Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-10-09
from tic Bengal l;a.ka-r OF Arsust g. 49,.
THE INDIAN MUTfNlES-GEE. HANEboCh
ADVANCE, on LUCKNOW.

THE INDIAN MUTlNlES-GEE. HAFLbooN y
ADVANCE ON LUCKNOW.
R-igsdier General Havelock's operations tel ',e Ha
own tale. On the 18th, Blttoor was occupied. Oh ."o
96i. and 9th. n force numbering ,bUo hght,s m." n
crossed the Ganges. On the l9:h they fouSht wv
bloody but successfully actions at Oonao and bIssu,
rutbpupi; on the Both and .lst. Gen. Haveioch sem
back his wounded aud sick to Cswnpore, aud recets.
ed in lieu re.inforcements to a greater extent. Wv
the Let Of August he his marcn TO-
wards Lucknow, and was confident OF being ho,e "
reach it on the 9Th. 10 the last action the enemy Ifeu
kunkur aud telegraph wire from his gus thus snow
Ing the barrenness of his supplies.
From the P~henix-Extrs
Calcutta, Aug S.-The news received III lo"n
yesterday ID good. Gan. Hsvelock has been rein,
has again advanced. The following was received
from Government late this evening General Mem
writes to the Commander.in-Ch Chief, on the u in-tan!,
thai Gen. Hsvelock was to advance again TOWARDS
Lucknow the following day"
From the London Times.
We have ourselves received the following inos'
satisfactory news: "Gen. Havelock left Cswnpore
again on the 4th Of August for Lucknow, having re-
placed his sick and wounded with fresh men"
THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE.
STATEMENT BY TINE ONLY SURVIVOR.
The London Times publishes the following thrill
log letter:
CAwYPoRE, Saturday, July Is.
My owS DEAREST BRorHEK:-God Almighty has
been yraUlOusly piHdSeu u spare my poor llIe- l H'
The ouly individual saved among all the European
and Christian community that inhabited this station.
Nv poor dear wife, my darling sweet child PolIy'
poor dear Rebecca and her children, and poor limo
cent children, Emmelina and Martha, az also old Mrs.
Frost and poor Mrs. Osborne, were all most inhuman'
" butchered by the cruel insurgents on the day be-
fore Yesterday, and thrown into a well, together with
a great number of other ladies and children, report
ed to be about $50 in lumber. ! am distracted. !
am most miserable and wretched. | am like one IN
l-... vor oould nnB ar, ms if N "a &c
me. NY life has been spared by a miracle. The
will of th4 Lord be done. He alone can give me
comfort, for l am in a terrible state of distress OF
mind.
fsrinps and dIstresses, such distress as has never
before been experienced or heard Of on the face Of
this earth. At present | cannot write, l cannot eat
or driuk-I am perfectly wrstched.
son, where had been confined with heavy letters on
my legs for twenty.four days by the rebels, who
nearly took away my life, but God alone prevented
them and spared me. They gave inc only parched
grain to eat daily, and that in very small Quantities.
The English troops have come in and restored
peace. They have retaken Cawnpore. Their arrival
here yesterday was the means OF my release, as my
term Of Imprisonment was three years with hard ID
bor. The enemy had from 10000 to $4,000 troops,
and have done great distinctions; sut lie British
them away, and not q soul OF them ia To be seen now
anywhere.
[ know not whether these few lines will reach you,
nor do 1 know if you and your dear children at Agra
are still in the land Of the living. But have made
this effort to send this letter in the earnest hope that
il will reach you. If it do l beg you will send me a
reply Der bearer, and also write by post, if such is es
tablished by that time. .
Every officer and soldier aud every merchant, wri.
ter, or Christian drummer. &c. thst had gone into
the in~trenchments here under Gen. Wheeler on the
4th Of June, has been killed. The cannonadlng OF
the enemy was very, very secure. Twelve guns,
taken from our magazine, we're brought to play upon
us. They had a very large quantlty OF po"der a,
their disposal, for the magazine was not blown up,
and thirty boats Of ammunition reached the enemy
by the Ganges Canal just 10 time for them to annoy
us. The artillery barracks, where we were ln'rench'
ed, have been scattered to atoms by the "a FOUNDER
balls that were necessarily fired by the enemy, and
many died under the walls. Day and night the guns
we're kept playing upon us without ceasing for a mo-
ment, and the m%usketry Of the enemy poured millions
of balls upon us up to the 10Th OF June-tha 10 TOT u
days, The enemy made several attempts to charge
upon us; three times they surrounded US on all sides
under cover of the compound walls OF bungalows IN
our vicinity, and sounded their bugles to charge, but
were driven back by our artillery firing canister upon
them. We had only six small gums With us, not a sn'
gle howitzer.
