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By Sir Walter Scott. « Evan Cameron of Lochiel, chief of the numerous and powerful son of Cam eron, was born in 1629. He was called MacConnaill Din, the son of Black Donald, from the patronshic that mark ed his descent, and Evan Din, or Black Evan, a personal epithet derived from his own complexion. Young Luchiel was bred up under the directions of the Marquis of Argyle, and was in attend ance on that nobleman, who regarded him as a hostage for the peaceable be haviour of his clan. Frias said, that ii the civil war, the young chef was converted in the side of the king, by he exhort ons of Sir Robert Spottswood, then in prison at St. Andrews, and shortly after executed, as we lave elsewhere noticed, for his adherence to” Alumtrose. “Evan Dhu, having embraced these principles, was one of the fist to join in the insurrection of 1652, of which I have just given a short account. During the fest part of two years, he was always with his clin in the versions of baite, and behaved guiltuly in the various shir mishes which took place. He was con pelled, However, on Genevasion, To withdraw from the mai body, from learning Gaar the English were approach er, with the purpose of laving Wes Lac waste The countey of Lorhuel. fe tie ened biter to protect his own posses sions, and trose of his clan. Long rennaing to his estates, Leecied had the giotificarion to fearn that the Ensleb died established a garrison a ail the purpose of redact favortnchy to submission de Rovathetchins in the town, one neighborhod, particularly the MacDonalds of Glencury and hep pach. He resolved to keep a s warteh on their proceed! ine the pest of his folly lad not means of maintaining o cttracting their attention to his mates. he day in the woods with about fifty cho sen men, with a few miles of laverlo Appaeti chy. It was the constant policy of Crom well and his officers, both in Tieland and Seanand, to cut down and destroy Uh forests in which the insurgent makvely found places of defence and co ment In canferaity with this gen rele, the commanient of Inverludyen barked three hundred men in ten light tons to disem armed vessels, with direct back at a place called Achdalon, for the sstrayint Lochiel’s cutie, se oot air and felling his woods. Lochiel, she watched their motions closely, sawe Saelish soldiers come ashore, one the having fatchets and other facts, as working parts. Use other hail ander arms, to protect ther operations Theme: the difference of numbers was 53 great i chieftain vowed that the would make: red soldier (so the English were called from their uniform? pay dear for every halfork er tee shich he should ¢ kK soldier’s property. an, earl pers on the Glick to the dark color of the tart hans to his own coclasion yo Lie trey demanded of seve of his followers sie, had served under Montrose, whether they had ever seen the Great Marquis , encounter such an equal nubers. “Pheyy in he if ag answered, they Could resudlect an sience of such temerity. We will be neverthless,? said Evan Dhi, Sor each of us kill a man, which is no mighty matter, P will answer for the event? — ‘That hie family might not be destroyed in so GZoubtful an enterprise, he ordered his brother Alan to be bound to a tree, meaning to prevent his imerter sucen the condict. But Alan prevailed 07 a lite boy, who was left to attend him, to is cords, and was soon as Cees .The Casnerons, concealed by the tress, advanced so due on the enemi as to pour on them an unexpected and destructive shower of shot and arrows, which slew thisty men; and, erenies could recover themselves from their sure prise, the Highlanders were in the midst of them, laving about them with incred ible fury with their ponderous swords and axes. After a gallant resistance, the mase of the English began to retire towards their vessels, when Evan Dho commanded a piper and a small party to go betwixt the enemy and their barks, and there found his pibroch and war cry, all their clamor made it seem there was another body of Highlanders in ambush to cut all their repeal. The English, driven to fury and despair by this new alarm, turned back, like brave men, up on the first assailants, and, if the work ing party had possessed miliary weap ons, Lochiel might have had fire rea son to congratulate himself on the result of this audacious stratagem. “He himself had a personal rencon ive, strongly characteristic of the feroci ty of the times, ‘the chief was singled out by an English officer of great per sonal strength, and, as they were separa ted from the general suite, they fought in single combat for some time. Lo Ichiel was dexterous enough to disarm the pinghshinais but his gigantic adive suddenly closed oo Ban,and in the strg gle which ensued, both fell to the ground, the officer uppermost, dig was in the ad of grasping at his sword, which lay near the place where they lay in deadly sungere, and was naturally extending his neck in that direction, when the Aichland chief, making a desperaiior grasped his enemy by the collar, and snatching with his teeth at the ase uly outstretched throat, he seized it as a wild-ear might have done, and kept his] hold so fast as to tear out the wedpipe. ‘The officer died in this singular manner. Leochiel was so far from disownins, or be ing ashamed of this extraordinary muse of defence, that he