Vincennes Gazette, Volume 13, Number 16, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 September 1843 — Page 1

TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.1 VOLUME XIII. VINCEXNES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER' 23, 18-13. NO. 16.

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Fur the Yincennes (iazette. ON ANXIETT. To II Why will thou my teace invade' Ami each brighter prospect shade? Fain me not with needless fear, but lot Hope my bosom cheer. While Xco'jithr gentle charti, Woo tf.e fiitterer to my anus While each moment she beguiles With her sweet enliv'ninj smile. While she softly whispers no. My again i free Whi'e I gaze on pleasure's gleam, S?jy net thou "'tis all a dream' Hence nor darken joy's soft Moon. With thy pale and sickly cl.em. Nought have ! to do with thee, Hence begone Anxitfy. A MASH"' Brureville, ept. 12, From the Yankee Noti i -FJxira. English Notes. I N Y E N D E D K o R VERY EXTENSIVE CIRCULATION. by q" aklls qu:ck:n?, i:--a-TO QUAIiLL'S QUICKENS, Esq. Pear Q:a:;le: For how shall I address you ni other language :!:an that uf a:iVo:i-.!iate endearment vou, with w hom under every variety of circumstances, I have lor so many years h-id improving win! delightful intercourse. I, at acting upon ih1 stage of l.fj t!te sensible and real, u .etacr ni i .e nome.v !M" ol domestic- duties, in sojourning by land and voyages by sea, and o u lv l .e , o-.v-rs which genius r.lime can w ield altho' separated bv a wide ocean, living within the circle of my pleasures, a spiritual existenee in happy unison wr.fi :r.y own, overshadowing my path with ihv presence: now brightening to my eve? objects which had hitherto been g'oomv an-t sad, urn! again infusing into the beings wuh whom i a::! brought into daily contact, the clow of humanity so transcen den; that I am no longer willing to believe in the !.ea:;!Jssness and depravity of mv specie?. And then again how harsh arid dissonant does Mr. Qiieken.s sound. Did you evr among young friends hear t'harles Lit'. beaulif ui-sou'e i Charles, sp ktn of a? Mr. Lamb? The very thonght chilis me. But enough of ihis. I know that my familiarity will not offend you; hat 1 am, however, somewhat fearful that wh.v 1 my have to siy in the course f this letter will grate harshly upon your ears, and produce in your mind that fueling which of ail things I deprecate most sincere!;-; for the spirit which impels me to w rite you, is more sorrowful than angry, and lias no aim beyond that of administering a word of kind and wholesome teproof. It is the general opinion among your fri-Mi i- in this country, that no previous American or English writer has been able to gain that foothold in the affections ami sympathies of this population, which you have, with so little apparent effort, succeeded in establishing, and which you undoubtedly held up to the period of your arrival in this country; and if any evidence should be thought necessary to prove the fact, it is certainly to be found in the almost u n prec edented sale an I circnUtion of your works, and in that tone f good feeling and propriety with which the press has generally spoken of them find of you. The question of your merits and demerits as an author, it is not my intention 'o touch. My own feeling toward you, however just and flattering they may have been, I must confess have oeen somewhat unfavorably influenced by the course you saw fit to pursue while receiving the hospitalities of our people, and afier your return home. "Your career in this country began, a? it eeems to me, in misconception, and ended very naturally in a confirmed mistrust and suspicion; or else (which I cannot for a moment believe) yoa formed tho tie : iberate intention of using every facility which your reputation afforded you. to cajole us into the beitowal of a grand patent right to a fe imerican authors beside yourself, for the exclusive sale of whatever wares it might please you to sen 1 over to us poor deluded souls from the other side. Such an idea is too unworthy to be entertained, and 1 cannot find it in my heart to believe that that man whom I rejoice to suppose the representative and personifa-ation of all those noble and humane virtues which he described and illustrated, should be justly charged v:.;h 'he guilt of so monstrous an offence. Many circumstances connected with' your visit seem to favor ihe impression in sotnminds thit in object was a mercenary -hsrz :l?r - e;er.;.i Tyf , a fju the

