The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-10

such movement exists, notwithstanding all the
lessons they have received in this campaign. They
construct batteries and trenches without any flank
ing hre, as II for the sole purpose of having them
turned. As we watched their movements very CAV
cavalier rode out from under mango tope as if to
inspect He came down boldly, managing hand
some horse with case and grace, and as he APPROACH
ed nearer and nearer he DISPLAYED remark able re-
semblance to the eunuch of the Martiniere After
him came escort of 16 regular ancers-troopers
OF our only lancer regiment. They came on till
they were within 700 or 500 yards. Our soldiers
who were lining the bank near me, unable to re-
strain themselves any longer, blazed away and off
went the MIME balls, picking up little tufts of dust as
they bounded on the plain. You should have seen
the change in our cavalier and his followers His
head dropped at once to his horses neck, down
went his hands, and in went his heels sharp to the
horses lanks, and off, riding for life he went he'll
ter skelter, through corn, and over meadow,
ana am across fence, as If he had the eyes of all
Melton on him. His lancers were no less expedi-
tlous IN their retrograde movement Not n man
drew bride till he had placed good mile between
himself and those wasp-like missiles which had so
disturbed their composure. Their guns now opened
on the head OF the bridge aad the round shot flew
over the heads OF our men, and some crashed into
our camp behind the bridge. At the same the oh
stnate little gun which had been so long 1.-TWO davs
0! more) potherlng us from the angle the Marti-
mere, opened and tried to touch the bridge with a
cross lire. Our artillery replied to the guns in the
open, and the moment we got the range and
burst shell. and sent one round shot near
each, they limbered up and retired out of sight
Inc Martlnlere gun still kept up its fire. and two of
PeePs heavy guns were brought up to the bank to
reply to 1t, but the range was too great for them
although not for the sepoys, who fired at a reckless
elevation, so that their shot fell dead and did
not rlcochet. The guns and howtzers in the battor
on the right front of the Dilkoosa near the river
gave llve or six shots for every fire by the Sc
poys from the Martiniere. but somehow or other
they could not silence their gun or bring down the
angle wall on the top of it. Some of our shell prac
UOOl
purst on leaving the gum to the great discomposure
OF our soldiers in front of the battery / had al
most forgotten to note Sir William Peels GOODNESS
in bringing up his guns across the open to the Dill
koosha, to open on the Martiniere. The enemy laid
their guns well from the canal wall, and the shot
tore up the ground again and again lust at the
rear OF the guns, but the enemy was always
TOO late, and shot behind his bird. Sir William,
however, verges little on rashness and he seems
to believe what he said to me when talking on the
top OF the Dikoosha about the enemys fire, ooh.
inc fellows can't touch one at any distances the very
extreme range OF a matchbox is 400 yards, and at
that they can do no HARM Nevertheless this dav
they fattened their bullets against the wall over
our heads at 700 and 500 wards
NATIVE CHIEF.
w mist we were watching and waiting to get a
glimpse of Outram, whose guns mingled with in
cessant musketry, had kept up their thunder since
daybreak, diversion was effected on the roof of
the Dllkoosha in the advent of Pulwan Singh, Brig
ader OF the Ghoorkas Of Franks division-a very
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bright olive tunic trimmed with gold lace and fas-
tened across the breast with clasp of diamonds
bright olive pantaoons, with gold stripe: a cav
little oiye ska-cap, with gold lace rim, in front
OF whlch-mnes of GolcOnda there glittered
broad and large ones hand, an agrette of great
diamonds, into which was fixed iauntiv light
graceful plume of bird of paradise feathers. the
ENDS OF which were curved in gentle waving bend
Dy the weight OF pearls and emeralds attached to
them-a scimetar with jeweled hit and sheath and
Jeweled pistols by his side--what contrast did our
TREND present to plain Sir Colin in his pith helmet
pialn blue frockcoat with buttons and corduroy
trousers, whose only mark of command was his ali.
