The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-10-05
The Massa ere at Tien.tsin

VIC nave a!Feauf Tie principal iaets con
neced with the nhuman massacre the 21st o.
/ June by Chinese mob at Tien-tsn, OF the French
Consul, number Of other French subjects including
several priests and Sisters of Charity attached to the
French hospital of the city, The New Orleans Times
repubshes from the London Standard private let
ter written from Cheefoo June go in which the bar
barties practced the fatal day OF the massacre are
fully depicted. After telling how the French Consul
M. Fontanier M TEomassin, an attacb6 of the consu
late, and his wife and Two Catholic priests were MUIR
dered the letter proceeds give details Of the san
culinary sequel to these crimes
The mob, led by soldiers set fire to the consul
late and the church Of the Catholic mission and burnt
all the other inmates who could not escape. Stimuli
taneously with the assault on the French consulate
the mob and soldiers surrounded the hospital of the
French Sisters OF Charity Having set fire to n nor.
ton of the building, they entered the gates ard drag
ged all the Sisters Of Charity into the street There
they stripped them naked, exposed them to the public
gaze plucked out their eyes cus off their breasts
ripped them open, dragged out their hearts, and de.
liberately cut them to pieces, and divided portions OF
| their flesh among the infatuated mob. No European
witnessed these outrages Oh humanity save the poor
victims, who, in the presence of each other passed
through the terrible ordeal and persisted without hone
of release, and without any support in that extreme
hour of misery and save their confidence in
mercifui God whose behests they have eudeavored to
fulfill amongst barbarous people at the peril of their
lives Chinese spectators of the bloody scene relate
other horrors perpetrated the innocent ladies that
| cannot be mentioned. The lady superioress of the
hospital, it is related in twain while vet alive
God alone and the Sisters know what they endured of
agony and bodily suferings. Their modesty outraged
their purity defled their poor ra frames torn asun-
der their blood scattered and their lives DESTROYED by
saVages whose murderous rage inflicted all those and
other outrages amidst scene Of horror that alone
would be terrible to encounter One short hour
suiced to extiugulsh those noble martyrs of CHARITY
Their labor of love amongst the poor of Tientsn for
SIX years was thus crowned in bitterness and earthly
shame, by the very people whom they had succored
and fed and clothed and tended in the hour of sick
and pestilence
No sooner had the mob and the soldiers glutted
their thirst for human blood the unfortunate Sisters
than they burnt the entire hospital Nearly one hun
dred children who bad been received into the orpban-
age attached to the hospital persisted in the flames
The mutated members of the dead sisters ere thrown
into the burning ruins, and thus together with the lit
tie children they'were charitablv nurturine was the
holocaust completed.
About fifty Cantonese men, who were suspected of
being on too intimate terms with the Europeans were
murdered during the excitement and even toward the
end OF the day some mlscreants were proving about
the foreign settlement. One of them was taken with
a loaded pistol, and be confessed that lie had been
sent to kill some Of the Europeans in the customs
service.
The Chinese Emperor detains the French Charge
d Afaires Pekn ostensiby because he cannot pro-
tect him from the mob at Ten-tsin but is suspected
really because he is fearful of the reaatory means he
will adopt. Chung How, the Governor Of Tien-tsin.
is considered responsible for these outrages and it /.
supposed that the French and English Governments
will demand hia summary punishment. So, it was
conjectured at the time, but the French Govern
ment is not in condition to adopt the role of avengers
ADULrERATEp MoLAssEs-Tbe New Orleans Price
Current contains the following report from DR.. Jos
JONES' Professor of Chemistry at the Louisiana Uni
versity, showing the shameful in WHICH North
syrups and moasses aduerated by those sane
timonious scoundres. They repudate the article
themselves, except at very low prices say from twenty
FIVE to fifty cents per gallon when the genuine Lousi
commands ninety-fve cents in their own market.
Many Of readers have doubtless noticed the di8a-
greeable Of socaIled fine syrupa and this report
furnishes the explanation:
Three samples of Northern syrups, from different
importations, subjected to chemical examination
with the following general results:
Dark, reddish brown color, with unpleasant taste
of the salts OF iron, and more especially of copperas
upon the tongue. This kind of syrup said to backen
the teeth and derange the bowels. When a solution
of ferrocyamide of potassium is added to these
pies they changed to a deep blue color from the
formation of Prussian blue, and heavy deposit of
this well known pigment falls. The amount of iron
salts alone in each gallon of Northern syrup varies
from (280) two hundred and eighty to $500 FIVE hun
dred grains. The saline constituents also from
five to times more abundant than in the Louisi
molasses These salts of iron injurious the
health and especially to children, and at the same
time backen and injure the teeth Some samples of
Northern yrups also contain small properties chloride
of tin which is used in the process of manufacture.
In like manner, these salts OF tin injurious in their
action.
In every respect the Louisiana moasses is superior
to each Of the samples of Northern syrup, and com
bines richness and purity of composition, pure taste
and wholesome action. 1t is commercially five fold
more valuable than the Northern syrup, without
the injurious salts of iron and tin. i