From rut "Nomrw-Curwa Dairy News" or November 12. 1877
From Tients.n Tientsi Mr. G. F, Seward yesterday, and leaves morrow morning in the has of late been increase in and true in Peking In many parts, country is in a very unsettled state, and Tobberies are becoming more frequent.
Only a few days ago a cart, attended by five armed men, was Tobbed of Tls. 1,600 im silver, about 40 miles southeast of this city. It had been followed for nearly by a band of ten robbers, none of whom have, so as I have heard, far been apprehended. While the country i and unsettled condition, robberies are on the incre: us, the concentration of a I force here for the winter sei fxceedinrly wise precaution. sincerely trust that the withdrawal of the U.S.S.
Ashuelot will prove to be untrue. At x no port can She be of as much service as here, in sisting. materially to give a sense of curity during the winter, shut in as from the rest of the world. It fact that a large Sufferers in Shansi, both by the Gov ernment and by the China Merchants Ca. But this noble work of relief is greatly hindered. by the difficulties of Transportation. It costs twice the value of the grain to lay it down in Shansi, What stronger argument than this for a railway, and speedy and easy trans-Portation? And why should not the Government employ these poor charity subjects, of whom there are thousands, 4m building railways thus conferring on itself and them lasting and inestimable benefits, and rendering impossible such terrible distress as is now increasing in all parts.
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