Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-02-23
DOings in British India.


The dispatches and letters from British
India which, not long since, were so eag-
erly read, here and abroad, seem TO have
lost entirely their former charm. The con-
slant repetition Of the incidents of strag-
Cling campain with its everlasting defeats,
marches, routs and victories, proved too
much for the patience of the reading pub
lie, and so they dismissed the subject from
their minds. Not so the British letter
writers, who still furnish their six long,
broad columns apiece, at every arrival OF
the mail to their respective journals
The Times correspondence contains a
description of the massacre which occur
red on the oath of December, in the Doab.
The rebels, we are told, finding their re-
| treat likely to be cut off fled in the utmost
disorder, and $50 of them were slain,
while the remainder betook themselves
, to the iungles. Seventeen guns with am
munition, all the carts, and most of the
muskets fell into the hands of the Eng
lish who expect that the survivors will
disperse and go home. Though Omroa
Lingle had cOntrived to hold some ofthcm
together, it is supposed that this success
completes the subjugaton of Southern
Dude, which probably means only, that no
more resistance en- maSSe will be offered
there. In northern Dude matters stand
as follows: The army there, which is said
to be strong in artillery, is commanded by
the Begun, the Queen of Dude. They
hold many forts, of which the strongest is
Bareitch. Sir II. Grant had been ordered
TO assault the latter, and had crossed tn 3
Gogra for that purpose. 1t is confidently
expected that after thefall of Bareitch the
Begum's corps will no Longer venture upon
resistance in open battle, that they will
! disperse, and that so the rebellion will
have wholly disappeared from Dude. Yet,
it may be, and is very probable even, that
the dispersed army, securing the country
in small bands, will necessitate the con.
slant, active aid of the army to carry on
what government there is possible in Dude.
The disorganizatiou of the rebel corps
is thus nearly complete, but it was less the
work of the British arms than bribery
! Every service rendered by distinguished
natives to the British army. every act of
treason against their country, was bril-
liantly rewarded. A citizen OF Arrah who,
at the rising in August, 1857, rendered
some assistance to the British troops has
just been rewarded with n pension of S..
600 a year, settled on him for life, and
$4,000 year upon his heirs for ever
1.-The gift, says a correspondent, "carved
out Of the coniiscated estates of KooeI
Singh, is worth 100000 in open market,
anG is certainly n magnificent acknow.
/ ledgment." Cheap muniiicence, that The
! former practice of pensioning conquered
Indian soveregns-thati is, allowing them
| portion of their own private estates-has
been supplanted by still more economical
practice. Many OF them have been killed
, during the present struggle, in cold blood,
when they fell into the hands of the Brit
ish as prisoners of war, among them the
princes of Delhi, who were slain by the
hand of a heroic British officer, a Captain
Hodson, the moment they were delivered
up to him "a captives. Their aged, venc-
rable father was doomed 20 share the fate
of the King of Dude. "The King of Delhi. "
writes the Times correspondent and his
family have now finally disappeared from
the scene. On the Sd ult. they were car
ried on board the Megera, which imme-
diately steamed down the river on her
way to the Cape. The King is accompas
MED by two Of his wives, his son, and his
grandson, the only members of the race
alive, except one or two still arms" So
ends the mouse of 1imour! Two hundred
years ago the agents of the East India
Company stood before this mans ancestor,
then the absolute ruler of l00,000,000 OF
people, with folded hands, begging per-
mission to exist at q single town upon the
coast.
How sad, how trogical are this poor
Kings declining days; how indescribably
inhuman, brutal, this transportation to a
desolate rock of the old man of IS years
who, robbed of all that was dear to him on
earth, stands already with one foot in his
grave. 1t is true that conquest is as old
as the world, but where find we in the his
tory of the conquest of India, single
manifestation of those great redeeming
and mitigating features that generally Ell.
ter into a conqueror's character, magnan-
unity and justice.-Pennsyhania.