The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-07
The New OhInese RsbeIIIon.

Tho new Ohlnese HebelltOns
From He ". Y. World.
The great rebellion of the Taepings in China
was scotched not killed, at Nanking, the
ancient capital, two years ago. Uniting their
shattered forces with the Niem-fei rebels in
the North, the defeated party and their allies
have ever since carried on a guerilla warfare,
which has now grown to another formidable
insurreOtion. The Emperor, or "son of
Heaven" proclaimed, less than two months
ago, the disgusting reality" that bands of
banditti had forced themselves into and occu-
pied several important provinces of China
proper and that the ''high civil officials and
those in command of troops in these had
quite failed to subdue or even check the in
cursion. Ting Pat-chen, Governor of Ho-nan,
and Tseng- g-Kno-chan, Governor Of Hu-peh,
were recommended to the "severest punish
ment' for their derelict behavior; and the
"Son of Heaven" Indignantly commanding
Ii Hung-chang, the officer especially "oom-
missoned 10 superintend the operations
directed against the Nien-fei," to twin re-
nown for himself by stamping out at once the
smallest spark of rebellion" finished off his
mandate by calling upon all concerned to
''trembe and obey !'' The Nien-fei rebels so
far refused to comply with this last awful alb
iuration as to risk the chances of a great battle
soon afterwards with the Tartar forces of the
| Emperor. The battle took place in the pro-
vince of Chih-li, within thirty miles of Peking,
the national capital A cable despatch from
| London informs us that the Imperialists were
defeated, and that Peking itself was in danger
| of falling into the hands of the insurgents.
This news is very important. The Chinese
empire, in which civilization was far advanced
| when it was just daWning in Europe, has
| already existed under twenty-six different
| dynasties, embracing, as Chinese pundits
| allege, period of about five thousand years.
| The revolutions which have previously oc-
Cured have arisen, however, from causes en-
| tirely different from that which has produced the
recent and present revolts against the throne.
| The rapacity of the Northern Tartars, and the
| jealousy between them and the Mongol races
who originally inhabited the soil, produced
| wars, at intervals of centuries, which lasted in
| some cases from twenty to thirty years. The
| Pagan religion has continued to prevail during
the whole period, with but slight variations
| and notifications.
At last, the religious superstition of the
! present mixed Mongol and Tartar population
has been disturbed. While it cannot be
claimed that the beams of an exterior civili2a-
tion, which began to strike in upon the
shores of the Celestial Empire thirty or forty
years ago, have touched many Chinese bosoms
with the glow of a pure Christian faith, the
idea of a Supreme Being and future life
is nevertheless engendered there, and par
TALLY inspires the current insurrectiOn. The
nation is probably deformed and gross; but it
is significant, because it is a war with Bud
dhism, the prevailing Chinese religion. As it
has apparently seized upon many enthusiastic
minds, it is liable, while the rebellion pro-
crosses, to take hold on more. If the rebellion
succeeds, as there seems to be fair prospect
of its doing, the pagan belief will have received
| I, TI,o,
it the moral and intellectual, sentiment of the
Chinese people will be brought one step nearer
to that of peoples who profess the Christian
belief; and the fair understanding which has
been growing between China and other civil
lized nations during the last fifteen years may
thus be more rapidly strengthened.
Already the barriers TO intercourse with
the outside world, which were erected and
kept intact until the present generation by
| ruler after ruler upon the Celestial throne,
are almost completely broken in. CONNER
cial relations with Great Britain, France and
the United States are sanctioned not only by
the Government, but by large minority of
the influential classes in the Empire. The
establishment of foreign scientific university
at Peking has been allowed. The number of
Chinese merchants in California, and the num-
Der of Chinese travellers in this country and
in Europe, is observed to increase year by
year. Agricultural implements and manu-
featuring machinery nom America are an
nually imported into the Empire Hereto
fore, the peculiar feature of all the wonderful
but slow processes of manufacture in that
country has been the general absence Of
machinery.
The periphery of the Chinese empire is esti-
mated at 1850 miles; its area 100000
square miles. 1t includes the entire table-land
of Eastern Asia-about third part of the
Asiatic continent, or little less than tenth
part of the land surface of the globe. 1t has
supposed population of l20,000,000. It's
climate is excessively temperate, and, in the
extreme south, tropical. Nearly every pro
duction of every soil can be grown there.
Every mineral, except platina, has been dis
covered and mined Its more peculiar staples,
such as tea, silk, etc., and its rare manufac-
lures, are of incalculable use to the outside
world. To enhance, and thus cheapen, their
Weld for export is an object which foreign
nations have in view Amy event which ap-
parently tends to augment the disposition OF
the native people to relinquish their prejudces
against frank dealing with other peoples,
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