The Osceola times., 1877-06-30
HOW REBELS FARE IN CHINA.

End Of the Mnnns Insure ciiOu-Ma assacre
aud Torture Dead Bodies Exhumed.
Gen. Kin Shuu arrived before Manas
on the % of September, 1876, and five
days later opened an artillery fire on
the northeast angle of the wall. ! will
not recapitulate the details of the siege /;
suffice ii tkst breach after breach was
made, and assault after assault was re-
PEELED, during the period of two months
for which it lasted. At length, during
the first days of November, sorties were
attempted by the garrison, and some
prisoners who we're taken stated that,
the provisions of the garrison being ex-
hausted, their leader had sent them out
to see how matters stood, with view to
seizing any opportunity ofgetting away.
After examinations the prisoners were
beheaded. At length, at midnight on
the 4th of November, the Mohammedan
general Hai-yen himself csme out and
begged to be permitted to surrender. l
quote the language of the memorial
itself as TO what followed:
Kin Shun hereupon commanded him
to deliver up the horses and arms of the
garrison, and to hand over in bonds, the
leaders of the rebels, after which
he was to draw up lists OF
the remainder of their number, who were
thereupon to be called upon to answer to
their names, and be severely dealt with
according to circumstances. Hal yen
agreed to do this. At dsybreak on the
9th of November a body OF 1900 or 5000
of the garrison sailed out from the west
gate, the centre of the column consisting
of aged persons, women and children,
who were guarded on all sides by determ'
ined fighting men, with arms in their
hands and Kin-Shun, knowing them to
be treacherously disposed, caused his
troops to stand to their arms. The HUI
nan troops on the north of the city were
drawn up in battle array, as were also the
divisions on the south front, while
separate cavalry division was posted at
the commanding points, in order to pre-
vent escape. Su-Hio-kung was at the
same time ordered to go forward and call
upon the advancing body to throw down
their arms, whereupon their lives should
still be spared; but the so-styied general
of the rebels, Ho Luh, by name, sud
denly fred of pistol and set his troops
on to make a rush at the trenches. so
Hio- -Kung instantly ,ordered his men to
charge, and Ho Luh was taken and be-
headed in front of the line Of battle. The
rebel leaders and the desperate fighting
men at their back, abandoning their
women and children, made bold rush
forward, but they were enveloped by
the various divisions Of the Human
troops and the fire under Kin Shun's
own command, and the greater number
of them were put to the sword. One OF
the 80. styled generals of the rebels, see
ing that all hope was lost, shot himself
with a pistol, and every man OF the
scattered host was captured and beheaded
by one or other of the cavalry divi-
sions.
"The infantry meanwhile bad laid
hands upon and executed all the rebels
remaining within the city, sparing the
women and children and aged persons,
who were exempted from this act o!
retribution. Hai.yen and other leaders
were captured alive, and after being ex-
aminrd before Kin Shun and his col
leagues, were put to death with the
extreme of torture. The corpses OF
Han Hing-nung, Heh-tsun, and other
leaders, together with the remains of the
seli-styled Prince of the Pure (Religion),
To teh-lin, we're searched out and ex-
humed and cut to pieces, as a public ex-
ample. Thus, on the 10th of November,
the south city of Manas was recapturedt,
the leaders of the insurgents destroyed,
and their followers exterminated.-Lon-
don Times.