Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-23
THE CHINESE MASSACRE.


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pondent gives the details of the atrocious
Chinese massacre of French and Russian
residents at Tientsin, China. 1t appears
that the responsibility of the horrible
butchery rests entirely with the Chinese
authorities that the mob was not only in
cited by the Chinese Governor of the
Province but frequently urged to commit
the Rtrocity. Their ignorance and super
stitions were worked upon by the most re-
markable means, and official publications
taught them to believe the foreigners were
intending TO hdnap women and chill
dren with the design of killing them and
converting their bodies into drugs.
A mob held possession of the French
settlement, maltreating all foreigners who
we're abroad for two days before any blood
was shed; and the Governor not only did
not restrain or dispense it, but he even
permitted his soldiers to encourage and aid
1t. 1t was not until the riot was three days
old that the French Consul was killed in
Governors palace and the wholesale
slaughter began.
The following are the only names of the
victims that could be obtained--a number
of Americans and Englishmen are missing,
and can only be accounted for by the be-
lief that they suffered the same fate as the
others, and that their bodies fioated away
in the river: Henry Fontainier, consul of
France; Mr.. Scum, secretary to consul;
NJ. Shomassen and wife; Pere Cherrier, a
Catholic priest; Mr.. Protapapef, Russian
officer, and wife; Mr.. Bascoff and his sis
tiers, Louisa, Louisa French, Mary, Victoria,
Theresa, Josephine, Vicenta, Orella, Gus
encie and Catearina Moust, and Madame
Chalsosizon-in all, 20.
Z The Rev Mr. Stsurie and family, of Cincin-
natti, O., occupied one of the missions, but
as he Glanced to be absent at the time,
Mrs Staurie and Miss Thompson found
refuge on board the steamship Manchee
and these doubtless escaped terrible fate.
1t is asserted that over 200 Chinese pre-
lytes of priests were massacred by a mob.
It is charged that Chunghow, the manda-
rim or governor of the province stood by
and witnessed the massacre, without
W DItN6ul lIdl U.
o. L. Meadows the American Consul at
Teintsin was in company with Chunghow
all the time and did nothing to prevent the
terrible outrage, although he is an officer
of the Chinese Government and had enough
power and influence to prevent 1t. -
The Emperor of China has appointed
Chunghowa special Minister to Paris to
satisfy the French Emperor in reference to
this outrage, and has appointed Meadows
as secretary and interpreter to accompany
Chunghow. This the Shanghai papers de-
nounce as gross insult, and call on the
French and Russian governments to resent
it. The outrages to which the females
were subjected before they were murdered
are too sickening to relate.
Every cruelty, says the correspondent,
which it was possible for most savage bar
barians to conceive of, was practiced up
on these defenseless Christian ladies, and
native Christian Priests who attempted
to guard the doors, were seized and torn
limb from limb. Nine sisters were collect
ed in large school room, and beaten with
sticks, their cloths were torn from their
bodies and placed on their heads and cut
with knives in the most savage manner,
and outraged Yet alive they were ranged
side by side along the room their cheeks
gashed, lips and nose cut, eyes scooped
from their heads, their breasts cut of, and
abdomens ripped open with large cleavers,
their limbs we're cut and broken,
and in 10 minutes naught remain
ed but their disfigured bodies
When there was no more TO do fire was
applied and the buildings burned. Sixty
or seventy children who had sought refuge
from the mob in the altar were burned to
death. The French Cathedral, Consulate
Hospital, and the buildings Of all foreign
ers, were completely sacked and burned.
The Shanghai News of a later date, the
only American journal in Shanghai, says j..
o. L. Meadows, American Consul, was the
only one who seemed to view the whole af-
fair with unconcern. He was evidently
under tie protection of his friends and en-
ployee, Chunghow, for he did not turn out
with the volunteers, and rather sneered at
their endeavors to protect their lives and
property.
This fellow Meadow is an Englishman, is
Consul for the United States, Holland and
the Danes, without salary from either, but
holds the sinecure position of Superinten-
dent of ChungloWs arsenal The foreign
Ministers and Delegates are much exercised
over the fact that he has been delegated to
accompany Chunglow to Paris, but the
Emperor will not allow any of them to leave
Pekin for the interior at present. They COM
plain that they are shut in as prisoners, but
the Emperor says that it is merely precau-
| tionary until the excitement is over.