The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-23
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

oi those who nave suffered so much, through nca
relatives and friends, from this fearful mutiny il
india to read and hear from time to time tina
there have been no mutilaticns of the victims O
TINS horrid outbreak by the Sepovs.' Now, as thu
1ather OF one who has su"ered most deeply by thi
scourge, having lost her husband at the yer,
outset OF the revolt shot down almost before hel
eyes by set of infuriated wretches her hons,
ana everything belonging to her DESTROYED, anC
only escaping with life, must contradict this mawk
lsl assertion which some are trying most indus
rlOuSly to spread, that there are no mutilatons o
the Indian sufferers My daughter wrote some
time ago that 1t will never be known in ENGLAND
the extent of the suifcrings and misery and the
fearful deaths of the victims in India: some had their
throats cut with panes of glass. others fearfuly
mutlIated; others-wOmcT-sufcred worse than
DEATH | have Just had letter from friend this
morning, of which | give you an extract 'An old
friend of ours has her two oldest friends returned
without noses ears. She says they are cheerful
but miserable objects, and their sufferings were
acute This Is only one out of many statements
which have received. sadly confirming the carly
letters received from India detailing the horrible
atrocities and mutilatons which had been perpe-
trated on innocent women and children by deceitful
and treacherous Sepoys. The fact is, that these
atrocities have been fearful and revolving that
the sufferers have hidden themselves from public
gaze, rather than let them be known"
Another correspondent of the Times writes as
follows
at is time that those who know something
of the real state of the case should each contribute
such facts as have come under their actual obsrrva-
ton, tending to prove the talsty of those would-bc
philanthropists who are endeavoring to sur over
the atrocities perpetraed during the Indian revolt
with view to shield the dastardly perpetrators
from righteous punishment. ! am myself a suf-
fcrer from the Indian mutinv, having lost five of
those nearest and dearest to me, and only escaping
myself by miracle, having had to walk upwards
OF seventy miles throuh the Della district. then in
no very quiet state, without any covering, save
and except a pair of white trousers. 1t mav
therefore, perhaps, be permitted me to
know something of what was actually going on.
every one who was in the camp at Alipore, -
miles from Delhi, on the 5th of last June NAV re-
member the trial of a Zemindar for the rape and
subsequent mutation of an English lady escaping
from Delhi. y native woman, instigated by jeal-
ousy, laid information against him in the first place.
and subsequently others from the village came for
ward and proved the charge. He had found her
wandering in the fields almost exhausted, she. poor
girl, having walked nearly forty miles, under
burning sun, the thermometer ITO degrees in the
shade. He then stripped her. and made her sit un-
der tree in front of the village for all the villagers
to stare at and after two hours of this torture led
her away to clump of 'trees, where, after endur-
ing every indignity that could be hcaped upon wo-
man, she was murdered The brute, when brought
before the court not only did not deny the charge
but boasted the manner in which he had slain the
innocent
''Thcre is one case for you worthy of being brack-
ctcd with the first act Of the aiogne at Mccrut
where llle HISI victim 10 1He mutlny Mrs.
Chambers butcher tore her out of her carria re
as she was going to church, and, ripping her up
cut her babes head off before her dmmed ewes
Many resident in Meerut can tell how another
lady, being missed, found by patrol of the
Goth rifles, stripped, and hanging by the punkah
ropes in what had been her drawing room 1t is
not to be expected that men should come forward
and show the dishonOr cast by the ''miId Hindoo"
on those most cherished, and this is perhaps the
reason why it is so difficult to obtain proof of what
IS cd in Hi1 flr 4In,
ers in most instances did not survive the torture
and we can hardly expect the natives of Hndostan
to come forward and criminate themselvesp'
BRAZILIAN ScANDAL.-The following strange affair
is recorded in the Rio ,Ianeiro papers:-In board
ing school, kept by Frenchw woman, was a girl of
less than twelve years of age, named Correa, heir
css to Il fortune of 60OO00f An Italian adventurcr
of the name of .ludicc, who got his living as a
hawker, resolved to marry the girl, and had re-
course to this stratagem. He went to the Bishop
of Rio Janeiro, pious but creduOus man, and said
that having been for some time liyinr with a
woman not his wife, he wished to reeularse his
position by marrying her, and as it was important
to have the marriage performed at once without
publicity, he solicited license. The bishop granted
the license, and ON the mans declaration put i'm it
the woman's name as Correa. The Italian then went
to the boarding school, and said that he was sent bv
the girls mother to take her home, as she wished
to indulge her with a visit to the theatre. The
SchOolmistress imprudently gave up the child TO
him. and he took her at once 10 the church men
toned in the license and had himself married to
her The next day he wrote to the girls mother to
inform her of the marriage. The poor mother, in
indignation, Immediately communicated to the
police and they at once took the girl from the man
and gave her up to her mother. The Italian and
some persons who acted as witnesses of the marriage
have been arrested. 1t is considered strange that
the priest notwithstanding the license should have
celebrated the marriage as the girl dressed in
a short frock and trousers like child. The affair
has created an immense sensation at Rio, but what
the upshot of it will be remains to be seen.
