Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-12
The English and Montgomery Difficulty

gives the following account of the natter
 About one o'clock today a new and mo- mentous political issue was sprung upon the country. This great matter is called THE EN- GL1sH AMENDMENT TO THE MONTGOMERY BILL, OR, THE INDIANA BILL A LITTLE AHEAD
 This thing will fall upon the abolitionists like thunder in clear day Before this reach. es you, the telegraphic wires will carry from here to Greedy, and from him over the country, once every two minutes, the exact state of Mr. Montgomery's wounds. The only difference between this and the great Sumner tragedy = which constituted one of the chief blanks of the black republican platform in 1856--is that, m this case, the sufferer will not be threatened with softening of the brain' for it has been de- monStrated as physiological fact that Mont gomery has no brains
 ''The history of this great issue is simply this:
 The abolitionsts and their Douglas allies are very angry with Mir. English, of Indiana because he would not join them last winter in crusade against the democratic party. English met Montgomery this afternoon in front of Hammack's eating house; walked up to him, and With smile, extending his hand, said How do you do, Montgomery? I believe we haven't met since last winter Montgomery gave him his hand and said, You damned pup py, how dare you speak to-?' But before he had finished the sentence English struck him across the side of the neck with his cane, and with one blow actually knocked him off the pavement into the gutter on to his hands and kness. Montgomery soon recovered his scattered instincts, Oor he has got no senses,) picked him. self up, brought up with him brick, which he | threw toward English, who was then coolv walking away. The brick did not fiv as far as English was away, but came near hitting lady passing. MT. English passed on as if nothing had happened. His cane, which was black iron wood, an inch in diamiter, was broken nearly ill the middle. The blow would have feled an OK. Montgomery is about five feet eleven inches high, and weighs two hundred and twenty and IS made up more like Tom Claws premium bull than any other animal have seen. English is two inches shorter than Mont gomery, and weighs one hundred and thirty. five, Is slim, compact, well built man, but he gave Montgomery big lick.
 Montgomery went immediately and enter ed a complaint before Justice Dom against En- glish for assault and battery Mr. English, hearing of this, went before the Justice. and after an examination was held to five hundred l dollars bail to appear at court, and then Mont gomery sent word to English that if he (Eng. lish) would put away his weapons and meet him he would fight him without them Tell hlm' said English to the messenger, 'Fll fight him with anything from needle to an anchor.'" WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS IN INDA-Mr. Charles Buxton, an English member of Parlia- ment, thus spoke of the wholesale executions which have occurred ill India:
 How many persons do you thing we execu- ted in the city of Allababad? Just realize the awful horror of but one execution--the mental agony of the man who feels the rope round his neck, and then the drop fall. In that city we executed in cold blood hirteen Aundrea persons,
 Shame.] In the Punjaub, where no outrage whatever was committed, we executed fue Mou- sand persons! l read that myself, in letter from Sir J ohn Lawrence. Is it not awful to think ot hanging or shooting five thousand human beings? And if this was done in the Punianb, what must have heen done in Bengal where re- bellion really ragged? Why, we seem to have put to death without mercy any man who took | sides agalnst us. For instance Raiah saved the life of Mir. Mitchell and other Europeans. But, under compulson, as he said, he aided the rebels. He was caught and hanged. I knew the family of an officer of the Bhopaul Contin- gent.
 They told me that when the contingent mu- tinied two hundred of them, with great diffi- culty, saved the life of this gentleman and his brother officers, and also refused to march off and take up arms with the mutneers We'll General - arrived And what did he do but put to death these very two hundred men. on the ground that they had fought against their brethren. And heard MT. Layard give an ac- count of their execution, which was heartrend Ing to hear. Shame, shame. A friend of my own wrote home, with glee. how he had de- stoyed eighty villages. read letter from soldier, who said that after wholesale massa- ere of their prisoners they flung the bodies into pits and covered them. over. One of them recovered his senses, and came wandering into camp He was again shot the next.morning.- All about Delhi the head men of every village where the telegraph had been broken were hanged though they had no more to do with it than had. 1 said it in the House, and I say here again, that the men who did that did mur- der.