Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-16
Horrible Atrocities by the Natives.

The English journals publish many private
letters from India, some of them detailing the
most horrible atrocities by the natives, and 9TH
erS the hair breadth escapes and terrible suffer
ings of the Europeans We make few extracts
where new facts OF phases are introduced. No
one can wonder at tie determination to take
vengeance, who reads the following from the
pen ofa clergyman at Bungalore, which we
give only because it seems necessary in order 10
a correct idea of the atrocities of which the
natives have been guilty. The letter is dated
July 4:
1--WE have an awful time of it, can assure
you, though we ourselves have been merctully
kept from alarm or danger No words can cx-
press the feeling of horror which pervades soci-
ETY. in India, we hear so many private accounts
Of the tragedy, which are too sickening to re-
peat.
"The cruelties committed by the wretches
exceed all belief They took 4S females, most
of them girls of from 10 to IA, many delicatey
nurtured ladies-violated them, and kept them
for the base purposes of the heads OF the insur
rection for q whole week. At the end OF that
time they made them strip themselves. and
gave them up to the lowest of the people, to a.
buse in broad daylight in the streets OF Delhi
They then commenced the work of torturing
them to death, cutting off their breasts, fingers
and noses, and leaving them to die. One lady
was three days dying. They flayed the face OF
another lady and made her walk naked through
the street. Poor Mrs NJ, the wife of an Of
ficer of the regiment at Meerut, was soon ex-
pecting her accouchment. They violated her,
then ripped her up, and, taking from her the
unborn child, cast it and her into flames.
| ltNo child bQS had
the slightest mercy shown them. do not be-
lieve that the world ever witnessed more he'll
fish torments than have been inflicted upon our
poor country women. At Allahabad they have
rivaled the atrocities at Delhi. really cannot
tell You the cruelties these demons have been
guilty of-cutting off the fingers and toes of lit
tie children joint by joint, in sight of their pa
rents. who were reserved for similar treatment
afterwards.
81 told you how CALAMITY our Madras Fusileer-
J-'s regiment-have behaved; 1000 of
them, under Col. Neil, killed $50 mutneers.-
saw letter from one OF the officers yesterday.
He saws that no imagination can depict the
scene he witnessed when he arrived at Benares
The whole of the Bengal officers were paralyzed
with terror and astonsment; So Colonel Neil
assumed command and proceeded to most sum-
mary measures, cutting off whole regiments
All the ladies were crowded into one room, with
wounded and dying men, and from the sight
that greeted his eye was row of gallowses on
which the energetic Colonel was hanging mutt
neer after mutineer, as they were brought in
After restoring some little order at Benares on
went the gallant Fasileers towards Allahabad !;
thermometer 100 deg; 80 and even 40 mile
marches; no supplies to be had; living on flour
and water"
An officer writing from Allahahad says:
lyon can have no idea of the awful weather
and of our sutferings from the heat; we sit with
wet clothes over our heads, but the deaths from
sun stroke continue large; that dreadful scaurge,
cholera, has also broken out and We have lost
70 fighting men. We buried 90 three nights a.
90 at one funeral and the shrieks OF the dying
were something awful; two poor ladies who
were liying over the hospital died, believe,
from fright. We have now got about 400 men
outside the fort, and the disease is certainly on
the decline. All the village people ran away, and
one who had worked for the Europeans these
murderers killed, SO if the population was to q
man against us we should stand but bad chance.
A poor baker was found with both his hands
cut off and his nose slit, because he had sent in
bread to us. | need not say how anxously we
all look for a large army from England. We
can hold our own we'll enough till it arrives, but
| India was never in such mess; and it requires
many strong arm and q wise head to put it in
order again. The Bengal army is to man a.
ganst US, and | am very nervous about Madras
and Bombay one single mischance, and those
two armies follow"
PROGRESS OF TIE Wharf.-The Richmond En-
quirer of Saturday last has another manifesto
against Hunter. 1t insists peremptory that
Hunter shall "come out' on the Walker-Kansas
squabble, and says
"But the Enquirer wishes one thing to be dis
tinctly understood, and that too without refer
ence to Senator Hunter or any aspirant for the
Senatorship. 1t will oppose bitterly and to
the last gasp the election by the Legislature Of
any man to the United States Senate, who sane
tons and encourages in any manner the disu-
MON views of the Charleston Mercury and the
abuse which the New Orleans Delta has heap
ed upon the President. 1t WILL in the name of
the Democracy of the State, oppose the election
of Senator who atiiliates or sympathizes in
any way with those baf1ed conspirators who
have been denouncing the Virginia Democracy,
and seeking to destroy the national Democracy.
| 1t will oppose any aspirant for the Senatorship
who countenances the crushing of the national
Democratic party, and the formation OF section
al parties looking to the dissolution of the u
nion 1t will oppose any candidate who is sus-
pected of hostility to the Administration, and
sympathy with Keitt and those factionists who
seek to break down the Administration"
The South of the same date has long and
spicy reply to the Enqurer's first article. Its
temper may be seen in the following extracts:
"True, the Richmond Enquirer has forfeited
the respect and confidence of the Democratic
party, and from being power which the high.
est might respect, has degenerated into an IMAM
ity which nobody regards.
If adducing the testimony of com
mon rumor' we had explained the Eaquirer's
fanatcal attachment to the fortunes of his Ex-
cellency [Gov. Wise on the hypothesis of some
confidential connexion between the columns of
that journal and the Governor of the State; if
in refutation of it, arguments in support of
Walkers usurpations in Kansas, we had given
publicity to the whispers of common rumor,'
and attributed the Ehquarers supple subservien-
cy to the Administration to its EDITORS aspra-
tons after diplomatic appointment; if We had
ventured to proclaim on the authority Of COM
mon rumor,' that the Richmond Enquirer is
not an Independent organ of public opinion, but
a facile instrument of Executive power; if we
had so far despised the restrictions of fair and
courteous controversy Us w iuuulBe III sucn un-
warrantable speculations, the virtuous indigna-
ton of the Enquirer would have Llazed with
the fury of volcanic eruption. But we dis
dained recourse to these unworthy expedienis
of political discussion. We stand upon an i'm
pregnable position; and we are not yet driven to
the desperate shifts of crushed and oonfound-
ed polemic."
KANSAS ArFAIRs.-The St. Louis Democrat
publishes an address to the people Of the United
States, prepared by the committee appointed by
the Grasshopper Falls Convention, in which
history of the troubles of Kansas is given. The
present attitude of affairs in the Territory is dis