The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-04-29
Big feas have little fleas,
And these have less TO bite en-;
While these flsas havelesser heaS--
Andso, I'd infinitum


The Hong Kong correspondent Of the New
capture Of Hong Kong, China, by the British
and French fleets. He says:
But there were other objects more instruct
i've, il not as impressive and stirring. Just
below mo was unfurled the British banner,
and wonder the French, which were also dis
PLAYED from the masts OF men. of- war before
the CITY. saw the allied army in quiet pos
session Of the great city Of "the Son OF Hsav-
en-. - and the brother Of the Sun and Moon,
and these four hundred and forty-fve mill
lions of people, with their sovereign, were
cowed down by few thousand "outside bar
barians." They had made . feeble fight !;
they had offered almost no resistance, and
they contemplated nome again. China l.
conquered! Her end has CONS! The long
and mysterious spell which, for untold ages,
has hung over this mysterious empire, and
kept the huge mass impenstrable and unap-
proachable, 10 at last broken, and it has fall
en- under it's own weight rather than by hos
tile blows, like the elephant worn out with
years, but still deriding bis ASSISTANTS.
With eighteen provinces, OF which each on
the average has population equal to that Of
the whole of the United States, with % ma
ny dialects 90 there are provinces, and each
essentially . distinct language; with two diff
ferent races living together, but not blended,
the mass, the conquered, and the few, the
hated conquerors there is no national spirit
and brotherhood, and there can be none, and
therefore no power and hardly . desire to
uphold the throne and resist foreign influence
or aggression. The "rebels" also maintain
their positions and continue to defy the gov
eminent even in the heart of the empire, ready
to seize any favorable moment to overthrow
the throne and change the dynasty. Who
can predict the future2 Shall there be spar-
titions," or ssannexation,o or the organize.
ton Of as many Kingdoms as there are prov
inces2 There is no prophet at hand to de-
eide the doubts. But this is certain, with
the year 1858, the Empire Of the Son OF
Heaven ceased to be . power to be feared,
and fell to the position of the "basest OF
Kingdoms" Some Of the prophesying preach
srs of England saw the great "battle OF Ar
mageddonn in the Crimean war what will
they say Of this?
And how bloodless! Not above twenty
Eve English and French soldiers fell In the
capture Of Canton, with about three hundred
Chinese and about the same number on both
sides fell in the assault upon the Taku Forts
at the mouth Of the Pei-Ho, when the war
Was carried from the south OF China to the
north and this finished the war. Contains
history it's PARALLEL Our feet lay at the
mouth of the Pei-Ho during the occurrence
Of the closing events, and procured Chi
nese sword and match look gun, picked or
from the battlefield, unspeaksble clumsy and
rusty, it is true, but which hope at futur,
day, with some assistance, to shoulder W
| the flight Of stairs into the ONCE OF the Jour.
nal of Commerce, as the memorials Of one oil
the most bloodless and feeble battles ever
fought, but whose result in extent and i'm.
portancs, changing, Immediately, the condi-
ton and prospects OF one-half Of the human
race, and remotely affecting oil the other na-
tons of the globe, we're never equalled BY
any battle field which history has described
and immortalixed.
Then other developments followed this in.
significant war, and others still remain to b.
made, which are only foreshadowed, or com.
in logical sequence; Russia on the Amoor
Japan, Cochin China, Borneo; all becoming
the theatres of great events, and introducing
new era in the whole Of this Eastern world
Many interesting facts and recent occurren
ces 10 the countries named will be communi
Gated as soon as possible.