News has just come to hand that rebel lion has broken out again to the south-west of Ichang, in the district of Changyang. A thousand men are said to be under arms and the warfare is generally directed against the Roman Catholics. We are waiting for more definite news. In spite of the threatening note mentioned in a previous letter nothing has occurred here to cause us dispeace, but no doubt this new outbreak, together with disquieting news unrest and bad feeling here, A few days from Chungking and the west, will cause ago four men, concerned in the late troubles near the present disturbed district, were led into Ichang in chains by a com: Pauy of soldiers, The men were clad in the condemned criminal's dress—red. It is expected their heads will be exposed on the walls here soon. It is strange that, in spite of all the executions and other severe punishments meted out to rebels, within the last six months, a fresh outbreak should have occurred.
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