Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-10-08

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Choctaw Indians, whose ancestors have lived
: immem ORALLY in our vicinity, says the Baton
Rouge Conservator of the Sd inst, and who
from a once powerful body, arc now dwindled
down to some half dozen degraded beings, ell
: gagged themselves last week in the solemn
| office of capital punishment. 1t has been
long known that one of the family, in drum
ken brawl, killed another, and that punish
ment must follow hut the murderer, and the
friends of the murdered, have for months risi-
ted and camped together on equal terms, ap-
parently enjoying the most perfect social inter
course. Ou Saturday last, the poor wretches,
covered with rags, and scarcely provided with
food to keep their souls and bodies together,
camped in beautiful piece of woods near our
town, and commenced the solemn ceremonials
of q funeral, the victim taking part in them.
Towards nightfall the preparations were fin
ished, and the poor Indian exposed his naked
breast a load of buckshot, fired by his near
est relative, pierced his heart, and he fell a
corpse. Nearly three days were consumed in
weeping over his grave, and then the retribu-
tors of Justice wended their way of to the
swamps.-lSt. Louis Dem.
| The case ofMr. Frederick Douglass has given
rise to n very multifarious set of letters in tho
papers. Mr.. Charles M'Iver, tile Liverpool
agent of the Cunard steamers, writes to as
sumo the whole responsibility of what was
done; and explains that the reason for obliging
Mr.. Douglass to keep separate was that he had
''created disturbance on the voyage to Eng
land. Mr.. Peter Bolton explains this away,
quoting statement by Mr. Douglass himself
II appears that on the eastward voyage he
came as a steerage passenger and kept aloof:
he was sought by English passengers, and re
questcd by the master of the vessel to make
| speech he began, was coarsely and violently
stopped by Americans OIL board, and dessted.
letter signed 'H'harles A. Bnrrup," of somo
place in Virginia, 'head manager ofthe Cunard
Company of Liners,'' next appeared very
coarsely alluding TO the sources of disgust
which white people feel for blackamores, land
declaring that it is shared by the English; in
proof of which, it is stated that on one occa-
sion several English persons threw up their
berths rather than voyage with black couple.
One Z" Fair Play recounts how the agents Of
| the Great Western refused to exclude q colorcd
clergyman from their ship in 1910; and how his
decorous manners eventually won the esteem
of all on board. Finally, Mr.. Cunard himself
appears. He denies that Mr.. Burrup has any
thing to do with the Halifax steamers, charac-
terizes that PERSONS statement rs untrue, ex-
presses great regret at the unpleasant occur.
renee in Mr.. Douglass case, and promises that
it shall never occur again.-lSpectdtor
+ ADVANTAGES or DIRT.-A resident in Batavia
told me some strange stories of Madame Pfeiiler,
the celebrated German traveller. They went
to show, that when favoritepursuit develops
itself into a passion, every other considera-
tion is often disregarded, even that of scrupu-
| lous attention to toilet arrangements, which
we of England consider the peculiar charac-
teristic of the softer sex. Impelled by an
adventurous and fearless spirit, this lady,
when roaming in the Island of Sumatra, be-
yond the limits of Dutch civilization, fell a
mong a savage people called thebattas. They
Immediately determinded on baking and
eating her. Her sensations may be imagin-
ed rather than described, while their rude,
inprovised earthly oven was preparing. At
last the heated hole was ready for the victim,
and the hungry savages requested her to un-
dress previous to the gastronomic immolation.
Seeing that the poor creature was tardy, they
roughly assisted her in this operation, until
she stood, unclothed, on the brink of the ter
rible pit. But the instant the barbarians saw
that she was thin, old, angularmuscular, and,
above all, innocent of soap for many day,
or, to speak more plainly, willing victim Of
unmitigated neglect, their appetites ceased,
their culinary enthusiasm abated, they had
nor the stomach to cook her and eat her, but
they bid her clothe herselfand be gone, giving
her by signs to understand that her dirt had
saved her life.-Trdreis in Bdtaria.
THE South-German papers are filled with
descriptions of the pitiable state to which the
Austrian prisoners, returning from France, are
reduced Their government seems to have
taken no care for them whatever, and they
are dependent on the compassion of the popu-
lations through which they pass fot the
merest necessaries. They are described as in
tatters, there are no hedges, as in the England
Of Falstaff's day, to supply them with linen
many of them are shoeess, and their head
protected from the tropical heat only by such
combinations Of frutuitous rags as fortune has
supplied TO them to twist into turbans. They
were hurried to the battlefield with all the
speed and conveniences of steamer, they are
left to find their way home from captivity on
foot, followed by the carts on which their
wounded comrades, without medical atten-
dant, joulted into agonies.
BAD News ron CuILLY Notwithstanding 10
the views OF n distinguished astronomer, tho earth
is gradually increasing its distance from the sun, and
in the course of six thousand years tho distance will
be SO great that only an eighth of the warmth we
now enjoy will be communicated TO the earth from
the sum the earth, therefore, will be covered with
eternal Ice and snow, the plains OF
the North, where the elephant formerly lived, and
where there is neither spring nor autumn In this
case. we recommend rheumatic and equity people 20
lay in a stock Of hRnnels and see 10 their drawers
Six thousand years will pass away very soon, and
there Is telling how expensive flannel and 'sich'
will be at the time mentioned
SALE OF THE NATURAL BRIDGE, VA.-Thc
property upon which the Natural Bridge OF
Virginia is located has recently changed hands
for the sum of s12, 900. Noxt to the Fall Of
N;aOara tbn upridoa;S &c tbo oreafaat natural