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The Captives Daughter. A SCOTCH TALE. When (he tyranny and bigotry of the last James drove his subjects to take up arms against him, one of the most formidable enemies to his dnnSrerons usurpations was Sir John Jochrau, ancestor to the present Earl of Dnndonald. He was one ol ' the most prominent actors in Argyles rebellion, and for ages a most destructive gloom seemed to have hung over the hout-e of Campbell, envelop in# in a common rum all who united their fortune to the cause of iis chieftains. The same doom encompassed Sir John Cochrane. He was surrounded by the king's troops?long, deadly and desperate was his resistance; but at length, overpowered by numbers, he was taken prisoner, tried, and condemned to die on the scaffold. He had but a few days to live, and the jailor awaited but the ar rival of hi^death-warrant tolead him forth to execution. His family and friends had visited him in orison, and exchanged wi.li him the lust, tlio i Ion#. IiWj hoart-yourniii# farewell.? I JJnl there was one who came not i with the rest to receive his blessing, one who was the pride of his eyes, and of his house, even Gri/cl, the daughter of his love. Twilight was casting a deeper gloom over the gratings of his prison house; he was mourning for a last look of his favorite child. His head was pressed against the cold, damn j wall of his cell, to cool the fevcrisn pulsations that shot through it like : stings of fire, when the door of his j aptfrlment turned slowly on its hin- I ges? ami his keeper entered followed young and beautiful lady. Hoiperson was tall and commanding; ner eves dark, brio-lit and tearless:' hilt their very brightness spoke of sorrow, of sorrow too deep to be away; her raven tresses were j parted over a brow clear and pure as the polished marble. The unhappy captive raised his head as they enter- 1 ed. 'My child! my own GHze)!1 he exclaimed, as she fell upon his bosom. 4My father! my father!1 sobbed the miserable maiden, and she dashed away the tear that accompanied the words. .tr . < I f a lour interview musi no snort, very short,' said the jailor as he turned and left them together a few minutes. 'Uod help and comfort thee, my daughter!1 added the unhapy father, as ho hold Iter to his breast and printed a kiss upon her brow. '1 had fear ed that I should die without bestowing my blessing upon the head of my own child, and that stung me worse than death: but thou art, my love! thou art come! and the last blessing of thy wretched father?' *Nay, father!' she exclaimed; 'not the last blessing! not the last! My father shall not die!' Be calm, bo calm, my child!' cxclaimed he; 'would to heaven 1 could comfort* thee, my own, my own.? But there is no hone; within three days, and thou and my little ones will l>e?' Fatherless, ho would have said: but the word died on his tongue. 'Three days!' repeated she, raising her head from his breast, but eagoriy pressing his hand. Three days! then there is hopet My father shall live! Is not my grandfather the friend of Father Pet re, the confessor and master of the king? from him he shall beg the life of his son, and my father shall noi aw.' 'Nay, nay, my Grizel,1 relumed he; lbe not deceived; there is no hope", already my doom is sealed! already the king haa signed the order for n y execution, and the messenger of death i? already on the way! Yet my father shall not-?shall not die/ she repealed emphatically, and clasping her hand? together, 'Heaven JJJLJIAU L ' . !~1 - -.1 LU1JL?I .. 1 speed a daughter's purpose!' she ex-' i claimed, and turning to her father,' said calmly, 4VVe part now, but we shall meet again.' 'What would my child?' inquired he eagerly, gazing anxiously in her face. i A J. a * l ? t . r\sK 1101 now, sue rcpuca; *uut ( p ray for and bless me; but not with ' thy last blessing.' lie again pressed her to his heart and wept upon her neck. In a few moments the jailer, entered, and they were torn <rom the arms of each other. On the evening of the second day after the interview we have mention-: ed, a wayfaring .nan crossed the J drawbridge at Berwick from the north, and proceeding down Marygate, sat down to rest on a bench hv the door of a hostelry, on the south side of the street nearly fronting where what was called the Main-; guard then stood. Me did not enter ; the inn, for it was above his apparent condition, being that which Oliver Cromwell made his headquarters a few years before, and where at a ; somewhat earlier period, James the Sixth had taken up his residence, when on his way to enter on the sovereignty of England. The traveller wore a coarse jerkin fastened round j his bodv bv a leather crirdle, and over I it a plain