Atlantic in mid-winter presents but few attractions for even the most hearty and robust, to say nothing of its perils! The face of this portion of our country is known to wear a somewhat gloomy as-: pect in the season of winter and spring, j Besides, it cannot ba denied that there was a considerable flourish of trumpets attending your first appearance amongst us, although you modestly assert that the alte.ntior.3 which you received here were forced upon you. I cannot resist the feeling that you w ere desirous to make the best impression in your power, and was in this way the cause of all your troubles. The peoplo were certainly desirous to see you, and this should have been expected. You had been able to excite a similar curiosity at home why not abroid? And this should notonly have been expected as a matter of course, but it should have been highly gratifying to you, as an eloquent proof of the power of your pen. You made one very great mistake, and I have no doubt you feel it to your sorrow. It was in accepting invitations to public dinners. ;ow, public dinners, as you may have learned, are in this country the most shallow pieces of hinr.buggery imaginable. They never accomplish their apparent purpose. They are always sticcei ded uv mutual tctrun -nations, baokbitings, &c. They are promotive of bad speeches, bad toasts, and coarse jokes: r.nd what is still more disagreeable, there is always a certain odor attached to them, and which it is impossible for any participator ever t kse; and therefore, I say you wer indiscreet m complying with these rrqaes:?. The

verv num nv u r,n:n you were leu a no toasted, are evjr on the watch lor some new occasion of this kind. "Another mistake you made, Quarles. w as in submitting yourself to be painted. This vanity is scarcely pardonable in a nan of your mind. It would do very well for a lady, who wa desirous of exposing the beaniies of a we "I developed form, or scene exceedingly fencifel dross: but for v w ho had nothing to show but a ool race, U was too bail. I nave seen it. and without e.ir.r je. too, mind you, and am forced to sav t lie: t it does not look so m :eh unlike you as I anticipated. It '::, how ever even r. I l.r.r. , , but a poor speculation, and wa a in-avicr discount a!t r jnuieu i.umer speeces and toa?is. tetmn ; ii:'.in : the iKuni from To where.-! ! t iartrd. I rep u t.Vv. yen have bet:, laboring end- r a tatd misconception. Yon st-t onto:: vo.tr voyage to this country with false, im; regions of ihe character of our institutions :.nd ihe manners of our people. The whole army of American iourits in Encrlanl, themselves at your elbow. and their bo. ks upon your shelves, had instilled into you the whole of that rancor and abus ? which they had not dared !nt in part to expre-s in their works. Those p- or, miserable, deluded beings, who. fniiing w hile here t impose upon tine wisdom and d1 'comment uf a Mriti'h public by their impudence and arrogance, or attract the least respect or attention to themselves, went home, and from their abodes of elegant leisure and retirement. ten: oet to the world such conglomerations ot abuse and scurrillity in regard to ihis country, as even to excite ihe anger and disgust of their own countrymen, must have been allowed to influence your mind in forming its opinions of u-. Else how could vou have had the daring to begin and eantinue such a system of impositions as you practiced among us? If you had been sincere in all those fine speeches (and one could scarcely believe the contrary who heard or rea 1 them.) you never would have been induced to write a paper of such a chapter as the circular which you have published. The expressions contained in it of themselves alFml us conclusive evidence that you came with prejudiced view s and with a determination to avail yourself of our supposed weakness, in order to accomplish some favorite personal designs. Fortunately, or unfortunately, as you may consider it. you fell among the right men to foster and encourage these false opinions. I will not, however, push this matter further; but before I close let me call your attention to a few considerations. First, when yoa visit this country again, consult the people who buy and read your books, and not the men who are possessed of this same itching to be read, which is the frailty of more blockheads than men of genius. Seondly, never make any allusion to the shop in your public addresses: thi matter of international eopyrigh: has a strong odor. Thiridly. do not believe' the proprietors and publishers of mammoth newspapers to bo the only rightful representatives of the press in this country. Fourthly, if you should find time t write anything besides abases of our hospitalities, send early proofs to some one of our respeetab'e publishing ho ases some two or three weeks in advance of publication in .inieric-.', so that in this way a large editi on may be sold here, and you thereby reap some advantage from it. And lastly, never be ungratefal for civilities which ou know are honestly meant, however awkwardly expressed. And now, Q'larles, 1 give you my best wis1 es." Any comment upon this communication I a:n sure mv American readers, will not expect. In tb's way, private individuals are attacked. ; "tcir motives impugned, and ihfi r:. . ; . v:. oj. u lee or-M

possible light. From Ihe decisions of these tribunals there is no appeal.

