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

been to the former one; that 1t is the
incumbent duty of all the peasants and
landed proprietors of every district to
rejoice at the thought that the Chris
tians have been sent to hell, and both
the Hindoo and Mohammedan religions
have been confirmed, and that they
should, as usual, be obedient to the
authorities of the government and never
suffer any complaint against themselves
to reach to the ears Of the higher author
ity."
The Siege of Cawnpur.
"Mr Lee, what is this?" I said to
our escort as the carriage halted by an
embankment. "Here," he said, sis the
intrenchment where the Christians Of
Cawnpur took refuge. - It is the remains
of wall which at the time of the mu-
tiny was only four feet high, behind
which, with no shelter from the sun,
the heat at $50 degrees, 40 men and $50
women and children dwelt nearly q
month. A handful of flour and split
peas was the daily ration, and only two
wells near by, the one in which they
buried their dead, because they had no
time to bury them in the earth, and the
other we'll the focus on which the artil-
lery of the enemy played, SO that it was
choice between death by thirst and
death by bullet or shell. Ten thousand
yelling Hindoos outside this frail wall
and 1 1000 suffering dying people inside.
In addition to the army of the Hindoos
and MosIems, an invisible army of sick
nesses swooped upon them. Some went
raving mad under exposure. Others
dropped under apoplexy. A starving,
mutilated, fevered, sunstruck, CHASTITY
group waiting to die! Why did not the
heather dash down those mud walls and
the 10, 900 annihilate the now less than
1000? 1t was because they seemed su
pernaturally defended.
Mana Sahib resolved to celebrate all
anniversary. The Esd of June, 1857,
would be 100 years since the battle of
Plassy, when, under Lord Give, India
surrendered to England. That day the
last European in Cawnpur was to be
slaughtered. Other anniversaries have
been celebrated with wine. This was to
be celebrated with blood. Other ami
versaries have been adorned with gar
lands. This with drawn swords. Others
have been kept with songs. This with
excavations. Others with the dance of
the gay This with the dance of death.
The infantry and cavalry and artillery
of Mana Sahib made on that day one
grand assault, but the few guns of the
English and Scotch put to flight these
Hindoo tigers. The courage of the fiends
broke against that mud wall as tho
waves of the sea against a lighthouse.
The cavalry horses returned full run
without their riders. The Lord looked
out from the heavens, and on that ami
versary day gave the victory to his peo-
pie
Therefore Mana Sahib must try some
other plan. Standing in a field not far
from the intrenchment Of the English
was o native Christian woman, Jacobee
by name, holding high up in her hand
letter. It was evidently q communi-
cation from the enemy, and General
Wheeler ordered the woman brought in.
She handed him a proposed treaty. If
General Wheeler and his men would
give up their weapons, Mana Sahib
would conduct them into safety. They
could march out unmolested, the men,
women and children. They could go
down tomorrow to the Ganges, where
they would find boats TO take them in
peace to Allahabad.
The Treaty Signed.
There was some opposition to signing
this treaty, but General Wheeler's wife
told him he could trust the natives, and
SO he signed the treaty. There was great
Joy III the intrenchnent that night
Without nlOlestatiOn they went out and
got plenty OF water to drink and water
for a good wash The hunger and thirst
and exposure from the consuming sun,
with the ther12ometer from 100 to 40,
would cease Mothers rejoiced at the
prospect Of saving their children. The
young ladies of the intrenchment would
escape the wild beasts in human form.
On the morrow, true to the promise,
carts were ready to transport those who
were too much exhausted to walk.
''Get i'll the carriage, . said Mr.. Lee,
land we VIII ride to the banks of the
Ganges, for which the liberated COM
batants and noncom batants started from
this place. " On our way Mr.. Lee point
ed out monument over the burial
place which was opened for General
Wheoler's intrenchment, the well into
which every night the dead had been
dropped Around it is curious memo
rial There are five crosses, one at each
corner of the garden and one at the CEN
ter, from which inscription today read
my text Riding On, we came to the
Memorial church built to the memory of
those fallen in Cawnpur The walls are
covered with tablets and epitaphs. |
copied two or three Of the inscriptions:
''These are they who come out of great
also, 1.-THE dead shall be
raised incorruptible; also: I'm the
world 20 shall have tribulation, but be
Of good cheer. [ have overcome the |
world;'' also: 1.-THE Lord gave. The |
Lord hath taken away" also, "Core