From a' correspondent at Chefoo we learn that the Rev. A. H. Smith, author of Chinese Characteristics," is in Peking with Mrs, Smith, with twenty-five Indies and eight men of the American Board Mission. who escaped from Tangchow. This makes a total of about forty members of the American Board, twenty-three of the American Methodist,'and eight of the American Presbyterian Mission, who are still in Peking, as far as is known, They are supposed to be among the besieged in the British Legation.
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