The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-12-14

were flung or lowered. A circular vail
of white marble incloses this well. The
wall is about 30 feet high. Inside this
wall there is q marble pavement. /
paced it and found it 81 PAGES around.
In the center of this inclosure and i'm
mediately above the well Of the dead
is 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 marblei 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 l 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 well 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 Rebel.
The sun was sinking beneath the hori-
zon as I came down the seven or eight
steps of that palace of sepulcher, and
I bethought myself: mo 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 a
weeks ride into the wilderness, and
they were told that for awhile after the
mutiny Mana Sahib set up little pomp
in the jungles. Among a few thousand
Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for
himself the only two tents the neighbors
had, whilo they lived III 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
among the ravines of the
mountains. He took with
him in his flight that which he always
took with him--a ruby of vast value.
He wore 1T as some wear an amulet.
He wore it as some wear a 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 treasure inside the heart, is the
best protection. Solomon, who had
'ubies in the hilt of swords, and rubies
n the lip of the tankards, and rubies in
lis crown, declared that which Mana
5ahib did not find out in time, Evils
lom Is better than rubies. When the |
orests of India are cleared by the axes
# another civilization, the lost ruby of |
his Cawnpur monster may be picked |
Up and be brought back again to blaze
lmong the worlds jewels. But who
hall reclaim for decent sepulture the
emains of Mana Sahib? Ask the vul-
uresl Ask the reptiles! Ask the jackalsl
Ask the midnight Himalayasl
Cruelty Matched Cruelty.
Much criticism has been made of Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell
because of the DISCRIMINATING work they
lid with these sepoys. Indeed it was
wful My escort, Mr.. Lee, has told me
hat he saw the sepoys fastened to the
mouths of cannon, and then the guns
would fire, and for few seconds there
would be nothing but smoke, and as the
moke began to lift fragments of flesh
you'd be found flying through the air.
you may do your own criticism. l here
xpress no opinion. There can be no
oubt, however, that that mode of final
Y treating the sepoys broke the back Of
be mutiny. The Hindoos found that
he Europeans could play at the same !
anne which the Asiatics had started.
ne plOb WAS OIBdulLcu IOl WIG Ill iuoi I
f all the Europeans and Americans in a
ndia. Under its knives and bludgeons i
american Presbyterianism lost its glori- I
us missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. y
ampbell, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. MacMul- t
n, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson, Rev.
fr. and Mrs Freeman. The work of
laughter had been begun in all direc- =
ons on an appalling scale, and the
of the English army made {
p their minds that this was the best !
'ay to stop it. A mild and gentle war
18th the sepoys was an impossibility. S
he natives of India ever and anon have ,
their cruelty. stood on b
ne very spot in Calcutta where the na- :;
yes of India in 1866 enacted that scene Il
hich no other people on earth could 4
ave enacted. a
The Black Hole prison has been torn "
OWN, but stone pavement 30 feet by &
indicates the ground covered by the p
.ison. The building had two small =
indows and was intended for two or
rec prisoners. These natives Of India =
DIVIDED into that one room of 30 feet
, 20 feet LAG Europeans. The midsum-
er heat, the suffocation, the trampling {,
one upon another, the grooming and C
rieking and begging and praying of X
|, are matters of history. The sepoys X