Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-09
Blsckwood, for November.

nerves against rcniipg the following ao.
count OF the execution OF y party of mutt
noers at Peshawur. tes !.
| =" Well. then. forty men were TO he blown
away; lPresutne, Ebony, that His is a
sight which, IN your manifold experience Of
the world, you hove never Witnessed. II
was An awfully imposing scene. All Tho
troops. Europeao aud native, armed and
drarmed, loyal and lisaHecied, were drawn
up on parade, forming three sides of a
square land drawn up very carefully, you
may be esurs, $50 that any attempt on the
| pari of the disaHecied TO rescue the doomed
prisoners would have been easily checked.
Forming the fourth side of the square, wore
drawn up the guns % pounders) ten in
! pnmber, which were TO DC used for the ex-
ecntioh. The prisoners under n strong
European guard, were then marched into
thesquare7-theirc crimes and " ,nces read
| aloud to them, and at the head of each reg
| lment; they were then marched round the
square, and up to the guns. The first ten
were picked out-their eyes were bandar
ed and they were bound TO the guns, their
backs leaning against the muzzles, and their
mrlns fastened To the wheels. The parl.Gres
were lighted aud at signal from the Ar
tilIery Major, theguns were fred 1t was
horrid sight that hen met the eve;
regular shower of human fragments of
heads, of arms, OF legs, appeared in the air
through the smoke, and when that cleared
away these Fragments lying ON the ground,
fragments of Hmduos, and fragnrnts of
Mussumans, all mixed togc,hnr, were all
that remained of thoseten niulih, -. Three
times more was this scene repeated, but 40
great is the disgust we all feel for ihe a,roc
| ltieS committed 10y the rebels, that We had
| no room IN our hearts for any feeling of
| pitE perfect calluusness Was depicted on
every Europeans face, u look of grim salts.
tac'i"n could even ba seen in the counte.
nances OF the guuuers serving the guns.-
But far different WIS The effect on the ma
tive portion OF the spectators; their black
faces grew ghaSrlv pale as they gazed breath
essly at the awful spectacle. You must
know that this is nearly the only form in
which death has any terron for native.
If he is hung or shot by muskelry, he
knows that his friends or relatives will he
allowed To claim his body. and will give
him The funeral rites qnired by his reli.
gion;i if n Hndoo, that his body will be
burned with all due ceremonies; and if q
Mussulman, that his remans will be de.
gently inferred, IA directed in the Koran.
But 1t sentenced TO death in this form. he
knows that his body will he blown into n
thousand pieces, and il will be altogether
impossible for his relatives, however dcvp.
ted to linn, to br sure Of picking up all the
Fragments OF his own particular body and
'he thnuGM that perhaps a limb Of sour
one of II dittrrent religion to himself nigh,
possibly be- burned or buried with the re
mairder of his own body. is agouy 10 him.
But notwithstanding this, it WAS impossi
ble for the mn'incers ,liresl ha,cr not In
feel some degree of a1miiatio6 for The way
in which they mel their deaths.
Nolbipg in their lives became them lik,
the leaving of'hcm. OF The whole forly,
only two showed any signs of fear, aud they
were bitterly reproached by The others for
so dsgracing their race. They certainly
died like men. After the first ten had been
disposed of, the next batch, who had been
looking on all the lime. walked up to Ihr
guns quite calmly and unfalterinvly, and
allowed themselves 10 be biindfolded aud
tied up without moving q muscle, or show
ing the slightest signs bt fear, or even 5cou.
cern. Whence had these men this strength!
! Their religion. bad rs ii may be anl is, in
all other points, al least befriends them
! well at III" hour Of death; il teaches thrm
well tba, great and useful lesson, how 10
die. 1t is their religonlha supports them
for there is M native, however low in tl,r
scale OF snrielv-howrvcr deeply sunk w
vice, in.drbnurlirrv. aud in crime-bul iu.
know'tdgeS and practIsVs The form OF some
sort ofIcIlaion. Even in the midst of ls
crimes he acknowledges u God, and calls
ON that God to sustain him at the honr If
his death.
ONE OF the best editors the Westministcr
| Review could ever boast, aud one OF the
nhost brilliant writers of the passing hour
was cooper in Aberdeen. One of the
editors of the London Daily Journal
WIS baker in Elyin; perhps th
best reporter of the London Times was
weaver in Edinburgh; the editor of the
! Witness was stone mason. One of the
ableSt ministers in London was blacks, tn
in Dundee and another was n matchmaker
in Banff The oto DIR. Milne of China.
was a herd boy in Rhyme. The principal
of the J4ondcn Missionary Society's College
at Hong Kong was a saddler in Huntley,
aud one of the best missi pnaries that ever
went to India WASH tailor in Keith. The
leading machinist ON the London and Bir-
! ,miagham Railway, with ,gT00 year, was
a mechanic in Glasgow, and perhaps the
very richest iron founder in England was a
working rnan in MOrap. Sir James Clark,
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