264 knight; 'nothing; but, in truth, I have not seen the damsel.' Not seen--Sir, Sir! Beware of what you say! Your heart I know is yet dancing, and your brain whirling, since your new honours; but trifle not with me, if you love your life. I left my daughter this morning in the midst of enemies, in reliance upon your faith as a gentleman, since you promised to protect her. I now demand her at you hands.' fall of his guard, had returned to Paris by the way they came: and subsequently many persons, both in parties and alone, had crossed in the ferry-boat. That This was all he could learn. Rosalie had passed the river was highly improbable.for the plain reason that she had not reached the camp, to which the distance was inconsiderable. When once across, she would have been shown the way to her destination by her fellow-fugitives; 'In truth, I have not seen the damsel,' and even if her sex had been discovered, said Sir Alain. The boat pushed off the the simple disclosure of her name would instant you mounted horse, and did not re-have been a protection from insult. The turn. I had no means of crossing the river, natural conclusion, therefore, was, that she had returned to Paris; and Alain almost and-andTraitor!' exclaimed the Lord de Mon- hoped that he should find her in safety in tenay furiously, 'you had not means of her fathere's house. The idea, notwithcrossing the river at a public ferry? But standing, of the dangers which a young this lame apology shall serve you in no and unprotected female would have to enstead. In spite of your magic staff, if it be counter at that lawless period, and in the one, and the prince of magic whome you seat of a civil war, recurring every now serve, I will require a bloody atonement and then, made his blood run cold; and for the wrong I suspect. Come with me it was with alternate paleness and flushinto the presence of the duke; to him I re-ings of the cheek, in the transports of fer my cause-nay, no hesitation.-What, hope or agonies of fear, that he pursued ho! without there! Seize the villain, and his journey. drag him before the prince!' While the men-at-arms, who had all dismounted, and varlets came running towards the entrance of the tent, Alain, springing out leaped up no his steed. My lord,' he said, to seek the prince would be but waisting time; for he can take no cognizance of this matter. On another occasion, I will return you the names you have favoured me with. In the mean time I got to find the Damsel of Montenay, if she is above ground, and if she is below it, to lay myself down in her grave!' And so saying, he dashed his maiden spurs into the horse's flanks and was out of sight in an instant. It was near the close of this busy day when he re-entered the city. Every thing still wore an air of bustle and confusion. Chains were fixed from side to side of the streets, and sentries stationed to examine the appearance of the passers-by.Crowds were seen running to and fro, as at noonday, and moving figures flitted on the tops of the houses like shadows passing across the dull sky behind. Some torches, here and there, threw a ruddy glare upon the fierce and eager faces around, and were reflected in the polished armour of the knights extermixed with the populace. Notwithstanding, however, that all things In due time he had reached the ferry. proclaimed the presence of some strange He swam the river as before; and, with a convulsion in the moral and political state heart bursting with fearful expectation, of the city, some sights and sounds were went into the auberge. The people of the heard or seen, telling of the common busicavalrier for house had not seen the young whom he inquired; he might have been ness of the hour. In the streets set apart there, or he might not: the multitude of for such trades as deal in the artless which fugitives and pursuers had been so great all nature or luxury has made necessaries of day that it was impossible for them to have taken particular notice of the individual. life, many shops were open; and criers No disturbance, however, as far as they stood by the door pointing out to the pas could observe, had taken place; no one had sengers the goods, to which there was nothbeen arrested in or near their house; cer-ing else, in the shape of sign or other dis tain men-at-arms, on perceiving the escape play, to attract their attention. of a prisoner on the opposite side, whom they styled the Lord de Montenay, and the (TO BE CONTINUED.) MULEY ISMAEL. His servants minutely expecting his death, fell to plundering his lodgings, taking away Muley Ismael, Emperor of Morocco, the hangings, pictures, carpets, cushions, killed with his own hand, during the time and even his cardinal robes, while he lookhe reigned, forty thousand of his subjects: ed upon them, but could not reprove them, yet he was, in a very particular manner, being unable to speak. The cardinal had attached to justice. One of his officers an ape, who seeing all his house mates complained to him that his wife, when in providing for themselves, he thought to ill-humour, had a custom of pulling him by come in for his share in the dividend, and the beard; and the emperor was so provoked entering the chamber, employed himself at the impudence of this woman, that, in very busily to see what was left for him; order to prevent her from again offending and finding nothing but the cardinal's cap, the majesty of his officer's countenance, he put it upon his head, and frisked he caused the hairs of his beard to be down, as extremely pleased with his new up and plucked out, one by one, by the roots. He promotion; at which the almost expiring. once saw another of his officers on the cardinal fell into a vehement fit of laughroad, driving a flock of sheep before him: ter, which broke the quincy in his throat, Whose sheep are these?' interrogated the and having discharged it by vomiting, reemperor; the officer replied with the deep-covered his health, and after that his stolen goods. est reverence, 'O Ismael, son of Elcheriff, of the seed of Hassen, they are mine.'Thine, villain,' said the servant of the Lord, as the emperor is styled, Thine? I thought I was the only proprietor in my dominions and immediately thursting his lance through the heart of the unfortunate sheep-driver; divided his flock among his guards. The only good deed that Muley Ismael seems to have done in his life, was the deliverance of his empire from a numerous band of robbers; but even this only good action bore the stamp of his sanguihary character. He ordered the massacre of all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, of a wide extent of country, round every place where a robbery had been committed. When he gave audience to foreign ministers, he was usually on horseback, in an open court; round him stood his officers barefooted, trembling, bowing to the ground, and, at every word he utered, they repeated in chorus, 'Great is the wisdom of our Lord, and the voice of our Lord is as the voice of an Angel from Heaven.' But their Lord never dismissed an ambassador till he had