The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-03-04


plate their principal deity, Ten tan, ''the
ercinence Of heaven" as they call it, or
dG7ed a sacrifice Of virgin. This order
was carried out, and the poor victim was
insmolated to satisfy the low, dirty and
heathenish prejudices Of that degraded
rase.
Bv the late accounts | learn that this
grand humbug, much reduced in its proper
items, and consisting only Of Mr.. Brown
ard two mandarins, at the bidding Of their
emperor, the "boly son Of heaven" as they
call him, to commit hari kari 10 all prOba
bfity, and follow poor old Kaying, who, on
Pghio, held council with Reid and Count
Patatin, and who, because bis negotiations
we're not successful, had to take his own
lae. The civillzating influence Of this grand
Humanitarian event, celebrated with such
A. urish Of trumpets, such eloquent speeches,
aud toasted in such oceans of champagne,
took its first development in the Ten-Tsn
ElassaCFe.
I will read the following letter hJm Chez
DO. dated June 20, 1870, and published
1t the time promising first by remarking
shat this early account has been abundantly
and incontroVertibly confirmed in still more
narrowing details secondly, by stating that
its principal victims were the Sisters Of
Mercy, OF Charity, Of whom it may be said
ahat up to the preparation Of that great
Chinese crime no man had ever been found
l bo~ro-or br,,toT or ,,ro1,,d;,a1
whether civilized, barbarian, or savage.
The guillotine of the French JacoOins, es-
pecially sharpened against all faint of re
hgiOn, had no edge for the Sisters OF Mercy
The most ferociOus criminals Of the galleys,
dead to all other influences, sOftened to them;
the Indian. who knew no compassion or
mercy for any, dropped his seal piBgknife
/ before them. After telling how the French
counsel, VI Fontainer, NJ. ThOmasin, an
attache Of the consulate, and bis wife, and
two Catholic priests were murdered, the
letter proceed to give details Of the sangu-
mary sequel to these crimes:
"THE WEIGHED DEATHS oF THE SISTERS OF
CHARITY,-The mob, led Oh ~ soldiers, set FIRE
to tie consulate and the church Of the Catho-
lie mission, and burned all the other inmates
who could OF escape. simultaneously with the
assault on the French consulate the mob and
soldiers surrounded the hospital Of the French
Sisters Of Charity. Having set fire to 4 por-
ton Of the building, they entered tie gates
and dragged all the Sisters Of Charity out into
tue streets. There they stripped them naked,
exposed them to the public gaze, plueked out
their ewes, cut off heir breasts, ripped them
open, dragged out their hearts, aud deliberate
ly cut them TO pieces, and divided portions Of
their hesh among the Infatuated mob No Eu-
roTean witnessed the Outrages on humanity
save the poor victims, who, in Pre- sence Of each
Other passed throughl the terrible ordeal, and
persisted without hope Of rele ise, and Withc ut
any support Ia that extreme hour Of misery and
torment save their confidence in a merciful
God whose tehests they have endeavored to
fulfill among ba-barious people at the peril Of
their lives. Chinese spectators Of the bloody
scene relate other horrors perpetrated on the
innocent ladies that cannot be mentioned The
lady superiOress Of the hospital, il is related,
was cut i'll twain while yet alive. God alone
and the Sisters knew what they endured OF az
ouy and bodily sufferings Their modesty out
ragged, their purity defled, their poor frail
\ frames torn asunder, their blood scattered, and
their lives destroyed BY saysges whose murder
GUS rage inflicted all these and other outrages
amid a scene Of horror that alone would be
horrible to encounter. One short hour suficed
/ % eXtinguish those noble martyrs Of charity
Their labor Of love among the poor Of Ten Tsin
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 sickness and pestilence
BURNING OF TIE ORPHANS ALIVE No soon
er had the mob and the soldiers glutted their
thirst for human blood on the unfortunate Sis
tiers than they burned the entire hospital. Near
~ one hundr, d children who had been received
into the Orphanage attached 20 the hospital per
ished in the flames The mutilated members OF
the dead Sisters were thrown irto the burning
ruins, and thus, together win Ehelittle children
they we're chartably nurturfug, was the holo-
caust completed
GLOW Mr. AND MRS PRoToPoPoFF WE'RE
\ hILLED-Such a tale of horrors would suffice.
nut mo still remains to be told. Mr. n. Pro
\ topopoh, Russian merchant, with his wife, to
whom Inc had only heen married but two DAYS
was met in the town Of Tien-TsIn by the same
inturated mob and soldery, and attacked with
spears and swords. Mr.. ProtopOpoff fell almost
Immediately, and was cruelty murdered His
wife, who vas on spirited horse, fed for her
life, but being repulsed on the road turned
back and attempted to leap an open sewer in
the town. She fell with her horse, but extri-
eating herself hid for lew minutes in the sew
\ er, until she was dragged out and killed by the
mob. The bodies of these two Russians were
thrown into the sewer, and afterward recovered
I by their friends"
It has since been shown abundantly that
this hOrrid massacre, 50 near the capital,
\ (Ilen-Isin being the port of Pekin,) was
aided and abetted by the officials that, as
far as possible, they screened its inyestiga-
ton and hid its terrible particulars that
no nationality was spared and that It was
perPetrated under vague impression Of
IMMUNITY, because France was at war. and
that the Christian Powers were quarreling
with each other.
The same letter which tells Of the arrival
Of Brown and bis pet mandarins, whom.
ike Paddy, he Surrendered" informs us
I that on the day that Admiral Rogers anil
eX Secretary Seward arrived at Tier-Tsin,
either through fear that the admiral would
turn his guns upon the accursed place, or
by way Of welcome and entertainment for
the two distinguished gentlemen, the en-
peror had sixteen Celestals, subordinate
officials, beheaded. In imagination be-
hold Mr.. Seward as tile crimson Jets spout
ed from the heauIess trunks What
welcome for the old man What a horrid
sight but nothing compared with the mas
sacre Of Tien-Tsin
TO BE CONTINUED.