Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-30
nIenLY INTERESTING FROM CHINA
The attach on the Impe.ialist rolee.

of the iInperiaiist< Who In addition 10 other out
RACES. now and then amused themselves bY shoot
| ing at the foreigners as they passed along. pl
the evening Of the Bird Of April. an English lady,
escorted by gentleman. was attacked by band
| of Ianntae's men; the gentleman was wounded
severely, BY several sword cuts. having nothing
| bat cane 10 defend himself. while the-ndY eseap-
/ ed with fright only, although the char III which
! she was riding was cut badly IN several places.
! Other Englishmen were attacked about the same
! time al different points on the course, but none
we're killed. Upon this news reaching the city
! great excitement prevailed The Consuls of the
! United States and England. in consultation with
| the American and English naral captains. eoncu-
| ded Ia land foreez from the vessels and destroy
! the fort from which the imperialisis bad come
| who committed the outrages before alluded to-
This was done. aud the night was passed without
disturbance. The next morning, the British Con
sui addressed Il note to the general al the I'M
perial army, ordering i'm to eyacuate The forts
which he had erected within the limits Of the gr
ground occupied by foreigners; that ifthe eyacu-
alton did no. commence at O'Clock i. NJ and
was not completed at 1, the forces would bonn
bard them out with she'll and canister. The L.
$. Consul held n consultation with Capt john
Kelly, OF the L :. sloop- Of war Plymouth and
they concluded that the entire settlement was ia
imminent danger from the undisenlined soldiery
eompo sing the imperial camp. Accordingly they
move their quarters to a greater distance
Three O'Clock came, aud no answer Ind been
received from Tnoutne. At four o'clock, "A note
was received from him, saving that the forts could
not he evacuated. Tie method Of attach was
then def cunined upon.
Ne copy irom the correspond nee ofthe \. y.
Herald tie annexed interesting account:
C4pt. O'Callaghan with his English fosce two
hundr. men, wa to follow the race course 10 the
49,, mt XII. vpff
Guns, TO march to the left aud attack separate
forts.
I'VE marched off to our respective national airs,
and after coming up within three hundred yards
Of the fort we unlimbered our three howilzers,
loaded with shell, aud at precisely four O'Clock
commenced firing. Forthirty minutes this firing
continued. doing immense destruction to the Inn
perialists but they did not return IT, rs the
large field piece which was masked and was load
cd to the muzzle with nails and slugs, would not
"a off. A bout this time we had nearly consumed
our shetland there were two more forts To take,
the order given to- charge. Il was done,and
wcr, within thirty paee- of the breastwork
a shaver of bullets from Jim gals, (like mus
ket, only they are about nine feet long and carry
pound ball } killed IA marine from the Plymouth,
wounded ca pit. Pearson, Of the American ship
Rose Standi ii, IN the face, aud Mr. GriswoM
Cray. of \. York, in both legs Capt. Pearsons
wound lis ri CHIT, but Mr.. Gray had to suffer am.
putalian oi his left leg, and Is now DONG we'll
For fifteen minutes The balls rained among us.
We were onl y thirty PAGES from the fort, with a
deep and bruitd ditch between Us, filled with iron
points To stick the feet Of Chinese with but W ich
proyrdio he entirely unayailing against the solcs
OF kimbul ana Beaslev'~ best The wall Of the
forl too was covered with Sharp bamboo points,
which are very dangerous. Yet we opened our
howitzers ngaln. and with canister we poured n
leaden hail among them. This LASTED Tor ten
minutes, when the order was given to scale the
fort.aul pa sed over and in like an avalanche
and the Chinese fled at every gate The fort
WIS taken and seton fire.
While this was being done by the Americans
Capt. Buckingham, with his Enghshmen. was
seali ~ another one. and it wns Immediately, also
in n blaze ! be rebels, too Ind come Out from
the city in q largo body TO witness how foreigners
fight. After thy had seen loo arms take II fort
and fire il, continuing over 20j0 Cinnamon, and
200 Eng,hmen do the same thing in The space
fforty minutes, they made an attack upon an
other fort which II uonr the wall, aud being re-
pulsed they sent III to Gen. Leu,asking for an ad-
ditional force. Leu replied that the foreigners,
with one third his number, had just taken two
forts, aud that he and his men should have moth
ing To eat till they took that one. This had the
desired eticct-the fort was taken,
The Americans aud Eneliehmcn met, each
having marched through the forts of the imperi-
alists and jointly aftacke ed the third aud last fort
which contained soldiers who had made attempts
to come down on the settlement II required on
~ a few shell To put it in b axe, aud the soldiers
10 flight, in every direction. The whole action
of the combined forces la~ted oua hour and u
half the Americans lost killed and , wounded,
and the English the same; the wounded a"c ali
doing we'll. The Anne reans were the smaller
/ force. hut they had three howtzers while tie
! English only hnd one, the pest of danger was
/ Al. 4 Al.
| the order was given to charge, and came NJ
within thirty paees of the fort, where the shower
| of bulls fell among us for ten minutes, never
shall forget the appearance of Cnpt. Kelly; he is
usually little stopped and locks about five feet
ten inches, but when the bullets began To rain a
mengst us aud one of his own men shot down
! dend AT his side he seemed 10 be ut least sever
| feet high his bright uniform mark for the Jim
! CALLS aud his whole conduct 50 daring that it il
miracle he escaped.
1t. Guest the executive officer, led the charge
and engineered the howitzer belonging to tn,
! Plymouth; his conduct throughout was cool an,
! brave.
just as this charge was made, the merchant
men under command of Midshipman Grey, wer
ordered up, which swelled the American force t.
one hundred and thirty men. These fellow
were Californians principally, who did great ex
eeltion for II few minutes with their rifles.
Thus the whole force employed from first t,
last was three hundred and thirty men and tire,
field twelve pound howizers, and in series o
engagements, which lasted one hour and ha {
they dslodged ten thousand Cinnamon from tire,
separate Notifications, with the loss of two kie,
and six wounded. The loss ofthe Chinese wa.
immense, but no one has pretended to put figures
to the number that was killed.
We resumed our march to the settlement
loaded with Jim gals and flags, as every Chimes,
soldier has his own flag From the Church stee
pie where many ladies had Witnessed the bat
tie, aud from the houses, the white handkerchief