cloak, composed of equally j plain materials. He was evidently a young man; but his beaver was ! drawn down so as almost to conceal j his features. In one hand he carried a small bundle, and in the other apil- , griill's staff. Having called for a glass of wine, | he took a crust of bread from his bun-! die, and after resting a few minutes, rose to depart. The shades of night were setting hi, and it threatened to | mi ? in^iii oi siorms. i lie neavens | were gathering black, (he clouds 1 rushing from the spa, sudd6n gusts of wind were moaning through the streets,* accpmpanied by heavy drops of rain, and the face of the Tweul was troubled. vHeaven help thee, if thou intendest to travel far in such a night as this!' said the sentinel at the Lnglish gate, I as the traveller passed him and proceeded to cross the bridge. In a few moments he was on the border of the wide, desolate and dreary moor of Tweedmouth, which ior miles presented a desert ot wild fern and stunted heath, and herenul there a dingle covered with thick bin hwood. He slowly toiled over the steep hill heading the storm which now raged in wildest fury.? The ram fell in torrents, and the wind howled as a legion of famished wolves, hurling its doleful and angry echoes over the heath. Still the j stranger pushing onward until he had proceeded two or three miles from IScrwick, when as if unable to brave I lin fit nrm ho cnmvht cluilf/??' on?i/l ; some crab and bramble bushes by | the wayside. i Nearly an bour had passed sincc besought this imperfect refuge, and the darkness of the night and the storm increased together, when th sound of a horse's hoofs was heard hurriedly plashing along the road. The rider bent bis head to the blast. Suddenly his horse was grasped by the bridle; the rider raised his head, and the traveller stood before him, I Iwil/liiwr n 4n Uto I \? #*?-? of in'iuiu^ (I J;IOI\/J %\i IIIO I;J uuoi? The horseman benumbed and stricken with fear, made an effort to reach his arms; but in a moment the hand of the robber, quitting the bridle, grasped the breast of the rider and dragged him to the ground. He fell heavily upon his face, an I for several minutes remained senseless.? The stranger seized the leather hag which contained the mail for the north, and flinging it on his shoulder, rushed across tlie heath. K.n t'lv nil 1 llO /lotr in * ;?' V ""J " <- ,l' habitants of Berwick were teen hurrying in groups to the spot where the robbery nad been committed, and were scatterred in every direction around the moor; but no trace of the robber could be obtained. Three days had passed and Sir John Cochran yet lived. The mail which contained the death warrant i had been robbed and before another j could be given, the intercession of t,;0 4Wo fc\...i i.? i *} tilt'* k j U| A'lllfllAMItll Willi the king's confessor might bo succcsful. Grizcl now became his almost con stant companion in prison, and spoko to him words of comfort. Nearly fourteen days had passed since tho robbery of the mail had been committed, and protracted hope in the bosom of the prisoner became more bitter than his first despair. But even this hope, bitter as it was per I..I i r?,i__ !? e .1 j iMiir.ii. i nc miercessiuu 01 nis rain- j i or had l>een unsuccessful, and a so I! L - 1 ?HBW nond time the bigoted and would be j monarch had signed the warrant for his death, and within little mora than another day that warrant would reach b: prison. "The 1 of heaven be done!" groaned il. captive. "Amen," returned Grizel, with a wild vehemence, "but my father Khali | nnt di?." I Again the rider with the mail had reached the moor of Tweedmouth, and a second time,lie bore the doom of Cochrane. He spurred his horse to his utmost speed, he looked cautiously before, behind and around him; in his right hand he carried a pistol to defend himself. The moon shed a ghostly light across the heath, rendering desecration visible, and giving a spiritual embodiment to ev cry shrub. He v\ as turning the angle of a straggling copse, when his horse reared at the report of a pistol, the fire ol which seemed to dash in his very eyes. At the same moment his own nistnl flnslifiil. 