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VOL. XXXIV.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1860,
NO. 16.
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Oh I my God, what a terrible dream 1
WLat a tvrnhle deathly drosm I Bo vividly clear ihai the tiozt^a air
la toll uf Ua ch"kiag acream. Eo vividly clear, that 1 tee the glare
Ofa thuaeaud funt;ral pyreti, Aud a thuo,iKLd t^Lrieka Irum the blsalng flimes
Ofa thonaand uiidatgbt Ured.
1 dreamed tbat 1 atood In tbe ntidr^l of men.
In the uldft of a wondroub town. W here Cbriatiau people wilh toalu to eave,
Walked evermoro up and dt>wn. Walked sveruom ou, from womb to grave,
Wur. open htarlcg eycH, And yet were inej blind to the foneral llgbte.
And dnaf to lbe borrible crioi:.
I dreamed that there fat In Ihe very beart
Of tbls gotgton" Chrl.:tian town, A tublle, rbadowy ligure, euthroned,
Tu whutu the cruwd btiwod duwn. A Kfaadowy Ilgaro t^obtle huutrd,
Towb<'Ui lhe crowd tiangbyiuoF, A ahape wuh a tbouBind rehileai^ eyci).
And a ihouMtnd tuafaUike limba.
I dreamed tbnt this bbadowy Itgore sat
On hoitpi> of whitened bunu.i. From wbnuce as twug and bent the cruwd.
Came long and shivering monn!*. Then one by one oftbe throng wbo bowed,
Ha aeiz.'d witb the ^peed of wiud. And picblbg ibtf O^tib iu t-bredh away.
Me threw the buue.i behind.
And ttlll ar> I watcbed the afaadnwy furm, ¦   Ue muttered the t-iiuio decrre, •'Twenty per cent I   Twenty i-er cent 1
Tweniy per Conl I forme:" And atill aa I watcbi^l, tbere fawningly bent,
A ciowd ofa ibousand t-core, ''
Who had done tbe work uf the abadowy foru,
Aud where pleading with bim fer mure.
A tbunfand f-cuie of tbe baildera cralt.
Maaon and curpi^uter bold, ArchilectK. ladeu with echuUry luro,
To work for Ihe prefd of gold. And ibfu an J Jiiiioatrd abuvn the mre.
T&e chiuk o; lb«- iruwel upwtrnt. And tivtry blow of (he tbun>-aud t-cure.
Sang," Twenty, Twenty imr cont I"
And etill ar. 1 watched and lUtened to all,
Up ^prHl g to thu m.11 veltona cry. A thout-and gbuhtly.gboKly walls.
Towering inio tbe tky And hard by tbn porcb uf tbeae tottering bells,
Slood a bkeleion figure Intent, On driving tbe crowd to Ihe coffin built sheila,
Ury.ng, "Twenty, Tweuty per cent!"
Poverty, w ret ehed ner-H, drunkenueea, all.
And every hbadeuf woe, Povetiy up iQwatun thf ^ky. •
And dtODkt-aueft^i down bolow. £lill witfa the i^Huie blank, mnrvellouH cry.
He huddled ibt; wreicben in. Poverty, m'cer)'. w^at aud ahame, >
Mii-erly tbnit auu bin.
And still an 1 watched tbe tremulous waits,
Tbeie csiue a mu^t terrible cry. It wan drnnkenceMi down in ibe cellars below,.
Bending nit-M-enger flaineii-ou bigb, Great God 1 buw greedily bot t boy grow.
To Ibe bnndreda caged williiu: How horribly cluar l» tbo dyiug F,hrlcl:,
Over the cllyV din.
Mark! where tbat MroGgliog. fuiolhering girl
Springs from tbe barntnz wall''. To die lu a crumbed and rb'tpnlPKit maM
On tba pavement where ^hR falla. SlarkI bdw tbu ,:brifkiug Hguren pa-H,
Like fpeclrex tbrun)Eh the tiro. Whose forked tonguen lickni the paper Hours.
Wbose footaiepa never tire.
Mark I where the stricken groups bave flown,
Betore lbe hot blast of deaib. Far Qp to the grey, onpitying aky,
Tbey Ktnod wiib abated breath. One lusg. one hhlvering cry,
Fiom the crowd below is sent, Like a cnr>-e.wlib ibe crob of lbe ghostly walls,
Por tbe ehadawy Twenty per cent.
Ob 1 God, bnt it wan a fearful dream;
Tet only a dream- you t-ee. For eveiy Chrlbllan know> full well,
Tbat nu hach tbinga can be. And CO I'm glad to be able to tell,
What all will QudertfLand, Tbat Eucb thinga can never happen In trnth, *
Not in a Chrialian lund.
THE MIDNIGHT WATCH. One of Blackwood's Best Romances.
[CONCLCDED.]
Again did Gerald's heart teat qnick with spprehension, Wbat could be the parpoie of thia visit of the Governor to his prisoner? Had a report of tbe previous evetiing been tbe oause of this fresb examiDation ? Did it result from the discovt^ry of the seoret packet? Gerald trembled—a moment's search among those bashes woald convince bim oftfae rdal- ity or vanity of bis agonising fears, aud yet he did not dare to stir a step to solve his doubts. Tbe eye of the otlier soldier was upon him. He listened with straining ears to catch the faintf-st sound that came from the lower, as if he could thereby know what passed in the chamber of tbo prisoner; striv¬ ing, at tbe same time, to master all expression of his feelings, lest bis secret sboald he read upon his brow by the very anxiety to conceal it. TTseless fffort; for the soldier who re¬ mained behind paid Httle heed to btm, and wonld have been totaUy nnable to comprehend his motives for nueasiness, had even its expo¬ sition been visible.
As leugth tlie stepn of the Gtovernor and his party were heard descending the stairs of tbe tower. As tbey emerged into tba court, Ge raid started witb a fresh bnrst of nucoutroIJa- bie agitation. The old cavalier followed the Koand-head Colonel. With a few more words to signify to hia priFOuer that the time allotted to him to laky air in lbe court was short, Lazarus Seamau again retired.
The soldier, already mentioned, remained behind as a sort of extra sentinel, or watch, to prevent all possibility of escape, dnring the time the prisouer was^ permitted lo promenade the open space.
Gerald was iu the presence of his father! With what overpowering emotion did he now long to throw himself into those arms, and be pressed lo his father's heart I And Tel^ the utmost caution was necessary. A word might deprive him of all power to assist the prisouer iu his projected escape. Itwas with the utmost difficnlty that he restrained -bia feelings, and watched (he noble foam of the old cavalier as be slowly and sadly paced npaud dowQ tbe conrt. That, then, was bis fatber! The dark mourning babit whicii Lord Clyn¬ ton wore in imitatiou of many of tbe Royalist party, after the execution of tbeir unfortu¬ nate master, altliough soiled aud torn, gave him an air i»f dignity in spite of its look of sadness; tbe long grizzled buard, wbit;b had evidently remaiued uuirimmed, having been left probably lo grow uucullured .as a .sigu of sorrow, bestowed upon him an imposiug ex¬ pression, iu tipiie of its neglected stale.
Aithoagh cast down and worn out by diS' apointment and vexation, there was evidently a feverish and testy impatience in the old man's mauner, wbich was perbaps a symp¬ tom of the family temperament; and Gfrald observed tbat from time to tirae he looked sharply at both of tbe sentinels, aud then caat a furtive glanoe at the clump of bush¬ es near the wall, Tho packet iheu was .sup¬ posed by the prisoner to be still there; hut jet uneasiness and doubl were-in his hasty looks. In reflecting upou the position of tho barred window of tbe prisoner's chamber, Gerald remembered tbat ils tenant might have witnessed tbe approach of tbe supposed fisherman, and diviued his motiou, without being able to see what had passed near the bashes themselves.
The old mau was consequently still donbt¬ ful as to the safety of the commanicatiou whioh was lo bo the key to his escape, and even more anxions as to the meaus by which he might reach it. Gerald watched with palpitating heart, how, in his promenade, ihe old cavalier approaohed nearer and nearer ftS if nnoous cio nsly, the parapet wall. Had he been alone, all, he said to himseif, would haAB been well bat there was another wit¬ nesa to observe the prisoner's actions.— Gerald in his tarn also seratinized the comrade of his watoh, and tnrned over in his mind Bohemes to elade his vigilanoe. . The num emplojed tipon the extra dntj
of this watch was well known to him by sight and repntation. Be bas said to bave been origenally of Batch extraction; aud certainly- there was mnoh in his heavy fea¬ tures, sleepy eyes, phlegmatic temperament wbich seemed to attest tbe trath of snch a supposition—a supposition which was still more borne ont by the report that he owned the enphonious appellation of Gideon Van Guse. This, however, was but vague hear¬ say ; for in imitation of the fantastio habit of aome of the fanatics of the time, Gideon had adopted a pious cognomen, the sofiness of which he perhaps fancied to accord well with his own placable and quiet disposition. He went by the name of Godlamb Gideon, except npou those occasions when some of the more wicked of his companions look ad- vantage of certain drowsy and somniferous poiuts in his indolent character, to bestow upon him the nickname of Go-to-bed God' lauib.
