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 Tunes 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 toti' fled in the utmost
disorder, and $50 of them were slain,
while the remainder betook themselves
, to the lungles. Seventeen guns with am
I muntion, 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 of them
together, it is supposed that this success
completes the subjugation 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
Baretch. Sir II. Grant had been ordered
TO assault the latter and had crossed the
Gogra for that purpose. 1t is confidently
expected that after the fall 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 81,
600 a year, settled on him for life, and
$4,000 u year upon his heirs for ever
"The gift" says a correspondent, "carved
out of the confiscated estates of Kooer
Singh, is worth 500, 600 in open market,
ano is certainly magnificent acknow-
ledgment." Cheap munifcence, that The
former practice of pensioning conquered
n11 IL,
a portion of their own private estates-has
been suppanted hy 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 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 spondent, and his
family have now finally disappeared from
the scene. On the Sd ult thev were car
ried on board the Megera, which imme-
diately steamed down the river on her
way to the Cape. The King is accompa~
MED by two of his wives, his son, and his
grandson, the only members of the race
alive, except one or two still arms" Sc
ends the mouse of Timour! Two hundred
years ago the agents of the East India
Company stood before this mans ancestor
then the absolute ruler of l00000,000 OF
people, with folded hands, begging per-
mission to exist at single town upon the
coast.
: How sad, how tragical are this poor
Kings declining days; how indescrbably
inhuman, brutal, this transportation to q
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 en-
ter into conqueror's character, magnan
, unity and justice.-PennSylpaHia.