The country houses along the river are much poorer than in our Province of Hanchow, and the cities seem older and more dilapidated. The river annually overflows the low grounds from April to August, and as it often rises 50 feet above its winter level, the people build only rude huts. The missionaries at Hankow inform me that for months they are compelled to use canoes for travel on their streets. It was the busiest season (May) when I reached Hankow, which until recently was the most interior treaty port of the Empire. It is separated from Han Yang and Wa-Chang by the Yang-tse-Kiang and Han rivers, and each of them is an immense city. There are some two hundred foreigners here. The Bund (River) St. has houses only on one side, and is the finest in China. It stands 50 feet above the river, which for half a mile is faced with splendid stone masonry. It offers the busiest and most Chinesy sight yet seen in this country. Fourteen steamers were lying at the wharves. There is a great rush to get the first new tea into the English market. The fleetest steamers are chartered at fabulous prices: $32 per ton is paid for transportation, and $1,600 for river pilots, on the round trip from Shanghai to Hankow and return—a trip of one week. This year the season opened on the Sabbath, some taking advantage of the fact that others were at church to begin lading. Neither heat, night, nor anything else checks the work. The Russians do the biggest business. They deal chiefly in the coarsest and poorest qualities of tea. Stem, leaf, and often extraneous matter, are ground to powder, steamed and pressed into bricks of convenient size for transportation, and these are used for money in Mongolia and Siberia.

Hankow is a filthy city. Wa-Chang is much better in this respect, has fine hills, and a lofty pagoda from which a magnificent view of the surrounding country is obtained.

I was hospitably received, not alone by the missionaries, but by many outside the mission circles, who as a rule do not show much kindness to us. I saw much of the mission work, and found that it was not given exclusively to the natives, but extended to the sailors in the various ports. Ancestral worship, which is the religion of China, is one of the chief obstacles to the reception of Christianity. A pigeon-English-speaking Chinaman to whom a zealous sister had given a book said, in answer to her question, “How did you like it?” “That book talkee fool pigeon. I no can leave father; no can leave mother.” He meant he could not cease from worshiping them.

I saw here an ancient and queer monument called the “Lamp of a thousand years.” The inscriptions on it are in Sanscrit, and have not been deciphered. Also a picture representing a miracle of like import to that of Jesus at Cana. A landlord had treated one of the genii with great kindness. He rewarded him by turning his well into a wine pool. The host’s avarice was awakened, and he complained that now he had no swill for his pigs, whereupon the well gave forth water again. Hence, in characterizing an avaricious man, the Chinese say “If his well bubbled wine he would complain of a lack of swill.”

Smuggling is carried on to a great extent all along the river, opium and salt being the principal articles thus introduced. The natives employ foreigners to protect their goods, and the hands on the steamers are engaged in the work, and are skillful in all manner of tricks by which to evade duties. The whole trip was delightful and most invigorating to a sick missionary.

RECEIPTS

FOR JULY, 1880.

