Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-04


TRB LEoruAE ON IND1A.-Duribg
the lecture on India-its mauuers aud
custOms-by the Rev. j. NJ. Thoburn, de-
liveted on Wednesday evening at the 4th
street N. E. Church, great many thin %
Ofan instructive and interesting character
were said in regard to the people of that
country. Some of the natives are as black
as the negroes of this country aud Others
are a shade lighter. The lecturer had
seen jews in India almost as black as, The
blacklist native, who were unquestionabiy
Of the old Hebrew stock. He accounted
for this by the climate and the mode Of
living in that country. The natives had
not changed their style of. dress in thr ee
Thousand years and probably would not As
long as they continued to be a nation.
The children wear. scarcely anything At
all, and the grown up people dress very
scautily. Five cents worth of clothing
would last them for year. sLaboripq
men work for three aud i've cents a. day
aud hundreds Of men could be employ ed
at any time for that price. The lecturer
q. me-
had seen statement that the large
amounts of gold which went to India we're
buried by the natives and that nothing
more Was heard Of it, The fact is they
turn! everything into jswslry. lie had
known natives 10 contract debts yWhtct, IL
would require twenty years to pay in order
that their wives aud daughters might wear
valuable bracelets, neck rings, anklets, &C.
10 speaking Of the depraYily Of the natives
he said that be did not know q single one
that he would believe uuless he was
christian. They lie and cheat continually
andabove all are guilty. of the basest
treachery. When the lecturer first went 10
India he undertook. house Keeping with a
native cook who swindled him most un.
meFcifnlly. The cook bought the meauest
of everything, paid TOO much. tor what he
boughtund stole half of il atter he bought
It, Mutton4was generailyiused! He con
cluded from the purchases mad mad by his
cook that there was no good mutton out
there AT last he found, that he had been
eating goats meat. In order to be sure of
hismutton in future he linstructedi the ma o
who sold it to leave piece Of 5wsoi upon
it, which the native promised 10 do. The
nexttime he got d, piece of. meat with the
wool still upon il; according 10 promise,
but an investigation disclosed the fact
that the rsscally Indian had actuaIIys.past-
ed pteesot wool upon piece Of goats
meat.l According TO thsllecturer's state.
ment they will "lie with such yolpbility
that you would think truth were y FOOL
add yet he thtpks, in. time, they will All
become christians, and has no idea ofceas
iug.hisi etfortsito accomplish that end Ia
many Of the towns female children are
sCarcely eVeriIseen They are taken bS
their mOthersi when quite young, aud lIeil
upon The road side TO be eaten up, alive BY
the Jsck4ls. The girls are generally mar.
RED at the age oil. six and seven years aud
thsboys at ten and twelve. Marriages
only take place between ,heAchtldreu o.
people of equal caste. rnni, itheicastss ar,
divided and sub.divided into thousands
SO that ii is avery diaeuit thing somettime,
to uakesa match.I THE wife is always til,
husband's dog, % q u never treated del
respect. a'.5 Fs .sl5piaT iaa.is ...ttes szsgl
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D&rA SEcGssI0N. PRRAOHHR CAPFURRb
Rev. Mr.. Dosh,. a I Secession preacher
who used frequently to hold forth ia ID. 5lh
Baptist Church Of this city, but Who ha
recsRtIytbssnt ptiachfns ID b 4is. saws6s cap
tared near WINCHESTER a. fsVIdaysI since