Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-10-19

at once proceeded to reconnec firmly the iron cables
aud stretched them before, ahsar the stream so as
| to bar the passage up
Eeary the morning Of the 2jth upward. of ten bsr
barian steamers having taken up their position outside
the iron stakes and just below the fort on the Southern
bank, three OF them crme close up to the stakes the
foremost prongs OF which wer the agency of several
swimmers bound round with ropes and The ends of these
made fast by the sterns Of the ves.e Another steam.
er then wheeled round and dragged them up and aer
interval of than six hours upwars of ten of the
stakes pulled away whilst the vessels In no.tion Al,
hosted red flags THUS showngl determination to com.
mence hostlitics.
To put mp with this proud rebeious bearing was in
deed difficult but the reflection that the measure of pa
cnesnon which was now in Its second year Of process
would be utterly derauged FIRE once opened in.
duced the menoriaist to submit to il in silence and
quietly TO abide his time thus encouraging the bnrhar
in their pride and feeding the furv of our soldiers
Just as the action about to mn officer with
communication from the Tsnal Of Tien.tsng was sent
once more to them The barbarans would not per-
init the letter to be handed in, and their vessels
ing like OF bees right M 10 the second fort unn
the Southern bank, bore straight down upon the iron
chains twice, but being all brought up by these they
opened fire upon batere- Our soldiers pcnt In n,
their Jury had been for long time could no longer e
restrained the guns Of every division large and small
opened upon all sides and evening the firing had not
ceased.
More than twenty boats now came alongside the hank
OF he southern fort. and the barbarsns landing bo.
S! iorned outside the trench Our gingal aud match
lock divisions then brought up TO oppose them and
bred several volleys The barbaras dill not venture to
cross the ditch but threw themselves down amongst the
| anu hred on from their ambush. Such
deron' ferocity was indeed calculated make ones hair
stand up H. with rage and vindcate the honor of
the State and to fulfil the time the expectations
OF the government, slaves Obliged TO hrinp
forward their troops to Oppose them with ,bcr ,nE
strength Your slave Hanguh Who had been stationed
on the New river put himself the lie al of his cavalry
and infantry he heard the caunonade and re-
turned TO Taku, bringing up hi men as reserve bv
road from the rear. At the time Wan Yu the Com
missioner OF Finance arrived slso from Pauting
lour slave has Teverenily embodied in this me-
moral circuusautial account this fierce of
our niuriae6 troops with the rebcllious barIari,ns
VINO dSobeyed our reasonable inunctons Forwarding
II al The rate of 6oh u, per day 4 PROSTATE he en-
treats thereon your Msesys sacred glance and nstrnc
tons.
respectful memorial. Forwarded from Taku on the
| 26th June, 1889.
! The following i supplementary memorial to the
above account, reporting the particular-
At dawn this morning your slaves reported the various
circumstance OF Sanguinary and protracted engage
ent with the rebeous barbai,ns Who in their nnruly
Spirli, would not listen to the dictates OF reason
When their troops advanced to the southern ,litch
anu PROVOKED uS to fight great numbers of them fell uu
der the 'olicys of our gngll and matchbox men but
upwards OF one thousand concealed themselves amongst
| the rushes and enleayored to nusb aor,.rI .Io - =
ground. "
As We could not tell how far these were off our sold
ers kept them back 10y projecting fire balls through BAN
boo tubes aud these blazed up our guns and canon
Eeg aia' bI hiring into them at point blank range ill.,
their skill and strength alike exhausted they dared no
longer to continue the engagement but sunk back to
'her ships. IL was dAybreak before our men began TO
return TO their ranks.
The barbarian dead lay piled in heaps there being one
hundred and some tens Of bodies exclusive of those car
rIcd OH Ola board their ships also forty one foreign guns
ana sets oi aecourements and great number of other
barbarian articles Three boat, too, stranded hi
dns himself in one of which barbarian soldier
VINO was captured alive by troop Another was
brought OIL a prisoner from the mud
| These men stated when examined that one was an
Enshsinan and the other American aud that during
the acton they had come IN with The rc.crve n the boa
from the bar. They that the landing Marty nnnLr
ga some 300 or 800 men, and that great many of
them had been killed; that the English chief Admiral
nope was IN the foremost steamer which dismasrt
hy our hre that he wounded in the right leg and
ay down upon couch unable move also that hostil-
iiie@ were commenced entirely the motion of this
chief
Your slave lIangfau appointed an cHcer to Guard the
prisoners holding that in the possession of tem there
hgh at some future time, be means of enabling Us
TO vouciSafe manifestation OF conciatory intentions
| appears that OF the thirteen harJarian steamers
which we've engaged upon the 18th instant what with
those that were sunk there they lay by our fire and those
that were dsmasted and disabled, only got back
outside the bar The all suffered so severely that
they could move.