Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

The Times SAYS: '.Henceforth negotia-
tions must be carried on at Pekin, where
no one can doubt Europeans will soon be
as much at home and as safe as at Paris"
The Times concludes the article with the
following uncomplinleBtary reflections on
the American Ambassador: sThe Amer
ican Ambassador, without force of arms, is
said to have been admitted at Pekin. Of
course he had u peculiar claim to this excep-
tional privilege, on account of the assist;
ance given TO the Chinese mandarin, to de-
prive us of the just fruits of the late sucs
eessful war. Whether this, or some new
claim of the same character, rendered him
more admissible than those who had open
ed the way to him, does not yet appear
If the Americans can open China BY peace
full methods, let them do it; but thus far
they seem better able to help themselves
than do anything for the world at large"
LArEsr.-London, Wednesday.-The
Chinese mail has arrived, bringing COM
plete accounts of the Peiho affair, which
resulted in the total defeat of the British
forces, with no less than five gun boats and
about a third of the whole force engaged.
The mouth of the river was effeetually
barred up by iron stakes and booms. This
bar was raked by the FIRE of the newly con-
structed forts on the other side of the riv-
er mounting go to 100 guns. admiral
Nape's appearances were in the first in-
stance unmistakably pacific. A solitary
man of war boat carried in bis first mes
sage, the Fury and two gun boats being
left outside the while, the rest of the squad
ron was lying 80 miles off. The Ambas-
sadors finding no proper officers 10 receive
them, determined to remove the bar and
pass up the river. Six or 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 distance Of 30 to 100
yards only, and some OF them had got
aground
At1.30 P. NJ. tfie signal for action was
run up, and the Oppossum and Plover
pushed in close up to the first barrier
About 2 P. N. the guns in the forts OPEN
ed fire, and the action became general
The fire of the Chinese, both in weighs
and precision, was such as was never before
experienced at their hands. In about two
hours the fire of the Chinese began to
slaeken, and was soon afterwards almost
silenced, although every sho; of theirs
told, while the British guns did compare
lively little damage TO the mud walls.
At about P. NJ. the signal was made
for the troops 10 land, and there were then
no doubts of speedy victory. just as
the first boat touched the shore, the forts
opened perfect hurricane of shell, gingal
ball and rockets, which moved down the
men as they landed. The ships threw
in as heavy covering fire as they possibly
could. The enemy's fire continued so
heavy, and the mud on the landing being
up to the knees, and sometimes to the
waist, that out of one thousand men land
ed, barely one hundred reached the first of
the three wide and deep bitches which,
after some five hundred yards of wading
through the mud, presented themselves
Of the gallant forces WHO got through the
mud difficulties, scarcely twenty had been
able to keep their rifles or ammunition dry,
nevertheless they boldly faced the bitches.
and some fifty of them, including crowd
of officers, succeeded in getting as far as
the third ditch. They would certainly
have made good attempt to scale the
walls, but their ladders had either been
broken by shot, or had stuck in the mud.
With the one, however, which remained,
ten devoted men spraDg forward, three of
whom were Immediately shot dead and five
wounded severely. A vertical fire of ar
rows, as well as constant fusilade was
kept up on the select band, who now
crouched in the ditch, waiting, but in vain,
for relnfo rcement. "a.