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VOL. 2. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1851. NO 46
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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
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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
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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.
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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>
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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,
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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