The latter numbers of the " North-Eh Herald" have had in." Notes on Native Affaits" some very alarming reports concerning Boxers in Chengtu, for not one of which can your correspondent find any corroboration. There is not and has not been for months a band of armed Boxers, or any encampment or entrenchment of Boxers; so far as it cane seen the Viceroy received all needed support from Peking; not much was needed. Especially in the way of troops, for the Boxers still had been Boxers before the present Viceroy took office though unch then remained to be done. The people had found out that the Boxers, even their leader, had no power that rendered them invulnerable to a sword in the hands of a swordsman or to a gun properly Ioaded and well aimed, When the Titan " found that with equal chances they Il Boxers without ruming unequal chances they just cleared them but without much aid and sometimes in spite of opposition by the regular troops or rather the officials of the re; The Outlook for the Future.
The province seems very quiet and to residents at its Capital it would seem that the Viceroy is receiving the support and confidence of the people and that there will not be this year a repetition of the dis-aniers of last year, unless there should be another failure of the crops. Opium hi extensively cultivated and now twice the price of a few years ago. We have had an extremely dry winter and spring wheat was turning yellow for want of rain, but now light rains are falling which, will sive the wheat from entire failure. But heavy rains will be needed for the rice as many of the fields are now empty of water.
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