11 rI tlm i rearing more violently, lie was driven ! from tne saddle. In a moment the foot of the robber was upon his breast, who bending over Itim. and brandishing a short dagger in his hand, said : "Give me thine arms or die !" The heart of the King's messenger failed within him : and, without venturing to reply he did as he was commanded. "Now go thy way," said the robber, sternly, "but leave with me thy horse, and leave with me the mail lest a wrong thing come upon thee I11 The man arose and proceeded towards Berwick, trembling, and the robber mounting the horse which he had left, rode rapidly across the heath. Preparations were making for the execution of Sir John Cochrane, and the officers of the law waited only for tlu; arrival of the mail, with his second death warrant, to lead him on vi.o oooHoMi v**i?v ii ticiiuys iirnven (ho mail Imd again been robbed. For yet fourlcon days and the life of the prisoner be again prolonged* lie again fell upon I he neck of his daughter, nnd wept and said, "It is good; the hand of heaven is in this!" "Said I not," replied the maiden, and for the first time she wept aloud, 'that my father should not die?11 The fourteen days were not yet passed, when the prison doors flew open, and the Earl of Dundouald rushed to the arm? of his son. His intercession with the confessor bad Sir John glanced on them, started, and became pale; they were his death warrants. "My deliver!'1 exclaimed he, "how shall i thank thee ? how repay the savior of my life ? My father, my children, thank him for me." The old Karl grasped the hand of the stranger; the children embraced him, and lie burst into tears. "By what name," eagerly inquired Sir John "shall 1 thank mv deliver ?" The stranger wept aloud; and raising his heaver, the raven tresses of Gri/.el Cochrane fell upon the coarse cloak. t 1" 1 vinuiuuo uuti V13II! f.\ t" lil IIIKHI I HC ' ' stoned and enraptured father, "?ny own child, my saviour, my own Griz?l !" It is unnecessary to add more? the imagination of the reader can supplv the rest, and we may only add that Grizel Cochrane, whose heroism and nohlo affection have been here hurriedly and imperfectly skotch ed, was, tradition savs. tho errand mother of the late Sir John Smart, of Alabama, and great grandmother oi Mr. Cortiu, the celebrated banker. Sir William Blackstone, the learned commentator on law, learned the trade of a printer. % at length been successful; and after twice signing the warrant lor the execution of Sir John which had so often failed in reaching its destination, the King had sealed his pardon. He hurried with his father from the prison to his house ; his family were clinging around him, shedding tears I of joy, and they were marvelling with it?*fi 11i 11/i/-* ? t < 1" "? ? I uu.mn, ni iiiu tu_y aiuno:?? pi'OVIclence that had twice intercepted the mail?and saved his life, when a j stranger craved an audience. Sir j Jj>hn desired him to be admitted, and lhe robber entered. He was habited, as we have before described, with a coarse cloak and coarser jerkin, but his bcarin was above his condition. On entering he slightly touched his beaver, but remained covered. "When you have perused these," said he, taking two papers from his bosom, "cast them in the fire." Silcricc is politeness, and to listen respectfully, the most delicate kind ' of flattery. The reason of this, that 1 wo lake a pleasure in talking and being heard. K EOWEE COUR IE R. Saturday, April 5, IK.ua. Owing to the indisposition of one of our Printers we are unable to pre sent our subscribers with more than baii'a sheet this week; in some future number, however, we hope to make up in quality what they lose in quantity from the present half issue. Court.?Our Court is still iivsession;his Honor Judge O'NeaJrpresiding. In organizing the Court, we had the pleasure ol listening to a very able and even forjudge O'Neall, an unusually eloouent eharcreto ihr> * CD - ~ Grand Jury; and on Monday night wo Were again treated with one of the Judge's 'temperance addresses,' | which all know to be so eminently j characterized by purity, wit and i eloquence. During tiie course of the week several cases of importance have been disposed of, and rtuite a number continued to next Court. The Grand Jury, we arc sorry to say, returned to the Solicitor a great ITinnv/ "TYllf" Rille." nnrl nfinv'mnl J ' side of the Court at its next session will, in consequence be much crowded. Mr. Solicitor Read.?Our new Solicitor, Mr. Reed, is acquitting ; himself very handsomely in the discbarge of the onerous duties of his office,and giving unmistakeable evidences of hi& nerfeot ability in <lr? justice to the State whose interests he represents. The Virginia Resolution*, found i m nnnllioi' piilnmn lin'" ?U~ .?..x,,..v>a VWIIIIIKI) IKUU |J?IMCU llll* House of Delegates, and will be adopted, says 1 he Richmond Enquirer, by I lie almost unanimous vote of both branches of the Legi -.hiture, with the addition that commissioners will be sent to South Carolina. The resolutions wore so amended as to include Vermont among the States lo whom copies should be extended. Southern Rights Association. ?According to adjournment, this Association met on Tnpsrlnv Inst. the President, Gen. Garvin, in the chair. The Association was addres soil by