The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-04
A FEAST OF FEROCITY.
TREEBAU's DEEDS OF MURDER IN
BURMAH
The Murder Of Hts Relations by the King
OF Burmah-A narrowing Tale Of
Human Fer0c1ty-victIms of the Knife,
the Lash and the Club.

the Lash and the Club. |
LONDON, April 28-The Rsngoon eorre- |
spondence Of the Daily Ne,cs gives graphic |
account of the late horrors at Mandalay. |
The Kings fears continued to gain upon |
him as one after another Of the princes |
pinned away and died In the frightful under
ground prisons Of the palace, loathsome with |
the filth never removed since these dens were |
constructed, years ago. Fears Of British in |
tervention alone prevented him from putting |
them all to death months ago. Suddenly the
news OF the disaster in Iululand reached |
Mandalay. That apparently decided him, |
and a work Of coId-blooded Dutchery began |
which will hardly find parallel In history. |
At first the massacre was carried on accord |
ing to old Burmese wont. The victims were
led out OF their cells In twos and threes, |
brought to shekho to the King and then dis |
posed OF in ordinary Buddhist fashion The |
head Of the victim was tied down to his |
ankles, and blow on the back Of the neck
this soon proved too mild spectacle for the |
fiendsh mind Of Theebau. The Fhougza |
prince, whose insolent bearing English Wis !
itors to Nandalay will remember, on being
brother-the King is past twenty one years |
professed an utter scorn for what could be
done to him, and was logged to death. The |
late Kings Oldest son-the truculent Mex |
haya prince, who used to look upon all for |
eigners as 80 much dirt under his feet
turned craven, and was tainted and driven
to madness before receiving the blow which
only half stunned him, when his writhing
body was thrown into the gigantic trench
was carried on in a leisurely fashion, ex-
tending over several days, fiendish ingenu-
ity being taxed to the utmost to devise fresh
horrors.
it was captured by the British in 1856, had
his nose and mouth filled with gunpowder, a
light was applied, and he was then flung into
the trench to be stified by the bodies OF sue
ceeding victims. The daughter OF the Nyoung
to eight soldiers Of the royal guard to be
pitched insensble into the same heaying
grave when they had gratified their brutal
lust. The wife OF one prince, far advanced In
pregnancy, was ripped up, and the agonized
husband was brought to see his wife and child
once more before he died. After some days
OF this sort of thing the executioners got
weary and hurried through their task. Little
children we're put in blankets and swung
against the palace walls, women were bat
tered over the head, as taking less trouble
than tying them up, SO as to get blow on
the neck. Together about ninety persons are
believed to have been put to death in this
way. No one was allowed to leave the
palace while the massacre WAS going on; but
It seems certain that Mr.. Shaw, our resident,
was inside the palace walls within very
short time OF it's commencement. He had
been to a concert given by one OF the minis
ters. One object Of this pwai was to drown
the cries Of the victims The remonstrance
with Mr.. Shaw, at the instanceo OF our govern
ment, addressed to the king. was received
with the utmost contempt and he was told in
as many words to mind his own business
that Burmese domestic affairs had nothing
whatever to do with the British government.
The guard OF thirty SepOys conceded to him
arrived a short time afterWard but was not
allowed to land for day, and the detach-
ment for Mr.. st. Barbe, at Bhomo, was not
allowed to disembark at all, though that gem
tleman was at Mandalay.
There is no doubt that the lives of Mr..
Shaw and all the English residents in Man
dalay are In very great danger, and the act
OF one fanatic may bring about general
massacre. The most various accounts pre-
vail as to the forces the king has at his dis
posal, but probably he could not muster
more than $1,000 men, and of these the major
ton, but there is no doubt that the account of
the disaster to the Twenty Fourth at Borke's
Drift has produced a profound impression,
and the Burmans are convinced they can
easily repeat what the negroes" for whom
they have consummate contempt, have done
before them. There is a most uneasy feeling
In Rangoon, and should there be war with
Upper Burmah there would certainly be
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