Business seems to be looking up afresh. Shops that were compelled to close, have again opened. Everything, people included, seems to have put in a different appearance. Crops in and around Chang. shu are short by about one-half, ossing to the locust, which seemed to visit the plice by storm.
Yet we heard no complaining, all seemed to be so happy that the fate of the North had not fallen on this section of the country. Everybody wants pence.
13th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.