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'i..m mi a ihoro|gh Demo He will al*o Im, J? all maum r of of hhfckwnithi BlSckemithing and eelieit* a *h-r.-<)f ih- public pitronage. — T f%*unUA vfj/enttt M llULUuIN iyv«n WflT!YT\T\ ” UUii l iVA.\ l filiOi £!?* X h Ihi^wsTuv th Nb bJutoil ll> rmifni y 1 Sixty lino writtea with one pea •l bk t wnioai w*®r iny Kte«i p«n «v»r «n«de- fiv« 1% •iSe bufm, ftJnt (VeJ«r priew, two boxes so ««>su j box#* #1. po»tttg«, •««! Ru»r»nt®«d to give r fetr. li : f r , rn U mi^ION to AOVItTS w. m ILSaj...., Mmmiwion P««» ih«t , o ■^.'^^"m^KIlN.PUBLISHING maiith/Throe -unpin p«ns wdi CMV Mighnw. i.aOfcpdK co, .r... Ui. POLLARD, COX & GO., GENERAL GROCERY AND .Omission Merchants, BROAD STREET, (A faw doors below the PUntera' Hotel.) AUGUSTA, OA. V MSP CHMtautly on baude Urge and well aeleclad Jineemortment IV .Lok of Groceries of every dw?riptiou, including of Wb»k^ Uiandiee, Wine., «lc May 9 6m H. H. S AS NETT 4 BRO., 19k BROUGHTOti ST, BA.”V*A.3STITA.tI, GA* Will keep oeeataatly on hand a SeUct Stock of BOOTS and SHOES m nnusiu in imit yt,e petronage of my friende and the public i* ** r - M*tly *o»ie*te<L • C«ah. . We will fill all order* promptly for H H SASNETT t BRO. July** »y eJpWEEKLY©^ i 9? THIRD ^’Sh* / - ^ I - ♦ j -'i * GENTLE JACK. ' in There little is a high wind and a high tide a town on tbe Sussex coast this Christm&8-eve. It is a gay little to wn in its brief season, ana asks wicked prices and for its small carriages, lodgings, and its provis¬ ions crazy more crazy bathing machines ; but now little it is doing penauce viceR. for all its pleasant sum¬ mer Its winter sackcloth, cold and black, is about it; and it is strewn, if not with ashes, with its beach stones, which the waves tear up and cast about them, paying back the attacks that all the idle loungers have made upon them in the same manner through tbe summer time. The parade has vanished from view as utterly as have the t-right throngs that walked there in the moon¬ light and music of last September. It is hidden completely by the sable com¬ pany of waves that dance there to their own and the wind’s music, and that on such a night as this even cross the road, and bent for admittance on the windows *be fropt lodging-houses, and mock togly remind the landladies, as they shut them out, that they will have no more themselves yet for a weary while. What light there is is surely cuocen trated in one spot—a shingly corner be¬ hind the town, where bathing machines, with their ladders drawn up, stand like dogs wifh their tails between the legs. Very white and cold they look contrast¬ ed with the black cottages facing them, and the black forge that sends out light strong enough to be seen by travelers on distant lonHy roads in thisflatcoun try ; sailor lads and men, with handker¬ chief bundles, going home to spend Cbr : 8tma8; and sisters and daugh ters and sweethearts out at service coming home to meet them. The work of pudding making is going on hotly in the cottages; and turned out husbands who won’t stone raisins, etmjrnmt the or mind baby, take refuge in dians forge ; where, with faces like red In¬ in the lightof the smithy fire, they are listening to a story of the town well suited self is to such a night. The smith him¬ telling it. . !* Wfiva Jr first came to this forge (he bad begpp), ? ' my next-door neighbors |y of - were u umi the Uftme Hil rIan> They were a sea-faring family, by which I mean they all got their living by little, the sea. strappling, There was black-eyed, Joe Harlan, tall, twnpert with a fury ■ f« f%k ■ who toiled his , little , fishing-boat, and earned , the , pounds.—^ . There was old Mary, /, his wire, round, c fat, , blue-eyed, . , placid, , . kept her bathing machines, taugfet the lady visitors to swim, ducked their children, and earned the —slim, shillings. Th and re was young Mary blue-eyed, placid too, dried the towels aud bathing-dresses on the beach, and errned the pence. There were five small boys and rive small girls, who went out to sea along w.th father, ^d betweeu oarncd^toweliand gowns the shingle to and and fro J(j Mary young with Mary on the 0 her machines on » n ' 1 “ r "« d the h .Ifpenoe. Kiev en children, and father and mother, you wou think enough for the sea to l ,rovid8 wlth ‘“o' 1 ' and blue 8 0wns " n<l blue ,hirt, > • nd '!