The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

] pore. The murderers were PAID NItg cents
T for each lady slain. The MOhammedan as
sassins dragged by the hair the dead bodies
{ out Of the Summer House and threw them
into a we'll by which / stood with such
} feelings as you cannot imagine But after
I the mutilated bodies had been thrown into
the we'll. the record Of the scene remained
in hieroglyphics Of crimson on the floor
and wall Of the slaughter-house- An eye
witness says that, as he walked in, the
blood was shoe deep, and on this blood
were tufts Of hair. pieces OF muslin
broken combs fragments OF pinafores,
children's straw hats, card-case contain
ing a curl; with the inscription, "Ned's
hair, with love-" a few leaves Of an Epis-
copaI prayer-book: also a book entitled,
Preparation for DEATH" Bible, on the
fy-leaf of which was written, For
darling mamma, form her affec-
tiOnate daughter, Isabella Blair =
both the one who presented 1t
and the one to whom it was presented
departed forever.
/ said, Mr.. Lee, 1 have heard that in
delicate things were found written on the
wall" He answered. NO; but these poor
creatures wrote in charcoal and scratched
on the wall the story of the brutalities they
had suffered"
When the English and Scotch troops
came upon the scene. their wrath was so
great that Gen. Nell had the butchers
arrested, and before being shot, compelled
them to wipe up part of the floor of this
place Of massacre, this being the worst of
their punishment. for there is nothing that
a Hindo so hates as TO touch blood.
When HavelOck came upon the scene,
he had this order annulled. The well was
now not only full Of human bodies, but
corpses pilea on the outside. The sol
diers were for many hours engaged in
covering the dead.
1t was about o'clock in the evening
The building in which the massacre took
place has been torn down and a garden
Of exquisite and fragrant flowers sur
rounds the scene. Mr.. Lee pointed out to
us some seventy mounds containing bod
les or portions of bodies of those not
thrown into the well. A soldier stands
on guard to keep the foliage and flowers
from being ruthlessly pulled. 1 asked a
soldier if l might take a rose as a me-
mento, and he handed me a cluster of
roses, red and white, both colors sugges-
tive to me; the red typical of the earn
age there enacted. and the white for the
purity of those who from that spot as
cended.
But. of course, the most absorbing in
terest concentered at the well, into which
hundreds of women and children were
flung or lowered. circular wall of white
marble encloses this well. The wall is
about twenty feet high Inside this wall
LAiNAN II Il llaibAt pavement DdGtu IL
and found il fifty-seven PAGES around. In
the center of this enclosure, and imme-
diately above the well of the dead, is a
sculptured angel of resurrection, with IL
lumined face, and two palm branches,
meaning victory. This angel is looking
down toward to the slumberers beneath,
but the two wings suggest the rising of
the last day. Mighty consolation in mar
BILE! They went down under the hatchets
OF the Sepoys: they shall come up under
the trumpet that shall wake the dead. /
felt weak and all a-tremble as / stood
reading these words on the stone that
covers the well: Sacred to the perpet-
ual memory of a great company of Chris
tian people, chiefly women and children,
cruelty massacred near this spot by the
rebel, Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dy-
ing with the dead, into the well beneath
on the 18th day of July. 1857" On the
arch of the mausolem were cut the words:
These are they who came out of great
tribulation"
The sun was sinking beneath the horizon
as ! came down the seven or eight steps
of that palace of a sepulcher, and 1 be-
thought myself, mo emperor, unless 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 cenotaph than
crowns the resting places of the martyrs
at Cawnpore. But where rest the bones
of the Herod of the nineteenth century,
Mana S6hib? No one can tell. Two men
sent out to find the whereabouts of the
daughter of Gen. Wheeler tracked Mana
Sahib during weeks ride into the will
derness, and they were told that for
while after the mutiny Mana Sahib set
up little pump in the jungles. Among
a few thousand Hindoos and Mohamme-
dams 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 at
tention, and disappeared among the raw
ines of the Himalaya mountains He tobl1
with him in his flight that which he al
ways took with him-a ruby of vast value.
He wore 1t as some wear an amulet He
wore it as some wear life-preserver
| 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
IL nave vanished. Not treasure on the
outside of the bosom. but a treasure in
side the heart, is the best protection.
solomon, who had rubies in the hilt Of
swords, and rubies in the lip of the tank
! ards, and rubies in his crown, declared
| that which Mana Sahib did not find out
in time: wisdom is better than rubies -
NASAi tilC lOieSNS Oh JnQla are cleared
! by the axes of another civilization. the
| lost ruby of the Cawnpore monster NAV
| be picked up, and brought back again
| to blaze among the worlds Jewels. But
| who shall reclaim for decent sepulture
! the remains of Mana Sahib? Ask the yuI-
/ lures! Ask the reptiles Ask the iackals :
/ Ask the midnight Himalayas!
Much criticism has been made of Sir
/ Henry Havelock and Sir Colin CampbelI
because of the exterminating work thew
did with these Sepoys. Indeed, it was aw
full. 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 few seconds there would he
| nothing but smoke. and as the smoke
| began to lift, fragments of flesh would he
found flying through the air You NAV do
your own criticism. 1 here express no opin-
! ION. There can be no doubt, however
that that mode of finally treating the Sc
| poys 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 in India Under its knives and
] bludgeOnS American -.