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MCMILLAN. {13" Terms extremely liberal. =51; R AND L ARDER WELL SUPPLIED. Good S*abling and attentive hoetler. PRICEVILI.B, w. R, ROMBOUGH, .CO-ULSON. EEB§ESa STOVEL, DEREAI, BY McPARLANB. PRICEVILLE, AND BY AND COUNTY OF GREY GENERAL ADVERTISER. aaâ€"ly. God Bless the Brave Y0ung Prince of Wales. Caledonia, Aug. 18, 1860. Mrs. Danesbury naturally felt impatient for particulars, and pressed Thomas Harding to relate them,as they sped on their way. He was enabled to do so, having had them detailed over to him at length, by Jessy. Mrs. Danesbury listened to the end, ‘but she was not satisfied. Miscellaneous Be :ding' -Iv' _.. â€"â€" __ “I cannot comprehend it,” she remarked. “ The tincture of opium has been in the clos- et in my bed-room undisturbed since the night it was first brought into the house. I had the toothache badly, and sent to the Chemist’s for some. Sarah went for it ; and,; knowing I was in pain, she brought it away! without giving time to label it. I placed it‘ in my closet, and how it is possible for Glis- son to have gone thither for it, and taken it, believing it was the baby’s cough mixture, which she kept in her own nursery, I cannot conceive. It is an understood thing in the house, thatnobody interferes with what may ,be in that closet but myself. I should not “be so much surprised had it been one of the other servants; but for Glisson to go to the closet, and to commit such an error, is incom- prehensible. It isas though she had acted inher sleep.” God bless the brave young Prince of Wales, The first to seek our shore ;â€" The worthy son of our good Queen “’liom freemen all adore; Let party strife and faction rude Be hush’ d, be hush d, be still; And all no: to in heart and soul To greet. him with a will: And all unite in heart and soul, And all unite in heart and soul, And all unite in [cart and soul, To greet, to greet him with a. will. Welcome, welcome the Royal Heir To Freedom’s only Crown; Let cannon roar from Labrador Our farthest Lakes around ; e . Ring out, ring out a joyous pea], The cup of welcome fill, And all unite in heart and soul To greet him with a. will : And all unite in heart and soul, And all unite in hes rt and soul, And all unite in heart and soul, ' To greet, to greet him with a will. Thomas Harding was silent. He was debating a question to himself. Ought he to impart to Mrs. Danesbury a tumor which had come to his ears ? God bless the Queen, our noble Queen; 0 Lord her ever keep; A pledge of her great love, she sends Her son across the deep , Heaven bless her true and trusting heart, Long may she reign, well sing, And all unite heart, soul and might, To hail our future King And pray, long live our gracious Queen: “ A faithful, cautious, tried old servant like Glisson !” repeated Mrs. Danesbury. “Does it not shake you as being very extraordinory Mr. Harding}? _ Lofig,'lbng End happy"! (3 her reign; And all unite, hca rt soul and might, To bail, to bail out futum King. Bless Albert, the Prince consort, and The Royal progeny; God prosper long Bri: annia, too,â€" Mother of Libert, From danger shie': d the Prince while here, Protect him homeward bound, To tell his R0331 mother of“ v “ Ma’am,” he said, With straightforward simplicity, “ I am thinking whether I ought not to tell you something which Jessy men- tioned to my wife.” “ If it is anything that can bear upon this case, you certainly must inform me,” replied Mrs. Danesbury. “ It was the Sunday Jessy had leave to drink tea with us,” he resumed. “ My wife got asking her whether she should be able to reconcile herself to service, and how she liked her place: and in talking of her various duties, she said that Glissou-m-that Glisson 9’ DEVOTED TO The gem tliat lights her. Crown. ' _ To tell her, too, the hearts out here Are loving, loyal, tru'. and sound, And re ady st ill for her to guard The gem that lights her peerless Crown. “ Go on,” interposed Mrs. Danesbury, wondering a: his Mhesifiation. Thoma: Harding leaned towards Mrs. Danesbury, and continued in a whisper, “ That Ghsson drank.” “That she what ”uttered Mrs. Danes- bury. . “ Ma’am,that Glisson drank. Tack some- times _more}_}_\aa Wag goqufpr her.” “ That Glisson drank!” repeated Mrs. Danesbury. in the very extreme of surprise. “ Impossible. What could Jessy have meant by Gazing 9.0-” . Q U 5 .