St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-09-03
Horrible Atrocities in India.

The news from India, by the last ar
rival, is filed with details of barbarit.
the most shocking and revolving ant
bloody that can be conceived. Thcr'
is some room for hope that half o
these accounts is untrue and that TIN
remainder is exaggerated. Should th
statements now received, however, b
confirmed, it will remain a fact tina
both England and the natives are pos
sessed with the most bloody frenzy
Humanity shudders at the recital OF
the deeds of horror committed upon
defenccless women and children
What makes it worse for the English,
who see their women violated and
then murdered and their corpses man
gled, and their children tossed on bay
oncts until they are pierced into hide
Gus masses of CORY flesh, is the rchec-
tion that, the atrocities, the outragcs,
the torturcs of their own people upon
the natives, have provoked this retail
alton. Fcarfully are they realizing
the truth of the declaration, They
that sow to the wind shall reap the
whirlwind."
The capture of Delhi is reported
with the loss of thirty thousand lives,
men, women and children. The ru-
NOR, however, wants confirmation.
The Liverpool Mercury has the fol
lowing thrilling paragraph
"The passengers from India think
that the mutiny is not considered in
England so serious as it really is.
They give some frightful details ol
atrocities committed by the mutinecrs
in Delhi. Six European ladies had
taken refuge in room F; one of them,
very young and beautiful, concealed
herself nnder sofa. The other five
were subjected to outrage by the mu-
tinous soldiery. and then beheadcd.
The blood trickIed under the sofa, and
the voting girl concealed there, be.
trayed herself by uttcring a shrek.
She was seized and taken to the ha-
rem of the King of Delhi. This is
considered proof that the King is in
league with the mutinccrs.'
The Delhi Gazette, of June 18th, re.
counts some of the atrocities Of the
mitinecrs
Give full stretch to your imagina
tion-think of everything that is cru.
el, inlIuman, Internal, and you cannot
then conceive anything so diabolical
as what the demons in human form
have perpetrated. On the second, VIC
marched from Paniput to Race. At
this place, some of the poor fugitives
from Delhi met with most barbarous
treatment We burnt four villages
on the road and hung seven Lumber
dars. One of these wretches had a
part of a lady's dress for his kymer-
bund-he had seized lady from Del
hi, stripped her, violated, and then
murdered her in the most cruel man
ner, first cutting of her breasts. He
said he was sorry he had not an op-
portunity Of doing more than he had
done.
Another lady who hid herself under
a bridge, was treated in the same
manner, then hacked to pieces, and
her mangled remains thrown ont on
the plain. We found pair of boots,
evidently those of girl I6 or II
years of age, with the feet in them.
They had been cut off just above the
anclc. We hung many other villains
and burnt the villages as we came
along A man who witnessed the last
in Delhi, where he had gone
as spy, gives a horrid account of it,
stating that little children were thrown
up in the air and caught on the points
of bayoncts, or cut as they were fall
ing, with tulwars.
The following extract from a letter
of u British officer in England, show
ing how the mutineers were treated
at Pcshamur, show that barbarities
arc not confined to the Sepoy side:
"A force of Europeans, with guns,
was sent round the fort, one of which,
Meordan, was held by the 55th native
in open mutiny they tried
to escape when our force appeared,
and some got off to Swat, the others
were prisoners $50 were killed on
the spot, nine tried by drumhead court
martial and instantly shot, including
a native officer of a regiment not in
mutiny, who would not act as he was
ordered. Others were driven into the
hills and killed by the hillmcn, a price
of ten rupees being set on their heads.
The colonel of this regiment blew out
his brains in disgust at the mutiny.
The villains kept their officers in CON
finement, and told them if they tried
to escape, they would roast them
alive. They did, however, manage to
escape The force then went and dis
armed all the other regiments in the
forts and quoted the districts.
Some Of the 200 prisoners of the
55th have been tried, and are Metc for
~ Of them a,cay from Meir guns in the
presence of the whole force, three
days ago--a fearful but necessary ex-
ample, which has struck terror into
their souls. Three sides of square
were formed, ten guns were pointed
the sentence of the court
was read, prisoner bound to each
gun, the signal given, and the salvo
fired. Such scene hope never
again to witness; human trunks, heads,
legs, arms, &c, flying about in all di-
rections. All met their fate with firm.
ness but two, who would not be tied
up; SO to save time, they were drop.
ped to the ground and their brains
blowed out by musketry.
The London News remarks: ave
hear it repeated on all sides that the