Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23
FROM CHINA.

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extract from late commercial letter from Canton. Al
though perhaps later from the seat of war than our
previous advccs it contains more particulars which we
doubt not will be acceptable to our readers:
! CANTON, MAY 2, 1853.
Since the departure Of the last mail we have received
many very interesting particulars touching the capture
Chin keang Foo and Nankin by the rebels This news
entirely through Chinese many of whom have
letters from the latter city They report however that
the city OF hnKeangFoo had been retaken ON the APP
OF thirty thousand Of the Emperors soldiers from
hrn Eastern Tartary who in conjunction with those
previously engaged had caused the insurgents to fall back
upon Nankn into which city they had thrown
neng force Of nearly sixty thousand men, and that
ny an army OF one hundred and twenty thousand men,
Another portion of the rebels, nearly forty thousand
strong had been detailed from Nankin the main body
leaving that place to attack Chin Keang Foo for very
important city called Yang Chew which they had cap
tured but to quit which and reinforce their friends at
Nankln was deemed impossible from considerable Tar
tar army under the command of celebrated General
ing peen dispatched to prevent it, This by the Chinese
IS SAID to be the exact state of things by the
They do not however believe the new Emperor who
IS within the walls of Nankin with large force of des
perate men, is likely to be overcome Notwithstanding the
numerical superiority of the Tartar force and the gener
oil belief is that he will succeed in dispensing them and
establishing himself firmly there it being the city which,
in his proclamation, is to be his capital When the new
Emperor sent to SooChoo after the above victories for
the fifty thousand tales which the inhabitants had agreed
to pay as the ransom of their city, procama-
LIONS were carried Dy his soldiers who distributed them
hongst the people, and through that copies
have found their way here In these procamatons ii
announced that the I'D day of the 81 month 29th
Apr the throne would be established in the ancient city
OF Nankin; and there, that day. would the
Government de re Of the restored family of Ming. But
we have yet to learn the result of the battle beneath the
walls Of Eankn which must have taken place previous
the above date Via Shangha we have nothing further
than that Nankn and Chin KeaDg Foo possession
of the insurgents and which by the last mail
consequently all related above is said to have taken
place subsequently,
1t would be difficult to describe all the barbarities and
horrors perpetrated at the taking of Nankn OF the
Tartar garrison than 90 000 including the families
OF the soldiers women and chdren either put
the sword committed suicide being point of honor
with that singular people to perish rather than to yield
Every one OF the priests whether Of the Buddhist or
Taonist religion and who were very numerous there
were massacred. Their numbers could not have been
less than 500 2,000 while those killed in the as
saut the mining Of the walls and the entry of the re-
bells are said to amount to 90 900 Very many
families were completely annhilated by suicide. The
streets were SO blocked with dead bodies that in pass
OF houses, private well public, and threw them in
side as the Chinese expressed it. as if they had been logs
Of wood
The insurgents had no wish to proceed to such extre
mites, nor have they shown any cruelty towards the
Chinese people, priests excepted unless in where
they had co-operated with the imperial troops At Nam
kin, In consequence of the magnitude Of the garrison
and consequent resistance many shared fate which
they otherwise, and in other places would have su
fered
The city of Canton is very quiet but its ultimate fate
depends upon the state of things at the North If the
insurgents win the local officers and all the priests with
the Tartar garrison will doubtless be risen against and
without ceremony put to DEATH when adherents of the
new order of things will fill the public Offices. In the
procamatons of the Emperor it is very clearly put
forth that all the Mandarins the TarGrs and the priests
shall be exterminated and there is doubt but that
such would be the case.
There is bare possibility that have alluded to these
events at greater length than may interest you but
consider that the fate Of empire containing onethrd
and uncertainty now exists with the nseparabe eff
fects Of change Of rulers, involving terrible
struggle is going could not but attract your
attention. =