up the question with all the ardor and kindly feeling with which the conversation of that extraordinary man was so remarkably imbued. It was a subject well suited to call forth his powers; and when handled by such a man, not less suited to interest the youthful fancy. Echo-"Stay here all night !" "Tell me if Gen. Scott has entered Mexico." 66 The anecdotes by which it was illustrated have long since escaped my memory; but there was one Well, that is a curious echo, sure enough," sentiment expressed by Burns, with his characteris-exclaimed an elderly lady, who was rocking herself tic enthusiasm, which, as it threw new light into on the after guard, and smoking a pipe at the same my mind, I shall never forget. time. We were all somewhat startled by this unexpected answer to the question concerning the next presidency; but after a short pause the questions were resumed: Man, said he, is the god of the dog. He knows no other, he can understand no other; and see how he worships him. With what reverence he crouches at his feet; with what love he fawns upon him; with what dependence he looks up to him; and with what cheerful alacrity he obeys him. His whole soul is wrapped up in his god, and the powers and faculties of his nature are devoted to his service, and these powers and faculties are exalted by the intercourse. It ought just to be so with the Christian; but the dogs put the Christians to shame. THEY say, "What is the price of corn?" "What was the reason that Pratt and Campbell did n't fight?" Echo "Pratt and Campbell didn't fight." "What are you doing out there?" Echo-" CATCHING CATFISH!" "Ha! ha! ha! ha!" Echo-"Ha! ha! ha! ha!-ho! ho! ho! ho!" "When you wish to beat a dog, it is easy to find a stick."-See how they treat a fellow-covered sitting on a log, down at the point, quietly creature in the British Provinces; our authority is pursuing his evening sports and brushing off the mosquitoes. Some of the answers had evidently been given by him. Sam Slick: A CORRESPONDENT of the National Era, whose letter is dated Sussex Co., Virginia, thus describes that region: A RUM FELLOW.-" Lawyer," addressing himself to Barclay, "did you ever hear of Andrew Wallace seizing a man that was drunk, and putting him up at auction? I must tell you that story. Squire Wallace, was a captain in the militia; and one day, after training was over, and jist before the men was dismissed from parade, he took a guard fields. As you pass along, you see a gate unThe melancholy pine is springing up in deserted with him, and made a prisoner of Pat Sweeney, hinged: the path leading to that house, with its who was a most powerful drinker-drank as much at a time as a camel a' most. Pat,' says he, I crumbling chimney and sashless windows, is grown seize you in the king's name!' Me!' says Pat, Up with thin, pale grass. Of many an old settlea-scratching his head, and looking abroad, bewil- ment, nothing remains but the well with its broken dered like I'm not a smuggler!-Touch me if bucket, and a few neglected graves. Such a counyou dare!' 'I seize you,' says he,' for a violation try is full of the poetry of desolation. There is of the excise law, for carrying about you more than nothing in it new or noisy. In all points it is the a gallon of rum without a permit, and to-morrow I contrast of the rushing, turbid world of the west. shall sell you at auction to the highest bidder. You Everything is still. Nobody makes haste. The are a forfeited article, and I could knock you on the white sands gleam in the hot sunshine; vegetation head and let it out, if I liked; so no nonsense, man!' creeps up slowly through a lean soil. The dark And he sent him off to gaol, screaming and screech-creeks steal through gloomy forests, as if afraid of ing like mad, he was so frightened. The next day the rustling of a leaf. You travel in the woods Pat was put up at vendue, and knocked down to his through a long, sad avenue of pines, where the road wife, who bid him in for forty shillings. It's is but wide enough for one carriage, no one dreamerally considered the greatest rise ever taken out of ing of the possibility of meeting another equipage. a man in this country." gen We submit to the State Conventions of the different parties, the following story from the St. Louis Reveille : I must tell you of a curious echo we heard while lying on the Naples flats. The orders of the captain to the crew given from the upper deck, and the reports of the soundings on the flats, ("two feet scant") were heard repeated among the tall trees on the eastern shore, without the slightest variation. Some of the passengers, observing this curious effect, began to call out in various tones to Mr. Echo, and they were always favored with a repetition of the question asked, or the latter part of it. Hear some specimens: "Hallo the shore!" "Shall we stay here all night?" Commerce, a vivid picture : The attack upon Churubusco, which closed the operations of the day, was a scene of thrilling interest. The place was defended by at least 27,000 Mexican troops. Their whole