CHAPTER VII. THE SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY. Under this general head have appeared in various English and American Journals at different periods, many communications devoted to a vindication of the course pursued by Great ttritain in her attempts to check the Slave Trade, and also of those sittrures of American vessels sailing under their national flag, which have been mado by the cruisers of the Hri'ish Government, undoubtedly by the consent and under the sanction of the ministry; and upon tr.attera relating to the abolition of slavery in the United States and elsew here. fhese letters I have read attentively not simplybecause they evince in their source a degree of information upon this subject which I confess myself not to have possessed, but also because they have been eminently suggestive to my mind, touching as they do upon subjects so important in iheir bearing upon the interests of our commerce, and in fact upon the peace ol the two count. ieo, and tho world. The authors of these cotninuni-ations seem to have entrrtd upon their labors without fr a moment admitting the possibility that these smzures and searches may be proved to be nnjuslillal le outrages upon our commerce and treaty stipulations To me the evi Itnce IS c to : neiusive: anu 1 11 reflecting per tmnU. it must h sons, who are mit w arped by tin w orthy prei liees, or who do v. look to the abr.s a consum olitiou of the Slave Tra mation superior to all considerations of national honor treaties solemnly ratified or of that protection w hich il is the duty of our gnonimeul to afford toils commerce. 1 know thai it has become the fashion of I it-1, for eve it American writer to take sides with Eng'r-t:: 1. and to d -bmd tfm coarse .i ro;.,-y n:rsu-u oy t.or in t'te sett.etre-n; ui ;.er mm :u.t, s w uti h i China, (w hich, by the blessing of heaven, are as far removed from satis fv'.oiy adjustment as they were ;U the biginning.) and in the dl-eus-ion of questions connected with ear mutual relations, ".iid affecting the honor of our cmitry, it is not rare to sc tho press m miuient parts oi the Union, leaning to the. side of thai country. In such eeioes, w h,jn an honest expression of opinion is simply ine.mt. or wi'.eie the ground assumed by her on any matter is considered a just r.ul lettable one, and such expression of preference but a vindication of an und nibt -d principle of justice and right, no objec'ion on the snore of want of patriotism can be urged. Hut in the present mstan-e, it serms to me that the authors of these letters many ofihem Americans never would have taken a ground of defence so utterly at variance, with the general sentiments of the people of ovir country, or have !!r. rived al conclusions unwarranted and tin-eu-ttvned by any facts previously stated, s injurious to the character f a portion of our citizens and prejudicial to th? honor and integrity of our government, if an unnatural bias in favor of En dand ha I not moved and iudueneed them. Hut let u s proceed to inquire whether the government of Great Hritain is sincere in its endeavors to aunihi'ate the Slave Trade and Slavery. In answer to ihis inquiry, it does appear from the evidence of factsj wi hin ihe knowledge of, piobably. ail niV readers, thai ihis movement was originally started by a few individuals am ng her people, the. genuineness of whose piiilan-' thropv cannot for a moment be doubled. Hviiiem it was urged upon the governmeat, and to them solely, with that por lion of the English people whom they represented, is humanity indebted fir that measure of seceess which has attended ihe undertaking. With this belief, I maintain that the government, or rather its then administration, ever contemplated such an act of disinterestedness, and never was capable, as its whole history proves, of any feeling or exertion for the benefn ol mankind. This measure having been matured and carried into effect, the noble and generous intentions of the originators were in a measure lost sight of; for howfoolish and inconsistent with all its previous acts, did il seem to the ministers to waste time and money in the furtherance of any design which had not fur its aim the wealth and aggrandizement" of the countr) ! The proper vessels necessary for the service were sent to the coast of Africa, in obedience to the requisition of Parliament, and were found not only efficient in checking the tratiic in slaves. bet what was of higher consideration with the government, lo subserve signally its designs upon the commercial liberties of otiier nations. Inducements were held out to officers to embark in this service, in ihe shape of bounties and prize moneys until at last il became an exceedingly pro iitable occupation, and very considerable sums were realized, by those who engaged in it. li has been asserted. anJ I believe satisfactorily proved, thai the trade was openly connived at and encouraged bv these agents of the Dritish government. At any rale, the siezure and shipment of slave?, in order that these same slaves might Le retaken. . ! the bounty, by thitreachery and fraud obtained.- For thh conduct of thre servants of the crown the go prime n' i? snoa

