The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-21

damages, as assessed by Mr. Director
Taylor, amounted to 1928 tacls==E366 12s;
sum which this suffering servant of the Cross
proposed, through the Consul Medhurst, TO raise
TO 1000 taels== e650, the additional figure being
Tor compensation for medical attendance and
unappraised sufierings generally. The details of
the alleged loss were disputed by the Chinese
authorities; the dubious loss of an eye was dis
proved; and i'm fighting out the details the Chi
nese and the missionaries repeated the edifying
disputes with which VIC are familiar in English
trials between alleged sufferers by suspicious fires
and questionable railway accidents and directors
who think themselves imposed upon. The up
shot was that the epicier and missionary mind,
backed by the Rodney, got the best of this
wrangling and chatieriHg and the indemnity
actually eXtOrted from the Chinese reaches the
respectable sum of 1856 los. The polite Chinese
never disputed Mr.. Taylors original valuation
of the actual losses of his party in goods .c366
l2s.; and to this they were compelled to add
El62 los. for compensation of INJURIES G3l l5s
for loss incurred by two Chinese servants, and
LA los. for rent
The details of the alleged losses incurred by
the Mission, and SO checrfuly paid by the Chi
nesc, are curious: and they have this value that
whatever results this armed negotiation on be-
half of the Martyrs of Yang-Chow may have on
the spread of the Gospel i'm China, and whatever
impression may be made on the intelligence of
the disciples of the most ancient faiths of
Buddha and Confucius by this peculiar cXhibi-
tion of the spirit and practice of living Chris
tianity, the incident will do much to reassure
those timid souls, the failing greengrocers and
their wives and daughters, from whom such u
body rs the Inland Mission, with its noble army
of martyrs and female saints. must have been
recruited. Let them take courage, we say;
not only shall not hair of their head fall
unavenged but not hair ornament of II
shc-missionary shall perish which shall not
be paid for even to the uttermost farthing
In his plaintivc and particular enumera-
ton of the losses sustained by the Mis-
sion, and in his little bill for the same-we
contest
scourgings, stOnings, and perils by the heather,
and the taking joyfully the spelling of goods,
knowing of that better and enduring sub
stance-Mr. Taylor, Director of the China In
land Mission, sets down part of the indg-
mites and losses endured by these servants of
the Cross, ''money taken from Miss Blakesley, and
pocket and hair ornament from Miss
Desgraz." In the bill of costs Miss Desgrazs
property destroyed is valued at G25, which, con-
sidering that the injury done to the house is
appraised Mt only GA 10s. leads lis to the con-
cluson that Miss Desgraz ought as a lady mis-
sionary, to be rather grateful to the heather
robber who, i'll this somewhat emphatic way,
must have reminded her of a certain apostolic
counsel against that outward adOrning of plait-
ing the hair and wearing gold and of putting on of
apparel. We make no doubt whatever that Miss
Desgraz was adorned with all the inner adorn-
ments required by apostolic precept, but she
found it, which the holy women of old did not
quite compatible with this valuable pocket and
| hair ornament priced and paid for at the
modest figure of $l24 Far be it from us as it
was from the gallant Chinese, to inquired into
| the particulars of Miss Dcsgrazs ''hair orna-
ment," which sounds significantly like a chignon;
| but it was evidently a costly article, twice as
valuable as a sacked house. \ ''concertina' and
sedan chair, too, are rather odd instances of
what are, we believe, styled Instrumental EccLe-
si0Sticd; but they show, not unsatisfactory,
| that the arts and elegances of civilization
are not despised by the modern,
| soldiers and daughters OF the Christian
| regiment as necessities in preaching the Gospel.
Minute political philosophers have traced French
Revolutions and Thirty Years Wars and the like
to etiquettes violated, or tea-cup politenesses
neglected. in the person of Queens or coneu-
bines royal or otherwise. We shall begin to
believe these authorities now that we have seen
how nearly the British Empire was plunged into
Il war with an empire of some hundred millions
to ayenge the Rape of the Chignon perpetrated
ON that fervent missionary Miss Desgraz, or on
her pocket and hair ornament"