given him ocular demonstration of his readiness and dexterity in murdering some of his subjects; and this entertainment generally concluded the ceremonies of audience. Strange Accidental Cures and Escapes from Danger. A certain cardinal was so afflicted with a quincy, that he was almost choaked, and the disease not being conquerable by medicines, his physicans left him as incurable. A gentleman long famous for the apitude of his puns, observing a voilent fracas in front of a gin-shop, facetiously termed it, the battle of Agincourt." A young lady of Brunswick, an attendant neglected education, she was precluded on the late duchess, mortified that, from her from joining in the literary conversations which were frequently introduced at that court, requested her royal mistress to furnish her with such books as might enable her to remedy this defect. Her royal highness, smiling, handed her a Dictionary and next day, asked her how she liked it. Oh! it is delightful!' said the fair student: there are some books which I have seen, where the words are so huddled together, that one does not know what to make of them; but here it is quite a pleasure to see them all drawn up in order, like so many soldiers on a parade.' poem of the Fairy Queen. he carried it to 92 the Commissioners, on condition of securing to the State the payment of $50,000 out of the pro ceeds of the sale of that building and the lots on which it is situated. The Legislature, by an act of March 20, 1831,|| wealth in the Arch Street Prison was vested in authorized the construction of the Eastern Penitentiary on the principle of separate and solitary confinement at labor,' with an appropriation of $100,000, and the proceeds of the sales of certain lots of ground, situate in the city and county of Philadelphia; and the interest of the common-" A lot containing 13 acres, situate on Cherry Hill, two miles N. W. of the Court House, w 1. Observatory.-2. Corridores.-3. Cells.-4 zards to Cells.-5. Warden's Garden-6. Domestic's Garden.-7. Keepers der tments over these is the hospital and beneath the kitchens and offices.-8. Wards apartments.-9. Inspectors apartment ower which are two hospital rooms.-10. ase of the great tower over which is the Apothecaries' office above which is th selfry. ground occupied by it contains about ten acres.— The material with which the edifices are built, is a grayish granite or gneis, employed in large masses, every room is vaulted and fire proof.-The design and execution impart a grave, severe, and awful character to the external aspect of the this building. The effect which it produces on the imagination of every passing spectator, is peculiar impressive, solemn, and instructive.-The architecture is in keeping with the design. The broad masses, the small and well proportioned apertures, the continuity of lines, and the bold and expensive simplicity which characterise the features of the facade are most happily and judiciously combined. plan, the excellent arrangement and execution of details, displayed the taste and ingenuity of the architect, who has planned some of the noblest edifices of our country. The originality of the of the main edifice; they are pierced with small This Penitentiary is the only edifice of this country which is calculated to convey to our citizens the external appearance of those mag-corridors, the cells are situated each at right annificent and picturesque castles of the middle age, which contribute so eminently to embellish the scenery of Europe. gles to them, and communicating with them only by small openings, for the purpose of supplying the prisoner with food, and inspecting his movements without attracting his attention: other apertures, for the admission of cool or heated air, and for the purpose of ventilation, are provided. The privy pipes carry off the impurities of the cell to a common-sewer. Originally there was a defect in the construction of those pipes, which admitted communication between the prisoners, endangering the existence of the institution.This defect is I understand removed. The cells are warmed by heated air conducted by flues through the whole range. Light is admitted by a circular glass in the crown of the arch, which raking, and the highest part sixteen feet six inch The accompanying wiew and plan will illustrate the following brief description. The frout of this building is composed of larged blocks of hewn and squared granite; the walls are twelve feet thick at the base, and diminish to the top, where they are two and three quarters feet thick ness. A wall of thirty feet in height above the inferior platform encloses an arena six hundred and forty feet square: at each angle of the wall is a tower for the purpose of overlooking the establishment; three towers, which will be presently described, are situated near the gate of entrance. The facade or principle front, which is represented in the accompanying view, is sixes above the floor, which is of wood, overlaying hundred and seventy feet in length, and reposes on a terrace, which from the inequalities of the ground, vaies from three to nine feet in height; the basement or belting course, which is ten feet high, is scraped, or extends uniformly the whole length. The cental building is two hundred feet in length, consists of two projecting massive towers fifty feet high, croned by projecting embattled parapets, supported pointed arches, resting on corbels or bracket. The pointed munnioned windows in these tower ontribute in a high degree to their picturesque en t. The curtain between the towers is forty feet high, and is finished with a parapet and em sures. The pointed windows in it are very lofty and narrow. The great gateway in the centre is a very conspicuous feature; it is twenty-seven feet high and fifteen wide, and is filled by a massive wrought iron port cullis and double oaken gates studded with projecting iron rivets, the whole weighing several tons; nevertheless they can be opened with the greatest facility. On each side of this entrance (which is the most imposing in the United States) are enormous solid buttresses diminishing in offretts, and terminating in pinnacles. A lofty octangular tower, eighty feet high, containing an alarm bell and clock, surmounts this entrance, and forms a picturesque proportional centre. On each side of this main building, which contains the apartments of the warden, Keepers, Domestics, &c. are screen wing walls which appear to constittue portions a solid foundation of stone. The walls are plas. The bedstead bunk is so constructed that the prisoner can re ten it with a staple, w it against the wall and fas in the cell. Each cell is b gives him more room vided with water by means of a stop-cock. The dstead now in use is constructed of wood. The i bedstead bod hammock were found inexpedient. There were three hundred and eleven cells complet the on first day of January, 1835: all the rest are early fitted for the reception of prisoners. The educe is calculated to contain in all, about six hundred and fifty convicts. The three blocks first con |