Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-10-07


ces of him whatever could found. Every eff
fort had been made to discover his fate, but in
vain; thus, although Donal Campbell was, ap-
parently, man of opulencehe was in reality a
much less happy man than hen he lived from
hand to mouth, aud knew no one day where he
was to look for provision forhe mex.
| Although this enterprise hid been successful,
Campbell did not reap all theIrutJ of his peril
dy, for some of the remote pftions of the High
land estate which he had proeged gift of from
the crown, were altogether unpoductive, the te-
nants refusing TO recognise anYother chief than
the son Of the deceased proprietor, William Ora
hame was, at the time of his falhers death, a
boy of fifteen. He had been remtved from the
Tower of Gloom, by his mothers relations, about
the time of the suppression of the hbellion, and
placed by them in the Marschal College in the
city of Aberdeen.
The lad, who had no great taste FIR classical
literature, was, by no means, comfortable, and
longed to return to the purple heath ofhs native
hills. So long as his father lived, William be-
haved himself with considerable prophety, and
made some progress in his studies but, no soon
er did the tdngs arrive of the untmely fate of
the ill-starred Reginald than his disappeared
from the University, and the anxious search of
his friends was unable 10 obtain any traces of his
fight Some time afterwards. a body was found
in the river Dee, in state of great dccomposi-
ton, which generally was supposed to be that of
the young man, and was duly inferred as the
corpse of the last Grahame of Inshannock
Time hurried on; and the new proprietor of
Inshannock had begun to feel the effect Gifts rap
id transit he was no longer the vigorous man OF
forty and as he passed towards the period OF
threescore, the effects of age told severely upon
him.
For series of years, Donald Campbell had
been very much exposed to the depredations of a
set of caterans or gipsres, who frequently kept
him in a state of siege in his tower.
The tower was ofthe true Scottish fabric, div
dcd into three stories: the highest of which con
tanned the dormitores; the sec ond or middle
served as a general refectory ; and the loves
contained his cattle, which required this lodg
ment at night, or very few would have been fount
next morning.
The leader of the gipses frequented the fairs
on the north side of the Firth, well mounted
paying at inns and ferries like gentleman; and
attended by bands of gllles or young pupils
whose green coats, cudgcls, and knives, were
sufficiently feared by the tenantry of the Lennox
The gypsy chieftain had also grim cur of the
true black faced breed, famous for collecting and
driving off sheep, and therefore distinguished by
his own name. In the darkest cleughs or raw
ines, or IN the deepest snow, this faithful animal
had never been known to abandon the flock COM
mitted to his care, or to fail in tracing fugitive
But as sight and strength began to fail, the four
footed chleftain was deposed, imprisoned in byre
loft, and finally sentenced to be drowned.
In one of those drear mdnights so awful to
travellers in the Highlands, a man, wrapped in a
large coarse plaid, strobe from stone ridge, on
the border of Loeb Lomond, into boat which he
had drawn from its covert. He rowed resolutely
and alone, looking carefully to the right and to
the left, till he suffered the tide to bear his little
bark into gorge or gulf, sc narrow, deep and
dark that no escape but death seemed to await
uiiN
broken granite, rose more than hundred feel
| on each side, sundered only by the stream, which
a thirsty season had reduced to a sluggish ano
shallow pool. The boatman, posing himself
erect on his staff, drew, three times, the end OF
strong chain which hung among the underwood
In few minutes basket descended from the
pinnacle of the cliff; and, having moored hi,
boat, he placed himself in the wicker carriage
and was safely drawn into a crevce high in thu
assure of rock, into which he disappeared
! The boat was moored; but the adventurcr hat
not observed that it contained another passenger
Underneath plank, laid artfully along its bot
tom, and shrouded in his plaid of the darkes
green, another man had been lurking more thai
an hour before the owner of the boat entered it
and remained hidden by the darkness ofthe night
His purpose was answered. He had now dis
| covered-what he had sacrificed many perlou
night to obtain knowledge of-the mode b,
which the owner of the Tower of Gloom ganet
access to his impregnable fortress unsupported
| He instantly unmoored the boat, and rowe,
slowly back across the loch to an island near tn
centre. He rested on its oars, and looked dow
into the transparent water. at is there still,
he said to himself; and drawing close among tn
rocks, leaped on dry land. A dog of the tru
shepherd breed sat waiting under the bushes, an
ran before him till they descended together un
der an archway of stones and withered branches