Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-29

HtepQys, whom he shot with his revolver or
s"Dred in the courtyard. The Sepoys and
matchbox men fcd from court to court TO.
wards the lmambarrah and the outworks Of
the kaiserbagh. Onward went the torrent
OF Slkhs and llighlanders aftcrthem. The
43d ,-sweeping round by the left of the Pal
ace, came upon a field gym, which they
captured Pressing onward, they seized a
scrai, or garden enclosure of the Palace.
Two companies of the 93d, under Stuart,
went too far in pursuit., and came under
heavy fire from loophoIcd wall A com.
pany OF the 42d, under Drysdalc, were led
TO their succor, and had five men killed in
q moment. When they came back they
found, j am told, that the enemy had cut
oil the heads of their comrades. The. at
tack, which had been fixed for 3 O'Clock,
did not'take place till 4.30 y. M, and MANY
thought that it would not take place at ali
last night, in consequence of the lateness of
the hour. At five the Begum's Palace was
ours, and Sikhs and ITighlanders were riot
ing amid the mirrorcd and many-lustred sa-
looms, still filled with magnificent shawls
aud scarf and such valuable articles as
the ladic, of the palace were unable to car
ny off in their flight. These rooms, how
ever, had been for the most part occupied
by Sepoys, and, except those of Zcnann.
they were all in a very filthy and disorder
~ state Very soon every mirror was sshat-
tered to atoms, chairs of state were in flag-
ments, and the glass Of lustrcs dashed to
the ground, SO that the drops and CRYSTALS
lay like pavement on the, floors.
just turning to the left, we were about
entering courtyard, when an. officer said,
"Mnd what you arc about! There are
some fellows hid inside there and one of
them has just shot a sergeant of the 93d
and amap OF the 90th." This is, as YOU
Will have observed, modc-in which our
men frequently lose their lives in this obi
ous warfare. Soon afterwards / saw one
of these fanatics-a fine old Sopoy, with a
grl22led moustachc-lying deadin the court,
Q. sword cut across the tcmpe, n bayonet
thrust through the neck, his thigh broken
by a bullet, and.his stomach slashed omen
IN desperate attempt toescapc There had
been five six of these fellows altogether.
and they had either been surprised and una
bio to escape, or had shut themselves up in
deSperation,tn asmallroom, one of many look
Ing out on she sS sSaEt av a. attsmpts
Ehe use Of bag of gunpowder was more
tsnccessful, and out they charged, and with
the exception of one man, were shot and
baYQneted on thespot.' The man who cot
away did so by desperate leap through a
window, amid shower of bullets aud many
bayonet thrusts. Such arc the common in
cldents of this war. We went up to the
TOP OF the mosque, upon the left of the
Palace, but the fire of the Kaiserbagh was
too near and sharp for one to remain there
without cover
HORRIBLE SIGHT IN THE PALACE
From court to court of the huge pile of
buildings we wandered through the same
scencs-dcad Sepoys-blood splashcd gar
dens--groups of eager Highlanders look
ing out for the enen>y's loop.holes---more
eager groups of plunderers searching the
dead, many of whom lay heabed on the top
OF each ether, amid tho ruin of rooms
brought down upon them by tho cannon
shot. Two of these were yeritable cham
,bers of horrors 1t must bo remembered
that tho SepOys md matchbox mon wear
cotton clothes, many at this time of year
using tlsickly quilted tunics and in each
room there were u number OF ,esass, or
quilted cotton -coverlids, which. serve as
beds and quilts to the natives. The ex-
plositon ofpowder sots fire to this cotton
very readily, and itinay be easily conceived.
how horrible are,the consequences when n
number of these Sepoys and Nuiecbs get
into a,plaee whence there is no escapc and
where they fall in heaps by our shot. The
matches of the men, the discharges ofthoir
guns, set6re to their cotton elothingI it is
fed by the Yery,fat of the dead bodies the
smell is pungont and overpowering, and
nauseous to degree. looked in at two
such rooms, where, through the dense
smoke, lcouid see. plesof bodies, and /
was obliged to own that the horrors of the
hospital at Sebastopol were far exceeded by
what / Witnessed Upwards of 800 dead
were found in the courts of the palace and,
five put thewoundcd carried off at 700,
we may reckon that the capture of the place
cost the enemy 1000 men at least.
{. TDE WoUNDED SEpcYs.---tfcrc and tncre
some wounded wretch had crept away to die,
and one or two very miserable old women
still lurked in the huts One sat by tho side
sof a body eoyered with clottod blood, and
tenderly caressed the dreadful form Anoth-
er was creeping along with a heap Of rags, on
her backs-hsr journey near. it's close Ia
sideene OF tho enclosures one of the officers
told mo 'tlcre lay dead b pretty little boy Of
Some seven or eight years of age his back torn
open by q grapeshot, and beside him shfiek-
ed9naelmttered his pct parroqnet 10 a cage,
just MS II had fallen from his hands, sSiic
was flying with itacross the cornGelds. Some
Kind hand liberated the poor bird. These are
tho accidental but neccssnry incidents ofwar