From THE "Nortu-Cumva Dany News" or Avoust 31, 1870
From Shantung: The Peking "Gazette" states that a despatch has been pre-Sented to the Viceroy to the Throne by Cheng Kwo-fan, the Viceroy of Chihli. fon the subject of the embankment of Yengting Ho, in Shantung, which was destroyed by' the overflow of water of that river, in the last paragraph of the despatch he begs the Emperor to send him to the six boards to be punished for his carelessness, and for not taking good care of the embankment,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.