force in the morning amounted to 32,000 men, of whom 5,000 may have been killed, taken, or dispersed, in the affairs of Contreras and San Antonio, in the earlier part of the day. The remainder were posted behind two strong field works-one of them enclosing a large stone church. Our troops making the attack did not exceed one fourth the number of the enemy. The conflict lasted two hours and three quarters, during the whole of which time the deafening roar of artillery and small arms was continuous and tremendous, such as no man present ever before witnessed. It was a time of awful suspense, but the issue was not for a moment doubtful. When it was over, the general-in-chief (Scott) rode in among the troops. It would have done your heart good to hear the shout with which they made the welkin ring. Several old soldiers seized the general's hands with expressions of enthusiastic delight. Suddenly, at a motion from his hand, silence ensued, when, in the fulness of his heart, he poured forth a few most eloquent and patriotic words, in commendation of their gallant conduct. When he ceased, there arose another shout that might have been heard in the grand plaza of Mexico. During this thrilling scene, I looked up to a balcony of the church that had been so bravely defended. It was filled by Mexican prisoners. Among them Gen. Rincon, a venerable old soldier, was leaning forward, his countenance glowing, and his eyes sparkling with every manifestation of delight. I verily believe that the old veteran, with the spirit of a true soldier, upon beholding a victorious general so greeted by the brave men he had just led to victory, forgot, for the moment, his own position-that he was defeated and a prisoner-and saw and thought only of the enthusiasm by which he was surrounded. How unanswerable, and how beautiful is the argument contained in this notice by the accomplished editor of the literary department of the Christian Inquirer! 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AMONG the names which intestine commotion has from time to time withdrawn from obscurity and rendered historical, none has come down to poster-terests. ity with a fairer or more honorable reputation than that of Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, who, one hundred years ago, was zealously engaged, with his numerous and valiant clan, in the last enterprise of the Stuart party. The object of the present paper is not to pass over ground so much beaten as the expedition in question, nor to detail the particulars of the conspicuous part borne in it by Lochiel, which narratives approved by general acceptance have already sufficiently set forth-but to throw together, in a very brief form, a few circumstances less generally known regarding that memorable Highland chief. Born about 1698 or 1700, he was too young to bear a part in the insurrection of 1715, (as his grandfather, the celebrated Sir Ewan, of Lochiel, was too old, being then eighty-seven years of age,) which preserved for him the succession to the estate and chiefdom, on Sir Ewan's death, in 1719. His father, John Cameron, of Lochiel, had been outlawed and attainted for his share in the rebellion of 1715, and mostly remained an exile for thirtytwo years, the whole term of his subsequent exis tence. Lochiel not only imbibed attachment to hereditary and indefeasible right, from the martial achievements in behalf of the Stuart family of his renowned grandfather, the most famous chief of his own day, but from the courageous example of his father, who, with his younger brother, Allan, perilled his life, and lost his fortune in that cause. This Allan Cameron, the uncle of the subject of my paper, was a man of very considerable abilities and address, for many years one of the prime agents of the Stuart family. In company with Stuart of Appin, he was commissioned by the Highland chiefs to present at court what was commonly called the "sword-in-hand" address, in 1712, and it well deserved that name, for it openly asserted principles altogether inconsistent with the Hanoverian suc cession. It is, I think, highly probable that Allan and his colleague were the Highland gentlemen mentioned by Swift, in a letter of that period, as having dined in his company at Lord Treasurer Harley's, and whom he specially distinguishes as "very polite men;" no small compliment to two Scottish Highlanders, from that caustic pen.. Allan exercised a very considerable influence over the mind of his nephew, the young chief, and employed it all in establishing his principles, and inflaming his zeal, on behalf of the Stuarts. Lochiel, in his youthful days, paid many visits to France, and when about to return home from one of these, in 1729, received a regular commission from the old chevalier, to treat with such of his friends in Scotland as he considered trustworthy. This was accompanied by a letter from his uncle, Allan, (who was chamberlain to that unfortunate prince,) then at Albano, in Italy, which contains 10 CLXXX. LIVING AGE. VOL. XV. ample proof of the tact and ability already