Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-13
Horrible Instance of Indian Superstition

Horrible Instance of Indian Superstition.
The British COt0ntst, published in British
Columbia, relates that a Hydah Indian boy,
who had been employed as a sculhon for
several months at a hotel, was recently
missed, but after a while was discovered in
close confinement in a lodge of the Stickeen
Indians. He was bound land and foot, and
was reduced to a mere skeleton from want
of food and water. The boys version of the
affair is that he was clandestinely seized by
several Stickeen Indians, and taken to the
lodge in which he was discovered by the DO
lice, where he was shown a sick Hydah, and
told that until that man recovered he would
be kept in close confinement without food
if the man died, he would be killed if he
lived, he would be set ct liberty. The cap
tive was then bound with ropes and gagged,
so as to prevent him from calling for assist.
ance, and placed in a corner of the room,
where he remained without food or water
for nine days.
During this time the InG.>ps occasionally
tantaIized him by removing the Esg, placing
food to his lips, and then jerking :: away,
and by offering him salt water to drink. II
he sought to sleep, he was tortured till he
awoke. The excuse given for this barber-
Gus treatment was that the boy had be-
witehed one of their tribe by burying a
quantity of herbs near his house, that the
Indian was taken sick, and the only means
through which he could ultimately recover
was by treating the boy as they had done /;
they also add that he some time ago be-
witehed a child that afterward died, and that
the whole tribe stood in dread of the spells
be was enabled to throw around them by his
nominations. 1t was their intention to have
burned him on the tenth day, and use his
ashes in the preparation of a cordial that
should heal the sick man, and the pyre was
nearly ready for his reception when the police
fortunately discovered his locality.
CAPACITY OF THE South TO MANUEAorURE
It's Own ARMs.-T The Baltimore Sun says
in a late issue: "a
There is Q popular delusion that the South
is entirely dependent upon the North for her
supply Of arms, but this is a mistake. The
Tredegar Works, at Richmond, are very ex-
t~ensive, and are constantly employed in cast
ing cannon, while in different parts of the
South are similar founderies. We are re-
liably informed that at Florence, Ala, there
are works capable Of turning out feur of the
best cannon per week. There can be M
question, moreover, that wOrkmen skilled in
the manufacture of rifles and small arms at
the North will proceed South for the pur-
pose of obtaining employment"
SOUTHERN LAMEsTATIos OVER CALHB
CUEHIRG.-T The Staunton (Va.) VindiedtOT
announces the apostacy-of this simon pure
as follows:
Gone, glimmering like a dream of things
that were, is Caleb, surnamed Gushing.
This pious ~scoundrel, who voted in the
Charleston Convention for Jefferson Davis
for the Presidency, because there was no one
else sufficiently Southern for him, comes out
nov and shows his true colors. He is body
and breeches with Lincoln. So also with
Everett, Pierce, Douglas, Buchanan, st ID
oRhe genus.