Connecticut western news., 1871-11-17
Capture of a Sepoy Chief.

The India Pioneer says eve have to announce the capture in the Bombay Presidency of Moulvie Liakat Ali, the Allahabad mutineer of 1857. Since that year he has been wandering up and down hhe country, preaching hostility to the British Government. From the narra
 tive of the 9th of June, 1857, to be read below, it will be seen how important the capture is. At 9 o'clock on the evening of the 9th of June, 1857, the mutiny broke out in the station of Allahabad. A rocket was seen to be fired from the direction of Papamow, and quickly in answer another shot up from the canton ments. The flash had hardly left the sky when the roll of musketry told that the bloody work had begun. The ac- cursed Sixth Regiment of Native Infantry had mutinied, and the officers fifteen in all, were being murdered in their mess room (now Bank of Bengal by the men who, three hours before. had had read to them on parade letter of thanks for their loyalty from Lord Canning, and had cheered Justify, crying out to be led against the rebels of Benares. Next day the green flag of the prophet was flying over the city Kotwali, and not q European (except those who had on the 4th taken the telegraphic warning ol Gen. Wheeler, from Cawnpore, and were safe within the fort) was alive in this station. Allahabad was in the posses. sion of Moulvie Liakae Ali. This rufiar is native of Mahgaon, the most dis affected village of Chail, the most disaf fected pergunah of the district. He was weaver by caste, and in 1857 wa' by trade schoolmaster The excessive sanctity of this bigot had gained for hin the respect of his village, so that on tht first outbreak of the rebellion the Maho metan zemindars of Chail, only too read, to follow any leader, placed Liakat Ali a their head, and, marching in to Allaha bad, proclaimed him the Governor of th' district in the name of the King of Delhi His headquarters were fixed ill tn, Khoosroo Bagh, and there the rebe court was held. Two nine-pounder guns which had been sent by Col. Simson thu day before, with 8 party of the Sixtl Native Infantry to Doragunge, lwer
 dragged by the rebels to the garden and put up inside the gate. For weel the Moulvieswas in power. Hires, mur ders and rapine filled even the native with horror but there was no system il the outbreak, no concert between tn
 mutineers. The Moulvie headed tn
 Mohometans, while the Pragwal Brah mins carried with them the Hindoo pop ulation. The troops fought on their ow1 account. On the 11th of June Col Neill arrived in AlIehabad and assumed command of the fort. On the 18th
 grand attack was made by a party o 'Fusiliers, Sikhs, and irregulars of Kyd gunge and Moteeguhge, supported by
 steamer moving up the Jumna with
 howitzer and some rifemen on board The rebels were beaten at every point and our troops followed them up closely The terror of approaching punishmen soon broke up the Moulvie's camp in tn Khoosroo Bagh :; and on the night of tn 18th Liakat Ali and all his followers fled leaving behind them the two guns and
 number of prisoners, among them tn
 brave young Cheek, who died the sam evening, his body covered with wound and sores, and his mind wandering Conductor Coleman was also among tn
 Moulvie's prisoners, and died soon afte his release from the wounds he had re celved in his capture. Meanwhile tn Moulvie had escaped from the 17th c June, 1857, up to Saturday last he ha been wandering about the country try ing to stir up the people to bring bac
 old days when the hold of the British O India was being loosened, and he (Liaka AlD was reigning in the Khoosroo Bag at Allahabad. L A # 5s,.!