was afterwards heard to say, was he sweetest worse he had ever tasted. U'hien Lochiel, thus extricated from the most imminent danger, was able to rejoin his men, he found they had not only pursued the english to the beach, but even into the sea, cunning and suib ever they could overlas hing was. He heiself advanced till he was ce Gdeeps and observing a man on board oar nv the armed vessels take aim at hin with a musket, le dived his head anc sotiuronly tat ine her marke a ginged head, Ar ayo was dudab by the affection of the 2, who thres pense an and the object killed by the bali “tiavine ent od a second party, she ventured to sally from the fort, and thus, dievemtty chastised the tueay, Loehiel again but wax avon recalled sor Guvastaion, with dhe regul arned wish such ed cof reine er by ciaster Ins noha ter bond secreay Unit he a asteang party ween int i sor Bartard less ried. Hah a al g dishanded, ald bin pio: peace [iv d ton’s ar bag self 19 ac of the English Ue on attacks on detached par cha ded from the fort—on we to fiur rass Uraf ties who stragg eers who went out in the woods in ating paries—on the eargnieer Gu voy te Ligh cers, sua were sent 10 lands, on whan he had mi ssaners, and conned vstand, in a surat ! Be desalat Luoch Uy Ceriousis have peace with te terms. “Phen jected, Evan to answer tat he would g's authority, even any mocert at hiyst re Lert nopuld thotah tie alias wise was ta be his live ' mh aytae of rit + 7 ing ui the condition of en exne and ai paca, Dat, when it was hinted to hin Uietihis we not be required, but that he was only desired to live in peace under sting government, he made his ing to the existing powers with ma Bs suDMisa much selenmiv. thiel came down at the head of il imating, to ie garrison ce in tig wisole of inverfochy. ‘The English forces be ing drawn up in line opposite to them, the Camerons sat down their arms in the name ofing Charles, and took them up again in that of the States, with out any mention of Cromwell. In con sequence of this honorable treaty, the last Scotian who maintained the cause of Charles Stuart, submitted to the au thority of the rp is related of this remarkable chief tain, that he slew with his own band tie last wolf that was ever seen in the High lands of Scotland. Another anecdote is recorded of him by tradition. Being fbenighted, on some party for the battle or the chase, Evan Dhue had himself down with his followers, to sleep in the snow. As he composed himself to rest, he ob served that one of his sons, or nephews, had rolled together a great enron-ball, on which he deposited his head. Indignant at what he considered as a mark of ef feminacy, he started up and kicked the snow-ball hem under the steeper’s head, exclaining,Are you become so luxuri ous that you cannot sleep without a pil low? After the accession of James Tf. Lo chiel came to Court to obtain pardon for one of his clan, who fired, by mistake, on a body of Athal men, and killed sev eral. He was received with the most honorable distinction, and his request wanted. The king, desiring to make him a knight, asked of the chieftain his own sword, in order to render the cere mony still more peculiar. Lechiel had ridden up from Scotland, beng then the only mode of wavelling ; and a constant rain had so casted his trusty broad-sword, that at the moment to man could have so sheathed it, ochief, affronted at the idea which the courtiers might conceive from his vat being able , draw his own sword, burst into tears. Do not regard it, my falaful friend? said King James, with ready courtesy— So our sword would have left the scabbard as itself, had the Royal cause required in? With that he bestowed the intended honor with his own sword, which he pre ha sted to the new Knight, as soon as the mony was performed, Sir Evan Dha supported, for the last time, the cause of the Stuart family, to the hautle of Killiecrankie. After that civil snafe was ended, he grew old in peace, and survived until 1716, aged about ninety, and so amuch deprived of his strengs and faculties, that this oneu formidable warrior was fed like an infent rocked in a cradle.” 7 Witsiscrox, (Del.} April 17. THE MURDERS IN SUSSEN. We stated briefly in our paper of Fri day last, some circumstances reapecing a most disbulical course of cea beet, einen, for some years past, has been carried in in Sussex County i this state, the evi dences of which have just yee brought to light, and promised in our next nai ber, to give further particulars, this promise we failed to perform ; one rea son for which was that of a family allie ! Hen called our attention to the considera tion of other things, and another, was that as the Court was then about continen e in its session, at which the examination into the circumstances was to be made, in would be beter to omit saving any ting farther upon the subject until afer to be ended. the tial weld we dike! ‘his we presume iv now the case: and we are iecant of the result of the wial. we proceed to redeem on pro rave Hina videne’s aCQMeit we About g, t tenant who haves on the farm where Patty Can non and her son-in-be the celebrated Jo sey Johnson, negro tile, Vivedgir ma ny years, in North Weat Fork Rand, near the Maryland line, was ploung!i in the field, in place generally covered with water, and there a heap of brush has been lying for years, when his horse sank in x