Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-10

Wall IS ABOUT ~ I06G n1RQ. Inside Ln1S
wall there is marble pavement I
paced it and found it 81 PAGES around.
In the center of this Enclosure and i'm
mediately above the we'll of the dead
is a sculptured angel of resurrection,
with illumined face, and two palm
branches, meaning victory. This angel
is looking down toward the slumberers
beneath, but the two wings suggest the
rising of the last day. Mighty consola-
ton in marblel They went down under
the hatchets of the sepoys. They shall
como up under the trumpet that shall
wake the dead. I felt weak and all
a-tremble as I stood reading these words
on the stone that covers the we'll:
Sacred to the perpetual memory of
a great company Of Christian people,
chiefly women and children, cruelty
massacred near this spot by the rebel,
Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dying
with the dead, into the we'll beneath on
the 10Th day of July, 1857" On the
arch of the mausoleum were cut the
words, "These are they who came out
of great tribulation. -
The Fate of the Rabel.
The sun was sinking beneath the hori-
zon as / came down the seven or eight
steps of that palace of a sepulcher, and
I bethought myself: "No emperor, I'M
less it was Napoleon, ever had more
glories around his pillow of dust, and
no queen, unless it were the one of TAI
Mahal, had reared for her grander ceno-
taph than crowns the resting places of
the martyrs of Cawnpur. But where
rest the bones of the Herod of the nine
teenth century, Mana Sahib? No one
can tell. Two men sent out to find the
whereabouts of the daughter of General
Wheeler tracked Mana Sahib during
weeks ride into the wilderness, and
they were told that for awhile after the
mutiny Mana Sahib set up a little pomp
in the jungles. Among few thousand
Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for
himself the only two tents the neighbors
had, while they lived in the rain and
mud Mana Sahib, with one servant
carrying an umbrella. would go every
day to battle, and people would go and
stare. For some reason, after awhile he
forSook even that small attention, and
disappeared among the ravines of the
Himalayan mountains. He took with
him in his flight that which he always
took with him-a ruby of vast value.
He wore it as some wear an amulet.
He wore it as some wear life pre-
server. He wore it on his bosom. The
Hindoo priest told him as long as he
wore that ruby his fortunes would be
good, but both the ruby and the prince
who wore it have vanished. Not a
treasure on the outside of the bosom,
but a treasure inside the heart, is the
best protection. Solomon, who had
rubies i'll the hilt Of swords, and rubies
in the lip of the tankards, and rubies in
his crown, declared that which Mana
Sahib did not find out in time, Evils
dom is better than rubies." When the
forests of India are cleared by the axes
of another civilization, the lost ruby of
this Cawnpur monster may be picked
up and be brought back again TO blaze
among the worlds jewels But who
shall reclaim for decent sepulture the
remains of Mana Sahib? Ask the vul-
turesl Ask the reptiles Ask the jackals! |
Ask the midnight Himalayas!
Cruelty Matched Cruelty.
Much criticism has been made of Sir |
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell |
because of the DISCRIMINATING work they |
did with these sepoys. Indeed it was
awful. My escort, Mr.. Lee, has told me |
that he saw the sepoys fastened to the |
mouths of cannon, and then the guns |
would fire, and for a few seconds there /
would be nothing bat smoke, and as the !
smoke began TO lift fragments of flesh |
would be found flying through the air.
You may do your own criticism. l here
express no opinion. There can be no
doubt, however, that that mode of final
ly treating the sepoys broke the back of
the mutiny. The Hindoos found that
the Europeans could play at the same
game which the Asiatics had started.
The plot was organized for the murder
Of all the Europeans and Americans III
India Under it's knives and bludgeons
American Presbyterianism lost its glori-
BUS missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs.
Campbell, Rev Mr.. and Mrs MacMul-
in, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson, Rev.
Mr.. and Mrs Freeman The work of
slaughter had been begun III all direc-
lions ON an appalling scale, and the
of the English army made
Up their minds that this was the best
way to stop it. A mild and gentle war
with the sepoys was an impOssibility.
The natives of India ever and anon have
demonstrated their cruelty. l stood on
5he very spot in Calcutta where the ma
ives of India in 1856 enacted that scene
which no other people on earth could
nave enacted.
The Black Hole prison has been torn
Town, but stone pavement 90 feet by
20 indicates the ground covered by the
prison The building had two small
windows and was intended for two or
hree prisoners. These natives of India
crowded into that one room Of 20 feet
~ 20 feet 146 Europeans. The midsum-
ner heat the suffocation, the trampling