Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-07-30
FROM CHINA.

a late commercial letter from Canton.
Although perhaps no later from the
seat ofwar than our previous advices,
it contains more particulars, which we
doubt not will be acceptable TO our
readers:
CANTON, May 2, 1858.
Since the departure oftho last mail
VIC have received many very interest
ing particulars touching the capture
of Chin.Keang.lEoo and Nankin by
the rebels. This news is entirely
through Chinese, many ofwhom have
received letters from the latter city.
They report, however, that the city
of Chin.keang. Foo had been relaken
at the approach Of thirty thousand of
the Emperor's soldiers from Kirin,
Eastern Tartary, and who, in con-
junction with those previously enga-
ged, had caused the insurgents to fall
back upon Nankin, into which city
they had thrown themselves, being a
force of nearly sixty thousand men,
and that at the departure Of tho latest
couriers they were surrounded by On
army of one hundred and twenty
thousand men. Another portion of
the rebels, nearly forty thousand
strong, had been detailed from Nan
kin, on tho main body leaving that
place to attack Chin.Kcang.Foo, for
a very important city called Yang
Chew, which they had captured, but
to quit which and reinforce their
friends at Nankin was deemed impos-
sible from considerable Tartar ar
my, under the command of a celebra.
ted General, having been dispatched
to prevent it. This, by the Chinese,
is said to DO the exact state Of things
by the last accounts. They do not,
however, believe that the new Emper-
or, who is within the walls of Nankin
with SO large q force ofdcsperato men,
is likely to be overcome, notwithstand-
ing the numerical superiority of the
Tartar force; and the general 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 capitol
When the new Emperor sent to 500.
Choo, after the above victories, for the
fifty thousand tales which the inhabi.
tants had agreed to pay as the ransom
of their city, numerous proclamations
we're carried by his soldiers, who dis.
tributed them amongst the people, and
through that means some copies have
found their way here. In these proc
lamations it was announced that on
the 22d day of The 3rd month (29lh of
Ap,il) the throne would be establish
ed in tho ancient city of Nankin; and
there, on that day, would commence
the Government de jure of the resto.
roJ E,r,;lv of Ninr. Bnt we have
~. - ,o,yr Tho result of the battle
Isnso,h The walls Of Nankin. which
, u." have taken Mace previous to The
above ,l date, Via Sbanpha we have
uo,h;na fnr,ber than that Nankin and
Chin r K sang.Too were in possession
IF Tho INSURGENTS. and which news
nen, bv The last mail. consequently
a lie "e,a;sJ above is said to have taken
u subsequently.
p'1 7, non,1 h. d;Sc,,, 70 describe all
~ w9u'a oe u.'1'e h".s ~ s, naruo,ra'
lne oa, ,. ."l;u anr &c %aut;n Of the
seu ~ .ae -, .a mn nora W ,hon % oOo in.
Guiding The families of the soldiers,
,romeS and children, were either put
", "o the sword or eommi,ted suicide, it
be;ns n mint Of honor with that sim
UulaSp neonle TO perish rather than to
SislJ Every one Of tho priests,
whether of the Buddhist or Taouist re.
l;g;on md who were very numerous
,bere. we're massacred. Their numbers
could no, have been less than 1900
or oooo. while those killed in the as.
sault, the mining of the walls, and The
entry of,he rebels, aresaid to amount
to over 10000 men. Very many fam
lilies were COMPLETELY annihilated by
suicide. The streets were SO blocked
up with dead bodies that in passing
from point to point the conquerors