The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-04

OF one whose life had been so useful will be seri
ously felt.
Even the most heroic endurance has its limits
A man is but flesh and blood after all Give hin
health, and strength, and visible foe and though
encompassed by peril ON every side, his BRAY,
heart shall not fail him. But what native of tn,
temperate bear up, week after week
under one hundred and thirty-four degrees o
Fahrenheit? There are days in our own semi
tropical summers, when the thermometer stand:
at from ninety-six to a hundred degrees, and with
all our appliances for keeping cool, we feel our
selves reduced to utter helplessness. But even
when 'the dog star RACES" we can scarcely be
brought to understand what it is to pant fol-
breath upon sandy wastes, under thin canvas
tent, subjected to heat more intense, by thirty
tour degrees than ever came within the highest
range of our experience. Yet to such Temporal
ture are the English troops exposed, who are now
enduring all the vcissitudes of campaign fought,
during the hot season, in North Western India.
Marching by night, gasping by day, now parched
for water, now choked by clouds of impalpabe
dust subjected to the malaria of the Jungle, to
liver diseases, and to all those facilitating nfuen-
ces by which men of European blood are affected
In tropical climate, what wonder is it that the
victims to sun-stroke, and cholera; to bilious
fever, and to utter physical exhaustion; should be
infinitely more numerous than those who fall by
the hands of the enemy upon the battlefield? OF
the sixty thousand English troops poured into Ben
gal, subsequent to the siege of Delhi exclusive of
more recent reinforcements, there now remain but
twenty-six thousand electives. At the lowest
calculation since the arrival of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL
in India, forty thousand European soldiers have
been placed hors du combat. Many of these, it is
true are in the hospitals, and some have been
sent home invalided; but very few of them will
ever be in condition to return to the scene of
their conquests, and their suferings 1t has,
moreover, now become apparent that the seeds of
the rebellion have been terminating for wears
throughout the whole Continent of India; that
nearly all the large landed proprietors are either
actively engaged, or secretly sympathize in the
movement, and that the Mussulman and Hindoo
population are alike compromised. That the re-
conquest of India will eventually be effected, we
have not the least doubt; but it will be accom-
plished by an expenditure of blood and treasure,
that will neutralize the value of the wonder
full victories that have been, and yet remain to
be achieved, and will require, for many
years afterwards, all the troops that Eng
land can spare, to repress revolt and overawe
the spirit of discomfort But the end of the present
rebellion is not yet The Sepoys, encouraged by
the Mana, and the Moulyie, and the BEGUN.
though beaten at every point where they have
made stand, still cluster around their leaders in
scarcely diminished numbers, and maintain a de-
sultory warfare more harrassing and more destruc-
tive of life than seiges and pitched battles. Thinlv
clothed and lightly armed; Injured to the climate;
living upon the simplest food, and drinking only
water 1.-the, active and sinewy; taking to the
Jungle when hard pressed, and re-appearing upon
the open plain when the danger has passed, what
lasting impression can be made upon such a peo
pie? If they are driven from Dude, they re-assem-
BILE in the Doab; or they menace Allahabad The
forts they desert to-day, are found re-occuped by
them tomorrow. The cannon taken at Barielly
are replaced by new pieces cast during six days
halt at Jugdespore. Everywhere beaten and scatter
ed, yet everywhere reuniting, they offer no opportu
nifty for striking decisive blow but are content to
wear out their enemies by forced marches. by
UNCLE fevers, and by the fierce intolerable feryor
of the Indian sun. 1t was the misfortune of
NAPOLEON, in the Russian campaign, that every
victory he won was equivalent to defeat; that
while his enemies were constantly reinforced, the
number of his own troops was daily diminishing,
and the rigor of the winter was daily becoming
more intense The extremes of heat and cold are
alike fatal to men who are unaccustomed to either:
but cold braces the bres, while heat relaxes them
and Arctic storms may be braved with far less
danger to the physical health than the sultry air
OF the tropics. Yet not alone to langud heats, or
the fiery blasts that sweep westward, across the
plains of Allahabad, from the great sandy deserts
of Rajepootana are the debilitated columns of
the English exposed; but also to the presence of
multitude of swarthy foes whose eccentric move
ments they are obliged to follow; to traitors in the
camp and to secret enemies in every town and
village stimulated to revenge by religious fanati-
clsm by the remembrance of old grievances, and,
perhaps, by traditions of the ancient splendor
Oh tnelr native princes. But whatever may |
oe tne wrongs of the Hindoo, let US do honor
10 the heroic exploits of that handful of men
Vi our own blood and lineage, who, in the midst
Vi carnage as sudden as it was awful, bravely
heio az Day the swarming myriads of ferocious and
blood-thirsty rebels and maintained nossession of
their slender deences until their distant comrades
few in number, but animated by kindred spirit
advanced to their relief. The revolt of the Senovs
in no wild theoretical dream of liberty
1t sprang from fancied violations of casto. e.,
the consciousness of numerical superiority ond
from beliefn their ability either to annihilate tbo
English at one fell blow to drive them into tho
sea. That among the officials of the East India
Company there have been some who were guilty of
gross abuses, we have every reason to believe;
but on the whole the rule of the English in India
has been just and merciful; and if they have not
always dealt righteousy with the race of ancient
soveregns, they have at least preserved peace and
good order in the land; have suppressed the Da-
colts; have extnguished Thuggism; have intro
auced many salutary regulations; have curbed the
eAcesses OF the feudal lords, and have secured to
inc great BODY OF the people those rights of person
ana property to which century ago their fore
fathers were strangers.
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