cepiing in so far as it had granted to these be well if a timely lesson could be learnmen immunities and privileges, and an ed from it by those who have it in their authority which are in their operations power to apply the remedy. The maunjustifiable encroachments, and opposed gistrates of Knutsfurd were very propeily to the general consent of nations. I al- engaged on Monday morning, in discoverIuded to this discussion in this place, be- ing the best means of lessening the enorcause, at the time 1 was in England, they mnus expense of prosecution to the cun.ry. filled the largest space in conversations If one half of the large-sum thus e.xpeniu the columns of newspapers, and Par- ( ded, were to be applied for a few years to llamentarydebates, and were ihe occasions the education of the. neglected portion of of a great deal of excitement in public the population, might it not be expected meetings and private circles; and of an to yield good interest in the way of peiuconceivable amount of bombast and cuniary saving? boasting on the part of the men, who! Macclesfield Chronicle. were engaged in them. And besides, at! Nortiileach pRtsox. The great fault this period, Lord Ashburton and Mr. Web-, is a deficiency of food. The mother of ster, or, I should rather have said, Mr. ( Heal deposed that he w as in good health Webster and Lord Ashburton, were nego- before he went to XorthleacK 'On the

tialing the terms of a treaty which it was ' ,r -cted, would include this momentous

question. 1 hat treaty lias been confirm-1 was in tne potatobury, I fe.t my blood ed and ratified, and by one of its stipula-1 run cold. My hair stood on end upon lions, this matter of espoinage upon the my head. I pulled off my cap, and coast of Africa is arranged to the mutual , kneeled upon it. 1 t.'iink that cruised my satisfaction of both g ivernments. Hut 1 death. The starvation oj the jtrisonthut repeat the question again, is Great Ilritain j suffered, mother, no tongue can ted.' honest and sincere in her endeavors to The father of the deceased said he told annihilate the Slave Trade and Slavery? , him on the Saturday evening before his The answer rushes to my tongue, and ' death, that he was down in the bury chitwould find utterance in a thunder tone. ( ting potmoes with Churin, when he cat Xo, no! this pretence is a more cursed : sme ran? potatoes. Ho did not eat so hypocrisy than ever disgraced the poli -y I many as Churin. It was hunger which of any nation that everexisted. It bears induced him to eat diem. He faw the

the lie on its own face, in lines the most horrible and disgusting. Could any man, who heard as I did, in the British Parliament, the roc i Lai of what atrocities were practiced upon men, and women and tender children, in the coal mines how mt-n were obliged to labor, up to iheir knees in the mire, in a state of entire nakedness, day after day and week after wee! . in reel s 1 1 a I i s where it was impossi i r i ibh to the form; how delicate women but half clad, were reduced to ihe same hardships, ai.il dangers, ami fopo-d to submit to every species of df-bisemcnl; how tender clod hen, in the carlo si years of inlV.ncv, wtrc.! taken into t!ios,i pi's ofdaikness ami (h -re made fo witne-s the vice and infamy practiced in them doomed by a hard ne,-rsitv to toil and labor, until some dreadful deformity should unfit thorn for further s.-rviee. I say, eoul al man listen to these recitab anv ration- , an ! ypt be w ii.imr to oeiieve m 'be sincerity ci mulish efforts for the extinction r f slavery? And then if he should hear Lord Hrrug ham rise in his p'ace an 1 say that he did H't think legislation necessary or expedi ent m t;,ese cases, and that toe ritrterance of Parliament would be unwise and impolitic it would seem as though any argument to prove t:,e contrary would be a w aue nf time and words. The conviction wouM thrill through him as it did through me, like an electric shock. Or wonlj it be necessary for me to go among th p op'e who are moving about me. and make in niiries, or fake deposition? Must I visit the manufacturing districts, poorhouses, the thousands of abodes of sorrow and distress in the city of London? Must I question every beggar j meet in the street? Must I pore over police reports, or statistics of crime; ransack prisons, hospitals and oilier charitable institutions? I could do all these I will not sav that I have done all these and the evidence which. I should be able to accumulate by such ineatis, would do more than convince your judgement; ihey would excite your deepest sympathies if vou had any bow eis of compassion for suffering humanity any respect for that nature which every being enjoys as the common bom of heaven and anxiety for that soul which is destines to fill a larger or lesser space in an other existence, as the proportion of advancement in this shall determine, ami urge you on to a noble, effort, not only for the annihilation of all slavery every where, hut particularly for the amelioration of the condition of ihe poor in England. They, unlike our slaves al the south, are unprovided with the means of existence. They want bread, and cannot get it. Can it far a moment be believed that we should tolerate a rondif'ion rif servitude where the slaves could not find sustenance, and icould be obliged to starve in the streets? Perish the tho't! In every place where I have been in this country, I have observed among the highest classes a blindness and heartlessnes in view of the facts I have here set forth, which astonished me. Whether it is the blindness of stupidity, I am not able) to determine. It is certainly the hearllessness of guilt. The papers were always filled with the 1111? I quantity of intelligence relating to these su! jecis, but they were rarely ever made the topic of remark. In order to give the reader some idea of the actual condition of the poor in Engl; nd, and of slavery in India, I have taken a lew extracts from some of her highest authorities, to w hich I beg particular attention: Ignorance and Crime. Gi 1 oking over the list of prisoners tried this week al the Knutsford petty sessions we find that oul of 1 11, one half can neither reed nor write; 32 can read and write imperfectly; 2-1 can reed; and one only can read and write well. Such statistical facts r these oitght particularly to be held before the public mind, in order that the i. fuentia! classes may be stimulated to exerti themselves for the jromol'0:i of popahu j instruction. In the late disturbances , vej have seen the effect nf ignorance, upon r j 'c le of f.ja: ft.i ranl: jo; .;nd i' weelo!

