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“818 IS TBICKEH THAN WATEB? li NasNollhe United Stales'. Fdneral Bill TJTNJLL HELPED T|lE ENGLISH. Paid a Social Ca'l During a Shower of Shot And Shall, and American Seamen Took The Places of Wounded British Gunners. I This is the story of a naval battle, notable not because it was one of the most desperate in modern warfare, but because it revealed, as in a flash of while light, the kindred ties that bind the two mighty nations of Anglo- Saxon blood. On June 24, 1859, 21 ships of-war, the allied flests of Eng land and France, rode at anchor in the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, off the mouth of the Pei ho river. They had come bearing the newly ap pointed ministers to China who were to ratify the treaties nego tiated in the preceding year. According to agreement they were to proceed up the Pei-ho river to Tientsin, where the di plomats were to receive safe escort to the imperial court at Pekin. Upon their arrival, however, they found that the Chinese had blocked the fairway with booms and the sunken hulls of fat old junks and fortified the shores with seven formidable forts, so that a captain’s gig could not have passed in safety. Admiral Hope, of the British fleet, sent a boat ashore and de manded the instant removal of the obstructions. A gigantic coolie, the officer in command, grovelled and expostulated, but the fairway was not cleared. For such offenses England knows only one remedy, “I will give you until June 25 to open the river,” wrote Admiral Hope. “If the work is not done by that time I shall blow up your forts.” A bar five miles wide filled the river mouth like the stopper of a bottle, preventing the pas sage of the large vessels. On June 24 Admiral Hope and the French commodore marshaled 13 of tneir smaller gunboats in line of battle and steamed boldly up the river. While they were preparing to make a dernontration, Capt. Jo siah Tatnall, flying the blue flag of an admiral in the United States navy, came up across the bar on the unarmed steamer Toey-wan. He had left his flag ship, the Powhaten, in the bay outside. The allied fleets parted to let him by. His purpose was : to demand instant passage in the name of the president of the United States. When he was almost under the walls of the first fort the plucky little Toey-wan rammed >her nose into the mud and heeled ■over heavily with the falling j tide. Capt. Tatnall sent messen- , gers ashore,but they were hardly ' allowed to land, the gigantic coolies still refusing passage. Admiral Hope now saw the danger of the American ship, particularly in her exposed posi tion under the forts, and he sent [the gunboat Plover with his compliments to drag her off . I But the chain parted and the Toey-wan lurched still further over. At this the gallant admiral dispatched another vssel. “Tell the A inerican command er,” he said, “to hoist his en sign aboard and keep her as long as he desires.” But a favorable wind having arisen, Capt. Tattnall declined I the courtesy, and durins the night he was able to clear the shoal. Shortly after two . o’clot k on the following day the allied fleets cleared for action. Ihe gunboat Plover ran up the river under a full hei.d of steam and drove headlong into the first boom. It snapped like a cotton co d, and the Plover spun shud dering into the clear water be yond. All this time the seven grim forts hud given no sign. Not a man had shown himself above the ramparts. No flags were dis played and thb gun embrasures were webbed with matting. The collie commander had assured the English that the forts were quite empty. Os a sudden, while the Plover was trimming for a plunge at the second boom, the ramparts above swarmed with gunners. An instant later a hundred guns, trained with merciless cunning, belched out a stream of fire and solid shot. Nearly every ship in the fleet was hit. The little Plover stag i gered and fluttered, riddled with shot, A bail carried away a gun ner's head and mortally wound ed three other men. Tins was the beginning. The admiral drove his . little fleet close in where the fire was dead liest and poured broadside after broadside into the enemy’s forts. But the Chinese beat their tom toms and continued to fire fran tically. At 5 o’clock two of the British ships Had been sunk and four others were aground, hope lessly wrecked. Admiral Hope and three of his captains were wounded and the flag had been twice changed and now lew from the mast head of the Cormorant. Capt. Tatnall had seen all this from the bridge es the Toey wan. His