The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-10-21
The News from India-Terrible Atroc-
tiles of the Insurgent Mutineers.

tiles OF Inc 1nsurgent Mutineers.
The English papers continue to be FILL
ed with letters descriptive of the horrible
struggle now going on in India, the hor-
rors of which are unparalleled. The fol-
lowing is from an officer:
JUBBULPoRE, Wednesday, Aug. 5.
We were fondly hoping that mutinies
were at an end, but the last four days has
brought us intelligence of the mutlny of
six regiments At Segowlie the Twelfth
Irregular Cavalry mutinied. They shot
their commanding officer, his wife and
Ichild, and burnt alive their doctor, with
his wife and child, in their own bungalow
At Futtyghur the wife and child of Mr..
Tucker, being about to fall into the hands
of another rebellious set, she called to her
husband to shoot her at once He did
so, his child also. and then himself. A
Major Robertson has also shot his wife
and children and himself, under similar
circumstances. This is new and mel
ancholy feature in the tragedies. All this
having occurred within the last few days
makes US the more anxious about being
left here unprotected. The officers of the
Fifty-second naturally uphold their own
regiment, but as now there are scarcely
ten regiments remaining of the Bengal
Army, it is very probable that the Fifty
second will go sooner or later. 1t is
most lnscrutable. A regiment appears
stanch up to the hour it mutinies, every
thing going on as usual up to the very
hour of the outbreak.
At Delhi, my dear grandfather, the di-
abolical cruelty of the Sepoys is horrible
to relate. They parade allthe European
heads up and down the city in cart; and
at Allah abad the Sixth Native Infantry,
who had received praise in the morning
for their loyalty to government, fell on
their officers in the evening while they
were at mess, and killed seventeen of them.
The adjutant of the regiment they nailed
to an arm-rack, and made target of his
body; another was pinioned to the ground
with bayonets, and fire lit on his body
At another station there was one officer
creants with his own hand, and when he
saw there was no chance for himself or his
wife. he shot her and then himself, before
he would let her fall into the hands of the
Sepoys, because he was we'll aware what
her fate would be-rape and then murder.
At station called Fyzabad, two native
regiments of foot and one of horse, with a
battery of guns, matinied and killed some
of their officers; one colonel's lady saw her
husband shot in front of her eyes; she then
went raving mad through the jungle with
|, her two infants, ! had this from sur
vivor, one that escaped in boat with
about twenty more Europeans, principally
women and children; he saw the lady with
J her children on the bank and called heI
to him, but she looked at them for a mo.
r ment and then ran screaming away, drag.
} ing her children after her. They could
not land to pursue, because the Sepoys
!, were coming down on them at the time to
murder them. have since heard tha,
, the lady has been rescued, but is still a
maniac. At another station they had
r murdered fifty-four Europeans--the place
is called Jhansi; one officer killed no less
than twenty-six of the rufians before he
was killed himself. A sergeant and his
wife aud two children barricaded them
r selves in their house; the woman said she
would shoot the first man that entered
f and she was as good as her word. She
, did so, and was then shot herself The
husband escaped, and the two children, il
, attempting to follow him, were caught
and thrown into the flames, as they had
, set fire to the honse. l told you in my
last letter that the rebels made off to Del
hi. They have fortified it in every direc.
tion, and one Mauder Khan has styled
5 himself the Commander-in Chief of all the
Mussulmans in India.
A. Scotch paper publishes the following
extract of letter from General Neill
dated Cawnpore, August /: "Whenever
rebel is caught, he is Immediately tried,
and unless he can prove defense he is
sentenced to be hanged at once; but the
chief rebels or ringleaders make FIRST to
clean up acertain portion Of the pool OF
blood, still two inches deep in the shed
5 where the fearful murder and mutilation
! of women and children took place. To
, touch blood is most abhorrent to the high
caste natives; they think by doing SO they
} doom their souls to perdition. Let them
ithink SO. My object is to inaict fear
, lful punishment for revolving, cowardly,
; barbarous deed, and to strike terror into
these rebels. The first I caught was a
subador or native officer, high caste
, Brahmin, who tried to resist my order to
clean up the very blood he had helped to
shed; but made the provost officer do
! his duty, and a few lashes soon made the
} miscreant accomplish his task. When
done he was taken out and Immediately
hanged, and after death buried in a ditch
, at the roadside. No one who has wit
messed the scenes of murder, mutilation
and massacre, can ever listen to the word
J mercy, as applied to these 6ends. The
I we'll of mutiiated bodies--alas contain
, ling upward of two hundred women and
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