-A A 1“ My Vvife said it Was impossible, and took Jessie to task for traducing Mrs. Glisson.-' But J easy pemsted that it was soâ€"that she! 500 PRIZE STORY. BANESBUBY HOUSE. DURHAM, C. W., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1860. BY MRS. ELLEN WOOD. All-"The Englishman. B’Qgififii0 THE NIGHT JOURNEY. CHAPTER II. (Continued) NE‘VS, POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND AGRICULTURE, does drink, and IS often stupid through it.” Mrs. Dnnesbuxy was silent, utterly con- founded. “ Nearly every night she has one big tum- bler of hot gin-and-water, sometimes more; drinking plenty of ale at supper, too much, in fact; Mrs. Glissori being‘ allowed the strong ale at that meal, while most-of the other ser- vants take beer.” “ Mrs. Glisson is older than most of them,” interrupted Mrs. Danesbury. “ And when Mr. Danesbury suggested that Glisson might drink ale with her supper, if she preferred it to tablebeer, neither he nor I imagined she would take an unseemly quantity. It is in- credible !” credible !” “I fear it is true,” returned Thomas Har- ding. “ Jessy is a clear sighted, keeng .. irl, and: is not likely to be deceived. She has seen Gl1sson with a black bottle to her lips in the day time, and believed it contained gin. In speaking of this misfortune to- -da3, she told me Glissnn was‘ stupid’ acain, and it was in consequence of seeing she 11 as so, that put it into her head the oough mixture might really be on the mantel piece, over- looked by Mrs. GliSson. JesSy sa3s she re- prOached her with it, in the fright of the dis- covery.’ C “O. I “ But, were it true that Glisson takes gin, how can it have escaped her detection?” urged Mrs. Danesbury. “The smell would betray her ” n n a I. C “ Jessy thinks that it is not very often she takes it in the day-time, and you don’t see her, ma’am, after she has had‘ it at night.â€" But she has got a. trick of sucking things.â€" Sometimes it'will be a bit Camphor, some- times a peppermint drop : Jessy says she al- ways knows what the nurse has been sup- ping, when she sees her put one of these things into her mouth; and of course they take oche smell of anything else.” Mrs. Danesbury remembered to have smelt peppermint and camphor when the nurse had been talking; and she also remembered. that Glisson had occasionaily seemed stupidâ€"~be- wilderedâ€"and She wondered; but she had never suspected the cahse now hinted at..â€" “ I wish Jessy had said this to me,” she ob- served. “ I should not have quitted home and left the child it} l'neij‘ehgrge.” _ . V “I wish she had, ma’arn,vas things have turned out,” responded Thomas Harding.â€" “ But very young women, going fresh into a house, would venture to bring such a charge agairifln 013 and valued servant.” “Very true. And my perfect confidence in Glisscn may have tended to blind‘me.-â€"â€" The puzzle is, where can she get the gin '2” A “Oh, ma ’am, people who oive may to drink are never at a fault to get it. ” Mrs. Danesbury gathered herself into her corner of the chaise, buried 111 an unpleasant reverie. She xx as casting blame to herself. Not for having failed to detect Glisson’ sfault; no,’ blame lay not with herselfthere: but for having suffered the landannm bottle to be without a. label. Several times had she thought of placing a label on it, but the time had gone on, and on,‘and this was the result. Had there been a hbel, Glisson was certain- ly not so far gone but she might have read it. “ Have you, or Mrs. Harding, mentioned