The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-14
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, JULY IA, 1858.

u-hor Delhi was taken, and Lucknow stormeo
If was predicted by many that the rebellion oi 'e
Sepovs would be speedily suppressed bu' though
the rebels have been invariably defeated wherever
they have made stand; though guns lhhuheraole
have been taken and the forallces OF the 1atooh-
dors either RACED to the ground, or garrsoned
with European troops, this extraordinary series of
victories has produced no appreciate results be-
rond the temporary pacl6cation of one district,
while the smouldering embers of disaffection were
breaking out in another WILSON'S stubborn per-
sistence in front of the MoA ! capital, and in the
face of overwhelming numbers; HAvELocK's Won
derfnl march into the very heart OF Dude; lNGLis
heroic defence of the residency at Lucknow; the
scientific combinations of Sir Colin CAMPBELL ana
the noble exploits of LUGARD, PENNY, GREATHEAp
ROSE ADRIAN Hope, and Sir W LILLIAN PEEL-all these
GREAT achievements have been productive OF nothing
sufficiently decisive to warrant us in believing that
he neck of the rebellion is broken. Dispersed at
one noint the Sepoys take to their heels and re-s-
semhle at another. Driven from Cawnpore and
Lucknow they fall back upon Shahjehanpore, CAL
nee and Bareilly. Deserving these strong places
at the approach of the victorious Europeans they
double upon their own steps, and re-appear before
Lucknow and Shahehanpore. When hard pressed
they take to the jungle, and when reinforced they
either re-occupy the positions they had previously
abandoned, or attempt to cut off all communica-
ton between the troops under the commandments
chief and those at distant points under subordinate
leaders. Upon such an enemy as this, pursuing
instinctivey the old Fabian mode of warfare, and
favored in their operations by the deleerious in
huences of tropical climate acting upon European
constitutions, no permanent impression can be
made with the limited force which the Anglo
Indian Government now has in the field. Of that
splendid army, numbering some eighty thou
sand Englishmen, what with the drafts
made upon it to overawe the spirit OF disaffectlon
in the Presidency of Bombay, and what with the
casualties to which those unacclmated soldiers
have been subjected, during the arduous campaign
in Bengal; what with sun stroke, and jungle fever,
cholera and the utter exhaustion of the vital en-
ereies by constant marching and counter-marching,
fatigue, privation, and exposure, it is doubtful
whether the effective force now in the field is much
larger than that which occupied Bengal when the
rebellion first broke out The little Ghoorkas,
who did such good service during the earlier part
of the war; satated with the plumber of Lucknow,
have returned, with JUNG BAHADooR, to the noun
tains of Nepaul, leaving the turbulent Sikhs, and
the fragments of European regiments, to share in
the deadly pers of a campaign in the hot season.
Every succeeding mail, nevertheless brings to us
from India, intelligence of fresh successes and
of but few reverses. But, although we are as
I1rad of tba pf in tha
with the rebels has been comparatively insignif-
cant, we know that a deadlier enemy than the
Sepoy has been busily thinning the ranks of the
Anglo-Indian army. To fight with such foe, in
temperate climate would prove but mere pas
time; but with brazen heaven overhead, with
the thermometer at ll5 degrees in the shade, with
malaria in the jungle, and cholera in camp
and garrison, therein consists the great peril
Pluck may do much; but even the most heroic
endurance avails nothing against the Unseen De-
stroyer. Twelve years ago. ourselves had
some experience of the dangers to which troops
are exposed, in a climate which may be regarded
as perfectly healthy when compared with that of
India Yet of all the 100 900 men enlisted for the
war in Mexico, more than one half, at the end
of two years, had either succumbcd to the in1u-
ence OF the climate, or were confirmed lnyalldS.
In the Napoeonic wars the English army in the
Peninsula required to be renewed in equal numbers
at the close ofevery year. and the statistics ofthe
in the Crimea show similar sacrifice of life. 1t
is not therefore so much the sword and the bullet
which the English soldiers in India have to fear,
as the influence of disease operating upon frames
previously shorn of their physical strength by
exertons There is no recuperative power left in
them. 1t this utter prostraton that carried of
the heroic HAvELoCK, and that gallant seaman Sir
WILLIAM PEEL. How much more serious its effects
must be upon the common soldier be readily
understood, when we reflect upon the careless life
he is accustomed to lead, and the exposure to
which he is constantly subjected. We must not
therefore assume from the repeated successes of the
English arms in India and from the small loss O
life recorded inFbatle that the Sepoy rebellion will
be brought to a speedy termination, or that the
victorious forces achieve their triumphs at tring
cost. The rebels are capable of maintaining, for
long time yet to come, desultory warfare, and
though they will eventually be subdued, the loss
of life to their European conquerors must still be
immense, in a country where even the stars fight
in their courses against them.