* r P» ulin ». »» d mu«liroon hats. But this was not all; there wus likewise a nephew of Joe’s, a clioery, happy-go-lucky sort of a lad ; Who by turn, helped Joe to earn the pounds, old Mary the shillings, young Mary Ihe pence, and the small fry the halfpence. To tell the truth, I think he liked helping with the pence best. Now though this lad was the son of Joe Harlan’s owu and only brother, whose bones had never been laid dust to dust, but were contained among the mysteries of the deep sea, and though it had been Joe’s own act to take the lad from his widowed mother, it was only too well known that uncle and Watching nephew did not pull well together. them at work, you would say *t was no wonder. Joe Harlan was clever, quick as thought in his movements, industrious, bravtf as a lion, and too often not only hr brave but as furious and dangerous, Bitter words and sometimes bitter cries were heard from Joe’s boat by those who c«*t their nets near them ; and even on shore I’ve heard the coastguard say, as he caught some sounds out at sea, ** There’s Hurricane Joe at it again.* Yet to meet Joe Harlan in an ordina ry way fellow, waa to meet and a right hearty plea sant sound true, who could spin ale a yarn—eh! flat and couldn’t pipes he spiu the very the out, ee nd show you a tempest, Joe, could, an >> minute, >v . ■ Sparta, Ga., April 28, 1870. as if be had it in his pocket ? » He was not far past forty, but he caffed old Joe. ^ Now young Jack Harlan was so much the contrary in temper and manner to Joe, that he was called Fairweather Jack and Gentle Jack ; and a harmless, ha npy, good-hnmored soul by the he waa. That Jack was bred e sea-shore hands, there was and bare no mistaking. Hair, different face, breast were of healthy sandy-browns; aud his eyes were of a misty sea blue. He was al¬ ways singing, whether at sea vHth Joe, or drawing out the bathing machines for old Mary, or mending nets and look¬ ing up at the pretty ladies on fold the pa¬ rade, or helping young Mary the bathing gowns. Not that Jack had much notion of any song: the thing he sang was a sort of chant he might have caught mix from the roll waves and stones when they and over in fresh strong weather There was a surging sort of rise and fall in Jack’s song which made one feel that the happiness which was the source of it was boundless as at sea His wurds were his own, and as well as any one could catch them,,were thes^: which no doubt came to him as he Was shoving the heavy boat down the sands, and expecting a fierce voyage of it with Joe: to«« Ne^er grieve, o ' * „ ThmS o»v eouf ” It was not a favorite song with Joe Harlan, whj apparently had a theory that the passions of the winds and wa ters had their equivalents in human na ture, and that it was necessary to let them see it. No sooner, then, did ad verse winds assail him than he turned upon them, and upon Jack and all the world, with a fury that was far more formilable to the poor lad than the worst hurricane that ever blew, ButJack suffered lessthan might have been expected. He was as ready to meet and greet his uucle’s return to tranquility and good natnre as the sum mer sun is to meet and greet the sea when the storm-clouds have wrecked their rage scarcely and passe<l away; and fihe re suit was less cheerful.* Never were there two such friends, when they were friends, as Joe Hurricane and Fair weather Jack. Joe’s remorse for his vitoence was deep though silent, and af ter every outburst the real affection he bore the orphan lad was strengthened by the recollection of the almost super human l' iV natience and irentle g forhe ' iranee i Yet Jack waa merely a merry good humored beinoLsai'nt fellow and sad to sav so far fro uZ e ^"t^ that hiaimcle U n M«° who waa w obliged to put a sudden JaA stop to the tor rent of fibs to which gave want w >,pn i|J onesHoned after a rough vovace as to e J h rl ,I 8e g on his fothheaff or the gwe lling of hi®^poor red knuckles. He had fallen out of the boat on Eeleea Rocks, and met with innumerable ca lamities, told in the most natural man Der imaginable, till Joe put a stop to t he telling by crying out sternly « Hold hard with those d—d lies, j^k, will yer ? Mary, *twas me that mauled him ’ There wer e land .forms oo less than gea gtorms with Joe Hurricane, and many a time have the whole houseful como scampering out and Mary token shelter in the forge here. Old haa atood trembling the door there, young Mary there with Jack’s arm around her waist, „„d the five bita of boys in their blue fl„ nne | shirtaaod tarpaolins. and the five