The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-30

chored for the night. The commander took
mp this position ~ II might enabte him TO aid
rescue their creMs--in other words, to AFFORD
all aid consistent with neutrality. Having
been informed by British officer that the Ad.
miral was dangerously wounded. Commander
Tataau went In a barge TO visit him. When
within few feet Of the Cormoranf, a round
shot struck the boat, and killed Coxswain
Hart. of Brooklyn, New York, and slightly
wounded Flag Lieutenant TreDchard They
reached the Cormorant before the boat entirely
sank.
Com. Tatnail says the Chinese Commission.
ers had previously notified Commissioner
him TO accompany the British and French
Ministers tu the Pei-Ho. To this he consented.
thereby, to certain extent assuming the same
platform with the latter. The sincerity OF the
Commissioners was much doubted at the time
A letter to the Baltimore American, from
the steamship Powhatan, gives the following
account of Com. Tatnairs visit to the British
Admiral during the engagement:
Shortly after the English Admiral was hurt,
our Commodore went from the Toey- wan in
his barge, TO visit him on board the Cormo-
rant This was in the thickest of the fight !;
just as he got alonside, shot struck the stern
OF MS boat very near to him, and the Flag
Lieutenant, Mr.. Trenchard, had his pants
torn by the splinters; and the coxswain,
John Hart, was killed by splinter hitting
him on the temple He was one of the best
ueu ia Tue snip, anu u great IdNOTtte Ot me
Commodore. The rest just managed to get on
board before the boat filled with water. They
found The Admiral on deck, he having refused
10 be carried below. Only three of the crew
were lit for duty, and our men seeing this,
jumped in and for more than an hour worked
The guns. Luckily none of them were hurt,
but while they were there the lst Lieutenant
and one of the three English gunners were
killed. The Admiral, although SO badly wound
ed, goes in again to- night to try to get the six
sunken gunhoats off, and bring them out. Ev-
cry one thinks the excitement will kill him.
DATES FROM BUENos AYREs-Hr. Yaacsy's
Mediation Faiiure.-The ship Lightning has
arrived at New York, with Buenos Ayres.pa-
pers to the 18th ult.-ten days later. The pro-
missed cessation of hostilities during. the ne.
gotiations for peace by the American minister,
had been violated. On the I'd ult., a party of
Virquizas troops invaded Duenos Ayrean ter
ritory, but were driven out
On the I1th of August the Peace negotiations
came to n more speedy termination than was
anticipated, the preliminaries on each side be-
ing rejected, the intervention OF Mr.. Iancey
fell to the ground. The Confederate Govern
ment required an immediate suspension OF
hostilities, the Government of BueuoS Ayres
the retirement of Gen. UrquiZa from public
life. The former was obviously inadmissable
by itself, and the latter could hardly be ex-
pected during the present peculiar organiZa-
this has all ended in talk, as many expected it
would from the first
On the 18th of August, an agent of Urquizas,
Don Federico Segui, NOT knowing that the ne
gotiations had been terminated, arrived at
Buenos Ayres to confer with Mr.. Iancey.-
He was allowed to land; but the following
mysterious paragraph, published in the Bue-
nos Ayrean Commercial Times of the 18th, in
Inmates that his interview with the American
Minister was rather stormy one
"By the Asuncion, yesterday, arrived Don
Federico Segui, from the Parana, with COM
munications for Mr.. Yancey from the Central
Government. But the Peace Conference at
the hospitable table of Mr.. Yancey received
an unwonted check last night, plates bottles,
&c, supplying tho place of pleasant words
among his guests, and Mr. Yancey having had
his spectacles broken in the fray, it is proba-
BILE he will now see clearer into the nature of
South American diplomacy"
The next day, the Government ordered Sr.
Segui to embark at once and leave the city,
which he did without delay. Some of the pa
peTs claim that he ought TO have been tre3 ted
as spy.
On the I3th of Augus,, Urquizas agents in
cited q revolt in the Buenos Ayres States Pris-
on, and, headed by Col, Aguliar, prisoner
implicated in Chirino's revolution of last
year. the convicts surprised the guard at din
ner time, and escaped. The alarm was soon
given, however, and the fugitiyes Were re-
captured, the ringleader, Aguilar being shot,
and several other reyo!ters being killed and
wounded.