The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-01-04

IN addition to these TWO { fciises 81
wall and water there were 1000 Sc
poys, all armed Twelve huulrod Brit
lsh soldiers weYo 10 take that city.
Nicholson, tho immortal general. com.
mahd,d them, and you h,ust visit his
grave before you leave Delhi He foil
leading his troops, Ho commanded them
sven Rfter being mortally wounded.
You will tead this Inscription on his
comb:
John Nicholson, who led the assault
Of Delhi but fell In the hour of victory,
mortal.y wounded, and died 23d Sep.
tember, 1867, aged 81 years."
| The Cashmere Gate.
! With what guns and men General
| Nicholson could mister no had laid
sege to this walled city filled with
ievils. What fearful oddsl Twelve hun.
fred British troops, uncovered by any
/, military works; TO, take city surround.
ed by firm and high masonry, IN the
top of which were IA guns and defend
ed by 40, 900 foaming sepoys A larger
percentage Of troops foil here than in
any great battle I happen to know Of.
The Crimean percentage of tho fallen
was | 7. As, but the percentage of Delhi
was Sr.9. Yet that city fnust be taken,
and it can only be taken by such coufi
| age as had never been recorded in all
the annals Of bloodshed; Every charge
Of the British regiments against the
walls and gates had been beaten back.
The hyenas Of Hindooism and Moham-
mechanism howled over the walls, and
the Englisl, army could do nothing but
bury their own dead But at this gate
Island ind watch an exploit that makes
the page of history trembla With agita-
ton.
This city has ten gates, but the most
famous ia the one before which we now
stand, and It is called Cashmere gate.
Write the words In FED ink because of
the carnage Write them in letters Ct
light for the illustrious deeds. Write
tbetfi IN letters. of black for tho barrett
and the dead Will tho. @drlh bvcr for.
get that Cashmere gate? Lieutenant
Salkeld and Home and Sorgeants Eur
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 aftef sunrise,
each one carrying a sack containing "a
pounds of powder, and doing this under
Tie FIRE bf the enemy.
Lieutenant Home Was The FIRST to
jump into tho ditch, which still re-
mains before the gate. AS they 60, one
by one falls under the shot and she'll.
One of tho mortally wounded Us he
falls hands his sack Of powder with q
box of lucifef matches to another tell
ing him to fire the sack, Which, with
hin explosion that shook the Garth for
90 miles around, part If the Cashmere
gate was blown into fragments, ind the
bodies of some of these heroes were SO
scattered they were never gathered for
funeral or grave or 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 mon who there fell inscribed there
Tj,a+ E,,r1;ck IrrI Il hoI
courage on many battlefield, visited
this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opened it with the loss Of
their own lives ought to be commemo
rated and hence this cenotaph. But, aft
tr all, the best monument is. the gate
itself, with the deep gouges in the brick
wall Oh the left side made by two bomb.
shells, and the wall above torn by ten
bombshells, and the wall on the right
side defaced and scraped and plowed
and quilted by all styles of long reach
ing weaponry. Let the words Cash
mere gate, !" as synonym for patriot
ism and fearlessness and self sacrifice,
go into all history, all art, all litera-
ture, all time. all eternity! Ny friends,
that kind OF courage sanctified will yet
take the whole earth for God. Indeed
tho missionaries now at Delhi, toiling
amid heathenism and fever and cholera,
and far away from home and comfort,
aud 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 in taking
Delhi for Great Britain Take this for
the first sermonio 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-
guls. 1t is an Enclosure 1000 yards 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
rot equal that for costliness and brill
lance. It lad steps of silver, and the
seat and arms were of solid gold. 1t
rost about $3.50, 900, 0o0 1t stood be-
tween two peacocks, the feathers and
| plumes of which were fashioned out of
colored stones. Above the throne was
! life size parrot cut out of one emerald.
Above all was a canopy resting on IL
columns of gold, the canopy fringed
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
on public occasions wore crown con-
| tanning, among other things, the Koh-
moor diamond, and the entire blaze Of
lorenut cost $40. $50, 600. This superb
I'D once almost systematically beauti-
ful room has imbedded in the white
marble wall letters of black marble,
which were translated to me from Per-
| sian into English as meaning:
| If on the earth there be an Eden of bliss,
| That place Is this, l., this, is This, is this.
But tho peaoocks that stood beside
the throne have flown away, taking all
the display with them. and those white
marble auors were reddoned with
slaughter, and these bathrooms ran
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