him of airls in their blue-flannel gowns and m ushroon hats filled the place so that there was scarce room for the sole 0 f one’s foot I’d have to bear with the ir company till Joe would be seen slinking past, black as thander with rage ai „l shame. By that time they might safely ven ture home; and home they would go, old Mary thanking and “God-blessing’ me for the refuge, and young Mary smi ji ug and blushing through ber tears, and joining with her pretty voice in Jack’s •• He«v*... b*nv«-, o! P*n niong and the little monkeys of children jump ing and tumbling over one another, and wickedly of pretending to be frightened out tlieir wits by the distant view of Joe’s back. In an hour or two would come Joe himself fuddled with the corn fort he had taken at the F.ying Fish, and with remorse and shame. “ So the devil’s had hold uf me again, Sturt,’he’d say. Aud my answer was always : and « He has, Joe Harlan ; if you dont have a reckoning with him once fur all, you’ll find there'll come a day he’ll be too much for you.’ ‘Right you are—I fed it,’Joe. would growl. Before going in, he would steal off to the town, and come home with jumping bulging pockets ; and what with the and shouting and clamor, and old Mary’s laugh (which at bathing time you could hear from one end of the pa rade to the other), and what with Jack’s “ Heave-a, heave, O !’ I don’t know but what neighbors had more reason to com plain of the peace-making than the storm. But Joe Harlan’s passion was not al ways to blow over so harmlessly. It came to pass that every fit was longer and fiercer than the last. The children crouched down lower now when they came to the forge for shelter ; and no more laughed and made fun behind Joe’s distant back, but kept quietly in their hiding places till he was out of sight; while old Mary trembled and young Mary cried much more than in old times; but I noticed that she and young Jack clung to each other closer and closer as things got worse and wjrse. When the girl went to meet her father and Jack after their little voyages, I notic ed she would take count at once of eve ry fresh bruise on Jack’s face and hands, and grow deadly pale; and Jack’s tsttfir* h - oy * longer e 1 Jhe j JL!Tfh'T ^ V , . t ® i. ar » j° ozl °g» n a °d ce sud , , T . ^ 1 *Z f “ rabl,n « afc the door - ; 4 y tL 1 6 » ' ‘ . ,°P. ,,. 1 ® 9 . in and * his back , 8 £“ Upni 4 * hU HviJl Z*' **’1 h l B eyes turn ‘ Tna »» ¥*. ^ ..J“ Hariri e ?" u® ® e ^ lfc 1 ? e nt . J° , ' f an sat A do n. t -hh i«.ninm£ *u A e ° *° nrie * LwaV ■» l r . mnrhL’ i 1 I « J ',. thi. 8 ’ *k , .. . , . cked ® nc ^ t °f van * at the coastguard ^ a »tt- * .. off. ,on » we ve un es . , How s that, said I, when you have . but * ashore? for he dnp J“ 8 was pl “ g w * r0 ,? 1 tbe w ^! 8 t ’ .‘ He ® l ? ever gol J] g to wa J k ther » thl . ® t,m « of night! He looked , . up suddenly—such a look w 1 shal1 never for g et - ‘Sturt, Sturt, dont torture me! Jack is "Other.* . _ Whydjrfho.wg Whereas he. then n » theatorm, while TToe^ ‘ 1 J fe,f*’ 8a id I -where h is 7 vour bmt brother8 h 80nT 4 . , * Why did da,1 he sing t Mary’s hymns did be when we hymns were praising 0 the er ^ Maker ' Vb y of the wind tjnff that was taking the bread out 0 ’ the children’s months ? * I ask you again, Joe, where is the 800 y oa f drowned brother ? * Why did he steal my Mary’s heart, a » d her hate her own father for him? * You wretch, where’s Jack ? ' ‘ He h *J« m “ de » struBgle-its bis own fault* He knew it ud nle me ,nore P ufc U P b ^ 8 bands like that, and “Y ‘ Unc ' e . J ou ?" d f “‘ her were brothera-you d never kill me J Y ? u p,t,fo1 woundrel,’ says I, seiz . bis collar, * what have you done "‘th Jack? Le « o! D,dn 11 tell you he a w.th b,s .. mot b e *‘* , ‘ W,H the y find him tbere when he<8 sought for to-morrow, as he will, be? ‘ in ® hm—find hun ? O my Jack! the y ®bould tear me limb from limb, if that would find him.’ Harlan, said I, ‘ if Jack is not with his mother, where is he ? * With his father!’ said Joe, in a sort oi wailing whisper ;* and I sent him ^bere! And he looked at „ quailing be f . lf up me, ore me as 1 should deal him instant justice. . * Jack’s face was before my eyes; Jack’s voice was in my ears. I dared not niyself alone with his destroyer. Ionly opened my door wide and pointed out, and he crept away. ^ d ’ d not g' ve J° e Harlan up to jus tice . the day, I had fully next as meant do ; I did not do it for reasons I shall le '* > ou by and by. Joe did not evade me nor put himself in my way. He did not give himself -up, as I half expected lie would. He told nm afterwards it would have been almost a relief to him to do it, as far as he was concerned ; but he had not cour age to undeceive his wife and young Mary and all at home, who believed tho- 'w' oiuu tn ll I ji 14 Ht no t m II**# y^tfHMPW ^*&W tsMv W mHiii Tibwft t*3vj 9f(T ! ^ 4wf Jamiq «4 flfrfV* o! boil! I r ^4 c% t jj 1 « ^r) (w roughly his first statement—-that Jack was at his mother’s. He wondered much at my hesitation. I saw he did. In fact, once he almost told me so. ‘ Why do you keep the worm under your foot?’ he said, putting his haggard face over the low door there, about the second evening. • Why dontyou crush it at once? * *’ I turned my back upon him. I had done so whenever he looked over the door, as he had done several times since the night he came home without Jack. This went against the grain with him more than any words would have done, The third evening he was there again more haggard and wild than ever. ‘ Sturt,’ says he, ‘ it must be all over. I must have swung for Jack. I must be in hell now. There’s nothing wo»se than this—there cant be. They’ll drive me mad. Its * When Jack comes back,’ from morning till night. What’s.the use of letting Christmas come ? 'They’ll know fast enough then, when it co < eR without him, that he’ll never come at all. What d’ye say ! Shall I make f an end of it?’ . , I did not look at him or answer him, and he drew a long breath and c rent e did not ,nake - eDd clutching my bn», said, i; l ( " 0l ne 0 ^—come out, and tell me w ^' Shaking i „ him are off, a ^ I gaping walked at.’ with him . t0 the ^ befor « the parade, which was torn and tumbled about by the high tides, as it will be to-morrow, was a fine bright morning, and all J he g eutr y (there used to be more winr ter gentry than we have now) had turn ?' t ’ and werestimdmg in Ijttle groups townsfolk at something had turned out at sea. All out too, and w*® at the same thing. We asked an old sailor what it was, and he told us it jwas a dead body out just be yond the pier. Parson Browne—he was °f y 0 ^ sea-fanciers—was coming woruing at four o’clock, and h^ had s^n it, and given proper notice, little sailing-boat. , , r Ti \*£anwi I here were some railings where w« stood, dividing the road from a field the sea had laid waste. Joe leant against the8e w,th ® rovC of other watermen, and looked out in the same direction everybody else looked. All that could | be seen ol the thing tHoy looked at from this was a small dark line on the little bOat. The motion of the wave, made it me first St one end aUd, * m0 " 0t0 “ <>U • r ° C ‘ 1 ' 1 I , left Joe looking n at it, an returned J to my work. In the afternoon I went, duvvn to the sea again, and found all the town there ; ana more fine ladies than in the morning were on the pier parade looking at the little dark line on the sunny water. Joe. Harlan waa in the same place.— He had been fetched home to dinner by the children, and had slunk back again, By thi» time all was ready lor bring ing it ashore. The shell that Imd been made for it in the morning was down on the beach, ready for it to be lifted into out of the boat that was just setting off ‘f fe ' ch ; F ou !; me0 were gomgont in the boat. Just t as it . waa putting off, one of them, a young fellow who hap pened to be a chum of Jack’s, sickened at the job, and asked to be let off Joe wiped the moisture from l„. fore with his sleeve when he saw thty. Jt 8truck b im that the young man had a sortof instinct about the thing,though not the slightest suspicion was afloat in the town about Jack’s absence. The lad was let off, and the three boatmen looked about for some one to take his place. No sooner did they catch sight of Joe’s tall strong form leaning against the rail thau they settled on him as the man of nil men to be above letting any squeamishness stand in the way of a bold waterman’s duty. They hailed him from the beach: ‘Ahoy there, Joe Hari.- n. Bear a hand.' „ Joe stood still. It e^er a face aged years in a few seconds, his did. Crowds were looking at bim, the man for whom the boat waited ; they were impatient to see it off. What was he to do ? He was not a man who might refuse this impunity on the score of nervousness, he with bis herculean frame and dark strong face. Ypt to go to help draw the thing in near* er and nearer, w hile all the town gazed on it, and would gradually recognize the features and form of its favorite; draw that in, while the children all stood there, clustered thick as shell-fish on the groin, ready to see all, and exclaim, ‘It’s Terms Three Dollars. young c^ack^jifc’a Mary, jrack..!