Porter, wife, and two children left here for their home in P'angcbiachuang, Shantung. returning from the Annual Meeting of their Mission—the American Board—in About dusk, they reached a places third of a mi ut from the north gate of the city, and tied up for the night. They soon saw signs of excitement on the opposite side of the river in the gathering crowd, which began throwing brickbats, etc., at the boats, After the danger was past, by at 2.30 Saturday morning, Mr. Smith sent a report from which I quote. He says: first, we supposed that this was a tran affair which would soon subside, which i deed it did for about an hour, At the end of that time, after we were in bed, and had supposed that every thing was quiet, the crowd began to re-collect and i time the behaviour of the mob was worse than before. We then sent a messenger a card to the yamen of the river police to Yi Puyrh, to Irt him know what was going on. As' the yells and the missiles were constantly on the increase, we ordered the boatmen to pull: ahead for n little space, which they were reluctant t" de, but did at length begin to attempt. But as soon ws the mob saw that we were in motion their fury was still more excited, and they said that we should neither go on nor go back, As we saw that they were getting furious and attempted to head us off, we tried to turn the. boat about in order to drop down the river to the north gate This they would not allow, but apparently several hundred men sprang on the grain boats to rush from them upon ours. As Dr. Porter's boat is clumsy and hard to manage it swang about till very near the line of grain boats, an many score of men yelling like demons prepared to board Dr. Porter's and mine. Just at this juncture Dr. Porter's servant found a Winche-ter sife which he had bought at Tientsin, and loaded and discharged it into the air to frighten the mob. Dr. Porter ren on the grain boats end drove th" men off for the moment as they were not expecting any effort at resistance, After several hours of this state of things the mob, still yelling and reviling, followed us down the river a few paces, when just ar this juncture three men sent by the Pryek arrived, and began to yell back at the mob and discharged their weapons, It was not long till the crowd quieted down, and the soldiers remained wit's learned from them that another b-at just in front of us had been attacked at about the same time. This was a boat carrying passengers, but empty at the time, and for some. reason the crowd had accused the boatmen of having kidnapped a child. The mob boarded the boat, and we learned that two persons were seriously injured and the cee, smashed. Had the soldiers arrived a ow bell The time of the disturbance was about half-past nine,
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