The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-10-10
FROM INDIA.

FROM INDIA.
The steamships "City Of Washington" and
Sutton" arrived at New York on Wednesday,
with Liverpool dates to the Esd ult. They bring
some additional news to that brought by the AN
glo Saxon" and their mails, some further details
than those we published, by telegraph, on yester,
| day.
The General commanding in chief the Duke OF
Cambridge, has conferred upon Brgadier General
Haveiock good service pension of one hundred
pounds year, In recognition of his service in
Furnishing the mutneers. The pension Is not
| given as compensation, but as a reward. 1t is
equivalent to granting first class medal TO Gen.
| eral Hayelock.
| Several of our contemporaries, says the Liver
pool Courier, in abiding toGoyernment declining
to accept the offer of Messrs. Croskey Co. to es-
| tablish a regular transport line between England
and India, via Suez, appear TO regret the decision.
| But the matter ought to be looked upon in a
very different light There is no reason why we
should subsidizs slender feet of Americsn stsAm-
| ere, when we have SO many English lines oi
steamers Of superior class at all times ayaila-
| BILE for the transport Of troops. If government
intends to trust to the merchant service for trans
port, IL would be unadyisable to confne such du-
| ties 70 particular companies; the service should
| be divided amongst them all. 3.a asgit4 4d! 2if
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| from London about India. Ii asserts that Nena
Salib was marching upon Lucknow at the head
| OF fourteen or fifteen Thousand Insurgents. He
was four days ahead Of General Havelock 1t was
therefore certain that he would have effected.
junction with the Dude rebels before the English
general could arrive. The fort of Lucknow Is i'm.
| pregnable. The place is well provided with food
| and water sa9 7lt2 #ufaE as lHa. SaVels
| An officer, writing to the London Post. saws y, !.
L n,
made fixtures at every station, and they are con-
stantly at work. Positively, to be q Hindostanee
is now to deserve hanging, and to be Hindo-
stance desertcr is, when caught to get that desert
| Our time of mild, suicidal forbearance with men
like these is over now, and we have no formaties,
no technical investigations, before the would-b
murderer is made safe forever. In my wreck Of
"a regiment at 81, the other day, four men
were overheard reading letter from Iheir former
comrades now with the rebels in Delhi They
destroyed and ate the letter when surprised, and
| the same evening they were all hanged together.
| AT Peshawur non-commissioned officer. was
found in possession Of d letter from mutineer,
advising him when he killed Sahib always to end
by killing his wife too. Little question was asked
before the wretch was swinging. 4saaa
1t is the same everywhere, and in it lies our
sole hope Of safety, These brutes are all banded
together for our destruction, and yet what mis-.
quated commanders have been giving In !! Apson
died at first, without our getting to Delhi land
| was no loss. Then came Barnard, the latest
/ imbecile sent out by our system to be pensioned
| in IN Indian command. He was no loss either.
Then Reid very old and decrepid) succeeded,
but he had glimmering ofisense, and left, and
went away to the hills Now the fourth, within
two months, is Wilson, and believe he is toll
erably good one at last. At Meernt, Hewitt
/ .far-r atb cxl,o
rebels had had him in pay. 7.bgg0llr0 e4aa
lie has. been sent away. Herought to have
been shot AtJaleenhur, tombstone said, "Don't
shoot the poor Sepoys." And when the poor
Sepeys boted about one thousand eight hundred
strong, and threatened to march upon Umballa
he kept his Europeans studiously in the rear,
| gave the rebels thirty hours to cross the Sutlej
and came on slowly in a pillowed carriage. He il
now at Simla, among the women, the only fl
place for him. i think this business top oil
Bushre after Sebastopol will at last have chance
of Kidding us OF centenarian generals. 80 w,
| Lord Canning has gagged the press, They're
making great fuss about It. Gag theml ]
wouldn't let a Hindoostanee smell printing ink OF
cast dissemination of treason. In Bombay
the native papers contained prayer thanking God
for the massacre of the Feringhees, and the Cal
cutta ones have been nearly as bad. But they are
being suppressed now.
IR FROM TIKI LONDON TINES OF SEPT. Il.
T be struggle in India resolves itself with terri
BILE simplicity into single question, that OF time
OF time measured not by years or seasons, but by
weeks, and even days. Can our countrymen hold
out till succors reach them against the raging
feDds aroundp There is not doubt about our
ultimate ascendancy about the re-conquest, il
necessary Of all India, step by step and province
by province. In the volumes of correspondence
reaching US from allquarters, and expressing every
shade OF opinion, we have never yet met with Q
single msgiying about the eventual issue Of the
contest. India viii be British, and British will be
its lords, established in greater strength and dig
nifty than ever. Such is the keynote of Indian
opinion even in the crisis Of peril and she very
men who hold their own lives by hourly tenure
and know not what destinies single day may dis
4 Close rely with unbounded and imperturbable con
hdence on the power and energies Of their country
Nor is this assurance In the least degree misplaced
That we are the same nation as before has nov
been proved beyond question. Tho relative su
periority Of our race lie incontestabe as t was
century ago. indeed, even more So Havelock
and his troops fought Plassey Eve times over be
i tween Allahabad and Bithoor, and notwithstanding
all the disadvantages Of our position, there has
been only single Instance throughout the whole
struggle in which British soldiers have been
/ worsted. At Arrah alone has there been any mis-
carriage OF this kind, and then Il was in the dark.
ness Of the night and the tolls Of an ambuscsde
Give us only chance Of fair fighting, and the day
| Is our own. ~ y. ~. #aas.H 80
General Havelock's march is the very expires
sion and type of our position In Hndostan ,HC
advances, he fights, he conquers-everythine
i goes down before him as long as he can stand
but 1t is desperate work TO make beadway against
twenty TO one. What kind Of task he found may
be very distinctly collected even from the brie
notifications Of the telegraph. After crossing the
Ganges he had about ffty miles between hfmsel
and Lucknow. He had got over only twenty.fiy,
of these, and yet he had fought three actions, al
successfully, and captured twenty one guns. II Il
plain that the enemy must be swarfning along tb,
| whole road like hornets, and NJ the end there il
Lucknow ITSELF with a dense population, and al
the mutineers Of Dude. Our latest accounts in
form us that this dauntless little column, reducet
Il by incessant combats to seven hundred or eigh
hundred men, but reinforced by the handful o
troops which could be spared from Oawnpore, had
again recommended It's eventful march. On Oh,
4th Of August the advance was to be renewed
and al the hopes and the prayers of our country