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A HINDOO SACRIFICE,
The following account of the sacri
fice of a llindoo woman, on the fun
eral pile of her husband, is an ex
tract of a ',letter from a young lady
in Calcutta, to her friends in this
country. The writer is a native of
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where her
parents now reside :
CALCUTTA, June 18.
I open my letter, my dearest
friends, to tell you I have witnessed
one of the most extraordinary and
horrid scenes ever performed by hu
man beings, namely : • the self im
molation of a womau on the funeral
pile of her husband. The dreadful
sacrifice has made an impression on
my mind, that years will not efface.
I thank God that I was born in a
Christian land and instructed in the
Christian religion.
This event is so recent, I can hardly
compose myself sufficiently to relate
it. Last night I could not close my
eyes, nor could I drive this martyred
woman from my recollection. I am
almost sick to-day, and I am sure
you will not wonder at it. But this
ceremony is so much celebrated, And
by my countrymen so much doubted,
that I was resolved to see if such
"deeds could be." I hava seen; and
the universe would not induce me to
be present on a similar occasion—l
cannot realize what I have seen—it
seems like a horrible dream.
Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock,
this woman was brought in a pal
anquin, to the place of sacrifice. It
is on the banks of the Ganges, only
two miler, from Calcutta. Her hus
band had been previously brought to
the river to expire, His disorder
was hydrophobia—[think of the
agony this must have occasioned
him.] He had now been dead twen
ty-four hours, and no person could
prevail on the wife to save herself.—
She had three children, whom she
committed to the care of her mother.
A woman, called to be undertaker,
Was preparing the pile. It was com
posed of bamboo tirwood, oils, rosin
and a kind of flax,t altogether very
combustible. It was elevated above
the ground, I should say twenty
inches, and supported by strong
stakes. The dead body was lying
on a rude couch, very near, covered
with a white cloth. The oldest child
a boy of seven years, who was to
light the pile, was standing near the
corpse. ' The woman sat perfectly un
moved during all the preparations;
apparently at prayer, and counting a
string of beads, which she held in
her hand. She was just thirty years
old; her husband twenty-seven years
older.
The government threw every ob
stacle in the way of this precedure.
They were not strong enough to re
sort to violent measures to prevent
this abominable custom. Nothing
but our religion can abolish it, and I
do not believe there is a single particle
of Christianity in the breast of a sin
gle native in all India.
These obstacles delayed the cere
mony until five o'clock, when the
permit trom one of the chief judges
arrived. I".olice officers were station
ed to prevent anything like compul•
sion, and to secure the woman, at
the last moment, should She , desire it.
The corpse was now placed on the
ground, in an upright posture, and
clean linen crossed round the head,
and around the waist, Holy water
was then thrown over it by the child,
and afterward oil by the Brahmins.
it was then placed upon the pile,
upon the left side. The woman now
loft the palanquin, and walked into
the river, supported by her brothers,
who were agitated and required more
support thin herself. She was di
vested of all her ornaments; her
hair hanging dishevelled about her
face, which expressed perfect resig
nation. Her forehead and feet were
stained with a deep red. She bath
ed in the river, and drank a little
water, which was the only nourish
ment she received after her husband's
death. An oath was administered
by the attending Brahmins, which is
done by putting the band in holy
water, and repeating from the Sinis
ter a few lines. The oath was
given seven Mmes. 1 forgot to say
the child received an oath before the
corpse was removed. The brothers
also prayed over the body, and
sprinkled themselves with consecra
ted water. She then adjusted her
own dress, which consisted of long
clothes wrapped about her form, and
partly over her head, but not so as to
comae! her Sace. She bad in her
hand a little box containing parting
gifts, which she presented to her
brothers, and to the Brahmins, with
the greatest composure. Bed strings
were then fastened roomd her wrists.
