The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-10-13
Arrival Of the Baltic.
THE Turkish Question to be Settled
acithout Var.
Highly Important from the Nesilla Valley
WAR COMMENCED!

New YORK, Oct. 3.
i The Baltic arrived at O'Clock with Liver
pool dates up to the 21st.
Breadstufs are animated and further ad
vance in demand.
Wheat Sd. Flour Is. Corn advanced ant
in demand.
/ The Chinese revolution is extending.
i Breadstuffs in France are still moving up
ward.
! The United States Expedition has sailed
for Japan followed by two Russian Frigates
The Hungarian regalia is to be presented
| in the Vienna Museum. The King Of Rus.
sia has concluded not to 60 to the meeting
of Emperors at Olmutz. Letters from Mad
rid say that another ministerial crisis was
coming in Spain, and in private political
circles, the propriety ofopposing the Queen
was freely discussed.
The Turkish difficulties will be settled
without recourse to arms The Patrie
states that the Emperor of Russia will not
under any circumstances, commence hostil-
tiles, and that the definite decision Of Tur-
key cannot be known in Britain until the
middle of October.
A message from Verona says that Austria
declines acting longer with the other powers,
and also has forwarded instructions to the
Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople, to
assure the Sultan that he must accept the
first note unmodiied. The conference at
Vienna now considers affairs very serious.
The Vienna Conference was in session,
attempting to smooth over the difficulties
and it is reported that the new notifications,
concilatory to both Russia and Turkey,
would be made, but it was feared that, in
the meantime, the armies on the Danube
might come in collision. The Austrian
charge had notified the Porte that Servia
would remain neutral in the affair of the
war.
The Pacha of Egypt will send Bonet
Dey as commissioner to the New York exhi-
bition.
BY the overland route we learn that the
U. S. Expedition. the Susquehanna, Misss-
|sippi, Saratoga and Plymouth, sailed July
Sd from Shanghai for Japan, followed by the
two Russian trigates. The Susquehanna
and Saratoga, on the coast, touched at sew
eral islands and distributed live stock, and
also at Benora, where they found European
settlers, and where the Commodore purchas-
ed ten acres of land, on fine harbor, for a
coal depot.
The Chinese revolution continues, but no
decisive action is reporte
Cholera was spreading in the English
ports
FRAxcE-nothing of interest. Activity is
reported in the Navy yard.
The critical condition of breadstuffs con-
|tiuues. Prices were pending upwards.
Commencement Of Hostilities with Mexico.
New YORK, Oct 8.
The sloop ofwar Albany has anchored of
the bay, she will sail in few days. The
steamer Crescent City with the California
mails to lst Of Sept, is telegraphed from
below
A despatch from New Orleans says re-
port has reached Mexico of the breaking out
of hostilities in the Mesilla Valley, between
the U. s. troops and the Mexican forces.
Gen. Tresta has also obtained information
that large bodies of American troops were
concentrated on the Rio Grande, and that
they would unite with those already in the
Valley to seize it. These reports were such
as to require an explanation of the inten-
tions of the U. s. in sending out additional
forces to occupy the Mesilla Valley and vi
cinity.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Sd, 1853.
The Sloop Cataract, for the Tehuantepec
route is completed. Sykes & Co., of Shelf
field, England, have engaged to build a
plank road from Suship to the Pacific, dis
tance Of rs miles, in one year from Dec.
lst, and Railroad from ocean to ocean,
1863 miles, in four years. The privilege OF
building Submarine Telegraph from Gu
ba to point in Florida, has been granted
to Samuel A. Kennedy and others.