The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-19
From India-The English Army be.
fore Delhi.

officers IN India, relating the operations of the Ar
my The following is from Delhi correspondent
The awful atrocities committed on eur poor nm
happy women aud children can never be forgotten.
We must have blood. The streets of Delhi viii he
a fearful sight. Our men are mad for revaps. sn.t
there is not soul who not feel the same thir.t
ior the blood of these ruftians. Three months ago
icouiu not nave looked on and fifteen men
ued up and shot down 10 cold blood without sick.
ehing, but now see my men do this i'm A most hrY.
tal way without quam At a village on the Kur-
maui road poor child's feet were found thew had
Its little shoes and socks on, and some devil in hu
man man, iorni had cut them oil with a tulwar What
death can be too cruel for such wretchesi
letter, dated camp before Delhi, August 10th.
says:
No chance of taking this place for some tim. ,o
come Reinforcements march towards u.s. hut thsy
never seem TO get nearer 1t llindeed he giori-
Gus when we r0ut and slay these treachsrous cow
ardly hounds. They will be hunted down ,ika
wild beasts and it is To be hoped few will escnpe
lou IN England can never know or hear Of enc
hait the atrocities committed by these savage. for
they are too abomnable ever TO repeat, much less
| 10 pnblish We must have enormous army to
settle this country, and where is new Indian army
| to come from.
| DELHI, Aug 1.-THE English were never In a
better position than n camp. The mutt.
neers quite disheaftened by the utter failure Of the
attacks on the Isl and ID: their loss estimated by
themselves at 5000 The dispersion OF the rebels
| may now be really looked for Nine hundred Of
| the Neemuch force alone never returned to the
city after the attack Of the LIST The loss Of tha
| British was under 80. Brigadier ChamberIau's
| aud Col Seaton's wounds are progressing favor.
| ably.
| GEN. HAvELoCK's OPERATIONS
| Gen. Havelock, by the previous accounts had
fallen back from his attempt to relieve Lucknow
An officer at his camp at 0ude writing on August
4th, says:
'The enemy are now in position, with "a guns,
many Of very heavy calibre at RajCunge, having
| blown up a bridge and made themselves very
strong. fear it will be bloody affair crossing
| this river. We (the Fusileers) have already lost
two officers, and another is dangerously wounded
| Our Colonel (NielD has been made a brgadier-
general for services, and now commands Cawnpore.
Our senior major was killed at Onng. at least he
shortly after died of his wound and the regiment
| is now commanded by the junior major. I will
not dwell on the various horrors and outrages
mitted by the rebels at tho various stations where
they have mutined; suffice il to say that no such
acts of treachery, yliany and barbarity stain the
page of the history of any country. IL is now war
to the knife with every Musselman in the county,
aud every Sepoy of any creed, against Europeans
and all Christians have just heard that we are
to march tomorrow morning. II we manage to
get to Lucknow and back 1t will be one Of the
most wonderful feats of arms that have ever
been accomplished"
THE MASSACRE AT CAwSPoRE.
A u intelligent native spy, in the service of the
Indian government, gives detailed narrative Of
the massacre at Cawnpore, closing with the follow
ing description OF an exploit of a brave woman:
"were any of our women dishonored by the Ne
ma or his people" None that know OF excepting
in the case Of General Wheeer's youngest daugh-
ter, and about this am not certain. This was her
circumstance. As they were taking the mem ss-
hibs out Of the boat sowar cavalry mani took
her away with him TO his house. She went quietly;
but at night she rose and got hold Of the sowar's
sword.
lie was asleep, his wife, his son, and his mother
in-law were sleeping in the house with him. She
killed them all with the sword, and then she went
and threw herself down the well behind the house.
In the morniDg, whom people came and found the
dead In the house, the cry was, who done this f--
Then a neighhor said that in the night he had seen
some one go and throw himself into the we'll. They
| then went and looked, and there was Mssee Rahs,
| dead aud swollen.
| The correspondent Of the London Times adds:
ii have seen the fearful slaughter house, and al.
10 saw OF the 1st native infantry men, accord.
| ing 10 order, wash mp part Of the blood which
stains the foor before hanging. The quantities OF
dresses, clogged thrkly with blood, children's
| froeks frils, and ladies' under clothing Of all
kinds also boys tronsers leaves Of Bibles, and Of
one book In particular, which seems 10 he strewed
over the whole place called Preparation far Dsati;
also broken dagusrreotype cases only iots Of them,
| hair, some nearly yard long bonnets ALI bloody,
| and one or two shoes. i picked up bit u paper
with on it, 'Ned's hair, with love- and opened and
found a little bic tied up with riband. The hrst
fellows that went D believe, saw the bodies with
their arms and legs stickings through the ground.
They had all been thrown in heap In the WELL"