Her child now pat a little rice in
her mouth lirbieh was the last thing
she receiv e 4 She raised her eyes to
Heaven several times during the
river ceremonies, which occupied ten
or twenty minutes. She took , no no
tice of her &Rd, Saviag taken leave
of her *isle Weeds& 40 ebiltires
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of her husband, then, unaided,
she passed three times around the
pile. She now seemed excited by
enthusiasm; some said of a religious
nature, others, of affection for the
dead. I do not pretend to say what
motive actuated her, but she stepped
up 'the pile with apparent delight,
unassisted by any one, and threw
herself by the side of the body, clasp
ing his neck with her arm. The
corpse was in the most horrid putrid
state- She put her face close to his;
a cord was slightly passed over both;
light fagots and straw, with some
combustible rosin, were then put
upon the pile, and a strong bamboo
pole confined the whole ; all this was
done by her brothers. The child
then applied the fire to the head of
of the pile which was to consume
both parents. The whole was in
stantly on fire. The multitude
shouted, but not a groan was heard
from the pile. I hope and trust this
poor victim expired immediately.—
She undoubtedly died, without one
struggle. Her feet ana arms were
not confined ; and after the straw
and fagots were burnt; we saw them
in the same condition she had placed
them.
DRESSING WITH TASTE.
It is stradge that with all the time
American women bestow upon dress
so few know how to prepare a simple
toilet with taste. To be well dressed
means, with most, to wear rich ma
terial made up in rorgeous style,
and with all the usual accessories of
lace and jevelry, to add to the mag
nificence of general effect. Never
was a greater mistake. To be well
dressed is only to have attire suited
to the time, place and circumstances,
made in a becoming manner. This
attire may be a shilling calico or a
rich silk, and yet in either, if it is
adapted to the conditions we have
mentioned, a woman may be well
dressed. Where household duties
have to be performed, and the care
of children devolves upon the mis
tress of a house, a neat dress, fitted
gracefully to the person is much bet
ter for morning wear than the faded
remains of a more pretentious cos
tume. Nothing looks more forbrn
than to see a would-be lady per
forming houshold offices, of not the
most refined character, in an old
torn or a dirty silk dress, or a soiled
draggled wrapper. One of the se
crate in dressing well is to dress ap
propriately; another, to be careful of
the details, the miniutice of the toilet.
Indeed, a lady,whois particular about
these minor matters can hardly ever
be said to be ill dressed, as this deli
cate refinement will 'not only excnse
faults, but naturally show itself in the
good taste which will guide her se
lection, uo matter bow small the cost
may be. Some persons have an ex
treme horror of being "caught," as
they call it, in a morning dresq.—
Why they should be so sensitive on
this point it is difficult to say. if it
is clean, and adapted to the work in
which t bey are engaged, th ere is no
shame in wearing it, and, above all,
it ought to be remembered that no
attire is good enough for the family
which is not good enough for mere
acquaintances who may chance to
favor you with their society. It is
much better to be caugnt in a plai n
morning-dress than to be caught
very much over-dressed, as some un
luktiky individuals are, at a small
evening party. In one case there is
real cause for mortification, in the
other there is tzne.
?Kt DEATH OF GEL BARKSDALE.
A correspondent of the Tribune,
writing from tbe battle-fteLd of Get
tysburg, July 6th, says •
The following particulars of the
death of the noted rebel General
William Barksdale have just been
communicated to me. Lieut. Col.
Charles E. Livingston, of New York,
A. A. G. on Major Gen. Doubleday's
staff, on the night of Thursday, July
3d, wtnt out in the extreme front to
discover if possible the body, he hav
ing been informed by a prisoner of
the locality where Barksdale was
shot. The spot was about a quarter
of a mile in advance of our pickets,
and Colonel Livingston, with his par
ty of stretchbearers was once driven
in by rebel scouts. but on a second
attempt was so fortunate as to be suc
cessful.
The body of the General was found;
life was not extinet, but his wound
was a mortal one. He was lifted
upon the stretcher, and being a very
heavy, person, eight men wore re
quired to bear his weight. Ho de
clared with his last breath that he
was proud of the cause ho died in
fighting for; proud of the manner in
which he received his death wound ;
that the rebels were invincible, and
although repulsed to-day, they were
sure of victory on •tbe morrow. He
left with Col. Livingston his watch,
pocket-book, and a few other trinkets,
to be sent to his friends in Mississip.
Pi.
