The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-29
The Butcheries in India.


The English press continue to give the most
hesrt-rending details concerning the state OF
affairs in India, and of the most horrible out.
RACES perpetrated by the native insurgents.
The following is an extract from an officers
letter:
Sat Segowlie, the 18th irregular cavalry
mu,inied. They shot their commanding officer,
his wife and child, and burnt alive their doc.
tor. with bis wife and child, in their own bunga-
low. At Futtyghur, the wife and child of Mr..
Tu ;ker, being about to fall into the hands of
an ther rebelious set, she called to her hus.
ba d to shoot her at once. He did so, his
Chi d also, and then himself A Major Robert.
80, also shot his wife, and children, and him
sci under similar circumstances"
mother letter from Delhi says:
At Delhi, the diabolical cruelty of the Sc
pc is horrible to relate. They psraded all
tn, European heads up and down the city in a
ca t; and at Allahabad, the 9th native infantry,
WI had received praise in the morning for
th lNloyalty to Government, fell on their officers
in the evening while they we're at mess, and
XII ed seventeen of them. The sdjutant of the
re iment they nailed to an arm-rack, and made
q .rget of his body; another officer was pin
10! ed to the ground with bayonets, and fire
lit On his body. At another station there was
m creants with his own hand; and when he
ga there was no chance for himself or his
wi q, he shot her, and then himself, before he
W, lid let her fall into the hands of the Sepoys-
b, Ause he was well aware what her fate would
BE- rape and then murder"
8enares, July 22.-All the women were kill.
eS by the Nena Sahib In patches, so many a
d. :. He violated all he could first, and sent
IL rest naked into his camp for the men at
j ,nsi they tied the husbands to trees while
III same atrocities were in process, and tore
Ii children limb from limb. They have made
m theirs kill their own children.
Organized Anti-Broker Mob.
he Jacksonville lind. Democrat of the 18th
in learns that about fifty of the citizens of that
d ,ce met the previous evening, for the purpose
o. Organizing committee to mob all brokers
W o should attempt to draw specie from the
b ,nch of the Bank of the State, located at that
p see.
The leaders of the movement were stockhold
e. and friends of the bank. A committee oil
I. /, it was understood, were to Turk about the
h.nk, and invite all persons demanding specie
finn the bank to leave the city without the re-
dSmption of their notes and, if pacific meas
rres would not suffice, then violence would be
rsorted to, The Democrat well says:
:" If the bank can redeem, why resort to VIC
| ace to sustain it If it can redeem, VIVA,
t,ly to cast so conclusive Q suspicion upon the
hank, by the appointment of Q committee fol-
, disgraceful, violent, and unlawful purpose
The bank has now been in operation less than
re year, and if it can only sustain itself at the
<pense of the honor of the city, aud by the
,olston of the public peace, we say, let it &c
Z the shaass--the sooner the better for oul
commercial and all other inte;ests of the city
The game between the banks and brokers is
t,at OF dog eat dog the one giving, birth te
nd necessity for the other, and the less good
! ti4ens have 10 d9 with controlling, sustaining
: ! mobbing either, the better it will be for the
tsputation of the city"