Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-26
AROUND THE WORLD.

! Chinese Hatred of FOreigners-GOo, Work of the American Consul at Can tOn-A Cat Market-The Chinese Bru
 taI-IR Chinese Restaurant-Mr.S Shel Pow sinus Business.
 | CANTON, Jan. 8. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 l Out in the surrounding cities the feelin
 is even more bitter than in Canton. There \ prevalent eagerness to initiate the burnin
 of Shameen, and almost every day report sionary chapel, in which the unoffendini missionaries have to flee for their lives, ant even then do not escape without bruises was talking yesterday with 8 missionar! ! named White who was stoned out of SheI Lung, neighbo1ing city, about two week. | ago. He still bears about in his body tht | marks of violence done him. In this case productive of good, for the chapel, whicl l had been devastated, was immediately re l built under the protection of the law. In al these outragss it is invariably the case tha
 the gentry, the iterati, are to blame. Int common people are unaequainted with tho fact that the international relations of Chine
 and foreign powers permit the coming and
 going of missionaries when provided with
 passports; and when they are hired by the
 educated classes to do violence to foreigners,
 they suppose they are not exceeding their
 rights under the law. After each such hostile demonstration, when the matter is forced
 home upon the attention of the Chinese
 authorities, 8 pronunciamento will be issued, fnrh inhn Ifah 7t10t o11
 the revelation that the outrage as illegal
 will hold the people in check for number
 of years afterW wards. So careless are all the
 consuls here except Mir. Seymour as to the
 treatment of the missionaries, that the mis
 sionaries have combined into a society fol
 their common protection, and all complaints
 are r.ferred to Mr Seymour. The latter is
 unrelenting in his demands for redress but
 so courteous and reasonable in those demands,
 that he is able to accomplish a great deal Several times when popular outbreaks have
 taken place, and foreign property has been
 attacked and MT. Seymour has despatched
 oOaan unicatiSns to the viceroy, asking for
 immediate and substantial protection, the
 mobs have been almost instantly scattered
 and the ring-leadsrs severely dealt with; while the other consuls were pompously de-
 batting as ts what violent course to pursue.
 Once he called the viceroy's attention to an
 ipfammatory circular which was being sold
 on the streets by the thousand, and in three
 hours you could not get one for love or money.
 It is necessary, however, to knock the under
 pinning entirely out from under the native
 officials, for they will seek to bolster up the
 rioters by all sorts of fictitious excuses For
 instance, missionaries Moves and Simmons
 were attacked at Ng Chow in the interior
 prior to the Shameen difficulties, and were
 outrsgeeusly treated, together with their
 wives and families. They fad to their boats,
 rz6a oh of ak
 them, and began stoning the boats, so that it
 was only by happy chance that they es-
 capped alive in their mutilated craft, after a
 heroic and uneven conflict. Then the mob
 tore down the chapel, and the homes of the
 different native converts. Mr- Seymour re-
 solved to make this test case and investi
 gated it at great length. When he approached
 the magistrates of the province, they took refuge in all sorts of false subterfuges. maintaining principally that the outbreak had
 been the result of popular indignation at the death of several persons as the result of mal- practice by missionary physicians. Investi- RatipR this and every other absurd claim and proving them all false. Mir. Seymour pre- pared one of the most unanswerable argu- ments I ever read, built upon irrefragible evidence, and ssnt it to the viceroy. Every loophole of escape was guarded, and the act of the gentry in hiring mob for such pur- pose was shown ap in all it's brutal cowardice. The vicsroy had no way but to accept the conclusive testimony, which he did without re- serve, promised indemnity, rebuked the peo- pie by proclamation, and made humble apol- osy to the citizens of the United States who had been so foully wronged. Of course it took time, and the matter of the indemnity has not yet been adjusted; but every obstacle is removed, and it is only question of time when dollar for dollar will be paid. Thus while our consul does not make so much wSoh &hn okh 1n much more that European missionaries seek the protection of the American eagles ample wings.
 Some person has written book on China in which he denies that the people eat cats and dogs One of the first things I saw upon arriving in Canton was a cat-market There they were, nine tabkies, dayed and hung up by the gills on hooks that hung over meat blocks. Not only were there these skinned carcassss thus hung up entire, with their clean white meat to tempt the appetite of the celestial passer-by; but there were cages con- taining numerous live cats of different colors waiting to be slaughtered as the demands of custom should dictate. There was also one poor pussy sshung up in the rear of the shop alive by her tail. She did not mew; but an occasional movement of her body told me of the agony she was enduring I did not dare to interfere, in view of the excited state of things here in China; but my heart bIed for the poor things. I do wish these Franco Chinese difficulties would be cleared up, SO that it would be safe to interfere in behalf of the cats who suffer daily In Canton by reason of this inhuman treatment.
 The Chinese nature seems to be instinctive- ly brutal. person with any feeling must be pained every day by the cruelty shown to animals, to say nothing of that bestowed upon women and children. Ducks are car ried by means of tying their feet together in a @n7 n oIa among the feet, which must be very painful. Children have the cords of their limbs cut very frequently in order to make professional beRgars of them. But this disablement for ifo is nothing compared with the continual anguish inflicted in compressing the feet of the girls. By the way, am highly pleased to bo able to record the fact that the Imperi- Il family mt Pekin have had the audacity to snancipate themselves from this barbarous ,ustom. No small-footed woman is allowed in the palace Of course this ex- ample will have little force with the mass of 'trudge-on- in- the old way-and- know-noth- na' Chinese. I am not so sure but that the world ought to introduce civilization into Jhina at the cannon's mouth. These evils nave survived centuries enough already. And ,ne of the first institutions which should ac company the influx of Western ways is the l Humane Society.
 But this subject ofcivilization was suggest | d by the cruelties to be witnessed in cat | market, believe. Not only are cats eaten, l ,ut have seen dogs and rats served up as l Ielicaeies. Black dogs are much preferred. l n the majority of restaurants however, these | lnusnal articles of diet are not to be had. | but of curiosity, dropped into 8 atiye restaurant with a friend in |
 quiet way the other noon, and we had a title lunch without engendering the animosi- ? of the natives, although giving them a cal entertainment in the way of watching s. It is curious how the Chinese will fol. DIV foreigner and stare at him after all hose years of international intercourse. Whenever ring at the gate of foreigners esidenee hare I sm at once surrounded by aping crowd of score or more of natives
 can't say that relished the repast which as spread before us. Even the novelty of