OfirGovernor Harding says that
Brigham. Young is probably the
rieb
eat man in. A..neries. The is hole
Morino° tribe •pay -to , lam at the rate
of *boat 1140 palmed. aanneilly. At
toe iprepor time of thayner, histeinno
Wass nee wet oft to wither in Ike
adisen of the harvest loolosiint to
the Lord, i. e. his prophet Brigham.
RIM BEGGARS. ( dance with the solemn season of
There are multitudes of instances death.
of beggars who, amid squalor, rags,', One curious circumstance regard
and dirt, utterly miserable, contrive ing a beggar connected with the
to amass considerable sums of money. town of Dumfries we can mention on
For obvious reasons, they generally excellent authority; a son of his
conceal their wealth during life, and passed through the class of Hurnani
it is only when the breath is out of , ty, (Latin,) in the University of Ed
their body that the golden hypocrisy ; in burgh, under the care of the prec
is discovered. Usually the hoarded i ent Professor, 1863, Mr. Phillans."
coins are found sewn up in rags or i -------------
straw beds, or otherwise hid in holes i
A SAD CASE.
and corners ;it is only in a few in- ; Night before last a scene took place
stances that the beggar ventures to a t th e Mayor's office that brought
inv e st his money in a bank. Chain- tears to the eyes of those who, a.:eus
bers Book of Days, in discussing the tomed to the sight of trtan misery,
subject, reports a few instances of seldom weep. On the floor of the
this class of people. We quote : ' office lay the clothes of young Hobell
"Among the many rceorded ex- ; who was drowned on Wednesday,
aruples of rich beggars have been they having been brought there by a
Daniel Eagle, who begged for thirty ; little boy who was with him when he
years in London, and lived in a room was drowned, and who bad taken
which was never entered by any them there, not knowing where his
one but himself, and never cleaned mother lived. About dark, a poor
during the whole period. After his but respectable woman entered the
death coins to the value of twenty- , office, but no sooner did her eye
five pounds sterling were found. I catch sight of the bundle of clothes
Margaret Coles, who died in than recognizing them she threw
wretched filth in St. Giles's, at the herself beside them, and for half an
age of one hundred and one, and in ' hour her shrieks rent the air, and
whose hovel was found thirty pounds her poor grief-laden heart seemed as
in gold and silver, and ten pounds in though it would burst. At length
copper. partially recovering herself, she told
Margaret Everett, an equally her sad story. She was the mother
sqalid beggar, who left one hundred of John Hobell. She had sent him
and fifty sounds behind her. out in the morning at seven o'clock
.Esher Davis, who died in London
atto look after work, giving him strict
the advanced age of one hundred
orders not to go near the river for
fear he might be drowned. Instead
and three, and who, for thirty years,
had the double chances of a street ,
'
beggar and a parish
. pauper. She !of going in search of work he had
gone to the river and her worst an
left one haudred and sixty pounds. ' ticipations were realized. She had
Mary Wilkiuson, beggar and bone- i
re
grubber, whose rags of clothing con- ; waited patiently all day for the
cealed three hundred pounds in turn of her absent son, when becom
ing alarmed, rho had started out in
money. search of him, visiting the Mayor's
Alice Bond. who had risen to the office in hopes of hearing of hi m .—
dignity of three hundred pounds in The first thing that greeted her vie
the funds, besides fifty in guineas. ion as she entered was his cicthes,
and seven-shilling pieces, and twen- which were immediately recognized
ty-three pounds in silver. iby the fond and doting mother. Who
Francis Beet, whose bed and rick- can describe her anguish, or realize
ety furniture yielded a booty of no her agony? No wonder that the
less than eight hundred pounds. hardened cheeks of the by-stauders
And 'Poor Joe all alone,' a famous were bedewed with tears.
character about a century ago,
wore a long beard, and had not i
in a bed for fifty years; he left th.
thousand pounds, and with it a wi
by which be bequeathed all tl
money to certain widows and o
phans.
Foreign countries are nest witho
instances of like kind. Witness II
case of Dandon, of Berlin, who dii
in 1812. He was competent to teal
as a professor of languages duri ,
the day, and want out begging
night. After his death, twenty tbo
sand crowns were found secret'
under the floor of his room. He b
refused to see a brother for thirt.
seven years, because he once sef
him a letter without prepaying tl
postage.