attributed * * * Thus ably instructed, and possessed himself of an excellent understanding and accomplished manners, Lochiel was an invaluable auxiliary to the cause which, unhappily for himself, he so ardently espoused; and he brought a strength to it, superior to any resulting from mere force of intellect, or gentlemanlike bearing-the solid respect attached to an upright, honest, honorable character, which, through his entire life, he maintained unblemished, by the universal admission of friend and foe. Placed at the head of a numerous and warlike clan, long distinguished for military achievement, but as much distinguished for predatory habits, he set his face steadily and consistently against every act of aggression and violence. "Burt's Letters from the Highlands" prove that he had done so as early as 1726. The chief of the Camerons," writes that intelligent officer, "has, as I am very well informed, positively forbidden all such outrages, (cattle-lifting, &c.,) which has not at all recommended him to some of his followers." But, however some of the fiercer spirits might chafe at being reigned in from their accustomed turbulence, the clan in general soon became sensible of the inestimable qualities of their amiable chief. A chieftain of the clan, a few years deceased, and a worthy example of a hospitable, warm-hearted Highland gentleman, (the late Cameron of Clunes,) who was probably better acquainted with the local history of his sept than any person now surviving, and on whose authority many of the statements in this paper are made, gave me the following description of the estimation in which the subject of this memoir was held by his clan:-"There never was a chief more beloved than Donald of the Forty-five. He took the greatest pains to improve his clan, and was himself a most amiable gentleman, so just, generous, and condescending, that he governed them entirely by the love which they had for him personally!" The celebrated John Duke of Argyle, to whose family and clan Lochiel was related, always paid him the most flattering attentions, and in conjunction with President Forbes, threw temptations in his way, which would have deprived the Stuarts of a less honest and resolute adherent. His generosity was indeed only restricted by his Jernment in Scotland, and many efforts were vainly means. His estate, though forty miles in extreme made by them to detach him from his party. length, by many in breadth, did not produce more than £600 or £700 a year. The same estate now produces £10,000 per annum, as it is possessed by his great-grandson. Indeed, the rental itself of the estate did not amount to the sum above stated, but part of it was covered with vast woods, and where these were contiguous to the sea, Lochiel had many large transactions in their timber with the merchants of Whitehaven, and others. While Lord Lovat played the game of fast and loose, watching any opportunity of personal advantage which either party afforded him, trusted by none, and disliked by all, Lochiel, steadfast in his political attachments, and earnest for his cause, at nents lamented the fatuity which had thrown so worthy a man into the ranks of the Pretender. His residence at Achnacarrie, in Glenarkaig, through which a river rushes connecting the two large lakes, Arkaig and Lochy, and which was sur-tracted universal esteem, and his most bitter opporounded on all sides by extensive woods, formed a romantic and suitable abode for a Highland chief. The tourist will there vainly seek any extensive ruins of Lochiel's mansion, burned by the military in 1746; nothing of it remains but a small portion of a cross wall. With the exception of a cross wall and a stone foundation, it had been entirely built of wood, which was the most abundant material in the neighborhood, about the year 1725. A summer-house erected by him may be seen by the river-side, within which a large ash-tree grows, marking the long period during which the building has been roofless. This was a favorite resort of his, and from the window it is said he could shoot a deer in the opposite wood, or draw a salmon from the stream, in order to which a bell rang when a fish was taken by machinery fixed in the river. Lochiel had considerable taste for the improvement of grounds. He laid out gardens, and formed plantations of trees (such as beech) which did not grow naturally in his forests. Just at the time of the young chevalier's landing in the Highlands, he contemplated the drainage of a large tract of ground, and the addition of it to his demense, as well as the erection of a new mansionhouse, for which preparations had been made, and timber actually sawn, which was thrown by the soldiery into the general conflagration, at the burning of the house already in existence at Achnacarrie. Amidst such pursuits, and acts of real benevolence and general utility to his country, mingled, however, of course, with political plots, many years of his life passed away in the enjoyment of domestic happiness. He was already closely allied to the clan Campbell, by