this doubt of (llisson to any one l” suddenly asked Mrs. Daneslpnry. - ‘ ‘ A. I ‘ WY-vée’ft'gihlâ€"y"not,” (ms his reply. “And we cautioned Jessy not to let 1t escape her lips again.” C ‘ B .' A ' _-,‘_- ‘__ u--- r“! -am glad of that. Iscarcely see my way clear, with regard to Gltsson. Mr. Danesbttry thinks highly of her, and she served his mother faithfully for many years, so that I feel it would not be kind, orjust, to turn her away, as I might a less valued ser- 1 vant. Ithink I must bury this in silence,even ‘ to Mr. Danesbury, and keep her on for a while, and be watchful over her, and try to recall her to what she used to be. lam con- vinced she cannot have taken to it long. I must question Jessy: perhaps she will tell me more than she has told you.” They had been travelling at a high rate of speed all the way, and had changed horses several times, though it has not been neces- sary to mark their prOgress step by step.â€" Now they were nearing Eastborough; and soon the lights in the town began to be visi- Ltle. Had it been day, Mrs. Danesbury would have seen her husband’s factory, ris- ing on the opposite hill. It was, however, nearly midnight, a cold, frosty starlight night. A steep hill descended to tlze hollow, and at the top of the hill was the turnpike D The gate was closed. The postâ€"boy stop- ped his horses and hallooed ;- and the door opened, and the keeper came out. Mrs. Danesbury, who was on that side, leaned forward. -.“ fio you happen to know, Giles, whether the child is saved. ’ She received no answer: The man had gone forward, with a stumble, to open the gate; Mrs. Danesbury supposed he had trip- ped over a stone. He opened the gate; he did not fling it back, but kept it in his hand, and went stumbling across the road with it.â€" The post-boy urged on horses; but Giles somehow loosed his hold of the gate, and though he went on himself, he let the gate swing-to again. It struck the nearest horse. The horse, a nasty tempered animal at all times, as the post-boy phrased it afterwards, began to plunge and kick; that startled his fellow, and, in spite of the efforts of the post- boy, they sprang forwards, and dashed madly down the hill. Mrs. Danesbury shrieked, roseu . and ’ P " 1 ’t at u don’t lean “ Ma am, ma 4m, ( an g p, out!” implored Thomas Harding; ‘.‘ be still, for the love of ltfe! Lie you down at the bottom of the ehaisg.” ‘ ‘ I. 1 0‘ ‘ bottom of the ehaise.” ' , wili be bad, but if Mrs. Danssbury 'shoulan’t! “ This is certain death,” She vyailed.-â€"-â€" be got-to again (and "she don’t look like it,) I 1 “ They will inevitably ($th 333m“ the should be sorry to stand in your shoes.” bridge; and “Will 139 “mm“ death. Oh» my They descended the hill again, and the children! My SaVIOUI'; I can but commend postboy sank down as before, with his back them to Thee! D0 Thou make them Thine resting against the bridge. His exertion had and keep them from the evrl ! ” . made him feel dizzy, Soon, voices and rap- - Had it been his (fem Wife, or one with id foot-steps were heard, for several people whom he 6011“} I’llt himself “P0" an equality, were approaching. Foremost of them came Thomas Harding would have forged her to I Mr. Pratt, the surgeon, Thomas Harding, and the bottom of the chaise and held her there. But he did not like to act so to Mrs. Danes- bury. She had leaned from the side window as she spoke the last words, probably not knowing that she did so, in her agitation and terror, and certainly not aware that they were already at the foot of the hill. But they had, as it were, flown down it; the chaise, in that same moment, struck againstthe lower stone abutment of the narrow, awk- ward bridge, (which every. body in East- borough had long said was a disgrace and a danger to the town, but which none had beâ€" stirred themselves. to have altered) and the chaise was overturned. Mrs. Danesbury’s head fell on the ground, and the chaise