The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-31

tlcuiarIy on the part VI poftions VI Sho
cavalry. Hereafter if the guilty parties
cannot be reached, the commanders of the
regiments and detachments will be held
responsible, aud those who prove them
selves neqaal to the task of preserving dis
cipline in their commands, will be prom pit
Nv reported to the War Department for
"mustering out" Summary punishment
must be inflicted upon al officers and SOL
dlers apprehended in acts OF violence or
| lawlessness.
BY order of Maj. Gen, u. S. GRANT.
| T. S. Bowers, A. A. A. G..
! PermixAioa Asked 10 Burn the Body
OF am Indian Princess i'm Eng
land.
An Indian princess, the Maharanee
Jeuden kower, widow of the late Maha-
rsjah Runieet Singh. Of tbs Sikhs, and
mother of the present Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh, who died on the LIST inst, near
London, was remarkable woman, whose
career is briefly sketched in an English
paper:
"a quarter of century ago this faded
Sikh woman, who has just passed away
among us so silently, was the most pow
erfu SuItaBa in Asia. She was the ia
yorite wife of Runieet Singh's zenana,
and, ruling him. she ruled all Northern
India, from the Krey Der Pass to the SUIT
lei. TO have pronounced her name, far
more to have misspclled it, would have
cost the life of the audacious offender;
/ and in her quarrels all the Punjaub chiv-
ally " oald have drawn their swords as
/ for an oriental Maria Theresa. When
/ she deeked her person 10 worship at m
/ ritsur, or for the revels IN the palace gar
deus Of Lahore, the Mountain of Light
siiitered upon her forehead. Twice, OF
her own imperious will, Intriguing with
restless ambition for her family. she de-
clared war upon the English in India -
, In the great game which she has played
in her timr the lives OF men were regard
F, ed BY her as mere pawps; she swept them
4 from tie board at wblm. Cruel rs q
Locusta, lustiul as a Messalina.' proud
and pitiless as Catharine, now SIZE dies
unregarded in London suburb, hl ~
a memory, her son dethroned and n yer
/ eyes an infde!, her dominions a proyiace
OF the English, her splendid jewel { the
hoh i.noor an ornament IN the English
Queens tressury-as wonderful an ex-
ample altogether Of human yicissitude as
history often exhibits"
In the London Times Of the 9Th inst,
there appears . letter from two Of the
Princess's retaincrs, soliciting that her
body may not be buried but burned. The
letter, which is very curious, we give in
FULL
TO the Editor Of the Times:
"SlR: Her highness the Msharanes
e Jindkore, OF Lahore, mother of his high.
) ness tho Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. died
( on the first current at Abingdon House
: kensington, in the Hindoo faith, and We
! understand it is proposed to bury her
"Ihe practice is contrary to the reig
) ion of the Sikhs, and as his Highness tie
) Mabarajah denies our right to dispose o.
: the body according TO our customs. WI
Q are constrained, as q matter OF conscience
| to appeal to the country for protection
aud beg you will kindly allow us a plae,
I; IN your spirited journsl, 70 enter publ.
protest against the intended desecration
"Agreeably 10 our rules, the body
ought to be burnt and the ashes given to
the Ganges. The thing is simple enough
in itself, and, as it infringcs no moral oil
physical law, we certainly cannot believe
the wisdom and intelligence Of the land
would oppose our acting as our religion
directs.
J Besides, the belief Of all religionists
: is that no funeral is hallowed uuless q
priest, or, in his absence, laymau Of th,
q religion OF the deceased, ofiiciates at hi
j obscqnies. Now, 1t is not competent t,
!, a Christian minister tn afford the rites O
d burial to her Highness, and we, on GU
u part, cannot render any assistance If tn
n remains are to be buried. It's hard then
i her Highness saOG!d I've deprived Of tn
II offices the meauest claim aud recev
J. throughout the civilized globe, and tia
n We should be refused the consolation q
c diseharging the last sad duty ter our mis-
n tress that is the right Of all, and that i
y not il the power OF his Highness the NJ,
= haralall, or any other Christian, to ia,
d, "Her Highness was particularly car,
ii ful about everything relating to caste
indeed, so much so, that up TO her d,
I'D mise she refused to eat when his II "a
or mess the @Maharajah happened to be c
be the same carpet with herself. and, so tn
NJ she might not be compromised, had
er separate establishment of iudians, wi
til attended to her table and everything co
p nected with il.
he 'ln asking to dispose of her Highnes,
mt remains according to our religion, the
re- we feel We are fulfilling her Hichu 81
ID, wishes, and are satisfied. had she -
OF her dissolution was at hand, She wau
Yer have left definite Instructions for .ae
e posal OF her body after the forms ul /
es Sikh religion.
bis Reiteratlng our protest in the mar
he Of the friends and relations Of her He
in ness the Maharanee Of the Sikhs in q
eral, both here and abroad, and in the
'ro- terests Of civil and religious liberty,
tie Owe have the honor 10 be, Sir,
AIRY g. our very ob't servants