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The city of Soo-Chow, it is said, has paid a ransom of 700,000 taels, to be exempted from capture and pillage. There seems to be no doubt of this, as business is beginning to revive there, and several Soo-Chow families, who had fled to this place, returned last night to their homes. It is not yet known whether a descent on Shanghai is meditated, but word reached us yesterday that Tiien-teh does not intend to interfere in any way with foreigners in China. April 6th. Yesterday Mr. Forbes converse...d with a native, who re- turned in one of the Taou-tai's lorchas from Nanking. The man is known to the Americans here, who place full reliance on his communication. He states that, after the taking of Nanking, the city was given up to sack and slaughter, during three days, and 20,000 Tartars — men, women and children — were massa- 308 INDIA, CHINA, cred. The Viceroy was quartered and his remains nailed to the four gates of the city. Previous to his death his veins were opened and his blood made to flow into a large vessel of water, which the conquerors drank.
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