set- tlednpotlit. How Thomas :Harding extricated himself he never knew. Beyond being shaken and a little bruised, he was not hurt. The terri- fied horses had struggled and plunged till they freed themselves, and started of! with part of the broken shafts dangling after them. The post-boy w_as lying without motion. Thomas Harding saw at a glance the dread- ful situation of Mrs. Danesbury. To raise the chaise, or aid her of herself, he was en- tirely powerless. At that moment, the church clock struck out twelve, and the door of a public-house, the Pig and Whistle, beyond the bridge, at the entrance of the town, was thrown open, and a'stream of warm light and a crowd of topers came forth into the street together. 7‘Hilloa! help! hilloa! ” shouted Thomas Harding, running towards them; “help here.” The group, most of whom were employed at the Danesbury works, halted at the noise, and peered in the direction it came. They had left a room blazing with lights and fire, and could as yet distinguish no object outside. The landlord followed with a candle; per- haps believing it would render objects more distinct. ' i “Blest, if it ain’} Harding!” exclaimed one. “‘Vhat’s the matter, sir?” he crled, as his fireman camepaqting up.“ Mr. Harding explaiired, as well as he was able fer his haste an‘d agitation. Some were capable of rendering assistance, some were not; those who were, flew to the spotâ€"the landlord still carrying the flaring candle, which soon flared out. ' “ I tell ye I heer’d somm’at Pke horses a galloping past, with shafts a’tar ’em,” cried one of the men; “ but yo was, in such haste to abuse the landlord, for saying it were twelve, that ye could not heed me.” Between them they raised the chaise, and extricated Mrs. Danesbury. She lay motion- less. Harding, shocked and bewildered, and hardly knowing how to act, sped off through the town to Mr. Danesbury’s, Whilst others ran for the surgeon, who was not found at home, but at Danesbury House. The post- boy had gathered himself up, and was sitting with his back against the side of the bridge. They gently raised him, and walked him about a few steps. No limbs were broken. He shook himself. and speech came‘ to ‘him. “ What had Giles to do with it 2” question- ed the chorus of voices.” “ That there Giles ought to swing for this,” were the first words that broke from them. “He were as drunk as blazes. I saw he were, when he came ducking, head over heels, to open the gate. He were so drunk he couldn’t push it back, nor hold it back, and he let it come swing agen the horses.” “ Did that start ’em off ’2” “It just did start ’em off: I never strode such terrified, tunous brutes afore. They took, as you may say, one leap from the top of the hill to the bottom, not a bit longer it didn’t seem. and the chaise caught the nasty awk’ard bridge, and we went over): “ I tell you what, ” cried the landlord; “ Something ’11 be done now. The town has called out long enough about the danger of keeping such a bridge; and some folks have called out about Giles’ s drunkenness. It’ll both be remedied now , you’ll see. ” “ Who’ll give me a arm up the hill?” cried the post-boy, who was a native of East- borough, and had driven out with. Mr. Hard- "‘q that afternoon, with these very horses.â€" .. I (igabi'if'f'éivfi'fi 16.6- $512} t'o' get Hp' 'it of myself. I’ll go_ and h_a_ve 2} word_ wjth Gi1e_s.” Two of them immediately took the pobtboy in tow, and the begin to ascend the hill.