The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-12

The paIers continue 10 teen with letters
from India but there arr M later dates. 49,
Onc or two narratives have been produced
in tho form Of journals and otherwise, Of the
proceedings at Cawuporc before the massa-
ere. II is said that General WHEELER be-
haved with little spirit; h. was wounded
early in the siege he was killed in the boats
after the surrender. Tho officers for whom
most merit was claimed are AsuE. Mooas
and HAiLiD,y. An account by native
in the pay Of the British Us spy, describes
the massacre in the boats after the srrrn,
der. AZ follows
Then camo out OF that boat 90 Sahibs
and ID mem Sahibs (won,en) and four chill.
drcn one boy and three hallgrown girls
NeDH then ordered the mem Sahibs to bc
separated from the Sahibs to be sho, by the
Gillis Pultun list bengal Native lnfantry;)
hut they said We will not shoot Wheeler
Sahib, who has made Pultuns name great,
and whose SOU is our quarter master nci.
thcr will We kill the Sahlb-log. l'u, them
in prison Then said the Nadrc Puliun,
What word Is this, Put them In prison
We will kill the male So the Sahib-log
were seated on the ground and two conlpa-
MES OF the Na,lire l'ultun placed them.
selves over against them, with their muskeia
ready TO fire. Then said one Of the mem.
Sahihs,--the doctors wife shc was don't
know his MANS. hut he was either superin-
tending surgeon or medical storckeepr -
will not leave my husband II he must die.
| will die with him. 80 she ran and sat
down behind her husband, clasplng him
round the waist. Directly she said this. the
other mem Sahibs said. We will also die
with our husbands and they all went aud
sat down beside their husbands. Then their
husbands said do back, but they would
not Whercupon the Nena ordered hi. sol
diers. and they going in pulled them iorcbly
away. seizing them by the arm; but they
could not pull away the doctors wife who
there re'raincd Then just M the sepoys
wcr, going TO fire. the padre (chaplan) call
al out to the Nena and requested leave Ia
rend prayers before they died. The Nepn
granted 1t.
The padres bond. were unoosed 40 far ~
TO enable him tO take small book out Of
his pocket, from which he read but NIL tle
time onc Of the Sahlblogs. who was shot in
the arm and the l"g. kept crying out to the
ScpoyS, II you mean TO Kill us, why don't
you set aboa, It quickly and get the work
donei Why delay Alter the padre had
E,,.I lao. aI.,,t ll. I,..L ..,,l
the ,Sahiblog shook hands all round. Then
,h, 5epoys fired. One 5ahib rolled one way.
one another, IA they sat but they wcrc not
dad. only wOondel. ~ they went in and
finished tbem 0h with swords. After this
the whole oi tbc women and children that
is, including those taken out OF other boats
10 the number Of l22 were taken away 10
the yellow house, which was your hospital
This WAS the lilthoor iiajahs house in the
civil lines. where and four more Sepoys
were confined, and where had the oppor
tuDiiy Of talking to the Sergeant nn jors
wife. After ,his, Wien We (sepoys) were
taken down with the Ncna 10 Futtebporo,
the women aud childrD were taken away
To the house where they were afterwards
murdered
Were any oi our women disbonored by
the Nena or hIs pcople' None that know
OF. excepting IN the case oi General Wheel
ers youngest daughter. an. about this ! am
not CERTAIN. This was her circumstance
As they were taking the mein.Sahibs ont
of the boat u sowar cavalry mani took bcr
away with him to bis house. She went
quietly: but nt bight slie arose aud got hold
Of the sowars sword He was asleep; his
wife, hl- son, aud his motbcr.iD-lnw were
Sleeping in ,he honse with him She killed
them all with the sword. and then she went
AMI threw herself down the well behiGd the
houae, IN the morning, when people came
and found the dead IN the house, the cry was.
who bns done this hen peighbor said
tina, IN the night b. had seen some one 90
and throw hmslf INTO the we'll They went
sod loosed. and there was Mssec Baba,
dead ard swollen"