Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-08-01

IL gives CaLnOllcS the tremendous uetelib VI
persecution. That cry will rally! to any sect,
hosts Of noble spirits, who otherwise would hold
it in religious abhorrence.
Many who We're hanging loosely by the skirts
of Catholicism, and being gradually but surely
disinterested from its communion, are fired with
new zeal and compacted.by the sense OF oppres-
sion.
The weapons of this warfare are not carnal.
We acknowledge the kind intentions but decline
the alliance of politicians. It is burdensome.
This controversy belong to ous-Proteslant Chris
tians, Protestant churches, Protestant journals
and societies, as SUCH We want no direct or in
direct aid from Government in managing it, be-
lievne that if let alone, with truth on our side,
we can bring it forth to victory.
SHANGHAI
We copy the following interesting letter of
Rev. M. Y. Yates, from the last number of The
Home and Foreign Journal.
You will doubtless rejoice to know that Shang-
hal is no longer besieged city. The imperial
lists, by some means other than hard fighting,
got possession of the city last night. Some say
there was treachery on the part of some OF the
rebels; others say that the rebels having exhaus-
ted all their supplies within the city, attempted
to escape in the night. If it were an attempt to
eyacnate, it was not very successful, for several
hundred poor victims were caught, and have du.
ring TO- day been beheaded. Those who escaped
last night are being hunted down. like wild ami.
mails. suppose more than half the rebels that
escaped from the city will be detected, and exc
cuted
Among the victims that were decapitatcd to.
day were three foreigners, (a Dutchman, 4 Dane
and Malay) The scene at the camp this af.
ternoon beggars description. The eheads of some
four hundred unfortunate beings were thrown in
baskets or bags, to be taken to the six gates oil
the city, where they are TO be exposed to public
gaze for several days while their headless bodies
some of which having their hearts and lungs ex.
tracted, were thrown in wild confusion over the
execution ground. Whilst this work of death
was going on at the camp, the main body ct the
imperial soldiers were pilIaging The unfortunate
inhabitants of the city, who had been shut up
there during the entire siege.
The impcrialists when they gotwithin the walls
being, it would seem, determined to make sure
work of it this time, commenced setting fire to
the houses; and they did not stop this work o
wanton destruction till nearly one baIf of the
best portion of the city was in flames. The fire
is not yet wholly cxtinguished AL the churches
within the wall escaped injury from fire, though
they narrowly escaped. 1t burned to within one
house of the Baptist Church; to within u few
doors of the London Mission Church; quite uE
to the Episcopal Church, and quite up to the
Sabbatarian Church dwelling on three sides:
The Baptist Church has sustained very seriou:
damage from the Frenchs attack upon the city
Tt has been pierced many times with round shot
and ten-inch she'll The tower is so much in
iured that It will have to be taken down; at leas
one-half of it. We have not yet made thor
ough examination as to the extent Of the injury
but we know enough to feel quite sure that i
will not be safe for the tower 10 remain IN lts
present state. The injury to the body OF the
church is not such as to preclude our holding
services in it, and hope soon to resume my ole
stand.
March 6h.-About 1900 rebels have been
beheaded. The leaders of the rebellion at this
place, it is said, have escaped, The masses that
fled from the city when it fell into the hands of
the rebels are returning to their homes in the city
Thousands of them have nothing left but the few
bricks of which their houses were built.
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