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THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY IRAY 25. 1883.
FIRE AND SWORD
A STORY OF THE MASSACRE
G LENCOE.
That notime might be lost in enforcing
the pe.alties of the "Pronto motion'
again recusants, new that the time for
of taking he oath of allegiance had fully
gaps , instructions of a rather vague
and mewhat equivocal nature, signed
and cnntersutned by the Ding on the
Ilth " January, were sent down from
Ludo by Secretary Stair toSir Thomas
Livingstnn on the same day, enclosed in
a letter from the Secretary, instructing
Central Sir Thomas Livingston "to
march the troops r tat the rebels who
had not taken the benefit of thedemi-
ty,' and to destroy them by "Are and
sword." To give, however, a color of
justioe to this bloody and remorseless
order, Livingstone was allowed to `give
terms and quer'ar, but in this manner
otfly—that chieftans and heritors be held
as prisoners of war, their lives only safe,
they taking the necessary "oath ;" and
their communities also taking the •`r,ath,'
rendering up their -rms, and submitting
themselves to the government, are to
have quarter and indemnity for their
Lives and furtunea, and to be protected
from the soldiers. As a further hint how
to act under the discretionary power
with which the order invested him, the
Secretary's letter contained an adden-
dum which concluded with these words- -
"I have no great kindness to Keppoch
nor Glencoe. and it is well that people
are in mercy, be` then, just n"w my
Lord Argyll tells me that Glencoe bath
not taken the oath, at which I rejoice.
It is a great work of charity to be exact
in rooting out that damnable sect, the
worst in the Highlands."
There could be ro reel misunderstand-
ing regarding the cc . ert nieanin; ..f these
instructions ; but lest Livingston should
possibly hesitate to imbrue his hands in
the blood of M'Iau and hta people, addi-
tional instructious, of still more certain
tone, were despatched to Livingstone,
urging him to be speedy in the work of
extirpating the whole clan. A duplicate
sof these instructions was at the same
time sent by Secretary Dalrymple to Col -
one: Hill at Fort -William.. backed up
with !letter which said that --"The
Earls of Argyll and Brsedalbane have
promised that they (the )itacdonalds of
Glencoe; shall have no retreat tn their
hounds. The passes of Rannoch will be
secured, and the hazard certified to the
Lord of Weems to reset them : in which
case Argyll's detachment, with a party
that may be posted in Island Stalker,.
must cut them off" This far with the
documentary evidence of tier . tragic
episode.
Meanwhile M'Ln had returned home,
and was resting in peaceful reliance that,
having latterly done his utmost tocomply
with the injunctions of the Government,
he was now, along with his beloved peo-
pie, fret from all apprehensions of hurt
or danger thereanent.
Great was the satisfaction of his peo-
ple on M'Ian's return, when they learn-
ed that he had accomplished the purpose
for which his unresting journey had
been undertaken. Not that they (the
clansmen) were less Jaoobitish in their
feelings and sentiments than their feel-
ings and sentiments than their chief, but
rather because 'that in the unreasoning
simplicity and fidelity of clanship to a
.recognized head they rejoiced in the sue-
t cess ..f whatever line of acti•. r.. poli; ?cal
e.._i-.:. i:e elect,: to ntaI' ell': for
i thew.
As !,.7. Malcolm, los first t. •v;ht on
Isetting f.'ot agair. in the Caen ori ..f
',Helen Cameron and old Uncle Sin ly up'
at the little firm of Crags.
He had parted. whit Helen a- i:erlv'r,
tiu...int t tear:i. again .. •rfter-
n.w: of that same day, and now a f .rt -
night had nearly elapsed ere she was
again privileged t" sit by ,Iiia side, feel
the firni presaui•e of his hand, a: -.,t listen
with a quiet deep jay, to the charm of
his loving words.
Helen was "anudding ' up the little
kitchen of her Uncle's t;irf•habbit c)t
when the weil.known fnrtn of Malcolm
tilled the barrow '•laich-lintellei • d,.oa-
way.
With a glad cry of joy—which .was as
natural and inve'• r.tary in itself as the
; treble of song with which the song bi-d
greets a burst of sunshine—the delighted
maiden hastened to the arms of her
lover, and hid her warn blushes ••n hie
nianly breast.
"Helen, dearest said Malcolm,
straining the fair maiden to his breast.
CHAPTER XIV.
res "cera ' t&Jal'TED AND CANt'LLW•D.
