The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-09-05
An Extraordinary VIII Case in Scot
land.

case:
Col. Alexander Maclean, the "Son of
the Eagle" will long be remembered over
the West Highlands as warrior and !,
will maker. The colonel, rs his sil-
plainly testifes. had been soldier in his
youth, and for more than forty years he
had served his king and country At home
and abroad but the greater portion cf
his services were performed in the regions
of the sun. Though the ancien. warrior
did not win a great deal of glory By his
exploits, he made 100000 of gold hard
cash, and that was something decidedly
more substantial. When the co'ons.
found himself full of years and his puleA
full of sovereigns, be retired from ,h-
army altogether, and some time aftervar'-
he turned up again in the pretty litllo y;.
| lage of Mil'port. Here tho Old colder
took comfortable lodgings, and house
keeper nearly sixty yesrs Younger than
himself: and in very short time IL mar
aged to astonish the natives Of the isl
considerably, and also to become Al a.
iect Of The deepest interes. % the children
:" He saun.erei about the streets -,
walks Of that secluded watering place, All
in many of these excursions lie va. =.
tended by retinue Of noisy children, who
danced around him mos. urroariously.
pulled the old hero by the skirts Of his
drab coat, pocketed his coppers, and CAL
ed nim by the endearine appeliation ot
the "draft Major" lie was generally
supposed to be an extraordinary chsrac
ter, and this illusion or delusion he assist
ed in keeping up BY rectinr wonderful
stories of bis ancestors and his origin
He informed the good people of MiNp"rt
that he was IiHeal descendant CT Tanner
lane, or Tam Maclean, as that great n,r
was called in the Highlands, and tha, he
was nursed in the nest of couple O.
mountain eagles, on The top Of an inscces
sible cliff in the misty island Of Null
Like great many other great men, thc
Colonel had host of poor relations, and
rightly or wrongly, he took offence 81
their poverty or their presumption. IL
imagined that the whole tribe were il
league against him, with an eve to hi.
cash box and therefore he resolved to cut
their acquaintance while living, and keer
their hands out Of his pocket when deaf
In order to effect this dlsinheritine ar.
rangement properly, wills and codic;l,
were manufactured by the old man and
signed by common ploughmen and Jour
neymen; and the result of the matter was
that the Maclean family we're cut of with
out shilling.
While the tide Of fortune ~as thus run
aing strongly against the Macl.an.. tho
young house keeper was gratefully renem.
berAd. The colonel presented her wiz
! f200 cash down, and named her in his
will for $50 year for life, with rever
sion to her children after her decease. 4
certain sum was also set down in the vii
for the erection Of 2 Gaelic church in Glas
COW. to be called by some unnronouncea
bic name, and to be supplied bv Gaelic
preachers every Sabbath, a. the nlarHrf
cent rate of a pound per sermon. Tie
! bulk of the coloneis fortune. howcfrr.
was set apart for the education Of Young
Macleans; and this settlement was made
so stringent shat single letter too rueh
in the name of any boy was declared 10 l..
an insurmountahle obstacle 10 hi. psrtlci-
patton IN the benefits OF the educanonaI
scheme. Marieans were declared TO be
suitable candidates, but every boy who
speIt his name MacIaln might as well CAL
himself " aIker for any part or lot ne ~o't
have IN the coionei's concerns
lime passed on, and in 1859 the old
testator died, leaving bis affairs in this
state; aad Immediately thereafter there
arose mHrmuring sound of many angry
voices from two or three generations oi
Macleans, Nacdonalds, M'CalIums, snd
Mcln;yres, toe disappointed relations Of
the colonel. In short time afterwards
the chorus Of angry words gave place to
formal law suit against the trustees ap
pointed under the settlement and this
pTotrac;ed litigation soon became known
all over the country as the MacIean VII
IL ,,,lrr,,;oI7s o,;d,,oo ,Ioo. -
Letters and con6e.cendence ari.ina on,
OF this affair. were submitted to Jury IN