*—draw stjood beside that her in, mother ^hiW look moved as if by some Ije strange safe instinct would to on p scene was she # art other times avoid. She would know was H M P ? of that; ,was 'Sttfe, (mWever altered he might be by crrwel death and a cruel restless grave, {Hilary, both Would murdered h/iouf and.the Hfib—#dold'Ktro^ mujder^ tit ^ glanc^^ud proclaim them both fn heir agony,i^r all the world-'‘ iri °’ ,Jt v ™. through It rushed, all this (fid, a mitfufe, Joe> mibd as he I'eabt agaitifet the rail: and sell e^e# waited and Watch* ed to see him anawer the summons ‘ h4r bad received. Would he go, I wondered j but asf 1 wondered, he dragged his hat lower over his eyes, crog&lcf tjhe tlWbeschVpI^hjJing roild, «ndf dashed noiselessly ddwiT’td ed through the shingle with long ^orn determine steps. fellow, wboSte pladKjbk *'he young ^hove was to filf helped to the boat off, H °d in doiug so murtnfirdd his friend Jack’s Viatel own peculiar hi crV ot songVwhtah. h»# h cc caught of fh:' - fVW u,mo ® =. '* ly The boat sped brjght on at last, and riding shewing kyea over the w \yater, no signs of the awfulness of its errand, except perhaps in the stillness and up rightness of the four men, each of whom kept his pippin his mouth in asWady manner. *. !o A:m* • dark-little The little saillng-boat, to which tto line was attached, wasreach ed. A man—not Joe—unfastenedtbe rope, and tied it to the other boat; and presently the four erect figures were rowing shorewards, and in the dark line comingwith them, held tow at about three yards distance, hS teadily^lgentfy' it came along nearer and nearer^with the bright sunshine upon it, and the gaze of all the townov Nearer and near er it came, till it began to assume other shape and substance than the tbiabfaOk, oiThi crowds presseacToso to toe plW side and to the edge of the parade,-■•/** were beginning to distingu/sfc *ne white face from the dark clothes of the flat¬ ing form, wtieo one of thefour boatman took a large dark piece of stuff from the bottom of the boat, ana pullrngjlm^ ' till the drowned .ssrwrffearlyiclose to it, threw it fife carefully over, entirely tbe « That was father,’.^heard rgiodtbf young Macy say. O nkitlier,dhow ‘ *<>“« Havebeen so homblh to see*!’ Joes terrors that hit crirfie would find him out when the face of the tdeacf man was seen were I injured groundless changed, ; feHt was so fearfully and that not. one of Jack's*old-mates neeog nized him and as they !placed of the bddy in; the shell bore itus that a stranger, and laid it inside ashed in the coal-yard^ Atnriight, when a pair of< strong but listless arms were thrown over the door there, !&nd a pairof wild coal-black eyes were fixed on my fire, I was bad enough to almoat pity the poor wretr.h I knew something of the misery he suffered.,. I knew that if the picture of that bright aea and the pier-atoivds. and the black line movmgup.md down, and and down —I knew that if this was so clear be fore my eyes wherever I turned that oight. It waa all far more horribly elear before didn’t him ■■■■■ ■ .•■.it He speak till .1 went to push him off and shut up for the night, and then he muttered i ‘ I shall give up tbe gamejn the morn ing. I shall go to Chalmers’ (Vl/p Chal What’stheuseofwaitingtillhisriioth- mers was a magistrate),^ * and fety all* er comes aud knowa him,, or till my lads find him out, as they will do tp mor row ?* All the watermen and boys are ordered to go and look at it to-morrow, / must go, and I- should dp for payself alongside Gentle of him * for, I cpuldn’* deny Jack in deaths however loused him in lifeJ > Pm? uo t iumh The mo f uing on wbic'^ Joe had de¬ terrainedtogivehimselfupwasOhrist- aud when 1 looked maa-eve; in upon him, to see if be meant to carry oui his resolution, I fooud him sitting,by the firm already dressed and his bat ip his hand, waiting for the time when he thought I Mr* Chafsnere would be jip 4< sat down opposite to him, and was ipvited to stay to breakfast by old Mary. Looking about tee, I saw that a new torture had beguo for Joe Hurlsn, Everybody was expecting Jack, and preparing bad a.-d watching lor him. It seemed he n ver been away yet on Chiistmas-eve, ud old Mary, young