God he pra We may not take
oft• way back [*Glenne, lads," M'Ian
had ejaculated, and with much fervent
emotion, on Sir Cohn, the Sherif, hav-
ing formally accepted their --oaths of al-
legiance to the reigning Whig Gover-
ment of King William. The following
morning saw them once mere on the
road, retracting, with lighter hearts and
well rested limbs, the ?'eery and snow-
covered paths which they had a few days
previous y half -despairingly trod.
But for a sudden thaw, occurring
shortly after the heavy snowfall describ-
ed, the roads would havebeen practically
impassable
Aa it was, they had another difficulty
to encounter, for although the hill -paths
were washed, black add almost bard, the
melted, and still melting snows had
flooded stream and bum and mountain
torrent into roaring and tumbling spates
and cataracts, and many and widely
devious were the detours which thehome
returning party were forced to nuke ere
they had once more planted a foot in
their native rumantic Glen.
It is nr' toeessary that we should fur-
ther tart,. the oourse of our story by
tracing iaiie by mile M'Ian's progress
north. It is perhaps sufficient to merely
mention that the aged and high-minded
old Chieftain looked in on the Cladich
shepherd in the "l. -gaun ;" and that on
ruching Barns:dine House, which lay
unavoidably in his way; he simply avert-
ed his mind and eyes from it as much as
possible, regretting to his son the dark
spirit cf treachery which its fair walls
concealed.
"Thank heaven !" Malcolm had ex-
claimed, in the enthusiasm of his Jaco-
bitism, as they passed the Chamberlain's
residence, "we are now publicly safe, de-
spite their traitorous wiles, and can
privately say—"God bless King Janie.!`
as often as we have a mind to."
"Which will be morning, noon, and
night." put in John, the Chief's son.
"Nay, lads," corrected M'Ian, we have
takeh-tbe oath to the new Constitution.
Let in honor our 'oath,' until at least
such times as political circumstances
order a new departure."
• And in this way, taking the ; .. rney
in may and leisurely stages, a three -slay
travel afoot saw the party rect.( is the
swollen stream o`i Oesian and ben.: their..
steps in the direction of the chief's house
at Itivercoe.
Meantime, three days after the "oaths' •
of the Glencoeparty were taken, Sir Colin
Campbell wrote to Colonel Hill, at Fort -
William, acquainting him of what he had
done, and stating that M'Ian had under-
tahen to get all his friend. and followers
to conform to the oath as he himself had
done. On the same day he also wrote a
letter to his nephew, Colin Campbell,
' Sheriff=Clerk of Argyll. then at Edin-
burgh, with instructions to daily lay
51'Ian of Glencoe's case before the Privy
Council assembling there. and ' les.» r. .
time in informing him :`Sir Cunt:
her yr y.r not the delayed ••.•.[the' t!ie
Glencoe party could be received.
Tl.e papeF ou' which th • certit cite
that Glencoe had taken the • •eat!:' c'as
written contained other certiti at:.';.. e .
"oaths' which had been formally Admin-
istered to 'flier Jacobites within the
time fixed ;but Sir Gilbert F.iii.'tt, ti.e
t'lerk ..f the Privy Councu. refuse 1 to
receive the certificate relatin; f• ti;o
Glencoe party as Poing irre:ular.
Campbell thereupon waited upon L. rd
Aberuchill, a Privy Councillor. request•
ing him to obtaift the a.nibin:''l • pini..0
of the different members of the C.
who accordingly spoke to Inv L.riS',tirs
and other leading Prit t: • ::.c.i. : •. a
majority of whom .tuickly dcci'ieci that
the certificate relating t • i i:epcoe c ,uld
not be received by them without -t te•ec-
ial warrant from the King.
Instead, however, of layin; ;he matter
formally before a meeting •.f the Privy
Council, or informing Mian ..f the infor-
mality and consequent rejection of his
"oath," whereby he might have had a
chance of petitioning the King. Campbell c� Malcolm :" was all she coma find
perfidiously defaced the certificate, act-
ing, it is said, under the malign inttu-words to say. Rut the brevity of words
once of Secretary sir John Dalrymple, I indulged in by the Lovers was perhaps
afterwards Master'of Stair --and gave in I the truest index their dept:t of feeling
. the paper on which it was wrote;, to the strati have weli sh •wr.
