Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
A WARD NEEDED IN CHINA.

new YORK PreSS.
The situation in China might be
vastly improved if a second Frederick
Townsend Ward could be found to take
command of the allied forces. A good
many old people in this city remember
Ward He was ship broker here for
several years, suddenly packing up his
traps and going to China about the
latter part of 1859. Salem, Mass, was
his birthplace, and his home was any
where at all. He started out in life
as a common sailor, fought with St.
Arnaud in the war of the Crimea, was
with Scott in the Mexican war; and
served with William Walker, the noted
filibusterer, in the expedition for the
conquest of Nicaragua. The TAPPING
rebellion attracted him to China Upon
arriving there he organized band of
adventures from all nations and offer
ed to capture certain city for a fixed
price. He took Sungkiang from 10000
rebels, for which the government made
him a mandarin of the fourth degree.
He and his band cleared the country
about Shanghai, receiving their pay for
each victory. Then he disappeared.
Leading the Allies.
After few months he reappeared
with three native regiments which he
had drilled and equipped in the Euro
pean style, routing a greatly superior
force and saving Shanghai from cap
ture. The European officers who had
Stunned him as an adventurer and
outlaw now made overtures, took him
into their counsels and finally placed
themselves and their forces under his
direction. He guarded a radius of
thirty miles around Shanghai, and in
1861 captured Ningpo He adopted
the Chinese nationality, manners and
dress, accepted the name of Hwa, mar
ried the daughter of an influential ma
tive and was made mandarin of the
highest order and admiral general in
the service of the Emperor.
Wanted to Fight for the Union.
When our civil war broke out he
tried to come to America to fight for
the Union, and offered a contribution
of $4,000 to the national cause for the
privilege But while Minister Arson
Burlingame was arranging matters
Ward was MORALLY wounded in an at
tack on Tsekie He was succeeded In
the command of the Ever Victorious
Army by Major Charles George Gordon,
afterward known to the heather and
civilized worlds as Chinese" Gordon.
The latter brought Wards troops to
high state of efficiency, but to Ward
belongs the credit of their organiza-
ton. =. The Chinese government buried
the American in the Confucian GEM
etery at Ningpo, where it erected a
great mausoleum, besides placing
monuments on the scenes of his victor
les He left an immense fortune in
negotiable securities, which mysteri-
ously disappeared. It is believed that
British officer who was last seen with
him was guilty of the theft
First Visit to the Emperor.
Ward was sent to Pekin as envoy,
but refusing to submit to degrading
ceremonies failed to see the Emperor.
Heinfung died in the following year.
Leader of the Taipings.
There is but little difference between
Prince Tuan, leader of the Boxers, and
Tien-teh, leader of the Taipings in the
great rebellion of 1S50-64. Tien-teh
means Celestial Virtue" He was of
obscure origin, but educated He an
nounced himself as the restorer of the
worship of the true God, Shang-ti, and
derived many of his dogmas from the
Bible. He declared himself monarch
of all beneath the sky, the lord of
China land thus of all the world), the
brother of Jesus, the second son of
God, and demanded universal submits
princes of peace" were the most afro
cious murderers the world ever saw,
with the possible exception of Tuan's
merry horde of butchers.
History Then and Now.
"Pig-sticking" in the Transvaal is
mere tickling compared with what
Russian, Italian, French, English and
German troops will do with the Chi
nese when this war Is fairly begun.
Pity the pigtails. The records OF the
TAPPING rebellion read much like those
of to-day. Have a few brief examples:
Crew of the Thistle murdered. Canton
taken by English and French. Allies
proceed toward Pekin. Take the Pei-ho
forts. Minister Bruce, of England.
stopped in the Pei-ho on the way to
Shih. attempting 10
force passage, is repufsed with a loss
of 81 killed and 800 wounded Allies
take Taku forts. losing 500 killed and
wounded. Allies advance toward
PekS. Nineteen Europeans captured
by San-ko-lin-sin; Brabazon and Able
de Luc beheaded and thrown into the
canal. tOhers carried to PeKin. many
dying of ill-usage. French ravage En-
peror's summer palace Pekin invest
ed. Summer palace burned by British.
Pekin surrenders. Allies quit Pekin.
Tien-Wang commits suicide by eating
gold leaf Chang-wang and Kan-wang,
rebel generals, cut into thousand
pieces. Pekin in danger. Gordon takes
Nankin in ruins. Massacre at TEN