Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-03-21
Later from China.

Later from China.
The clipper ship Hurricane. at San Fran
cisco. brings news from China to the lat
January. 45 days later than by previous adj
vices. We extract oar news from the Cali
fornia Express
Immediately after the capture of the Bar
rier Forts by the American forces, Commo-
dore Armstrong returned with his fleet tc
the anchorage at Whampoa, and the bust
ness of repairing the damages caused by the
attack was commenced. In letter address
sed to Yeh, the Governor of Canton he OBJ
served:
Here presume it will end, and so long as
he (the Imperial COMMISSIONER does not
commit any act of violence against our flag
or citizens, we shall rest on our arms
His Excelleney Yeh, in despatch of the
9Th of January: writes Commodore Arm
strong:
From this, | see your Excellency has
clear knowledge of affairs. There is no mat
ter of strife between our two nations. Hence
forth let the fashion of flag which the Ameri-
can ships employ be clearly defined, and n
form me what it is beforehand. This Will be
the verifcation of the friendly relations be-
tween our countries.
This would seem to settle the difficulty SO
far as the Americans are concerned. unless,
indeed, some other outrages should be COM
United by the Chinese Correspondence has
been resumed by Mr.. Parker, our Commits
sioner in China, with Yeh.
On the 4th of December, the Chinese set
fire to the buildings adjacent to the British
steamer Thistle was attacked by the Chi
nese with fatal success, and all the Euro
peans on board put to death.
The following from the Commercial Circu
lar of Messrs Lawrence & Co, under date
Hong Kong 18th January, will give better
idea of the true state of affairs than any
thing we can write:
The position of affairs here. since the de-
parture of the last mail, has by no means
improved; and the proceedings of Admiral
Stirling having been confined to the defen-
sive, the contumacy of the Chinese authori-
ties has only been confirmed, This tenden-
cy has been further FASTENED by several
successes on the part of the Chinese, the
chief of which is the entire destruction OF
the foreign factories at Canton, by fire, fol-
lowed up by the capture and destruction of
the postal steamer Thistle on her way down
the river, and the murder and decaptation
Of all the Europeans on board. Besides
these Incidents, the unavenged capture of a
Mr. Cowper at Whampoa, and several at
tacks upon river steamers, of which no no.
tice has been taken, cannot but tend greatly
to postpone the settlement of the dispute
by giving the Chinese less tiattering idea
Of our power than they have heretofore had.
The peculiar affection entertained for the
British by the Chinese government, may be
gathered from the following choice extracts
from recent proclamation of Yeh
Now, these English barbarIans-these kin
bred of dogs and bears, unmannerly, devoid
of all knowledge of noprie.y in human in
and jackals in their
greed-lustful, incestuous, bestial-wander-
ing hither and thither reckless and regard
less OF all rights human and divine like
flock of carrlon crows to the carcase, come
from their hell neSts-treat our Celestial dy
nasty with contempt, and in n moment when
our troops are unprepared for them, take
possession of our tOrtresses, burn houses
and shops of the industrious. and carry to
the top of their bent their Internal wicked
ness.
The English must be exterminated, so
that their fate be a warning to other nations
from the west. As for traitorous natives in
the service of the English, imps, they mnst
be sought out, and, on apprehension, suffer
con ign punishment. The graves Of the an
cesto,s of the greater villains must be bro
ken up-the families of the lesser scum de-
stroyed, both small and great Twenty
days are allowed to the servants of the for
eigners to return to their homes.
During all these difficulties, the rebellion
is progressing, and the rebels seem to be
gaining ground, as the annexed will show.
On the 4th inst, the Chipkeang rebels at
tackled the Imperial forces lying at Newkin,
a walled town about four or five lie from
Tang yang, and after a fight of three hours,
drove them from their camps with consider
able loss
Scarcity of provisions in the Imperial ar
my, before Tanyang, is causing great dis
order and dreadful distress-if the accounts
that are reaching US from that quarter are
true, and we see no reason to question their
authenticity.
Dates from Fachau to the 2Sth ult., have
been received in Shanghai; and We learn
that there has been open rebellion in the
prefecture of Yeang ping, that the district
city Of Shun- chang had failed into the hands
of the insurgents, and that several officers,
the project himself being among the number,
had been killed.
The MURDEREss.-We noted on yester-