The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-20
The Future or Indt..


The Liverpool Times, received per ..e.mer Al.
takes tho following position with regard TO affair,
| In India. '"
AHairs In India are evidently proyre,sing fto,,
oaa 70 worse Tho news BY the last overland mail
10 decidedly the least favorable which has come ~
hana since the commencement Of the outbreak,
and We must be prepared fDr weeks 10 come 10 ra
| ceive intelligence of additional disaster, The
probability, ALMOST the certainty is thai heors ths
great bulk Of the troops which have beep semi
shis country nave arrived OUT ths Presidencies of
Bombay aud Madras will be In the same aame "a
rebeiiion which is now sweeping over Bengal.
There 10 no use In concealing the fact that wtbou,
the greatest possible exertions which England can
make in this crisis of her fate we shall be driven
ignominiously out Of India, and lose thereby the
prestige which We have so long and 30 uobly main
tanned amongst the natives. Az proof thai the
danger Is Imminent, read the following descrint;on
by no unfayorable hand Of the perilous position to
which the brave Hayelock IL now reducsd;--
On the 5th of July, when he marched ont of AL
iahsbad, this heroic band numbered somo Q 00n
men OF all arms. When Neil effected the junction
| at Cawnpore it was slightly reinforced. on the
18th Of August, IL had been reduced 10 900 surv-
| vors, thoroughly worn down by sickness and dis
case. 1t Is probable that no soldiers have ever
gone through the same amount of arduous work in
the same space OF time. In the course of these
five weeks this infantry brigade-for except a few
volunteer it has throughout been deprived Of horse
has fought at least eight different actions with
as many armies of well disciplined troops pienti
fully supplied with cavalry aud artillery, and gen
orally outnumbering it in the proportion, at
the lowest calculation, of six to one 1t has
done this in the worst season in the year for
military operations. Its victorious marches have
| been made through land of rice swamps, in the
midst of a hostile population, without commits ssa-
riat, without tent.
From the moment they crossed the Ganges, on
| their way to Luckn these men had to bivouac
at night under deuges of rain, to fight frequently
up their miidles in water, and more than once to
l al -. h fann IF Ht.A
| broad, unsheltered plains, with the MONDAY sun
blazing down on them with vertical glare. 1t was
ON the Both July that Havelock first crossed the
Ganges; on the 18th of August he was compelled by
sickness to fall back on the 5th he advanced again.
and fought two more actions, with the usual re-
suit. His further advance was checked by an obsta
| Gle which it would have been madness TO attempt
surmounting. $4,000 men, entrenched in posi-
ton of great strength the other side of deep
| aud rapid river rendered the relief of Lucknow
impossible and made instant retreat Imperative
The retreat was conducted in perfect ORDER and
| the 18th Havelock re-crossed the Ganges But the
labors of this indeatigable band were not yet over
Bthoor had been re-occupied by the enemy, and
the 10th Havelock attacked 1t, carried the posi
| ton, and captured two guns.
| MURDER OF A PRrEsT.-The murder of Nicholi Is
Sayeli Catholic priest at Point a-laIIace. La,
on the Sd inst. has boon noticed. From an af1da-
| Wit of Dominique 0rmea. one of the murderers.
published in the n. o. Delta, it appears that the
priest received twenty eight stabs, twentysix OF
| which were mortal, and 0rmea confesses that he
inflicted four of tie and gives the following names
Of persons implicated in the murder: Isidore Cassi
Manual Ragae, Hypolitc Ragas, Pierre Cassi, Mar.
! bert Martini Nicholas Cartin. Jourdain Martin.
| Macmillan Martin, f. Case, (who formerly was in
| the employ of Mr.. Marcacq) Rigobert Baylas,
| villere Doleze Giacomini Doleze and Etienne Do
| leze, and many others whose names he could not
| remember. Prom the statement of 0rmea, it fur
ther appears that the melting of the murder
the alleged improper conduct of the priest in
connection with certain females. The Delta adds:
The affair, we learn, has created the profoundest
feeling in Piaquemines: not so much from feeling
for Savli. rs from the icndishness Of his murder
and the respectability of some of the parties in
plicsted-they being old residents of the parish,
and deemed incapable of having taken part in an
| assassination appalling. At the funeral of the
murdered priest the highest excitement was man.
ifssted, and one man. wealthy and respectable
planter Of the parish, offered q resolution for
lyuchng the murderers, should they escape the
penalties of the law.
After the murder of Savilli, the body was rifed
of pistol. gold watch and pocketbook containing
money. Whether the robbery perpetrated by
the murderers not, was not known.
SUSPENDED RATLRoADs.-Within the last thirty
days the following railroad companies are reported
IA having either gone to protes. on their floating
debt, suspended or made an assignment of their
property: