Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-08

Character such indelible blood stains !
The EAST INDIAN REBELLION. The Lon.
don Illustrated Ne,os OF the 23d ult., says that
the great rebellion in India is not yet deprived
of its frenzied vitality, but reasserts itself FIRST
at one place, then at another. Everywh ere it
is met, however, and crushed by the bravery
OF English generals and soldiers. The Netos
says:
1t is only in Dude that the revolt is pow
erful enough to merit higher title than
that Of spasmodic and hopeless insubordi-
nation, or mad attempt to escape from inev-
table retribution. But, while lord Clyde
slow and cautious, but grim as fste-is pre-
pairing his measures for the final blow, his
countrymen in India, as well as at home,
may rest satisfied that the end is near, and
that the end will be the complete re. establish
ment of our authority in India, and the ex-
tinction of the last embers of this once mighty
conhagration.
The most painful incident reported by this
mail is the punishment of the mutineers in
the PunjRub-an instance of swift and unre-
lenting vengeance. The facts were known
before, but of the causes and details the pub.
lie was ignorant. An order having been re-
ceived from head quarters tor the disbanding
of the Mooltsn regiments, and their transmits
sion to their homes in attachments OF twenty
men at time, feeling arose among the men
that they were only to be divided in this
manner that they might be cut to pieces on
the way. The feeling rapidly strengthened,
and had such an effect upon their excited
imaginations that to the number of 1900, they
armed themselves with clubs, pieces of wood,
fragments of their beadsteads, stones, and
anything else they could lay hands upon. and
rushed upon the artillery barracks to seize the
guns. There were but 900 British troops to
oppose them, but the 600 were armed, and at
the hrst alarm were ordered out, and fred in
to the frantic mob of Sepoys. Three hundred
and fifty fell dead at the first discharge. The
rest fed, but were hotly pursued, and, out of
1900, only $50 escaped alive. This ia horri
BILE, but may have been necessary ; and, while
all deplore the fact, few will take it upon
themselves to condemn it.
Of Mana Sahib we hear nothing. He has
disappeared into the jungle, and whether he
be dead or alive is not known. But TantIa
Topee, the other insurgent, who has acquired
almost as great notoriety as the Mana still
manages to keep the field at the head of the
Gwalor tugitives, and to give our troops an
immensely of trouble by his marches and
countermarches, his lodges and doubles, and
marvellous selerity of movement. The &C.
count of his attack, when without guns,
stores, or money, upon the city of Jahira
Patun, and his capture of a large treasure,
forty pieces of artillery, aud abundance of
| stores and ammunition, reads like a romance.
| Thirty OF these guns he has since lost in an
encounter with our troops. Jahira Patun has
been relieved of the incubus of his presence
and he is again in the jungle, out of scent for
the moment OF the bloodhounds of justice,
that, sooner or later, will again be on his
| track.
The monster Rebellion has few hands left,
like the mutlated idol of a Hindoo temple,
but it has no head, no unity of plan, and no
| purpose, but such as may be prompted by the
| despair of such individuals as Tantia Iopee
and altogether the intelligence is OF chalac-
ter to justify the belief that little moro re-
mains to be done in the way of repression.
That fairly over, the more difficult task of
cancellation will begin and then, and then
only, the country will discover how heavy is
the responsibility which it has assumed in at
tempting to do justice to the people of India.