Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-08-19
ENGLISH PUNISHMENT IN INDIA.
BLOWING sEPoYs FROM THE GUNs-A GRA
PHO DESCRIPTION.

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I The following description OF a terrible scene
in India is taken from Mr. Stephen Massett'.
book Of travel. personal gossip and adventure
called Drifting About recently published
by Carleton, and already fayorably noticed
among our new publications. The sketch is
entitled
"BLowISe AWAY FROM the GVEs.n
The afternoon Of the 18Th Of October it will
be difficult for me to forget
I yGs seated about one. O'Clock taking stif-
liz or lunch, in company with Lieutenant
Timn, Of the Z. I. c. service, chatting with
him upon the probabilities Of = good or bad
isuuse -for-the concert Of the evening, when
he remarked: fear your chances are "a
iher slim, old fellow. to-uight--for the fact is,
its my Impression that we shall al be in or
near kingdom-come by to morrow morn
ing" Ct -
asked him what he meant? He replied:
The Commander-in, chief has just telegraph
ed from Poonah to the Colonel Of the regi-
ment here that the sentence is to be carried
into effect upon the two ringIeaders this az
ternoon, and at five they are to be blown
away " Adding I fear the natives will
rise en-. maSse and murder US all !" asking me
at the same time If l had Colt"
I was too sick at the prospect to joke, 2or
I'd lave replied that ! would Ike to run of
on the back Of one, If I conldl So replied
that 1 had never carried any Firearms in any
Of my travels. We'll, well, be replied,
" I've got a six barrened one; you 60 on TO
the esplanade with me; we'll keep together
and TIE worst come to the worst, well die
together"
With these reflections, and giving up al
idea Of exhibiting that night, We left the ho-
tel for-the scene Of death.
have before spoken of the beauty of the
larbor and the surroundings Of dis city, and
the nlagniGcence ofits situstion.
The haFbor is certainly not inferior to any
in the world, the beauty and splendor of its
scenery are unrivalled, and indeed, many
think it surpasses the far-iamed bay Of Ma
Pies.
In what is called the fair portion of the
year the vision is delighted amidst the fairy
tracery ofPurple hiils, and during the mon
soon the sublimity of the tempest, and the
storm careering in all the grandeur Of the
tOrrid zone, strikes awe into the inmost re-
cesses Of every heart.
As gazed, the harbor looked calm and stiI f!
as an inland see, Which had never felt ebb or
flow of tide; flags of every nation Auttered
in the orient breeze, and as the sun descend /
ed toward the horizon, the big city lay bath
ed in a sea of gold, and the glories OF the set
ting lumiaary were painted in gorgeous pic
tures on the western sky.
The Ghauts mountains, richly wooded to
the base, showed in the gilded atmosphere
their castellated SUBMITS, as if upon their tops
Titans had reared their fortresses.
The neaBr landscape decked in milder |
beauty, exhibited the ever graceful palm; the
loary banyan tree that counts centuries as /
years; the stately nym with Leaves that
whisper to the wind; birds with the most
brilliant and glittering plumage fitted about;
he cooling, gentle, ripping waves of the Ar /
,bian Sea, as they kissed in broken murlnurs
he yellow beach, ard the hum of city nun
oering eight hundred thousand souls, spoken
n solemn tones Of the dreadful example /
ghich mighty race is about to exhibit for the |
domination and the punishment Of one inferi-
", trescherous and cruel
I was standing on the esplanade-and /
he dread hour OF FIVE was fast approach
ng.
Out of every gateway from the fort, na-
ives and Europeans were thronging to the
military parade ground. while from the native
own alley, street aud lare dsgUrged tl.eir
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