Cols. Orr and Sloan, and then, after the President had been instructed to appoint delegates to the convention which it is proposed shall be assembled in Charleston in May next; adjourned. From want of space we are prevented from giving a synopsis of the speeches delivered on the occasion. ?mmrnn ? - ? A new post-office has been cstab Iished m this District, called Five Mile, and Chas. Thompson appointed Postmaster. Wo have received (lie January, February, and March numbers of Blackwood's Magazine. [Communicated.] Mil-Editor:?In the Courier of last week, I observe a petition to be presented by the people of our District to the Legislature for the divis ion of Pickens District; and with your permission 1 propose to submit through the same channel some reas8ons on the contrary side. That the writer has stated the territory of the District quite as large as it really is, none will doubt, but he has not found it to his interest to add, what is true beyond a question, tha' very many thousand* of acres of the upper part of the District is so mountainous and poor as to be entirely uninhabited by man, and is tit only for what it is at present used, the grazing of stock; unless perchance a greater discovery of mineral should l>e made. It is true (hat small settlements are made now and then, by persons desirous of seclusion, or I whose tastes and inclination lend tlicm to hunt the wild beasts of the mountains; but these wore made w ith a knowledge oi tlv> distance from the Court House, and many of them ' desire to be no nearer. It is also | true that inconvenience is exporien- j red bytK> distanco at which many citizens reside from the Court House, .*!- 41 1 .. I /I in ineir auenuance upon me L/Ouri, and it is a fact, too, that the Court for the District rarely sits over half the week before the whole business of the term is despatched, not subiecting those who have business, to attend the second term upon the same case, unlike Edgefield and perhaps other Districts whose territorial limits exceed ours, and whose inhabitants out-number us by thousands, the business of the Court in which is rarely despatched in two weeks. The name suggested for one of the new Districts, is the one above all others which should be chosen; and to do honor to this name appears the most sensible and patriotic of any yet advanced, yet not, in the humble opinion of the writer, sufficient to warrant a division. The Tugaloo and Saluda waters, it is true, afford fine lands, and are inhabited bv manv irood r.iti'/.pns. and much of the business of the Courts it is to be regreted, comes from these quarters, and it is a little surprising that the friends in these extremes, knowing the distance at which they reside from the Court House, and the great inconvenience at which they attend the Courts, should not be more cautious about get tin into law-suits. Much lias been said of the location of (Iio-4Jo*h4 Howe?, rtin] il is mlrnit(ed that the selection is not suci) as might have been made, yet it was made by gentlemen of high character, one of whom (Col. B. Hagood,) yet enjoys the confidence of his feli lrtlA/ mill cilnntn no i< io /-?? ? I n/ ?? uilll I'limilV/ UO U IJ) Wll the beautiful Keowee River, one of t I he clearest and most beautiful i j streams in the world, 1 submit wheth: er the location might not have been j much worse. As to the location being in the I midst of a barren country those who II ave not thought of the matter, or arc unacquainted in the neighborhood, are referred to the plantations on the Keowee and Little Rivers within a few miles of the Village, particularly those of Messrs. Ramsey. Reid, Kirksey, 1*. Alexander, Col. J. Norton, Capt. Robt. Craig, Steele, Barron, Gibson, Arthur Craig and Col. Alexander; ask these gentlemen the price of their lands and what their products, and then say if you can in truth, that Pickens C. II. is in the midst of a barren country. True, there are some hills in the neighborhood, and it is to be regreted that some of the roads yet pass over them, hut to say that the place is not conveniently or easily approached from any point, is batvly sustainable* and I challenge comparison between the road to lii mountain and almost any other in the country; the road towards Jarrctt's Bridge by way of West Union is also very good, and that from Pickens C. H. to Pendleton will very snnn. nndnr a Inf< imnrnvnivinnl. Im equal to almost any in the country; in fact all the roads are undergoing improvement in a greater or less degree?much labor and pains has been expended in these matters, which together with lire improvment going on about the Court-house and Court-hill, are urged as strong reasons why tho District should not be divided. