New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-19
NUMBER 1913.

| mug ~ never saw a person hanged, and
God forbid that ever I should Che here seemed
to shudder at the idea). saw some poor
wretches in a cart, on their way to be hanged
at Jutbulpore, but could not bear to witness
| the execution
Captain - told me that he had caused than
q hundred bodies Of murdered persons to be dis
Inferred within the past few months in the
neighborhood of Hyderabad, and that they
were discovering others daily at place called
LaJoora, which has been for many years a
grand rendezvous Of the Thugs The misfor-
| tune Is that these misereants purchase the con-
nivance Of many Of the heads Of villages and
other natives in authority in the Hyderabad
country, and until severe example is made Of
some OF these abettors, there is little hope of the
evil being eradicated. However, Captain -
had two or three of these persons then in eus-
tody, who were no doubt made to pay the pen
atty Of their villainy
observed to the Captain that | had seen
whole family Of Thugs in the Jail at Salem
about twelve years before. They had been in
jail about fifteen years, and | understood they
were to remain there for life; but he informed
me that they were released about three years
after l had seen them, AMI again betaken them
selves to their old trade, and, with the excep
tion of one, then in his custody, had been again
captured, tried and executed; the remaining
one being also likely soon to get his deserts
On my remafking that the party | saw were
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| pleasing in their address, he assured me thar
| this was generally the case, and that the,
made it their study to acquire a winning and
conciliaiory manner, in order that they might
the more easily ingratiate themselves with
travellers, and more readily accomplish their
nefarious ends
Captain -ha happened to have with him a,
the time, large dirk, of peculiar construction
which had formerly belonged to Dalla a cele
orated Plndarry chief, for whose apprehenso,
Government had offered a reward Of ten thou.
and rupees. He wa. then acting as an assistan-
to the. political agent at Bhopaul, and WA
using every means for the capture of this Pin
Dairy but was beginning to despair of success
when Seikh, Of the name Of Ram Sing, eau.
to him. and sail that he bad formerly belonge
to Dallas band but had left him n consequerc
of some disagreement between them He the
went on to state thar he would engage to pro
duce Dalla. dead or alive, provided that, in ad
d tion TO the promised frwari, Captain -
would guarantee, on the part If the Britisl
Cove nment, full pardon for former misde
meanots .r
i The Captain asked him what were the misde.
meanors he alluded to He replied they wert
mere trifes: that in once attempting 10 rob
party of travellers skirmish had ensued be
tween them and his band, in which some Of tn,
T former had been killed On hearing this, the
Captain agreed 10 bis terms, and the Seikh went
off in quest of the Pindarry chieftain with five
followers Of his own. In about a week he re-.
turned, bringing with him Dallas head and the
dirk Aforesaid, for which he received the promis
ed reward.
D Of his proceedings ON this occasion, the Seikh
f gave the following account After quitting
3 Captain -, he made the hest of his way to =
wild and secluded tract of country on the banks
= of the Nerbudda, where he fell in with Dalla
r and some of his followers, and proposed to the
t old Pindarry that they should forget their for
r mer differences, and unite their fortunes once
l more. To this the Pindarry agreed.
4 81 then,'' said Ram Sing, sc wished to- ascer
e tain if were equal to the old man in person
n al struggle, as wished, if possible, to take hr
II alive. | accordingly took an opportunity on
s. day to propose wrestling match with him, b
to way of amusement, but l soon found was
r mere child in his powerful grasp. Therefore
n resolved on using the knife. The same evenir
n old Dalla was sitting in his hovel, quite alon
by Having consulted with my followers, it w
,st agreed that should suddenly rush upon hi
ur and stab him, while my people attacked tho
at of the chief Everything succeeded as
IN wished three of the Pindarry's people we
RS killed on the spot, and the rest, seeing that
N had killed their master, fed instantly for the
lives"
II The same Ram Sing died year or two az,
e and Captain - has since ascertained that III
d villain was Jamautder, or chief of Thugs, an
r the numerous atrocious murders in which !.
r the trifling misdemeanors " for which he ha
e bespoken pardon ere engaging himself to aid il
e the capture Of Dalla, the Pindarry chieftain
o Rents IN New YoRK.-A New York CORES
), pondent Of the National Inteligencer has tn
o following statement relative to the enormou
amounts paid for rent in New York;
4 81 am perfectly astonshed at the rate O
: rents in this city. | know single 6aSemen
: room on Wall street, to reach which you mus
q descend five or six steps from the footway, Will
J, a low ten foot ceiling, and the room not NOR,
o than thirty by twenty feet, which rents fol
q 10000 per annum A lot, twenty-five feet BY
v seventy five, as high up i'll Broadway as til,
\ corner of Fulton street, was recently leased fo
twenty -one years, at s;l4 800 per annum, at tn
o end of which time the ground landlord is beside
4 to have the building, which is now being erected
n on it, and will cost $4,000, buildin,
= on Broadway, Immediately adjoining Trinit,
i church yard, forty feet front and two hundred
. deep. opening ON side alley, and cut up int
j. corridors and Offices brings an aggregate rem
v Of $6O, goo per annum and gentleman VIII
:. has built himself splendid dwelling as high u
a as Union Square, at least two miles above til
o City Hall, says he plainly sees that he must
d driven away i'll few years by the encroachmen
!, of hotels, stores and shops, and told me he ha
!, already been offered a rent of $4,000 per an
n mum for the house"
|
u One OF THE CAPTAINs-A few days SINCE
;. Dorchester, NJ ss "a lad about IA years Of ag
u who wne acting as captain Of company Of bo,
: who Il formed n company for the purpose
playing soldier, met one of his soldiers (wl
. was about years od) and charg ng him WI,
~ msdemeanor in military duty, arrested him NJ
y carried him 10 his tthe captains fathers hon
Ie where the of ''r WIS gagged, had his lin
y tied together a4ld WAS lashed up in the mo
y approved style The captai then stripped hil
!" and taking lamp burnt HIM severely in two
three places The culprit was then dismisse
. hut few DAYS afterwards he was again arres
~ Ell by the captain, who gave h,m thrashil
y with knotted rope The young Nero WAS TIL
: arrested and pl ced under bonds for gool b
" " havior for six months.
= GENERAL Mu>THuI.uN The recent Engl
u, papers announce the death IF Gen. Montholo
"a favorably known (says the New York CONNIE
" cial Advertiser) for his intimacy with Napolec
"a Bonaparte He died at the age of seventy. ]
~ commenced his military career when chill
E ten years old, and went through the campaigI
a of Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain-was
If Austerlitz, Wagram, jena, and Friedland, aI
ID was five times wounded In 1909 he entered Il
TO household of the Emperor as Grand Chambe
lain, During the hundred days, he was Nap
< Icons aid de-camp, he was present at Waterlo
OF and followed him to st. Helena. He was ma
'd the first executor of his will, and his pape