New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-13
Grated palace. Once in, their fate vss

~ox, S.s..yrted palace. Once in, their fate was
ssalsd. every one Of them WA put TO death ana not
ssiv tho.e but other thousands also. Thus day after
Say the victims were arrested and made TO suffer.
Even little children not spared. Heaps on heaps
ne corpees accumulated for nearly three months this
dreadful work was in progress, and was then arrested
IN q very singular manner"
when the Eastern Kings plot was revealed to the
Celestial King, the latter summoned 10 Nankln me
assistant King Shih Takhai, as well as the MOI ~.
em King, Wei The Assistant King, however, re-
fused TO obey the summons, he being fIlenay " ~.
Casters King Yang. As he did not make ms app and
ance IL was supposed he had taken umotaso . 81
ioned the impenaliss. Events proved o~,hered ms
the surmse was without foundatlon;I ne demand for
adhereuts and sent TO the Celestial hihg Lin and
Wei's head on pain Of attack upon ;,h Ths
lie destruction The demand was conPnsT nlaced in
head az tile Northern King was tahe a.. ~ tssisfant
box, dispatched 10 ane ' other heads was hung
. mn and exposed 10 the public gaze ncse event'
.ccprred in November last. The way Denis nus pre-
pared for Of Weis captains n.u T Hoo ~, ".
RssSed AZ the demand Of the Assistant hng the TAT
e. marched 10 NankD, about the beginning OF De-
eember. The adherents OF Yang ana WEI were oi
course Immediately proscnoeu, among tlem ~
Bndgmans informantS' WIN hou ~ save WV"
from the executiOner. -
We can now comprehend why, in the last ie"
months the insurgents have made 80 il'ue ProgIess
compared with earlier periods. They nave Deen en-
raged with feuds among themselves, OF surhcIenuy
fragc character Hung Sutsinen, the Ceiestidi h's'
was known 10 be alive late as the i%tn oi IN
her bu. wa in coucenment; and Shin lakndl, Tue
Assistant King was at the date OF the latest au,cs
posse ssion of Nankn and apparent supreme cnei "a
The insurgent force. The properly VI ia"s nna o..
marty had been confscated, and ms palace euceu 70
In;ns DIR Bridgman says that " IL seems 10 nave oeen
$1,000 that no memorial should be left OF him or
o. 81; estate and that every relative and Trend, ana
.. eJlower should be exerminated and their houses
a. nd goods DESTROYED" Ii was also reported to Dr
R,;Scmsn that the far-famed porcelain tower of Nan
kin. in architecture the PRIDE OF the Middle hlhR
dom had been leveled TO the ground. It's demoi
ton anpears 10 have been connected with the over
throw OF the Northern King: " II was blown up be-
" cause there were some greatguns III IT.. ohh lax
hal il represented az acting the part Of Dictator FRO
visions and munitions Of war were plentiful al Nan
kin and though supposed that as the consequence
of this jealousy plotting and treachery, thirty thou.
sand persons killed the numbers OF the insurgent
forces were not sensibly diminished.
OF the relative positions and strength of the lmpe-
riests and insurgents, il is difficult to form an opih-
prefectures OfKiangs nine are held by the insurgents,
with nearly the whole province OF Nganhui, large
countries OF the river, and many forts along It's banks
and that their courage, readiness TO hight, &c lar
surpass those of the Imperialsts. DIR. Bndgman,
however has such an evident bias in their favor, that
bis opinions and differences must be received WIN
some mistrust. He even admits, at the close OF his
letter that when his informants left Nankln plot
was on foot against the life of Hung, the Celestial
King: and that soon after they left the city, "much
- loud cannonadng was heard in that direction Men
who can practice such wholesale treachery and saugh
ter among themselves, not, one would think, IKE
to prove permanently formidable foes and 1t IS diff
cult TO suppose that their rule can be blessing to any
people. To claim for such men a knowledge OF, or
Precepts is only to bring the Christian religion into
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