are making a desperate effort to maintain the terror of their name. They hare assembled in force at a point ahunt half-aday's journey south of Sinmintua and have cut to pieces the Chinese who were guarding the river bank, and captured their officers. In consequence of this Colonel Heucke started on the 21st instant in the Samson for Sanchiaho, intending to proceed thence by native junk to the scene of action.
Since then news has arrived that seven hundred of the pirates have taken A SOLEMN oarir that they will seize and kill the district magistrate of Haicheng; and stil later intelligence is that fifty pirates have intercepted him and a few followers, while on their way to meet Colonel Henck
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