Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06
Ancr ~ Battle.

The following graphic sketch, from the pen of
an English officer who served with his regiment
throughout the war against the Sepoy mutineers
in India, describes the field of battle after the
victory of Mundasoore
A battlefield Immediately after an action is
no very inviting scene. More than one sense Is
sickened by the objects around the air is tainted,
and death stares you in the face in most hideous
form swollen and bloated carcases covered with
vultures, or being torn to pieces by the pariah
dogs corpses lying drawn up in heap, burnt
to cinder /; some without q vestage of clothing,
others lying peacefully as they fell the village
was almost too foul to pass through almost eve
ry house had its inmates of dead in some ghastly
form or othcr-what the sword had commenced
fire had ended Death and black ruin lay every
where together. Spite of all this, one old woman,
who seemed nearly eighty years of age, had re-
mained there q witness of the fearful consumma-
ton. Perhaps she was too feeble to fly, or held
the little life then flowing in her veins too WORTH
less TO prolOng. She appeared starving rs she
sat on a stone feebly signing and drinking water
from little earthen vessel There was no one
to comfort her and the s0dery passed her by as
they would dog Down well. not far from
the village, we found man hiding in recess
of the earth How long he had been there no
one knew, but he was too feeble to ascend by
rope which was thrown down to him. However,
we helped him up, and when he gained The top
he was too weak to stand Some brandy and
water and native bread was offered to him but
this he refused as he might have done poison, al-
though he appeared dying from starvation! An
other was discovered in n tree, where he must
have been for three days. He refused at first to
come down q muskct was pointed at him, which
had the desired effect down he came, matchbox,
tulwar, and powder horn, too. In his belt we
found eighty eight rupees This the men divided,
fhn IVag n sent
camp.
In one of the fields an old woman was found
with her right leg shattered by she'll in another,
a Hie giyi of about nine, with her left leg shat
tered All over the madam were scattered En-
plsh books papers, envelopes, ladies' slk-dresses
covered with blood, bonnets, parasols elegant
drawing room chairs, and other things the rebels
had pundcred from Neemuch and other stations.
The village still smoudered the high crops
were all beaten down the earth torn up ; null
ahs filled with broken furniture, dead cattle and
men black heaps OF ashes lay here and there,
with charred corpses In their centres; the air
was laden with slckening gases, in which vul-
lures, kites, and crows circlod and screamed
over the horrd carcasses below; wretched camp
followers were prowling among the corpses and
ruins-women, laughing and trampling through
the broken cOrn-men, turning about mangled
bodies, diving into wells and tanks, climbing
trees, aud breaking down grain stacks-all
searching for plunder like cowardly assassins,
aud reveling in the horrors Of death, like lends!
BIBLICAL QuorATIoxs.-W are more and moro
satisfied, from several samples of Bible reading
which have come under our observation, that
our public characters, especially politicians,
ought to be careful how they meddle with Scrip
ture.
Governor Wise, of Virginia, in his recent letter
Ln.I Rauhnna
have tried to sell me into Egypt for my dream
ing" Whereupon the New York Express says :
The Governor has reference, doubtless, to tho
story of Joseph being sold in Egypt-but unfor-
tunately, he has got it all wrong. Reuben, 1t so
happens, was the only one of the brothers who
did not want TO sell him. The Governor should
ioin a Bibe-class, right Off"
member of Congress from Illinois, few
years ago, (Mr. Hoge,) is reported as quoting in
debate, the following lines, as coming from the
| Bible:
"While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return"
This quotation Of Mr.. Hoge brings to mind an
anecdote related to us by q clergyman as occur
ring within his knowledge. good woman (the
" weaker vesser very likely of the two) had lost
her husband by death-and receiving visit of
coincidence from the minister, she entered pretty
fully into detail of her feelings of loneliness
and grief, in her widowed condition. She said
she found herself going back and forth, wander
ing about the house all day long. from garret to
celar-now looking into the room where her
poor, dear husband died. then trysg to divert
her mind by doing chores about the house, and
then, again, going to the good Book for consoa-
ton. She was, she said, a poor, lone woman.
and she couldn't help thinking all day long OF
that very touching passage OF Scrpt9re-in Tue
Book OF Lamentations, she believed IL was
which hit her case exactly =" GoOsey goosey gan
der, where wiH you scaHder Z"