Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-08
THE CON :ERTED BRAHMIN.

Among all the foreign delegates to
the Evangelical Alliance recently in ses-
sion in New York-and there were
among the number some of the most
distinguished divines of Europe-no
man, perhaps, attracted so large share
of attention us did the Rev. n. Shes
hadri. Mr.. Sheshadri is native East
Indian, and, moreover, was born a
Brahmin, and educated to believe HIM
self, as he expresses it, god on earth.
He was taught that in his person God
was incarnatc, and as god he claimed
and received mems worship for many
years. His first doubts as to the truth
of the religion in which he was high
priest, were born of the manifest I'M
in the Brahminical books Doubling
| led to investigation. He examined all
! the Oriental systems of philosophy to
find them false and unsatisfactory. He
then turned to Western scholarship for
light. aud hnE.4a nothlns which he
deemed worthy of belief in any human
system of philosophy, he was finally led
by DR.. Wilson, of Bombay, to examine
the Bible, and on the 18th of Septem-
Der, 1913, he was baptized. Having
thus become Christian, he began at
once to study for the ministry, and his
work among his own people in various
parts of India has been an abundantly
fruitful one. All along the various lines
lines of railway, whose aggregate length
is 5000 miles, he has established sta
tons, organized Bible classes, and built
up churches. The fact that he is a
native of Hindostan would alone have
sufiiced to make him marked man in
the meetings Of the Alliance, and the
additional fact that he was once Brah-
min served to invest him with peculiar
interest.
1 POHERFLL INDIAN TRIBE.
The Siou&-or, as they call them
selves, Che Dakota-tribe of Indians are,
according to writer in The Chicago
Tribune, by far the most powerful aud
Numerous nation of savaSes on the
American continent. For centuries past
they have lorded it over the whole of
Tue northwestern portion OF the United
Safes, lying near the bead-waters of
the Mississippi river, ard along great
portion of the Missouri. They have
been, aud are, the lords Of tbe Plains,
and every mau opd onimal that has
passed through their country for ages
past has done so only with their per-
mission. They are brave, hardy, and
wa like, and able to bring Into the field
such numbers of men as to overawe
their weaker neiehbors, end keep them
IN the proper degree of subsection. The
Sioux nation, as whole, numbers about
forty thousand souls. They occupy an
immense extent OF country, and are able,
upon occasion, to bring into the field
more than three thousand warriors
For years past they have dictated their
own terms to both white and red men,
and have declared their intention TO con-
tinue such course in the future. The
members of this tribe are personally
brave, and all men are trained soldiers
and hunters. They make no conceal
ment of their supposed ability to whip
the people of the United States when
ever and wherever they are so minded,
and point to the various battles in which
they have beaten the whites in proof of
this assertion. Their arrogance is al
most beyond belief. They have plenty
of horses, the very best kind of arms,
and a full supply of ammunition. They
consider it great feat to kill a small
number OF soldiers but the browning
glory of their lives is to kill few aged
and helpless women. After having butch
cred some whites, or their red neighbors,
they glorify themselves for many days,