The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-11-27


CAMAscnEs.-Ths Albany Kuickerbocksr notices
the return to that city Of Nelson Lee, who was
taken prisoner by the Camanchs Indians In
1856, near Eagle Pass, while ON his way from
Texas to California. He furnishes the following:
Lees life was spared because the IndiansI could
not manage arepeating watch which he carried.
dhe watch saved bis life. In the Camanche camp
mr Lee found no less than twenty-eieht captured
white women and some thirty or forty children
Gay or two after be arrived in camp, they uassa-
creo an Eugiish woman named Anna Hasktu. In
amosf cruel manner. They tied her naked to 8
Mee, ana, In the presence Of her two daughters,
Margaret and Harriet Haskin, inflicted the most
resoitink crueltes upon her. Before Mrs Hsskin
was finally dispatched, she was tortured for near.
nall day, during which time the Indians
necame excited with liquor and danced about her
me 30 many demons. They took sharp pieces Of
nint and cut her flesh Ia all possible directions
Mrs. H. and her daughters were captured On their
way 70 the Mormon settlement, 1t Salt Lake. The
daughters still remain with the Indians. Their
ages are IL and 49, Lee made his escape In the
ioiiow1ag manner; He was accompanying the
cnief o. the Camanches to lodge some lies dis.
tant During the tramp they met party of In.
aians; the Indians gave the chief skin filled with
liquor The chief drank of the liquor and became
excited. Arriving at a creek he uismounted and
stopped down to drink. At this moment Les
selzed his tonahawk, split his head open and
Killed bin instantly. He then took the chiefs
rifle, mounted the chiefs horse, and put for Mexi.
co; When be reached Mexico he was completely
naked, while his feet and legs we're 80 swollen
from being cut by the cactus plant, tina. be conld
Soiy ride some eight miles day. The last hun
dred miles he did ON foot, his horse having died
OF exhaustion. Tho Mexicans treated him yery
kindly, and gave him money and clothing to reach
home The clothes he now wears in Albany are
those given him BY the Mexicans.
MoRTARA CASE IN IypIA-The Mortara affair
has been reproduced In Madras, with the differ.
ence that the sufferers Hindoos instead Of Jews
while the xsalots who rend family ties in the
name Of religion, are Scottish Free Church mis~
sionaries, instead Of Roman Catholic priests:
1t appears, from . history of the case in the Liv-
erpool Mercury, that respectable resident Of the
Presidency had placed his con at q native school.
where hs became Introduced TO the Scottish mis-.
sion. On the child requesting to be Instructed in
the doctrines OF Christianity, teacher was 3D.
pointed for him, and he regularly went 70 the
mission premises for the space Of three months.
apparently without the smallest insgiving on the
part of bis instructors to the propriety Of i'm.
parting their own religious tenets to boy of ten.
der years, without the sanction or knowledge of
his natural guardians. At last, taking advantage
Of the temporary absence of his father, this pre-
cocious youth ran away from home, and placed
himself under the protection of his new frieuds
who seem to have received him with open arms
The father, on his return, Immediately made ins
quiries and learned where his son was. He in-
stantly applied to the missionaries for his rssto
ration, when no received for answer that the boy
was free agent and was at perfect liberty to
leave them IL he chose. The young gentleman,
however, did not choose, but insisted on remain
ing where he was. The father had, conseQuentIy
no resource left but to take legal proceedings
against the reverenei abductors.
On the case coming into court, (the Supreme
Court Of Madras the principal question to be des
cided was whether or not the lad was Of an age
at which he was still amenable to parental autho
rity. After good deal Of argument on both sdes,
the court decided that the youths father and
family who represented him being little more
than thirteen. were probably better authorities
than the boy himself, who claimed to be sixteen,
and he was, consequently. handed over, not with
ont signs of vehement reluctance, to the custody
of ths weeping and apparently fond and affection.
ute father.