TALE OF IIORRoES-An atrocious crime has
Just been perpctrated in Sziksza, in Hungary
hawkcr, who had long been in the habit of travel
ing about the country selling linen, stopped for the
night mt the hOHse of peasant. After taking his
supper quietly with his host he retired to bed In
the middle of the night the wife awoke her hus
band, and proposed to him to 90 and murder the
hawker, in order to get possession of his property.
The husband positively refused, on witch the wo-
man. calling him coward, went and plunged
large knife into the heart of the sleeping hawker.-
The husband then, by order of his wife, put the
body into sack and threw it into the river, while
she set about removing all the marks of the blood
In the morning her son. a boy of five years of
are asked his fOrther for piece of bread when she
took knife to cut him a slice. Seeing this, the
child cried out, ''Do not cut it with that knife, for
YOU used it to kill the hawker, On this the wo-
man. fearing that the crime would be revealed by
the child seized hold him and threw him into the
oven 1t so happened that on the very night of the
murder the house of another peasant had been rob-
bed of a quantity OF meat and bacon, and the owner
had been prOwling about in search of the thief. In
passing near the house of his neighbour he smelt
extraordinary odor of something burning, and gave
alarm When persons were entering the house to
search for the cause of the smell, the mother had
pulled out the halEconsumed body of the child from
the oven, and was cndcavOring to carry it away in
her apron, but of the feet seen protruding,
and the whole affair was discovered. The peasant
and his wife were arrested, and the woman made a
full confession of her guilt.
The MILANESE AND THE AUSTRIAN OFFICERs.-One
cannot but be struck in the great Milan Theatre
at the arrangement which gives exclusive posses
of the best and most conspicuous places in the
house to the Austrian officers. The pit stalls at La
Scala are not very cOmmOdious; the benches are
rather narrow, there are no arms or divisions, and
the space allowed for each spectator is not excessive,
although if corpulent amateurs were compelled to
take boxes it might be deemed sufficient. But in
front of these benches and in of the orchestra
are ranged three rows of comfortable chairs. with
abundant room i'll front of each, and these the Mi
lanese have the qualification of seeing occupied
nightly by the dapper white and green uniforms of
Austria. The privilege is enjoyed at very small ex-
pense; divided by the number of performances OF
which the consists Austrian officers tde"t
dorchestre costs him about 212d. per evening. The
system of thus packing the military apart from
the general audience dates from 1858. You will
remember that on the 9Th February of that year a
number of Austrian officers and soldiers were stab
bed in the streets OF Milan. The opportunity was
profted bv it to secure, prctext of safety sepa-
rate sittings mt the theatre 1t mere preteXt,
for it is perfectly well known that the wounds then
inflicted were not the deed of the Milanese popua-
ton, but of few cowardly ruflans from without.
The people here, however, are not so fond of the
Austrians as to repine at having them placed apart
from them in the theatres, but they do not relish
the unjust preference given to them in respect to
comfort and position. There is no greater eyesore
to the Milanese nothing that gals them more than
those three rows of arm chairs, packed with Aus
trian captains and subaterns.-Haan correspondent
Of the Times.
ITALY.
Givonni Pratt, the well known patriotic poet OF
Italy, having lately visited Padua, simply to his
daughter who resides there, has been peremptoriy
expelled from the Lombard0-V enetian territories.
He is naturalized subject of the King of Sardinia
though born in the Italian Tyro, and his passport
was perfectly regular with the risa of the Austrian
authorities at the frontier. His political views are
notoriouslv moderate, and he has never taken part
in any secret conspiracy A Paris CORRESPONDENT al