Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-02
HORRORS OF THE MUTINY IN INDIA.

The Columbo passengers say that the imag-
ination can scarcely conceive the ficndish bar
barities perpetrated by the Sepoys. When
the Bengal mutineers entered the city of Delhi
there were English merchants, mercantile, tel
egraph and post office clerks, officers of the
native regiments and government functiona-
res, with their English wives and children,
living there as unconscious Of danger as if they
had been in an English town. As soon as the
mutineers entered Delhi great many English
men and EnglishwOmen and children escaped,
but numbers could not do so, and those who
did not escape were subjected to outrages
worse than death. The daughter of an
English clergyman was driven through the
street of Delhi naked, then subjected to
speakabIe outrages by an infuriated soldiery,
and afterwards cut to pieces with swords. An
English lady in the same city was suspended by
the feet naked and hacked to pieces. The
European officers and soldiers are exasperated
TO madness by these atrocities, and most ter
rible punishmcnts will be inflicted by the
European soldiers on the mutinous Sepoys
when Delhi is taken. These Sepoys have
acted more like fiends than human creatures.
Ill
gIish soldiers can be prevented from laviDe
violent hands on every native they meet. A
Highland regiment landed at Calcutta, and
one of the soldiers was seen to rush straight
to a native and fell him to the earth with his
fist in an instant. Who ever lives to tell the
tale of Delhi, and OF the scenes witnessed in
the city during the seige, will be able to relate
undreamt of horror.
FIRING OFF THE MuTINEERs THE following
extract from letter of q British officer in
India, showing how the mutneers were treat
ed at Peshawur, makes us fear that barbarities
are not wholly confined to the Sepoy side.
GA force of Europeans with guns was sent
round the fort, of which Meerdan, was
held 10y the 55th native Infantry in open mutt
ny they tried to escape when our force ap-
peared, and some got off to Swat, the others
were made prisoners; $50 were killed on the
spot, nine tried by drum-head court-martial
and instantly shot, including native officer
of a regiment not in mutiny, who would not
act as he was ordered. Others were driven
into the hills and killed by the hillmen, a
price of ten rupees being set on their heads
The colonel of this regiment blew out his
brains in disgust at the mutiny. The villains
kept their officers in confinement, and told
them if they tried to escape they would roast
them alive. They did, however, manage to
escape. The force went and disarmed all
the other regiments in the forts and quieted the
district.
Some of the 200 prisoners of the 55th have
been tried and uce bIew forty Of them arcay from
o,.r guns in the presence of the whole force
three days ago-a fearful but necessary exam
n,a which has struck terror into their souls.
Thraa sides of a square were formed, ten
guns poining outwards, the sentence OF the
court was read, prisoner bound to each gum
the signal given, and the salvo fired. Such
scene hope never again to wltness-hu'nail an
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