We have received the following information from a private source, giving the state of affairs at Peking on the 14th instant. On the night of the 13th the Boxers rose in the City, and directed their energies to the destruction of foreign property, burning the principal buildings in the East City, and killing hundreds of natives, Christians and foreigners' servants. The buildings destroyed are the Roman Catholic Cathedral; the large buildings ofthe London Mission; the American Board Mission; the Customs' Mess (East City), and other buildings not enumerated. Further riotising feared.
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