The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-07-07
WHOLE NO. 1874.
From the San Francisco HernId

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Important from China, if 'True---Great
Battles at the Gates Of Nanking---20.-
/ 600 Rebels reported kilie1--One Mile
| of Houses Blown up at Nanking--Proc-
/ CARNATIONS of the Rebel King and the
! Emperor, &c.
The Hong Kong Gazette publishes a
letter from Soochow, said to have been
communicated by a high Imperial officer
named Tsow minghow, and dated on the
9th day Of the ed moon, March 139l,,)
which contains the following highly i'm
Iportant statements. The Gazette, how
ever, does not youch for the truth of
them:
@SThe salt amugglers and local banditti
at Marking having created a disturbance,
some rascals inside the city availed them
selves Of the opportunity to set fire to the
powder magazine, which resulted in the
destruction of SO street of houses about a
mile in length. The alarm consequent
| thereon was great that the whole city
had nearly been taken, when luckily tie
Tartar General, Fuh-choo. .long-a, and the
Treasurer of the Province Lc-suk -tsau,
brought up some troups to the rescue,
and succeeded in putting out the fire
They had afterwards fight with the
banditti, in which they killed seven or
eight hundred and dispersed the remain
der, by which means the riot was quelled.
Having shut the gates, strict inquiry
was made after the rioters, when sixty
or seventy men were apprehended and
put to death. TIE shutting of the city
gates was merely with view to discover
the conspirators, and not because Of the
anticipated attack of the rebels.
.'On the 31st and 22d of the 1st moon,
February 28th and March 1st, the Gene
rails Chow-t- -t-heentscon and Hcang-yung
had q battle with the rebels at T'hae-
ping. (Situated on the banks Of the
Yung- tskeag, about 10 miles SIS. ". of
Nanking.) The fighting lasted from 6
O'Clock in the morning Of the Gid, to
10 O'Clock in the morning Of the Esd,
when the Imperiallists sustained con-
siderable defeat, losing three or four thou
sandmen and twenty seven officers from
! the rank of General downwards. just in
! the nick OF time, however, famous Pek-
ing General named -kin-show, who
had formerly been under command Of
Yang -yu-chum, and was recently ap-
pointed Imperial Commissioner, at the
head of 4,ooo Tartar troops frest for the
conflict, came into the field. and turned
the defeat into a victory, killing upwards
Of 5000 of the rebels, and wounding two
commanders of their advanced guard, one
named Chin and the other LIE.
s'On the 25th and 26th of the 1st moon
March the 9TH and 9Th, Seu-kwang tam
at thej head OF 5000 Canton volunteers
and 1000 Hoo-kawang soldiers, in con-
junction with the Imperial Commissioner
from Honan, Ke-shen, at the heod of 800
Tartar troops, had another engagement
with the. enemy and killed upwards Of
10000 of them. It is said also that
Hung ng-sew-tsnen, the rebel chief, was
wounded and fed, but was afterwards
taken and beheaded' -
Another letter contains the following:
con the 18th day Of tie 2d moon,
(March 90, the Provincial Treasurer re-
ceiyed report from Nanking, that Keshen
Heangg-yung and snukwangtsin had made
a united attack on the rebels at Guan-k'll-
ing, when they obtained a victory; the
rebels retreated in northwesterly direc-
ton, leaving their boats and baggage in
the hands of the Imperialists. Thus
Marking is for the present preserved
From tile Cana Hal Apra 7.
A decree dated Peking, the 18th Of
March, was received at Shanghae by the
Taoute in which the Emperor says that
according to the latest accounts received
| by him from the south, the rebel fleet and
forces had arrived at Marking and Chin
keand Flu. He had therefore put in mo-
ton the grand army for their extermina-
ton; and seeing that the whole baggage
of the rebel force was on board the boats
he commands the officials throughout the
country to issue proclamations, inform
ing the people that whosoeyer can seize
the rebel fleet shall have the whole of
what they take, with the exception Of
powder and military stores, which must
be handed over to the Government
Farther, if any persons burn any Of the
rebel fleet, and capture and kill any of
the long haired chiefs, on reporting the
same, they shall be handsomely reward
led.
PAYING LIKE A SINNEn.-Seeeral years
ago, in North Carolina, where il is. not
customary for the tavern keepers to charge