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, permit me to remark that this petitioning will have the effect of adding to the reasons already in existence to prevent the improvement of the Village, and thereby "greatly retard the prosperity of tho District,1' complained of in the petition. Thnof? viau/H nro Kiibmiltrwl fur llio j consideration of the people of the j District in all SINCERITY. Vijrffiniht rteeolufiojiK. TJylasi evenings mnil we perceive tlmt sundry resolutions have been introduced into ihc Virginia Legislature, and were mt;d; ine special order tor Friday last* We extract the following touching ttomu uarouua, which wo oiippose is the iniitatory stop to the proposed mediation: 42. That whilst this State sincerely sympathize with South Carolina in the feelings excitcd by the unwarrantable interference of the peoptft of some of the States With our domestic institutions; and whilst she cannot approve of all the legislation of Congress touching the same, yet she perceives in the present condition of the country nothing to justify any action calculated to endanger the integrity of the federal Union. '3. That in the language of the farewell address of the lather ot our country, she regards the 'unity of gov ernment which constitutes' us one people as a main pillar of our independence; the support ofourtranqu'lity at home, our peace abroad, of I our safety, of our prosperity, of that J very liberty which we so highly prize.' and watching for its safety with 'jealous anxiety,' this State deems it a du ly to declare that she cannot unite in a Southern Congress, nor in any way commit herself to the evident consequences of such, a measure; and cl,o is: onnvtrniiiprl rflSnPfitfllllv. hut earnestly, to remonstrate with her sister State against any meditated secession on her part, which cannot but tend to the destruction of the Union and the loss of all the countless blessings that spring from it.' Carolinian 21th uti. Death of M. M. Noah.?This vetnrn n of tl ir> nross dip.d in Now York on last Saturday night. He has, for ten years past, edited with ability the New York Sunday Times, a weekly paper, issued every Sunday i?\Oii?ing. it is somewhat remarkable, as a coincidence, that he should have died { as he did at half past eleven o'clock, j on Saturday night, just as the last I number of the tenth volume of his journal was going to press?making a round decade from the time he commenced it until death terminated liie l ilirti-c TVf |. li urac {/??* fnHv years off and on, connected with the i public press. The sterling benevo; lence of his lifetime renders his mem. ory fragrant, now that he is dead and | croiio- i le is said to have died as he lived, serene, intelligent, and hopeful. Carolinian'27 ? From Cape ofdood Hope. The barque Hamilton, Captain Hall, arrived at this port, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, with advices from the Cane of Good Hone to the 4th of February, forty days later than our previous accounts. The accounts arc most deplorable. The Kaffir chiefs have generally rebelled against theEnglisn authorities and it was feared at the latest accounts that the Hottentots were also wavering in i'ueii loyally* From the last of December, the date of the last advices, a war of posts had been continued between the Kaffirs and the English and their native allies, in which the foimer were always victorious where the ac-ion was ni the open field. The accounts of the murder of farmers of the interior, their families and servants, by the rebels, come ire from all quarters, and where they were not killed they wers driven off penniless, and thoir farms and houses plundered and burned. Sir Harry Smith, the English Governor, was forwarding levies tail** scene of war. The colonists were aiding him, believing that in a prompt suppression ol the rebellion lay their only safety. Should any number of the different native chiefs, with the Hottentots, join I he rebels, the contest would be desperate. It was thought that the Governor would soon be at the head of 20,000 men. The Cape Town Gazette ol FeU 1 says that on the 23d of January the Kaffirs, 3000 strong, attacked the rolonists and other allies near Fort Hare. They were repulsed with the loss of 1000 killed. On the 3d of January a strong force of Katlirsattacked Fort Whites The Kaffirs were dispersed with 90) killed. On the morning of the 7th, the rebel chief Hcrmanus, with his horde of Kaffirs and the Hottentots whom he had seduced or compelled to accompany him, attacked Fort Beaufort. The assault was repulsed I ftiwl lU#k nki/)f nrt/1 Ikio oAr> &n.l o n<tivi? Ifiiiii in*- (>iiiri aim NIO ov i auu n UUIII l>er of his people killed, and his party completely routed.?Boti. Trtw