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I was at Saltan poor, in the presidency of Bengal, Avtien the terrible Indian mu tiny delivered its first blow There were uprisings and mutinies at various other places before any one at Sultanpcor be came seriously alarmed. The faith which the British h;td in the native soldiery would have been sublime had it not been blind. The English were in India as in vaders and despot e. They had given the people cau?e to hate them and hunger for their lives. The natives were a hun dred to one. Princes had been de throned, social customs overturned, and every Englishman was regardad as stand ing between the natives and their heaven. The English knew all this, aud yet they had that blind faith which entails de struction. Because no rebellion had taken place, because the natives were servile and cringing, all argued that the outbreaks were caused by a few malcon lents and would amount to naught. There were three Americans of u at Sultan poor. "We had been hunting in the Oude territory, and had been in Sul tanpoor for about three weeks to restanci plan another trip. AVe occupied a bunga low together and had several native ser vants. Some of these were related to some of the native police and to members of the Thirteenth Bengal Cavalry, who garrisoned the place. There wer not over fifty white persons altogether at the station, and three-fourths of these were women and children. On 5undayt thfl ?th of June of that memorable year I was lying in my hammock in the. shade of the bungalow. 3Iy head was toward and within two feet of a thick hedge running along the west side of the house. I had been resting for an hour, when three or four natives crept up on the other side of the hedge and entered iuto a conversation, every word of which I caught. It was announced that the rank and tile were to mutiny within a flay or two, and the programme was so carefully ln!1 tlatcerV in men had been detailed to shoot certain officers, and certain plunder was to go to certain individuals. The talk continued for a full hour and whan the conspirators withdrew no sane man could doubt what was to follow. The tix collector of the district was a civil officer named Strogan, and he occu pied a bungalow not over twenty yards away. After waiting for a couple of hours I strolled over there, and when op portunity presented itself I told him what. I had heard. He had a wife and tw children, and he was a pale as death when I had finished my story. He went at once to see Colonel Fisher who was iD command of the post, that individual not only treated his communication with eon tempt, but sent an insulting message to me. It was to the effect that he wanted no interference in military affairs by any Yaukees. He intimated to Strogan that I was probably half drunk, and declared that he was ready to stake his life on the loyalty of his men. This did not uiet the collector, however. When he re turned he begau jiackiug up hi valu ables, and that night he made an excuse to cet his familv nearer the barracks. On Sunday evening our native servants were as servile as dogs. On Monday morning their bearing was full of impu dence. All noticed it and all were satis fied that the mutiny was cio-c at hand. AVe had canvassed the matter over to see what we should do. If the garrison re belled the odds were fifty to one in their favor. If they elected to slaughter every white person nothing could prevent them. AVhile they knew us to be Amer icans, we were "ferringheea," and that was enough. They would kill us even for the sake of plunder AVe decided that we stood no show at the station, and that "vft must take care of ourselves. Had we started off on the highway for Ayoda or Bela we should have been am bushed or followed. It was finally concluded that we should retreat to an old ruin about five miles away a spot we had visited the week before. and there wait for the cloud to blow over or the worst to come. Early Mo'ndriy morning, on pretence that we were going to make surveys and excavations for the benefit of history, we secured a cart, loaded it with provisions, arms and ammunition, and started off, each of us mounted on horseback. We closed up the bungalow aud took our servants with us. They seemed rery willing to go, but we soon discovered the cause. On Monday night all deserted, taking our three horses along. They wanted us out of the way when the mutiny opened, that the garrison might be weakened just so much. When through with those at the station r they would come and finish us. We had not unpacked the cart before they left, and they were, therefore, in ignorance of its contents.