Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-12-27

take Sturt TO his own house and, as
he and my daughter were staying with
me, there would not even be a bed to
place him on there. l therefore de-
termined not to lose time by waiting
till the bearers could get my palkee
ready, but took my chuttah and walked
off as fast as | could towards Sturt's
house. | fortunately met Major THAN
i(aide-de-camp to Gen. Elphinstone,)
for ! soon saw crowd of about fifty
suwars in his command. THAN ran
on, and told the bearers to bring him
on to my house. / cannot describe
how shocked / felt when | saw poor
Sturt; for Lawrence, fearing to alarm
US, had said he was only slightly
wounded. He had been stabbed deep
ly in the shoulder and side, and on the
face 1.-The latter wound, striking on the
bone, Just missed the temple y he was
covered with blood, issuing from his
mouth, and was unable to articulate.-
From the wounds in the face and
shoulder, the nerves were affected
the mouth would not open, the tongue
was swollen and paralyze and he was
CHASTITY faint from loss of blood. He
could not lie down, from the blood
choking him /; and had to sit up in the
palkee as best he might, without a pill
low to lean against. With some diff
Guilty and great pain he was supported
up stairs, and laid on his bed, when DIR.
Harcourt dressed his wounds, which,
having been inflicted about ten o'clock,
now at one were cold and stiff with
clotted blood. The tongue was paral-
yzcd, and the nerves of the throat at
fected, so that he could neither swallow
nor articulate and the choking sensa-
ton of the blood in his throat was most
painful! to witness. He was better
towards evening; and, by his wiie's
unremilting attention in assisting him
to get rid of the clothed blood from his
mouth by incessant applications of
warm wet cloths, he was by eleven at
night able to utter tolerably articulate
sound. With what joy did we hear
him family utter better; and he really
seemed to enjoy tea-spoonful of wa.
ter, which I'VE got into hio H'0sEtax-by
drop or two at a time, painful as it was
to him to swallow it.
Price Of Provisions at Cobut.-
This day Sturt was fortunate in pur-
chasing a bag of otta pollard sent in
to him by Tai Mahommed; whose man
brought another, which our servants
were purchasing. In moment there
was cry of otta and the garden was
filled with camp-followers and Spa
hees. never saw such scene the
Joy OF those who got handful for a
rupee, the sorrow evinced by those
who were unsuccessful, and the strug-
giles of all to get close to the man =
The gentlemen had to stand with thick
sticks to keep the people off There
was no weighing; at first the man gave
two handsfuI for a rupee, but the guam
tity soon diminished in consequence of
the great demand for it. To prove our
good faith and belief in that Of the
chiefs, we are to-day placed entirely in
their power. They know that we are
starving that our horses and cattle
have neither grain, bhoosa, nor grass.
They have pretty well eaten up the
bark of the trees and the tender
branches the horses gnaw the tent
pegs. | was gravely told that the ar
tilleTy horses had eaten the trunnion OF
a gun! This is difficult Of belief but
have seen my own riding horse gnaw
voraciously at a cart-wheel. Nothing
lis satisfied with food except the Pariah
dogs, who are gorged with eating dead
camels and horses.
Personal Mentity.-A remarkable
case OF personal identity recently oc-
CURED at Lowell. A man named
Houghton was put on his trial for an
assault upon two young girls, commit
ed Indifferent times and places ;and, al
though the girls and eight other wit
nesses swore positively to the identity
of the accused, yet it was clearly mani
tested that at the time the offence was
committed he was in New Hampshire
Instead Of Massachusetts,. The judge
who tried the cause remarked, that If
the witnesses for the prosecution were
all mistaken, it was enough to shake
all confidence in human testimony
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