OUTBREAK, The following is an epitome of news received in letters from our Chéagta correspondent with dates beginning from September 29.
The outbreak in West China was; wased, primarily, by general distress, 0 struggle for life and money, superstition and practical outlawry. Added to this during the past few years there have been new and powerfal agencies at work hitherto little known in the far west. These are in broad me, general education, freedom, patriotism or what passes' for such, rated, people began lees position in the matter of official corraption. There was a large circle in which was born great longing for freedom. It is a form of patriotism if you will, but largely negative in form. In particular it shows itself in hatred of the foreigner and more particularly of the Mancha dynasty. This need not be construed as a listred of individual Chinese for individual
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