Gen. Yan Sen, from Szechuan, has been making desperate attempts to fleece the salt merchants and has now succeeded in doing so. He tried to raise a tax on the salt, but this was objected to, and he even went the length of seizing some of the salt boats. Later he released them, and held sufficient salt to pay the amount he was demanding. But he could not put and the salt on the market, as the Salt he, instead of surrendering, hag'Administration would immediately have seized it. To get out of his quandary, he asked the merchants if they would not compromise by paying him a round sum, and it is now reported on good authority that they have given in. They have paid him the enormous sum of $60,000, in return for which he has promised that he will not make any future calls on them.
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