Saturday before he died, when he waa

' quite sensible hrsaid, 'Mo'her, when I I prison caused his death Its being rut into the potatoe-bury caused his illness. lie sai l fie made no complaint because he was afraid of being served worse. My sou said he would sooner saw . for seven years than woik at the mill for a month. Lincoln Examiner. New System of Diet. The poor people are comeing in hundreds here, to see if any thing will be done for them. I was present this day when an application was made to .slating that thry were existing by bleeding the attle, and boiling the blood until it becomes thick, irhen they tat it; and aleo eating sea-wctd and small shell-fish. I know cases myself, where ehi'dren resorted to weeds in the fields, to allay iheir hunger. Letter from Ireland. Others are known to have by night taken away the carrion of a cow drowned by chance, and unskinned for two davs, and picked the bones that the dozx had frosted oi. Letter from Ireland. Death from Starvation. 'The case I f-Hude 10 is that of a poor widow, named Ellen North, sixty years oid, who resided in the Leadvaid. Middle Hdlsrate. and who was found starved lo death on Sunday morning lat, without either sheet, blanket, or anything worthy to be called clothing, in a room for 8d per week. She had had no work for the last t ree weeks, and was suppostd to have been dead about a week, when the door of her miserable room was broken open by the neighbors. Thus, by stagnation of trade, the continuance of which is undoubtedly occasioned by the com laws, ara ihe old left to die neglected, while many of our young women, reckless from want, abandon themselves to prostitution. Bolton Tree Press. In one caie, seventeen persons were found in a dwelling less than five yards square; in another, eight persons were found in a cellar six feet under ground, and measuring about four yards by five. Al tnchcsler Times. Although death, directly produced by hunger, may be rare, there can be no doubt that a very large proportion of the mortality among the laboring classes is attributable to a deficiency of food a1? a main cause, aided by too long continued toil and exertion, w ithout adequate repose, insufficient clothing, exposure to cold, and other privations to which the poor are sub ject. Dr. lienard. In England, those who till the earth and make it lovely and fruitful by their labors, are only allowed the slaves share, of the many blessings the)' produce. Sheffield Jlddress. Why is it that so mMiiy laboring parents in England become as it were slave dealers in their own flesh and blood, and sell the bones and muscles of their offspring to that premature toil which withers, and cripples human beings, body and soul together? Is this spontaneous? Is it natural? I think too well of mv race to believe it. The corn laws make the poor hungry hunger makes men wolves. Sir Robert Pee! said that they (the corn law s)were upheld because it was 'the constitutional po'icy of England to mam'ain ihe aristocracy and magistracy, as an essential part of the community. Pari iamen lary Reports. Sir I was summoned lo Bristol a few days ego, and on the Stapleton road I met a long covered truck drawn by three men and four boys, harnessed together in rope tackle, exactly as yon may have seen bullocks et e plough, or dogs in a cart. On enquiring what this cojld mean, I was told that they belonged to the great Union House, 3nd had ben to the city for provisions. I expressed my horror et seeing human beings submit to puch degradation, when the man assumed me with the utmost unconcern, that this was r,oihmg of a load; thai went for oakum and vanen other things, mong whif-h he rrr. oo-red Cou o..-.:? :"- ' ivr, "" ' d-iro i to make nails, on' os 1:9 shld yj might s-e - .-en nfteer. in n hnrn-j'

