The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-21

n red opening IN the wall.
AS we stood there, although the scene
was thirty-seven years ago, 7 saw then
come in -Havelock pale and sick, bu
triumphant, and Outram, whom all tht
equestrian statues in Calcutta and Eu
rope can not too grandly present.
''What then happened?" ! said to my
escort. "Oh," he said, "that is impos
4 sible to tell. The earth was removed
from the gate, and soon all the army Of
relief entered, and some of us laughed
and some cried, and some prayed, and
some danced Highlanders SO dust Gov
cred and enough blood and wounds on
their faces to make them unrecogniza-
BILE snatched the babes out of their
mothers arms and kissed them and
passed the babies along for other sol
diers to kiss, and the wounded men
crawled out Of the hospital to join in
the cheering, and it was wild jubilee
until, the first excitement passed, the
story of how many of the advancing
army had been slain on the way began
to have fearful effect, and the story of
suffering that had been endured in
side the fort, and the announcement to
children that they were fatherless, and
to wives that they were widows; sub
merged the shouts of joy with wailing
of agony.
"But were you not embarrassed by
the arrival of Havelock and fourteen
hundred men who brought no food
with them?" He answered: 'Of course
we were put on smaller rations imme-
diately in order that they might share
with us, but we knew that the coming
of this reinforcement would help us
to hold the place until further relief
should come. Had not this first relief
arrived as it did, in day or two at
most and perhaps in any hour the be-
seigers would have broken in, and our
end would have come. The Sepoys had
dug six mines under the residency, and
would soon have exploded all"
After we had obtained few bullets
that had been picked out of the wall
and piece of bombshell we walked
around the eloquent ruins, and put our
hands into the scars of the shattered
masonry and explored the cemetery in
side the fort, where hundreds of the
dead soldiers await the coming of the
Lord of Hosts at the last day, and we
could endure no more. My nerves were
all a-tremble, and my emotions were
wrung out, and said, ''Let us 60"
had seen the residency at Lucknow the
day before with a beloved missionary,
and he told me many interesting facts
concerning the besiegement of that
place, but this morning had seen it in
company with one who in that awful
1857 of the Indian mutiny with his own
fire had fought the besiegers, and with
his own ear had heard the yell of the
miscreants as they tried to storm the
walls, and with his own eyes had wit
messed a scene of pang and sacrifice and
endurance and bereavement and Prov
ess and rescue which has made all this
Lucknow fortress and it's surroundings
the Mount Calvary of the nineteenth
century.
On the following day, about four
miles from the residency, visited the
grave of Havelock. The scenes of hard
ship and self-sacrifice through which he
endurance, and few days after Have
lock left the residency which he had
relieved'he lay in tent a-dying, while
his SON, whom saw in London on my
way here, was reading to the old hero
the consolatory Scriptures The tele-
graph wires had told all nations that
Havelock was sick unto death. He had |
received the message of congratlation
from Queen Victoria over his triumphs
and had been knighted, and such re-
ception as England never gave to any |
man since Wellington came back from
Waterloo awaited his return. But he |
will never again see his native land. |
He has led his last army and planned
the last battle. Yet he is to gain an
other victory. He declared it when in
his last hours he said to Gen. Outram:
Il die happy and contented. have
for 40 years so ruled my life that when
death came might face it without
fear To die is to gain" Indeed this
was no new sentiIhentality with
him. He once stated that in
boyhood with four companions he |
was accustomed to seek the ''seclu-
sion of one of the dormitories for pur.
poses of devotion, though certain il
those days of being branded as Meth.
'dists and canting hypocrites. He
had in early life been immersed in
Baptist church. He acknowledged
God in every victory and says in one of
mis- dispatches that he owes it Ito the
power of the Enfield rife in British
hands, to British pluck and to the bless
ng of Almighty God on most right
,ous cause" He was accustomed to
spend two hours every morning in