As Gerald cast his sorutiuizing look npon him, master Go-to-bed Godlamb was standing planted against a wall, iu the full warmth of au autumnal sun, perched upon one leg, ac¬ cordiog to a habit which he seemed to have inherited, by a sort of iustinct, from the orsues of the coantry of his fathers, and which he was generally observed to adopt, wheu in a more than usuaUy drowsy disposi¬ tiou. His other leg was twisted round its brother, in someivhat incomprehensible fash¬ ion. Butin spite of tbis supposed indication of drowsiness, Gideiju's Jight eyes stared out from under his preposterously high steeple, with unusual wakefulness and rotundi¬ ty, and gave lo his not very expressive phya- iogomy tbe appearance of that of an owl.
Gerald had thanked tbe good fortune that had sent him, at su(*h a momeut a comrade of so drowsy aud phlegmatic a nature. But it was iu vain tbat he watched for some farther judications of tbe usual results of Go-to-bed Godlamb's pious meditations. The eyes tcould still preserve a most provoking rotundity; nay, more, tbey appeared determined, out of the most obstinate spirit of opposition, to as- same at that moment a liveliuess they never had been known to assume before since they had opened on the light of day.
The old cavalier still paced the conrt, but nearer to the bushes than before. Impatient, also, at tho loss of the precioas moments as tbey hurried by, Gerald approached his com¬ rade. " You seem weary, friend," he said. "Yea, verity,"anawered Godlamb Gideoni through his nos* "My soul is weary wilh loug watching; bat if the fiesh be weak, the spirit is still strong."
"Give way, comrade, give way,"insinuated Gerald; " I will keep watch for botb, and none shall be in the wiser.'*
" Nay, but the laborer is worthy of his hire," snorted Gideon, with much unction—. "Odds pittikius, man," he blurted out imme diately afterwards, iu another aud more nat¬ ural tone, " would you have me in - arrest again for sleeping on my post ? That is to say^" contiuued the Fnritan soldier, casting up his eyes, and again resamtug his canting whine, " verily and of truth the baud of the scourger has been beavy upon me ; the un¬ just have prevailed agaiust me; bull will watch, that I fall not again into tbeir toils."
Gerald turned away with impatient vexa¬ tion. At that moment the old cavalier, who bad taken advautage of the few words pas sing between tbe two sentinels to approach the bushes uuobserved, was bending down to possess hfmself of tbe packet. As Gerald turned he again drew back, bis purpose un- fulfitled.
Standing with his back to the other sentt- nol, Geiald now made a sign to the old man, with bis finger placed upon fais lips, to say not a word, but to repose his confidence in him. The prisouer started with surprise, and looked at the yonng soldier with a mixture of hope aud doubt. Before making any far¬ ther demonstration, Gerald again turned in his walk, to assure himself thaT Gideon ob¬ served nothiug of this interchange of looks with the prisoner, and tben again turning his back to him, placed his hand npou his heart with a look of fervor aud truth, whicfa would have beau alone sufiicient to inspire confideuce in the old cavalier, and passing as near him as fae could with prudence, murmur¬ ed in a low. tone, " Trust lo me !" Tbe old man again started; bat there was more of pleasurable surprise, and less of doubt, in his expression. Gerald's heart beat wildly, as his father's eye beamed upon him for the first lime with kiudly and grateful feeling.
The yonne soldier again looked at his com¬ rade- Gideon's eyes were now beginning to close, in the excesa of his fervor over tfae pious page. Walkiuc quietly to tfae protect¬ ing bushes, Gerald bent over lbe parapet as if to look into the stream, and plunging his arm at the same time into the leaves, felt for the packet. Afjer a moments fear and doubt he touched it—he drew it forth. By a move¬ ment of tbe head; he saw the old man watcfa- ing faim with increasing agitation ; but, giving him another look to reassure him, Gerald ¦rose from fais posture, and was about to con eeal the packet in his bandoleer, whon it slipped from his tiugers aad fell to the ground. At the noise of the fall Gideon's eyes again opened, and were lifted up with owMike sa¬ gacity of expression. Gerald's foot was al¬ ready upon the packet. Neither he nor tfae old man dared lo intercfaauge a look. Gid¬ eon's eyes said, as plainly as eyes couldspeak that they were not asleep, and had not been asleep, and never intended to go to sleep—in fact wore wouderfnlly wakeful- Aware tfaat he could not remaiu motionless npon the apot where he stood, under the fall stare ot Gideon's eyes, Gerald let fall his musket, as if by accident, and then kneeling with his back to his fellow sentinel, contrived adroit¬ ly to raise tbe packet at the same timo with his musket, and to conceal it upon fais person. The prisoner was following his movements with anxions eagerness.
Posse3S_ed of the precious document, Ger¬ ald now f«lt the impossibility of giving it into his father's hands, as long as the eyes of Gid¬ eon were'n|)on tbem. There appeared to him to be,but one practicable mauner of convey iug the desired InlelligenQe contained within it lo the prisoner—n.imely, by examining hJniPelf the contents, in snch a mauner as not to excite lhe suspicions of his comrade, aud tfaen communicating tbt^m in low and broken sentences to his father.
Placed in sucfa a position as not to bo ob served by Gideon, lie took the packet from his bosom, and making the movement of breaking the fastening, looked imploringly at tbe old cavalier. The old mau compn*- bended the glance hesitated for a momeut with a look of doubt, and tfaen cleariug his brow witb an expression of resolutiou, as if there were no other means, nodded his head stealthily lo tfae young soldier, and waving to one of the stone benches fixed agaiust the walls ofthe court, the farthest removed from tfae spot where Glleon stood, flung himself down upon it, and with his face buried in fais hands, seemed absorbed in thought.
From one of tfae capacious pockets of his fall hose, Gerald now produced a book—it was tbe Bible ; for it was tbe fashion of thb times among the Puritanical party to carry tbe faoly book about the person. With a short humble prayer tfaat he might not be tfaongfat lo desecrate tfae saored volume by applying to a purpose of concealment, for his father's sake, he placed npou its open pages the letter, which formed the only contents of the packet, after having first torn away and concealed, unobserved, the envelope, and tben reaumed hia monotonona pacing up and down the court.
Gideon observed his comrade's seeming de' votion, and appearing determined to outrival him in excess of ?eal, applied himaelf more sedulously than ever to hia book.
"Tout frienda are on the alert—a lugger lies off the coast readj fbr'^onr Mpape," said Gerald in a loir tone to the'did MTaUeriUhe
passed as near to him In his walk as discre¬ tion would permit.
Snch was the sense of the commenoement of the commnnication. Tbe old man made a genlle inclination of hla bead to show that he underBtood him, without raising it from be¬ tween his faands. Tho yoaog soldier looked at Gideon ; (Jtdeon had Hhifttsd his lege, and perched himself in an attitude bearing a mnre direct resemblance to thatof a reposing crane tbau ever. Gerald again cast his eyes npon his open book-" All is prepared for to night," he coniinued to mutter, as he again alowly passed tfae seat of the prisoner. " Have the bars ofyour window be»'n cnt by the file al¬ ready couveyed to yon ?"
The old man again bowed his head with an affirmalive movement.
As Gerald tarned once 'more, Go-to-bed Godlamb was noddling bia head over his book, as if in very enlhusiaatic approval of ita con¬ tents, but unfortunately witb so much energy that he jerked it up again in an upright pos¬ ture, and Immeil lately began staring stralgbt before him with great vehemence.
Gerald bit his Ups with vexation aud eon¬ tinaed his walk. His eyes were seemingly employed upon the page before him—
"A boat will bo broughi witfaont noise under tfae walls at twelve tbis night," contin¬ ued the anxions son, repassing his father where he sal. " You mnst descend from your wiudow by your bed clothes."
Gerald resumed his walk. Gideon was winking aud bliuking with mncb energy—
"The only dilficulty is to elude tbe vigl- l.-ince of the sentinel who sball faave tfae midnight watch,'" muttered Gerald, as he again came back past tfae prisoner.
The old man raised his head and looked at faim anxiously.
Gideon was again noddtng, bnt with a lesser degree of eutfausiasu., as Gerald tnrned him¬ self that way. The young mau quickened his step, and was soon once more by his father's side—
" Every means that lie in -my power shall be employed lo favor your escape," whispered Ger-ild, with much emotion.
The prisoner gave him au inquiring glance as if to ask his meaning. Gerald looked round—Godlamb was snoring, after the fash¬ ion of a well-known farm-yard animal—not the one/whose name fae bore."
"God grant," continned lbe yonng man, In much agitation, "that tfae lot fall lo me to be the sentry on tfaat watoh—then all were weU 1"
" And who are yoa, young man," said the cavalier, " who thus interesls yourself so warmly in my fale ?"
Gerald could no longer command his feel" ings.    He finug faimself attbe old man's feet. "Fatheri" he exclaimed in smothered ac¬ cents, " give me thy blessing."
"Your father! I!" cried the cavalier; "you my son I you Gerald Clynton ! No—no— Gerald Lyle, I sfaould have said. Tell me not so."
"I am your son Gerald—Gerald Clyntou— Ofa, call me by that name!" exclaimed tfae kneeling young mau In a cfaoked voice; for tfae tears were starling inlo his eyps.
"Tbou art no son of mine. I know thee not! Leave me !'" aaid Lord Clyntou, spring¬ ing from his seat In bitter anger.
Go-to-bed Godlamb stirred uneasily upou his post. Gerald rose quickly frora his knees, trembling wilh agitation; for. In spite of tbe violence ofhis emotion, he had sufficient pre Bence of miud to look cautiously rouud at his sleeping comrade. Gideon's eyes Vere still olosed over fais hook, in tfaat profoand mys¬ tery of devotion which was one of the most remarkable traits.
