Proclamations from the Colonel of the 25th regiment are posted all over the city. One announces that Hunan must be one and bids the soldiers who have been' fighting for Chao to give their allegiance to the victorious side without any fear of revenge.
The prisoners in the hsien's yamen made an attempt to get free at 5 p.m. but their attempt merely resulted in the execution of one man and the summary punishment of others.
Martial law is being administered. I came across one interesting instance in the street this morning. Just before I left a house.at which I had had some business, I saw a "guard" of-some dozen soldiers with a broad arrow pass by. My way was the same they had taken, and when I had gone a little distance, I found them lined up, with two soldiers and a man in civilian dress, kneeling on the ground before the angry lieutenant, who was smacking their faces with some vigour and with a very unusual weapon: he had unbuttoned his cuff, which was sufficiently unstarched (I presume it had been starched) and.limp to prove an effective means of stinging a man's face. I heard "opium" as evidently the subject of their crime and suppose they must have been -caught with opium in their hands,
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