This Dandon, however, was
example rather of the miser than .
the beggar, popularly so considered
Some beggars have been remarkr
ble quite as much for their eccentric
ity as for the amount of money
they left behind them.
Such was the case of William Ste
venson, who died at Kilmarnock, on
the 17th day of July, 1817. Although
bred a mason, the greater part of
his life was spent as a beggar.—
About the year 1787 ; he and his wife
separated, making this strange agree.
ment—that whichever of them wt
the first to propose a re-union shou!(
forfeit one hundred pounds to the
other. ...According to the statement
in the Scotch pipers, there is no ev.
deuce that they ever saw each othi
again. In 1815, when about eight'
Ave years old, Stevenson was seii
with an incurable disease, and
nonfinefi to his bed.
A few days before his death, feel
ing his end to be near, be sent for a
baker, and ordered twelve dozen
burial-eakes, a large quantity of su
gar.ed biscuits, and a good supply of
wane and spirits. He next sent, for
a joiner, and instructed him to make
a good, sound, dry, roomy, 'comfort
able' coffin. Next he summoned a
grave-digger, whom he requested to
select a favorable spot in the church
yard of Riccarton, and there dig a
roomy and comfortable grave. This
done, be ordered an old woman who
attended him, to go to a certain
nook, and bring him out nine pounds,
to pay all these preliminary expen
ses; assuring her that she was re
membered in his will.
Shortly after this he died. .4
neighbor came in to search for his
wea lth, wbith had been shrouded in
much mystery. In one bag was
fbund large silver pieces, such se dol
lars and half dollars, crowns and
half-crowns; in a heap of musty
rage was found acollection of guin
eas and seven-shilling pieces; and
in a box were found bonds ofvarious
amounts, including one for three
hundred pounds:—gsving altogether
a sum of about nine hundred p oun d s.
A . will was a lso found, begneathinii
twenty pounds to the old woman,
and most , of the remainder to distant
relations, setting anedo.aialanier4 1,0
give 3 bast to aik OWb Uara ieba
obese to name noftnee aoo4y else
in state.' Tisminles Nip *wow;
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the ocesaion ; and thene.4440040.,
ged la reveirla Ws little in weer-
ONUS BY TIIE REBELS.
Federal prisoners captured at Win
chester, and recently paroled at Rich
mond say the ladies captured, who
were wives of officers, some twelve
in number, were regarded as pris
oners of war and have been subject
ed to the most cruel treatment In
Winchester they were confined by
mbels in a small 'fort promiscuously
with other prisoners, and on being
releaßed wore furnished with accom
odations for transit. to Richmond,
several ladies being obliged to walk
twenty or thirty miles. At every
place they were booted at, insulted,
and universally looked upon as Yan
kee curiosities. On arriving at Rich
mond they were closely imprisoned
and treated as most of our prison ers
have been before them.
TOUCLUNO WAR INCIDENT.-A let
ter from peel:lard, Tenn, says.—Near
this place resides a lady who bas
two eons in the rebel army, who one
day last week, passed through her
yard in a line of skirmishers in
General Bragg's army. About fif
teen minutes after two other sons in
our army, in. an Illin9is regiment,
passed the house with their regi
ment. She bad not seen some of
them for several years, and now
met two in pursuit of the other two,
fifteen minutes in the rear only,
brother against bother.
sirlefaisey it the ttay-dtwa ; youth is
the, We rising ; insertit 'is the aunt
is the seittaie*s.
adrassemearaeasseeett thee. hass‘eil
• may modem* tkii.
CELEBRATED MANIACS.
Dr. Winslow, in his work on "Ob
scure Diseases of the Brain," seems
inclined to think that many histor
ical characters, "celebrated either
for their crimes, brutality, tyranny,
or vice, were probably of unsound
mind, and that in many, undetected,
unrecognized, unperceived mental
diseases, in all probability, arose from
cerebral irritation, or physical ill
health."
Frederick William, the father of
Frederick the Great, the debauchee
and drunkard, who treated his chil
dren with marked cruelty, compell
ing them to eat the most unwhole
some and disgusting food, and crown
ed his brutality by spitting upon it
suffered from hypocbondriasis and
great mental depression, once at
tempting suicide.
