The Washington union., 1857-10-03
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ARABIA AT NEW
YoRK.-sEvEN DAYS LATER MAILS FROM Eu-

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ARABIA AT NEW
YoRK-SEvEN DAYS LATER MAILS FROM Eu-
ROPE.
The European mails by the steamer Arabia reached
this city this morning The Arabia left Liverpool ON the
morning of the 18th of September The intelligence she
brings is of a highly ynteresting character
DETAILS OF NEWS
The Bombay portion of the Indian mail had arrived in
London with dates from Bombay to the 10th OF August
and Calcutta to the 9th of July
The newspaper accounts very voluminous, but the
following Il a condensed statement of the facts:
Delhi had not fallen up to the 29th of July. The be-
seging army attacked by the mutineers the l4h,
18TH and Esd of July, and suffered loss of over 500
men the several encounters but the assaans were re-
pulsed on each occasion with great slaughter Among
the severely wounded was Adjutant General Chamber
lain
The Neemuch mutineers and body OF ianaucs are sa
ted to have joined the sepoys in Delhi
General Reid owing i'll health, had relnqushed the
command before Delhi and it was held by General VIII
Gen Nicholson, with strong reinforcements was ex-
pected to reach Delhi by the middle of August On his
way he had fallen In with the Sealkote mutinees, and
totally destroyed them
Further details of the massacre of Europeans at Gavin
pore show that the victims number s8 officers 100 pr-
Yates 1870 women and children belonging to the army,
and about 400 civilians. The women were stripped
naked beheaded, and thrown into well, and their
children hurled down alive upon their manged bodies
After recapturing Cawnpore, Gen Haveock followed
up his with vgor having in eight days marched
l2G miles fought four actions with Nena Sahbs army,
against overwhelming Odds and taken twenty four guns
The mutineers having voluntarily evacuated Blthoor,
General Hayeock burnt that place to the ground. He
also assaulted and carried the town of 0onao capturing
NIL the guns and then proceeded towards Lucknow at
which place the garrison still held out against the mutt
neers.
Several new mutnies had occurred at Dinapore but it
said that the rebels dispersed by the Europeans
who shot down 500 of them One of the disarmed reg
ments in the Punjaub had also munied, but fled upon
being attacked
In the Bombay presidency mutiny occurred on 3lst
July in regiment stationed at Koapore portion only
of the troops engaged in it, and number of these
were taken il was considered that the muny had been
suppressed.
Fears were entertained of outbreaks at other stations
in Bombay presidency and European reinforcemens
thrown into the suspected localities to the dsaf
fected
Mohammednn conspiracy had likewise been discov-
cred In the Bombay presidency.
Much excitement existed at Benares, towards which
city the mutneers advancing.
Sir Colin Campbell had arrived ut Calcutta.
INTERESTING STATEMENT OF AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
The Rev. MIR. Hay, the American missionary in India
who escaped from Allahabad, and who sailed for New
York in the Argo, had furnished the English govern
nent with the following very interesting account of the
rise Of the mutiny 1t will be that Mr. Hay does
not regard the condition of British affairs very hopefully
Mr. Hay is decidedly of the opinion that Delhi will
not be taken before November December. He has
visited Delhi The fort is built after the native fashion
Heavy guns would batter down its walls Unfor-
tunatey the guns sent to batter them down cap
tured by the rebels n Phillour When Mr. Hay left Al
laba ahadf fhe trOOD befor were ~
able to hold their own although always beating the
utnees in every attack they had slightly receded from
their original position II takes nearly hy days for
troops to get to Delhi from Calcutta Mr. Hay was
seventeen days getting to the latter place from Allaha
bad He got down to Calcutta in steamboat. While
he the voyage Sir Norman Leslie and other officers
masacred Dnapore by Sepoys belonging to the
very regiments the mutiny of which was announced
Monday by electric telegraph The assassins of Sir Nor
Leslie caught tied up from the backs of ee-
phants TO gallows and then swung of. The soldiers
of their regiments made executione, and it
was boasted at the time that of the assassins
hung by his father in order to show the loyalty of
the reg tments.
Mr. Hay says that many old East Indians oreold that
these troops would ultimately mutny, and that there
could be no doubt they mpathzed with the assassns
Leslie and his brother officers Their turning execution
arc and father hanging his son, only blind
Tev were bding their time. MIR. Hay thinks the news
of the mntny at Dinapore bad news because it shows
that the communications between Calcutta and Delhi may
he interrupted There is thing however, to be con-
sidered the mutineels have guns in the neghbor-
hood and they have very wholesome dread of the
steamers passing between Calcutta and Allahabad all
which carry guns He thinks, also, that the telegraph
despatch Monday did not contain good news generally
from India 1t hardly be said that Central India is
tranaulzed it must be only small portions of it, The
a,ins at Diaaore and The Bombay presidency
of ep He twenty days in Calcutta before he left for
England During that time there had been two three
pancs there and persons living in the outskirts had taken
rcfrge In the fort and board the ships Confidence
hoeyer was restored when he left owing chiefly to 700
troops from China that landed from the Himaaya
I; was at one time fully expected that the native Moham-
medan servants would rebel in Calcutta Numbers had
been saving the European children of whom they had
charge that a the houses in Calcutta would belong
10 the natives A converted Brahmin In Calcutta had
heen accosted by natives who did not know Of his oonyer
sion and was told that there would be general rising in
Calcutta and that the troops would be assisted by the
native servants in driving out the E4glish About 900
fresh troops had arrived and been sent pp the country
since the mutny broke They go up by steamers as
far as Alahabad which is situated at the junction of the
Jumna and the Ganges Mr. Hay, as he was proceeding
to Calcutta met Gen Havelock and his forces going up
the country He considers that Agra must have fallen by
this time, unless relieved.
Mr. Hay thinks the issuing OF the creased cartridges to
have been great mistake. The intelligent leaders of the
rtineers well understood that the CREASED cartridges
were withdrawn and that the government explanations
were satisfactory. but the erae natives were
WINGED that the outrage their religion dscontin-
,ed It was also an error to sentence the 80 high
Meerut to FIVE years imprisonment for refusing
use the cartridges They all native gentlemen be-
longing to cavalry regiment. The sepoys would have