A dispatch from here last Friday reported trouble with desperadoes this Prefecture. The trouble was at a small po called Nanwe, about forty li from this city. It seems that there were a number of Anhui men once employed as soldiers, who for some reason were dismissed from the servi They went off and became salt smugglers and generally bad characters. One of their number was caught and executed not long since. In revenge they attacked the camp at Nanwe, killed one soldier, wounded several captured a number of guns and broke up the camp; all the soldiers who could made away as fast as their legs could carry them. Two of the wounded are inthe Presbyterian hospital here: one of them being very seriously injured. Manser bullets were cut out of both. It is reported that the Magistrate in whose district the trouble took place has absconded, but 1 cannot verify the report. As in all Chinese affairs it is not easy to find out the facts, but they are as above, so far as your correspondent can ascertain,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.