- Our nrst move on 'luesaay morning was to select a place for defence. The ruins were those of a large temple and outbuildings, covering about four acres of ground. About the centre of this space was a thicket, with a fine spring of water. From this thicket was open ground in every directioa for half musket shot. Most of the blocks oi stone were of a uniform size, and the three of us could handle them. By noon we had enclosed a circular space thiv'c feet across and five feet high, and had placed all our stuff within it. The after noon w spent in filling the interstices in the wall to make it bullet proof, and in covering in a portion of it. Before night we had a fort which we believed we could defend against a hundred natives. There was no doorway to it, and wo should have only the. top of the wall to guard. Once or twice during the afternoon we heard the reports of carbines on the high way, half a mile to our left, and had no doubt that the mutiny had occurred as planned. AVe did not, however, deem it prudent to leave our work to investigate, and it was well we did not. The out break occurred early in the forenoou, just as planned, and the Colonel was the first victim. lie was shot down by some of the native officers of the cavalry, and he had no sooner fallen than they turned upon their English Captain. Strogan was the third man killed. He was shot in front of his own bungalow, as was also another civil officer who was with him. The anxiety cf the mutineers to secure plunder permitted the women aud chil dren to find a place of safety, and all eventually escaped to Bela, and from thence to Cawnpoor. It was toward even ing of Tuesday before a squad set out in search of us. Our servants were anxious to see us murdered, for the sake of the 'doot" to be divided. About dark, while we were wondering if one of us had not better go out after information, we heard a voice calling us. and recognized it as that of my syce or groom. AVe climbed out of our fort and went to the edge of the thicket and answered him, and he soon appeared. Matters had changed. The slave had exchanged places with the master. The fellow was as cool and im pudent as you pleased. AVhcn we asked what had become of the horses, hrs promptly acknowledged to having stolen mine, and further' informed me that I ouht to be verv thankful that he had not taken my life as well. He informed u of all that had occurred at the barracks, and stated that a party had come out to make terms with us. Beinr that we were Americans, and had had nothing to do with their oppression, they did not thirst for our blood. If Ave would surrender everything we had we could go where we pleased. If not they would kill us and take what they wanted. AA"e very soon sent the fellow away with an answer. If we escaped from this an it would bo to fall iuto the hands of another. We fhuiild be de fenceless and pe:miles. and what could we do? AVe told him we had decided to fight it out, and a soon a- he disap peared we returned to the fort. The two other members of tlr; party were Henry AVila- aud (George Fisher. Av e had then been in India together for a year, and had stood back to back in many tight placi-. AViliwas a typical Yankee, good-natured but courageous, and his loa arms had th? strength of a hDre.'? leg. The thicket was so dense that our fort could not be seen unless one penetrated it a few yards. The natives simply supposed that Ave Avere lying close , centre, of the jungk, and. iudf an .t3ur after the groom left us about thirty muskets began blazing away at our posi tion. Some of the balls whistled over us, others entered the earth, and now and then one struck the heavy blocks of stone with a dull ring. AVe took turns as sentinel, while the other two slept, and soon after midnight all was quiet. It Wis 10 o'clock next morning fei'-re we were tftfubleKl agaiu. Then the members of the old gang seemed to have been added to, and fifty or" mote tmis-keta kept up a pretty steady tire until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. By this thrie we ought to have been all shot to pieces, as the bullets had cut through every foot of the jungle. The natives believed it was time to advance and see. AVe could locate them by their loud talk and con stant dissensions, and when, we found that all had gathered on the eastern edge of the thicket and were about to advance, we climded out, crept forward, and lay down behind a big block of stone to receive them. They entered the thick et as a mob would havff done, and the first three men sighted were dropped in their tracks. This i caused a panic, and they withdrew, and aside from' a" few stray shots fired to let ua know that we were still besieged, we were not annoyed until next morning. Then we heard a great hurrah,- and after a little were given the information that they had brought down the two pieces of artillery from the station to .shell us out. ' They were very slow in getting to work, i aicd when they began firing it was plain enough that they knew nothing about artillery. On the first four shells fired, Ji wont too hifjh and burst far beyond ni The Xth one burst short a ad jr w the dirt over our walls. Then we de cided to cool their ardor a bit. AVe climbed over the walls, got out of the line of fire, and crept to the edge of the thicket. There we saw a mob of over a hundred natives with the two guns planted within pistol shot. . One of them had become disabled by ramming the ball down before the cartridge, and the other was about to be fired. AVe se lected three of the gunners, fired togeth er, and they fell rtead on the grass. Be fore the gang could get out of range we killed two more and wounded a third. Then AVilds ran forward under cover of our rifles and spiked both pieces by driving some nails, which he happened to have in his pocket, into the vents. Seeing a