Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-11-21
[Fynnt tie L0ntl0n Times.

f From tie IOnol0n Times. ~s' =.
THE FALL OF DELlII-The great
news from India seems to admit of analysis
or discussion. Delhi, the famous city and
arsenal on which all eyes have been fixed
! for months, has fallen ard the rebellion Of
the Sepoys has received it's death blow.' In
pre5epce of this great eveI.5, everything else
appears small aild trihinga's' although the
! intelligence by the present mail is fuller than
usual, it seems dwarfcd by the interest which
attaches to this military exploit. Delhi was
assaulted on the morning of the 14th of Sep
tember. The attack wars. made II iour col
, umns ofwhich oney commposod eft fffe CASH
, mere Contingent sent to our assistance by
the late Gholab Singh, was repulsed The
others, however, were successful. An en-
trance was effected at the Cashmere gate, to
the north Of the city. An advance was
made along the rampart5 to- the Cabul gate,
: on tie northwest. Here we learn that the
; resistance of the mutineers was obstinate and
our own loss severe. 1t was not until the
10th that the magazine was stormed. On
, the 20th our troops teok entire possession Of
" tbs city,. Our loss Vas 600 men, including
50 officers. Ofthe latter the names Of six are
given as having been killed in the ASA ult,
and four in the operations preceding it. The
slaughter among the mutincers was nc doabt
very great. A large number escaped over
the bridge, and among them the King of
Delhi and his two sons, disguised in woaaan's
clothes. It is to be hoped that by the next
: mail we shall hear that these three misera-
bic chiefs of the rebellion have been taken
and executed
The loss to our troops has been indeed
severe, but net pQge sssaa might be expec-
ted from the magnitude of the place, the
desperation of the resistance, and the length
of time over which the fight extended. -
| The casualties among the officers have
, been particularly heavy We will not at
tempt to condoie with those who are be-
reaved on this sad occasion. Suffice it TO
say that their sons, or brothers, or husbands
have fallen in accomplishing enc of the most
! brilliant exploitsof our history, ana in sa-
/ wing their country from by far the greatest
calamity which has threatened It within our
, time. The effects of the capture of Delhi
. will be, NO doubt, immediate and complete.
! The neck Of the rebellion is indeed broken
. The capital towards which the mutineers
locked from every auarter, the rendezvous
to which they were e7fisassy directed to
repair, Che chief city of the Mahomedan dy
nasty, and the residence eff the moek king
who had ruled in trembling a state during
the past fo9r months, is now in the power
of the foreign race whose expulsion was the
end and aim of this dark plot the roots of
! which have struck so deep, and the seed of
(which has been so long soWn To the Ut
: most c. .treMitleS of .sndia viii the NEWS he
: borne, how. after standing their ground for
months against an overwhelming array of
native torcrs, TIE dauatless islanders as
! saulted city containing two OF three times
/ their number OF enemies, and carried it af-
q ter stout resistance, DESTROYING Or driving
onf tine army which held it, aid sending the
king to wander a fugitive until the certain
hour of retribution comes.
The other news is of chcckered nature
i First In interest is the fate of Lucknow -
With regard to this place ard its brave gar
rison we are happy to say that the intelli-
gence rs most favorable as Gen. Havelook
crossed the Ganees on the 10th of serfeni-
Der, expecting to be Joined almost immedi-
ately by Cen Outram's forces Letters
had been received from Lucknow reporting
: thai the garrison was liz excellent Spirits,
and had renulsed an attack on the 9th of
September with great loss to the assailants.
{ They Ind provisions sufficient to last them
to October lst by which day they were
e pretty sure to be relieved by Generals
! IIavclock aud 0ntram. The probable sste-1
ty of this garrison, and the women and
5 children it defends, will be received with as
much pleasure as the more important news
of the fall of Delhi, and the continued quiet
of the Bombay and Madras Presidenctcs.-
smeeth horrors of Cawnpore the attention
: of every one has been concentrated on
lucknow and if any evil were to befall its
defenders, all the success of our arms in 9TH
er places would hardly seem to make
amends.
The fall of Delhi, and the loss of the
great arsenal there established, has so COM
pletely crushed the chances Of the mutineers
. that we may hear almost with indifference
of the sporadic outbreaks which are rcpor-
ted from different quarters In Scnde,
: which is occupied by Bombay regiments,
, there have been attempts at revolt at lkur-
! rachel, or TIE sea-coast, at Hyderabad, in
: the centre, saal at SINGAPORE, on the North,
y towards the Punjab. Al the two latter pla-
ces the mutinecrs were artillcrymen, who
: seem especially rredisposed to revolt wireth-
; er it be that they think that without artille-
y ry we shall be poweriess, or that they are
e solicited beyond all otAers,by the oitiny,
+ who know the value of the arm. Uowev-
> err, in each case thedisturbanee was prompt
;, ~ suppressed, and as Seindo is an isolated
i region, and wing of the fourth King $
It Own, arrived from Mauritius, had been dis
y patched to Kurrachee. we may hope that
! there is an end OF apprehension in THAI
e quarter However, there eanebe 30 doubt
N that the whole of Central India for more
. than thousand miles--in fact, from Joud-
E. pore on the west, to Assam ON the east, was
y at the time of the fall of Delhi, in a very
r disturbed state.
h Pres AND HUMANS. -Rives, of the Wash
q ington Globe, is 'ig lo4p, and occasionally