The Houston home journal. (Perry, Ga.) 1870-1877, May 30, 1874, Image 1

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Gsrioa, t be G gey. taasd Jemss Sfcs a ganderum, and at- I 1° “* oJ fl*OK5 .drear iro^tg?>t3tjgraaA^'lyT«jB<fe-«k a ~gBlk!&. or ywaatg; so awful to ttaveBtas m fee; ^aogjgresaeouiSjtiacifelsaad' 1 ■° 1 ?’ jiairea. -weregafeicfidt feared by fci 1 wrapped m a Inge ooanephdd, sttodB 1 , ■ ■ ' - , • from astone ridge on tie border fl f| ,1Si ^^^ 8 ^ e ^ aaa3>ilHlfe!nn ' jl^I«nwQd, iBtoakixMJ »Mek bei 1 ^ The gipsy feMfUin had also mj |h«a drawn Wftfeeovest. He rowed s S3a ear, of the tree Mack-faced, j msotefaiy and feme, looking esra ^]te*d.f M ^ farcoae^i^ * D d aE ( - i ly to die right sad left, rid te suffer- W*.?* 1 shera, and therefore disrin- | el fee ride to bear his Bttfciwit fij6»{sfrSM: Nf 1 * «® «® e - *• *#i |*g0^a«rgnl£,Mn*mnr,aeep ^ j d«^ rfeagbs, or nrines, or in lie I dark, flat no eaeaps bat vWfc 1 deepest snow, fee faithful amnd bad | seemed to await iim. Precipices, j never beea hfwwa to sheadoe fee sto- ; rugged wife dwarf shrubs ud &,>.) 1® Soefc-raift^ to his <*re, or to i ken granite, rose more &«» a hua-1®*^ 5b tearing a fugitive. But, as fdred Seet on gafefeh., ^Hr j steengfe and aghttailod tom, the fonr- Jby the stream which s-flmstr season I U>died de^»ed, impris- ] jhad reduced to a dovish sad afaal-j“» a “ * *#* “ l 831 ] low pooL Them poising himself (IB i i ***** te ** dto * Eeii - ^ j on his staff the boatman dre w three ,‘ merdent, arose the Qjzt m- ! rimes fee end of a Jong chain which j ter “^ crisis °* h* 5 f»*roB s izte. jhnng among fee underwood. In a ! Between tfo years of 1713 and 1745, | few minutes *basket descended from I “f changes occurred in Captain fe^nnade <ff fee diff and ha -ring j Gordon and his enemy. The Laird j moored his boat fee placed himself in j Hmmmond’s Keep had lost his on-- fee wicker carriage, and was safely ' 800 tn fee battle of Preston Pans, drawn into a crevice in fee high ^aflj and was bow lingering in a desolate where he disappeared. The boat wasj oia ag 6 * nnstrasted by fee Govern moored but fee adventurer had not i meBt > “*4 abhorred by fee subdued observed feat it contained another I Jacobites. Gordon s banded mar.in- passenger. Underneath a plank art- <*«** provoked feelaw too far, and fally laid along fee bottom, and some sanguinary battles among (ten-: shrouded in a plaid of fee darkest ***» threatened fee downhill of his grain, another roan had been lurking own power. It was only a few nights more than an hour before fee owner a -Fter a desperate affray wife fee Idn- iof the boat had entered it, and re- hfego* gipsies that fee event oeeur- mained hidden by the darkness of the re ^ which begins my narrative. He night His purpose was answered.— had long been lying inambushtofind He had now discovered what he Had access to Ms enemy’s stronghold, in- sacrificed many perilous nights to ob- fending to terminate his vagrant ca- tain,—a knowledge of fee mode by rear by an exploit which suomd satis which fee owner of Dmmmond’s ^y his avarice and revenge. Equip Keep gained access to the imprcgna- P*d, as I have said, in a Cameronian ble fortress unsuspected. He instant- trooper s garb, he returned to the foot, ly unmoored feeboat, and rowed slow * the cliff from whence he had seen : j ly back across fee loch to an island j fee basket descending to convey Gav-; near fee centre. Ha rested on M*. i i® Cameron; and climbing up its ; oars, and looked down upon its trans- i rough face, with fee activity acquired i parent water. ‘-It is there slid,” he j 111 mountain warfare, he hang among ; «»iii to himself; and drawing closf furze and open rocks like a wii 1 cat, upon fee roeks, leaped upon dry land, fel he found the crevice through : A dog, of fee true shepherds 'breed, »hhfe fee basket seemed to descend, sat wailing under the bashes, and ran ® ^ »rtf«ay concealed 1>.V tufts of before him nati] they descended to- heather; bnt creeping on li's L-rads gethcr nnd* r xa archway of stones and aud knees, he forced waw into fee in- withered branches "Watch the fenor. There fee deepest darkness lioat” said the Highlander to his confounded him, till he laid his hand faithful guide, feu sprang immedi- on a chain, which he rightly guessed ately away to obey him. Meanwhile, to be fee one lie had seen hanging on ’ his master lifted np one of fee grey the side of fee lake when Cameron stones, took a bundle from under- l^nded- neafe it, and eq ripped himself in a, One end was coiled up, but he read- suit such as a trooper of Cameron’s p T concluded feat fee end uing have regiment usually wora, 3o ,ked at fee ^ me -feh the keep, edge of Ms dirk, and re torn ol to followed its course until he< ^ >aa " found ri inserted is what seemed to Hie island had once belonged a ws]L a crevice fee hermitage of fee Gordon’s, whose iMfjmiley admitted a ray of i ancient family, urged by old pnj i- ^ string lo raise himself suf- i dices and hereditary courage, had fidt , nflT lo ^ a wn through b, he been foremost in the ill-managed re- ^ iorciblT oa chain, which beffion of 1715. Oaeoi tie irf , mWiklL Its unexoectodsmnd Argyle then watched a favorable op- wobM w start|ed „ Buhner portomty to betray fee lzrrd% secret less but Gordon had prepared movements, and was commrsauned to his strategem; and had seen through arrest him. Under pretense of faend- t , he ia toe w-ah, that no pow- ship, he gained entrance to his sinmg- erfu] ea{mT cas to be dreaded. Gav- hold on the isle, and concealed a pos- atone in fee see of kings soldiers at- Gordons JOHN B» COflfiLD. Ptatosruker & Portrait Faistar Perry Georgia: \t?TLL*bc ±a-£$&s «rplcte»ii *t ttft J j trices, sz>d gvmnolte 92S5&l&£3t Tile* evexyhod* to caQ asd pxaanitte idcdn rad to compare hw Trori vzHk thmt of tv. \ other artig- hi pare uid irtiriie det« J. A. EDWARDS, Attorn e y at L aw, W. H. REESE, Attorney at Law. xuanmia oeoegia. agrSSBBL BWTrtw giraB to cwi ia titter- 6.-. ~. Gallery on Carroll Street, |TP Stsos, wtere be bu |*ood a&r-Ugbi rad b otb£nn»e Saapay prepared TD terre tho^e wbt- m«y cafi. Ztoc.2& DUNCAN &MIUER, Attorneys at Xia’ asnmdtw vuirr Gal T. J. CATER & SON, SPRING ft SUHNER STOCK YOUNG HER, T. T. MARTIN Sgae&ctjDsr snd Betail Heals in TIN WAM3, COOKIXG STOYES, SHEET HfcOJf Tfif WABE, ETGETEBA. Want everybody tc know