South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-11-17
Capture of a Sepoy Chief.

The India Pioneer says : have to
announce the capture in the Bombay
Presidency Of Moulvie Iiinkat Ali, the
Allahabad mutineer of 1857. Since that
year he has been wandering up and down
the country, preaching hostility to the
British Government. From the nara
tive of the 9Th of June, 1857, to be read
below, it win be seen how important the
capture is. At 8 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 fash 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 q 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 a
European Except those who had on the
4th taken the telegraphic warning of
Gen. Wheeler, from Cawnpore, and were
safe within the fort was alive in this
station. Allahabad was in the possess
sion of Mouivie Liakae Ali. This rufian
is a native of Mahgaon, the most dis
affected village of Chail, the most disaf-
fected pergunah of the district. He
was a weaver by caste, and in 1857 was
by trade a schoolmaster The excessive
sanctity of this bigot had gained for him
the respect of his village, so that on the
first outbreak of the rebellion the hiaho-
metan zemindars of Chail, only too ready
to follow any leader, placed Liakat Ali at
their head, and, marching in to Alfalfa
bad, proclaimed him the Governor Of the
district in the name of the King Of Delhi.
His headquarters were fixed III the
Khoosroo Bagh, and there the rebel
court was held. wonine-pounder guns
which had been sent by Col. Simson the
day before, with q party of the Sixth
Native Infantry to Doragunge, were
dragged by the rebels to the gardens
and put up inside the gate. For a week
the Moulvie vas in power. Fires, muir
ders and rapine filed even the natives
with horror ; but there was no system in
the outbreak, no concert between the
mutineers. The Moulvie headed the
Mohometans, while the Pragwa Brah-
Minis carried with them the Hindoo pop
ulation. The troops fought on their own
account. On the 18th of June Col.
Neill arrived in Allehabad and assumed
command of the fort. On the 18th a
grand attack was made by a party of
Fusiiers, Sikhs, and irregulars of Kyd-
gunge and Moteeguhge, supported by q
steamer moving up the Jumna with q
howitzer and some rifemen on board
The rebels were beaten at every point,
and our troops followed them up closely.
The terror of approaching punishment
soon broke up the Moulvie's camp in the
Khoosroo Bagh and on the night of the
18th Liakat Ali and all his followers fed,
leaving behind them the two guns and q
number of prisoners, among them the
brave young Cheek, who died the same
evening, his body covesed with wounds
and sores, and his mind wandering.
Conductor Coleman was also among the
Moulvie's prisoners, and died soon after
his release from the wounds he had re-
ceived in his capture. Meanwhile the
Moulvie had escaped ; from the 17,h of
June, 1857, up to Saturday last he has
been wandering aboct the country try
ing to stir up the people to bring back
old days when the hold of the British on
India was being loosened. and he Liakat
ALL was %reioning in the Khoosroo Bayh
at Allahabad."