Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-30

late indeed from the garrison of Lucknow though with
out informing us of any substantial change in the posi-
ton and prospects of the war. We at home indeed
better pleased to hear that that garrison was safe on the
ID ut less than six weeks ago, that it had made sec
ond successful sorte capturing two guns and bringing
in large supply of provisions and that there was good
hope of their relief in the middle of the month"; than we
should have been to hear of another glorious but unpro
liable victory in the open field. Elsewhere, though the
end is not yet everything is tending to it. Indeed no
historian, dramats, no poet ever SO suspended the
interest spun out the preparations and kept the anag
Oniss so long the start Is done by the natural
course of events in this
Time is now in our favor; we everywhere hold out,
perseyere gain courage and confidence are reinforced
from the mountains or the ocean, and grow continually
and more terrible In the eyes OF the Toe 10 the
arrivals from the Punjab, from Nepaul from Madras,
China and Ceylon, we may now add whole regiments
from the Capes and the head of the great column from
this country The arrival of $500 troops at Mauritius
is an earnest of what VIC may now hope for every mall
On all sides it is the note of preparation the catalogue
of the forces the gathering of the hostsnothing
pete critical and decisive The siege train was still to
arrive at Delhi and the assault then to be made
This was indeed no illusion. On the contrary, the mu
tineers having gone out from Delhi to intercept the
dreaded messengers of their doom, suffered great loss
of men, guns and baggage. Everywhere it is tie same
We face to face with another at hundred points,
collecting our strength and maturing our plans. Which
ever side tcmpts collision, the triumph is uniformly
ours as if to the mutneers that they must wait
their trial and then their DOOM Our people have gone
out from Agra in force and routed body of the insur
gents. Major Eyre has again defeated the mutlneers
from Dinaporc. Fresh, but not unexpected mutlnes IN
the Pun ab have been speedily extinguished Thus the
intelligence is throughout far satisfactory and hope
full than could have venured to expect and 1t IS I'M
possible not to feel that have broken the back
of this terrible affair. Nevertheless there is this pecu-
liarity in the before usthat 1t leaves the two
sides much where it found thenhat is nearly IN the
position and in the same force with no fortress
captured no territory won, army destroyed Though
the rebels were everywhere BEATEN there they still were
and at the very time that Outram was advancing from
Allahabad to Cawnpore, it was said that the former
place. as we'll Benares, threatened by the lnsur-
gents of Dude.
The real change is that when recovering ourselves
uniting and slowly augmentng the small bands that
have hitherto waged unequal with the hosts around
them, those hosts themselves melting away They
not like the smoke of the genie that took form and
substance and became giant they only rise to eVaP-
crate They may be said to be without form and VOID
A common they cannot have, as the Hndoos can
only cooperate with the Mussulmans, and the Mussu
with the Hndoos with the secret intention OF get
ting rid of the other at the first convenient opportunity
There has been no manifesto except story of creased
cartridges which believed and the proclamation OF
a King whom none respected. There has been no Gen
eral except Nena Sahib for the names mentioned at
Delhi those of humble men, and change from day to
day There has been no plan of operation except that
where they are not always comfortable welcome,
where indeed, they don't always stay 1t is true that
we hear of the muneerS everywhere may eccOuntel
them everywhere but everywhere they scattered and
disspated, to turn up somewhere else. At this moment
it would not be safe to say that the insurgents OF Dude
are not on their way to Delhi that the garrison O
Delhi is not it's way to Dude The insurgents OF Dude
also threaten Allahabad and Benares. The mutineer
of Dinapore dused extensive panic down the river
but have been beaten twice gher up Thus the foe
how To flnalI
aimess-is desultOry vapor, shallow as an inunda
ton. Never anything of such formidable dmen
sions destitute of consistency great people or
great cause will in time find great general and vii
the day.
But even if the Sepoys should have the luck to find
great soldier they have not in themselves what he cou
take hold of. He might as well attempt to grasp
mist, to command shoal of behring's Their fam
traditional loyalty to and sites would atfOr
but slight groundwork for discipline government
The weak isess, vaporing hrong would resent efcien
command a worse bondage than the old s.
little soidity principle is observed in the mutneers
and little power of turning their opportunities to
count that it has been thought not improbable they Wi
all dispese the arrival of reinorcements, pro-
fer their submission. They may not take either of thes
courses for they may not be able to do the one hav
encouragement to do the other but it is confdentl
expected that they will make no stand.
A dispatch from Calcutta contains the following:
The Punjab reinforcements reached the camp befor
Delhi the 18th of August, and recently
Hilary force 10000 from Cashmere has marche
to join the force 1t is expected to do good service
The disarmed Doth Native Infantry at Lahore, mul
dered their commanding officer on the 3Oth of July an
broke away from the cantonment. The troops sent
pursuit took the wrong road but the mutineers wer
followed by the police and the people of the country
and in the first days of August either Destroyed
} captured and overwhelmingly man had escaped
Fugitves of the seth Native Infantry, in Pershawul
have been seized and similarly dealt with, These rigol
GUS measures will probably stop others from similar al
tempts in Bengal and Behar
1t is stated that the troops at Bhopau have rebeed
The Begun who continues friendly, had already sen
away the Europeans in safety.
The Bank of Bengal refuses to make advances agans
government paper or bills having than 80 days
run.
, North Carolina Synod.
The Synod of the Presbyterian Church of North Ca
olina met in this town on Wednesday last the 2lst il
slant
t The opening sermon was preached by the Rev. Nei