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788 McINTOSH McKEAN the Altamaha river ; area, 550 s<j. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,491, of whom 3,288 were colored. It is drained by the Sapelo river and Jones's and Doctor's creeks. The surface is level and the soil fertile. It is intersected by the Atlantic and Gulf railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 23,638 bushels of Indian corn, 26,- 438 of sweet potatoes, 4,900,389 Ibs. of rice, and 5,019 gallons of cane molasses. There were 1,800 milch cows, 3,055 other cattle, 684 sheep, and 4,449 swine ; 9 lumber mills, and 3 brick and stone yards. Capital, Darien. McINTOSH, John, an American soldier, born in Mclntosh co., Ga., about 1755, died Nov. 12, 1826. He was an officer of the Georgia line in 1775, and as lieutenant colonel de- fended the fort at Sunbury, in Liberty co., when it was besieged by Lieut. Col. Fraser, at the head of a considerable body of British troops. At the battle of Brier creek, March 3, 1779, he displayed great bravery, only sur- rendering when further resistance was impos- sible. After the close of the war he removed to Florida, and settled on the St. John's river. Here he was suddenly arrested by a band of Spanish troops and imprisoned in th fortress of St. Augustine, on suspicion of having de- signs against the Spanish government, and was finally sent to the captain general of Cuba, and by him incarcerated in the Morro castle at Havana. After nearly a year's imprisonment he was released, and returned to Georgia, but not until he had aided in destroying a fort on the St. John's opposite Jacksonville, and done the Spanish government some other injuries. In the last months of the war of 1812 he served at Mobile. McINTOSH, Lachlan, an American soldier, born at Borlam, near Inverness, Scotland, March 17, 1725, died in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 20, 1806. His father, John More Mclntosh, with 100 highlanders, came to Georgia with Gen. Ogle- thorpe in 1736, and settled in the lower part of the state, at the place now known as Da- rien, but called by them Inverness. He be- came a clerk in a counting house at Charles- ton, where he remained until called on, Sept. 16, 1776, to take command of the first regi- ment organized in Georgia. Subsequently three regiments were raised, and he was ap- pointed a brigadier general. In 1777 he fought a duel near Savannah with Button Gwinnett, who was fatally wounded. Gen. Mclntosh now accepted a command in the central army under Washington, who selected him to conduct a campaign against the Indians in the west in 1778. With a small force he succeeded in restoring peace on the frontier. In 1779 he took command of the Georgia troops at Augusta, whence he subsequently marched to Savannah, in the siege of which place he commanded the first and fifth South Carolina regiments, and bore an active part. After the failure of the siege he retreated to Charleston, and was present there when the city surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton, May 12, 1780, after which he was a prisoner of war for a long time. He was a member of con- gress in 1784, and a commissioner to treat with the southern Indians in 1785. McINTOSH, Maria J., an American authoress, born in Sunbury, Ga., in 1803. She was edu- cated at the Sunbury academy, about 1835 re- moved to New York, and published in 1841 her first tale, " Blind Alice," under the pseu- donyme of " Aunt Kitty." It was followed by "Jessie Graham," "Florence Arnott," "Con- quest and Self-Conquest," " Praise and Princi- ple," and other tales published between 1841 and 1846. In 1846 she published " Two Lives, or to Seem and to Be," and in the succeeding year her stories were collected in a single vol- ume. Among her other works are : " Charms and Counter-Charms" (1848); "Donaldson Manor " (1849) ; " Woman in America " (1850) ; "The Lofty and the Lowly" (1853), a picture of life on a southern plantation ; " Violet, or the Cross and the Crown" (1856); "Meta Gray" (1858) ; and "Two Pictures" (1863). MACKAY, Charles, a British author, born in Perth in 1812. He was educated in London and Brussels. From 1834 to 1844 he was on the staff of the London "Morning Chronicle," and from 1844 to 1847 editor of the Glasgow " Argus," after which he returned to London, where he still resides (1874). He lectured in the United States in 1858, and in 1860 estab- lished the " London Eeview." From 1862 to 1865 he was in the United States as corre- spondent of the London "Times" on the sub- ject of the civil war. He has published " Songs and Poems " (1834) ; " The Hope of the World, and other Poems" (1840); "Longbeard," a romance (1840); "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions " (3 vols., 1841) ; " The Salamandrine," a poem (1842) ; " Legends of the Isles, and other Poems" (1845) ; " The Sce- nery and Poetry of the English Lakes," and "Voices from the Crowd" (1846); "Voices from the Mountains" (1847); "Town Lyrics" and "The Battle," a poem (1848); "Egeria, or the Spirit of Nature, and other Poems" (1850) ; " The Lump of Gold, and other Po- ems," "The Song of the Brave," and "Bal- lads and other Poems " (1856) ; " Under Green Leaves " (1857) ; " A Man's Heart " (1860) ; " Studies from the Antique, and Sketches from Nature " (1864) ; " Under the Blue Sky " (1871); and "Lost Beauties and Perishing Graces of the English Language " (1874). MeKEAN, a N. county of Pennsylvania, bor- dering on New York; area, about 1,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,825. It is drained by the Alleghany river and branches, and numerous creeks. The surface is hilly, the soil of slate and shale formation, and it abounds with coal, iron, and salt. The Buffalo, Bradford, and Pittsburgh railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 8,444 bushels of wheat, 22,620 of Indian corn, 97,984 of oats, 54,983 of potatoes, 28,016 Ibs. of wool, 197,200 of butter, and 15,243 tons of hay.