Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
AUNTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.

GEN. HAyELooK's VIoroRlKs.-The L0nd0I
Times of September 18th says:
In little more than single week, therefore
these 1900 British, soldiers, with their 800 Sikh
comrades, had marched 129 miles along the val
LEY of the Ganges during the heats Of July, had
tonight four fierce actions, had driven, 1900
from position after position, and had found
themselves on the eighth day masters of Gavin.
pore, the first object Of the expedition. Yet
after these exertions the repose allowed was but
trihng. On the 10Th the troops had reached
Bithoor, Nena Sahibs stronghold, resolved that
British vengeance should reach the villain
through all the defences he could devise but
his heart or his army had already failed him.
he had evacuated his palace, and nothing could
be done beyond consigning the whole place to
the flames. Still the work Of the relieving force
was but half accomplished, and after fighting
from Alahabad to Cawnpore it remained to
fight from Cawppore to Lucknow. ssrr
This second part of the expedition has been,
than the first. On the 21st General Hayelock
the Ganges, and already on the goth we find
ceived through General Neill, twenty miles adj
another successful battle and taken ID guns
In this position-with Lucknow only about 80
miles ahead-his army seems to have encounter
ed this dire scourge ofIndian armes-more ter
rible than any human foe-an outbreak of chol-
era.
A General and an army victorious beyond
precedent, marching to assured success and the
relief of long beleagured fortress, within one
oh ia - bou hoo CIV hu lo
fatal pestilence, and by our last accounts, Have
lock and the remains of his gallant band, en-
numbered by their sick comrades, were painful.
ly retracng their steps to Cawnpore by the
route with which they had advanced only few
days before, full of hope and confidence in as
holy cause as ever led men to battle. 2
The following is from tile Bombay Times of
the 10Th of August: -, .,..-,.y
"By the good hand Of our God upon rs, our
English readers will receive advices from India
Although rebellion yet reigns in the upper pro-
vinces, and mutiny, with its horrors, is no long
er confined to the Bengal army, still it is true
that the swelling and inundation of this great
rebellion have not merely reached their height,
but are actually refuent. General Hayelock,
with his chosen band, was the first successfully
to stem the wild torrent and turn the tide. His
appointment to the command of the brigade at
Allahabad was the Inauguration of victory. I'M
der God, this heroic captain, with his brave
Highlanders has saved India. His march has
been so triumphant, his success so marvellous, as
to impress even the public mind with the con-
vction that he has received his mission from q
higher than an earthly ruler-an impression
rendered oil the stronger when it is seen that
the first thought of this mighty man of valor,'
in all his dispatches, is to ascribe all the glory
of his signal achievements to the Lord of Hosts
while Christian faith throughout the land has.
thus been treasured and animated by the nspi-
ration THE battle is not yours, but Gods
Go on in this thy might, great and good soldier,
and thou shalt save India" ~ 1a-i3 tHf