The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-20
DAILY DISPATCH.
THURSDAY MOhNlNo..... ADJUST 70, 1857.
THE FOREIGN MAILS BY THE COLUMBIA.
The Mutiny I'm India--Highly In
teresting Details. atE

THE FOREIGN MAILS BY THE COLUMBIA.
The Mutiny I'm India--Highly In
tercsting Details.
The Submarine Cable Experiments.
The steamship Columbia, which LEFT Liverpool on
Wednesday morning, the 5th inst, arrived at New
York on Monday. By this arrival, we have full
details of operations in India which are highly in
teresting
THE INDIAN AUTIyY.
Troops from Bon,Jdy and Bengal-The Treasury Plum
dered Of $40 000, ,000Isr Refuses to 1,pe up he.
rat-TAe Ramored FaH Of Della, de-
Ihere Is nothing later from India, but further
news was looked for at any moment by the Austria
lian mail steamer. via Ceylon.
1t Is stated that the India Company have made n
requfsiton upon the Government for 5000 atdi-
tlohai troops, with the view Of strengthening the
FORCES IN Madras and Bombay, which have been.
weakened by draughts for Bengal
Tue plunder of the Treasures by the insurgents
Z" stated To already amount to two million pounds
hunors are again current that the Persian Gov
erhnieht DO not intend to evacuate Herat the news
ol the revolt in India having prompted them to
such course. The Globe however saws tb,t
ject upon '''o sur"
hsane I've colombo arrived at Southampton with the
"e@sy a, portion OF the India and China mails
rue passengers on board the Colombo who have
1e ronl INDIA firmly believe that Delhi has fall
amey state that bazaar intelligence outstrips
soNernment Intelligence (Which is q had SIN h.
cause IL shows completely between tho n.t3yos In
hae una Ihs mutineers.) and that according to
""naar I intelligence Delhi had fallen
fully erra,od ~ as passengers left an emestts was
| were under arms Inc Europeans
.;d passengers think that the mutinv ia NOT con-
yye soma f;lSia so serious as it really is They
| ny ,he mntineers In Delhi six Enrnneo 49,; teu
| ~ LOU ."hei refuge In n room; one of tban, yar,,
yonng ana beautiful, concealed herself nnasr
The other five were subjected 70 ,.
mutlnous soldiery, and then beheaded Tba = S,s as
| uiIAieu ohueT the soia and the Young female Go,
h sheie peIrayed herself by uttering Shrek
| one WIS seIZed and taken to the harcm of the Kin
OF Delhi This is considered nroof that tbo u
| is in league with the mutineers ' 'he "iiis
cir Colin Campbell treated with the rnoo,
profound respect by the authorities in tpvnt III;
passage through that country was an ovstion lie
purposes dividing the Indian army into fva or siy
hying divisions, with General at the head of each
of them. ND
FROM DELHI.
June l3.-We are now encamped on the hill hay
ing dislodged the insurgents on the Sth Tbev
bought most obstinatey and disputed the grouud
inch by inch. but British courage and f,rocity
forced all before them In the enemys camp was
found an European actually laying the cunsi lie
was literally cut to pieces by the enraged solIery
IL Is suspected that there others in the city,
lhree hundred OF the mutineers tried 10 escape by
getting INTO Scrae, but they were seen by some
OF our fellows and party went to dislodge them;
they fired from the windows. when our fellows
burstopen the doors. and, rushing in killed every
one. Not one was left alive.
Yesterday they came out in force but they W .rq
driven back with great loss.
All was quiet at Lahore, and up as far as Seal.
kote, u the 9th inst 1t is supposed that the check
the Delhi mutineers have received has prevent ID
othsr corps from showing their teeth; but there
J can he no doubt that the whole native army has
, been tanipered with, and the will is not wanting
To show their disatiection. Delhi once more in our
possession things will probably quiet down again
not before.
