Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-12-18
Rioxyiuy from Guus at PeshaxyIr.

Blowing from Guns at PeshaNur.
4 letter from Peshawur in Blackwood for Noven-
ber, has the following:
1t was au Awfully imposing scene All the troops,
and natives, armed and disarmed loyal and dsafected
were drawn up parade forming three sides of square
and drawn up very carefully, you may be sure that
any attempt the part of the dsafected to rescue the
doomed prisoners would have been easily checked
Forming the fourth side of the square drawn up
the guns, % pounders ten in number which were to be
used for the execution. The prisoners under strong
European guard were then marched into the square
their crimes and sentences read aloud to them and the
head of each ment they then marched around
the square, and up to the guns The first ten were
picked Out-thelr eyes were bandaged and they welt
bound to the guns their backs leaning against the muz
zes and their fastened to the wheels. The port
fires lighted, and at signal from the artillery ma
or the guns were fired Itwas horrid sight that then
met the eye; regular shower of human fragments of
heads, of arms of legs appeared i'll the air through the
smoke, and when that cleared away, these fragments y
ing the acknowledgements of HindoOs and fragments
of Mussemans, all mixed together, were all that re-
manned of those ten mutineers. Three times more was
this scene repeated but great is the disgust we feel
for the atrocities committed by the rebels that had
room in hearts for any feeling pity; perfect
calOusness depicted on every Europeans face ); a
look of grim satisfaction could be in the
tenances of the gunners serving the guns. But far diff
erent the effect the native portion of the specta
tors their black faces grew ghasty pale as they gazed
breathessly at the awful spectacle. You must know
that this is nearly the only form in which death has any
terror for native If he is hung, shot by musketry
he knows that his friends relatives will be allowed
to claim his body, and will give him the funeral rites
required by his religion il Hindoo that his body will
be burned with all due ceremonies and if Mussuman,
that his remains will be decenty inferred, directed in
the Koran But if sentenced to death in this form he
knows that his body will be blown into thousand
pieces, and that it will be altogether impossible for his
relatives however devoted to him. to be of picking
up all the fragments of his particular body and the
thought that perhaps limb of some one of different
religion to himself might possibly be burned buried
with the remainder of his body in agony to him.
But Notwithstanding this it impossible for the m
ncerS dest hater not to feel some degree or admra
ton for the way in which they met their deaths Moth
ing in their lives became them like the leaving of them
OF the whole forty only two showed any signs of fear
and they bitterly reproached by the others for so
disgracing their They certainly died like men,
After the first ten disposed Of the next batch who
had been looking all the time, walked up to the guns
quite calmly and unfaeringy, and allowed themselves
to be blindolded and tied up without moving muscle
showing the slightest sign of fear concern
Whence had these men their strength? Their religion,
had it may be- and is i'll all other points at least be-
friends them well at the hour of death 1t teaches them
well that great and useful lesson, how to die.
EXCESSIVE LoYAETY.-A French cook exhorted his
and pupil not to push the mustard to fanaticSm--
The people of England should recommend to their Ca
madam brethren not to push their loyalty to the same
eXtravagant point. Harpers Magazine has been ban
ishcd the patriotic provinces consequence of an art
Gle tortured into insult to the Queen. Lattery the
Herald of Montreal has undertaken to utter some words
apologetic for Nena Sahib.
1t is amusing to witness the ferocous onslaught in
consequence upon the offending Journal 1t is proposed
to denominate it, from this time forward the Montreal
SepOy and also that the Montreal Field Battery shall
be called upon to " blow from cannon copy of its
issue of the oath nst which contained the obnoxious
article. AS final stroke of degradation, it is denounced
as trucuent Yankee sheet" the connection between
which epithet and the apology for Nena Sahb the hot
headed Canadians do not, by the way make clear; and
the extent Of its dsloyay is measured by the suppose
ton that it would next undertake defence of Har-
per- if dared which it doesn't they say and proba
bly, won't Meetings Of d" British Bayonets havetbeen
held to consider the momentous matter, at which the
Herald has been condemned as reasonable depraved
and an outrage the feelings of the community which
is loyal to its very core Many other terrible steps
have been taken for the modification and discontinue
of the unucky Herald, too numerous to mention 1t
strikes us that Canadian neghbors view the subject
from entirely wrong point They should rejoice over
the possession of journal having the power to wake
them up often once in eight years-we believe it
was just eight years ago when the Herald created
somewhat similar sensation on the annexation question
and not allow their patriotic preudices to interfere
with their admiration at remarkable evidence of
newspaper vgor and force among them.