The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-10-13

DC 30 soft and swampy, and the bitches
were so filled with water as TO render
}hem useless, and they were shot down
Dytpe score from the forts. The. Brit
ish troops were obliged finally to re-
treat hastily, and IN disorder. Four
steamers were literally sunk tbree IF
which viii, be entirely lost, and one 4
| is hoped, may be raised.
| Out of the 1300.troops engaged, 4ss
were killed and wounded, seven of the
former and nine of the latter being of
ficers. The admiral received severe
wound early in the engagement. The
French participated in the fight, and
Host, It is said, four Killed, and about
twelve wounded. During the heat of
the action Commodore Tathah sent the
steamer Teoy- wan.to tow some boats
into action for the English, thereby, as
it seems to us, violating our neutrality.
The Commodore also, with uncommon
folly, insisted upon paying his respects
to Admiral Hope when he heard he
was wounded, and in the thickestof the
fight just as he was stepping from his
barge on board, his barge was struck
by cannon shot and knocked to pieces
killing the ceck-swain. Several days
after the battle Mr.. Ward sent a party
with his small steamer, the Toey-wan,
to look for the other mouth Of the riv-
er, of which the Chinese had spoken.
And it was found, just as had been IN
dicated. 1t was also ascertained that
the Governor General had been there,
waiting to receive the ministers. The
whole country was in a state of ferment
on account of the fighting, and the
Governor General had gone up into
the interior to Tient-tsin. 1t was with
difficulty that the interpreter could
communicate with the people. He
finally got letter to the Tantai, who
the next day sent off boat laden with
provisions, fruits, and other presents,
with many protestations of friendship
and respect for the Americans. He
said that the Governor General had
been waiting some time to receive the
American Minister and send him on to
Pekin, but since the fighting had COM
menced he had gone, and it would be
necessary to send messenger to him
and get reply. At last dates Mr..
Ward was waiting for an answer to
his letter. Had our Minister pursued
an entirely independent course, instead
of hanging on to the tail of the British
legation, he might now have been in
Pekin, and we should have been in the
full enjoyment of all the advantages OF
our treaty, and our government repre-
sentative would have been quietly set
tied near the government Of Pekin,
Now, it will not surprise US to hear that
we are considered as identified with
the French and English when, of
course, we shall, like them be treated
as enemies, and our paissant minister
will only have to return home with all
his 'sblushing honors thick upon him.
The French fleet and their minister
have returned to this place. Several
of the wounded have died since they
came in. The battered remnants of the
British fleet are near the mouth Of the
Yang-tse-kiang. They own beat-say
they have not in many years met with
SO signal repulse. The whole thing
seems to have been the result of AFRO
gance and foolhardiness. It's sad
lesson. The English imagine the Rus
slams had assisted the Chinese in pre-
pairing and defending the forts The
Chinese say their forces were com
manded by Monaghan general of
great skill and prudence named Ling
quh-lin-sing.
1t is to be hoped that onr government
will look closely into the conduct Of
our minister and commanders, and il
they have violated the neutrality OF
our flag, severe censure shopld be yisi,
ted upon them and promptly. The re-
suit of all this is that the English and
French treaty with the Chinese has
proved humbug and the relations are
the same between the countries now
that they were at the commencement
of the Canton war. We anxiously
await further developments, hoping
they may not be as bad for us as The
madness and folly of our Representative,
here deserve.