The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-25
Our Shanghae Correspondence.
UNITED STATES STEAMSHIP MISSISSIPPI,
SHANGHAI April a. 1853,


saANGHAn, April 4, 1858.
Our Squadron in the Chinese Seas-Famous Run Of the
United States Steamship M;sssppi-CSslison with a.
Untwovx Steomer-Dcstrssctive CorlaOrotioW at HeNo
Kong-7he Political Negotiations, de-, dc.
hasten 10 inform you by the mail that leaves to-day Of
our arrival at this port yesterday in fourteen and ha
days from Hong Kong Late in the afternoon previous 10
our leaving that port very destructive fire broke out IN
that part Of Hong Kong known China Town. destroying
between seventy and eighty buldngs occupied IS shops
and dwellings by Cinnamon. A large amount OF pro-
perty was destroyed and some one hundred and fifty
families rendered houseless, some OF whom lest
everything they possessed We left hong Kong satur
day. March and have had very wet and disagreeable
passage. On the day after departure passed the
Euglish eighty gun ship Calcutta Admiral Seymours flag
ship bound TO this port On the Tuesday following our
departure we discovered steamer hull down ahead Of
u.s. kept in sight OF each other all day At daylight
the morning the steamer still in sight, We gave
fires little extra stir up, aud gained her until five
p. n, when passed her handsomely. She proved 70
be the English war steamer Coromanda Com nander
Douglas, who left Hong Kong the day before we did,
bound to Snapghae We consider this doing pretty fair
wish 10 show TO our friends that we have not been
idle since arrival this station, by detailing 70
We left woosung on the 9th of last month, pro
ceeded to Manila distance run twelve hundred
and fortyone miles we stopped there thirty nine hours
dred and thirtytwo miles We stopped there four and
half days. took in four hundred aad fifty tons OF COAL pro-
Visions wood and water and then proceeded 70 this port:
distance hundred and forty miles, total dis
lance twenty nine hundred AMI seventy four miles,
know Of some ships that been tnis station tho
San Jacnto instance that have not done duty
year. This shows plainly that our gallant old com
odore deter mined not TO let his squadron lie in port
The frigase Minnesota, Captain Dupont, 10 ct anchor
the lower low S ssUS! w rs.d miles s
steamer Antelope, her tender, is in port: Mr.
Reed is also here, and in good health ana
flagship leaves this port in day two for home, orders
beng received for her return 70 the United states We
presume that Commodore r. will hoist his flag board
Of this ship until arrival of the Powhstan There
tdipgs of her the Germantown they both looked
for daily There are four Engish and two French chips
Of port Everything at the present time Is quie
in this place business begins 70 look up There are 30
veral American ships in port but time will not permit me
There is nothing ne from Canton Pekin Nankng
rebels at stand still. and do not give much alarm u
the peaceable citizens Of ShAnshae
up the channel about fifteen miles from Woosung We dis
covered steamer approaching us in the opposite direction
stead Of keeping of stopping her engines kept on and
in endeavoring bow she struck forward
ryDg away our jSeS0% Nc, We im% ms let 60
other steamer had her manyard and mizentopmsst car
red away, and probably her mainmast sprung II was
quite light at the time, aud there be excuse for
the officer command for II he hal chosen 80 to de- he
could have stopped his engines and thus prevented the
COLLISION. III no had stopped rs ne ud Jus veeo04
would have struck us amdshp and the result must have
been very serious, not ata 10 US both. Her officer In
command deserves to be severely censured Tor his care
lessness In driving ahead at such furious rate In such
channel He also came 70 anchor to clear away
the wreck
The Englsh Frerch and Ans An squadrons remain
pretty much they did at the date OF my last. The
Dutch have only one frga,s nov the station. The
Russians have ships OF these waters All tho
negotiations will probably have TO be done by the Eng
lsh, French and ourselves We still maintain
tray amid oil the complications between England and
China.
The officers and OF this ship still continue to enjoy
their usual good health Up 70 this hour have not
able 10 learn the OF the that aou Of
she did not send boat 10 us TO ascert,n what
damage she had done, but left during the darkness Of
the night She might have been steamer or oae a
the merchant propeers that between ths port and
Hong Kong From the language used on board OF her at
the time OF the accident We are certain that she
French. hope In my neat 10 DO ABLE 10 give you her
and that Of her commander, who into . ship
al and then departs without sending 10 ascertain II
were likely 10 reach port Of destination or 60 70
the bottom OF tho ocean.