The North-Carolinian., 1854-02-18
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OF Mrs Jane Wilson, ofTexas, to Santa Fe. who
had been taken captive by the Camanche In
dians, and subjected to the most extraordinary
crueties. The affair has very justly excited the
greatest Indignation in New-Mexico against the
Indians
From Mrs Wilson's narrative, it appears. that
she is but II years of age About a year ago
she was married to q young farmer in Texas,.
and IN April they joined party Of ffty-two
emigrants, bound for California. They were
attacked by Indianss and the party was com-
feiled to : return to .Tsxas; but Mr sa1asAGr2
Wilson remained at Paso, where their horses
being stolen, they were compelled also to give
up the plan of going to California, and set out
on their return to Texas in July In August,
Mr. Wilson and his father fell into the hands of
Indians and were murdered. Mrs w. returned
to Ell Paso, and again in September started for
Texas, with her three brothers-n-law and a
small party. When within three days journey
of Phantom Hill, an American military post,
they were attacked by Camapches while some
of their men were off in pursuit of some of their
horses that had been stolen. a Mexican, who
was with Mrs Wilson, was brutaly murdered
and scalpcd before her eyes, and she and her
two brothers in-law, lads of II and 10 years.
were seized, bound, and carried off, with the
entire property Of the party.
The Indians, with their captivcs, proceeded
in northwest direction, each being appropriate
cd as the property of one or other of the chiefs.
and otherwise brutally treated. Mrs Wilson,
although expecting soon to become mother,
was subjected to every conceivable cruelty and
indignity; beaten and bruised; exposed to
fatigues of all kinds; her flesh lacerated by
lariats and whips, or by the loads of wood she
was oblighed to carry on her bare back; com
PEELED to do the work of men, or punished for
her inability by being stoned, knocked down
and tramrled on; almost entirely deprived of food
and all this lasted for twenty five days. At this
time, she sent in advance in the morning
usual, when she determined to attempt an
escape, which she succeeded in accomplishing
by securing herself in some bushes till the In
dians had passed
For twelve days she wandered through this
Indian country, subsisting upon berries, when
she fortunately fell in with some New Mexican
traders, who furnished her with some mems
clothing and blanket. In consequence of their
meeting with Camanche they had to leave
her behind, and she narrowly escaped a second
capture. But, by the subsequent aid of one of
the traders, Pueblo Indian, she was enabled,
after hiding herself for eight days, to escape
At the. expiration Of this time. she was rescued
by the traders, furnished with horse and
brought to the town of Pecos, New Mexico,
where Major Carlton and others, of the army,
took care of her, and enabled her to proceed to
Santa Fe.
This is but outline of terrible story the
counterpart of which, in all except the escape,
arc said to be frequent. A letter from Santa
Fe says that the white captivcs among the
Camanches are as numerous as the Indians
themselves. The same letter mentions the cs-
cape of young Mexican woman, who returns,
after years terrible captivity, expecting to
become the mother of all infant whose father is
a wild Indian. The Camanchcs practice cruel
ty in its utmost refinement towards their cap
tivcs. Children trained to he more savage
than they arc themselves and are sub
octa0 q IA roS too horrible tO hn mant;Onrd
The Santa Fc Gazette says: "The two
brothers of Mrs Wilson are still in captivity
! and unless soon reclaimed will imbe taste
for the wild life of the Indian and be forever
lost There are many hundreds, and may
venture to say thousands of captves among the
Indians of New Mexico, principally women and
children: the former are forced to becomes the
slaves of the men, and the latter trained for
warriors"
When Gov Mcrriwethcr came out, he was
fortunate enough to rescue two Mexican girls
from the Camanches-Onc Is and the other Is
years of age. They had been captured near
Chihuahua one three years and the other ten
months before. They were sent to the Cover
| nor of that State, who acknowledged the con
duct of the Governor of New Mexico in very
handsome terms.
| They said there were large number of Mexi-
can women in captivity, and they one
| American woman with small child; that an
| Indian one day, when they were travelling on
| horseback, took the child from its mother
threw it up into the air, and as it came down
caught it on his spear, and that Others rode uI
at full gallop, took it on their spears, and sc
passed it around among the party.
|
THE LONDON T1MEs.-M. Texier in bool
on England, speaking of the London Times
states that one of the staff of that journal, VIII.
| ''was devoted to the study of sewerage" enjoy
ed a yearly income of $3.50, while dawdlin.
through the cities Of the continent on a tour o
inspection, during two years, but in all tina
time he did not write a single word for th
paper. One day the question of dust heap
and salubrty in general came before the HOUSE
| of Commons when he at once laid pen t.
paper, and in a series of twenty powerful lead
4 ers so si,pplified the science OF the matter thai
at once the public and their representative
we're forced, as it were into the proper course
|
! A BRISK PLAcE-There is good anect'ote
told of the little town of Portland Indiana
| While a certain steamboat was about putt
I'M, ontu from there not long since, for New
| Orleans the mate, an old boa tnan, turned TO
some messengers, and remarked:
sThis little town, gentlemen, looks dull, but
assure you, it is perhaps a mighty brisk place.
About fifteen years ago, as l was going down
with hat-boat to New Orleans, we stopped
here to procure some provisions l went up
into the town, and seeing coat hanging out OF
a shop door, Just took it. The owner came
after me-caught me-took me before magis-
trate-I was stried-convicted-took thirty nine
l. L H.