near relationship to the Breadalbane family, and also to the Lochnell, the oldest cadets of Argyle, of which house his mother was a member, and he drew the bond of union with a clan generally so opposite in politics, still closer, by marrying the daughter of Sir James Campbell, of Auchenbreck, Bart. His father-in-law, however, was of the same political principles with himself, and they were alike Protestants in religious profession-a curious inconsistency, but one very common in Scotland at that day. I need not recapitulate the circumstances connected with the landing of Charles Edward, and the arrangements for insurrection. The histories of Home and Chambers are, upon these points, sufficiently satisfactory. Lochiel was exceedingly distressed by so unadvised and rash an advent, and, in the first instance, dispatched his brother Dr. Archibald Cameron, with a message to the chevalier, absolutely declining any association with so wild an enterprise. It had been happy for himself, as well as his family and country, if he had been content with this intimation of his views; but on further reflection he thought his loyalty required him to wait upon the prince, and explain them in person. Mr. Home is very distinct and particular in his account of the interview which took place between Charles Edward and Lochiel, at Boradale; and there cannot be the smallest question that he is a faithful narrator of the real truth. The genuine character of the chief remarkably appears in that singular conversation-sensible and prudent, yet full of loyal enthusiasm and devoted bravery. "I will share the fate of my prince, and so shall every man over whom nature or fortune has given me any power,' was its decisive conclusion. In the diary of Bishop Forbes, published by Mr. Chambers, an assertion is made, on the authority of Macdonnell of Glengarry, that Lochiel required security to be given him for the value of his estate, before consenting to join the standard. Even if it were true, it is no blot upon the character of the chief. In the next place, the character of the bishop's informant was very indifferent, and altogether unworthy the gallant race from which he sprang. It is too bad to find a craven, who himself skulked from danger, and allowed his brave clan to be led out by his younger brother, presume to cast a reflection upon such a man as Lochiel, who asked no clansman to encounter peril which he himself did not face before him, and of whom a friendly opponent wrote "Not his the pretty, prudent, modern way, Bid others go, himself at home to stay, But like a warrior bravely drew his sword And reared his target for his native lord." There were persons of all religious persuasions to be found among the Scottish adherents of the It may be observed, last of all, that there is not Stuart family, but men of rank were in general (as the slightest trace of such an arrangement discerniLochiel was) of the Protestant Episcopal church. ble in the correspondence between the Stuarts and Romanists (except among the very lowest class of Lochiel, subsequent to 1746, as we have it pubHighlanders) were comparatively but few in num-lished in the appendix to "Brown's History of the ber. The strength of the Jacobite conspiracy was among the Episcopalians. So truly respectable a character as Lochiel, in whom Jacobitism was presented in the fairest colors, naturally attracted the notice of the friends of gov-] Highlanders." On the contrary, the high and disinterested character of the chief stands in honorable contrast with the selfishness of others. When Lochiel had once determined upon the hazardous enterprise which put an end to the hap piness of his own domestic circle, as well as to that partisan, and was of very signal use in recruiting of so many other families, he threw all his energies for the clan regiment. into the task of marshalling his clan for the field. Arrangements having been completed, the CamHis call was cheerfully responded to by that war-erons marched in two columns, with the prisoners like people, and all his chieftains were anxiously in the centre, for Glenfinnan, which was many miles engaged in preparing their numbers against the day distant, amidst the tears and exclamations of a crowd of rendezvousof females, old men, and children, who had assembled to see them depart. "Then through the wild Glennevis, And down by Lochy's side, Young Donald leaves his shealing, And Malcolm leaves his bride." His accession to so rash an adventure seems to have surprised some who were best acquainted with his principles and character. Sir Alexander Macdonald, of Sleat, writes to President Forbes, "Young Clanronald is playing the fool, and, what is much more extraordinary, Lochiel's prudence has altogether forsaken him." The lord president himself also writes about the same time to Cluny Macpherson, “I am prodigiously concerned at the folly of our friend Lochiel." The night of the 18th of August, 1745, was surely an anxious and agitating one at Achnacarrie. The next day was appointed for the erection of the standard