" My fatber I" cried Gerald, imploringly to the old man, who now stood looking towards him with a barsh and stubborn expression of couuteoance, although the workings of emo¬ tion were faintly peiceplible in tfae lineaments of fais face.
Lord Clynton waved him impatiently away^ and turned aside bis head.
" Oh, repulse me not, my father!" cried Gerald, with imploring looks. " Why am I still the proscribed son of your affections ?— What have I doue, to be thus driven from your arms ? Am I slill—though Innocent of all wrong—lo pay so crnel a penalty for my nnhappy birth ?"
" Allude not to your molh«rI" exclaimed tbe old man passionately. " Defile not her memory even by a thonght, base boy 1 Where she living bHU, sfae also would refnse to ac¬ knowledge faer degenerate son."
" Great God! wfaat have I done to merit this ?" said tfae unhappy son, forgetting, in tfae agitation of fais miud, tfae strict principles of the Puritanical party, which forbade as sin ful this adjuration of the Deity—"I thongbt to save yon, my father, from your cruel siiu¬ ation—I thought to aid yonr fiight."
"Say rather," said the excited cavalier, giving way to bJs hot, unreasonable temper, to trample on tfae prisoner—lo scoff at him, and triumph over him—to deliver him np to his enemies. What have I else to expect from the degenerate rebel to the religion of bis fathers, his connlry and his king. Go, boy—go play tfae patriot at tfay ease—reverse the tale of lhe Roman Brutus—and denounce tby father to the block !"
"Unjnst! unkind!" said the yonng mau, struggling wilh his tears, whicfa now begau to give place to feelings of indignation in faim also. "But yoa have ever been so. You have driven me, an innocent babe, from your affections and your sight; and wfaen now, first after long years, I beg a father's blessing— stretch forth my arm to earn a father's thanks—^you spurn me from your feet, and heap unmerited obloquy npoa my head."
"Uumerited!" echoed Lord Clynton. "Do you I orget your disobedience ? or do the con¬ venient tenets of yonr hypocritical party per¬ mit you to erase the fifth commandment from the decalogue, and teach yon lhat the honor ing of your fatber is an Idle observance, no to bo weighed In tfae balance against tfae canse of the God of Israel and his people ; so goes tbe phrase—does it not?"
"I understand you not," said Gerald. "In wfaat bave I refased to honor my father ? wbose face I see for tfae first time to-day—at least since I faave faad ihought aud memory." "In wfaat ?" .exclaimed his father, with a bitter langh, " said I nut so ? Honor aud dis¬ honor in your new-fangled vocabulary are but vain words that yon understand no longer. In wbat? If I, thy father—since to my shame I mnst be so—If I have beeu led by my over¬ whelming grief lor tbat angel, to treat thee with wrong in thy childhood, my conscience faaa no longer a reproach to offer me ; for my son has in return treated me with the bitter¬ est scorn, and refnsed to come to those loving arms, whiob at last opened lo receive him.— In wfaat ? I have appealed to thee with tfae strongest appeal ofa father to join me in the true and joiut cause of mnrdered royal- ity, and I find tbeo even now before me, with arma in thy hands, to aid the sacrlle- giona traitors to thoir king—maybe to turu tfaem witfa parricidal arm against tby father." " Again I nnderstiind yon not," repeated Gerald, gazing wistfully in his face. "Oh, apeak, explain—my father—this is a mystery to me 1"
" Not understand me 1" echoed Lord Clyn¬ ton, with scom—"couvenieut phrase ! con¬ veuient memory ! You understand not per¬ haps those letters I addressed to you, tbose letters in whioh I implored you lo forget tfae past, and offered you a loving welcome to my heart. But you could diclaie a letter to your uncle, in which yon coald upbraid me for my past nnkindness, aud refuse lo retnrn. You anderstood not my urgent appeal to you to join the cause of truth and loyalty, and fight by yoar father's side. But you could dictate a second answer, worded with oold contempt, in which you conld assert yonr rebellions right—degenerate   boy!—to    follow   those
•*An appeal I" I know of none—until my unole'a death I soaroely was aware I had a father to whom I owed a dnty—I never hoard that he followed another oauae, but tbat whioh I was tanght to believe vhe right."
" No letters I No appeal I" said his father, half iu Hoorufal mistrust, half in doubt."
" None—I protest to you, my father," re¬ plied the agitated youth. " Now—bnt only now oan, I construe rightly tbe words my uncle uttered on his death-bed, which spoke of wrong he had done me and yon.
" Can I believe all this ?" said the passion¬ ate old cavalier, now evidently wavering in faia wrath-
" As God lives," aaid Gerald ; "that God whom t perhaps offend, whom I thns oall upon by name—that God who has aaid •Swear not at all." ' The old oavaUer abrug- ged his shoulders at this evidence of the Porl-
reoompense. Swearing to tear forever from his heart the vain, onquettiah, heartless girl npon whom his affections had beou ao ill- disposed—for thus, in his passion, be quali¬ fied his lady love—fae crashed down witbin him tfae violence of his angry feelings, and determined to defer his revenge, defer it only, nntil those few hours should be passed, th0f>e honrs which should witness his father's escape and insure his father's safety—and then die willingly, if suoh should chance to be hia fate, in aecuring his vengeance.— Strange mixture of noble feelings and base passions 1 Where were now the stern, strict¬ ly religions principles of his uncle aud in¬ atrnctor? The fierce nature of his faot blood prevailed for the time over the better culture ofhis education.
At length the hour arrived when  the sol¬ diers were mustered in the outer court,hefore
tanioal education of hia son. " I swear to j the front of the mansion, and the names of you, that I know nothing of those matters," j tfaose called over wfao were appointed to the
Lord Clynton waa evidently moved, althougfa indifferent watches of tfae night. Hiw anxious- the rebeUIons spirit within still resisted the ; ly and eagerly did Gerald's heart beat as the more affectionate promptings of his heart. midnight   watch   in    the   tower-conrt   was
"Father, prove me," cried Gerald implo-' named! Was it by a gracions and happy ringly.    " Let me live henceforth to serve   cfaance upon himself that tfae lot would fall ?
you—let me die for yoa, if needs mnst be— let me save you from tfais prison—let me earu yonr blessing—that blessing wfaich is my dearest treasure upon earth."
Gerald again bent down at the old man's feet. Lord Clynton slill struggled witfa his feelings. There was still a contest In his heart botween long cherished and newly- awakened confidence. Before either conld again speak, the trampling of feet waa once more heard along the vaulted passage. The agitated son rose quickly to his feet, and strove lo repress his emotion. His fatfaer ga-^e him one look ; and that look he fondly construed into a look of kindness. In anoth¬ er moment the Colouel entered the court, fol¬ lowed by two soldiers.
Gideon's poised leg fell to the ground ; his eyea opened and stared out wonderfully.— That troabled stare told, aa If the eyes had had a tongue, that Go-to-bed Godlamb had been sleeping soundly on his post. Fortu¬ nately forthe somnolent soldier, the sfaarp looks of Lazarus Seaman were not beut in his direction.
With a formal how to his prisoner, Colonel Seaman informed him that the time allotted to him for exeroise in the open air waa past. With another format inclination of the head> the old cavalier turued to his jailor, and tnr¬ ned to monnt the tower stair. He exchanged not another look with hia son : bat as be turned away, Gerald tried to read In his face a milder feeling.
" I will save him, or I will die l" muttered Gerald to himself, as the party disappeared ander tbe tower gateway. " I will force faim to graut me that blessing he has refused me— I will earn it well;" and he determined in his mind that, come what migfat, he would- find means to be appointed to the midnight watch-
CHAPTER ilL Left alone upon his poat inthe inner court, Gerald revolved in his miud what conld best be done for his father. Everything was already in preparation for the prisoner's escape, bat the success or failure of the whole enterprise tumed solely npon the connivance or opposi¬ tion of the aentlnel upon dnty at the honr when the escape was to be effected. Geiald did not doubt, however, that sbould he him¬ self not have the good fortune to be chosen for the midulght watch, he wonld not find much difficulty in persuading the comrade to whom it should fall to exchange it for a more commodious hour. He folt that there conld be noue who would not gladly accept his offer, and thus be left to enjoy tfaeir uigfat's rest, instead of enduring tfae faligu"es of a tedious night watch. Of his own safety, of the dis¬ honor, tbe punish.i.ent that awaited faim for abetting the escape of a prisoner of sncfa im¬ portance, fae thought not a moment. AUsuch considerations were losi In his hopes of res¬ cuing his father. But still, iu the vague uncertainty that hung over the eventa of that important night, in the impatience of fais miud to arrive qaickly at tfaat awfal hoar— tbat hour which was to decide so much joy or misery forhim—Gerald scarcely knew how to conceal his feverish agitation. He was aware, however, how necessary it was to avoid betraying auy feelings tfaat might excite the least suspiciou; and he determiued to appear aa oold and as unconcerned as pos¬ sible.