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land, and in the towns, the traveller sees women scraping up manure with their hands, to sell for bread. Letter in Lincoln Times. Coarse'and insolent Britain! raze from your country's shield the noble Lion, and plwce in ils stead a squalid and starving wretch, rainly imploring a morsel of bread! Enzlish paper. He had 25.000 of his llock living within half a mile of his chapel. Scarcely a single Catholic, creeping in cases of sudden death, breathed his last without sending for the priest; and of these he spoke from personal observation at least om haf died from starvation. lie v. Mr. Ilcarnc. SLAVERY IX IXflA. The government permit parents and relations, in times of scarcity, to pail their children. The number of slaves continually diminishing, a demand constantly exists for the purchase of then;, which is supplied ch.elly by parents selling their own children in seasons of scarcity and famine, or in circumstances of individual and pecuniary distress Parliamentary Papers. Before f can believe that the slaves here are treated humanely, I must cast frcm my mind the remembrance of the ona which I have heard, and the menial degradation, the rags, the wretchedness, the bruises, the contused eyes and bones which have witnessed I must blot out adultery from the calender of vices I must disbelieve the numerous proofs which 1 hare had of obstacles opposed to regular mairiagcB and the general humiliation of females. I must pnt away every idea of the modes uf punishment of which eye witi esses have given me account, and the short jacket must be no longer a badge of slavery. flrr addiitoYi to the domestic discipline to'wh'ich slopes are subject, we finJ sm h punishments as the following ordered by the police magistrates. 'Chimpu, tweive lashes witf: the ratan, and Jo work on the road in irons for a period of fourteen .weeks, thereafter to be placed at hia master's disposal offence, false accusation. I'uiep being a notoriously bad character, and not liavjng yet the wounds healed of the punishment last inflicted upon him, is sentenced to bo flogged in tee posteriors with eighteen lashes of a ratan offence stealing from his brother. Mr. Cosins. I have seen il stated that there are :u Indii fif'y thousand, persons w horn we cail JJngio Indians. I can only say that 1 believe there are five times that num. ber. Why, sir, you can have no conception uf the extent of these evils, and it is insufferable that the CompanyVof Ih ers shoii'd sanction su.-h tilings. The truth is, they have too little objection to the system themselves. An army cannot move in India without wca-kim the destruction of virtue and the depredation of women. Letter from a Gentleman in India. It is certainty a political anomely that, while England ha? at puch heavy paerifices attempted to assert the rights of the African race, the voice of humanity should not have reached her from the East. I speak not of the China war but ? allude to the suffering millions in British India, trodden down and oppressed by British avarice; 1 allude to the oceans of blood which she has shed in that unhnppy country; to the unjust and remorseless wars which she has urged against a weak and timid race; to the slave trade itself, as it exists where her influence is paramount London paper. The mode of ctiNiuTCTiVi the Slavf. Slade in British Ixtia. The following is a prt of a statement made by the leader of a gang of slaves on the coast of AhIacca, as quoted in a late speech of Lord Brougham. It will be recollected that, if not aeluaily subjected, British influence is paramount in that country, whose capitol was taken in 1L07, and is retained by England. "I left mv home with a gang of forty Thugs, and proceeded to Hueseeagunge, where Heera, Dass and Rockmunce went lo the city of Mattra for the purpose of buying some clothes, and succeeded in winning the confidence of four travellers, two-men and two wo-' men, with their three children, whom they brought with' them to oar encamp menf: after passing t n o days with us Teela Da.-s, Mudhoo Dass, Byrageess, and Dewa Hookma Teelnke, Gungaram, Brirjarah, Bailuck Das?, Chutter Dass, INeput Dass, and Munoonrnan Dass. prevailed on the family to accompany them to the bsnks of the Jumna, and murdered the four elderly travelers in a garden near the village of Gokool. After throwing their bodies into the GurUia, they took their three children to the tanda, or encampment, of Dewa Brirjarah. nfr the villas of Khir. and sold the two female children for forty rupees, and th male for five rupees. " One of them, woman says: "Ue now went off to Thuneidier, wher- we encamped in a grove on the bank of a tank, and here several parties of trave'lers werfl inveigled by rh wives of the leaderf of our gangs to come and take up their lodgings with us. 1. A Chumar, with three daughters, one thirtv years of age, and the others ycung. Th widow of n cerjain carpenter and her son. 10 vf-ars of agp. 3. A Brahmin and bos wife, with one beautiful daughter goo at fonrteeo, iother flv & rrr

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