New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28

business. 1t was DARK Wnen the nNe iheh-oit
alike with Redeemed garments-came out
and locked the door behind them, leaving that
great company of wives and mothers and little
children IN the slaughter house. The men had
done their work but roughly, and all through
the night. though cry was heard IN the
Bebeeghur, yet sounds as if signs from dying
lips, and the rustic of struggling bodies,
seemed to creep into the darkness necessarily
through its sullen windows and hard shut
doors.
At O'Clock the next morning the five men re-
turned, attended by a few sweepers. They
opened the door, and commenced to drag the
nearer bodies, by their long tresses OF hair,
across the courtyard to the fatal well. hard by.
Then. among the bodies lying prone over all the
floor. there sudden stir of living thrings.
Were the dead coming back to life?
Native evidence collected afterward reports
that q few children and nearly a dozen women
had contriVed to escape death by hiding under
the bodies of the slain. They had lain in that
dreadful concealment all night, but when the
five returned they crept out with pitiful cries.
Some of these were slain without parley; some
like hunted animals round the courtyard.
and then threw themselves down the we'll. One
by one the victims were dragged out stripped.
and, many of them yet living, were flung into
that dreadful grave
One native witness. quoted by Trevelyan,
says: There great crowd looking on;
they were standing along the walls of the COM
pound. They principally city people and
villagers. Yes. there We're also Sepoys. Three
boys were alive. They were fair children. The
Oldest. 1 think, must have been six seven,
and the youngest five years. They were run
ming round the well (where else could they go
to?), and there were none to save them" The
youngest of these children. a tender little fell
low. lunatic with terror, broke loose and like
hare across the courtyard. He captured
by an unsympathetic spectator. brought back,
and flung down the well.
1t was two days after this. on July II. that
three men of the 18th entered the court, for
Havelock was now in possession of Cawnpore,
and the Mana was fugitive The whispers and
gestures of the natives drew their attention to
he shut door of the bungalow. One of the
Highlanders pushed open the door and stepped
inside. The next moment TO quote Archi-
bald Forbes he came rushing out, his face
CHASTITY. his hands working convulsively his
whole aspect, as he strove in vain to gasp out
some articulate sounds showing that he had
seen some dreadful sight" No living thing was
in the place but the mating that covered the
floor was one great sponge of blood. and he who
had crossed it found himself, TO borrow Burns
phrase red wat shod'
Little pools of blood filed up each inequality
in the rough floor. 1t was strewn with ptiful
relics, broken combs, pinafores. crildren's shoes
little hats, the leaves OF books. fragments of
letters. The plastered wall was hacked with
sword cuts. not high up. as where men had
fought. but low down and about the corners,
if creature had crouched to avoid a blow.~
Long locks of hair were strewn abut, severed;
but not with scissors.
There inscriptions on the walls. but
many pitiful record upon the scattered papers
on the floor. A few childish curls marked
"Ned's hair with love-; the fiyleaf of Bible,
with loving inscription-giver and recipient
now both dead: prayer book, pages splashed
red where once praying eyes had fingered. The
pages Of one grinly appropriate book-Drelin-
courts Preparation for Death'-were scattered
over the whole floor
What the of the Great Mutiny?
The blind old King of Delhi said IT suppose
my people gave themselves UP to the devil!
Lecky apparently believes that 1t was in truth
the proposed introduction of the creased car
fridge the mixture of cows fat and swine's
fat, that to destroy the Hindoo's caste and
the ceremonial purity of the Mahometan. and
he holds that If mutiny justifable It
was then. Sir John Laurence-surely who
ought to have known-believed also that the
cartridge at the bottom of the trouble. Mr..
Fitchett mentions variety Of reasons, of which
official clumsiness in the engagement OF
really harmless cartridge is only one. The Sc
poys were disconnected many grounds, and
some of the dispossessed princes were ambitious
and made the most of this discomfort What
ever the cause, it is amazing to remember that
the British power in India survived the first
week of nassacre-for the British garrison was
only thirty-eight thousand while the Sepoy
regiments counted two hundred thousand wiry
disciplined native soldiers. Now Great Britain
has seventy-four thousand of her own troops in
India. while the numbar of Sepoys is one hun
dred and fifty thousand, and there are eighty
eight batteries of British artillery to thirteen
Sepoy batteries.