The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-06

Hong Kong dates to the 10th of May furnish add
t0nal items Of news, which are Of interest.

Hong Kong dates to the 10th of May furnish some add
tional items Of news, which of interest.
The state of aars in the immediate vicinity Of Canton
Is quiet and the river to Ful-shan. San-shwui and
far as the Bgue is free from interruption ordinarily
though small and dcfenceess boats are bounced upon
probably more BY men rendered desperate from hunger
than by the socaled rebels Sink lung Is guarded
fully by body Of troops, and the entrance up to 1t
the Fast river defended This town was not much in
iured by the foray made against il last January when
much oil and sugar were destroyed there; but many
towns along the banks Of the river between it and Whan
poa are in ruins The ''rebel chief at Sun-ts6 Chin
Hen-liang was the other day at Kowkong, where
he finds great difficulty in maintaining his band. the
country has been eaten out The other chief Ho-aluk
he reported was near Hanan with Large feet and i
is not unlikely these robberpariots will unite their
forces and ravage the coast The difficulty Of provision
ing their troops is also e by the imperiasts and this
binders the expulsion of Chin from the large mart oil
Kow-kong and the towns of Kum-chuk and sha- ping
where his authority is probably nearly nominal II
execution ground at Canton is still almost daily covered
with carcasses-the criminals being now mostly those
WHO have been given up the gentry and elders Of their
villages and the judicial deaths at present average it
sad, nearly hundred daily.
Mail is how people are TO get enough to eat and
how those who have not enough are TO be kept quiet
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some odum, is usual in such cases from their efforts
to maintain and enhance the price The retail price has
been about 81 (per picu 1881, lbs avordupois dur
ing the last ten days for good quality down to IS so fol-
ordinary The wages of laborer in ordinary times l.
four or Eve dollars per month"; and he consumes three
thus need pcu and half each month for its allowance
Al present, with family must live less thar
half this quantity not allowing for other expenses The
daily consumption Of rice in Canton ordinarily has beer
reckoned at ~ 900 pculsnow II Is probably under 600
and fifteen cates Of this grain sold for dollar Will,
about twenty caties If wheat be bought for the
Various devices for diminishing the consump
ton Of rice have been startedby making preparations
Of beans taro yam, green's &c. and many persons have
entirely stopped their allowance Of rice With these
variations charms intended TO aay the pangs Of hunger
and fory the body against fantness given by burn
ing them and mixing the ashes with tea and drinking the
dose eore eating Everything edible il taken to market
but other articles do not bear such high rate proper
ton rice.
We hear that Mr. James Ross, says the China Mail
whose account of the gross outrage pperated upon him
at Inc island Of Roahaua, in the South Seas by the
master and supercargo Of the Sarah Moers appeared in
this paper two weeks ago was assaulted on the Praya
Grande Macao, Tuesday afternoon and severely
stabbed IN the hip He rushed into the guard house
pursued by the assassin who seized by the soldiers
and understand proves to be the late master Of the
Sarah Moers The rufRan is now lodged in Macao Jail
Another version is that Mr. Ross depairng OF legal
dress had taken the law into his hand and stabbed
his injurer
THE particulars Of the outrageous treatment TO which
Mr. Ross subjected board the Sarah Moers,
published in the Herald the last arrival from China
On the 2sth of April trading junk boarded near
Tam koo-ow. Her crew jumped overheard in hopes to
escape by swimming but we're pursued and nine out
eleven killed fishing boat was captured at Tam-koo
tow, the same day. On the 10Th trading junk at
tackled OF Check-chu, and captured after Of her
had been killed, and six wounded. On the 4th May
lorcha pundered at Sanmee, fishing boat ut Lung
shing- another Stone Cntters' Island, and
small boat carried off from opposite the Lower Bazaar
On the Sth fishing boat was captured in the Fut-tow