-- The rest remained to keep water over the unfortunate lady. -' “ Jim,” cried ontthe landlord, t‘ what a-_- bout the horses? Where be they flown to ?” “ Taint much matter where,” was the post'boy’s answer, “they have done mischief enough. They be off to their stables, no doubt, they be, the cantankerous. brutesf’ Arrived at the turnpike,th_ey tried the house door. It was locked ; but they shook it, and kicked, and shouted till Roger Giles came and Opened it ; very nearly pitching forward into their arms with the exertion. “ A niée state you be in I” uttered the post boy, “ a sweet gentleman you be, to keep a pi‘ke! Do you know the damage you have gone and done?” “ Eh ?” enunciated Giles. He Was stupid- 1y drunk, and his eye wandered uneasily to the spot where he kept his employers’ cash; some vague idea hammering at his brain, that the three men, now entered, might have design upon it. a We ivon’t go on at him now,” said the postboy to his friends: “taint of no good.â€" Look at the sot! But you’ll both please to bear me out to master, as to his state, so that I don’t get the blame.” “ This will be a bad joblor You, Giles,” ,crled one of the men. " You have took a drop once to much, my boy. Any way it will be bad, butif Mrs. Danssbury shouldn’t I be got-to again (and ”she don’t look like it,) I should be sorry _to_sta_nd jn_your shoes.” PRICE, $1 50,1N ADVANCE. [WHOLE NUMBER, 91. Mr. Danesbury. Those, kee ing guafdfilfew respectfully “back, and tone ed their hats, even in the dark might, to Mr. Danesbury.f-. They had brdhgh‘t; means for a hght With them, which had been thought of by Thomas Harding, and the surgeon held 11 to theface of Mr_s. Danesbury. " She haven’t Jstirred, nor even moaned, sir,” said the landlord of the Pig-and Whis- tle, who, with the others, had collected c1050 11 . P“ A moment, if you please,” cried out the surgeon, anthontatively. “ Stand back, all of you: I can do and see nothing, with you, crowding round. Mr. Danesbury, will, you also allow me a moment. here alone. Hard- ing. you stay and hold the torch.” _ FPo'c'n Mr. Pfatt ! He saw that Mrs. Danes- bury was dead, and had so bpoken to gain time for composure, and that Mr. Danesbury might not see, uppxepared, that ghastly face, which told too plaquy i_ts _own tale. ,All had stepped back in compliance with his wishes. Mr. Danesbury’s eyes fell on the postboyk“ _ “ Are you hurt Jimm?” he asked, kindly. “A bit shook, sir; qun’t think it’s no worse. I hope it won’t be no worse with no- body else, sir,” he added, nodding towards where the surgeon was stooping. ' “ How did it happen? Mr. Harding says the gate touched the horses.” ---.. P"" _ _ “ Come Swinging riu'ht agen ’em, sir - Giles were so drunk he couldu’ 1 hold i_t b_ac_k_. ” v-uv “Drunk, was he?” quickly cried Mr. Danesbury. - n C Q 0 " ‘ -r â€"._v__.__., “ He were beastly drunk, sir. I have been up there to him now, some of ’em here help- ed me, and he can’t speak, ..or etand straight.” Ukl 111C, auu 110 bull ; IV‘JUI-bl" cev. u.-~-.~--“ ----_-c---- Mr. Pratt had arisen, and was at Mr;- Danesbury’s elbow. He passed his arm within that gentleman’s, and drew him away from the crowd; halting at a certain part of the bridge, and apparently looking out, over the dark and gloomy water. “ii-{en Mr. Danesbury clutched the sur- geon’s arm with a tight, nervous grasp. .1 _j 1 4L- c---;L 7-1. b “The truth, ”he breathed,‘ the truth. Let me know the worst. I can bear it better than this agony of dreadr.” . ‘ A- i. l _- -4 ___t “321}ear1-Ii'eatr she is gofie,” added Mr. Pratt. vnuv \- “ What is it. ”” said Mr. Danesbury, “ why do you bring me here ? Have you ascertain- ed the nature of the injury. ’1” Vififlfily dear friend 1’5 cried the surgeon, “I know not how to tell you what Imust tell.” vv-uv Mr. Danesbury’s heart sank within him; a shadow of appalling woe stole over him.â€" But he did not spealf. Perhaps he could not. llv; Mr. Danesfibur'} let fall the surgeon’ 3 am. He half fell, half rested on the parapet of the bridge, and a low wail of utter anguish went forthb on the night air. The coroner’s inquest was held on the .ap-- pointed day. Thomas ,â€" Harding could only depose thatthe gate touched the horse on his side the chaise; he had not observedth‘a state of the gatekeeper. But the postboy, and the men who had subsequently accompanied him to the gatehouse, testified that Giles was incapably drunk. . The verdict returned was, “ Manslaughter against Roger Giles; he ha- ving: been, at the time of its act, in a state of drunkenness.” He was committed to prison to await his trial. The little child, William Uanesb'ury, had recovered the efiects of the laudanum, ‘ the remedies administered by the; eurgeon having proved successful. .Ibutu DOD-w “Dv‘iJ “ One consolation is, that. she did not suf- fer. She must have died Instantaneously.