and his trusty old sabre tucked under his arm
THE ADVANCE ON THE MARTINIERE
our guns We're now laundering away-mortars
n9Witzers and 2l-pounders-at the pits huts, and
Martniere, from which the enemy kent nm an in
cessant fuslllade of the weakest sortthe ony thin
remarkable about it being its pertinactty. The
time wore on, and at last the Highlanders and
81 nlkhs h came marching from their camp, and drew
up pehnd the DilkOosha. The Chief General
Mansfield and staff were the roof but, as the
moment approached Sir Colin went down and on
foot among the men, gave his last orders to the
oflcers. And now just observe this fact. The
enemy had remained steady in their trenches
under the hre of six mortars and ten heavy ouns
and howitzers. But the instant they caught SIGHT
OF our bayonets, and that the lines of the Sikhs
anu anu iilghianders came in view, we observed
them, ny TWO and threes, and groups, and at last
In masses, running at the double as fast as they
could clear out of the works. and moving to the
rear or stealing off under cover of their parapets-
Inc Commander-ln-Ch Chief came up to the roof again
St IN tlIne to see the complete success of his plan
The orders were obeyed beautifully We saw the
Hlghanders, with skirmishers thrown out in front
advancing rapidly, without a sound in their ranks
towards the Martiniere, while the Skhs on their
nank agile as panthers, run at full speed towards
the trenches, from which the enemy, firing a
lew hurried shots from their muskets, were
nylng so fast that not a man was left inside
Dy Y 'he tlme our troops were within 200 yards of
the Martiniere. But their gunners on the rirbt
OF the Martiniere, along the canal works, had seen
the attack, and they began to pitch round shot up
10 us, and to plump them among the dhoOly- bear
ers ana t-baggage advancing in rear of our col
I InIn' IN less thGn ten minutes we saw Highland
Donnets among the trees in the park and the Sikhs
rushlng through the ruins in the rear LOOKING in
yam for an enemy. l should have mentioned, that
pelore the assault took place officer came in to
say That the enemy in the canal trench behind the
Martlniere, fearing an enfading fire from Outram
mad abandoned the works, but our glasses told us
that there were Sep0ys still in the Cavalier Baston
ana behind the high parapet which ran across the
nead OF the canal. The COmmander-n-Chef there
fore sent the following order to Sir James Outram
at one O'Clock p NJ. at is still possible to make
out people (the enemy on the line of the canal
mat Commanders Chief requests that guns may
be placed in position to enfilade it, These orders
were soon obeyed, and while the Highlanders, ad-
vancing to the wall of the Martiniere park on the
left gained the whole enclosure, another BODY of
them ana the Sikhs took possession of huts in the
the parapet of the canal trench. But soon round
shot and shell from Outram's guns, sweeping the
whole OF the left of the line, forced the enemy to
abandon the works they had constructed with much
care and labor, and on which they had relied with
so much confidence. The chief and his staff and fol-
lowers now galloped to the Martiniere-
Mounting to the summit we had a splendid view of
the Positon, put the enemy opened two guns on US,
and Sir Colin ordered all officers not on duty down
at once. Outram creeping on, and his guns.
ranging almost up to our skrmishers, with repeat
ed discharges swept every inch of the enemy's front
on their left, and crushed them entirely, so that
they contented themselves with some weak musket-
ry hre from long distances and evacuated the para
pet and bastons up to the Second Cavalier
CAPTAIN PEEL WOUNDED.
On returning to the Dilkoosha about II O'Clock
saw an anxious group of sailors at the entrance to
one OF the rooms. Captain Peel's wounded sir;
there's sad business, said one of the men, in reply
to my question. 1t was indeed So He had walked
out OF the battery to look ont for a good spot for
another gun, and matchlockman shot him through
the thigh. The ball passed by the bone, and could
Just be felt under the skin at the other side Soon
the surgeons came with chloroform, and the ball
was cut out; but nothing could keep the gallant
sailor quiet, and his anxiety to take part in the
operations was so lively to render the conseouen
ces of the wound more severe than they legiti
mately ought to be. Every one heard of the ac-
cldent with grief-''What! Peel wounded? what a
loss to us to-dayP' Such was the universal excla
nation.
AsKETCH OF THE MARTINIERE
Who built the Martiniere 1t looks like the re-
suit of a competitive examination among college
of mad architects. | know nothing of architecture
or its terms and can therefore only describe it as
long building with two wings and many windows
with pillars and composite capitals all along the
tront-a centre approached by broad esplanade, a
terrace, and grand flight of steps rising from
another esplanade, with large tank or pond in
front, from the midst of which rises a column $50
feet high. On these wings, which describe portions
OF the circumference of large circle and all along
the hat roof of the first story, there are placed in
Vulnerable statues, some Chinese some Greek, or
Roman, or Italian; some nod their heads, others
shake their arms in the wind. Above the centre
rises similar story decorated in the same way, and
above that again another smaller, and then two
slender arches sprngng from the summit cross each