The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-17
THE CHINESE REBELLION.

THE CHINESE REBELLION.
Below we copy from the New York Herald
{ August 4th, the details Of the news from
;liina by the latest European arrivals 1t will
tract attention:
We suhjon an extract from the North China
Herald Of the 7th OF May
"The Hermes returned to this part on the az
ternoon of the 9Th inst , with his Excellency.
Sir George Bonham on board. She has made
an eventful trip up at the Yang,z, during which
she lay FIVE days at Nankin, and brings back
intelligence Of a deeply interesting and even
character respecting the insurg ants,
giving us much cause to thank Her Majesty's
Plenipoteniary for the steps taken to obtain
some positive information regarding them. The
following particulars we give on good authority.
and hope to furnish from the same source more
details in future issue:
"The insurgents are Christians OF the Protes.
tant form of worship, and anti-idolaiers of the
strictest order. They acknowledge but one
God, the Heavenly Father, the Advise, ALI
powerful, and Omnipresent Creator Of the world;
with him, Jesus Christ, as the Savior Of man-
kind, and also the Holy Spirit, as the last of
the three persons of the Trinity Their chief
on earth is person known as Tea-ping wang,
the Prince of peace, to whom kind Of divine
origin and mission is ascribed. Far, however,
from claiming alteration, he forbids, in an edict,
the application to himself Of the term supreme
sholy, and others, hitherto constantly assumed
by the Emperors of China, but which he de.
clines receiving on the ground that they are due
to God alone. Their moral code the insurgents
| call the sHeavenly Rules which on exanlina-
ton proved to be the ten commandments. The
observance of these is strictly enforced by the
leaders If the movement, chiefly Kwang-tung
and Kwang-se men, who are not merely formal
professors of a religious system, but practical
and spiritual Christians, deeply influenced by
the belief that God is always with them The
hardships they have suffered and the dangers
they have incurred are punishments and trials
Of their Heavenly Father; the success they
have achieved are instances of his grace. In
conversation they 'bore' the more worldly mind
ed by recurrence to that special attention of tho
Almighty of which they believe themselves to
with the glistening eyes Of gratitude, they point
back TO the fact, that at the beginning of their
| enterprise, some four years ago, they numbered
but 100 or 200; and that, except the direct help
| of theit Heavenly Father, they could not have
done what they have done.
"They,' said one speaking Of the Imperial
| lists, "spread all kind Of lies about US. They
say we employ magical arts. The only kind Of
magic we employ is prayerto God In Kwang-
Sc, when we occupied Yung Gnan, we were
sorely pressed; there were then only some
1900 or 5000 of u.s. We were beset on all
sides by much great numbers; we had no powd-
er left and our provisions were all gone; but our
Heavenly Father came down and showed US the
| way to break out. So we put our wives and
children in the middle, and not only forced
passage but completely beat our enemies
/ After short pause he added:
eff il be the will Of God that our Prince Of
Peace shall be the Sovereign of China, he will
be the Sovereign of China; if not, then we will
die heress'
The man who used this language Of coura-
geous fidelity to the cause in every extreme.
aHd of confidence in God, was a shrivelled up,
elderly, little person, who made an odd figure
| in his yellow and red hood; but he could think
the thoughts and speak the speech Of hero.
He, and others like him, have succeeded in in
| fusing their own sentiments of courage ard
morally to no slight extent, considering the na
terials operated upon, into the minds of ter
adherents. One instance was youth of zine.
teen, who acted as one of the guides to a party
that rode into Nankin, and who again, as he
ran along on foot, begged and besought Mr..
Interpreter Meadows, if he came back from
Shanghae to bring him double sword but
also exhorted that gentleman to refrain from
smoking, from drunkenness. and other vices,
| with a simple earnestness at once amusing and
admirable. This lad, the son of literary grad
uate in Hoonan of the second degree, and him.
| self no bad scholar, had left his fathers house
at the age of seventeen, and travelled some
days to join the insurgent camp before Kwei lin,
prompted by an adventurous spirit to share in
"conquering the rivers and mountains" the
expression BY which the "hoy warriors" Of
Tapping designate their enterprise.
awhile they have manifesily derived their
religious beliefs FROM the writings, if not in
some cases the direct teachings, OF foreign Pro-
teslanl missionaries, they appeared to be ex-
tremely ignorant of foreign nations. Canton
was known to them as the sea Of great foreign
commerce but Shanghae (Which has indeed
sprung into importance during the few years
they had been fighting in the WesD was found
| to be quite unknown to some of their leading
men. 1t is gratifying TO learn that under these
circumstances the existence Of common reli-
i gious belief that dsposes them to regard their
| aforeivn brethren with q frank friendliness
which past experience, renders it difficult to
comprehend in Chinese, but which we ear
nestly trust every effort will be made to guilty.
ate and establish in their minds. II would speak
of nothing else do more for our commercial in
terests should the insurgents succeed than hun
bred of ships and regiments. We understand
that during long ride Of ten or twelve miles
into the city of Nankin and back, what may
at present be called Of the streets Of a large
camp. MIR. Meadows did not hear one Of those
abusive and derogatory epithets applied to him-
self or companions, which have always been
SO literally bestowed on passing foreigners by
the heather Chinese. There was also the
fullest evidence that the obscene expressions
with which the latter garnish all their converse
tons, are prohibited and almost banshed from
the language of the Christians.
That there ambitious, self deceive Rs, shrewd
| imDosfars ond ca1cu1aIiur hvuOcr crit ao ~
them in plenty we doubt not, we also doubt not
that numbers Join and will continue in their
ranks, influenced exclusively by motives as
worldly and ignoble which guide the conduct OF
so many protesting christians Of the West But
among the leaders and eriginators Of the move
ment, there are unmstakeable signs of good
leaven, which we trust and earnestly wish, may
ultimately spread thioughcr' The whole mass
One convincing proof of the sincerity of the
ruling mind is, that while fighting TO free their
country from foreign yoke, and anxious Ia
obtain adherents they nevertheless! throw grea,
difficulties in the way Of rapid increase Of
numbers, by insisting on the general adoption Of
new and revealed religion learnt from bar
barians.
awe have not time nor space to say more a,
present. We have thought it advisable to dwell
in the first instance, mainly on the most strik
ing and momentous feature of this movement
its religious and puritancal element-a feature
now placed beyond all doubt, but which the
previous conceptions Of many foreigners will
cause them TO regard with the greatest astonish
ment, if not incredibly, in any body of Chi
nese. We hope hereafter TO be enabled TO give
, some account of the origin, military organiza-
ton, actual position, and probable future move
ments of the insurgents. They now hold Nankir
termed by them' Teenking-HcavenIy Capital,
Chnking, and Yangehow, and are for the
present busiy engaged in strengthening ane
: increasing the fortiication of these cities.
II From the Washington Union.
Mr. BUCHANAN'S DEPARTURE.
Our distinguished minister to England spen
Tuesday last with his friends in Philadelphia
and proceeded on yesterday TO New York