There was another, also, aUhough at tbia momeut a secondary torment, which added to his trouble of miud.    He was unable to disengage his thoughta entirely from thoae feelingsof bitter and scorching jealousy, which various little indications of coquetry, display¬ ed by the evidently coqnettUh little Puritan damsel, and certain marks of desire to seek her presence, and parade under her window, evinced by the hated Maywood, had planted In his heart—and in a jealous and impatient temperament like Gerald's, anch seed, onc% sown, qnickly grew up with rank luxuriance, and Bpread on every side, imbibing sustenance from every element that approached it, living, iu want of better nourishment, upon the very air itself.    Perhaps  tbe   sight  of   Mistress Mildred for a moment at her wiudow, a pass¬ iug word, or merely a kind smile, might have ponred a balm upon the nicer of jealousy, soothed the paiu and closed the wonnd—at leaat for the time. Bnt during his long watoh Gerald looked at that well-knowu window In vain.   Tfaere was not a symptom of ihe fair girl's presence in her chamber, and Gerald's fertile imagination—tfae trae imagination o( the jealous lover—suggested to him a thous¬ and doubts and fears of Mildred's truth, in geniously   invented   solf-torturea,   weapons forged to be tnrned agaiust himself—all mere vagae conjecttires, but assuming In his eyes all the solidity and reality of truth.   If she were not in her cbamber, ho argned, wfaere ooald sfae be ?   Perhapa with her fatfaer; and her faiber was dictating  a dispatch lo that Mark Maywood, wfao served him aometimes as secretary ; and Mildred was gazing on him with pleasure; and-fae was raisiug his eyes Jrom time to lime to hers—or perfiaps she waa in the other gardens or alleys aboat the honse, and tfaat Maywood was following her at a distance,  not unobserved; or perhaps she passed close hy him, and fae muttered words of admiration or even of love, and sfae then listened with complacency; or perhaps tfae handsome young recruit whispered in her ear to ask her wfaen fae could see her pretty face again: and sfae smiled on him and said, that when his watch shonld be beneath her window she woald come.   Madness I   Gerald would pursue his vision no farther.   But al¬ thongh the clonda of the vision rolled away, tfaey left a dark, chilling mist of suspicion upon his mind that he could not, perfaaps did not atrive to sfaake off.
Relieved from his guard, Gerald returned to the guard-room—hla mind in that agony of suspense and dread respecting his father, the disquietudes of which his jealous doubts acarcely diverted for .a moment, and only rendered more hard to bear. On his way he again pasaed tfae detested Maywood. As fae approaofaed he evidently saw tbe young sol¬ dier crumple in bis hand a paper he was reading, and hide It hastily about him. This was no faucy, he repeated to himself; this was reality. He had seen the look of coufn- aion and troable upon May wood'a face, the haate with which he hid that paper at hia approach. There was no longer any doubt. His hated rival was in correspondeuce already with his faithless mistress ; and the contents of that written papar, what could they be, if not an acqaiesoence in some demand, a ren¬ dezvous granted, a meeting at her window ? With rage iu his heart, Gerald again longed to apring upon hia rival, and tear that paper teom bis bosom. But again pmdenoe pre¬ vailed over paaaion.   He felt that the life of
principles you dared to my faoe to quaUfy as   Mb father depended upon his caation—his
thoseofjostioe and religion." father—^bis fnther; wbom he alone perhaps
"Iiettersl^TepestedQeraldjiRStoimded:-*'eonld tSerre, .Whose blesiing was to be his
The name waa pronounced. It was not hia own. The sentinel appointed to this post, tfae mau upon wfaom depended the destiny of bis father, was another. Bnt still, in apite of the first pang of disappointment—for disap¬ pointment wonld arise witbin bim, althongh the chances had been ao greatly against him —hope again revived in hia beart. Tbe sen¬ tinel whose post he coveted, whom he had to seduce into an exchange, whose watoh he was to contrive to take from as a favor, waa one of the most easy-of the wfaole troop to deal witfa, the lazy, phlegmatic, somnolent God¬ lamb Gideon, he whose very nickname was au angnry and a warrant of auccess, the righty clept Go-to-bed Godlamb.
After waiting till the assembled soldiers had dispersed, and a proper time had elapsed hefore seeking Gideon, Gerald again retarned to the outer court before the house, where_be knew it was tfae habit of the indolent soldier lo hask and doze upon a certaiu sheltered bench, in the last rays of the setting aun, ab- aorbed, he himself would declare, in bis devo¬ tions. And there, in trnth, fae fonnd tfae man fae aonght. But, confasion 1 tbere was an¬ other by his side, and that olfaer was the man who, among all, he would have the moat avoided. It waa Mark Maywood. He atood by tfae aide of Gideon's reclining form, and was apeaking witfa mach earnestness to the phlegmatic soldier, whose widely opened eyes seemed to express more animation than of wont. No time, however, was lo bo lost. Tfae night was approaching, and it waa necessary to come at once to an arrangement with the allotted sentinel of the midnight watch.
Overcoming his repugnance, and fully de¬ termined to act with caution, Gerald assumed an air of nnconcern, and sauntered to the spot wbere sat Godlamb Gideon. After greet¬ ing sulkily the handsome young recruit, to wbom Gerald's presence seemed in nowise pleasing, he commeuced with affected indif¬ ference his attaok upon the "heavy soldier.
•' You are ever zealous, friend, in the good work," he said.
" Yes, aud of a trnth tfaese crumbs of com¬ fort have a blessed and pleasant savor in my nostrils," replied Godlamb Gideon, pressing his book between his hands, turning up the whites of bis eyes, and snuffiug through his nose, as thougfa tfaat member were stnffed up by tbe pleasant suvor of which he spoke.
" Bat have a care that yonr zeal be not over-mach," conlinaed Gerald; "and that you faint not by tbe way from tho heaviness of your burden. Methinks your cheek is already pale fram exceeding watching and prayer."
" Verily I faave fongfat Ifae good flght, and I have rnu the good race, and peradventnre tfae flesh failelh me," snorted the Puritan aol¬ dier.
" Your allotted poat, tfaen, falls faeavy upon you," said Gerald, wltfa au air of kind concern, »' for you have the midnight watch, methinks. Indeed, I pity you, my good friend. Hear me. I will perform tfae duties of your part, and yoa shall rest this nigfat from your labors; my mind is troubled, and I heed not the watching through tbia night. You will rise from your couch ready for new ontponringa
of apiritual thought, and refreshed"	
"Asa giant refreshed with wine," inter¬ rupted Gideon with another snort; " yea, and so shall it be." Gerald's heart beat at what he cousidered an acceptance of his proposal; but Godlamb Gideon continued : "Thon art kind, and I thank thee not the less that I re¬ fnse thy offer. Verily it would seem to be a gracious and an especial vouchsafing in my favor. For behold, another hath released me from my task."
"Auolher!" cried Gerald with a tone of consternation that overcome his caution.
" Yea, thig good youlh hath proffered to relieve me of my heavy burden." Gideon pointed lo Mark Maywood.
Gerald started with angry aurprise. May- wood bit hia lip, and turned his faead aside. " He has taken thy post?" aald Gerald cho¬ king with rage. Gideon nodded his faeavy bead. Tbe hlood boiled in Gerald's veins and rashed Into fais cbeek. He felt for amoment nearly suffocated with the violence of his pasaion. Since the yonng recruit had beeu anxions to obtain Gideon's weary post, tbere could he no donbt what was bis pnrpose.— There, and In tfae silenoe of tfae night, be wonld be able, under Mildred's wiudow, lo pour into her ear tbose words of love which be dared not openly profess. It was true, then, that Mildred had bid bim try to oblaiu the post of sdutinel in the luoer court. Tha t waa their hour of rendezvous. Fnrious jeal¬ onsy, joined to rage at losing tfaat post, on which his father's whole fate depended, con¬ tributed lo torture his miud. Not ouly would his detested rival find a favorablo opportnnity of holding converse with tfaat faltfalesa girl, but he would be there to preveut his father's escape—he, of ali others—be, that fierce and violent repablican, tbat determined euemy of all adherents to the royal cause. If the vis¬ ion of Maywood Interohanging soft words with Mildred at her window tormented tfae nn¬ happy lover, far mere agoniziug were the feelings that represented to him the stern yonng sentinel raiaiing his musket npou bis shoulder to arrest the escape ofthe old man shooting him, perhaps, in his descent from the tower-window—bringing faim bleeding to tbe earlfa. Horror! Convulsed with these accumulated feeliugs, he atood for a time speechless, struggling wilh hia passions.— When he looked again at Maywood's face that hated individual's eyea were bent on him with a stem but inqniring glanoe, aa in evident diacompoaure. Thia very look was sufficient to confirm all the young lover's suspicions, and it was with the greatest dlffioulty tfaat he could control his passion. He mastered himself, however, sufficiently to meet the glance of Maywood wltboat giving vent to his wrath, and tm ning to Gideon, he called him aside.
The indolent soldier evidently rose unwil¬ lingly, bnt he followed Gerald to a little dis¬ tance, grumbling something about an "inter¬ ruption to the luward outpourings oftbe spirit." " Hark, ye, Master Gideon," said Gerald, , when they got to some distance from Mark, " you must not do me wrong in this. I own that my request is not wholly disinterested. You know that I love our Colonel's daugh¬ ter, that I am affianced to her. Her cham¬ ber looks into tfaat court, and at midnight."- " Now, out on the, Master Lyle," drawled Godlamb, with an hypocritical upturning of his eyea. " Woaldat thou make my watch a pretext for ungodly chambering and pro¬ fane love pasaagea ?"
