Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
reused the Chinese to fury against foreign.


Our correspondent writes from Hankow
| that he met a Bachelor of Arts, not Chris
| tian, who had just returned from Changsha,
| the capital of Human, where he had been at
| tending the examinations. He brought back
! a handsome volume full of pictures and of
| articles of most revolving obscenity, and Ii
| is difficult to believe that any m an could be
shameless enough to compile such volume.
native of Changsha, now living there with
his family. 1t is not known who finds the
money. This Tartar has had innumerable
pictures and blocks cut. He has them bound q
up in volumes, and gives them to shopkeep-
ers with orders to give a copy to every one
who asks for one or who comes in to buy
books. They are to be given at a reduced
price to traders who come to Changsha from
other provinces, in order that they may be
as widely disseminated as possible.
While the candidates were assembled at
Changsha for examinations this Tartar went
among them personally, recommending
these books. He pointed out passages show
ing how to prevent Chinese becoming Chris
tians by various punishments, including
death in the central temples. He recon-
mended them all to unite to drive all Chris
tians out of Human. He explained that the
recent edict was only issued by the Emperor
through fear of foreign armies and that hats ac
men of Human should be the first to rally
against the Europeans and their Ch tist1an
adherents. The candidates on their way
back from the examinations are bringing
with them large supplies of these incendiary
books and are distributing them wherever
they go.
Appeals to the Prejudices of the People.
Dr. Griffith John, in later letter to the
North China Ne,cS, declares that 800, 200
copies of the book entitled "Death of the
Devils Religion" have been printed and
circulated free in Human and other prov
inces This book takes the place of the
famous book "Deathblow to Corrupt Doc
trines," printed over 20 years ago. This
was book written in the Mandarin dialect
and intended only for the literati, whereas
this latest book is written in the language
of the people and is evidently intended to
appeal to the prejudices of the masses. A
translation of the signatures of those who
send out the book is substantially the same
as that given before and its purport is as
follows
The Great Wall (Hunan) strictly guards
the inner land The officials both civil and
military will subdue the pigs Cforeigners)
The great pure dynasty shall ever be our
delight; Confucius shall be our teacher; the
masses of the people are loyal, We with
united hearts desire to fight.
w V. Drummond, one of the best in
formed Englishmen in Shanghai on Chinese
affairs, gives the following incident of the
Recent Plot to Seize Nanking:
Tsung, formerly the TAPPING leader, having
surrendered to the Chinese Government,
was made Chief General of this Province,
and afterward impeached, deprived or his
rank and ordered to remain in Nanking, and
subsequently, having got into fresh trouble,
was beheaded by order of Gu Lu, then Gov
ernor of Anhui Iu Lu is Manchu official,
who was acting Viceroy OF Nanking and is
now Governor of Shing King. Ii Ssee Tsung
had n son named Ii Hung. At the beginning
OF November Niceroy Chang arrested some
secret society men at Wucaang, and it was
discovered that the man Ii Hung was one
of the leaders of the proposed rebellion,
also that it was planned to commence an
outbreak by an attempt to seize Nanking on
November 26, and to make simultaneous
attempts to seize Shashi, near Wu-
chang, and all the country along the
6ung-Tse valley between that place and
Chin kiang. 1t was also discovered that it
at the beginning of the ninth moon (Octo-
ber), but in consequence of the failure oget
possession of arms to be brought up from
Hong Kong it was postponed and the later
date was fixed. Ii Hung has fled. and ef-
forts are now being made for his arrest.
The Viceroy Chang is arranging to get up
10000 Cantonese troops to station in his
provinces. The Viceroy of Nanking has
sent a dispatch to the Shanghai Taotai, Civ
ing the names of eight Chinese in good posi-
tions in Shanghai, some of them being COM
pradores of foreign firms here, and demand
ing their arrest as concerned in con-
spiracy to aid a rebellion. No action has
been taken in this dispatch as yet, the
Taotai being afraid to raise such a.thorny
question.
A Minister'S Son One of the Gang.
The Shanghai Mercury declares that the
son of Hsueh, Chinese Minister to England