The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-12

One by one the rebel leaders in British India
are either being crushed out by the forces under
Lord CLYDE, or are rendering their submission
and surrendering their strongholds on the terms
offered them by the proclamation of Queen VIC
ToRIA. The province of Dude, which constituted,
subsequently to the siege of Delhi, the focus of the
rebellion, is gradually becoming quoted. On the
Goth of November, LALL MADH SINGH, one of the
most powerful of the many feudal princes of Dude
and also one of the largest landed proprietors in
Northwestern India after wavering for many
months between loyalty and rebellion, surrendered
the strong fortress of Ahmetee to Lord CLYDE, and
rendered, Internationally, his submission. A
large number of the smaller Talookdas have fol-
lowed his example, and the few who still continue
to hold out-the PEIsHwA and TANTIA TopEE-
alone are at the head of any considerable force of
insurgents. The most spirited offensive operations
have been those which were undertaken against
TANTIA ToPEE. That chief, after being driven out
of Dude, passed into Central India By superior
activity he succeeded in outsripping his pursuers
and finally reached the wild and unfreuuented
district forming the eastern portion of the
Vindhya and Mahadeo mountains Deserted by the
commander of his cavalry, the Nawab of Banda
who surrendered at Sohagpore to Lord MARK
KERR, TANT1A TopEE, accompanied only by RAo
SAHIB and four thousand men-the last remnant
OF the army of the PEIsHwA-pushed forward to
Futtehpore, closely followed by KERR's Southern
Mahratta horse numbering only three hundred
and fifty sabres. In the rear of Futtehpore rose
the Putchmurree mountains, (Which are some
forty miles deep, and quite unsuited for cavalry
''ln front of the town stretched thick, rocky
Jungle, about two and half miles in depth
1.-THE town itself being intersected with numerous
deep ravines." Finding it impossible to dis
lodge the rebels, and fearing they would make
their escape among the narrow defes of the noun
tains, KERR despatched small party of shkarrees
to attack the fugitives if they should endeavor to
elude their pursuers by taking to the hills In the
meantime other detachments were marching to
to the support of KERR; but before they were
ready to cooperate with him, TANTIA TopEE
evaded the guards in the defles-and, by Jungle
paths, and through passes practicable only to sim
gle horsemen retreated to Sindwarra, in the
hope OF reaching the Nagpore territories, but
on the approach of detachment from Nagpore he
fled with his followers in a southwesterly direction
by way of Mooltai to Baitool. Between the latter
place and HoSungabad, he crossed General MIcHEIs'
line of march, and traversing the northern face of
the Satpoora hills, reached Peepleeode on the 10th
OF November. On the approach of detachmepts
under Colonel BEEcHER and Captain BUCKLE. he
quilted Peepleeode, after burning the town, and
marched to Kundwa from whence he proceeded
the next day to Churam, with the intention of
forcing the passage of the Nerbudda Whether he
subsequently succeeded in fording the Nerbudda,
or was endeavoring to double upon his footsteps,
has not yet been ascertaiued but, from the meas
ures that had been taken to surround him on all
sides, the belief was very generally entertained
that his speedy capture was inevitable That
TANTIA ToPEE will voluntarily surrender is scarce
ly to be expected, knowing, as he does, that the
perfidy of his course, and the many atrocities he
has committed, exclude him from the benefits of
the amnesty which has been granted to minor
onenders. His success thus far, in battling pur-
suit, has been due to his perfect knowledge of the
routes to be traversed and to his superior activity
Scarcely less remarkable, however, was the pur-
suit urged by KERR's Southern Mahratta horse. In
thirty-eight days, that cavalry detachment ac
complshed a march from Kudadghee to Hosun-
gabad, distance of six hundred and fifty miles,
during which KERR crossed five large rivers,
hundreds of brimful nullah's, toiIed painfully
Through black soil converted into slime by heavy
rains, and during the whole march only passed
"over thirty miles of made road" With such
spirit animating handful of men, the heroic feats
which the Anglo-Indian troops have accomplished
in battle, cease to excite any surprise We are
now told that 'India is all but tranquilized" The
submission, which had already teen partially en-
forced at the lannon's mouth, the proclamation of
the Queen is in fair way of perfecting The only
task which now remains to be performed, is to
break up the few struggling bands of rebels that
still keep the field, and by an impartial administra-
ton of justice, to restore that confidence in the
integrity of the government which the magnitude
OF the revolt, and the causes to which it was as
cribed, had so rudely shaken.