The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1895-01-05

thev were. with all their artillery
t;oht;ng back The Europeans, VINO
ware on the outside The city OF DEM
has q crenvlated wall on three Sides
q wall five and oncshalf miles long,
and the fourth side Of the city IS oe'
sondcd By the River Jumna. In addl'
,;on to these two dcfenses Of wall and
wa or, there were 10000 Sepoys, all
orm,i Twelve hundred British sol
diers were to take that city. Nlchol-
con the immortal general, commanded
them, and YOU must visit his or We &C.
forc Won leave Delhi. He fell leading
his troops, Ne commanded them even
after being mortally "ouh"eo' 10"
will read thi, Inscription on his tolho'
..Jobn Nicholson, who led the as.
.,u]t Of Delhi, but fell in the hour OF
victory, MORALLY wounded, and 'len
! ,3d September, 1857. Aged 30 years:
With what guns and men Gen, N1ch'
ol>ou could muster he had laid siege 70
mi, walled city filled with devils.
what fearful odds. Twelve hundred
r,,;sh troops uncovered by any mill
t,,v works, TO take city surrounded
y, firm and high masonry, on the Top
of (which were ia guns and de1choeo
| tx, 40 o00 foaming Sepoys. A larger
,,rrc,tacc of troops fell here than in
,rv cYca: battlc happen to know OF.
| Tie trinean percentage OF the 1alleh
was i7.4S, but the percentage OF DEM
was 5T1.9 Yet that city must be takeh'
and it can only be taken by such cour.
age us had never been recorded IN all
.he annals of bloodshed. Every charge
of the British regiments against inc
walls and gates had been beaten BACK
The hyenas of Hindooism ana Moilah-
mechanism howled over the walls, ana
the English army could do nothing
but bury their own dead. But at TINS
gate | S land and watch an exploit that
makes the page of history tremble
with agitation. This city has ten
gates, out the most famous is the one
before which we now stand, and 1t IS
called Cashmere gate. Write the words
in red ink, because OF the car.
mage. Write them in letters OF
light, for the illustrious deeds.
Write them in letters of black
for the bereft and the dead. Will the
world ever forget that Cashmere gate!
Lieutenants Salkeld and Home and
Sergeants Burgess, Carmichael ana
Smith offered to take bags OF powder
to the foot of that gate and set them
on fire, blowing open the gate, al
though they must die in doing it. There
tEey 90, Just after sunrise, each one
carrying sack containing twenty
four pounds Of POWDER and doing this
under the fire of the enemy. Lieut..
Homo was the first to jump into the
ditch, which still remains before the
gate. AS they go, one by one falls un-
der the shot and shell. One OF the
mortally wounded, as he falls, hands
his sack of powder with a box OF luci'
fer matches to another, telling him to
:! fire the sack; when with an explosion
|? that shook the earth for twenty miles
). around, part of the Cashmere gate W
!, blown into fragments, and the bodies
}; of some of these heroes were SO scat
; tered that they were never gathered
5 for funeral, or grave, or monument
The British army rushed in through
:, the broken gate, and although six day.
,; of hard fighting were necessary before
7; the city was in complete possession
3 the crisis was past. The Cashmer'
Il gate open, the capture OF Delh
: and all it contained OF pal
\? aces, and mosques, and treasure
:; was possible. Lord Napier OF Mag
r dala. of whom Mr.. Gladstone spok
y to me so affectionately when
e, was his guest at Hawarden, England
n has lifted q monument near this Cash
y mere gate with the names OF the me
ei who there fell inscribed thereon. Tha
d English lord, who has seen courage o
f., many a battlefield, visited the CAST
2, mere gate, and felt that the men VIII
e, opened it with the loss of their ow
e) lives ought to be commemorated, an
ei hence this cenotaph. But, after al
1T the best monument is the gate itsel
Isl with the deep gouges in the brick wa
Is; on the left side, made by two bom1
S. shells, and tho wall above, torn by te
lily bomb.shells, and the wall on the rigl
lei side, defaced, and scraped, al
es, plowed, and quilted by all styles
ot long reaching weaponry. Let tt
s., words Cashmere gate" as synony
d. for patriotism, and fearlessness, al
ed self sacrifice, 60 into all history, q
70, art, all literature, all time, all etc
he nifty! My friends, that kind OF coura|
sanctifed will yet take the who
he earth for God. Indeed, the missio
p aries now at Delhi, toiling am
n heathenism, and fever, and cholel
RS and far away from home and comio
ut and staying there until they drop in
Is: their graves, are just as brave in TAXI
he Delhi for Christ as were Nicholsc
nd and Home, and Carmichael in TAXI
Of Delhi for Great Britain. Take Il
he for the first sermonic lesson.
he ---
CHI A wel]-known lawyer on circuit
on tha north of England. curious