News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-03

In addition to the tu. f1lSeS OF
wall and water there wu 900 ee-
poyS, ali armed. Twelve hundred Brit
ish soldiers We to tahl that city.
Nicholson, the immortal general, com
manded Sem, and you nust visit his
grave before you lev Dc III. He fell
leading his troops. lie commanded them
even after being mortally wounded.
You will read this inscription on his
tomb:
"John Nicholson, wholcd the assault
of Delhi, but fell in tho ho9r Of Wet CRY,
mortally woundod, and died 23d Seg.
TENDER, 1857, aged 30 ars."
The Cashmere Gate.
With what guns and men General
Nicholson could muster he had laid
Siege to this walled city filed with
devils What fearful oddsl Twelve hur
bred British troop, uncovered by any
military works. TO ike a city surround
ed by firm and hi2l ma onry on the
top of which wero IA GA aud defend
ed by 40, coo foar'ing sypoys, a larger
percentage of troops fell here than III
any great battle | happen to know of.
The Crimeau percentage Of the fallen
was / z. AZ, but the PERCENTAGE Gf Delhi
was 37.0 Yet that city must be taken
and it can only be taken by such cour-
age as had never acn recorded in ali
the annals Of bloodshcd. Evy Y charge
of the British regiments u-.dnst the
walls and gates had been beaten back
The hyenas Of HindOoism and Moham-
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the English army could do nothing but
bury their own dead. But at this gate
l stand and watch an exploit that makes
the page of history tremble with agita-
ton.
This city has ten gates, but the most
famous is the one before which we now
stand, and it is called Cashmere gate
Write the words in red ink because Of
the carnage Write them in letters of
light for the illustrious deeds. Write
them in letters of black for the bereft
and the dead VIII the world ever fer
get that Cashmere gate? Lieutenant
Salkcld and Home and Sorgeants Bur
CESS, Carmichael and Smith offered to
take bags Of powder to the foot Of that
gate and set them on fire, blowing open
the gate, although they must die in do
ing it. There they go just after sunrise,
each one carrying a sack containing "a
pounds Of powder, and doing this under
the fire of the enemy.
Lieutenant Home was the first to
jump into the ditch, which still re
mains before the gate. As they 90, one
by one falls undor the shot and shell.
One Of the mortally wounded as be
falls hands his sack Of powder with q
| box of lucifcr matches to another, tell
ing him to fire the sack, when, with
an explosion that shook the earth for
90 miles around, part of tho Cashmere
| gate was blown lLto Fragments, AID the
bodies of some OF these heroes were so
scattered they wCro never gathered for
| funeral or grave OF monument. The
British army rushed in through the
broken gate, and although six days of
hard fighting were necessary before the
city was in complete possession the
crisis was past. The Cashmere gate
open, the capture of Delhi and all it
contained of palaces and mosques and
treasures was possible.
Lord Napier of Magdala, of whom
Mr.. Gladstone spoke to me so affection
ately when was his guest at Hawarden,
England, has lifted monument near
| this Cashmere gate, with the names Of
the men who there fell inscribed there
on. That English lord, who had seen
courage On many battlefield, visited
this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opened it with the loss Ct
their own lives ought to be commend
rated, and hence this ccnotaph. But, aft.
er all, the best monument is tho gate
itself, with the deep gougcs III the brick
| wall Oh the left side mado by two bomb
shells, and the wall above torn by ten
bombshells, ard the wall on the right
side defaced and scraped and plowed
and quilted by ak styles Of long reach
| ing weaponry, Let the words Cash
mere gate" as q synonym for patriot
ism and fearlessness and self sacrifice,
60 into all history, all art all litera-
cure, all time, all eternity! My friends,
| that kind If courage sanctifed will yet
take the whole earth for God. Indeed
the missionaries now at Delhi, toiling
amid heathenism and fever and cholera,
and far away from home and comfort,
and staying there until they drop into
their graves, are just as brave in tax,
ing Delhi for Christ as were Nicholson
and Home and Carmichael i'll taking
Delhi for Great Britain Take this FOX
the first ser.aonic lesson
Vanished Glories.
Another thing you must see if you
go to Delhi, though you leave many
things unseen, is the palace Of the mo.
gulg. 1t is an Enclosure l 900 yarCs by
| 500. You enter through vaulted hall
nearly 400 feet long. Floors of Floren-
tine mosaic and walls once emeralded
and sapphired and carbuncled and dia-
monded. | said to the guide, "Show us
where once stood the peacock throne. /"
'Here it was, he responded. All the
thrones of the earth put together would
not equal tha5 for costliness and bril-
! lance 1t had steps of silver, and the
seat and arms were of solid gold. 1t
cost about $3.50, 600, 000 1t stood be-
tween two peacocks, the feathers and
plumes of which were fashioned out Of
colored stones. Above the throne was a
| life size parrot cut out of one emerald.
| Above all was canopy resting on IL
columns Of gold, the canopy fringed