The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-09-07
Massacre In China.
TWENTY-FIVE EURorEANs AND MORE
THAN FIFTY CHILDREN KILLED.

THAN FIFTY CIIlLDREN KILLED.
Oar files from Shanghai aud Yoko-
hama contain the futl particulars Of
the horrible massacre at Tientsin, near
Pckin, Of the French Consul and his
secretary, aud about twenty other
Europeans, which was uoticou in our
dispatches few days since. IS.
now 1T ORIGINATED. is ...
The Catholic missionaries, who
have for many years been teaching
the native children and making many
converts, provoked the hostility of
the native priests and lower order Of
mandarins by their success. As Il
pretext for tho mcditAtea attack. the
missionaries were accused Of kid
mapping Chinese children and
forcing them to attend their schools.
Stories to thi, effect we're circulated,
parents became alarmed, and the
populacc we're worked up to great
pitch Of excitement, so that out Of
more than two hundred children at.
tending the school at T,sntsln all had
been taken away but fifty or sixty of
them. The alarm spread rapidly
through the lower, class,s. and thcu
missionaries were accused Of killing
children and scoopin!: out their eyes
for medicinal purposes. Nh sorts of
HORRIBLE STORIES.
were quickly current to tho injury of
the missionary work. Outbreak ks took
place at the South. Placards were
posted by the more turbulent of tho
literati and priests. At many of tho
treaty ports the effect was to raise
riots, which, however, were quickly
put under by the efforts of the foreign
oonsnls, backed by gHnboats.
at last notices were posted, cxcit.
ing the people to destroy the missiona.
ry houses and churches. The people
gathered in hundreds, aud were soon
given TO understand by their. leaders
what was wanted of thom. The Chi
ncse authorities, in the meanwhile, as
everybody else at such times, did
nothing, or worse than nothing; they
helpcd on the riot in an underhand
way. On the l9,h Juno ...,
CROWD ASSEMBLED
IN the native city, one and half miles
above the foreign bund. Aftcr,,. tine
tic French Consul, who lived in that
quarter, succeeded in inducing tho
people to dispense. They moved
away, but still exhibited signs Of hos
tility to Foreigners. DR.. Frazer, ply
sloian at Tientsin, met crowd,r and
narrowly escaped "a beating by the
swif,ness Of his horse. GA the Goth
some French priests we're beaten, and
the French Consul, NJ. Foniainer, no.
tilted II E. Chung how, at the Yamcn,
of tho fact, aud requested him to put
stop at once to the tumult. About
l2 NJ, Oh tho 2lst Of June, tho
French Consul and guests, Mr.. Thorn
as,in, Secretary Of Legislation at Pc,
kin, and his wife (hoth Of whom had
but just arrived out from France,)
together with Mr.. 'Coutris, wcte at
Tifin, when multitude of excited
Chinese came toward the house,
SHOOTING AND YELLING, "'
and demanding that all the children
should be given back to hem. Stones
and other missiles were thrown at the
consulate, breaking the windows ard
damaging the table around which the
lady aud gentle emen were, seated. The
CONSUL and isSfriehd, Mr.. Tbomassin,
put on their uniforms, and wer + out
to endeavor to disperse the mob.
They fund the Chinese would not
obey the. e!Yre, lea. ips the lady for
atime in the house, they allrwent to-
wards the' iumeny some eighth of a
n,,ls distant OntIe way there, Mr..
ThomasoiD, finding tho mltter wear
ing more serious look than he had at
first expected, returned to prot, OF bis
wife. Mr.. Coutris here became sepa-
rated fsVnI his friends, anu the Frohch
Consul and his secretary walked into
tao Y amen and y &3E{M T'UNA&a'
DEMANDED, AN ISTErivIEw
with Chung, the military Governor of
tho lprovitoe. The, crowd ptessedAall
about the consul psipg threatening
language Chung oould not or would
not hell, him. 1t is kpoan. that tho
consul fired ,oH insrevoiver, but it is
thought to have been ACCIDENTALLY dis
chal ged while he was bong pushed
and crowded in the audience cham
bsr.. AZ all eyonts, thcro was. no one
hurt by tho pistol, which would II ,t
have sbeen thes oasos without, doubt,
had it been raised. The consuls5fntl. .
in himself hard pressed, and without
the chance Of any help being afforded
by Chung, turned and left the X amen
for his house. f4Hehad not gone many
steps before he was ra'7 . a@t Ah'I
SEIZED By. THE CHINESE, = .s,xy
his uniform torn off, his body beaten,
and eventually cut and stabbed with
knives and spears, His death must
have occurred at about tho Same time
as Mr.. Thomassin's the ono hear the