Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-02-17
From the Pittsburg Gazette of the 9th ult.
EYtrnafs of Foreign News.


The news from Turkey is of the most
distressing character, as TO the HISTORIANS.
'rhe batchery Of this inolfensive people
has been continued during the period in
iervening since the steamer previous 10
the Hiberni. lef, Liverpool.
Mar ohannan, the venerable Bishop
and Patriarch of the HISTORIANS, who Wis
sited the United Stated few years since,
was captured by the butcher Badohan But,
and impaled alive. This event creates "a
uci,srsal sensation Of horror in New
York, Esston. and other eastern cities,
where tbs E;shop is well remembered by
ING I he pastots Wiz sssre taken by their
;nyeteraie enemies ia,s c,l poured over
iheis bodies and wen then roasted alive
before slow fires anidthe jeers, ytlis, and
other hellish demonst iatons of deligfi, on
the part Of their Matchmaker persecu-
tors.
Sixty seven villiees have been laid
waste by them, and no less than eight
hundred persons put 10 death by the worst
tortures that humanity could devise.
Neither men, womd1, nor children, nor
helpless infants, wee spared by the de
mons in human FORM Some were burnt,
others impaied, cut lepieces. stabbed, and
pn. 10 death in ever, variety Of i,rm.
France has authorised the admission of
American corn whencarried 10 her ports
in British vessels.
Effects of Foreign Neps. The Cincm-
nail Gazette Of the 3Oh ult., says:
The commercial dyices by the Hiber-
MIA, reached his cityin SO questionable G
shape, ria telegraphto Pittsburgh, that
their effect has ben produced almos.
wholly through theiraclion on the Allan
tic markets. 1t is therefore important to
know how these latte were affected.
'.The New York eiegrap hic dcs patch
of Tuesday night 10 lie Pittsburgh Gazette,
states that on that das 80, 900 bbls Flon-,
some Genesee, bnt m,stly Western, 10 ar
rive, sold at ST; vile the despatch Of
| same night 10 the Pittsburgh Journal re-
ports large sales at = 81 6 81.
The Philadelphia cepatch OF Tuesday
night to The Pittsbugh Journal says
The advance reportd yesterday has been
fully sustained. Thess!ss reported then
were al aud within IS rs To day the
range Of prices exhibIs higher extreme,
say six for maximum
In Baltimore the news carried flour up
to So so on Monday, and SIS So a 5 rs
on Tuesday
/ In this city, after he news arrived OH
Thursday, about 200 bbls sold at "a SO,
and 300 at A 60-ar,advance Of SO 60.
/ Yesterday the sales amounted to 1900 bbls
| at 50 40 a 4 IS.
| LII all the eastern markets, provisions
generally became tm. In Baltimore,
there were sales of n. lard on Tuesday
at &c.
NV YoRk, Jan. 26.
/ TIE foreign new has had great effect
on the market for Jour. The sales re-
ported to you westerly were at So SO. To-
day sales are rsportd of 10000 barn els,
some Genesee, but pslly Western, TO ar
4 rive al $7 90 per b.
| The sales of wife corn are heavy,
reaehing $4,000 buacls, at 80 to 95, or
near about that figup.
| Sales Of prime wftc wheat are report
ed to day at 81 40rer bushcl.
! There is great esitement in the mar
kef.
i From BaltimorSve have intelligence
that -four had advaecd there 81 3-4c per
Dbl, which would nike the price Of How
ard street brands 9 81 IL per bushel.
In Philadelphia lere has been large
advance also.
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