New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-29
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1860

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<aiupd victory in China, as they must have gained
one anywhere else is gratifying to national VANITY.
Beyond that China exists in relation to the popular
mind only as an indefinite country that tea comes
from and porcelain, and missionaries 90 to and
military expeditions where, according 10 Votalre
and other agreeable writer's there are Mandanns
and very fine Confucian philosophy, whatever
that may be, and a seaport or ports, and queer
dresses and funny characters, az Illustrated I'D tne
bullets ut the Grand Opera and in Batacan at the
Boufies. Thinking men only are bothered, az the
English are with the thought that this conquest OF
Pekin is like to be most expensive success; that
the two European nations at this present triumph.
ant stage of their propagation of Christianity and
opium in China are much in the condition OF the
man who drew the elephant in lottery. The very
grave question, how TO get to Pekin, is solved only
10 precipitate the more profoundly grave question,
how to get away from Pekin. The Allies have
caught on uncOmmonly ugly Tartar, although, and
indeed in good part just because, the Tartar EN-
peror has escaped them The sole object OF getting
10 Pekn was to treat directly with the Brother OF
the Sun and Moon. That brilliantly connected per-
son would not stand treat, and has run of to some
unpronounceable city as far from Pekn as Pekin Is
from Hong Kong, or the muddiest OF mixtures
from solution
And here. since am once come in this SEEM
ngly divergating reporters letter 1.-THE Intelligent
eader who has patience and nothing else to do but
% read on will find that its paragraphs are strictly
arranged in a succinct though substituted con
catenaton accordingly'] let me really branch of to
side paragraph about Sin.KO-Lin-TsiD, the abest
of the Imperial Chinese Generals An unfortunate
correspondent Of The London Times, / think it was
Mr. BOwlby as the French print his name, the CHI
nese correspondent CT that Journal but gentleman
of Irish descent am told, as so many OF the best
writer's for the EOnd0n newspapers are, wrote nome
that Sin-Kc.Ln Tor Ii Tain Tor Sin was but the
Chinese photography for Sam C0llinsOn-an IRISH
man, of course, as we're and are the Duke Of Wei
lngton, Garbaldj, DOnzetti, Catharine Hayes, Gen.
Jackson. Lola Nontes, and the rest. A French
feuilletonist OfsLe Nord newspaper, just says, No
S. X. L. Tsn isndthing shorter than Samuel Colin,
Marseaise Israelite with considerable guile, who,
starting from that seaport town, with the adventu,
rOns spirit for which it's people are distinguished
above oil other Frencbmen, royed over to India, ard
took service there in the ADglO-Indian army. From
that service, cause of change being unknown, he
paced into the army Of the King of Lahore Cf that
were his due title), RuDjeet-Sing. And from his
service he struggled away again into China, and
has risen to be frstclaas General in the army OF the
Chinese Emperor Alexandra Dumas the Great
caught by the brance and singularty of this adven
turer's success, having himself exhausted Italy and
Garibald and seeking, like bis royal namesake
new worlds TO conquer, has entered into correspond
voyage to China and entrance into Sans intimacy
as furnishing material for several volumes of travels
two or three fiye-act dramas, Sans biography in
connection with new phase OF his own, and an odd
dozen or go of rOmances, beside the biography.
The new phase of American politics is not over
looked by French publicsts. The election Of Mr..
Lincoln ard the question of secession have been the
themes of many articles in the first journals here. In
details constantly, and in generals frequently the
hafr fha nj facfa and
Quently fall into the errors of inference, to which
the columns Of American journals, whether filled by
home editors or foreign correspondents, offer, as
every American body is, with bec0mlngy modest
confidence and pride, aware, no analogy. Apart,
however, from this criticism and from consideration
of their special merits and defects, have noticed
this one feature in all of them that have read, and
cannot but think it worth the noting of the in.
telligent leaders of the future Southern Republic
that is TO be placed under the future protection of
France and Great Britain-this feature to witt of
n decidedly pronounced sympathy with human free
DOM and correspondent antipathy to the doctrine
of Slavery. That South Carolina should sue on
Blended knee to Louis Napoleon for protection may
fatter the vanity Of that monarcb's subjects.
But when the white politicians of that dis
trict run into loose rhetorical talk of oppressed
natiODalities," they have conception Of the
intolerable logical confusion in which, to French
mans eye they founder. The only oppressed
nationality IN carolina, ana mucn more northern
of the American or less United States, that a
Frenchman can see is the African nationality. And
to him, am sorry to say, it seems just as truly,
though not greatly oppressed in the City of New
York in the City Of Charleston. Here, in despoc,
msruled France, they have equality, if they have
not liberty. Day before yesterday met jet black
gentleman in the Rue Royale who in his but |
tOnhole the rosette of an officer of the Legion of
HoDor-a gentleman whom worthy Minister, |
Mr. Faulkner, is liable to meet a social equal the
next time he goes to the Tuileries Alexandra |
Dumas, father and son, are both salable in the |
State whose first romancer and man of letters is Mr..
Sims VIM. Gilmore. N. Yusuf. General in the |
French army officer of the Legion just mentioned, |
would be knocked down (after a struggle, / |
think, } in Charleston for handsome consideration |
He would bring good price, even at present low |
prices of biped stock in that district Very able |
bodied is Gen. Yusuf, of his Imperial Msjestys |
Army-now to be one of the rigbthand men of his
Majesty's newly-appOinted viceroy his brother
General, Pelissier Duke of Malakof and Gov.
General Of Algers.
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