Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-10-04

AUSTRAr
Austria is making great concessions to the
Protestants.
Signs of dissatisfaction continue in the NADIA
ras cavalry at Hyderbad
AUSTRALIA.
The Australian mails to the middle of July
have been received. The supply OF gold Is H.
creasIng.
The China mail has arrived, brin ging COM
pete accounts of the Peiho affair, which result
ed in the total defeat of the British forces with
no less than five gun-buats and about Il third of
the whole force engaged.
The mouth of the river was efectua'ly barred
by iron stakes and booms This bar was raked
by the fire OF the newly constructed forts on the
other side of the river, counting 80 to 100 guns
Admirable Hopes appearances III the first III
stance were Enthusiastically pacific, solitary
,nanof war boat carried in his first messagethe
i" Fury" and two gun boats being left outside
the bar while the rest of the squadron was 80
miles off. The Ambassadors finding proper
officers to receive them, decided 10 remove the
bar and pass up the river. Six seven hours
however, were spent in vain endeavors to effect
this, and during that time not a gun was fired
from the forts, although the gun boats were at a
distance of 500 to 700 hundred yards only, and
some of them had got aground
| AT 30 z. NJ, the signal for action was run
up, and tine Oppossum and Plover pushed in,
! close up to the first barrier Suddenly, about
/ , z. NJ, the guns IN the fort opened fire, and
the action became general.
| The fire of the Chinese, both weight and pre-
cision, was such as was never before experienced
at their hands. In about two hours their fire
| began TO slacken, and was soon after almost ST.
fenced, although every shot of theirs told, while
the British guns did comparatively little dam
age to the mud walls.
| 4. about ) p. NJ the signal was made for the
troops to land, and there then no doubt of
a speedy victory.
! just as the first boat touched the shore, the
forts opened perfect hurricane of shell, balls
and rockets, which moved down the men as
they landed. The ships threw heavy fire
As they possibly could. The enemys fire con-
tinued so heavy, and the mud the landing
being up to the knees and sometimes to the
| waist that out of 600 men who landed, bare
ly 100 reached the first of the three wide and
deep bitches, which after some five hundred
wards wadIng through the mud presented them
| selves. OF the gallant forces who got through
the mud with difficulty scarcely % had been
able to keep their rifles or ammunition dry
Nevertheless they boldly faced the bitches, and
some 20 Of them including crowd of officers
succeeded in tting as far rs the third ditch.
They would certainly have made good at
tempt TO scale the wall, but her ladders had
either been broke stuck IL The mud. With
the one, however, which remained, ten devoted
men sprang forward, three of whom were imme-
diately shot dead, and five wounded severely
4 vertical fire of arrows well as constant fu.
silade was kept open on the select band who
now crouched in the ditch, waiting but in vain
for reinforcementS
LArER.-LoNDcy. Thursday Morning, Sept
I5.-The London Times Paris correspondent say,
II is ruiuored that $4,000 French troops are or
dered to be held in readiness for China. Gen
Wimpfen is spoken of As the Commander.
TIE English and FreGch Secretaries of Lee
CATION to China. returned home in the mai
steamer The news of course created mucl
sensation and the violation OF the treaty in sucl
treacberous mannsr, called forth loud demand
for a terrible vengeance
The Times says Henceforth, negotiation,
muat be carried on at PekIu, where no one cal
doubt Europeans Will soon be as much Al home
and as safe as at Paris.