The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-14

gentlemen who have i2rmed the new assocla-
ton and that, in cooperation with the Work
ing Mems Reform Association In Tamn,any
Hall itself, it will accomplish an entire revolu-
ton in our State and municipal politics
The Chinese Account OF the Battle Of
Taku-An American Among the Prisons
ers.
The mails from Hong Kong, by way Of
England bring us the Chinese account of the
cause and result of the battle of Taku, which,
in view of the results that may follow, are. Of
an important character.
According to the China Mail, published at
Hong Kong, the news Of the disaster was
known at Canton, and probably also at Hong
Kong, before the arrival of the British steamer
from the feet, the advices having come over
land. The Chinese troops were commanded by
senu-ko-lin-sin, Mongol Prince, about thirty
six years old, who is said to be taciturn,
energetic and determined man, much dreaded
by the Emperor. The Mail represents the
Chinese as being unanimous in thinking that
the Emperor was afraid of being ousted from
his capital by a large force of foreign soldiers.
The printed Chinese account of the fight states
that the barbarians on their arrival communi-
Gated with Prince Senu, "and allowed him
three days to take away the wooden and iron
obstacles in the river and lie answered that
they must stay in the outer ocean until the
Commissioners arrived at Pekin when they
would be invited to 60 to Pekin."
We do not see how British and French di-
ly <ha
that is here presented Commissioners were
appointed by the Emperor to meet the allied
ENJOYS, and these refused to see them at Shang-
hae, but pushed on at once for the Peiho. Had
such a thing occurred in America or in Europe
the allied ENJOYS would have met quite the
same reception that they encountered from the
Chinese military commander, and not a voice
would have been heard to censure the chas-
tisement inflicted on them. From the latest in
dcations of the state of feeling among the
English merchants in China, and with the pub
lie in England, ii is evident that Lord Palmers-
toms policy in China is likely to be pretty well
ventilated when Parliament meets. The truth
is, vast Asiatic war is growing up on the
hands of England and France, springing out of
Palmerston's browbeating and Dragging poll
cy, and in which, from present appearances, we
may judge that France will take the lead and
England come out something as she came out
of the Crimean WARMTH sadly diminished
military reputation.
There is one other point in the Chinese ac-
counts which should claim the early attention
of our own government. The official reports
speak of two prisoners captured, onean Eng
lishman and one an American, who state that
during the action they had come in with the re-
serve in the boats from the bar. When the Eng
fish attacked Canton some years since, an
American Consul mixed himself up in the
affair by wrapping the American flag round
him and following the attacking party into
the city. For this act he was severe
| ly censured by the government. Now, when
one of Commodore Tatnall's men is found
among the two prisoners taken by the Chinese,
any excuse which the American Minister can
offer must seem to belong to that same class of
crafty diplomacy that the Chinese themselves
are SO literally accused of using The world
is rapidly learning to believe that the Chinese
| are not SO far wrong as Palmerston's diploma
cy would make it appear; and our experience
of the unreliable character of the British and
French reports during the Crimean war, and
other conflicts, should lead US to receive with
many grains Of allowance the English accounts
Of proceedings in Asia.
SELF-STULTIFIcATIoN AND OVERTHROW OF TAM
MANY HAIL-On Wednesday evening Tammany
Hall made its judicial nominations, and stulti-
fed itself in the most egregious manner. It
passed the following resolution in relation to
Judge Roosevelt
the duties Of the office Of Judge of the Supreme Court
with eminent ability, and that his ability as Judge and
bis integrity as a man cannot be questioned.
This resolution was unanimously adopted,
and yet Tammany Hall had not the courage or
honesty to carry out its own judgment, but fol-
lowed the lead of Mozart Hall, thus playing
second fiddle to that concern, as it did at SYRIA
cuse. There the Mozart Hall party made its
State nominations, and Tammany Hall and the
Regency obsequiously adopted their ticket. 1t
is the same now in the Judiciary nominations.
Tammany Hall is compelled to admit that
Judge Roosevelt has discharged his duties with
eminent ability and that his integrity is I'M
questioned, and yet it rejects this able and up
right Judge and adopts the nominee of Mozart
Hall, as it does in the case of SO Insignificant
Judge as DAILY.
1t is thus clear that the days Of Tammany are
numbered it has succumbed to rival faction
whose avowed mission was to work its overthrow.
Both factions will be soon superseded and
swallowed up by the combined movement Of
the honest working classes and the wealth of
the city And soon shall cease in the Old Wig
wan that war-whoop more savage than the red
mans, and the tomahawk and the scalping knife
shall be forever superseded as inconsistent with