Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-13

bers Of burned depopulated villages the
places that had been inhabited by the ra
paclous Goojurs, who plundered the Euro
peans In May last. These wretched crea.
lures had evidently been in league with
the mutlneers before the Delhi massacre
for at the first signal of revolt, on the
morning of the lth of May, they rushed
In thousands from their villages to join in
the general destruction When the aven-
glng army marched against the city, down
the road by which [ travelled, thee villages
were destroyed and their inhabitants scat
tered to the four winds As we approached
closer, the sides of the road and the ad-
joining fields were strewed with the skele-
tons Of horses, bullocks and camels, afford
ing sad evidence Of the havoc which the
war had made among these useful animals
The bones Of most had been picked clean
! by the vulture, the jackal, and the pariah
dog; but many seemed almost intact, the
skin having dried over the bones on the
side exposed to the sun, though the inward
parts had all been carried off The num-
bers of these gaunt remnants of the last
carnage quite astonished me, and felt that
war is an awful scourge even to the poor
dumb animals that SO patiently minister to
the necessities and caprices of man. But
how much more awful to think Of the
numbers Of our own race intent upon each
others destruction that must have fallen !
What havoc sin has made among Gods
creatures When shall violence be no
more heard in our land, wasting destruction
within our borders? Never till salvation
be our walls and praise our gates" Such
were my reflections On approaching the
blood-stained suburbs Of Delhi.
About five miles from the city stands
Badi Ki Sera, the place where the first
battle was fought on the eighth of June.
The position held by the mutineers was Il
most advantageous one, but nothing could
resist the impetuosity Of the British charge.
The cOwardly Sepoys, though in oyerwhclm-
ing numbers, here abandoned sixteen guns
and fed pell nell into the city. was par
ticularly struck with the appearance of the
trees on each side Of the road Nothing
but stunted remnants, despoiled Of their
foliage and smaller branches are anywhere
to be seen, as if some tremendous storm
had passed over, destroying everything in
its course The branches had been cut off
for frewood, provender for elephants, cam
els, &C. Passing Badi Ki Scra, we came
in full view of the ridge on which the
English picquets had been placed, and the
ground in the rear occupied by the camp
during the past summer; and in the distance
rose the minarets and domes, turrets and
palaces of the city. Our road lay through
the Subzi Mandi, a large struggling suburb
of alternate gardens, surrounded by high
stone walls and low fat rooted houses
Here was the scene Of the principal con-
ficts-the twenty-eight battles that were
fought previous to the final struggle in
September. The walls and houses were
everywhere destroyed, the trees were felled,
and everything around gave evidence Of
the terrible passions that had been let loose.
This suburb had invariably given cover to
the mutineers in their attacks on the Eng
lish position They had over and over
again been driven out of it, but as the
English were not in sufficient strength to
retain possession of it, it continued source
of annoyance to the end 1t was in one
part Of this suburb that the fourth assault
ing column was defeated on the day of the
assault but this circumstance was Of little
moment, as the other three columns made
good their position within the city walls.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS IN DELHI.
We entered by the Lahore gate Of the
city, and the first object that met my
gaze as / passed in the gate was Euro
pean soldier in the act of belaboring with
good thick cudgel, poor, unfortunate
native who mad attempted to pass into the
city without a permit This was at once
derIonstrative Of the power that now held
sway within. From the Lahore gate we
passed down the Urdu bazaar and Chaudi
chouk, two wide streets or rather %contin- %
uations of the same street, about mile in
length and thirty yards wide and / was
dropped from the mail cart at the Lahore
gate of the Palace. My friends were quar-
tered in apartments Immediately over this
gate, and | soon found myself with them
at comfortable breakfast, in roorn on
the third story, and which commanded a
magnificent view of the interior blildings
of the palace on one side, with the river
in the distance, and the city of Delhi on
the other [ was rather shocked, however
when my hosts pointiD 6 to some stains Of
blood on the wall, tol me that the apart
ments we then occur lied, were the same III
which the Rev. NIr. Jennings had livec
and in which he, his daughter, and Mis-:
Clifford had bee'n murdered on the 1lth O
May last Tb ese were among the first vic
TINS Of the blood thirsty mutineew no
not the mut ineers, for these helpless ladies
were murd cred by the people of the palace
who, when the mutineers entered Delhi, a
once commenced the work Of des4 .ructiol
and death, and only awaited the rdrst NOV
oD the part of the army, to en- able them
carry out their bloody purr ,oses. Every
where throughout this c. Alamitous seaso