Judge Jeffreys was tortured by a
cruel internal malady aggravated by
intemperance.
Damien persisted in declaring that
had he been bled in the morning, as
he wished, he never would have at
tempted the r assassination of Louis
XV.
Caligula commenced his reign with
mildness, and it was after a violent
attack of bodily illness he began his
career of cruelty, vice and crime.
Frequently, long before an attack
of insanity is clearly defined, the pa
tient admits be is under the influence
of certain vague apprehensions, un
definable misgivings, and anxious sus
picions as to the sane character of
his emotions. Such sad doubts, fear
ful apprehensions, mysterious, inex
plitable forebodings, and distressing
misgivings as to the healthy condi
tion of the mind often induce the
heart broken sufferer, convulsed with
pain, and choking with anguish,
prayerfully, and in accents of wild
and frenzied despair, to ejaculate
with King Lear:
"0 let me not be mad, not mad, sweet !lessen :
Keep me in tcmper-1 would not be swtd."
Dean Swift had a singular present
iment of his imbecility. Dr. Young
walking one day with Dean Swift,
sofne short distance from Dublin,
suddenly missed Dean, who bad lag
ged behind. He found him at a
distance gazing in a solemn state of
abstraction at the top of a lofty elm,
whose. head had been blasted by a
lrricane. He directed Dr. Young's
,tention to the summit of the tree,
id, heaving a heavy sigh, exclaim
"l shall he like that tree—l shall
,e at the top first."
These words convey a solemn
irning, in these days of fast living
d perpetual mental toil, It be-
_sores us all to take care we do not
die at the top first," when a little
`tention to what is going on within
will keep up a healthy circulation
the sap.
NO DANGER OF ME.
The inehriate's place *4"115
cr anticipated being; never thought
it possible for him to occupy so low a
place ; counted it among the remotest im
probabilities of ever becoming a loath;
- ime drunkard. "Alt !" says he, exult
,gly, "I can drink or let it alone, as I
choose ; no danger of me ; other persons
may be in danger, but I—no never 1" So
thousands have talked and reasoned with
`leinselves and friends, and then tope
ail like the lamb to the slaughter, kiss
ig the hand just raised to shed his blood.
lrsons now in the last stages of drunken
is would, ten years ago, have repelled
,e assertion as a gross insult, it their
.esent condition had been foretold and
inted out. If we were to say to young
who occasionally take a social
.:138 : Ten or fifteen years hence, if life is
prolonged and the practice continued, you
will have, become a gutter drunkard,
equally vita and repulsive as others—un-
doubtedly such persons feel themselves
grossly insulted, and might leave utt in a
rage.
Yet have we not equal grounds of pre
dicting such of you as of those who filled
precisely your present place ten years ago,
but now advanced to the vortex of ruin ?
Do you claim for yourselves a better edu
cation, a stronger mind and greater powers
of resistance that those who have fallen t
How do we know each to be the case ?
By what standard is our strength meas
ured? Did not they utter the same things
when in our place ? And where are they
now ? Just where their self-deception and
tippling habits have brought them.—
Many, very many stronger aim our
selves. have, notwithstanding their boast
ed ability, made the terrible plutge.—
Pereons of ripe and finished education, of
the highest order of talent, brought up at
t he feet of divine instruction, tilling scale
of the most lucrative and responsible po
sitions either in Chuxuls or State, have,
from the practice of early social drinking,
bowel to the fate of unalterable intemper
ance.—Rev. J. S. .8109648.
The happiest man is the benevo
lent one, for he owns etoek in the happiness
of mankind.
NiirA conceit of knowldge is the great
est enemy to knowledge, and the greatest
Irgellasat of ignOrrisetk
Ilifr•We are never well informed of the
troth, till wear@ cootormod to the truth.
NEW SERIES.--VOL, 5, NO. 9.
From Washington—The Draft
WASHINGTON, Friday, July 20,'63.
—The following are announced as
rendezvous for drafted men for the
States named :
Maine—Portland.
New Hampshire—Concord.
Vermont— -Brattleboro.
