The New York herald., 1879-02-24
Interesting Incidents Of the
English Invasion.
HAPPY NEW YEAR IN THE KH0ST VALLEY
The Science Of Murder--A Terri
BILE Hanging Scene.
LONDON, Feb. 9, 1879.

which are we'll worth reading and they important
too as showing the character of the Afghan. with
whom England has to deal politically rs well as with
the breech-loader. Besides the hostility of the
Afehans the difficulty of finding rations, water, &C..
and the terrible hill climbing, the invading army has
bitter enemy in Jack Frost While the sun shines
the weather is not cold but las the sun goes
down." writes the Standards correspondent with
General Stewart at Queta. "frost grips ones hands
with startling suldenness, and at its first touch
our servants collapse. They seem visibly to
shrink before the cold. their fingers become
useless, their wits paraly zed. tall and we'll
fed Hindoo, who has tramped his Of miles
without an effort in the sunshine do nothing but
crouch above the fire which ell his energies
spent in feeding. He squas before it, lean heap Of
clothes, and if you speak to him his brain must
thaw before understands. Servants all cluster in
a group. speechess and helpless. No warm clothing
comforts them, though it saves their lives. A sad
case is that of Major Bates. who lies in state of
paralysis. unable to move limb. Going out of his
tent at night with insufficient clothing he fell sud-
denly as il struck by bullet. Doctors suppose
that the sudden shock of cold brought out lurking
disease.
THE NATIVES HEROIC DEATH.
..Native followers have died of the fever, but
quietly and uncomplanngly that the numbers are
not to be ascertained Our party discovered two
corpses and rescued perhaps half dozen on the
road: know of, many more. If q man straggle
toward sunset if he sit down, as these people WILL
i'll the unused and semi-orpd state have described,
he must surely be frozen unless compelled to move.
accident which depends upon the passage OF some
European. The conduct OF native when he finds
himself unable to proceed is characteristic. He
makes no report, nor even noans. but draws apart,
wraps himself up, and quietly dies
UNIFORMS THROWN AWAY.
There is little uniform worn by our soldiery,
saws the same correspondent Officers ana men, Eng
lio] rntiv nrpf t1lI n dun
cotton The cut follows individual taste among ofii-
GERS wearing tunics, some jackets; trousers,
breeches knckerbockers used indiscriminately
1t is always thus campaign in India, and govern
ment cannot much longer persist i'll Supplying uni
| form which everybody d1scards when work Is ex-
! pected. Korki has recommended itself TO practi-
| cal alike for color and material.
| IDIOTS CAMEL DRIVERS.
Five camel loads belonging to Third GhOorkas were
| looted by hillmen within mile of camp. When the
drivers aryiyed, covered with blood and camoring.
| Colonel Patterson asked why they had not defended
| themselves. since government had furnished each
| OF them with sword. They frankly admitted that
tnlwar in their belts had been forgotten at the
crisis; but this proved to be unin portant fact,
for the b securely tied to the scabbard that
| the quickest of them could not draw his weapon
| under seven minutes by the clock. 1t drol to
observe the stolid contempt of the little Ghoorkas
| around for these big nincompoops.
CUTrHRoAIs.
Mr.. Macpherson Of the very ablest Indian corre
spondents and who is with General Roberts, writing
is not the inhabitants of Khost itself that
much as the tribes whose territory surrounds the
|
and Mr.. Macpherson's opinion is shown
| by later tee5raphic news to have been correct.
And as it was these tribes which finally Obliged Gei-
| ing to know more about them. The MoDgos, says
this correspondent. are set of proiessed robbers
and cutthroats. They live in black tents and nhabt
no regular villages. that when they commit
raid they roll up their habitatons and disappear As
for the Wazris, they robbers also, but, in ad-
| dition to their reputation for being clever
| thieves. they enjoy the name OF being one OF the
bravest sections OF the Afghans They claim to
| ha ipfle nd II
were TO punctuate this claim. they lose no oppor-
tunity of numbering and plundering favorite
! trick OF theirs, when they see an encampment, is
| to gather number together wait till darkness has
set in. and then march through among the tents
with drawn swords cutting at everything in their
way and stealing all they lay hands upon in the
general confusion Not pleasant people these to have
ones neghbors.