Had we even had one 2i.pouuder a great dss
could have been done, or had our General taken up
his position in the magazine we might al! have es
capped the very severe calamity that nas beiailen up
on his station, for, without guns the enemy could moi
have done anything. On the 2ith OF June l was sem
out as a spy, on certain conditions, and, as ! Wa:
dressed like a common Chiuaman, ! was not killed
for l was taken prisoner almost as coon as ! came ou'
of the intrenchment, particulars OF which l shal
, give you in my next, but kept in confinement unit
the day Of my trial, when letters were put on me, a.
stated above. After ] came out on the 2lth, 1t ap
pears the rebel Rsjah sent a letter 10 our General the
day after; Offering to let him and all bis people go t
allahabad, on condition that he would give up all hi
treasure, ammunition. &c, and vacate Cawnport
within three days. This was accepted by the Gsne
raj, and the usual osths were taken that no treachery
would be used. The Raiah supplied "a boatd an
: gave carriage to the river eide. On the morning d
J. the eth our people went on board the boats. lOh
! how felt, when in confinement ! heard that the Eng
Z lish were going 10 safety. l could not keep my 6.
: cret; and told the Subsdar Of the prison guard that
was a Christian, and nearly lost my NE oy mus ei
posure, Of which more hereafter ;l-but had not tim
TO let the boats 20, when the enemy fired cannon upo;
. them, and upset some others they set nre to. On.
one boat, / ain told, managed to get away, but was a.
. forwards picked up ut short distances, and brougf
. hack. About $50 women and children and about III
d European soldiers and officers aud men Of all classe
2 were taken alive. The former were Kept as prison
era up to the 10th of July, but the men canon
whom was our poor Daniel) had their hands tied be
0 hind them, wsre killed with swords and muskets, an
thrown into a ditch. The women received parche
grain for a few days, but afterwards they got dali an
chupaties in email quantities. The rascala have ba
motives for sparing them 80 long.
At the time of their being murdered (on the lot
d iust-) l am toId tnat d huuioeI JuinPeu al' ulo III
7 we'll that was intended to receive their corpses rathe
n than be butchered and insulted so numerically Il
the hard. hearted brutes were using them.
4 Oh when I think of it how my heart breaks.
, get beside myself, and wish | had not been spared t
f hear OF such dreadful accounts. Oh. my poor dea
' Polly. how must they have killed you. So sweet
a child never existed. How will | ever forget you!-
. The faces Of all I have lost are ever befure me. Oh
a how dreadful is my state OF mind. God Almlghi.
: have mercy on me-! Oh, God, help Thou me, whom
r Thou hast spased. Thine sffectiouate. but misera
BILE, HI. SHEPHERD.
sEsA sAHIp's PROCLAMATION.
The following is a translation Of a proclamation
t posted up by Nena Sahib at Cawnpore:
"a traveller just arrived at Cawhpors from Cnlcul
ia states that in The first instance a council was he'll
10 take into consideration the means TO be- adopted I
do away with the religion of the Mshometans Ant
3 Hindoos by the distribution Of cartridges. The Coun
ell came 10 this resolution that, as the matter was on
of religion, the services OF seven or eight THOUSAND
European soldiers would be necessary, ss 5000
Hindostauese would have to be destroyed, and thel
the whole of the people Of Hindostan would becum
Cbristisns. A petition with The substances Of thi
resolution was sent to the Queen Victoria, and it wa
approved. A council was then held q second time
in which English merchants took a part, aud it wa
decided that, in order that no evil should arise from
mutiny, large reinforcements should be sent for
When the dispatch was received and read in Eng
land thousands of European soldlers were embarked
on ships as speedily as possible and sent of to Hin
doostsn. The news of their being dispatched reached
Calcutta. The English authorities there ordered tn,
Z, issue Of the cartridges, for the real intention was t
Christisnize the army first, and this being effected
the conversion Of the people would speedily follow
Pigs and sows' fat WAS mixed up with the cartridges
this became known through one OF the Bengalese
who was employed in the cartridge-making estab
lishmept. OF those through whose means this wa
diyulged, one was killed and the rest imprisoned