Massachusetts—Springfield.
New York—Buffalo, Elmira, Rik
er's Island, New York City.
Pennsylvania—Philadelphia, York
and Pittsburgh.
New Jersey—Trenton.
Maryland—Annapolis Junction .
Ohio--Camp Chabe, Columbus,
Camp Dennison, Cincinnati.
For the pdrpose of receiving and
conducting to the several regiments
the dratted men assigned to fill them
up, commanding Generals of Depart
ments and Armies will immediately
detail from each three years' regi
ment in their commands belonging
to the States above enumerated, three
commissioned officers and six enlist
ed men, and direct them to report
without delay to the commanding
officer at the rendezvous for their
State.
In States which have more than
one rendezvous, detachments for
their respective regiments will be
instructed to report to the command
ing officer of the rendezvous nearest
where the regiment was recruited
and organized. Commandants of
rendezvous will be informed of the
number of drafted men to be sent to
the regiment. They will lose no
time in preparing detachments and
placing en route regiments as soon
as the requisite number can be made
up.
The Dangers of a Rattle-Mehl.
The Harrisburg Union says:—
"There are many dangers connected
with the battle field, even after 'the
burly burly's done, and the battle
lost and won.' Loaded guns and
small arms of all kinds, and unexplod
ed shells, which burst with the alight
ost blow upon their percusion caps,
lay thickly over the deserted field
ready to hurl down death among
careless saunterers and curiosity
seekers. Several fatal accidents of
this nature have already occurred at
the scene of the late battle at Gettys
burg. On Friday morning last, Mr.
Solomon Warner, of York, who was
engaged in hauling muskets off the
field, waci killed by the accidental die
charge of one of the guns whilst un
loading
.it. The ball went through
the heart, killing him. Edward si.
Woods, son of Alexander Woods, liv
ing near Gettysbnrg,accidcntalky ahot
his brother, one day last week, whilst
playing with a gun picked ofrthe
bat tle-field.
Who Is Reopoosibtel
As to the responsibility tor the es
cape of Les e i m u tr_
_4k:7 fates
absolutely
BO In may ea atatea
absolutely, says a Herald despatch,
that General Meade telegraphed to
Washington on Sunday evening that
ho should attack tfie enemyy next
morning. Had he done so, half of
Lee's army would have been destroy
ed. Subsequent to the telegraph of
Gen. Meade that he should attack
Lee on Monday morning. ar council
of war was held, at which a majority
of the Generals decided -against such
attack.
Napoleoale.
Persons searching to know a good
thing done by the General-in-Chief,
can be gratified in atleast one partic
ular. During the hesitancy to at
tack Lee, while the latter was escap
ing, Gen. Meade telegraphed to Gen.
nalleck the divided opinion of his
council of war. The following is the
substance of Gen. Ilalleck's reply:—
"It is proverbial that councils of war
never fight. Attack the enemy at
once, and hold your councils of war
afterwards." It was a plagiarism
from Napoleon, but we ought to be
thankful for anything Napoleonic.
Female Brutality.
During the progress of the riot in
New York, some of the women muti
lated the rougher sex in brutality.—
A gentleman living in the neigbor
bo d where the incident occurred, re
lates the following : In the Seventh
avenue. just above Fortieth street,
three of the Provost guard bad fallen
behind the rest. They were set up
on and beaten to the earth. Two
women came up, and seized the bayo
net belonging to one of men, and
taking it from the musket in their
hands stabbed him again and again
with their united strength, mangling
the body terribly.
Prisoners in Our
The following statement of rebel
prisoners now in our hands is be
lieved to be nearly if not quite cor
rect : On hand at Memphis, 4,000;
at Fort Delaware, 5,000; taken b y
Meade at Gettysburg, inocavairy
tights since, and at Williamsport, 24,1'
000 ; by Gen. Grant, 31,000; by Wen.
Banks, 12.000; by lieu. Koh , •
4,000 ; by Gen. Sherman. 2,000; by
Gen. Prentiss, 2,000; making in aIV
a total or 86,000-71,00 Q of loos
were taken ea and since the 3rti of
July. We now have over firs thou :
sand rebel officers in our bands, from
Gauen/00m/.