From a private letter written by a Tientsin lady on board the U. S. flagship Newark at Taku on the 7th instant, wi ivilegod to make the follo "Tam to go by the She has just brought the Ninth Regiment from Manila, an tis to be used to carry the refugees to Nagasaki. I am afraid weshan't yet off for a few days.
©We hope that you are all safe in Shanghai, but have heard very startling reports of the danger there. I donot wish any one to go through with what we hare in Tientsin the last three weeks. It has all been very terrible.... The destruction in the town is pitiful. Godowns burnt and looted. Bales of wool all about for Darticades, All the houses on the French Bund burnt or destroyed, and the whole place dirty and neglected, full of soldiers Of ull nationalities." The Russian Cossack goes about killing innocent Chinamen in the most reckless way, and not to be done about "T think T sight that when th from Tivntsin last night at Cangku, bri. ing all the residents who had been ordered away by Admiral Seymour, leaving their comfortable homes and most of them all of their property, now turned out in the world to begin again. Men, women, and children huddled together like sheep, no provision made for their comfort, and treated, according to my ideas, brutal way. More than two hundred were put on the Shengking and taken out over the Bar, and there they must wait until some means of transportation is found, so I was very much pleased this morning when the (American) Admiral told me that he should invite all nationalities to take Pariamore owe P 1g that the people sssage by the Logan to Nagasal
are still living, but the expe' get off until September. Isn't it terrible coe [N'S PROGRESS. note from Chinkiang of the 12th inst.
-lin, Governor of this province, has just passed through with 5,000 troops for the relief of Peking. He gets reinforcements en route. These troops are not Hunan men, nor are they under the command of the Viceroy. It is said the Hunan troops have been sounded about going to Peking, but one and all refused, and said they would stick to the Nanking Viceroy. This is the best guarantee for the safety of the Yangtze ports.
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