Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-23

BARBARITIEs or WAR.-Aboliton England
prates of her philanthropy, but M nation under
the sun has sanctioned such blrbarities as she
has. Her hireing Indians to scalp the helpless
settlers our ironteers during the war OF lcl2
was exceeded by her treatment of the rebellious
Sepoys i'm 1887. So late as 1860 she stands by
and gives up prisoners to the most cruel tortures
The following extract from letter written bv an
English soldier, describing action between the
English and lmperasts against the Taepngs IN
CHINA, in 1860, pictures sickenng scene of
horror:
| went with the crowd to see the execution of
the Taeping prisoners that had been given up for
execution inlo the hands OF the Mandarins by the
English and French authorities, or, what Is the
same thing. they took no measure to prevent the
ruthless butchery of those they lent their aid to
capture; when, horror OF horrors. how am | to dc
scribe the dreadful scene, or will 1t ever leave my
memory? Among those wretches young
and old, of both sexes, and OF all ages and sizes
from the infant recently born to the man OF
eighty. tottering on his staff; from the enceinte
woman TO the Young maiden from ten 10 eigh
teen The latter were pushed out by the guards
among the crowd OF ruffians assembled, and
were taken into the sheds and by-places and de-
bauched and again dragged back by the hair OF
the heads to the Chinese guards To await their
turn for execution. Some of them had tainted,
and were pulled along the ground to the execu
their clothes and ripped them from the lower part
OF the abdomen to the breast, which were dashed
with curse into their faces. The bowels, as
matter OF course gushed out, but the cut was made
i'm such a way and so skiltuiiy and with such eX
pertneSS that the intestines were seldom injured.
After little time in this state of excessive tor
ture. the exeeutioner thrust his hand into the
chest and tore out the reeking heart, his victim
looking him in the face all the while.
A nj n ri mGuthS
pre- .nant who never uttered groan or sigh at
all the previous crueltieS she had endured from
the surrounding mob, had her infant cut out OF
her womb and held up in her sight by one OF its
little hands bleeding and quiverng; when at the
sight she gave one eartrending piercing screech
that would have awakened pity in tiger. aud
after il had been in that state dashed against her
breast, she, with last superhuman effort. re
leased her arms from those holding her down.
and claspe.i her infant to her bleeding heart, and
died holding it there with such force that they
could not be separated, and were thus thrown to-
cether on the pile of other carca>seS. Another
Young woman among the prisoners awaiting her
turn TO be uIsembo~led. with fine boy OF ten
months old growing and jumping IN her arms. had
him snatched suddenly away from her and nung
Ia the executioner, who plunged the ruthless
knife into ais tender breast before his mothers
ewes Infants but recently born were torn
from their mothers breasts, and disemooweied
before their faces. Young men were dsembow-
eed muti!ated. and the parts cut oil thrust into
their own mouths. or flung among the adm'ring
and laughing crowd OF Cinnamon But no more:
| can write no more of these scenes: | can now
only regret forever that looked on the dreadful
sight. | am no longer tit to be soldier. have
been in many battles during the last twenty
wears, and in the thickest OF the fight in most OF
them. where a rage and thirst Tor carnage Is
dreadful to reflect on Afterwards; but nothing
heretofore that have seen or heari OF, or even
read of. could be compared To the dreadful cruel
" of the dsembow cling execution. Poor p,
who came with me 10 see the execution Tell
down in a flinting ft, anu was m that state car
rel away and Is now a ravins maniac rom me
effects the dreadful sight had on him. Ma! God
forgive Eng land for the part she y taking IA t'is
war. and may the sin of her enormities she ms
assisted ia perpetrating on the deienseless women
/ and innocent and helpless child be removed from
/ her door.