“The treaty obtained from China by the English in 1858 was to be returned, by its terms, to the Chinese capital for final ratification by June 26, 1859. The British forces assembled at the mouth of Pei-Ho River, on the direct road to Pekin, for that purpose, June 25, 1859. Their heavier vessels were kept in the gulf by a bar, but the lighter gunboats went on up the stream until their progress was stopped by the obstructions placed at the fort. The U. S. S. _Powhatan_, Flag Officer Tattnall, bore John E. Wade and his suite, who were to represent the United States at similar negotiations then pending. The size of the _Powhatan_ did not permit her entry upon the river, so Tattnall secured the small unarmed merchant steamer _Toey-Wan_ to take the representative of our government to Pekin. The rest of the story is told substantially as it occurred, the British loss being 89 killed and 345 wounded, out of 1,100 engaged. But for the _Toey-Wan_ and Tattnall’s interference--wholly unwarranted by all considerations save those which he himself brought forward--there can be no doubt that England’s entire force would have been killed or captured.” W. R. Josiah Tattnall, the hero of the “Blood is Thicker than Water” episode, was the son of a Georgia soldier and statesman, and was born in Bonaventure, Georgia, November 9, 1795. He entered the navy at seventeen, and served in the War of 1812, in the war with Algiers, and in the Mexican War. Soon after the outbreak of the Rebellion he offered his services to the Confederates. It was he who, in March, 1862, succeeded Franklin Buchanan in command of the _Merrimac_, and it was he who destroyed that noted vessel to prevent her capture. He died in Savannah, Georgia, June 14, 1871. Stephen Decatur Trenchard, who was wounded at the Pei-Ho engagement, entered the navy in 1834, and served until 1880, when he was retired, being at the time a rear-admiral. He was a lieutenant when he fought with Tattnall. The Gulf of Pechi-Li is a land-locked extension of the Yellow Sea between the base of the Corean peninsula and the Chinese province of Shan-Tung. The Pei-Ho is a Chinese river that rises near the borders of Mongolia, and flows northeast and southeast past Pekin and Tientsin into the Gulf of Pechi-Li. =Stanza 3.= =Hope= (Admiral Sir James, 1808-1881). He was twice severely wounded in the Pei-Ho action, but remained personally in command throughout the fight. The year following, he led an expedition which successfully attacked the forts, and opened the river for navigation. =Stanza 4.= =Rason= and =McKenna=, officers in Hope’s fleet, the one a lieutenant-commander, the other a captain. 18. BETHEL. By Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne. Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1823. He was a colonel of New York volunteers during the Civil War. He was afterward employed upon the staff of the New York _Tribune_. He died in New York City, October 20, 1884.