" How now, feUow I" exclaimed the young man in wrath. " What mean yon by this in- Bolenoe?" and he grasped Gideon's collar with Tiolenoe.   Sat immediately afterwarda
repenting of his excitement, he continned with a oalm tone, although still In aome irri¬ tation, ** Tbis is mere fooling, Gideon. I know yoa as you are—I kuow you to be a thorongh hypocrite.
" Nay, but of a truth""—exclaimed the pa¬ cific Godlamb, very sulkily.
*' Hear me," interrupted Gerald. " It is not as you tbink—that Maywood loves her too. He also would keep the watoh at midntgtil, In the hope to see her at the wjndow—by chance, man, by ohanoe—not otherwise; but I wonld hinder, this, and"—   ¦
"Nay, but Master Maywood hath my word," again began Gideon.
"Nay, but Master'Gideon slept whilom upon hia poat," continued Gerald, mimicking him. "And if Master Gideon be reporled to his Colonel, Master Gideon will bave a week's arrest upou bread and water; but Master Gideon may do what he listeth."
"For the love of heaven," exclaimed Gid¬ eon, forgetting his Puritanical mask in his alarm ; "You would not report me, comrade ? S'wounds you would not serve a poor fellow so scurvy a trick F"
" Upon one condition, then," replied Ge¬ rald. " Retract your word to tbat man; give me up your poat at midnight; and I wIU be as silent aa the grave."
" Lord have mercy upon ua ! Thoa art as tfae cruel taskmasters of the ohUdren of Isreal; and tby heart is hardened even as was Pbaroah's," whined Godlamb, again re¬ suming his canting lone. " But be It even aa thou wilt."
Gerald triumphed ; the midnight watch was his; and with It his father's safety and his father's blessing.
They returned to the apot where Maywood still stood observing them, Gideon following iu the rear, muttering somethiug about "the hand ofthe ungodly being upon him,"
"Speak, Gideon," said Gerald as they ap¬ proached, and thank your comrade here for faia kindly proffered barter of faours ; sinoe it ia I wfao take your post, you will not need fais well meant and disinterested civilities."
Tfaere was something ofa aneer on Gerald's lip as he pronounced these words, which probably augmented tfae feeUngs of anger tfaat now evidently flnshed the nsually coId« face of Maywood and darkened his brow; for the latter appeared to tremble with suppress¬ ed passion as he advauced upon his rival with tfae words
" How, now, you, Master-wfaat's-your-name? What warrants you to interfere thus ill-ad- visedly in my concerns F If this man faas given up to me, at the midnight hour, the watch over that offshot ot a rottou and cor¬ rupted stem of tyranny, is it foryou to stand between me and my pnrpose ?"
" Your purpose is doubtless of the best, and truest, and worthiest," repUed Gerald, with auother flickering aneer npou his lip.— " But thia watch is miue now, by Ma-3ter Gideon's consent, aud tfaese hours of tbe nigbt I intend to devote to the watching of Ifaose wfaose security may need my care." Mark Maywood bit fais lip.and clenched his hands togethor iu a vain efiort to suppress fais violent Irritation.
" Hoity ! loity I Here's a coil about an old inveterate Amalekite !" said Gideon, in a mix¬ ture of fais natural and assamed phrliseology prudently withdrawing at the same time to some distance from the angry young men, as if afraid lest an appeal to himself sfaonid in- vole him In tfae quarrel.
" Hark ye, sirrafa," cried Maywood angrily, " I am uot about to resign the right this man haa yielded to me, at the caprice of the firat foolish fellow who chooses to cross my patb, witliout making him repent his uncalled-for iuterference. Wbat ia it to me, this post!— but browbeaten hy a Ijallying boy, I never will be."
" Nor will I yield to a base and treacherous hypocrite Uke thee, Mark Maywood," exclai¬ med his angry antagonist.
The hands of both the yonng men were in¬ stautly upon tbeir rapiers.
" By the maaa, what are ye about? exclaim¬ ed Gideon in alarm. "Trifle not with the carnal weapon 1 Wonld ye have ns all in arrest before we cau look about us ? Forbeari men of wrath!"
But the phlegmatic Gideon kept at a dis¬ tance.
At these words other considerations appear¬ ed suddenly to atrike both the young men.— In spile of tfaeir passion both paused Irreso¬ lute.
Gerald reflected that were he involved in a quarrel he would necessarily be prevented in any caae, whether victorious over his adver¬ sary and then consigned to prison, or himself disabled, from forwarding his father's escape. His rival appeared actuated also by pruden¬ tial motives, perhaps by the conscientious scruples of the party to which he belouged, perhaps by the thought of Mildred.
" This Is truly ruflling and bawling Uke tavern haunters and drankards," stammered Gerald, as if seekiug an excuse for withdraw¬ ing from tho fray. " But the time will come, Mark Maywood, when you shall not escape mo."
"So be it, comrade," replied the other, again sheatfaiug his half-drawn rapier. " I know you not, and can but barely divine yonr cause of enmity. But I will uot fail atthe night-time. Till then let this suffice. The mid-night watch is mine—mine by tbe flrst consent of yonder soldier to my proposal of exchange."
"No! mine," again urged Gerald, "mine by his retraction of his prior consent, if such he gave."
" Come hither, comrade," cried Maywood to Gideon, who waa suddenly absorbed once more in his devotions.
" Hear ye. Master Godlamb," said the other. But Go-to-bed Godlamb stirred not. He shrank from the appeal to himself.
"It is to me yoar post has been consigned, Is it not so f inquired the «ie.
It ia I who take it off your handa—.tpeak,'' cried Gerald. "Remember, Gideoni" he added, with upraised finger.
" Speak, who is It?" aaid both al once.— Gideon shuffi«d with his feet, and looked heavier and more embarrassed than ever; but as he caugbt sight of the waruiug finger> he absolutely shut his eyes in ntter despair, and poluting to Gerald, with the words, "Verily, and of a truth, tfaou art tfae man," he hastened away as fast as his indolent na-. ture would permit, " before he sbould fall into tfae toils of the angry Phllistiues," as he ex¬ pressed It.
Gerald could not suppress a look of trinmph. Whaiever were Mark Maywood's feelings, he only expressed tfaem by a dark scowl of dis¬ appointment, aud tfaen turned away withont another word.
CHAPTER IV.
The nigfat had closed in—that night of eo vital au importance to his father's destiny— and Gerald sat alone in a small lower room, his heart beating high with hope, that he should contribute to his father's rescue.
He was lost In tfaougfat, when a firm faaud laid on fais sboulder ronsed him from his abstracted state. He turned hia head and saw, to his surprise, Mark Maywood by his side. The young man wore a calmer, clearer brow, although his nsnal oold, stern, almost determined expression still pervaded it.
" Comrade," said Maywood, with much ap¬ pearance of frankness in his manner, "I have spoken you roughly without cause; I crave your pardon."
Gerald faeard this unexpected addreaa with great aatonishment: aud, before he answered, paused in much embarrassment.
" Let ns be frank," continued Mark. "Had we been so before, much ill will and evil blood might have beeu spared. I have only divined yoar feelings from my own. Yon have not seen thu pretty danghter of onr Colonel withont admiration.   Nor have I."
Gerald started with again liaing wrathy but hi^ rival interrnpted him.
"Bear with me for a while," he continued^ "and hear meout. Yon have bfen here long, lam but a new-comer. Yua faavethe prior claim. Perhaps she retams your love. Had I kuown of this before—aud as it isl have bat guessed it, on witnessing your anxiety to hold this watch in tbe court, beneath her window—I had withdrawn, as is my dnty.— And now, comrade, I returu lo offer you tfae sacrifice of my newborn admiratiou, and at the same time my friendship."
" What you say seems fair and straightfor¬ ward. Master Maywood," said Gerald, over¬ come by the frank manuer of the yonug soldier, " and I thank you for this generosity aud truth. My snspsclons, then, did not de¬ ceive me? You love her, and you sought to see her to-night!"
"I did," said Maywood, " And she—did she retum your love ?  Did afae heraelf accede to tfais meeting ?"
Mark shook his head with a faint, doubtful smile, but gave no answer. Gerald's brow again grew gloomy, and he sank his head be¬ tween hia handa.
" Come ! come I no more of this," pursued the other young soldier, wilh a cordiality of manner which Gerald had never before wit¬ nessed in'his dark stern aspect. " Let all be forgiven and forgotten. Como, pledge me In this one cup. These drinkings of toasts, as it is oalled, these pledgings over liqnor are con¬ sidered unseemly, and even ungodly by many; I know it well, hat you cannot refnse lo driuk one cup with me, as earnest of oar kiudly feeling for the futare."
For the first time Gerald now observed that Maywood bore under his arm a fiagou of ale, and held in his left haud two cnps of born.
" I reject not yoor kiudly feeling," answer¬ ed Gerald; " but I'm not wont to drink," and he repelled the cap whicfa Maywood now filled for him.
"Nay, nay I" aaid Mark, sitting down by the table on which Gerald leant. " You wroug me by refusing this first offer of reconcilia¬ tion.   Come, comrade, thia oue."
Gerald took the cup of aleunwIUiui^ly, and only raised it to fais Ups. But Maywood sfaook his head at him—aud Gerald, In com¬ pliance with his newly-made friend's request, at last awallowed the contents.
"I am not used to these strong drinks," said Gerald, setting down the horn wllh evi¬ deut distaste. " I like them not; but I have done tbis to show my willingness to meet you on friendly ground."