move to flank us we returned to our shelter, and all the rest of that day and all night were left in peace On th third day there were but twenty natives in the besieging force, and they fired into the thicket only at long intervals. On the fourth day this force Avas re duced to ten. At noon AVilds made a scout and found them eating dinner, and we crept up and killed one and wound ad Wt couid have gfon wj now IjkuI we had any pi;e tu go to, but wt luui 4fl to remain. Or. tho fifth day, about 9 o'clock In the morning, a rabble of about 600 lives, TUOS4 of tbem soldiers, who were on their way ro Cawnpoor, were turned ; aside to attack us Each one had a gun , and plenty of ammunition, and for three hours they kept up a creditable fire. They could see nothing to hoot at, but fired into the thicket, and at least five hundred bullets hit the walls of o.ir fortress. AVe did not fire in reply, as it would onlv have betrayed our position. i At noon, when their fire began to J slacken, we made ready for a charge. I There were two spare guns, and all well loaded. Then, while waiting, Wilds piled up a couple of hundred stones about, the size of his fist from the plentiful supply once u-ed in the rubble work of the building-. The thicket was surrounded two Hue- deep, and at a signal a general advance was made. Had we been without cover we should have been killed or captured. AVhcn they saw our fort the orders were to storm it. The wall were so low that one could "boost" another up. and be fore we opened fire there was a living fringe all around u. In one minute only the dead were in sight. AVilds fired, out.- and then resorted to the rocks, and I honestly believe he disabled a dozen mcu. Four of the killed fell into the en closure, and the bodies of two more were pushed outside This ended the fighting. The rabble went off, and for the next ten days not a native came near us. At the end of thU ! time Ave -rot word that the British hal j the upper hand again at Sultaupoor, and i Wfc left our fort and returned there. Net one or us avh? tne worse uli, au-i had don considerable towara reauctn- the number of mutineers. One of tne natives wounded in the last fight told me that the General" who ordered the charre against the fort told his men that it was no use to longer bother us, as all Americans were in league with Satan, and that his 3Iajesty would prevent their bullets or swords from harming us. . Xeie York ismt. FUN. It is a wise fool who knows enough to keep it to himself. If riche? have wings, we wish they would occasionally fly our way. Epoch. Even the most poverty-stricken hotel proprietor is inn-dependent. Lnttrence American. The rooster is one of the most tidy cf all the members of the animal kingdom. He always carries a comb with him.. Merchant Traveler. A fireproof pocketbook is one of the latest inventions. It is probably intended to prevent money from burning holes in the pockets of the owners. Servant ;-Boy wants to see you, mum." Mistress "Has he got a bill in bis hand?"' "No, mum." "Well, then, he has got one in his pocket. Send him away.;1 Yenouine'i Xer$. He "AA'hy should you be so angry at me for stealing just one little kiss?' She "Any self-respecting woman would be angry at a man who kissed her just CUce. Drarmti''- Critic. Don't kick too hard against book agents. They have their uses. Perhaps but for them your front door wouldn't be open once a month, nor your best pailor get a breath of fresh air once a quarter. Daninillt Breeze.' "Before I go," he said, in broken tones, "I have one last request to make of you." "Yes, Mr. Sampson?" said: she. 'AA'hen you return my presents please prepay the express charges. I can not afford to pay auy more on your ac-. count.' Jl"T2'crs R.izar. Protecting tht Plate Glass. Passing along Dearborn street, yester day, says a writer in the Chicago Journal, I saw a crowd watching closely the plac ing in position of some enormous panes of glass in a handsome new building. The glass was the best French plate, and the workmen handled it as carefully as if it were worth something more than a week's wages. The task of putting it in place was no sooner completed than one of the workmen grabbed a pot of whiting and with a big . brush daubed a lot of meaningless marks on it. I thought it about as silly a thing as a man could do, and with the usual reportorial curiosity 1 asked the foreman why he allowed it. The answer Avas a crusher. 4 AVhy , " said he, "we have to mark them that way or they'd be smashed in no time." My look of amazement doubtless prompted him to further explanation, for he said: "You see, the workmen around a neAv building get in the custom of shoving lumber, etc., through the open sash before the glass is put in. They would continue tc do it even after the glass is in if we didn't do something to attract their attention. That's the reason you always see new win dows daubed with glaring a bite marks. Even if a careless workman does start to shove a stick of timber through a costlj plate of glass he will stop short when his eye catches the danger sign. That whitt mark is just a signal which says: 'Looi out ; youil break me if you are not care ful."' w"m "Old Man Df the Mountain." Another "old man of the raoMrtain' i has been discoA ered in the Whit? Mount ain region by J. M. Jerow, an artist of Portland. Ale., Avho has been taking photographic views of the picturesque scenes near SaAvyer's River. The most curious circumstance of th," discovery is the fact that the artist who took the view of the gicrantic crag from which the huge stone profile of a man stand? out in well defined liue; did not discov er the. statuesque hr;sd until it was pointed out to him by George Payne, who happened t- take up the photo ffnmh. The likeness to gigantic hu num fic-e Avhkn tlw pkiure displayed to the eves of the a-tonithed r-rtitt Ks soon as his attention wus directed t-j it by Mr. Puvne. v.