Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-15
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From the New Orleans Picavune. Affairs in India,

eraas era. expected, and the general-in chief, like ss r.decessor in command, had succumbed to
 hs pId disease of epidemic character, which, we
 a l"' rell conceive, though it is not so stated
 nl'} not spared the rank and file of the besieg-
 army. The mutiny continued to spread
 tons the native troops, and other fragmentary
 ,tions of what is no longer the proud Ben
 army had been wisely disarmed. Cawn-
 an important military station, and the
 ,tal of rich and populous province, had fal-
 into the hands of the rebels. The whole
 .nc of Dude was in open mutiny and revolt
 I Sir Henry Lawrence, the chief commis-
 ,oer q man of character and large experience 6o can in the present crisis, ill be spared I.bablv worn out by anxiety and fatigue, was \ This is in brief the substance, or skeleton I.,ber. of the news as in a condensed tele- Ir,pbic form, it reaches us. The imagination m easily fill up the picture. A general state
 fright and alarm among all classes of the
 reign population; want of confidence, amount
 g at times, doubtless, to despondency, and
 9Ty justified, perhaps, by the facts among
 nose high in authority; distrust in the efficacy
 the means adopted for the suppression of the .belion. now four months or more since its
  -ext best be taken; growing insolence and naturally increasing confidence of the success ful rebels themselves and the influence of their example and counsel upon a bgoted and priest rddn race; and all this in distant land, be heath foreign sky, and in a conquered empire, where the rulers number but thousands while their subjects count as many milions-it is in- deed, a state of things that might well appal the stoutest heart.
 Nor is the picture yet complete. There re- main behind the thousand elements of more rvate nature, but which we have, in published correspondence, the means of realizing though, ! as the case is not our own, only to limited ex- eDt and in an imperfect degree; the general feeling of personal insecurity in state of things ! 50 uncertain and among so fanatical and barba- OuS a people; just and reasonable fear and alarm for the personal safety of family and friends at distance, or 1t may be, which is far worse at home, their brutal insult beneath the very eye of their natural protector. their long drawn out torture and ignomnious death goundless and imaginary fears and apprehen- sons even, which are not rarely or uunaturally, n such state of things, far worse than the eaty; this it is which constitutes in the cup the conquerors of India are now drinking 10 the dregs, its bitterest ingredients.
 There is however, a reverse side to this pie ture, which it is far more pleasing to contem- pate The great mass of the native popula- ton, as contradiStinguished from the Brahmin sodiery, show no disposition, even in the most infected districts, to rise, nor have they, so far as we have seen, manifested the slightest dis affection or discontent The mutiny of the na- tive soldiery even, is as yet confined to two provinces, those however, the most extensive most populous, and important in the Empire. At last accounts the Bombay Presidency, Ma dras, and the Punjaub were quiet, and the na- tive troops therein, without exception, loyal, though in all, and especially the Punjaub, So near the headquarters of the mutiny, the great est alarm was naturally felt. The last mail also brings intelligence of the defeat of the reb- els ln three distinct engagements after the cap ture and brutality in the vicinity of Cawnpore as they had been in several before. This is it IS true, but as drop in the bucket, in com- parison with the fearful dimensions the rebel hon has assumed. It shows however that the case Is not so desperate and hopeless as 1t might be, and that the will and the determina- uoD, and the means to hold out till aid can reach them, exist.
 in the meantime, the troops, originally or dered to China, and fortunately counter-ordered before they reached their place of destination, begin to arrive. A commander of genius, de- clslon ot character, long and able military ca- reer, but still in the prime of life, with avala- ble experience in the very field to which he has wisely been sent, is on the ground the best possible guarantee also of sympathy, and aid and support from home. Each subseuuent mail, too, that arrives will bring intelligence of what England is doing, or about to do, for the salvation of her Indian Empire, to lose which would lose her rank, consideration and influ- ence among the nations of the earth. And then there are the stout hearts, the brave spirits. the intrepid men of of genius, whom a crisis like this never fails to bring to light. This consid- eration may at first sight seem trivial and fool. sh but we have great faith in men of the times -men raised up providentiaily, as it were, to meet an emergency. Could Give or a Hast ngs appear now, though but for moment, upon this fearful and still doubtful field of ac aon, the fortunes of war would at once be British flag would soon float again over the sacred city of Delhi, as in the infancy of the Empire it ioated from the for resses of the Carnatc.
 50 far, however, as we can see, everything ,ow, looks dark. The measures adopted and he forces called into requisition for the SUD- pression of the rebellion, or to use the words of suother, for reconquering an empire, seem in- adequate to the occasion, nor do we see how they can well be increased. England is un- fortunately at the present time engaged in dis iant and consuming foreign wars. Even be- lore the outbreak of the India mutiny, it was 5leved by many that it would well nigh ex- laust all her available resources to bring that with China to a successful termination. Since hen, and probably in consequence of this un- expected turn in affairs, she has become in yolved in new, and 1t would seem serious diff Ilties with Persia. Her influence at the Porte slso, and of course her privileges in Egypt de- end much upon her prestige in the East Eyen her authority in the Ionan seas is not, in his day of misfortune, wholly unquestioned And then who can tell what influences are at work, what secret machinatiens undere all her roubles in India? If we believe half we have seen written by men whose authority on this subject is unquestoned, we should at once write down the British empire in India as lost. -lene, meme, teket upharsin, is written on its walls and it's banners.
 But we are not prepared, as yet. to take this view of the subject. It is undoubtedly seri- JUS, momentous crisis. But we believe we cannot now see how it will be met It cannot be possible, unless the latter be guided by in- diligence we know not of, that the most per feet military science in the world shall yield, whatever may be the numerical odds, to un- aught, uncalculating brute force. Besides, we @dce that there is every where in England an vvavering confidence in the final issue of this Feat struggle; and when fundamentally aFpeciating the importance of crisis, and olscious of their ability to meet it--apply themselves, as in the present instance, vigor- olsy and determinedy, to the work, there is With them no such word as fail
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