Show tue THE GREASED cartridges IN ili INDIA the moved rifle line requires that the carti card ilges I 1 which are used in connection with it khouw dibe be greased to facilitate A at once their being banini ed into the projectile and expelled the cartridges sent out by the he east india company tp be used usel used with the rifle nold were greased greased with oil and wax and a quantity quantify of mutton fat to which the hindmo does not dot object but the fathie father of lies was at work it entered into some fellows bead head either that the grease was wag the fat of oxen or pigs or that at any rate it might blight be insinuated io that such was the case whether tile llie author of tills this notable idea was a hindmo or a lius Alus sulman whether it originated in in the lle ile lie brain of some naine native caf eff acer icer or was suggested by one of the tile persons about the ex king is at this moment doubtful it is however undeniable that in the month of february 1857 a of the highest caste was asked by a camp follower for the use uge of his latah a brass dr drinking vessel lend anee my aytah ly tah no thy touch would defile it was the uncivil reply lower ly of the to the request klest kiest of the camp fol fower lower you think very much of your caste re ve aued ed the other but the lite day is come when the feringer Feri ferl dingee ngee er will make you eat et pigs fat and cows fat and d so convert you to 0 christianity look to your new cartridges the poison polson did its the communicated what he had heard to the native officers of his regiment au ali uneasy f u beasy neasy feeling arose the news flaw from station to station staton the creased greased cartridge cart eart ridge became the watchword of p revolt it reached lle lie he cars of the officers the tiie principal soldiers were summoned before b fore them and it was explained that they labored under a delusion it was too loo late they would not be he comforted they refused to perform their duties du one regiment near calcutta was disarmed and disbanded and the men paid up I 1 and wd conveyed across the river hooghly towards leir homes A second regiment behaved ili ill in tile esmas im manner and was wag equally served at berham pim pam ethe eabe next station the discharged ai ged men proceeded up the country with the view w of a rendezvous at delhi the native arg raised the cry cay of our religion is in in danger see bece said ile ila the lie seditious these atlese engli english cil sli want id to convert us ali all and they begin by destroying des broving our oar sacred customs they have invoked the law to put down suttees sut tees they have suppressed suppress d infanticide ard sacrifices sacrifice they have decreed that hin idin doo widows wild aws bhail marry marryie if they choose they hav hai have e destroy 0 ed edlie allie ailie thrones of the mohammedan Moha rulers they wo would tild now defile deffle our lips lip with the tit rat of undean unclean bealts be apts shall we tamel lamel endure these ruu rum wenho wa chii are ate shall we tamely submit to tile the yoke y oke ofa of a mere mete handful of un believers hindmo Iradi tradition tion and ian lan prophecy cj though dating far tar back equally fix the present time as 16 the epoch of the tile of lor eign ign dpn rule such uch inflammatory appeals coupled with file tiie active exertions cf of emissaries wela wele not without their influence luence wf on the minds winds of ignorant i arld cind discontented men A revolt was organized 7 and ond til ill dib hie e lath of may was it Is said nixed fixed f upon as the dav when a general rising and arid mass muss acie was waa to take place india |