The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-01-14

The following few lines, written by civil
officer Of distinction ia India, give one Of the
hest, and nj the same time, most succinct
views Of the character o. the mutny in
India that has yet been presented to the
public:
had not time TO study the various pa
pers found in the palace of Delhi, but ina
ginc that very interesting, useful and
amusing selection Of them might be picked
out for publication. One Sepoy colonel
seems to have presented to the King kind
OF memorandum on the best mode OF admin
istcring the country after getting rid Of the
Feringbees. First aud foremost, he advises
his Majesty TO collect as much money as he
can from any quarter, by any means what
ever, as n capital To start upon. Second,
he says that there Is no doubt that, with all
the faults If the English, their government
was the best lIindostan has ever seen, and
he proposes that the future administration
shonid he based on their model and then,
in many headings, he goes into details evnc-
ing considerable thought and shrewdness.
There is, believe, among the papers u very
long and enthusiastic account of the des-
truction Of the European garrison of Fluffy
ghur. From oil can hear and gather, e.
pcclaly from the papers in the Palace, and
from the conduct Of the mutinccs, particu-
larly at l'areilly, in taking the titles of thci-
officers, initiating their stats, riding in their
carriages. and appropratlng Their tents and
equipagcs, ! am NOR, and more inclined to
inter that whatever there may have been of
Mahomedan conspiracy. lIindoo religious
panic, and military or political appreheu
sion, one of the main. If not he man object
Of the mutiny, either in its origin or in its
spread, was the very simple and not unna.
tural oue--a desire on the part Ct the in
ilueutml Sepoys To step into the shoes of
their influential officers.
They liked our system altogether, but they
preferred being colonies and adju,ants to be-
ing hayildars and nails; and with the usual
self suiilclency OF natives, they imagined that
they would make very good colonies and adj
jutants, and jumped at the opportunity OF
eflecting that object and more besides by
transferring their allegiance and the whole
army, with its old organization. 10 native
sovereign. the first who came TO hand
Though the Mahome,an element did not
prevail IN Delhi, and there was for long
time ~ extensive rise "a maSe Of the Ma
homcdan population, Mahomelan edminis-
lrations have sprung up in some of the pro-
vinccs abandoned by the Sepoys; but | do
not know tina, they have generally got the
better Of the llindoos and obtained posss-
sion Of anything like whole districts. On
the contrary, they are almost eyrryw here OPP
posed. In the territories over which We re.
tain some partial hold. there have been la
terry one ur two purely Mahomedan risings,
quite distinct from mere cmcuiee of plumber
ers; but ! am not SURF that some OF these
may not possibly have hetn IN some degNe
provoked by our hostility to Mahomedaus,
and | still do not think that there has been
a general rcvolt of the Mahome,lan popula
ton. Their hearts arr. no doubt. in great
measure with a MahouIadan sovereign but,
while many have gone over, many more have
rcmalnei neutral, and some have remained
faithful. The rising has been in every sense
most emphatiCally a military mutiny in It's
outbreak. little shared 10 by the mass Of the
people Civil anarchy has hNn bu, the con-
sequence. aud civil rrbellions 'hc episodes Of
the great military outbreak