New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-26
ENGLISH TEACHERS IN YEDDO.

The Tribune publishes the following in re-
gard to the attack upon Dallas and Ring,
two English teachers in the government
college at Yeddo OF the circumstances of
the attack very little is known beyond the
mere fact itself The two teachers had
visited the foreign quarter Of Yeddo on the
afternoon of Thursday, the thirteenth, at
which place they dismissed the guards, in
tending to return unattended to the college
during the evening.
They started about half past seven o'clock,
ON foot, accompanied by young Japanese
tutor in the college, special pupil of Dallas,
in fact, and an inmate.
The distance they had to traverse was
about ten miles by the most direct route,
but they chose another course through the
streets, which are generally well lighted,
and thrOnged with passengers until a late
hour. For some four hours they wandered
considerably beyond their regular way, and
were apparently just about moving toward
their homes by a series of side streets, when
they heard rapid footsteps behind them,
and before they could turn, Dallas felt a
sharp blow which he did not at the moment
know to be sword cut.
As he was regaining his feet, Ring cried
out that he was wounded, and that their
only chance was to run. Fortunately there
was no resOlute pursuit. In a few moments
they gained paper shop on one of the
principal streets. where they were received
with the utmost kindness, the inmates
closing their doors to prevent the entrance
of intruders, carefully staunching their
College, aad in search of surgeon.
The young Japanese who accompanied
the Englishmen is said TO have run away in.
terror, without making any effort to attack
or identify the assassins, as if he were really
guilty. This act of desertiOn is so contrary
to the principles of Japanese gallantry, that
he would inevitably suffer degradation and
been imprisoned.
In the morning the Englishmen were re-
moved to teahOuse close at hand, and were
taken in charge by the surgeon OF the
British legation, under whose care they
have steadily improved until the present
time. On the twentieth they were con-
voyed to their homes in the college
grounds.
In spite of every effort Of the Japanese of
ficials, nothing has yet been elected to fix
the crime on any individual, or to explain
its possible motives; but it is safe to say that
no government ever manifested more de-
termined purpose to arrive at the truth.
Greater prOmptness and vigOr could not
have been exercised. By ten o'clock
Thursday evening every gate in Yeddo was
closed. and sentinels stationed to prevent
egress or ingress to any person except I'm
der strict surveillance.
BY midnight the rivers and all the canals
were guarded. and no boats allowed to
leave the city, or even freely to circulate.
On Friday the entire class of two swOrded
men in Yeddo underwent an examination,
their weapons we're inspected by experts to
discover if any trace of blood existed upon
them. and they were called upon to give
written certificates of their whereabouts on
the evening Of the assault; roc were these
measures mere fOrmalities. as have album
dant reason to know that they were strictly
and literally executed. in houses high and
low alike.
great deal of traffic and social inter
course in this vast city has actually been
suspended, in order that nothing should be
omitted that might aid in the bringing Of
the offenders to justice.
At meeting Of foreign representatives
held at Yokohama to consider what action
should be taken in this case, memorial
was adopted urgently calling upon the Jap
anese government to disarm all its subjects
excepting officers of the highest rank.
The American envoy proposed to modify
the suggestion, so that it should apply
only to natives living at, or visiting open
ports, but he was overrulad.