Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-26

FL OU, UUO SnT16k1EG 1lHUOO ucVllS SuOulO
break i'll upon the garrison Of the resi-
Lcncy, now reduced by wounds and
sickness and death to 976 men, women
Ind children.
"Call ne early" said, tomorrow
morning. and LET US be at the residency
before the Jln becomes too hot. At
O'Clock IL the morning vo Aft our no
tel in Lucknow, and said to our oblig
Ing, gentlcInanly escort, ''Please take
rs along the read by which Havelock
md Outram came to the relief Of the
tesidency.'' That was the way we went.
There was solemn stiffness as we ap-
preached the gate Of the residency. Bat
pred and torn is the masonry of the en-
fcance Signature Of shot and punctua-
ton of cannon ball all up and down and
everywhere.
''Here to the left said our escort,
care the remains Of a building the first
| floor Of which in other days had been
used as banqueting hall, but then was
used as hospital. At this part the am
putatiOns took place, and all such pa
tients died. The heat was SO great and
the food so insufficient that the poor
| fellows could not recover from the loss
of blood. They all died. Amputations
were performed without chloroform.
All the anaesthetics were exhausted. A
fracture that in other climates and IN
der other circumstances would have
come to easy convalescence here proved
fatal Yonder was Dr.. Fayrer's house,
who was surgeon of the place and is
now Queen Victoria's doctor. This up
per room was the officers room, and
there Sir Henry Lawrence, our dear
commander, was wounded. While he
sat there shell struck the room, and
some one suggested that he had better
| leave the room, but he smiled and said,
| lightning never strikes twice i'll the
same place Hardly had he said this
when another shell tore off his thigh,
and he was carried dying into DR.. Fay
rer's house Oh the other side Of the road.
| Sir Henry Lawrence had been in poor
| health for q long time before the 1nu-
tiny. He had been in the Indian service
for years, and he had started for Eng
| land to recover his health, but getting
as far as Bombay the English govern
ment requested him to remain at least
awhile, for he could not be spared III
such dangerous times. He came here to
Lucknow, and fOreseeing the siege Of
this residency had filed many Of the
rooms with grain, without which the
residency would have been obliged to
surrender. There We're also taken by
him into this residency rice and sugar
and charcoal and fodder for the oxen
and hay for the horses But now, at
the time when all the people were look
ing to him for wisdom and courage,
Sir Henry is dying. -
Our escort desert bes the scene, unique,
tender, beautiful and overpOwering, and
while I stood Oh the very spot where
the signs and groans of the besieged
and laceratad and broken hearted met
the whiz of bullets, and the demoniac
hiss of bursting shell, and the roar Of
batteries, my escort gavo me the partic-
ulars
Tried to DO His Duty.
GAS soon as Sir Henry was told that
he had not many hours to live he asked
the chaplain to administer to him the
holy communion. He felt particularly
anxious for the safety OF the women in
the resiGency, who, at any moment
might be subjected to the savages who
howled around the residency, their
breaking in only q matter of time I'M
less re-enforcenents should come. He
would frequently say to those who sur
rounded lis death couch: Save the Ia
dies. God help the poor women and
childrc1n 10 gave directions for the
desperate elofcnse Of the place. He ask
cd forgiveness Of all those whom he
might unintentionalIy have neglected or
offended. He left q message for all his
friends. lie forgot not to give direction
for the care Of his favorite horse. He
charged the officers, saying: BY no
means surrender Make no treaty or
compromise with the desperadoes. Die
fighting He took charge of the asylum
he had established for the children of
soldiers. He gave directions for his bur-
ial, saying: mo nonsense, no fuss. Let
me be buried with the men. He die
tated his own epitaph, which I read
above his tomb: Here lies Henry Law
renee, who tried to do his duty. May
the Lord have mercy On his soul. He
said: I would like to have passage Of
Scripture added to the words on my
grave, such as, ''To the Lord our God be-
long merGies and forgivenesses, though
we have rebelled against him. - Isn't
it from Daniel? So as brave a man as
England or India ever saw expired. The
soldiers lifted the cover from his face
and kissed him before they carried him
out. The chaplain offered a prayer.
Then they removed the great hero amid
the rattling hail of the guns and put
him down among other soldiers buried
at the same time. = All of which I state
for the benefit of those who would have
US believe that the Christian religion
is fit only for women in the eighties and
children under z. There was glory
enough in that departure to halo Chris