The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-10-24
The Live Yankee In China.

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years ago the mate OF q coasting yes
sci came to Shanghse. He was
neither better nor worse than mates
generally are. He was green boy.
ish looking fellow; with a fair skin
and long hair, which fell in glossy
waves to bis shoulders. There was
no very great peculiarity about him,
except that his eye showed a vigor.
ous constitution and most indomi
table pluck. He was pretty hard up
and was unknown. He appeared
hardly old enough to have been
much Of an adventurer; yet his life
had been romance from the first
lie had been with Walker in bis
earlier expeditions, and had had a
taste Of civil warfare in the South
American States. But it was not
in the petty struggles Of such marau.
ders alone that he had been school.
ed. He bad been in the Crimea
during the terrible war which was
enacted there. He had seen the
world, in fact. He had occupied
almost every position in the social
scale, and at last came to Shangha ae
the mate Of a coasting vessel, sound
In health, and the owner Of good
deal more brains than the people
generally gave him credit for. His
name on the ships articles was then
plain Frederick Ward.
The rebellion in China, not to
limit the time OF its duration to q
nicely, has existed as long as the
bills; but not much OF the world
knew it. Foreigners in China didn't
trouble themselves much about it at
first, till by and by tho rebels plant.
ed their green and yollow on the
seaboard. Some people, indeed,
thought they saw in them the de.
liverers and regenerstors Of China.
While the rebels showed willing.
ness to buy German muskets, and to
adopt the implements Of modern
warfare, the imperial power which
10 no power at all--stuck to their
banners and cheese knives. To be
sure the imperialists made some
pretensions. They had two or three
steamboats,, each carrying three or
four guns, officered by Americans,
and with crews Of Manillamen,-
This fleet OF two boats had an Ad
foreigner-who WAS paid
remarkably well for not doing much
Of anything. Some way or other,
Ward pleas sed the Admiral, and the
Admiral told him OF an opening for
his talents, where a good deal OF
money was to be mado II a man
would only risk his life for it. The
Admiral was not foolish enough to
go into the thing himself; bu, he
Ward pretty well, and
inew he was trumP-like most
men caring great deal for money,
and unlike most men, caring as little
or his b., al.
AHc OpCHiDS Wus ttltn.
The rebels we're pinching Shsng.
rae sadly, and the imperialists
couldn't help Themselves. Thirty
niles or so up the Norsung river
was u city called Souchong, very
strong city, like all Chinese cities Of
Importance, surrounded with high
stone walls, outside of which wac a
itch which wss filled with water.
This WAS the sore place, and the re-
oels might he coming out some fine
lay and make decent upon Shang.
rae. The imperialists couldn't take
he city; it was beyond their abili.
ies, and they would pay a hand.
'ome price to got it. So Ward en-
cred into a contract with them, and
promised to take the city for forty
thousand taels. lie was taken up
md little while afterwards he, in
with 80 Manillameu, sur-
,rised the city Of 1000 rebels, took
t by storm, and very quietly pock-
'ted his 10000 tsels, receiving hard
y a scratch in the encounter.
This wac all very we'll, but the
elbows blood was up, and he want.
I'd to take another city some thirty
niles beyond Souchong, where the
'ebels had retired and intrenced
themselves more strongly than be.
ore. The Toutichin chinned HIM
.xceedingly, and told him to go in,
He did go in, or, at least as far hs
he walls. and fell shot in three
placess lie did not die, however,
his constitution was too strong for
hat, but fell back on Shanghae, to
recover from his wounds and plan
another campaign. lie was out
again in few, weeks, but with a
hole in the roof OF his mouth of the
sizs OF a cherry stone, which gave a
lwang TO his speech. Meanwhile the
gaze'tes came down from Pekin, an