Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-31
INDIA.
The Besieged i'm Lucklow.

The Besfeged I'm LucklOW
Correspondence of the London Times, dates
Caleutta, October 30th.
From Lucknow, the great point of inter
est, however, the Government itself has lit
tie information. So completely is tn
force there beleagured, that the old devic'
of inclosing letters in quill has been o
necessity abandonment. The only mes
sage received for weeks was written on {
piece of paper three inches square, and con
cealed bv device it may be prudent a.
yet to keep private. Sir James Outram'.
force has been terribly reduced. You viii
remember that shout Sept. 25, he and
Gen. HaHelock forced their way into The
Residency and relieved the garrison. The
feat was accomplished by pressing OF
through gardens. small bazars, knots o
houses and other inclosed places. The en-
emy fought, as Asiatics always do fight
behind stone walls. There had been some
hard fighting before the relieving fo.ct
reached the Enclosures, and total number O
soldiers killed or disabled cannot be fxed
at less than 700. The force therefore
even after its junction with the garrison
already in the Residency, cannot be more
/! than 1,400 strong, and this small party
must be embarrassed by the care of sicE
and wounded, women and children, to 6
number in excess of its own. There are
beside some 800 men at the Alumbagh
with great array of camp followers but
they are believed to be without the means
of communicating with the Residency.-
Since this time we know little positively
and that little is obtained solely from ma
tive gossip. 1t is nearly certain that there
are 10000 men, Sepoys armed retainers
around and in Lucknow.
A dispatch from Alexandria, dated Dec
5th to the Foreign Office, is as follows:
Greathead's column, after the battle Of
Agra, was pushing on with all haste to.
wards Cawnpore where, on the 18th Brig.
adler Grant, of 9th Lancers, joined, and
took command. On the 23d they crossed
at Kamoni, where the enemy was cut up
by our calvary, and five guns captured
The force, now about $500 strong reach
ed Cawnpore on the 25th; and being rein
forced to 5000 crossed the Ganges on the
SOth. They reached Alumbagh without
obstruction on the Sd, and there wait till
the Commander-in-chief joins them.
Lucknow is said TO be surrounded by
$4,000 insurgents, had not been relieved
at the date of the latest advices, but still
held out, and our force at Alumbagh, only
three miles from Lucknow, though in easy
communication with Cawnpore, had moi
| received line from Lucknow for more
| than month.
Heavy fighting with slaughter, is believ.
ed to have occurred.
THE sEPoYs' IDEA OF THE H1GHLANDERs.
En- passant, may remark the extraor.
dinary effect produced on the native mind
by the appearance of the Highlanders.-
The Sepoys on this side of India have new
er seen them. At first they took them for
women, sent out to ayenge the massacre Of
the ladies at Cawrpore. The battle o.
Onao disabused them of that idea, and the
Highlanders were pronounced "petti-coated
devils" Still they were puzzled. The
Sepoys could understand the existance
of devils, but could not comprehend why
they should be barelegged. At last the
truth came out. The devils were bareleg-
ged in order more conveniently to break
Sepoys across their knees! A Sepoy of
the 75d, who happened to be in Calcutta
on their arrival. reported on his return to
his regiment that the English were send
ing out monsters, with legs like elephants,
faces covered with hair like wild beasts,
and blood-red eyes. The Highlanders are,
in truth, a singular contrast to the people
of the low countries. On the arrival Of
tie 42d, Sicar or Bengalee clerk had oc-
casion to go on board the vessel. A High
lander stepped up to him, and looked at
him long and curiously; then, catching him
by the waist, be held him above his head,
exclaiming, with chuckle of amazement,
"Sandy, be that the things we're to fecht
WI" need scarcely say that Sepoy is
very different from Bengalee, being usu-
ally taller than an Englishman, though he
weighs less.
AFFAIRS AT DELHI.
From Delhi we have little further news.
The British are complete masters of the
town. Some further incidents of the seige
however, have come to light, and among
them one which has driven every Europe
an, except the higher officials almost fran
tic. The Sepoys took all the wounded
Europeans they could catch during the
siege, and burnt them aliye! The charred
bodies, tied to stakes, were found by the
stormers, with the Queens buttons still rec
ognizable. Many letters report the cap
ture of an Englishman in the dress of a
native officer. He was Sergeant major
of the 2sth Native Infantry, and formerly
an artillervman. He rendered, it is said,
important services to the besieged, and was
created General of Artillery. He has
not been executed, and, despite appearan-
ces, 1 am indisposed to credit the stories of
his guilt. 1t seems incredible that Eu-
ropean should have deliberately aided the
fiends who were burning his wounded
countrymen. l hope it will be found that
he was simply man of weak nerves, una
bic to face the dread by torture. 1t is in
his favor, also, that the Portuguese drum
mer, Antonio Seraphim, who was kept to
play 10 the General, and who escaped at a
very late period of the seige, does not
accuse him, but considers him rather a
prisoner. Four Europeans at Moradabad
turned Mussulmen to preserve their lives.
Thesa five annear to be the only Christians