Clerk of the Connell wit:, th.- Glencoe
signatures remove.!. The act .,f defac-
ing the (Ilene se certificate. in whatever
light it may be viewed. was an unfor-
tunate transaction, and led shortly after- ary f Wass the Shirra civil to M'Ian—
wards to the commission of the blackest for 1 hear ve were all sworn Whigs ;
and Woodiest chapter is flu atirrina his. ocher, ochon
miry of the immortal Kin; William's Briefly. Malcolm related what had
otherwise glorious reign. I transpired in the Sheriff's Chamber., as
The conjoint influence • i Itreadalbaue, knowledgingthat they had in sober truth
Argyll, and Secretary D&lrymple--eseh been all sworn "crop•itairel. Whigs.'
n1 *horn bore reepeCtive:y a per•s.lal •.r .-t misfortune' to which." added Mal -
pawed etude. grudge agaiat t;lencue--w*, colts, "we shall all secretly cry—God
seflicent to further the progress ..f the send us *nun a better day ! But, as the
Aggro llgainet him ; and matter* relating
!Chief says, let ne it:eantirae mare the ,
r.' the cancelling of his "seep . with the ! moat of miefortrne by honoring ..Dari
*Oa? ,.•.nseouenee, thereof, •r •ache
s .
n ape d th r Chief
• • %Nell, web.' said f -ncle Sandy. enter-
ing the humble !toaiit:ail sh :rtly rafter,
"my brave, brew lad : Aud haw's the
Chief• and what said Sir Colin of inver-
say so ? tN course. yeas to Integre, will
be loyal ; yeas, yeas "' In this way old
Sandy, a true Jacobite at heart, half ac-
knowledged, in deference to M'Ian's
wish, the right of the Whig King to gov-
ern them ; but the half-hearted tone in
whit* the admission was made showed
clearly to what side the honest oldHigb-
lander's sympathies strongly inclined,
and how dearly he still cherished the
nate and cove ign risbt of their "lawful
King," whom the misfortune of circum-
stances had thrust from a throne and
banished "over the water. '
"And were the roads uncle heavy,
then, Malcolm !" he asked, anxious to
shift the current of their thoughts ;"sad
the glens—were they fu' o- snow?
Come, lad, tell us the at.'ry o' your lang
and lonesome journey, for richt glad we
are to see yeu back at the Crags, lad ;
and as for Helen theta, puir lassie, she
henna been hersel' since the morning ye
took French leave o' her at the dairy
door step."
The guileless maiden dropped her eye-
lids and toyed mechanically with the
large and favorite sheep dog which was
spslder't" on the warm hearthstone be-
fore her, baying in short, sudden dreams
the truant cattle on the hills.
Thus requested, Malcolm entered into
a detailed account of their double jour-
ney, north and south ; of the refusal of
Colonel Hill to "swear" then ; of their
de(festion des south ; of the deception
practised on them by Captain Drum-
mond and Campbell of Bernadine, the
Earl cf Brsadalbane's Chamberlain ; of
their night journey through the snow to
Cladich; and of their arrival at Inversry ;
their disappointment at finding the
Sheriff absent ; and the final success of
their mission in Sir Colin's acceptance
of their "oaths."
"Barcaldine is a bad, treeberom Earl's
man," remarked the honest old crofter.
"It's well kennnd and faur that he would
sell his sod's birthright to serve the
Earl., and he and Breadalbsne are a pair
=like master, like man., Haith ! led,
but we've fallen on evil days, when we've
.a to sit, and moll grate and [bele the
proud .ban o' the Campbells. As for
Drummond," he added, "I ken nock[ o'
him, but if he's like aim lave o' the
soldiery, hid pop a shot at a Glencoe
man as fast as at a moorcock, and think
the ruffian deed fair sport into the bar-
gain ; but well drink to ourselves, lad ;
confusion grip a' Whigs and wheedlers !
A sprig o purple heather sets weel the
white cockade. Here's to our worthy
Chief, and mountain mists that wrap the
the brave menu the Glen !" and hand-
ing Malcolm a quaich which he hod just
filled, he bade him honor the toast, and
straightway proceeded to follow his ex-
ample.