masts had swarmed with seamen, cheering the Brit ish gunners, but the law of neu trality forbade any interference. At sunset three small boats shot out from among the Eng lish ships and made across the river in a storm of shot. Before they had gone half way two boats went down, pierced through, with all their crews. The third, bringing an English midshipman, ran alongside the » 2240 m i & \/ *q£ORGIA A se V” Agricultural ildjuJ College « Maw BmuiiNG. l|li M J?!'Is | I DAHLONEGA, GA. A collegfeeducation in the reach o£ all. A.8., 8.5., Normal and Business Man’s courses. Good laboratories; healthful, in vigorating* clt- I mate; military discipline; good moral and i* ligious influences. Cheapest board in the Ktate; abundance of country produce; expenses from $75 to $l5O a year; board in dormitories or private families. Special license course for teachers; full faculty of nine; all under the contc-il «*f the University. A college prepar atory class. Co-education of sexes. The insti tution founded specially for students of limited means. Sctd for catalogue to the President. 1 Jos. S. Stmwart, A.M. 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And while the English seamen cheered and the Americans answer ed them from the tops, he dropped back with hawsers veered astern, and when the boats of the reserve had grappled fast he drove his vessel across the river through a whirlwind <n’ shot and shell. Having delivered the reinforce ments the Toey-wan dropped back, but Captain Tattnall was not yet satisfied with his work. “After anchoring,” he said in his report, “I thought of the ad miral and his chivalrous kindness to me on the day before, which, from an unwillingness to intrude on him when he was preparing for action, I had in no way ac knowledged.” Having decided that it was hia duty to pay his respects, the gal lant captain forgot about the hundred guns still thundering from the forts. Twenty seamen manned a barge aid, accompanied by Flag L eutenant Trenchard, he was rowed across the shot*swept river. As they approached the English flagship a Chinese shot struck one of the oars, crashed through the boat, and tore its way out below the water line. Flying splinters m >rtally wounded Coxs s,'aiir Hart and injured ’he flag lieutenant. The crew scrambled from the sinking barge and were dragged aboard the gunboat. Here they beheld a terrible scene of carnage. More than half the gun ners lay dead and the decks were slippery with blood. Whiln Cap tain Tattnal' paid his respects to th* British admiral the American seamen, quite contrary to orders, sprang to the British guns ram-« tued home the shells, and the flag ship spoke again to tie enemy’s fort The exhausted gunners sat up a wild cheer of approval and with r mewed hope worked aide by side with the Americans. On hie return tn the Toey-wan Cap'ain Tattnall called the smoke grimed gunnere to account tor dis obeying orders and taking part in actual hostilities. “Beg pardon, sir,” said one of them, “they was short-hand d at the bow gun, and so we giv d ’em a help fer fellowship sake.” And for the first time in Cnpt. Tattnall’s service disobedience went unpunished. The Toey-w, n now returned to the task of bringing up the British reserves, continuing tar into the night. At 8 o’clock u stormii g party of 600 marines were landed on the muddy shore. They waded three terrible trenches sown with caltrops, and cheered half way up the embankment in the face of a muderous fire of jingala and Mime balls. Hours later. 400 of them came straggling back, a full third of the forces having been killed or wounded. Again the American snip came to the rescue. It gathered up the maimed, mangled and muddy bodies of the English maiines and with its own dead coxswain, drop ped back across the bur in the gray of the early morning. In the mean time, Captain Tattnall had sent Lieutunt Johnson outside the bar and all night or the 26th he served under the Union Jack carrying the the defeated marines and wounded seamen to places of safety. Os 1.350 men of the ahi d fleets who went into action, 450 were killed and wounded, including 29 officers. In the course of the bat tle the British admiral shifted his flag no fewer than threi times, “evening an indomitable valor,” reported Captain Tattnall, “under very d’sheartening and almost hopeless surroundings,” Captain Tattnall’■ act was a distinct violation of neutrality but the American people received him There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was sup posed to be incurable. 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