''MrRpER AS FINE ART"
| At least dozen Of our camp followers have been
cut NJ and literally crimped like Goldfish by their
bloodthrsty assailants. The Afghan. whether he be
| Tur, jail, Waziri, Mongol or Aireedee appears TO
have method in his murder. and to have studied
the art making body look us horribleas possible.
| We have had men slain in the Durwaza Pass, in
| Thuu and along the road from Thul to Khurum,
and each body found has been carved almost exactly
! in the same fashion.
| cuTrHRoATs AT WORK.
On occasion several of the followers connected
| with the transport department dawdled behind
| either TO smoke or eat their food. gang OF Turis
or Jajs. who had been watching them in ambush.
rushed down upon them with their knives. Six OF
| the camp followers were killed; the remainder
managed TO escape. Afterward men of
the Durwaza PISS. trying to make the road
better four Aigbans skulking behind
ging The scpoys went for the Afghans and cap
| tured three They questioned their prisoners as to
whether they had any weapons about them. Every
Afghan looked as innocent he could, and said he
| had not such thing knife or pistol in his
possession; never had one, in fact. They were oil
searched, however, ana each was found to have
sword. or knife concealed beneath his dress.
| Two of the knives were covered with blood There
could be little doubt about rsscals had been
| N ant
| at Hazarpir.
| CAPTURED REDHANDED.
General Roberts, with news coming in daily about
men being attacked. that vigorous steps must be
taken show the inhabitants of these parts that
were determined not to allow open lawlessness and
wanton boodshed to 30 unpunished. He therefore
passed order that the Jajis who captured in
the Dnrwaza Pass and the man who caught red
handed the opposite side OF the Khuruin should
be hanged, and that the fellow who was captured
| prowling about with the loaded gun should be pub
rus G.LLows IN THE KHosr VALLEY.
| On Tuesday these sentences were carried out In
formation OF the forthcoming execution was pub
lshed as widely possible, and an effort was made
to get the head men of the rounding villages to be
| present. At ten o'clock the morning OF the exe-
| cution great crowd OF people gathered IN tho
| vicinity of the Railows Ateeven o'c,ock company
OF the Twenty irst down the gallows with
| the four doomed prisoners in their midst. Their
dress consisted ony of long, blue cotton shirt and
loose pyjamas tied in at the anclcs In two OF tho
instances the shirts Oh rags, frayed into
ribbons at the edges and holding wonderfully together.
None OF them sandals Or hcadresses. There they
STOOD staring curiously around them, with their jet
hair hanging their faces and their hands strapped
behind their backs, and all looking thoroughly des-
| peraie ruilians. The Provost Marshal, stout-but
sergeant of the Tenth hussars, showed each his
plank and made him walk across it. This all the
did without much compuision. They bid not appear
| to realize what about to happen to thcm, and
| kept looking their shoulders to see what was
going on. Their legs were strapped together. what
appeared to be their old blue puggarees turbaDs,
were tied their faces, and the nooscs were fixed
round their necks. Then they appeared to realize
what was coming. and all commenced crying out
| prayers to Allah.
| ADMErHISG JERSEY HANGING.
| -Four European soldiers cangit up ropes attached
! to the planking. signal was given and they pulled
at the moment, sweeping away the scaiiold and
| launching the prisoners into the air. But II was
| only for a second that tho condemned hung.
/ The crossbeam crcaked and broke with startling
| crash. and the four men fell to the ground, half
| hanging, half resting their feet on the earth.
Scarcely had any person time to feel horred ut this
| unfortunate accident before the Provost Marshal
An and s.ul n bullet eut.l