Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-26
HORRORS OF THE LATE CHINESE
WAR,

Lieut.. Ouchterlong in his history of the
late war of the Christian English in China,
gives the following description Of a scene that
awaited the English troops at the successful
storming of Chin-ke-ang-too. In almost eve
ry deserted house, the children had been mad
ly murdered.
THE bodies Of the most helpless little
children who had fallen sacrifices to the en-
thusiasm and wild despair of their parents,
were found lying within the house, as if each
father had assembled the whole of his family
before consummating the dreadful massacre
but many corpses of boys were lying in the
streets, among those of horses and soldiers,
as if an alarm hid been spread, and they had
been stabbed while they had been attempting
to escape from their ruthless parents. In a
few instances these poor little sufferers were
found the morning after the assault, still
breathing, the tide Of life ebbing slowly away,
as they lay w~riihing in the agony of a broken
spine, a mode Of destruction so cruel that but
for the most certain evidence Of its reality, it
would not be believed.
SIN one of the houses, the bodies of seven
dead and dying persons were found in one
room, forming a group which for loathsome
horror, was perhaps unequalled. The house
| was evidently the abode of a man Of some
rank and consideration, and the delicate forms
and features of the sufferers, denoted them as
belonging to the higher order of Tartars. On
the floor, essaying in vain to put food with a
| spoon into the months Of two young children
extended on a mattrass, writhing in the ago.
| MES of death, caused by the dislocation of
their spines, sat an old, decrepid man, weep
ing bitterly as he listened to the piteous means
and convulsive breathings of the poor Infants,
while his eye wandered over the CHASTITY re-
lies of mortality around him.
son a bed near the dying children, lay the
body of a beautiful young woman, her limbs
and apparel arranged as it in sleep. She was
cold, and had been long dead. Ono arm
clasped her neck, over which a sillrscarf was
thrown, to conceal the cash in her throat,
which had destroyed life. Near her lay the
corpse of a woman somewhat more advanced
in years, stretched on a silk ~coverlet, her fea.
lures distorted and her eyes open and fixed
as il she had died by poison or stFangulation
There was no wound upon the body, nor any
blood about her person or clothes. A deaC
child, stabbed through the neck, lay near her
and in the narrow veTandah adjoining thu
room, were the corpses of two more women
suspended from the rafters by twisted cloths
wound round their necks. They were boti
young, one quito a girl, and her features, il
spite of the hideous distortion produced b,
the mode of her death, retained traces of thei
original beauty, sufficient TO show the Lowell,
mould in which they had been cast.
"In the death of the Tartar chief in com
mand at this disastrous business, there wa
undoubtedly a savage grandeur; but if othe
actions Of the man were known, this parlicu
lar one might lose something Of its glofiou
lustre. His name was Harling. After arrang
ing his troops, he had mountedhis horse, an
placing himself at their head, led them to III
ground upon which their desperate attack ~
on the 10th and A9h regiments was mad
thence seeing THAI the main defences Of h
town were in our possession, and that the d.
was irreirievably lost, he returned to h
: house, and calling for his secretary, desire
$ him to bring his official papers into a sml
room adjoining an inner court of the buildin.
! where deliberately seating himself, and eau
, ing the papers with a quantity Of wood 10 |
7 piled up around him, he dismissed The seer
e tary, set FIRE 10 the funeral pile, and pefishe
in the aames. In the apartment where N
strange exampls Of barbarian hefoism h.