The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-08
THE DAILY EXCHANGE, JULY 8, 1858.

of elephants, and hammering of tent-pegs the guy
cling and roaring of camels, the neghing of horses
and the myriad voices of camp rising up through
the night, till jackalls and wolves their
concert to the moon, and fly off to have it out
disturbed in more distant and silent topes At the
usual hour, A. NJ, the whole force moving
off towards this place, at which en-
camped. The country. like that through which we
have already passed, was one vast plain-a series
OF corn fields cotton and sugar plantations, without
hedge or ditch and covered in all directions with
rich timber. The crops have been cut, and the
sharp stumps of the cotton dangerous to
horses feet and horrible to mems legs. Hence my
syce famed, and hence, at our first halt your
correspondent was famed by severe horse kick for
the syce, account of the cotton stumps could not
come up to hold his horse, which was given to
syce who had another to take care of, and when our
halt-hours sleep on the ground was over, and ''Pre
pare to mount! mount" reused up your
pondent, going over to his quadruped, which was
backing towards the other horse from the syce,
celved a kick between the hip and knee which sent
him reeng over, and obliged him to finish the rest
OF his Journey the carriage of one OF TOOmbs
guns. For two three days to come, if not more,
he must be content to write in dooly using his
notebook and pencil.
The little town outside which we pitched our
tents was deserted, and the villages along our line
of march were destitute of inhabitants The strict
est orders issued against plundering, and, in
| deed, saw Sir Colin Campbell make charge at
! some camp followers who were refreshing them
selves in vegetable garden, and give them vicari-
! ousy, by Major Metcalt's stick, sound thrashng;
but, as the COMMANDMENT Chief says himself, 'they
swarm like flies, and Just hard to keep out Of
place.. They defy picketS and eude patrols, al
though the lash resOunds forever in the camp, and
| the stout prOvOsts are thinning rapidly, owing to
the state of ncessant activity and exercise in which
they pass their days; the camp followers not to
be intmidated from the pursuit of their lawful call
ing, and the development of their natural and al
most solitary instinct. This is serious evil, for
the cry of distress of those who have been robbed
resounds through the land, and empties villages
our approach; one fellow shouting out that he has
been plundered depopulates village.
| We learned that the enemy had occupied the
town. which of course, boasts fort till they heard
of our approach two days ago, when they began
to bolt; only $50 were left in the place esterday
and they went off at night. As the eclaireurs of
our army, the Quartermaster General and his few
troopers entered the place, they spied two sOwars
making off as fast as they could, which was of
course faster than we could follow All our Rohil-
cund enemy are Mussumans, and, as they pro-
claimed holy war against us, they naturally
alarmed at our approach; but it is distressing to
| find the Hndoo villagers afraid of us.
Perhaps they conscience-stricken. They did
not, however, lll-treat our fugitives from Shahe-
hanpore-but let them continue their light till they
met with their murderers of the 4lst Native Infan-
| try. Weencamped for the day, of course, at Kanth
Hour after hour in spies and letters as they
must be called in India, 'chits" from Shahiehan-
pore, all agreeing on the great fact that our ener-
getic and resolute but fugacious opponent, the
| Moulyle, was there, and that two regiments and
| four guns had come in from Bareilly Yesterday.
They were said to have 500 or 900 cavalry, and to
have placed guns to command all the roads so it
looked light fight. Great hopes were expressed
of catching Moulvie but that holy man has Il won
dertul acquaintance with the first law of nature
When indeed, one spy brought us intelligence that
the sowars and Mahometans of the place were taking
many oaths to each other on the Koran to die
nearly wrote ''game"-or conquer, the old Indians
nearme frightened up amazingly, and said it was a
good sign they in mortal fear and would
run away if they could The spies were
mostly Hindoos-some of them led to inform by
love of gain, Others from hatred to the Moselm-
one because he had fight with his cousin, and
hoped we would aid him to Gust his obnoxious rela-
tlves from certain property. The chits were writ
ten in the Persian character small rolls of paper
adapted for conceament. 1t was curious to watch
these spies-heir shifting, unsteady glances-their
keen quick lifting of the eye at every sentence
see what effect it produced the Sahb, while
HindOo and Mahometan servants stood around listen
ing unmOvedly to the intelligence, which might be
fatal to the of the rebels, with whom we say
they all sympathize.
Curious, too was it to watch the calm, handsome
face OF the MuSsuman MOOnshee of the Quarter-Mas
ter General, as, standing erect barefooted, in his
loose white dress and turban, he chanted rather
than read the chts for his master, as if he were a
mere machine, who cared neither for NaZarine oil
True Believer. In no other nation or aggregate o.
nations could such indiflerentism apparent but
covering beneath it the most furious bigotry, be
found for the sake of rupees. All the chuprasseS
or messengers of the headquarters camp are Brah
allegiance to their god ''Rupee." As the dav wore
on the stories brought in to us became nearly unan
imOus. The sowars' horse were ready for a start
the guns limbered up for a flight our number.
had been exaggerated, the enemy believed the coun
try was full of our troops, and they said to each
other that it would be folly to stand in an open city
to resist such forces with such maeriey and guns
prodgious size.
Late at night-that is for camp life, about nint
O'Clock, letter was brought in announcing the
hight OF the Moulvie and the evacuation of the city
: but this news was accompanied by two statement.
not quite so agreeable-the first that the Moulvit
and his followers had taken the road to Mohumdee
IN Dude, instead of that to Bareilly; the second
that all the Mussulmans and most of the Hindoos
had abandoned their houses and hidden themselves
The weather is now so hot that it is DEATH or great
risk of it, to an European to stir out after ter
O'Clock IN the morning and it is, our men suffer
much from the sun in their tents, where the Their
mometer often stands 1l6 deg. There is more fever
and small pox than one likes to think about in the
force, and Sir Colin is racked by anxiety to get the
men at once under cover.
CAMP SHABEJEHANPoRE, April 3O.-The informa-
ton we received was indeed true. The enemy fled
from Shade jehanpore without firing a shot The
column left their camp at $50 this morning, and
arrived outside the town at $50. 1t was found to
be only partially inhabited The Moulvie went off
yesterday to Mohumdee, with few hundred fol-
lowers and four guns. Ncna Sahib was here with
700 cavalry till eight ten days ago. He went off
to Bareilly, but before he did he gave directions
that the church. environments, and government sta
lions should be destroyed in order that troops
should get no cover, and his instructions have been
faithfully executed.
May lit has been found necessary to halt here
to-day. The increase of small pox has attracted at
tention, and DR.. Tice has recommended the revac-
cination of the soldiers The disease is propagated
by the camp followers, who will not permit vacci-
nation. The Counsels of Nena Sahib have been so
far successful that instead of placing troops in
environments here, we obliged to encamp the
force left to watch the town under tope, and a
party of Sikh Sappers now at work around our
camp throwing up intrenchments.
The railroad station at Littleton. n Il. was en-