The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-10-09

be appointed to cadstships," 80 that they
nigh. have common chance Of command
with the Englsh-Sefor they should take il y.
He said, also, every European boy, aye,
even sergeants, now command oil native
officers. believe IL the Indians were made
officers, on the same footing as ourselves,
they would DO perfectly faithful, and, in
time, become Christians they will gradu.
ally throw cast to the dogs, and be like
ourselves in all but color. There is not
regiment here that moves whose march is
not one OF horrible oppression, not from in.
discipline or military outrage, but from the
system Of government. I shall soon be GO
ing back to England, and hope We shall
meet, and will then give you the real his
tory of your strong, just, and regular gov.
eminent as is works in the provinces, and
of the atrocities Of the natives, we employ
as uncovenanted servants. The English
commit sins of omission, the natives sins of
commission, and they will do SO until their
accused caste is rolled over. We all pay
respect to a COW in presence Of Hlndoo-a
respect he laughs at, Tor he knows we do
not feel it. But at the same moment we
take his oxen and himself from the plough
by force; VIC send him a thousand miles
march with regiment he loses his har-
vest, his ground remains untitled, his family
perish, his oxen, overloaded and overdriven
by the soldiers, drop on the road and he is
not paid farthins for them his cart, bro.
ken, is left on the road, he Is made to drive
another, whose owner has fled in despera-
ton, and after six Freight months-l knew
one case of years evcn-hc returns ruined
man to his once happy home. He may
find his wife and children alive; he may
find, ifshc is not pretty, that she has re-
NAMED faithful among his friends Of The
village, but 1t Is as common to find that one
of the European magistrates uncovenantcd
native people has taken her. And as re-
CARDS females the European are, though
magistrates, pretty loose, have heard"
These declarations made by British Off.
Get in India, seven years ago, afford some
clue to the present state of affairs in that
country.
We have no time now t. indulge in
further general remark. We here opened
the latest intelligence Of operations in In.
dia:
The news from Delhi is to August 18th.
Sorties nd been repulsed on the 18th, 18th
and 23d of July. with great loss, on the
part of rebels. The British had 500 killed
and wounded. There had been no fighting
since the Odd. The Neemuch mutineers
had arrived at Delhi. Brigadier Nicholson
was expected at Delhi on the 18th Of Au-
gust, from the Punjaub, with reinforce
ments
A despatch was received ut the India
House from Alexandria, dated September 8,
which says Gen. Havelock's forces, af-
ter re-occupying Cawnpore, finding Bethoor
evacuated, burned it to the ground. On
the Goth and 3Oth Of July they found the
rebels at Bupcercl Gunge, about Is miles
from Cawnpere, numbering 10000, whom
they defeated with loss of fifteen guns
They expected to reach Lucknow were ex-
pected.
Delhi was expected to fall in about
fortnight, and Havelock's troops who are
advancing upon Lucknow the next day.
The 9TH, Sth, and 10th regiments of Ben
gal native infantry had revolted and fled 10
the Roano river, pursued by her maicsty's
10th regiment, under Gen. Lloyd, 800 OF
the mutineers Were killed The 9TH, Sth
and 10th regiments. which mutinied at
Cawnpore, July 23d, threatened Benares.
The 18th irregular cavalry, which mutinicd
at the same time, murdered their command
ing officer. Major Holmes and his wife. The
dis,rmed Goth Beng, Il native infantry mu.
timed at Mecaa Nicer the 30th Of July, and
murdered their commanding officer, Major
Spencer. A plot has also boon discovered
at Benares. IL was reported that Agra
had fallen into the hands Of the rebels.
Gen. Havelocks force for the re-occupa-
ton of Cawnpore had in eight days march
ed log miles. fought four actions with Nena
Sahib's army, against Overwhelming odds in
point Of numbers, and had taken a guns of
light calibre, and that, too, in the month of
July, in India. On the morning of July
18th, tho force march, into Cawnpore. The
soul.harrowing spectacle which there pre-
sented itself to them beggars description
A wholesale massacre had been perpetrated
by the ficnd, Nena Sahib. Eight officers
and 90 men Of Her Majesty's s4th regiment,
20 ladies, and l2l Children of Her Majcsty's
32d foot, and the Who'll, European and
Christian population of the place, includ.
ing civilians, merchants, pensioners, and
their families, to the number of 400 per.
sons, were the victims of this satan. The
courtyard in front Of the assembly rooms,
in which Sena Sahib had fixed his head
quarters, and in which the women had been
was swimming with blood. a
large number Of women and children who
had been cruelty spared, after the capitu.
lation, for worse fate than instant death,
had been borbar0usly slaughtered on the
previous morning-the former having been
stripped naked, then beheaded and thrown
into we'll; the latter having been hurled
down alive upon their butclered mothers,
whose blood rocked On their mangled bod
les. Only four escaped, viz, the wife Of
merchant and three others. -r
Gen. Hayelock, in dispatch to the Gov
ernor Gen, says that Nena Sahib has drown
ed himself, with his family. He had an in
intention of going to Lucknow, but when
he got US far as the river, the cavalry and
deserted HIM. and they are al conc
OF. after destroying their arrpS, to their diff
fercnt homes. IN g ais
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