MAINE, $309.96.
Camden. E. D. Mansfield, $3; J. H., $1; A. H., $1$5.00
Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch.6.60
Limington. “A Friend”2.00
Machias. “Machias,” $10; Centre St. Cong. Ch., $6.4516.45
North Waterford. Cong. Sab. Sch.6.50
Portland. State St. Ch., $150; St. Lawrence St. Ch. andSoc., $8.50158.50
Scarborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.66
Skowhegan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.31.75
Thomaston. Cong. Ch.5.00
Vassalborough. Estate of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, bySamuel Titcomb, Ex.50.00
York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.12.50
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $354.33.
Amherst. Cong. Ch.20.25
Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.00
Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.00
Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.54.92
Dover. S. H. F.1.00
Exeter. “A Thank Offering”25.00
Fitzwilliam. L. Hill5.00
Fitzwilliam. Mrs. C. E. Gowan, in memory of herMother3.00
Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.50; Ann M. Howard, $513.50
Hanover. Religious Soc.20.00
Lebanon. O. S. M.1.00
Manchester. C. B. Southworth25.00
Milford. Cong. Ch., $19.43; R. M., $120.43
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.00
New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.23
New Market. T. H. Wiswall10.00
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. Mrs.Adaline Drake, L. M.30.00
Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc., to const. JonesN. Dodge, L. M.30.00
Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.00
Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.10.00
VERMONT, $284.76.
Cabot. Mrs. S. S. H.1.00
Cambridge. M. and C. Stafford, $89.98; J. G. Morse, $5;Rev. E. Wheelock, $5; S. M. Safford, $5; O. W. Reynolds, $3; H. Wires,$3; B. R. Holmes, $2; J. W. T., $1; E. B. $1; M. J. M., $1115.88
Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith, to const. W. D.Smith, L. M.30.00
Cornwall. Cong. Sab. Sch.10.75
Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.38
Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.47.12
Morrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.84; “An Aged Friend,” $1532.84
North Cambridge. John Kinsley5.00
Pawlet. Mrs. Dan Blakeley5.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.12.44
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.6.35
MASSACHUSETTS, $4,517.04.
Amherst. Amherst College Ch., $61.25; Mrs. R. A. Lester,$50; First Cong. Ch., $25136.25
Andover. West Cong. Soc.50.00
Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., for Student Aid, Talladega C.13.25
Belchertown. Mrs. R. W. Walker5.00
Beverly. Legacy of Mrs. Betsey Butman, of DaneSt. Ch. to const. Carrie T. Butman, L.M.30.00
Beverly, Dane St. Ch. and Soc.70.15
Boston. “A Friend”5.00
Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch., $122.60; Immanuel Cong.Ch., $100; Mrs. Livermore, $2224.60
Boxborough. Mary Stone10.00
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc., $112.52;—Mrs. Seaman’sInfant Class, $50, for Student Aid, Talladega C.;—F. Winthrop White,$10; “A Friend,” $8180.52
Brocton. “A Friend”15.00
Cambridgeport. G. F. Kendall10.00
Clinton. “A Friend”50.00
Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.100.00
Dorchester. Village Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.10; “E. P.” $126.10
East Hampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.50.00
East Somerville. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.52.58
East Templeton. Joel Fairbanks5.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.00
Fitchburgh. Estate of Deborah B. Thurston, by J. Baldwin, Ex.50.00
Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.2.25
Georgetown. First Cong. Ch., for Talladega6.01
Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.41.43
Great Barrington. Mrs. J. M. Chapin5.00
Haverhill. Centre Cong. Ch.86.00
Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.23
Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $49.12; “Bible Christians ofDistrict No. 4,” $2574.12
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.25.00
Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.11.37
Lowell. Thomas Hunt5.00
Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.16.30
Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.78.00
Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.11.75
Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., $117.10; “A Lover of the Cause,” $38155.10
Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.100.86
Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.48.76
Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class, for IndianBoys, Hampton Inst.11.00
Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch.50.00
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.125.00
Newton Centre. “A Friend”10.00
Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $54.17; “Willing Hands and Cheerful Givers,” $1064.17
North Amherst. Mrs. A. M. Smith2.00
Northampton. “A Friend”150.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.25.49
Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.1.22
Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $29; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $25.2454.24
Reading. “A Friend”5.00
Rutland. First Cong. Ch.14.00
Salem. “A Friend”10.00
South Boston. “H. J. B.”1.00
South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem. (ad’l)5.00
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.108.80
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.60.00
Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $104.77; Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12.34117.11
