Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-15


wall there is a marble pavement
paced it and found it 81 PAGES around.
In the center of this Enclosure and i'm
Eediately above the well of the dead
is a sculptured angel Of resurrection,
with ilIuElined face, and two palm
branches, meaning victory. This angel
is looking down toward the slumbcrcrs
beneath, but the two wings suggest the
rising of the last day. Mighty consola-
ton in marblel They went down under
the hatchets of tho sepoys. They shall
come up under the trumpet that shall
wake tho dead / felt weak and all
a-tremblo rs stood reading these words
Oh tho stono 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 tho well beneath Oh
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-
ION as l came down the seven or eight
stops of that palace of sepulcher, and
bcthought myself: mo emperor, un-
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
tenth 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 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 60 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 i'll 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 OH the outside of the bosom,
but treasure inside the heart, is the
best protection. Solomon, who had
rubies in the hilt of swords, and rubies
i'll the lip of the tankards, and rubies in
his crown, declared that which Mana
Sahib did not find out i'll time, wis
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-
ture4 Ask thereptiles! 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 exterminating 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 but smoke, and as the
smoke began to lift fragments Of flesh
would be found flying through the air.
You may Go your own criticism. l hero
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 i'll
India. Under its knives and bludgeons
American Presbyterianism lost its glori-
Gus missionaries, Rev, Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. MacMul-
lin, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson, Rev.
Mr.. and Mrs Freeman Tho work of
slaughter had been begun III all direc-
tons on an appalling scale, and the
commanders 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
the very spot in Calcutta where the ma
tives of India in 1856 enacted that scene
which no other people ON earth could
have enacted
The Black Hole prison has been torn
down, but stone pavement 20 feet by
20 indicates the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small
windows and was intended for two or
three prisoners. These natives of India
crowded into that one room of 90 feet
by 20 feet LAG Europeans. The midsum-
mer heat, the suffocation, the trampling
of one upon another, the grooming and
shrieking and begging and praying of
oil, are matters of history The sepoys
that night held lights to the small win
dows and Knocked the sufferers. Then
all the sounds ceased That night of
June 20. 1856. passed, and 1873 corpses
We're taken out. Only 23 people of the
lao were alive. and they had to be
pulled out from under the corpses. Mrs.
Carey, who survived, was taken by the
Indian nabob into his harem and kept
prisoner six years. Lucknow in 1857
was only an echo of Calcutta in 1856.
During the matiny of which have been
speaking natives who had been in the
service of Europeans and well treated
by them, and with no cause of offense,
would, at the call of the mutineers, and
without any conjunction, stab to death
the fathers and mothers of the household
and dash out the brains of the children.
These natives are at peace now, but give
them chance, and they will re-enact
the scenes of 1856 and 1857. They lock
upon the English as conauerors ans