The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-31
THE INDIAN MASSACRES.

The Supplement- to the Gazette published on the
9Th is a truly affecting document 1t gives the list
Of all who have persisted by murder. in action or
by disease, in the rebellion which has ragged for the
last - months in India. First come the victims of
the outbreak at Gwalior, lndorc, and Mhow. At
these places SO Europeans of whom nearly half
were and children, were butChered on tbt
18th and 18th Of June, the LIST Of July, and the sh
of November. Wcmay then take the ''list OF peo
RI kiiird At hIoerut the night OF the 10th Of Nav
1891. lheSe amount to ii. They were the first
victims OF the mutiny, which, however, in a few
hours spread to Delhi where the massacre began on
MAY II.
First, we have listof persons connected with the
Deh magazine who have disappeared, and are
reported to have been murdered" Among these
are no less than % children-a fact for those who
are disposed to deny the ruthlessness and ar0cit,
of sepoy revenge. Then follows nearly a column
OF names OF persons who were certainly ''murder-
ed at Delhi Among these we count 80 women and
% children murdered; it may be reckoncd there
fore, that upwards of so children were butchcred
at the single station of Delhi The occupations of
the victims are various Missionaries of the most di-
verse crecds met common fate: Anglican CLERGY
men, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholic
priest, are returned among the slain. Telegraph
agents, private traders persons connected with the
College, all alike persisted.
Ihirty-three persons returned as having been
murdered at Agra, and then we come to the crown
ing atrocity OF Cawnpore. As the Guzeiie does not
give any summary of the number slain we are
obliged to compute it rs well as we can from the
lists themselves. But the words and children" fol
lowing many of the female names only indicate
that mother with her whole family was murdered
and are left in Ignorance Of the precise number
of the victims. 1t may be said, however, that in
the first massacre Of the 9th Of june 80 grown up
ladies are represented to have persisted besides 'the
whole of the married women and children Of her
Majesty SIND Foot and ''all the married women
and children of the LIST Company, 9Th Battalion
Artillery"
As to the adult male part of the European com
munity, we have, besides % persons Of superior
IN
OF the LIST European Bengal Fusiliers. 10 men in
valids) of her Maestys 32d Foot. and 55 Bengal
Artillerymen four only Of these last having escap-
ed In this first massacre it woudthus appear that
between 300 and 400 persisted. On the night of the
10Th OF July, however, the great slaughter which
Mortified the civilized world was perpetrated under
the command Of the Mana Sahib. We count 1876
residents at tawnporc, among whom is the
usual proportion Of women and children.
about 60 Futtyghur residents, ''all supposed
to have been murdered at Cawnpore" So
other persons, some with their families, who were
also in CawnpOre at the time, and it is to be
feared have met the same fate making in all up
wards Of 800 more souls; and read at the end =
1t must be remembered that this list does not in
clude the soldiers of her Majesty SD and Slth Foot
and Artillery, and their wives and children. many
hundreds III number" Besides these there were 80
clerks, wives, and children with four adults whose
names are given, and eleven children. In short we
may count the number Of victims at Cawnpore-
men, women and chdren-at not far from 500. 1t
Is OF little use for us to continue these melancholy
calculations. At Jhansi n large number were muir
dered, among whom appears more than the usual
proportion OF children. Then come the names OF
officers OF the Bengal army murdered by their own
mutinous regiments.
Ot their number we can give no definite notion
as they are mixed up in the return with officers who
were slain in action or who died Of disease during
the campaign. But sufficient is given to show the
pltlless slaughter that took place when the fcnds
whom they commanded broke into mutinv The
return Of ''kilIed and wounded by rebels in the
Allahabad division is full OF such entries AS these
shot on parade by regiments" shot by guard Of
9th \. ~ On the 9Th of June eight officers Of this
last named corps ''murdered in messhoIse of
regiment by mess guard" Mrs. Collins. wife of
Cattle Sergeant Collins, was ''Shot by Gholab Khan
attended by Sep0ys and budmashcs ON the morning
of the 9TH Of June" Mrs. Thomas widow, was
murdered by band of rebels. headed by Elahee
taliors and Others In short, wherever we learn
anything OF the details of these frightfu acts the
perpetrators seem to have committed them without
the slightest pity for age sex, the slightest re
gard TOR any benefit received.
Alter giancing over this return, containing - pa
ges uil OF the names Of those who have suffered ut
the hands OF Il treacherous and cruel enemy. one
can hardly believe it possible that here at home in
the midst OF newspapers and Parliamentary debates
few persons should have the hardihood to stand
up for the comparative innocence OF the sepov and
with an irritating pcrversitv to declare that the
aggerated highly colored, got up for effect purely
mythical, and SO If anything could add to the
frenzy which is said to possess our people in the
East, it would be the that a clique ut home is
bent ON denying what everybody on the spot knows
to be true.-T lines.