â€" Her neck is broken.” 7 __ _ A Easlbhrough, insignificant in itself, owed what importance it did possess to its being the scene of the Danesbury Works, some- times called the Danesbury Factory, some- times the Iron “Torks. It a was a concern of considerable magnitude, giving employ- ment, in its various departments, to a large number of hands. Engineers, iron-founders, manufacturers of agricultural and divers im: plements, combined with other branches of trade, not essential to mention, necessarily rendered the Daneshurys of a high standing in the commercial world. Not only for the extent of their operations, did they bear. a wide renown, but for the lofty excellence of of their character, both in business and in private life. Just, honorable, and upright, {the name of Danesbury was respected all the lcountry round. The business had once been of small account, but then the proprietor of it, John Danesbury, raised it, by his dilligence and intelligence. into importance. As his two sons, John and Philip, severally attained the age of tWent’y-one, they were taken into partnership with him, the firm then being ala tered to that of “John Dancsbury Sons.”â€" The elder of those sons, John, was the one introduced to the reader. He was now the sole preprietor, for his father and mother had both died; the latter, Philip, a _young man, U"‘ll ‘llckl ’ l||U Auotvu, - .- leaving a Widow. But the appellatioxi’of the firm had not been changed: it Was still known as that of “John Danesbury Sons :” possibly Mr. Danesbury looked forward to the period when it should be so in actuality. He had married a Miss St. George, a lady every way Worthy of him, and whose present dreads ful death was a far more agonizing shock to him than the world suspected. Tleir two eldest children, Arthur and Isabel, lived and flourished, two succe'céding ones had died in- - - rs - - 9-1â€"â€"-- fants,and'the last ha'd jus? escapéd following them, as you have seen, through nurse Glis- son’s dose gt: ogium. ‘0 I _‘ g . UV‘. ‘1 “vulvâ€" Thomas Harding was exceedingly attached to Mr. Danesburv ; and with cause. He had served his father, he now' served him, and enjoyed his full confidence. There were su- perior clerks, as to position, in the factory, gentlemen overlookers, but they held a secs ondary place to Thomas Harding in the esti-s mation of Mr. Danesbnry. It Was the re-‘- spect due to worth, deserved, and paid to an honest, guileless man. Harding was vexed at being the depository of this secret about Glisson ; but lie/hoped the tragical end of her mistress, caused remotely through her,might so tell upon her tm there would no longer exist reason to betray _her to Mr. Danesbury. “ Glicson took on dreadfully,” said Jessy. one day that she was at the Hardings’house, about ten days subsequently to the funeral.â€" “I was so shocked, that night, when they brought the dead body into the house, that I hardly knew what I said, and didmot spare her. I told her, if she had kept herself in her right senses, and given the baby the proper medicine, our poor mistress would have been alive and safe.” “ What did she say ?” “ I cannot tell half she said. She was like ‘a mad woman, lying on the floor, crying out {or her mistress, moaning, and Wishing she had died for her. Master heard her in his room, and came in : but he-‘thought it was all self-reproach for her mistake in havrng given the wrong medicine ; he did-mot suspect she had anything worse to reproach herself truth.” THE DESOLATB HOUSE. CHAPTER III.