We have only recently passed through the whole length of the province of Hunan in the rear of the successful Southerners.
The Lei and Siang rivers were as quiet as death, scarcely a boat of any size was seen on these rivers, except a few containing soldiers or officials of the South on their way to Changsha.
General Tan. Yen-kai was in Hengchow when' our boat passed through, and below: Hengshan launch: es were met on the way to Hengchow to take the General to Changsha. He arrived in the city on June 17, and was received very quietly but, nevertheless, enthusias~ tically. Changsha seems like a city, that had passed through a great tribulation and had not yet found herself.
No Tive ror Pittace.
Very little was seen along the rivers to show that fighting had taken place, Hengshan was fired bythe Northerners but only a few houses and shops were burned. The retreat from Hengshan throug Chuchow and Siangtan to Changsha was so sudden that the Northern soldiers had little time for the pillage which characterized their retreat below Changsha where the pressure was not quite so great. Rumours have come through of robbery, rape, and murder, Yochow has been looted and the killing of Mr. Reimert only shows the behaviour of these brigands,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.