Templeton. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch.6.27
Tolland. Rev. J. H. J.1.00
Uxbridge. “A Friend”2.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.22.98
Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., $100, to const. MissLaura Stafford Green, John S. Abbott and EdwardStockin, L. M’s; Corban Soc. of Phillips Cong. Ch., $18.70,ad’l, to const. Mrs. C. L. Woodworth, L. M.118.70
West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
West Boylstown. Mrs. Polly Ames, deceased, $3; Geo. W.Ames, $36.00
Westhampton. Cong. Ch.21.00
Westminster. “A Friend”2.00
West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
West Stockbridge. Rev. H. M. Hazeltine and Family5.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch.141.23
Worcester. Estate of Rev. M. G. Grosvenor, byDavid Manning, Ex.1,500.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.00
RHODE ISLAND, $1,747.00.
Bristol. Mrs. De Wolf Rogers, $500; C. De Wolf, $500, forFisk U.1,000.00
Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc.20.00
Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.00
Providence. Central Cong. Ch., $700; Plymouth Cong. Ch.,$11.50; Mrs. J. W. D., 50c.712.00
CONNECTICUT, $3,082.58.
Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey10.00
Bridgeport. Park Cong. Ch.22.02
Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.21.24
Bristol. “A Friend”10.00
Burlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.4.00
Canaan. “N.”5.00
Clinton. Estate of Nancy Stanton, byJohn A. Stanton and Lewis E. Stanton, Ex’s200.00
Cromwell. Cong. Ch.50.00
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.132.12
Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. ($20 of which,for the Freedmen), $90;—Mrs. S. S. D., 60c.90.60
Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.30.00
Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson10.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch.50.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.)65.08
Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch.125.00
Giliad. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, $5, for aTeacher, Tillotson Inst., and $5, for Hampton Inst.10.00
Guilford. First Cong. Ch.16.00
Hadlyme. “R.”3.50
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.53
Hartford. First Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from Dea.Homer Blanchard, to const. himself, L. M.)1,141.00
Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $176; Windsor Ave. Cong.Ch., $20.26; J. N. Berdin, $5201.26
Lebanon. First Cong. Ch., $43.33 to const.Cicero Garland, L. M.; First Ch., $2063.33
Middlebury. Cong. Ch.30.56
Middlefield. Cong. Ch., to const. James T. Inglis, L. M.40.00
Milford. Plymouth Ch.15.00
Moose Meadow. Dea. F. W.1.00
New Haven. Third Ch., $14.65; “A Lady Friend,” $5; “A Friend,” $5; W. C. Scobie, $226.65
Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.23.17
Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (in part)200.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l)4.45
Portland. Cong. Ch., ($2.19 of which, for Student Aid)10.97
Putnam. “A Friend”17.50
Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.9.25
Roxbury. “B. and S. J. B.”3.00
Salisbury. Cong. Ch.58.05
Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch.13.16
Sharon. First Ecclesiastical Soc.41.69
Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.22.00
Simsbury. James Reid5.00
Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.62
Taftville. Cong. Ch.11.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch.19.60
Westford. Cong. Ch.5.00
West Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch.30.00
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.80.00
West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. Miss Minnie L. Beadle L. M.30.00
Wethersfield. H. Savage5.00
Willimantic. Cong. Ch.55.13
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.7.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.20.10
NEW YORK, $2,095.75
Brentwood. E. F. Richardson.15.00
Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch.1,250.24
Brooklyn. Church of the Pilgrims167.27
Brooklyn. E. D. New England Cong. Ch.30.00
Carthage. A. V.1.00
Cazenovia. Rev. S. W.1.00
Champlain. Mrs. M. Hamilton5.00
Derby. Jennette Bullock2.00
Ellenville. Mrs. M. B. Holt5.00
Hancock. Cong. Ch.10.00
Holley. ——5.00
Homer. Miss Nancy Knight5.00
Martinsburgh. Horatio Hough, $5; A. H. A., $16.00
Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Pkg. of Reading Matter.
New York. S. T. Gordon. $100; E. L. A., 50c.100.50
Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy300.00
North Lawrence. C. C. B.1.00
Oneida. Edward Loomis2.00
Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch.17.33
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.44.55
Rome. John B. Jervis25.00
South Bangor. L. M. K.0.50
Syracuse. Plymouth Ch.72.36
Turin. Mrs. M. W.1.00
West Camden. Mrs. A. L. C.1.00
West Groton. Cong. Ch., $14; Nelson Cobb, $519.00
Whitney’s Point. Presb. Soc.4.00
Yaphank, Mrs. H. M. Overton5.00
NEW JERSEY, $13.00.
Montclair. Mrs. J. F. Pratt’s S. S. Class, for Student Aid, Talladega C.3.00
Trenton. Geo. S. Grosvenor10.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $26.50.
Canton. H. Sheldon10.00
New Castle. Mrs. J. S. W.1.00
North East. B. T. Spooner5.00
Pittsburgh. E. P.0.50
West Alexander. ——10.00
MICHIGAN, $877.54.
Adrian. A. J. Hood. for African, Indian and Chinese M.10.00
Bridgeport. Cong. Ch.1.00
Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.2.70
Chelsea. John C. Winans10.00
Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.12.00
Hillsdale. M. J.0.51
