Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — The Sepoy War in India [ARTICLE]

The Sepoy War in India

British energy :in<l se'enco have subdued the rebellion in India. The Sepoys, minted from ofie .corner to another of the Empire, are finally to be driv -n into one quarter, where Her Majesty’s troops will b» able to dispose summarily of the last remnant of the insiu-gen’s; or they will be forced to fly to thie iirmnt ain : . T’oere s ill re ma it,.* in ( hide, a force o'" rebels numbering sixt v-eight thousand men—but th“_y are represented to in a mere rabbi.'who canti’ot slam’ U’Tere asm-nil lurceo 6i.-« ;p.itied ri!l“uo'a. Although there is apparent submission in many.di-trie's, the undertone ol bitterness is -till apparent, and those who have been in the field, while submitiing under defeat, may be rallied ag in under resolute leaders: and the only means of securing s ifety is b.Miev .ul to be the maintenance oi a large Europ. ■■in force in the st ill disaffected provinces, ( hie ot t tie chiefs of Olid? h .s been repeatedly beaFen. but he has liee-i able to augment his rebel f rabble) army from eight thousand to fi teen thousand and sixty men. and retnains in the field. ("entraf India is the recruiting ground of the bestile .i.iativ<‘ leaders. Another chief. Koer S : iig, has increased his force from five tho.u--and to twenty t hoti-a ml: and <m“ wiiuse name was unknown to tlm British was found wit li a t lions and men and thirty gun-. 'l’he-e fuels, communicated by the London Tinas’ correspondent, shows that the Empire which Q,neen Victoria has assumed must b“ retained by the sword for manv years yet to come.