Maywood raised, in turn, his cop, but at tbe same moment calliug to a dog tfaat had foUowed faim iuto the room, bo aaid, "Dowu, Roger, down," and atooped to repulse it; im¬ mediatoly afterward he raised tbe horn, and seemed to draiu tfae ale to tbe last drop.
"One more, and tfaen I will not urge you again," said Mark to Gerald, eyeing him with a sfaarp, inquiring look.
"No, no—not oue," replied tfae yonng man with disgust. "Already this unusual drink has confused my head. I am accustomed to water only—snch was my uncle's mode of educating me. It is atrange how my brain turns with this fermented liquor. I have doue wroug to drink It," aud Gerald rubbed his heavy forehead, aud strained his eyea.— His powers of vision became more and more confused, audit was with difficulty that he could now see bofore him tho face of May- wood, which to his intellect, disordered by the liquor, seemed to wear a strauge expression of canning, and triumphant contempt. Ho made an effort, however, to shake off this feeliug and raise fais sinking head, but in vain. A sensaliou of overpowering drowsiness crept over him more and more. The thougfat of his watch, however, was still uppermost in his mind, aud he had y^t power sufficient lo reflect that tfaere was still some time to mid¬ night, aud that a Uttlo slumber might restore him; and glvlus^ way to the oppressive sleep which came over him, he laid his head ou the table, and was Immediately lost to all sense of what was passiug aronud him.
At first Gerald's sleep was heavy and com¬ plete. How long it remained so, be had no power to tell. At length, however, It became lighter, aud grew more troubledaud eoufused. Wild dreams began to course eacb other through fais brain, at first of an indefinable and fantastio nature—tben they assumed a more definite shape. He dreamed of his father—that old grayheaded cavalier, with his long, white beard—and before him atood Lazarus Seaman, who accused him of absurd and imaginary crimes. Aud now thfy brought him into that open conrt—a file of soldiers were drawn up—tfaeir muskets were leveled at (he old man's heart—Gerald struggled and sought to spring between those deadly instruments and his doomed father, but his feot clove to the grouud—he struggled in vain—the muskets were discharged, and bis I father fell weltering in his blood. Witfa the last struggle of a convulsive nightmare, fae started np, uttering a loud scream. It was but a frightful dream. Aud yet the noise of those fearfnl muskols-—tfaat discfaarge of artillery—still rang In his ears. As ho opened his eyes, all was dark around him—the dark¬ ness of deep nigfat. It was long beforo fae could sufficiently recover bis senses to remem¬ ber what had passed; and when slowly. the events ofthe day forced themselves upon his mind, his intellects aeemed still confused aud Iroubled. How strangely real uow appeared tbe Impressions of that dream 1 It was with difficulty he could persua<le himself lhat the firing had been imaginary; and even now there seemed a sirange coufusion of noise aud voices around him ; bat that, snrely, was the riugiug iu his head from the uuu.<nal draught he had taken.
Slowly his whole memory returued to him aud he recalled to himielf that it was neces¬ sary for him to be ready to answer for Ood- lamb Gideon wfaen tfaat wortfay's namo was to be called over for the midnight watch.— He staggered npon his fe. t, aud with diff¬ iculty found bis way Iuto the open air. As he gazed,-with somew.hat troubled brain, on the bright starlit sky, two or three soldiers hurried past him.
"Hark ye, comrade," he said to one, "how long Is it yet to midnight ?"
" Midnight 1 wfaere faave you beeu hiding yonrself comrade ?" auswered tbe mau. "Mid¬ night Is long siuce past."
"Loug since past 1" screamed Gerald with frantic violeuce. '* No 1 no 1 it Is Impossible my poat was at midulght Iu the tower court." " Then you have escaped by wonderful in¬ terposition, friend, how, from the consequen¬ ces of your absence; furl was there when tbe namea were called, and * present' was au¬ swered for the sentinel at the tower court."
"Fatherof meroy!" cried Gera'd In despair. "Wfaat, tfaen, has bappended?"
"Happened!" echoed the soldier; '''why, tfae prisoner has tried lo escape t But didn't you hear tfae shots ? They brought the old reprobate lo the eartfa, of a surely."
Gerald uttered a loud groan, and fell agaiust the wall of the house ; but iu another moment he recovered himself by a desperate effort from a feeling of sickness and deatfa, and repulsing violently the soldier who had come to his assistance, he rashed round the mansion nitfa wfairling brain and clencbed teeth toward tfae tower court. His father faad been killed—killed by bis own folly.— Rage, despair, oontrillon, self-borror at liav¬ ing been so weak as to aocept Maywood's pro¬ posal to drink, that fatal drink which caused bis deadly sleep, all tortured his heart, and drove him almost to madness. He oonld not donbt tfaat it was that hated Maywood who faad deceived falm, drugged his liquor, cheat¬ ed him into a sleep, in order to' be preaent undisturbed at fais rendezvous whh Mildred; and now it was by his hand, by the hand of tbat villain that his father had fallen.
All was commotion in the fortress. Gerald, as he rushed forward, heard the noise of voices and boats npon the water—the voice of Lazams Seaman—now the men oalUog to eaoh other. Horror-strloken^ overwhelmed with despair, oonmlsed with paaslon, he
boanded through the vaulted passage. In the moonlit court stood now but ooe figure alone —the sentinel, who was bending over the parapet, and seemed to be watohing with in terest tfae movemeut of the boats upon tbe wa¬ ter. Wilh the rage of a tiger, Gerald sprang npou him, and seized him by the collar with frenzied rage. It was indeed Maywood—^pale, agitated and excited,
" Villain 1 traitor I assassin 1" screamed Ger¬ ald madly, frantic with passion and despair, " you have betrayed that gray-headed old man; yon have murdered him; but I will have revenge! He was my father, and it is yon who have killed him,"
" Ytfvr father!" exclaimed the young sen¬ tinel in a voice choked by emotion. " He was Tnine, and I have saved him."
Gerald released his hold and staggered back. For a momeut the young men stared at each otfaer in bewUdered surprise.   Then all at ouce the truth flashed across them.
** Brother I brother 1" burst simultaneoualy from tfaeir lipa. " Gerald 1 Everard I" tfaey exclalme ' again; and Everard Clynton, flinging himaelf Into his brother's arms, gave way to hia euppressed agitation, and burst iuto a flood of tears. At this moment a distant sound of a gnn catne across the water ; Ever¬ ard aprang up and grasped his brother's arm. "Hush 1" he said, "three shots from the sea are tbe signal to me that he faas escaped in safety to the vessel that awaits him."
Anoiher boomed faintly across the broad aea. A pause of fearfnl inlereat foUowed, and tben auother. Once more the brothers fell into each other's arms-
In a few words Everard Clynton explained to his brother how, after his father's capture^ he had enlisted in the troop quartered in the fortress, in order to aave him. How ho had kuown from tbolr friends witfaont, tfae means provided to effect fais falfaer'sescape; howhe, too, had sought, with desperation, the mid night watch upon which depeuded his father's deUvery ; and, finding himself overcome hy his suppostd rival, ho had administered to faim a aleeping draugfat in order to secure tfae post; how his pretended admiration for Mis¬ tress Mildred had beon assumed in order to forward his views, aud color his designs, by giving a pretext to his desire to obtain the poat of sentry iu the conrt; how Mildred had never given him any encouragement, Gerald's unreasonable jealonsy having supplied the rest.
He had assisted his father to escape, and only long after his flight had given tbe alarm, and fired upou the water, pTetending to call for a sudden pnrsuit.
Mark Maywood, however, was tried by a court-martial for negligence upon duty on the nigfat of the prisoner's escape; but the conatantly exhibited violence oftbe Republi¬ can principles wfaich he had affected, as well as his zeal and exemplary good conduct siuce he had joiued the troop, saved faim in the Colonel's eyes. He was acquittou. Shortly afterward be disappeared altogether from the fortress, afler an affectionate farewell to Ger¬ ald Clynton, wfao had tfae good fortune to re¬ ceive, in due time, the assurance of fais brother's safe escape to join hia father iu Flanders.
Not loug afterwards, the death of Colouel Lazarus Seaman leaviug his daughter an or¬ phan, Gerald Clyntou married pretty little Mistress Mildred, and, qulttlug the servico rrflired to Lyle-Court, the esiate bequeathed to him by his uncle.
Tbere is no doubt that pretty little Mistress Mildred's eyes were given lo be coquetish in spite of themselves ; but yet, uotwithstaudiug sundry little symptoms of jealousy exhibited by Gerald, there is every reason to believe that be was as absurd and misled iu bis jeal¬ onsy after as he was married as befure his marriage, aud that she made him a most ex cellent wife.
During tfae more peaceful times of the Protectorate, Gerald received news from lime to time of the .welfare of his father aud his brother; aod, upon the Restoration, be faad the happiuess of welcomlug them to the Eu¬ glish shores once more.
Althongh Lord Clynton always preserved a predilection for his elder son, yet he had somehow fouud out tbat Gerald bore an extra¬ ordinary resemblance lohis decoased mother,, and always treated him with tbe utmost love. He never forgot, also, the deep affectiou Gerald had displayed iu his efforts to save him, during that never-to-be-forgotten Mid¬ night Waich.
PUILADELPUIA   ADVERTiaE.MENTS.
250 CAURLVGP^S AT AUCTIOX.
29th SEMI-ATTNXJaL TRADE SALE AT PUILADELPIIIA.
