Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-20

THF INDIAN MUTlNY.
Delhi, the Ancient Capital ofthe Mogul En-
pine.
Since the conquest of British India the
natives have been Incorporated into the ar
nv, and under the Indian name OF Sepoys
have rendered various and efficient ser
vice for more than 80 years. Recently an
attempt was made by the British Govern
ment to prohibit the exercise OF certain
religious rites, which caused mutlny and
resulted in the capture of Delhi, the an
cicnt capital of the Mogul dynasties. At
the last accounts it was still held by the Sc |
poys, and unless the English succeed IN re- |
ducing it the mutiny may extend through |
out the Eastern Empire. The following Is
| a description of the city:
The city of Delhi is situated in the CEN
tire of sand plain, upon rocky ridge, II
sing to an altitude of 120 feet ON the
right bank of the Jumna, here deep and
broad river at all seasons OF the year, III
north latitude % deg. Al min, and east
longitude II deg. min; S56 miles from
Calcutta by the Birbhum road, and 880
miles from Bombay by Ahmedabad Ac,
cording to tradition this city was founded
800 years b. c. by Delu. 1t formerly
stood on the left bank of the river, and Is
supposed to have covered a space oftwenty
square miles Major Renncll mentions
1000 900 as the number of inhabitants
which Delhi was supposed to contain at the
end Of the 18th century, and the ruins
seem to Justify this estimate. The Empe-
ror. Shah Jehan, built new city on the
right bank of the Jumna, and gave 1T
the name of Shahjshanabad, by which only
, the Moslem part of the population continue
to call it. This is the modern Delhi, which
E is about five miles in circumference, and Is
: seated on range of rocky hills, and sur
rounded by walls costructed of large blocks
: of granite, and fortified with a good Loop
holed parapet Several gateways and bas,
n tions occur in the walls at intervals, and
i the whole has been strengthened and put
in repair by the English government
O The cateways are magnificent buildings
and are named after the provinces and cit
d les to which they point. This city has sew
n en- gates, and contains the remains OF sey
+s eral fine palaces-the former dwelling o
the chief omrahs of the empire, Ihes
1t palaces are each of considerable extent, am
,e surrounded by high walls, enclosing baths
v. stabling and numerous outbulldings'
The modern city contains many goo
" houses, chiefly brick, and OF various style
~ of architecture The streets are IN gene
- al narrow. as in other Eastern cities, bI
on the principle ones, Bishop Heber says, al
a. really wide, handsome, and for an Aslat
,ir city, remarkably clean, and the bazaa
h have good appearance. There are {"
fine streets, one called the Chandery -chok
nd 90 feet broad and 1900 yards long; the OF
ON er l2O feet vide and one mile long
vo Down the middle of the first OF the
, a streets runs an aqueduct, which Is shade
en-. by fine trees and supplied with water ire
Ali Merdans Kahns canal. The 9th
,b- streets are narrow, but contain many go
rs brick houses. The crowd of an lndi
yen city, always picturesque, is here partl'
an larlv rich in snowy figures of men and
inc imals. Elephants eamels and horses,
md ly caparisoned, parade through the stree
aud iangling their silver ornaments, and
the many-colored tufts and fringes with VIII
ron they are adorned The suacdrri OF gr
nm parsonage, sweeping along the hlghwa
lont scrupulous of the damage it may effect
its progress, forms a striking specta
INV when it can be viewed from some safe
er's ner or from the back of a tall elephant
INV The comp d o7 is magnificent; but to
,ol;- ter into details might destroy the lllusl
,9bt for. mingled with mounted retalners,, r.
s9od clothed and armed with glittering helm
orld polished spears, and shields knobbed '
No. Silver. crowds of Withholding, half {
ad wretches on foot are to be seen, lncreas
bayo the tumult and the. dust, but adding n
rain ing to the splendor Of the cavalcade'
80, GREAT man-and Delhi is full OF person'
ers of pretention-ever passes along IN
MOD without having his titles shouted by
- IN stentorian lungs of some OF his toiioV
- The cries of the venders OF different
rot cles of food, the discordant songs OF 1T
! -, ~ ant musicians, screamed out to the ac'
A. naniment of the tom-tom, with an occas
oar Al bass volunteered by a cheetah, gfumt
rords out, in 4 sharp roar, his annoyance at :
atan+ hawked about the streets for sale, witt
bat of shrin. distressful cry of the camel,
onnd trumpetings of the elephants, the n
was ING of horses, and the rumbhng OF
wheels, are sounds which assaii th'
:. .ho from sunrise to sunset in the stree
angbt Delhi. The multitude OF e!uipages
'an - ~ cocdingly great, and more diversified,
: 1n, hans than those Of any other city
= 'lnerr p,r world English carriages, altered an