Rockland Gazette : July 30, 1857

IfltfeU nb 6aj»th , Iftruft o ft jfolr rUBLIUUCD EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, BY Having made large additions to our former variety of JOHN PORTER,::::::::::::::::Proprietor PLAIN AND FANCY Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, J O B T Y 3E2 , PA?nwC PrePared to execute with neatness and des patch. every.description of Job Work, such as t e r m s , Circulars, Bill-heads, Cards, Blanks, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, $1,50 Catalogues, Programmes, If payment is delayed 6 mos. “ 1,75 If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction and Hand O ’ No paper will be discontinued until all arreaba- Bills, &c., &c. oes are paid, unless at the option of the puplisher. Particular attention paid to O “ Single copies, three cents —for sale at the office. O ’ All letters aud communications to be addressed VOL. 12. ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1857. NO. 31. P HINTING IN COLORS to the Publisher. BRONZING. &.C. FOUL WEATHER JACK." of the crew were, preserved and brought on per not wishing to lose time, weighed anchor, and I will bring you to good and safe an give them lamin’, but she taught us better between his giant fingers unaccomplished—yet denly into old age, and the light wind that stir board th e" vessel in which Capstan sailed, chorage.’ things than books can give ; to be honest, and yet were they done. The ‘ angel over the right red the green leaves, shook the gray hairs over but lay to in the roads until J ack returned. useful, and industrious. She taught us to be shoulder’ will have a longer column to set down BY HAWSER MARTINGALE. where they met with the most humane atten The sails were set, and the vessel cleared ‘If you do that,’ replied the Frenchman, his wrinkled forehead, as he sat there reading faithful and true ; to stand by a friend, and be to his account of deeds well done, than all the the village newspaper, with eyes that had be^ tion ;—the wounded being stowed away in the harbor; but before three hours had ‘ you will stand a chance of promotion.’ One moonlight night, as we were running generous to an enemy. It’s thirty years, rest of the passengers of that crowded caron that gun to grow dim. snug quarters, and put under the care of the elapsed, a gale of wind set in from the east But the elements saved them the trouble long, tedious, stormy night in January, 1856, down the southeast trades, I was keeping a Btrangers, since we dug her grave by the lake And every little while, fragments of some old- surgeon. ward which drove them back again faster of weighing anchor; for the gale increased, side with our own hands; and with many a tear lookout from the top-gallant forecastle, when fashioned tune floated out to the old man, soft, The weather, which had hitherto been very than they went out, with their rudder un and the vessel began to ride so uneasy, that and sob, turned ourselves away from the cabin sweet stray fragments; and flitting baek aud I was joined by English Harry, a bluff, hale The Mistake. fine, began to be rather boisterous, and the sbe parted from her anchor, aud drove be where wa had beau raised—the Indians had forth from the pantry to the breakfast table, was old dog, who had, of his own accord, taken shipped and other damage. The skipper third increased to a hurricane. The vessel fore the wind. Jack Helm was now the killed our father long before, and we’d nothing I ’ll never do it—never, so long as I live I and a young girl, not handsome, but with a sweet charge of my nautical education, so far as swore the deuce was in the wind. to keep us—and so we went to seek our for sprang a leak, and the men were kept at the only man on board on whom the safety of the boy clenohed his hands together, and strode frank rosy countenance, whose smiles seemed to related to the noble art of yarn-spinning.— ‘ No sooner,’ said he, ‘ do we get the ves tunes. My brother, ho took down to St. Louis, hover naturally as sunshine over June skies. pumps night and day ; but after great exer the vessel appeared to depend. He took the up and down the room, his fine features flushed, Our conversation turned upon the supersti sel clear of the coast, dan de vind chops and got married down there sorn’e r; and I just and his forehead darkened with anger and She wore a pink calico dress, tho sleeves tuck tions they got into Barbadoes, with loss of helm, and the captain asked him if be kept tions of sailors, which I, of course, ridiculed. right in our teeth and blows us back again.’ went where tho wind blowed, and when I ’d shame. I ’d ask the minister’s pardon in fath ed above her elbows. Altogether, she was a bowsprit and foretopmast. bis reckoning right. scraped money enough together, 1 cum hack fair, plump, healthful looking country girl. This irritated my honest Mentor, who ex Two days were lost in repairing the dam er’s psesence, of course I would ; but to go be ‘ Yes,’ replied Jack. ‘ make your mind bought a few acres of land around my mother’s And while the old man read the paper under claimed, “ That’s like you, John ; you young Capstan was of a humane disposition, and age, and in order to expedite the business, fore the whole Academy, hoys and girls, and do had often wished to go down below to see two ship carpenters were hired from the easy, captain, and in a few hours you shall old cabin, for the place where I’d laid her bones this ! His whole frame writhed at the thought. the hop vine, and tho young girl hummed and land lubbers, you know more about sea mat was sacred, like. Well, in the course of time, how the sick men were getting on, but his shore. One of these men, happening to be safe in harbor.’ Ellsworth Grant, you’ll brand yourself as a fluttered between the pantry and the kitchen ters than a sailor like me, that’s been afloat, it turned up right in the middle of Chicager. I table, a young man opened the email front gate duty as master’s mate and been so hard dur eateli a glimpse of Jack Helm, clapped bis Jack Helm kept bis word, for in a few coward and a fool all the days of your life. man and boy, for thirty years, when you couldn’t stand that—I loved my old mother too But father never retracts, and he said I must and went up the narrow path in front of the ing the late unfavorable weather, that he had bands tofiether, exclaiming— ‘ B y jingo, hours more, they dropped anchor, and when haven’t been aboard long enough to get a well to let omnibusses rattle over her grave, so do this or leave the school and go out on the house. not an opportunity. Being, however, now at that’s him.’ The skipper bearing the excla the fog cleared away, the Frenchman found drop of tar on your genteel hands.” I cam back about 15 years ago, and quietly farm to work ; and the whole village will know Ue went up very slowly, staring all about him anchor, he went down below. The first per mation, called the carpenter aside and asked himself safely moored—not where he expect moved her away to the burying ground ; and with an eager, wistful look, and sometimes the ‘ Why, Harry, you certainly don’t believe the reason, and I shall be ashamed to look any him what be meant. The carpenter myste ed, but within gun-shot of Portsmouth Plat then I went to Texas, and wrote back after body in the face. I ’ve a good will to run away. muscles, of his mouth worked and quivered,, as in lucky and unlucky ships, days and men !’ son he came near was a seaman who had been severely burnt in the hand; he saluted riously pointed towards Jack, and in a low form ! ward to sell my land. What cost a few hun The boy’s voice grew lower, and, a troubled, one's will when strong emotions are shaking the ‘ In course I do, you ignoramus; I ’d as dred dollars to begin on. I sold for over forty heart. ° him in his usual hearty and encouraging voice said— ‘ That’s him ! The puzzled and J ack gave an account of his adventure to bewildered exprsssion gathered on his flushed soon not believe I ’m my own mother’s son.— thousand—if I ’d kept it till now. ’twould have He had a firm, sinewy frame, of middling style, with ‘ Yeo ho .' messmate ! cheer up, surprised skipper impatiently exelaimed, the Port Admiral, and the consequence was features. Why, there was Jack Helm who always bro’t been worth ten times th at; that’s so, but 1 got It would be very hard to leave all the old height; he was not handsome, but there was lad, cheer up !’ But as the wounded man’s that he received a largt share of the prize storm about every vessel he was in, so that Veil, and who the tyvil is be?’ enough for’t.

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