at Glenfinnan, and parties of men were arriving from different quarters during the entire night. The house itself was filled with soldiers of the royal Scots, nearly two hundred of whom had been taken prisoners the day before, by Macdonald of Keppoch, and handed over to Lochiel for safe custody. Lochiel treated these prisoners with the greatest humanity and courtesy; and finding one of the officers wounded, sent him on his parole to Fort Augustus, that he might be properly taken care of. I fear that this officer broke his parole. At an early hour on the morning of the 19th, the main strength of the Clan Cameron had arrived; hut a large company, who resided in Morven and Suinart, in Argyleshire, were not to come to Achnacarrie, but to join on the march to Glenfinnan, to raise whom and bring them up, Lochiel had sent his brother, Dr. Archibald Cameron, two days before. All the Lochaber Camerons had come up under their different chieftains, by six or seven o'clock. Letterfindlay, Glennevis, Glendessary, Calaart, Eracht, Strone, Clunes, Lindevra, &c., &c., all produced their plaided warriors. "The tartan plaid it is waving wide, The pibroch's sounding up the glen ; To see my Donald and all his men." They passed Achdalu, the scene of a triumph of Sir Ewan's over Cromwell's soldiers, and Fassafern, the residence of Lochiel's brother, John Cameron, who took no share in the insurrection, and had done his best to dissuade his brother, the chief, from the rash enterprise. While Lochiel rejected his brother's prudent counsel, he allowed him in his own person to follow the bent of a cautious and pacific disposition. When Lochiel and his clansmen arrived at the head of the loch, and were now but a few miles from Glenfinnan, the Camerons of Morven and Suinart, headed by his brother Archibald, and Cameron of Dungallon, were seen advancing to join them. Loud were the mutual shouts of congratulation with which the junction was effected. The clan now formed a body of eight hundred men, and surpassed the other septs that joined Charles Edward, as well by early adhesion as by superior numbers. The public are indebted to Mr. Chambers for a correct version of the legend of Jenny Cameron, of whom so many stories, altogether false, have been told. She was the sister of Cameron of Dungallon and Glendessary, (one of the majors of Lochiel's regiment, and a person of considerable importance as to property,) had now attained to middle age, never saw Charles except once, and that in public, on the day the standard was raised, for a short time, and was always a person of the greatest propriety of conduct and character. Like other large Highland clans, the Camerons consisted of various tribes, of which the three principal were, the Mac Martins, under the Laird of Letterfindlay; the Mac Molonys, under Strone; and the Mac Sorleys, under Glennevis. It was often a matter of great difficulty in clan regiments, to adjust the claims of the various chieftains to regimental rank, and required all the authority of the chief to prevent dissension. Lochiel's arrangements were, on this occasion, submitted to with little murmuring, although in general he gave the youngest cadets the highest rank, which was reckoned by some an innovation upon the ancient Highland usage. It greatly facilitated the matter, that the Laird of Mac Martin, or Letterfindlay, who was the head of the most numerous tribe in the clan, as well as the oldest cadet, was at this time a child, so that the nom-upon the rapacious and insubordinate? ination to the command of the tribe rested with the chief, who appointed his uncle, Ludovic Cameron, one of the youngest cadets, to lead the Mac Martins. This Ludovic Cameron was of a school very different from his nephew Lochiel, and has received a character from Pennant, in one of his tours, which I believe him to have merited; but although selfish and unscrupulous, he was an adroit and able I need not enter upon the general facts of the insurrection, which are so well known. Lochiel's conduct was throughout distinguished by the highest gallantry, as well as by signal humanity and moderation. He not only warmly and consistently, in the council of chiefs, opposed every design of a merely aggressive and vexatious character, but what was a more difficult task, withheld by terror the canaille of his own people from acts of rapine and violence. Mr. Chambers mentions, with some surprise, that upon one occasion he shot one of his men for committing a robbery upon a lowland farmer ; but what officer could lead troops, and especially Highlanders, through a country, with any regard to discipline, without inflicting summary punishment Lochiel shared his last farthing with his men, and lived himself on the march as they lived; but he would not connive at the smallest act of oppression upon their part, and however mild and indulgent towards them in his general disposition, was on this point resolute and inflexible. He was the first man to enter Edinburgh when the Highlanders took it by a coup-de-main, but was careful to pre |