Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-10-30
The War in India,

lilc war III IndId.
1.-THE revolt Of the subject races in India,
is but specimen Of what an organized re-
volt Of the slaves in the United States
would be. 1t is war Of long pent up
hate, and revenge inconceivable. Tho
English infict every degrading punish
meut they can conceive of upon the GRE
bels"-outraging their religious feelings,
whipping them, and finally tying them
upon the mouths Of cannon and shooting
them away. Tue natives retort upon the
"Tyrants' in every way. Nearly two
hundred British women and children were
mutilated and murdered in one place, uu-
der circumstances Of horrid barbarity, and
then thrown into well and covered up.
Many husbands and fathers are compelled
to see the persons Of their wives and daugh-
ters successfully violated before their eyes,
and then barbarously murdered. Euro.
peoas are kao,rn 10 hare killed Mcir riises
and children, nth their orn hands, and
then Kill themselves, rather than fall into
the hands Of their enemies their wives
and children consenting to and desiring
this most heart-rending course, to avoid a
worse death. Several Church Of England
Missionaries, and four Presbyterian mis-
sion families from the United States, arc
supposed to have been murdered The
English are hurrying on troops as fast as
possible, but in the mean time, cruel scenes
must be enacted, such as are described in
the following letter published in the Ian.
don rmes]
A Distressing Narrative.
CAwSPoRE, July 1S.-lHy ora deares.
Jrother-I am the only individual saved
among all the European AMI Christian
community that inhabited this station.
My dear wife, my darling child Polly,poor
Rebecca and her children, and innocent
Emmelina and Martha, as also old Mrs.
Frost and poor Mrs. Osborne, were all most
inhumanly murdered BY the cruel insur-
gents on the day before yesterday, and
thrown into q well, together with great
number of ladies and children, reported
to be about one hundred aud Fifty in num-
ber / am distracted. am most miser.
able and wretched. am like one in
dream. You could not recognize me if
you saw me. My life has been spared BY
a miracle. escaped only yesterday from
my miserable prison, where had been
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twenty-four days BY the rebels, who nearly
took away my life, but God alone proven
ted them AMI spared me.
Every officer and soldier, and every
merchant, waiter, or Christian drummer,
&c, that had gone into the entertainments
here under Gen. Wheeler, on the 4th Of
June, has been killed. On the Oath Of
June, I was sent out as "spy" on certain
conditions, and, as was dressed as COM
mon Chinaman, was not killed for was
taken prisoner almost as soon as came
ou. of the entertainments. After l came
out on the oath, it appears the rebel Rajah
sent letter to our General the day after,
offering to let him and all his people so
to Allahabad, on condition that he would
give up all his treasure, ammunition, etc,
and vacate Cawnpore within three days
This was accepted by the General, and tho
usual oaths we're taken that no trcaehery
should be used. The Rajah supplied
twenty-four boats, and gave carriage to
the river side. On the 9th our people
went on board the boats, ooh! how l felt
when in confinement, heard that tho
English were going in safety. l could
not keep my secret, and tod the subadar
of the prison guard that l was Christian,
and nearly los. my life by this exposure,
of which more hereafter,) but had not
time to lie. the boats go, when the enemy
fired cannon upon them, and upset some;
others they set fire to. Only one boat, l
am told managed to get away, but was af-
terwards picked up at short distance and
brought back.
About one hundred and fifty women and
children, and one hundred European SOL
diers and officers and men of all classes,
were taken alive. The former were kept
as prisoners up to the 10th July, but the
men, (among whom was our poor Daniel,)
had their bands tied behind them, were
killed with swords and muskets, and thrown
into ditch. The women received parch-
ed grain for few days, but afterwards
they got dali and chupatics in small quan-
titles. The rascals have had motives for
sParing them so long. AT the time Of
their being murdered, on the 18th inst,
l am told that n number jumped alive into
the we'll that was prepared to receive their
corpses, rather than be butchcred and in
suited so numerically as the hard hearted
brutes were using them. Oh, When
think of it how nv heart breaks. I cet