Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-22

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-.L-.-- Ifs ovustftutfun having bcoone
impaired by this long series of active SER
vice in an Indian climate, by medical ad-
vice he visited England for the recovery
of his health. In 1851 he returned to
Bombay, and through the influence Of
Lord IIardinge, under whom he had sew
ed in the Sikh war, he was made Brcvet
/ Colonel and Adjutant General of the
Queens troops, in India At the break
ing out of the terrible Sepoy Mutihy,
last summer, Gen. Havelock was at Bonn
bay lie Immediately solicited service,
and was sent up to Allahabad as Briga-
lier General, taking command of the me-
morable column, with which, by repeated
ly defeating that murderous fend Nena
Sahib, he has won such unspeakabic glo-
ry. At the battle of CaHnpore, at the
head Of 1000 troops. be defeated the enc.
my, $4,000 strong, with Ncna Sahib at
their head His last and great victory at
Lucknow, by which he saved the British
Resideney at the most critical moment,
has added a new lustre to his worldwide
reputation.
Many anecdotes, illustrating tho emin-
cnt Christian as well as military character
of Gen Havclock, have been published in
various quarters. His recent brilliant
career has been cminently one of mercy,
preserving thousands Of Christian women
and children as well as men from the cru.
elites Of beings worse than brutes. And
it is singular thought that while Neaa
.SahD was by the English educated in
everything cool,t Christianity, and turns
out to be such demon, the pious Have
lock was the most prominent in checking
and ovcrthrowing him and preserving the
integrity Of the British Indian dominions,
Such is the man whom the world now
delights to honor-upon whom the Queen
of Great Britain has conferred a Baronet-
cy-and to whom the English Parliament
has given an annuity of $4,000 year.
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hundreds of women and children, and
have declared Gas one Of them did when
about to be executed, that they "died
happy" because they had committed the
most unheard Of crimes on tender, deli
ieate and innocent girls, wives and moth
ers-all this has left not soul in Ameri-
ca but has long wished for their downfall
and cxtirpation as enemies Of the human
race.
Then, too, it was war against our
selves. There were several families of
American missionaries included in the
massacre. Some of these have never been
heard from; others, it is stated, were con.
ductcd to execution through such sea of
blood, that they literally had to wade far
more than ankle deep in it, stumbling
against.the heads of those who had been
executed before them, but which were
now submerged in human gore!
But one thing that has given the chief
interest to this struggle, has been that it
presented the figure of one man-Ilayc.
lock-who, when all others displayed in
capacity and inability to subduc this re-
volt, undertook nothing that he did not
accomplish, and accomplished that which
first stemmed the crimson tide Of revolt
and carnage in the recapture Of Cawnporc,
and gave the earliest support and relief OF
Lucknow. A man without family friends
or connections to push him forward; who
had won his way after years of toll by
simple merit one of the ablest linguists
in the Indian army, as well as the bra
vest of the soldiers; man apparently Of
the most sincere aud unaffected picty, yet
who would never have been observed for
that, had it not been for the odium he
chccrfully sustained for it from the aristo-
cratic prejudices of a debauched and su-
perciiious army. 1t is well known that
charges had even been made, and courts
martial threatened against hin, fer the
religious liberty h :laiui.d snl .zcr:ise-