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Kulangsu and Amiry,
the design of the man in coming, went out to the market-place and betrayed the secret to those who were ready to make the most out of it. What could have prompted him but a fiend-like malignity, I cannot imagine. He knew he could gain nothing by it-he knew he was acting a treacherous part to us It could not have been patriotisin, for he has promised to give us the same information, as soon as he hears it, and a regard to his own safety will proba- bly bind him to his promise. The poor man was immediately followed from the market, seized, robbed of his money, and stripped of his clothes, and carried off to the officers, who will probably put him to death.”
But we are not without suspicion that his informant, in the cases of infanticide, deviated from the truth. We have known instances, where long stories, of strange and pitiful occurrences, have been told ex cathedra by the Chinese, which upon counter and cross examination have been found to be utterly false. We wish Mr. Abeel had made a closer examination, and written a more circumstantial narrative of these diabolical acts, giving the name, the residence, and history of that family of murderers. Their deeds are so foul that they deserve to be capitalized in the annals of Fukien. We have before heard of the cruel hearts of the men of Changchau; but we were not prepared to read of such wholesale murder. Mr. Abeel will do well to repeat and extend his inquiries, regarding infanticide in Fukien.
P. S. We are much distressed to hear of the death of Mrs. Boone: she died on Tuesday, the 30th of August, at 5 o'clock P. M., after an illness of only ten days. She was attacked with the prevailing fever on the 20th, and was not considered to be in a dangerous con. dition until the 26th, when the disease settled upon the nervous sys- tem, and delirium ensued, which continued until death released her from suffering. The funeral was attended by many of the officers from the army and navy then stationed at Kúlángsú, and the flags were lowered halfmast. Mrs. Boone was the daughter of the honorable Henry De Saussure, chancellor of the state of South Carolina, u. s. a., who died a few years since. She and her husband left the United States in 1836, and settled first in Batavia, where they engaged in such mis. sionary labors among the Chinese, as the restrictions of the Dutch would perimit. Ill health compelling both of them to seek a colder climate, they left Java, and reached Macao in November, 1840, where they remained until the occupation of Kúlángsú by the British forces opened a way to labor among those speaking the Fukien dialect, as has been already stated. Here she was permitted in the providence of God to remain only a few months, heartily engaged in the work to which she had given herself, when she was thus suddenly called away, we cannot doubt, to a higher, a better service on high.