The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27
China.

lNtS8lOnS-LeEtSfJT
We are indebted (says the London Registe') to
MT. John c. Whyte, Acting-Judge at Hong
Kong, for a second interesting letter from Mgr.
Raimondi, Project Apostolic of Hong-kong.
Ti-gan-Foo, Province of Ken-si, Oct. 10, 1869.
have safely arrived at the farthest place on
my travels in the interior of China. am Mt
present staying at the old residence of the
Emperors ofChina. Ti-gan-Foo, the capital of
after Pekin. shall start tomorrow for Han
kow, in the Province of Hoo-Pec, and shall
proceed thence by steamer to g.Kong. My
last letter was dated from Che-foo, where
remained about three weeks waiting for their
lorsiships Mgr. Louis de Castellaro and Mgr
Cos. They arrived ut Che-foo on the 22nd of
the Goth for Tientsin. 1 liked Che-foo extreme
ly; it is q cool, healthy and quiet spot, and our
medical friends in Hong-kong ought to advise
their patients to go there during the summer.
The passage up and living there are not as
pensive as o trip to Japan, and the climate is
just good while it is not SO distant. arrived
at Tientsin on the 29th of August. There is a
good deal of business transacted there, it
Being can important commercial city," but tho
few European residents have q very dull life of
it. The ease and comfort in travelling afforded
by commodious steamers ceased Mt Tientsfn,
and thence had to proceed in the Chinese way.
Travelled from Tientsin to Pekin in cart. At
first it was certainly trying, but one soon gets
accustomed to it, and it is the ordinary mode
in the interior. must confess, however, that
they are not as comfortable as your Irish jaunt-
ing cars. While at Tientsin the funeral of an
English missionary took place; he had been
murdered by some robbers, while proceeding
in q boat in the Grand Canal, on his way from
Tientsin to large town in the Province of
Kang- tung. This was not the first CASE for
recently we heard of two other English mis-
sionaries having been murdered in the interior
by some Chinese. In my opinion it was in a
great measure owing to their own imprudence
that they met their sad fate. / do not think
that there is much danger incurred in travelling
in China when one adapts himself to Chinese
customs, and does not offend the natives;
Englishmen, however, unfortunately wherever
they 60, take England with them and can
with difficulty adopt the ways and dealings of
other nations, which Italian and French easily
can. English missionaries SO into the interior
sometimes to act as if they were in Europe in
stead of China, and are often guilty of the
great imprudence of telling people that they
carry money about with them. The unfortri-
nate missioner who was murdered at Tientsin
had 1900 taels with him, and the Chinese knew
that he was carrying money with him to Kang-
tung to buy some land on which to build a
house. Every who visits Tientsin must
admire the zeal of the Sisters of Charity and
the respect which the Chinese have TOR them.
At Yang-chow the outrages there committed
were principally occasioned by some European
ladies attached to the Protestant Mission ven |
turing into the street to act the part of Sisters
of Charity. At Tentsin the Sisters go out every |
day, not merely in thacity, but even to the ad-
joining villages, healing the sick and inviting |
withsthe irresistible eioquence of charity, the
Buperstitious, ignorant and corrupt pagans to |
leave their idols and become good Christians,
without receiving the least insult; on the con- |
trary, they are objects of veneration to the |
Chinese, and are looked up to by the poor pa |
gans, not as human but almost celestial beings |
beautiful Gothic church is in course of cree |
ton at Tentsin. The Catholics are not yery |
numerous in the city of Tientsn, but there are |
agreat number of them in the neghborhood |
They are not molested and the annual con- |
versions are numerous.
From Tientsu I won't in two J,x-s Ioo1,;,>
We arrived at five in the afternoon of the
second day ut the principal gate in Pekin and
there for the first time my passport was asked
Tor. When it was known, however, that / was
bound for the "Ten chee-yang,n or Cath Ole
Cathedral, was at once allowed to proceed
without producing any passport. 1 suppose
yon know that Pekin consists of three cities !
the Chinese, the Tartar and the Imperial one
The house where lodged was in the last, quite
close to the Imperial Palace. The Catholic |
missionaries and the Sisters of Charity are the
only Europeans who have been permitted to
I'VE IN the Imperial city, the foreign legations
being all situated in the Tartar one. We
passed through the Chinese city, and then the
Tartar one, having occupied good hour and n |
half in getting to the Imperial city; from the
principal gate of Pekin to the beautiful Ca |
tholc Cathedral, the towers of which are |
dnlgner than those of the Imperial Palace.
There are not less than 5000 Catholics in the
CITY OF Pekin, and in the entire Province of
Pe-che-ll, in which it is situated, there are
ABOUT 'oOoo Besides the Cathedral there are
oonSA cuhlCueS III the tartar city, one OF
them being the old Cathedral that was built
by the Portuguese; it is as large the new one,
but not so beautiful. The second church has
been recently built, it is very wide, being in
Tue Chinese style. The four churches are
situated in, the direction of north, south
cast and west. 1t is most ,consoliug to see
everywhere in China new churches springing
mp, and all within the last few years In the
olhereht provinces that have traverscd it was
church is making i'
lett rekln ON the 18th of September on my
way 10 Il-gan-Foo in Ken-si. 1t took me two
weeks tIaNehhg IN cart drawn by two mules
crossed the great plain of Cheeky stonnV,,,
at TWO places where l met some missiunaries
Five days were occupied in getting over the
mountain raTge which divides the Province of