Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-10
Latest News from India.
By TclcgrurM to The Corh Consultation, of
Mc lin of ScptcmJcr.

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General IIayelock's force for rc-occupa-
tion of Cawnporc had in eight days marched
120 miles and fought four actions with
Ncnn Sahibs army, against overwhelming
odds, in point of numbers, and had taken
twenty four guns Of light calibre, and that,
too, in the month of July, in India. On
the morning of tie 18th July, the force
marched into Cawnpore. The sOul.har-
rowing spectacle which then presented it
self to them, bcggars description. A whole
sale ma 'sacrc had been perpotfatcd by the
ficnd Ncua Sahib. Eight officers and 90
men of Her Majcsty's Sith Regiment, sew
enty ladies and III children of Her Mai
csty 8 second foot, and the whole European
and Christian population of the place, in
cluding civilians, merchants, pensioners,
and their families, to the amount of 400
persons, were the victims of this Satan,
The court yard in front Of the Assembly
Rooms in which Nona Sahib had fixed his
quarters, and in which the women had been
imprisoned, was swimming in blood. 4
large number of women and children. who
had been cruelty spared after the ccuitula-
tion for worse fate than instant death.
had been barbarously slaughtered on the
previous morning; the former having been
stripped naked, and then behcadcd and
thrown into well, and the latter having
been hurled down alive upon their butch
cred mothers, whose blood rocked on the
mangled bodies. Only four escaped, the
wife of merchant and three others.
Gen. Ilavelock, in despatch to the
Governor General, says that Mona Sahib
had drowned himself, with his family. He
had an intention of goingto lucknow, but,
when he got as far as the river, the cavalry
and infantry deserted him. They arc all
gone Off after destroying their arms, to
their different homes Cawnpore is n,w
as quiet as Allahabad."
RAISE MoRE Foop.-Thc New York
Post gives some "advice to tho tillers of
the soil, " from which we take the following
sensible and timely remarks
The revolt in India is tho harbingcr
of famine; one hundred and eighty mil
lions of human creatures will need large
supplies of food from the products of other
regions Tho army of India, the transport
feet for that army and its supplies, arc nc
ccssties growing out of the disturbed state
OF that great English dependency, will call.
forniuch ofour surplus beef, pork and flour.
Tho two last named articles are the prc,
duct of every year, but beef requires wears
of nonrishmcnt before il is ready for use.
The wicked, wanton waste of breeding pow.
or, Which is the hes citing sin of American
farmcrS, ought to be checked. Every far
NOR ought to be rcquircdto give an account
OF himself who kills female calf Wo
ought to preserve every "cow calf for Ave
years to come. by this method we might
soon have supply of beet, not only for
ourselves, but for any emergency abroad.
EccRNTRIo DAMsEI.. The Andoyer
(Mass.) Advertiser tellsa story of woman
belonging to that town, who had fallins ont
with her husband, end threatened 10 drown
herself in the ''great pond" Her hus-
band was not at FIRST alarmed, but at length
she disappeared soon her bonnet and
shawl were discovered at the waters edge.
the alarm spread tlroaghout the neiehbor.
hood, and diligent search was instituted--
Several persons were engaged in dFaggiur
IN the pond, graphing irons were brought
into regnisition, but to no purpose. All
efforts, however, proved abortive, and che
anxious ones were about to give up IN de-
spair, when 10 and behold, the iost ono
appeared, safe aud sound She had been
septed ia a tllickct overlooking the Whole
affair, and congratulated herself on having
conc it over theBt. ca,