The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-23
NO 65
ENeL's" PUNIsHnEN !, ssNINDIA.
moving s'Poys from the guus-
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| P"ts afom tue Guns
ASr"Ph'o Description. ..a
The following description Of ierribIe
scene in India IS taken from Mr.. Stephen
Massetfs book Of travels The officer
road:
" The Court having found YOU pntttv
OF attending seditious meeting in Bonn
nay, and OF having made use Of hiphlv
muilnous and seditious language, evino.
ing trai,orous disposition toward the
Government tending TO promote rebellion
against the State, aud 10 subyert its an.
thor''y CHE ab've being in breaoh Of the
Srucies OF wsr) sentence you, Drill
h.Vild% synee Hmeen,' Of the Marine
battalion, Native Infantry, aud Private
Mung II Guddrew,' &C No. 8 company,
Tenth regiment Na'iv- Infantry, to suffer
death by being bl ,wn away from the
muzzle of cannon" H...ss
The two men were ordered 10 diyeat
themselves of their regimental Jackets.
This was quickly done they were then
marched between Giles of the European
guard, each 20 canuOn's mouth, and
there bound tightly with ropes. ta
The culprit Drill Havildar" appeared
composed, and assumed an attitude erect
and even dignilied, until he found him
self in the grasp Of the artillery men.
He gazed imploringly upon the resi-
ment to which he had belonged-ex-
peG'ing' thought that they might rush
10 his rescue. l-.I---
de made last appeal. .... l.....
"Oho! Sahibl cap'ain-Sahibl-p
don-dear--captainW
They stood before him mo,ionlesa
and that guilty breast where sapRuinarv
resolves had ARRANGED the midnight
slaughter of defens,l ~ men, women and
children, now heaved with the mental
agony OF the doomed conspiraior.
while The two men were being bound
not ~ liable was uttered by the as
sembled crowd; the suspense heightened
seconds into minutes.
All eyes were turned for an instant
from the prisoner TO the native regiments
but they moved not .an
a rattling of steel along the line gave
n9uce mat the Enfield rifle was prepar-
ed to visit mutiny with slaughter.
AS the word prime" fell upon the
ear, l noticed the Native Tenth Infantry
shook, as by an electric thrill. ....I.
lt was not quite evident they might
have feared that at the next moment ibe
deadly rifles might be leyeled against
their 'front.' I
Simultaneously with the loading of the
infantry, he guns TO the right aud left of
the criminals were pointed al the two
native regiments, loaded 10 the muzzle
with canister and grape--snd there tho
gunners stood with signal match lighted.
| From the ramparts AZ the fort four
sixty eight Founders looked threatening
| ly upon the scene.
When the final simmons was piven--
the handouts aud uniform .ck .. re-
moved--and the English gunners were
iashins tne traitors, T. tEir. bacSs In
the cannon's mo, tn, It was res lg T. arfuI
t. notice ths Ii, despaiting expression
in the fA,es Of the doomed. ~
There was another pause; sgain the
silence became oppressiye--lhousand
and thousands of eyes riyeted their gaze
upon the victims; and the heart OF tho
strongest there stirred more quickly,
when arose from Captain b on of. the
Royal Art llery the command;
Let all tire from th ouns--except
the men with he pitf es' '''
"At the word 'Flre'-ap, ly the matcbl'
When tse word "Resdy" as given by
Capt in Bolton-tho gunners in mo-
meht light d t1eir matches-the priso-
ners aDa the aItillerymen stood immova-
bic as statues ifiav Ie
The awful word "Fire" rang out clear
as clarion not = the hammers descen-
ded on the ceps--lhe smoke rolled up
ward in sluggish tlouds--the cannoas
spoke AZ m tiues Of tlunoer, and the
'irr'vr by manv a aehastly witness
that rtttlbutoD had be, I rihly visited
npon ose who de igued {, reyel and 10
dsbble in the lliod Of massacre.
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