In this wipe the evening crept round,
and the hour of midnight had nearly
come round lee Malceim Tones to leave
his seat by the homely peat fire which
burned on the hearth of the Crags
He had missed, during his unexpected
absence, the homely festivities of thio
New. Year' morning, but the Glen, Uncle
Sandy had confessed, had been shorn of
its wonted spirit in the absence of the
Chief and his escort, "for I much fear;
Malcolm," added the sagacious old crof-
ter. "that in spite o' all this oath -taking
and paper signing, that we hare net yet
seen the endo this fraci.•ua and truly
vexing business, and I only li..l.e that,
after all, the fause Argyll, the bad Earl,
or the plotting Dalrymple '[ayes yet
• separately, er conjointly, tet slip tti�the
red -aceta "n us :Then we're least thinkiti
resisting then[. •
Au,i where. Sandy, will be than two
hundred tried and trusted claymores of
the Olen : proudly said Maicolui, with
the curage native to high spirit and in-
experience.
•'An, my dear lad,' sadly replied the
..11 crofter, "it's richt ill to lecht ngaiat
cunning end treohery. Given duo warn-
ing. and the cover of our own wild glen,
and wha can harm us ? But Bradalbane
and the crafty Dalrymple, in whale
hands things are, wad vile the butting
horns aff the vera deevil, and syne pierce
his ain side wi' them. Trost not to the
appearance of friendship in that quarter,
Malcolm. We have deen deceived by it
already. and may be so again. Let us
trust to Heaven wi' our hands on our
sword -hilts. God, if i were only but
thirty years yountrer !" and the gleam
which lit. up the old crofter's grey eyes
bespoke the fiery and courageous spirit,
which although much spent, was not yet
dead. But, Malcolm, lad, hear me," he
tnrther added, if things come to the
w ;r't. I will leave my dear lassie to your
Dare and keeping, for, alas ! I hare a
presentment that a redcoat's bullet will
soon lis here," and the horest and high-
spirited old crofter placed his right hand
over the region of his heart and kept his
straagely•illutnined eyes fixed on the
rafters of the thatched roof for a few mo-
ments, as if seeing a far -away risk* of
the inner sense.
"Nay, Sandy," interposed Malcolm,
rising and slapping him on the shoulder;
"drive away these foolish fears There
are happy days in store for m yet, and
old Sandy Meodonald of the Crags will
seen dance a reel end quaff a tam o' dew
at the wedding of oar who shall be here
nameless ;" and the maid's blushed
under the proud and found gam of her
/over. who shortly therwRw took s tied
leave of her, for the night, and was
presently spieding homewards with a
light foot alg the star -lighted, solitary
(Yu al cumi
pathway of the Glen.
lo1110
(Mork Twatn in mese and spline.
Lif. es • brilliant pen -portrait of
Mark 'l is His many acquaintances
will iso the faithfulness of the pic-
ture in all its details :
Mark Twain, therenuwned archeolog-
ist, posit and astronomer, is a lineal de -
standout of the celebrated Twain who
were mads one flesh. He was born on
Plymouth Rock, April 1, 1728, on a re-
tnarkablyoold morning, and the adminis-
tratrix of the csasehur and red flannel
department afterward stated that he was
the most remarkable baby she had over
seen. At the early age of sevea,Mark—
for so he was cruelly christened—was al-
ready addicted to seieeoe, and his discov-
ery, made one year later, that a spring
elotheep in, artistically applied to the
continuation of a cat would create m that
somnolent animal a datnre for vigorous
foreign travel, is atill used by the aborig-
ines of Connecticut and Mseesebnsstts.
When he wee nineteen, ]lark whoa thro'
college. He entered the front door, tur-
pentined the rector's favorite oat, and
graduated the same evening over the
fence He ass started for Ualiforuis,
Milwaukee, and other remote confines of
the earth, and -began those remarkable
series of truthful aasodotss for which he
is row ax justly fanned- As an arcbesob
gist, however, be has won mat renown ;
and his oollection of Pompeiian, Satserit
Egyptian and early Greek jokes, now in
possession of Osgood S Cu, of Boston, is
considered the moat complete in the
world. Some envious critics haveelaimed
that -most of these were paiatuUy caned
by Mark himself, and the balance com-
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pats, bet there seems to be leo reason-
able doubt that they are all genuine
antiquities.
Personally, Mr. Twain is a remarkably
well preserved than. He is short, flcid,
and very corpulent, laughs Maseently,.
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tica" is considered to be a msstierly treat-
ise on political economy, while his poses
entitled "The Frog Bared Dome b,
Weight of Shot" will hold its place as
one of the most pathetic in the language
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