The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-24

Tientsin is the port of Picking, the capital of
the Empire of China. There was a small foreign
population there, consisting of some twenty mer-
camille firms, a Roman Catholic mission, and
missions of American and English societies.
There is an English, French, North German and
Russian Consulate. That of the United States is
represented by an English gentleman. Altogether
there is a foreign population of between one and
two hundred souls. In the Shanghai NeuOs
Letter of July 18th, it is stated that the people
of Tientsin, as elsewhere in China, have been
found by foreign residents to be rather unfriepdly,
and the officials decidedly but covertly hostile,
and it is supposed have prompted the common
people to commit acts of murder and rapine.
On the 21st of June last, the people of Tientsin
became terribly excited by rumors circulated
that the Roman Catholic missionaries had been
kidnapping children for the purpose of preparing
medicines from cutting up their bodies. This
rumor was credited by the Chinese, from the fact
that the Sisters of Charity had been in the habit
of giving small rewards to those of their adj
herents who brought children to them, who, once
inside the convent were never seen again. The
Chinaman cannot comprehend the idea of dis
interested benevolence. The practice of kidnap-
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chiefly of female children, for brothels, and it
was but too easy to induce the belief that the
foreign missionaries in their zeal to procure
neophytes Bad a view to turn them to profitable
On the day above mentioned, a multi
tude Of excited Chinese attacked the house of
the French Consul, while himself and family
were at lunch. The Consul, NJ. Fontanier, and
the Secretary of the French Legation, putting on
their uniforms, went out and tried to disperse
the mob. Not succeeding in this, the Consul
proceeded to the residence of the Chinese Military
of the province, surrounded and fol-
by the mob. Not obtaining any satisfaction
return to his own residence. But while in the
chamber, his revolver was fred, whether
by accident or intentionally cannot be clearly
proved, although the Ne1os Letter states that
evidence has been received that NJ. Fontanier
never used his revolver" However, shortly after
leaving the house of the Governor he was seized
by the Chinese, his uniform torn off, his body
beaten and eventually cut and stabbed with
knives and spears. The sight of blood now
the populace for more. The Secretary
of Legation was killed in the street, and his
after bravely shooting down several of her
with a revolver, was killed by the blow
of a sharp instrument on the back of the head.
consular buildings were then burnt and
destroyed. The convent house of the Sisters of
Charity and the French Cathedral were attacked,
the inmates, "a priest and assistant and ten
were slaughtered, and the buildings
burnt together with sixty children who had hid
den in the cellar. Every conceivable cruelty that
savage brutes can invent was put in practice on
these m~artyred sisters. Besides the French, two
gentIemen-one an officer with his wife
were out riding, were set upon by the
mob and killed. The Chinese next turned to-
wards the Protestant mission. but the members
of the mission had fed, and the work of de-