-;;s to strikingly accurate that iu. exc-ur-ioa Avas at oa :e made to the spot whence the picture: .was takeu I ft xhe gan Salvador (Central America and thcu for the first time tha stern feat- revolution received ita death blow at urcs of the -'Hermit of i he Gulch" Cuscatlan, where the Government forces were revealed. It is vicb a palpably gained a complete victory over the in eembianee of the human fac? that the 6Urgents. General Bivas, the leader, dullest eye cannot fail to disc-era every tnd the rebellion aown of C-ojutepeque featurt of a weH definedprofile. POPULAR SCIENCE. Th scintillometer, the invention of a Belgian scientist, which is used for meas uring the scintillation of the stars, is now utilized by meteorologists as an aid to the prediction of the wt-ather. Soap bubbles blown with newly gen ?rated hydrogen gas have been found to ict as electrical condensers, the liquid of which, when broken, exhibited a nega tive charge. It is suggested that this fact explains the so-called fireballs sometimes seen during thunderstorms. The statistics gathered by the United States Sanitary Commission, concerning the height and other proportions of nearly i quarter of million of soldiers, appear to indicate that young men are not, on the average, physically adult until they attain the age of twenty-eight years. A Scottish mechanic has invented a new lamp for ships, being a cross between a candle and a paraffinc lamp, but posses sing all the advantages and uduc of the defects of either, there being no liability Df explosion or of flooding the place with oil, in case of breakage, and there is no waste. As a general rule, it is said to be a very difficult matter to gage the speed of fishes. The fast fishes are trim and pointed in shape, with their fins close to their bodies. The dolphin and bonito ara thought to be the fastest, and, although their speed is not known, they arc fully capable ot twenty miles an hour. The use of luminous paint is rapidly growing in this country. England has heretofore had the monopoly of a lumi nous paint, which it has sold at $3 per pound. Other countries, however, hav entered into the competition, and Austria is noAv producing a paint which is placed on the market at fifty cents per pound. It is said to be made from rcasted oyster shells and sulphur. Late researches have shown that tlv duration of a lightning flash is not in finitesimal, as has been generally sup posed, but that the flash lasts a measure able time. For instance: if a camera i set in rapid vibration and the plate in it is exposed so as to receive the impression of the flash, it is found that the impres sions appear widened out on the negative, showing that the negative has moved, during the time the flxsh Avas in exist ence. A simple stove for warming rooms by means of solar heat has ben contrived by Professor Morse. It consists of a shallow box, having a bottom of eorruw vacMd iron aaid a gl.w top. AVIr this device is placed outside a building, where the sun can shine directly into it, the rays pass through the glass and are absorbed by the metal, raising it to a higk temperature and wanning the air of tho box. The air thus heated is conveyed into the room. In the biological department of the University of Pennsylvania experiments are bsing couduted in regard to the pro cesses of the mind. Three of the prin cipal kind of experiments now beuj maVv are those to meaur n t sensation rf jughi ao4 aw Trt;ttu; those to measure tne time taken to express a sensation, and those to measure the tima taken to receive an im; ression through the eye, etc. The means used to mak thftse iaveatigationt are weighted wheel, gibbai-fthaped machine, pieoea of iron. Mieyd u Xatt fou tombing tett?! pivoted nammers, etc. The Nut-Cbewers of Brazil. Much of the country of Northern Brazil is covered with forests of valuable rees, and the savage tribes of Indians called Botacudas from their hideous woo len ornaments stuck through a huge gash in the lower lip, rove about freely, a terror to the scattered Brazilian mu tatos," or peasantry. They shoot with bows and arrows, and live bv huntinsr and tishins. and on the I nuts of two or three kinds of palm trees, i Thefce nut;-, being hard, are usually chewed by the women, to picpare them ' for the food of their husbands and cbil i dreu. The whole number of these In , dians in the Kio Doce valley is reckoned ' at 7000; the wildest tribe is that of th , Incuteracks, who have destroyed the mis sionary station of Fray Bento. Xtc York Journal. j was I
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