blue veil around it, and mounted on a -mall donkey, pursued by a small Egyptian with a large stick, who from time to time shouted, 44 RijlaLk! fk'hmalah ! Effcndi!" and only ceased when the Englishman, anchoring his donkey by stick ng his heels in the ground, pointed to the fruit exposed in Ali's stand, and beckoning the donkev-boy, said to him, in a compound of Canton-English-linguafranca: "I do gome pigeon here this uomo. I buy-ee two-oo piastres," (holding up two nngersj "oranges, (.apisce: " Tahlb/' shouted the donkey-boy, almost jumping out of his blue cahco shirt, the only garment he had, on seeing the silver piece. u-4io / oil rite, beeg olangis, I rcerstrli. Eengeesh." Then giving Ali the Busy a fjarful wink, the boy commenced in Arabic a seveie blackguarding of the Jnglese on the donkey, ending by buying about ten oranges for ten piastres. The Englishman, delighted at receiving such fruit for his money, reflected to himself,? "Ther^ is nothing like knowing the langujige of the country you travel in, you know!" Jerking the reins, the hoicaga, or traveler, w as about resuming this ride, when Yusef the idler, w ho hud been leaning immediately near his brother, started up, ind said,? "Sure, you want go in sassage bizness ?" ' How's that?" replied the Englishm in. 44 Is it safe ? Will it pay ? Where can you find hogs enough to make.it an object, where people don't keep 'em? but stOD,' Call this evening at 7 o'clock at Shepted's Hotel; yon will find me smoking a cheroot in the portico. Business before pleasure." "Oh, brother," said Ali tbe Busy, "what ivre you saying to the red-headed man ?" "I ium asking him to go in the sausage business with me." "Halloo,hmeaga. Don't have anything to do with Yusef the Idle ; he is an enthusiast, a dreamer, a poet. lie makes date sausuges! The fruit of rashness is r pen: a ice ; therefore, let him alone.''? But the Englishman understood not, and a as already afar off before A.i had finished his harangue. Tnat evening, Yusef the Idle, with a larm* sausace resembling a veritable bo r? - o n logna in weight, size, and dark color, accosted the Englishman, who was dreamily smoking a cheroot, und exhaling the ?>ottle of crusty old port he had lately finished at dinner. Then Yusef, taking out a large knife, sliced off two or three cuts from the sausage and presented them to the Frank. "Can't do it,'* said he, Mhave just finished three dishes and a heavy desert. But it looks like very good bologna ; not too tough, the exact shade of healthy young-ilonkcy-meat." But Yusef insisted on the traveler's eating a small piece, telling him it was sweet and very good, setting the example by finishing several sfices himself. Thus guarenteed front sudden detth, the Englishman took a piece, nibbled at it, ate it all, and asked for another slice finished by discovering it. .1 J i- .1 .: i. i mm uaie-sausages was a very iutini> ueiicacy. He theu entered into business matters, asking Yusef what capitiil he required, Ac., &c., to shirt their mannfucture. But Yusaf told him he only had the knowledge of making them lor saje, and was too idle to attend to business, but if he would give his brother an order he would supply all he wanted. The Knglishinan an once wrote an order for for two tons (about fourteen camel loads) to be sent by the boot boo! [Fellaheen foi locomotive] to Alexandria, thence to Engluni per steamer, money to be paid for theai on delivery at Alexandria. H< afcerwarus said that on the occasion of a great dinner in London he had so exqr'8i itcly sold [in Arabic <jashsli-cd] aU the ciub, by having these " bologna sausages " brought on with the dessert, that he considered his tour of the East amply repaid by the discovery of the date-sausages Yusef, before taking his leave, modestly presented a beautiful crystal gilt flask to the Engl'shmau, and desired him to see if the perfume pleased him. The traveller, who was a man for every thing, carefully uncorked, or rather unstopped the flask, and, placing it to his nostrils, a gentle sigh escaped him, and as his eyes rolled towards the skies, he excia med : 44 Tfia u*nn/1nrfrl T.nV?4? on/1 Pimmol i have nothing like it What do you waut lor the recipe ?" " Howard me as you see fit." said Yusef the Idle : 44 lo, I am not a business man, and trust to your honor." The Englishman, learning that it was Yusefs own invention, gave him a handsome sum for it, and wjis about closing the session, wheu Yusef displayed a flamingoeolnred piece of remarkably tine muslin. Even by lamplight the color struck the s Englishman's eye ; and when he was told that the dye was the invention of the idle of Cairone, he requested him to call the next morning, and if the color look as well by daylight as at night, he would buy the secret. The next morning Yusef the Idler waited on the traveller: and the color appearing even finer by daylight than at night, the Englishman bought the receipt for the dye, and paid the money. Then Yusef the Idler went into the clothiers'quartet and" bought for himself ? - ? and put on, a splendid suit of maroon colored- clothes, with a handsome red ! sash, and a gold embroidered kerchief for , head and tbrDat, and a pnrple fez cap, I and yellow leather slippers, a pair of pjs' tols for show, a jasmine stemmed pipe fi. r use, juid with a purse full of guineas, J and tne order for lourteen camel loads of I the date sausages in his girdle, he held his way to the Turkish bazaar. When he arrived at his brother's stand, behold, 1 there was the desolation of the desert. Ten cents, or two piasters, would have bought everything he had for sale, and Ali the Busy, witn his head between b!* hands, was very busy?crying. He had not "made a fail of it," as the F'auks remark, but he was, nevertheless, " busted ; up so high that the hawks couldn't fly j to him," as the men of Kengisland tersely say. ! " My brother," said Yusef the Idle, ! " how comes it that 1 find vou in aliiic j tioa, and you do not come to me ior help and comfort ?" At the toue of his voice, Ali the Busy would have broken out in a torrent of abuse about lazy, idle loafers, but lifting ! his head the splendid clothes, and pipe, j and pistols, met his eye, and believing ' they were worn by some rich old Turk, t or one of the head officers of the police, he kissed his hand, laid it on his head aid breast, invoking a shower of complimentary blessing on the head and beard ot the Kffendi before him. and not until several seconds did he allow his eyes to I mount up, until, to his surprise, he met the kindly regards of his elder brother hied tenderly, lovingly on him. Ali the Busy theu told his brother of all hi* trnnnb-s and of his havinc/ to sell | that morning his whole stock of goods to pay a debt due that day, a debt that had : i he refused to pay, he would have been dishonored for Jife. Then Yusef the Idler told his brother to be of good heart, and placing in his hand the purse of gold > and the order for the fourteen cauiel-load* , [<hptin\l*d o? 4Pntje. ]