left Kagoshima and led Shiroyama, The concentrating troops sood t of doing so, The Rising Sun round them, and are said toh faye there seems hardly: any doubt. that the surgents during their attack on Kagoshima were guilty of extremes of cruelty, as they not only are accused of the slaughter of a number of non-combatants—inen, women, and children—but it is affirmed they put to death more than a hundred wounded men who wore in the hospitals, Whatever sympathy these meu may have had from outsiders will quickly disappear on receipt of intelligence so at variance with civilized ideas.
Tu a communicated article, the Cosmopolitan Press gives the following account of the iters and residents hastened 1g, to be before the other and wanted to get on board a steamer, but the boatmen had gone over to the insurgents and not one dared to pull them off. At last a steam launch from the steamer conveyed some on board, but as hundreds of: passengers they could not be taken off at one time. When one or two boat Toads had been taken off, and they were pre-tenting the launch from being overcrowded, the insurgents came dowa to the shore, and, brandishing their swords, shouted out " Kill the fugitives." As they also fired upon the Taunch she could not approach the shore, and. the people in her were obliged against their will. to leave behind numbers of people, ammunition and treasure to the insurgents. When the akachihomaru and Kayo-maru had gone some little way down' the, harbour the sound of small arms was loud, but they duly heard. the report of what they took to be the cannon of the Imperialists' twice. When the Kasuga-Kan fired, the powder magazine which they abandoned was set on fire by a shell, and it was thought that it must have done much damage to the insurgents, They also tried to seize Rigjo-Kan, which had been blown'on toa sunken rock near the shore hi the storm of the 26th, but the guns of the Grove then off without their doi short time flam from Shinmachi, and the fire soon extended over the whole town.
About 6 p.m, the outer castle was seen to be on fire after this the anchor was weighed, and the steamer arrived safely at Nagazaki on the evening of the 22nd. The passengers consisted of the Kenrei Iwamura and his staff, Otani Shoren and six of his band (priests of the temple of Honguanji), and amounted to several hundreds including private peopl.
The came paper saya steamers from the Sout men, who have lately perial forces, have arrived. If there were many of the same build as some of these specimens, it is not difficult to understand the odds th Government troops were so long contending against in having to encounter thes brawny men of the Satsuma clan, many of whom stand over six feet, and whove tanned skins and well developed limbs shew the they have been subject to, and th to which they have been aco Many of the new arrivals, we believe, are inet of superior staup, who probably held position of trust during the heat of the struggle, b who, seeing the futility of contending against overwhelming odds, gave themselves up.
A correspondent of the Nichi Nichi Shinbun says that a son of Saigo, after having been wounded, del zara Yemen, one of the rebel loaders, has surrendered to Lieut.-General Nodzu with 8,000 men, 3,000 of whom were more or less wverely wounded,
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