An attempt at rising took place at Quinsan, a district about midway between Shanghai and Soochow, on the 13th instant. It is alleged that the rebels obtained the services of pirates and salt smugglers on the Taihu, who collected about 600 of their followers and over 100 poorly armed craft and started from that Lake to Chingyangkiang in the Quinsan district on the lith. They pretended to be under the redoubtable rebel leader, General Nin Yung-chien, and their tention was to surprise the Water Police there and seize their boats and arms, after which a rising in earnest would be started. But the plot known to the officer of the Water Police, who assembled his fleet of over twenty armed boats and proceeded to meet and arrest the pirates. A hot engagement between them, lasting a considerable ensued, resulting in the routing of the salt smugglers, who retreated towards the Taihu.
Forty or fifty of them have been captured, some near the Nanziang Station.
Mar. 31.
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