Washington telegraph., 1849-08-08

to be allowed to wave a sheet and sue for
mercy. Weak in body from loss OF blood,
Agnew's heart failed him not. He re-
plied-"The time for mercy is gone; let
none be asked for; they can kill us too, II
they like. But we are not the last OF the
English Thousands of Engishmen will
come down when we are gone, and an
initiate Moolraj and his soldiers and his
fort" The crowd now rushed in with
horrible shouts, made Khan Singh priso-
ner, and, pushing aside the servants with
the butts of muskets, surrounded the two
wounded officers. Lieutenant Anderson
was too much wounded to move; and
Mr.. Agnew was sitting by his bedside,
holding his hand, and talking in English;
doubtless they were bidding each other
farewell forever.
At this stepped forward Goojur Singh,
the prisoner on whose trial the facts OF
this tragedy were revealed. lie was
Muzabee, deformed and almost a cripple,
an object disgusting to behold. and prob
ably with refined barbarity selected tor
this reason to add last indignity to the
murder; he stepped from the crowd with
drawn sword, and, after insulting Mr.
Agnew for a few minutes with every abu-
sive epithet which a foul language can
supply to foul tongue, struck him twice
upon the neck, and with a third blow cut
off his head Some other wretch dis
charged a muske. into the liteless body.
Then Anderson was hacked to death with
swords; and afterwards the two bodies
40 ell nd
insulted by the crowd.
Let us follow the blood-stained crowd,
and see-where go they? To the Am
Khas. There sits durdar, already taunt-
ing Sirdar Khan Singh, late his rival. now
his prisoner. Room for the monster
.Goojur Singh-the murderer. He ap-
Ipfoaches-the crowd make way for him,
as for some good man, and he advances
to Moolraj with Agnew's head in his hand.
What reward can Moolraj give for so no.
BILE and brave deed? Will Goojur Singh
accept an elephant-a horse--a sword
a pistoI--money? He has only to name
his own reward. But he wants nothing
he is content with having served Mool
raj!
At last this generous contention ends
by Agnew's own horse and pistol and a
handful Of rupees being forced upon the
murderer; and long afteIward, poor Ag-
news servants, peeping from their hiding
places in the suburbs, could see their
masters assassin capering through the
streets on their masters well remembered
horse. But what became of the head?--
Moolraj directed the head to be thrown
into the lap of Sirdar Khan Singh; it was
thrown; and the Sirdar was told to take
the head of the youth he had brought
down to govern Moultan. The Sirdar,
thinking over many kindnesses and ben
efts he had received at the hands of Mr.
Agnew, burst into tears. The head was
Immediately taken from him; the nostrils
and the mouth were filled with gunpow-
der; the mustachios, beard and hair wetted
and plastered with the same, and then
the whole set fire to. Moolraj was much
amused, and the crowd delighted. Other
and worse indignities followed, such as |
will not repeat; but, doubtless. the officers
who conducted the proceedings of the
court recorded them as they appeared and
were solemnly sworn to on the trial. At
last Moolraj was weary of insulting the
murdered Englishmen. He ordered them
to be buried; and they were laid in a hasty
grave among some tufts of grass by the
Eedgah where they were killed, But
they could not be left alone even here
Twice they were torn up by the people
of Moultan, to rob them of the cloth that
wrapped them. A third time they were
buried, and sentry placed over the spot
till they were forgotten.
WoULDN'r STAY TO SEE rT--The fol-
lowing is told by the Hickman (Ky.)