CAMP. ULLEHPoRE, June 6-Give full sketch to
your lmagination-think of everything that is
cruel, ihhuman. Internal, and You cannot then con
ceive anything so diaboliCal as what these demons
IN human form have perpetrated. On the 2d we
marched from Paniput to Race. At this place some
Of the poor fugtiyes from Delhi met with the most
barbarous treatment. We burnt four villages on
, the road and hung seven Lumberdars. one OF
these wretches had part Of lady's dress for his
hammurbInd-he had seized a lady from Delhi
t stripped her, violated, and then murdered her in
the most cruel manner, first cutting off her breasts
ne sau ne was sorry he had not AN opportunity OF
doing more than he had done
Another lady who had hid hersefunder bridge
was treated In the same manner, then hacked to
pieces and her mangled remains thrown out on
the plain. We found a pair Of boots evidently
those of girl Ii or Il years of age with the feet
1 N them. They had been cut off Just above the AN
kle We hung many other villains and burnt the
villages as We came along. man who witnessed
the last massacre at Delhi where he had gone as a
spy, gives horrid account oft stating that little
children were thrown up in the air and caught on
the points of bayonets, cut they were falling
with tuiwars.
. | MI the lIaus people are in our camD inclujin0
| eight or nine ladies'
fear the I'd Dude Cavalry have mutinied and
murdered their officers. Such is the report, but
first rumors are always worse than the reality
The mutineers have moved out and established
| themselves with II guns and about 5000 men half
way between this and Delhi. They say they mean
to attack US.
/ ments that weakly and foot sore men were 10 re-
main behind with the treasure, IN case We have to
move out to attack.
JUNE 7th.-To morrow we march to the canton
ments at Delhi. We shall have TO dislodge the ml-
tineers from one or two posts, route but do not
anticipate much difficulty We shall drive in their
advanced posts at daylight, and then move on to
cantonments.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF DELHI by THE ENGLIsH-30,Co
| LIVES LOST.
The following is an extract of letter from Sher.
gotty. dated the 14th of June and received bv tIe
Bombay Times. We have no reason to discrcdit
our Informant, who sends his name, (says the Jour.
nallst) but of course he may have been deceived
We consider, however that there is sufficient proba
5ility In his statement to warrant in issuing ii
To our readers:
| '.Delhi is captured Thirty thousand lives lost
consisting of men, women and children. The Brit
ish forces gave the mutineers only twenty -four
hours time to clear their families ont of the Delhi
fort; but they would listen; they said that the
English were speaking lies. 1Couch dur nave hey
hum Ike couch kurna suckaganyc,' There is no
fear--they cannot harm us.l After the lapse of
twentyfour hours, the British commenced firing
till they razed Delhi TO the ground. Everything ID
now quiet round about Delhi but there are risings
In small forces Gya is expected to rise on the 18th
inst. detachment is ordered to proceed there to
guard the treasury, containing nine lacs of rupees
the ls fusiliers, on their march, met number oi
the mutineers on the Ailahabad road, and cut up a
| great many OF them.'
HORRIBLE sCENE-BIowIN6 THE aUTENBERs FROM GUNS.
PEsHAwUR, June live have had no outbreak
here, but We have had to disarm three native in
iantry regiments and one of cavalry, having dis
covered that they intended to massacre us all on
the I'D (siay) Ii was done at the same moment
to all the regiments. though at different points OF
the station a small European force. guns and cav
airy being told. off to each. That night the dis
armed men began to desert in numbers proceed
ing 1t was actually necessary TO stop lest they
should ronse the city and neighberhood; they
were oyerfaken and brought back, and Is or Ii
hung, pour enc0urdgeries aatreS. None have gone
since. All their private arms which every soldier
has, were also taken away, guns kept constantly
pointed towards their lines, with bodies Of Eur, .
peans ready to turn ont at moments notice. anu
a station flooded with a host of leves brought up
from MooItan by the foresight of Edwards, who
raised them in the last Punjab campaign. One
OF them offered to polish off all the Sepoys at I'd.
four annas) n head
The crisis may be said to have been over on the
I'D; but our position then was most dangerous
one, from which the hand of Providence, using at
his instrument the best soldiers aud politicaIs in
India, has rescued us. Fancy 1000 Europeans in a
station with seven regiments, ALL with one eXcep-
ton, prepared TO rise us. backed by canton
ment populated with the greatest scoundrels, city
full of ruiians ready to join the mutineers, and a
chain of forts surrounding us, garrisoned by four
more regiments ready to combine and march down
upon us! Further on. We were encircled by the
hills, full OF fanatics thrsting for our blood and in
open concert with the mutineers. To add to our
troubles, the country people, knowing what was
impending on that day, (l2d,) would not bring in
supplies nor would the Mooltan levies take service
until Ii was seen how we shouId fare