Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-09
THE NEWS FROM DELHI.

The strange and unprecedented scenes which are
now being enacted in India, causes public attention
to centre that portion of the European with
increasing eagerness as each fresh arrival brings
fresh intelligence from the of war The mutines
in that country follow each other with extraordinary
rapidly and new butcheries and barbarities are
chroniced, the mere mention of which makes the
heart sick Calcutta journal thus describes a sight
of horror at Cawnpore 80 In a stone courtyard.
clotted with two inches of blood lay the clothes Of
English women and children, pitiessly slaughtered
on the previous day by the lugtiyes from the last
field Of battle. The bodies all stripped had been
thrown into a well in the compound, where the
unfortunate beings had been confined. Out Of the
whole number Of captives three women escaped
who had been rescued and saved by a native. The
history Of the world affords parallel to the terrible
massacros which during the last few months have
desolated The land. Neither age, sex, nor condition
has been spared Children have been compelled to
eat the quivering flesh of their murdered parents,
after which they were literally torn asundsr by the
laughing fends who surrounded them. Men in
many instances have beeh mutilated and before be
ing absolutely killed, they had gaze upon the last
dishonor of their wives and daughters previous to
being put to death. But really we cannot describe
the brutaties that have been committed; they pass
the boundaries Of human belief and to dwell upon
them shakes reason upon its throne"
The news from Delhi is brought up to the end Of
July The place still holds out. Three sOrties had
occurred In each the insurgents were repealed with
great slaughter. The contests were of a most des-
perate character, the English losing FIVE hundred
Il. IL
ed still more severely.
report hadreached Alexandria from Ceylon, that
theravages caused by cholera had caused the British
forces to retire from Delhi to Agra. The report
needs authorization.
England is evidently straining every nerve in the
contest. Troops are being despatched with all pos
sible speed, aud munitions of forwarded in such
quantities as to show that there will be no childs
play when once the army in condition to take the
field in sufficient numbers to strike decisive blow.
The British journals are already debating the
question what shall be done with the mutneers. This
may be counting with the host, but still the follow
ing suggestions are not without interest: I'VE
want labor in the West Indies, and scarcity Of
labor compels the planters of the West to send
to the East for ito hire Asiacs as free aborers
and give guarantees that they shall be sent home
if they desire it, at the end of given number Of
years Punish the mutineers by Transporting them
in thousands during their existence to this part of
our possessions. The island of Jamaica and the
mainland of British Guiana would absorb as many as
the Indian and the British Government could depor
within reasonable time after the suppression of the
revolt. WecannOt see what objection can be urged
to this proposal Our PhilanthrOpists, dreading a
revival of the slave trade, will not allow impor
tatiOn of free blacks into the West Indies but there
are, nevertheless, criminals guilty of the highest
crime known to civilized society, whose lives, by
their base and bloody treachery forfeited to the
State. punishment like this would strike terror
into the Mahommedans and Hindoos Of British India
for generations yet unborn; and it seems TO us the
most feasible and at the time the most lenieut,
mode Of punishment which can be imagined