grave, and on digging, he found a bine painted chest, about three feet long, ad in it the bones of a man! The sfrew like wild fire, people from ma uiles around visited the place; ameang of it was universally agreed that # ogra trader from Georgia, named Bell ler, or perhaps both, had been niur chp parth gather the far! een days previous in its 6 Or dered by Johnson and his gang, about Wor bf years ag, and that the bones now discovered were those of one of then; as the ian er omen had been missed about that time, and the horse on which one of them rode was found at Patty Cannoff’s, who laid claim to the animal, and a person from Mary land who had lent the horse, came for ward and claimed his property; and she aledged, at the time, that Bell or Miler had sailed a short time previous, with a cargo of negroes for the Louis. Since that time he has not been heard of, and it is said that a few days before he was missed, he was heard to say that he had with hin Afteen thousand dollars with which he purposed to purchase negroes. The opposition saw is that the knows ledge of his having the money in his pos session, formed the inducement to take his life, and that to conceal the body it had been deposited in the place where the bones have been found. The excitement produced by this dis covery, as may naturally be supposed, was very great in the neighborhood, and on the 2d instant, one of Johnson's gang, named Cyrus James, who has resided in Maryland, was caught in this state, and brought before a Justice of the Peace at Seaford, and an examination stated that Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer EF. Johnson and old Patty Cannon had shot the man while 4¢ supper in her house, and that he saw bet all engaged in carrying him in the chest and burying him; and stated, moreover, that many others also had been killed, and that he could show where they had been buried. The offi cers 2nd citizens accordingly accompani ed him to the places which he pointed out, and made the necessary search. In one place in a garden they dug and ouné the bones of a young child, the mother of which he stated, was a negro woman belonging to Patty Cannon, which being a raulatta, she had killed for the reason that she supposed its father to be one of her own family. Another place a few feet distant, was then point ed out, when pon digging a few feet, two oak foxes were found, each of which contained human bones. Those in one of them had seen those of a person about seven years of age, which Lame said hy saw Patty Cannon knock on the head with a bite of wand, and the otter con tained those of one whom he said they [considered bas pepets hy were hous yauppesch was ueaul, that he was free. As there was at the lane much stir about the children, and there was no Cott venignt Qupertinity to seid them any’, they were ordered to prevent ee Ou exaaining the soul bane of the larges tchild, it was discovered to have been ra ken as Duscribed by Janes, Phalowis, was reised by Put w Cannen, imelly been bound to her at fseven years, wie ds soul to lace much misthief i his tae for bee and Sobus Anein Une ae withtis by the name of Bute uiy been secured amd itis Thoaght dit some others ili be tees fureard Sng are ae uy deeds of Baits nida is between diaty OL TER, Dowowall$ . eh to by us nee mest abana. As Slaied ly ‘ugoaa Diiday est, i UY co dodged up tug Sart at sand uiler we e ale : Sabie Sande fines and it i nighty probe aul: Uidtere Une tie rit has taken place, and the result of it wil sou bu bun. dames stated that he had not shown Fall use places where murdered bodies bed buried, and at Uie time of writ, our Correspondent informs us ue people medinging. Joe Johnson, who is said to be resi ding, at thus unig, in Alabama, is stated w have been seen im Uiis state in Decem ber or January last 5 and the pool in the leg is iat tis business here was to do somes tiing at his old business of kidnapyang. he was convicted of this crime sane years since at Georgetown, and suffered the punishment of ‘the hash and pillory on account of it. Tie is a man of some seclebrity, having for may years, carried on the traffic of stealing, and selling te grees, in which he was aided by the old Paul Cannon, whose daughter he inarried, after she had lost a former hus had on the gallows. [He continued to resie ear his Utteress and within a few years when a reward of 33110 was offered by Mr. Watson, Mararo Baiadefabia, when having dwained the information of the fact before any others in is neigh borhood, he suddenly decanped, and has since been very gentious in suffering himself to be seen in that part of the CAULET The former husband of Joe’s wife was hong for the murder of a negro trader, the plan for which is said to have been arranged at her mother’s house. From the circumstances which have already taken place, it would appear pro babe that such developments may be expected to take place as will present the wretched actors in the scenes of ‘bleed which have taken place on the bur der of our state in Sussex County, as suc cessful rivals in depravity of the ifimous Burke, whose bloody deeds and recent execution in Scotland, have occupied 18 large a portion of the public prints. Gazette Jer has arre st ed Bata the Shage Joe in oWwoe and seventy yeors ve ine aman can eee hod ues weCOPe LUV.
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