Middleville. Cong. Ch.2.90
Morenci. Cong. Ch.2.50
North Adams. Cong. Ch.10.00
Olivet. Bequest of Dea. Henry Topping, by Albert Topping50.00
Olivet. A. T.1.00
Port Huron. Estate of Mrs. M. J. Sweetser750.00
Portland. Cong. Ch. bal. to const. Miss Hattie Cole, L. M.4.00
Salem. Summit Miss. Soc.4.22
Saint Clair. Young People’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,$11.26, for Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn.;—Cong. Ch., $2.9514.21
Saint Johns. G. B.0.50
Utica. Rev. Wm. Platt2.00
OHIO, $303.33.
Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith10.00
Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson2.28
Brighton. Cong. Ch.5.18
Cleveland. Heights Cong. Ch., $46; Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.,$12.11; Mrs. F. M. S., $159.11
Columbus. Mrs. J. L. Bates, $5; Mrs. W. C., $16.00
Elyria. Estate of Miss Mary Burrill, by Mrs.Charlotte Moore, Exec’x25.00
Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.12.00
Greensburgh. H. B. Harrington, for Woman’s Work forWoman5.00
Harman. Cong. Ch.2.00
Huntsburgh. Miss V. R. P., for Ed. of Indians, Hampton Inst.1.00
Lenox. Horatio Tracy5.00
Lodi. Cong. Ch.9.00
Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger, Treas., forStudent Aid, Talladega C.10.00
Nelson. Cong. Ch.11.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.37.57
Painesville. First Cong. Ch.30.73
Seville. T. B. Dowd5.00
South Ridge. Mrs. Uraniah Haviland2.00
South Toledo. Mrs. J. H. N.0.51
Springfield. Cong. Ch.8.40
Sulphur Springs. “Two Friends,” for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.10.00
Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch., $24.55; Miss Josephine Pierce, $6; “A Friend,” $1040.55
Toledo. Edson Allen, for Teacher, Raleigh, N. C.5.00
Youngstown. J. D. W.1.00
ILLINOIS, $1,373.96.
Aurora. First Cong. Ch.23.50
Chicago. C. G. Hammond for Howard U.1,000.00
Chicago. First Presb. Ch., $100; Miss Haskell’s S. S.Class, Lincoln Park Ch., $3103.00
Dover. Woman’s Miss. Soc.5.00
Evanston. Ladies of Cong. Ch. for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala.20.00
Galva. Cong. Ch.21.15
Geneseo. Cong. Ch.82.00
Gilman. Cong. Ch.10.00
Maple Park. J. I. Snow4.95
Marshall. Mrs. G. E. C.0.57
Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.7.50
Princeville. Mrs. O. L. Cutter, $5; Mrs. Elmira Jones, $510.00
Rochelle. “A Friend,” $5; W. H. Holcomb, Sen., $27.00
Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L.1.00
Summer Hill. Cong. Ch.5.25
Sycamore. Cong. Ch.68.04
Waukegan. Cong. Ch.5.00
WISCONSIN, $269.24.
Beloit. First Cong. Ch.114.77
East Troy. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.10.00
Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch.7.75
Hydes Mills. Rev. J. P. S.1.00
La Crosse, Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U.25.00
New Richmond. First Cong. Ch., $12.75; Ladies’ CentennialSew. Circle, $517.75
Oconomowock. Cong. Ch.12.00
Racine. First Presb. Ch.14.12
Rosendale. Cong. Ch., $25, and Sab. Sch., $7.8532.85
Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.34.00
IOWA, $170.57.
Amamosa. Cong. Ch., $4.60, and Sab. Sch., $3.317.91
Belle Plain. Correction—Cong. Ch., $5, ack. in July numbershould read Mrs. L. A. Baker, $5.
Cresco. Cong. Ch.3.70
Davenport. George W. Ells10.00
Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch.60.00
De Witt. J. H. Price ($5, of which, for Mag.)10.00
Emerson. Mrs. E. H. D. F.1.00
Farragut. Cong. Ch.13.03
Grinnell. “Brewer Sisters,” for Student Aid, Raleigh, N. C.9.20
Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $4.77; Cong. Ch., Mon. Con., $4.509.27
Sioux City. First Cong. Ch.15.40
Tabor. Prof. A. S. McPherron2.00
Toledo. Mrs. E. N. Baker5.00
Traer. Cong Ch.15.00
Vinton. Joseph Tenny Sen.5.00
Wittenberg. Cong. Sab. Sch.4.00
MISSOURI, $11.50.
Amity. Cong. Ch.3.25
Breckenridge. Cong. Ch.3.75
Webster Grove. Cong. Ch.4.50
MINNESOTA, $183.41.
Alexandria. Cong. Ch.5.00
Austin. Cong. Ch., $30.80; Mrs. S. E. Bacon, $1040.80
Dexter. Rev. R. B. Wright3.00
Elk River. Cong. Ch.6.00
Faribault. Cong. Ch.39.59
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.98; First Cong. Ch., $13.8144.79
Northfield. Mrs. C. N. S.1.00
Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. (Semi-Annual Coll.)36.90
Sherburne. Cong. Ch.1.00
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.33
NEBRASKA, $6.00.
Exeter. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $5; Rev. B. A. D., $1, byMrs. J. A. Baker, Treas.6.00
CALIFORNIA, $847.25.
San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission847.25
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $11.00.
Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey, $10; Rev. M. P. S., $111.00
TENNESSEE, $12.50.
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition12.50
NORTH CAROLINA, $23.50.
Raleigh. Tuition23.50
SOUTH CAROLINA, $605.35.
Charleston. Avery Institute605.35
GEORGIA, $1.75.
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition1.75
ALABAMA, $99.01.
Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $3; Cong. Ch., $3; “A Friend,” $1.917.91
Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition91.10
MISSISSIPPI, $13.15.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition13.15
INCOME FUND, $185.00.
—— Graves Library Fund150.00
—— Scholarship Fund35.00
SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.00.
Sandwich Islands. “A Friend”1,000.00
ENGLAND, $90.41.
Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes10.00
Northampton. On Doddridge Scholarship, for Fisk U., £1613s. 4d., by Dr. O. H. White80.41
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Total18,515.39
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st$145,497.49