A resident here sends us the following tact from a private letter written by the party of gentlemen who w Shansi in June last at the request of the provincial Governor, thinking that it aight ha of general interest. The letter is dated Taiyuanfa, Shansi, 23rd July.
"We are all very sorry that so much needless anxiety has been cause by false reports and we trast that our telegrams and requests for further missionaries to come up have quite allayed all uneasiness on our account. I will not write of our journey, or the funeral ceremony, or our eeeption suffice it to say that all show respect and regret has been done, but a wai-mien-tib (merely supercial) business, one is personally fully convinced, "There are thousands who would willingly repeat last year's outrage, if they lind leaders to lead them and officials willing sive them a free hand. The look conten: ptuous hatred and the unpleasant sneer on the hundreds of faces one looks ye sufficient indication that there are ry amiable feelings behind them. A swell minority are pleased to see the for eigners again, I know, but it is emall. This is personal opinion only, you know...
With regard to the child suid to jive been re-cued, weare told that a writer the Futai's yaumén did take away a child on the day of the executions, hut whose it was is not known. Yi Hsien seemed doubtful about letting it live, however, and after a short time ordered it to drought back, and it was killed on the spot with its parents.
"Gravestones are erected in the mar. tyts' cemetery with the names of the whole upon them.
lore is uow no doubt that no foreign child left alive, sv the hope must be given Two of the party were expect continue the journey from Taiyuan to Hsian along the route which the refugee Court took last
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.