THIS SALE WILL TAKE PLiCB  ON
Wednesday Morning, Mar. 28, 1860, at 10 o'cloclc, at the
PhilaiCn Ilitrne and Carringe /iuzarr.  Ninth and Sanaom Stt., in the rear ofthe C'mtinentnl Uotelj
PHIIiADELPHIA.
TIIK  COLL?:0^XO^^   win   comprise ovar TWO HDNOKBD AND FIF-     nj—-j, ~ TY   CAKKIAUES,   inclaillDg   Fifty   ^^cJM^^^^ Donl&/» bflil Buggy Wagoao. with fcndVSSr-^^afi- wl tbuat tupa. XCy        vy
BIl^Moiit of tbe Work will b» varraalaJ.
Tboro wilt bo ao ptjrttpoaeiaeat ua uccijaat of tho wejithar, &ti(l tbe CarrU^en may ba riawfltl H«7flr&l d&yd preTiutu to the dftv cf S&le.
S3~^»le Peremptory.   Terma Cnsb.
ALFKED M. 11EUICNB33,  Auctioneer.
53"KeBuliir AactioQ Salai of H.»rrt9-i, C4fria?9s aod Hdroe-H, >ire taeld itl tQo above o-ttAbli'itiutdat, nver ^<tt- nrday Moraing tbroagtii>at tlid yoar, coiamaacla; nt tO o'cloclc.
A Urfco C'>llpctlon of CarrUgan aad Sarneis. aew ftod secoDd-hdQd, i».\wa.yi oa baad for privata aale.
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"FARMERS, ATTE.VTIQxV!"
PTTBE   GBOXTND   SOKES $30 per Ton.
IN recommending our Pulverized BoxE» to Farmers aad oiber, we doiuiDtadJeatly t tiatriui; tba munt anditabiHd erideoca uf 114 ouccoo-f «i tL quick una permanent Fertllizdr. It la coaiidHred. by all wbu have amd u, tbe "cbaapedt aad mout rotlabta" article ju tbe marKet.
AIV I M A Ij"li A iVV R E,
$15 per Ton.
We eoiiHlder It uuaeced ary loaay machlarelatlna to tblx article. I)i9price nad quality haviag eitablirthod fur It a repaiHtloa, tu wbicb wn cauQUt add. Kuiblog, por- bxpH, ha>« Qvnr created a greater exciletaeat among Practical Fanners, laixa tbe tutrodactluo of oarA^'t- aiAL MaMJKE.
SUPER -PHOSPHATE   OF  LIME, $40 per Ton.
Afi a ready and rjficienl Maao're. It caauot be Forpassed. 23*^"" Kfd "*>« for yoarTt-ilvax,
TWELLS. MELLON St CO.,
Sos. 10 i' i2 Soulh Wh'irvcs. I wo doors below ilarket St.,
PlltLADELPaiA.
33"-^ liberal dlecuaal mada tu I)ad.lerii.
mar 7 Sm-15
MAPJBS'
NITEOGKNIZED
SUPJER-PHOSPIIiTB   OF   LIHE,
COMPOSED OP
Dried Blood, Bones,
Sulphuric Aoid, Peruvian Guano,
and Sulphate Ammonia. 100 PooncU of the
HITKOGEiriZED PHOSPHATE
WiU equal ia elTect and liLstiag  pawer   155   PoQods Peravlaa Gaano—trill proiace
GREATER WEIGUT OF WIIEAT,
And other Grain, per Banhel.
BSrIT  PREVENTS BUST!
I tiolicit Parmer* lo give ita fairtrial, 1>dingci)Dfideat of itn wortli. It has beea exteafllvety nsed In tue New EdgUDd and Soathera S;ato-i for teu yaard patt, aod its increasing dale
PKOVKS ITS SUPERIOR'TY! It U packiid iu strong Bx-^s of ItiO poands each.
BHICE 84 per BAG, or 850 per TON.
Ordere accumpanied by Kemlttaaced wltl meetwtlti Prompt Attentioa.
TeF.tlm0nlal3 aad Sampled glren Free of Charge, oa applicalioa to tha Sole Agant,
E. W. B. ALLEN,
.VO.   14   soum   DELA.WAUE   AVEXUE,
PHILADELPHIA.
53-iOESTs Wasted. teii 22-3ii>-13
CHAS. P. RUIfflPP, 118 NOUTH FOUKTH ST.
pHlL.\DELI-UJi, AT   T«f    OLD   STAXD WaulddAle nud K-ji.til il^oal.clar.r of Part MoDctiMH,     (.'.ib..Hiiud I'arat}.. Dra^i.tu^ Caf, MoDBy B.tu, K.t[icule.. Cii;iir U.-w..
POUND.
IX Paradise townsliip, Lanca.«tcr Co., a SATCHEL. contalnlD.ii Beveral articles. If theowner Ci*mm forward, proraii pruparty, and p-tyH cbarf;ns for HdrertlBlog, il caa be obtalaed by Hpi>Iyiag at the re.si dence of the aabscriber,un Ibu road IC'itliDK from Stras- borK to Georgetowa. JACOB DESLINGEK.
feb 22 4t«-]3
POE BENT OR SALE.
BY the Subscriber a two-story J5RICK HOUSE with Httcben aiUehed, aud Htable for Mala or rent, t<Uuated Id Horth Queea Htreet, Lanca>>ler city, on tbe Flank Koad, adjoiuing tbe residfltice of tbe subscriber, JOUN sWlLKEY.
fab 22 4t-I«
POR RENT.
A FIRST-KATE STOKK STAND,— with STOKE K005f,and DWELLING aud f^ titable, in Fenaiagtuarilla.CheiitT county. Tbe HuN placo la uow doiug a good bnnioaiiM. mHa
Fo(weit»lun will be givea on tba tlmt of April. For paniculars addrese tbe subBcriherat I'eouloKlon- Tllle.                                                         ISAAC GKOFF. feb 22  __ 6n-l3
REMOVAL.
Tn Fj subscriber has removed liis LOOK- rSG GLASS AND PICTURE FKAME MANUFaC- TURV to
No.s. 3 and 5 EAST GRANGE STREET,
lataly occupied by tba MauIc Store of J. F. Uetull>b, wbare there can alwaya be foand a laiK^Miori meot of
Looking Glasses in Gilt and Lac¬ quered Frames,
AUo, every de^c^iplioa of I'HOroGKAPn A^'D PIC¬ TURE FRAMES, of bin owo maaofactara. Priuts, En¬ gravings and Arllals'Material-* cin-iaatiy on iand
B3-KEUILDING promplly attnoded tu.
JAu ll-:im-7 Wil. E. HEINITSH.
Removal to Water Street. rpUE UUEKSiGNKD,  .MANUFAC-
I TOREK of TtlKASUlNG MACHINE?, IIOIWE I'uVVEKS. CORN SHELLERS, CIRCULAR SAWS. &c baa removfd from East King »M . to TUK SHOPS IN WATER STREET. {Wfl^ti*idri,) aJjoiuiug DillfirV Ma¬ cbiue Shop-, and about half a tqnHre norib of TrouiV Tavern, wb^ra he irt preprtred Wltb increa-«=d faciliii^n to BII orderii for alt woilc in hid Ilue, in the rtry bent maaaer.
13* Coaitantly on baud, tha Patterns and Castings forlhe NEW JEKSEl' RBAfBR.
mar7-3m'-15 ABRAHAM F. gAIK. Ageut.
Pocltet Hook»:,       Port Folion,
Sill Baaka, j:c. IY-13
BLINDS AND SHADES,
CtlE.iP  FOR  f.MSH
B.   J.   WILLIAMS.
I70   16   NORTH   SIXTH.   STtlEET. I'HlLLUHLfHIjI,
I.f tht  liri:—t M<«uufaciurnr of
"WINBOW     BLINDS,
.v.Nt) heaLbki.n
"WIWDOW   atlADES,
OF  EVEKV   VAIU STY.
Ha is tbe Origiualor-H All Ne^v   >tyiM'> and b&i  a  Si*
Stsicli to hM rtold at ¦¦¦fitJL'CEO I'KICEi
BUFF, ANO  ALI,   OTHEit   i:oi.<iKS   OF   LINEN
sfiAues, t'KiM.ui.V(;». Fi.vruttEs, nc.
STO^EaUADEs P.tiuted tu order.
a3-B, J. W. luviiBsCitiZrtUi* ttf thi:*G.iaaty lo call befura parcbuaihg, and atiura^ tham na cau mi\ j. bnt¬ ter articia for the mouey ihau auy utber E.uhlithmeul in the Uolldd Sl.iie4. m.-*r 23-tf-i7
GLENN'S ONE PRICE UAL' AN D 0.11> STORE,
(eoitseit Of TIIK t'lVB sroitr bu'»i;k,) North   Iff-ff   Corner nf   Sigfith   und   It tee  .'itreet^,
PatLADEi-PtilA.
''PilE pubiic are resptiet:'tilly invited to
I     bear tu miad tbat at tbia Stora lu-ty ba  foaad aa •ienurimeut of t'a-liiiiuiibl'f aui MuaJsoma
, Molcskia Dreas Satd dol'c Huts.     -> tItGli, LOW it Mli.MU.'I .'E 'V.I .Jrtu.VN,       ' i           i:LOTtl, A.vu i.-(.a2oii CAl'.-j. PlUab and FIu^li rnmiudd Cijm tnr vlou iud Hoyi. Fancy U.\i.i ami (.'-tp-J tVir tJliU.lreu, «t KAirt i'ki :»{'« Ij^.VO TIV'O PRICES FOR REGULAR GJOOi. lau IS   ly-d
CARDSl   CAIIUS!! CAiLDSlI
PRINTER'S SHEET   AND   CtlT   CARDS
BEST ASD CHEAPEST t.\- THE .MARKET.
OAUOS FOR ,lioiiii(ifig I'liuiu^i'apii Pictures,
oy SU^Elt01H QUALITV A.VD AT LOW PKICIU,
Blue and WhUe and fine iVntte Paste Boards,
¦ Straw   Boards,   ^c,   on   hand   aad  for
sate   by
A. M. COIjIjINS,
>lt.\-OR STREET
GEORGE PIjICK, IJLIND   MANUFAOTaKEK,
SO.   72   SORTH   QUEUX  STREET, Near   the   Eailroad,  rear  of Jacob    Bear'a   Cabinet
Wara Manufactory, LANCASTER,   1' A .
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Fmit and Ornamental Trees,
Sim Orape Vinea, Rosea, Hardy Slirub-  «mi
*g* bery, Bedding-Out aud ilot-lloase 2£
Plants, &o.
S. H. PURPLE,
HILLSIDE   NUKSEKT,
COLUMBIA,  LANC. CO., PA.,
RESPECTi^ULLiT calls the attentioa of Farmera and Ptauiera to hta etoclt now on baud Ior tne Spriug trade. .   ,      .     ., ,,
AHPLES—All of tha leading vanetlo*, 4 to 7 years old.
Price St2 to $18 per ItW. PEAK—Ou Pear roots—of tli«beat rarietloH, 1 to4 yeara
from Kraft    S^ 1° S^^ P^'' "^^ PEARS—Ou'QoincB roota,ebolcaat kloda. wait braocbad
2 to 3 yearn, from bud. «AJ to S W V^t lUU- PLUaS--A choice coUactlou. 26 ty 60 cents. CHERRIES—A good aaworimeni of Uearla, Dakeb aad
Morelloa, S yoara old, Birmg, il to 50 couta. PEACHES—Fine and haalthy, lu to lii eeuta.  . APRICOTS—I aud 2 yeara old, '26 to 6U. WElTaRINES—t year old, large. 16 canta. OKaNGE quinces—25 to 38 canU. GRAPES—NallTe aud Exotic, alargeatockfraltingaize,
over SO dilferent varieliea. embracing all tbe new auU
rare liindd.   Pricea ranging frum -M ceuta to $3.UU. LAWTON BLACKBERRY—Fine, $ltl par 100. KASl'BERKYs—Cracked up kloga, $tf par iUl). STRAWBERRIES—Beat aurU, $b per 1,000. CDKKANT;^—Charry  Wuite,  Urape Wblw  and  Hed
Dntch, kc, 1(1 to 2u canU.
The Btoctt of rtara la largo and very suparior. Tbe ornameatal departmeut la iha mont completa ot any lu tbe connty. A. large coilectiou of EVERUREENS wt the moHtdedirable variety.
Also, Hardy FLOWERING BIIUUBBERV. of nearly every deacription Kept la »Jiy aurnrry lu tliia couuirv. Over 26 kinds of dacidaoaa traea lor ntreet plauilug.— And In fact,we wilt supply averytuiug ordorad lu lhe nuroery Iina on abon notice, aud at pricei aa low aa auy oiber eslabtlBi.meul lu tbe siaiu.   Uiva un a cnil.
mar7-3n-I6 s. ll. PURl'LE.
EAKiM LANDS FOK SALE 25 milea ftom Philadelphia by Railroad la tba State of New •toraey* Soit amoug tbe baat for Agricaltaral purpoaea, being agood loam soil, with & clay boiioui. Tbe land la a targe tract, divided tnPJ amall farma, and bandreds from atl paria ol the coauiry are nuw eatlting and huilt dlog. The cropa prodnced are large and can be teeu growing. The climaie ia delightlni, aud becure ftom froaU. Terma from $16 to ^'^ per acre, payablo wllbin foui yeara by InstaimentB. To vialt tbe place—Laare Vine Street Wbarl at PMladelphla at 1^ A. M. by Rail¬ road for Hammonton, or addreas B. J. Byruea,by tetter, BamiBODtoa Poat OQlce, AtUntIc Coanty, New Jeney. Hm fall advvtlBement in uiotliai colBran. tsp. Sl, 6a-43
PAPEn and CARU   <V.ir«u.(u->
PHILADELPHIA. sap 7 _ _ __   _'''"'^'„
SILVER PLATED WARE,
HARVEY FILLEY, NO. 1222 MARKKT STREET, PHILAD'A., '\T aNUFaCTUKKH uf title
ItI     NK'KEL silver, A.\DaIl.Vii.i t»LATER of
Porks, Spoous, Ladled, Biit.er Kuiveri, Castors, Tea Srttis, Urus, Kettlet=, Wiiiiers, liuiter Dished, Ice Pituhers, Cake B.tskeid, CouiUiuiiidu \V;tre, Cup:*, 'Mutjs, Uublels, &c., &iii , ice, Wirh a g<>aaral a.-aorlmdul, onuprioiug .yo.SE OCT TUB tlK.-^T(iu.iLiTV, uiiile ut Om ui:-r M\TriaiALa.tu<l hkavilt I'LWKU, couniuuuuk; ibeui a .¦"irvici.iiiindud durable ar¬ ticle Ior lli>t-li, atDAiubData aud I'rivate t'juiiUe-4. best m.tuuer.
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FURNITURE    UPUOLSTKLRINU
"WARE-HO USE I ^I'^IIE Uudcr.iigiicii respeutlully informs
M bin cunlowern auil lUtt pubiic, iuat Ua "a^ enlarged bin place Ot busiuans tu nu elegaut aud Apleudid »tyie, aud kaapt Cv'Usuiui.ly uu bauil, a lar^a iia.M>riujuut of
FAoUlL'.V.iBLE Ir'URAll'URE, ofall kludsr, luauuiacLurad wit Ut3.'«pni:i^l cnra hy hid own wurkmeu, and uuaar Uih owu auparriaiuu.    tla ulno re- coiuiuBuda to tha pubiic bia uawiy luvaulnd aud im¬ proved
SOFA UEUSIEAD ASU LOUSGES, which for couvtjuiduca auii ea-e, .'^urp.i.^a 4uyiuiug aver USMU before.    SPivt.NU, UaIR aud UUati ilA I'TrtASSES made in Ibe heat ntyla.   Hi» pricea aro ticnafkably Loup aud ba boltcita a HU.tre of puullc patrouage.
JOtl.'j A. HaUER, No. 2.>5. Souib Sdcoud St., abova spruci:, I'uiuie.ph la mar y ly.15
SPICES!    SPICBS ! 1    SPICES !! Pure aud No. 1 tiruuud Peppor. Giuger, Ciuuamun, Atlsptue, Cloves. Atuertuan aud KuglUli Aiudturd. Cayeuue Pepper, Nutiuegd, ^laue. Sup. Carb. siuda, Sulipeire, Saleratus. Sal. Soda, Iudii£u. Caraway & Conauder Seed. Asiiiuu Dairy aud Grouud Salt, &c.,
Furaaleat lUe ca^la UlUa -No, '.Ml taj 2-tt) Nortb Fiont &Uaet coruer ut New, l'hit»daipnia..
li,^\VAKU WyRRELL.
{^''I'arcbaKera wilt dud it ^leaiiy to tUitir luieraat hum lu iiuamy auu price to buy iua>e guudi, wbicu are Warrautod >u> rupiedoulud ur loricited. A trial ii> a-'Uo. led.  iu*r .b-ly-lo
TRUSSlid' URACKS.It SUPPORTiiRd [M C. Jti. NEEDJLiEci,
S. W.COR. TWELFfH Ai^iu uaCq ala., PHILAD'A..
Practical AJjuaiarul AUpiura I'lUaaaaaud
AlacUauical tvauiadlen,
HAS uoHslaiilty un baud a lur^c Stock ul tjauuiue FieucU t'l uanaa ; alau,« Ci/uipiala aa- ou.iuaut ot ibQ bent Americau, luciudiut; tuo c natitatad Wtilte'a I'alcUl Lover rrasa.bctia^etl t>y iud IfvatauiUur- UlaB to ba eUperiur lu auy yet tuVoUina. ^uKUob aud American auppuriera auu lialla. aUuUldar crai-w, aua- pauhury Uaudd^aa, adl lujaciiug synu^oa, ad«^tad to tMtb Baltan, lu u«at porUUia caaao, eraucu r«ai>ari«a, Uriual U^ga. !tc.
Urdara aud loiters of aui|alry, wiU maat prompt at- teoiiou. aug at-iy-ja
WESTEKN   HOTKL, No. 826 MAHKET St.. P ti I Lji DELPHIA
J.  C.  JU.AXWELL,  Agent. '^pHlS House lias bcoii reiuruiaued with
\ entire uew forutinre. Tlie Ruouu itte light aua airy.
g^-Tbe Tablo will ba farnlabed with tbs beat the maiaet can all'ord. Tbe Uar wlttl lad cuuiceal vt LtQUora and bejiars. o«i ft^tMS