Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-10-21
General Menus.
Transmitted for the Baltimore American.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EunopI
SEVASToPoL CAPTURED.


morning of tho 9Th with 222 passengers.
On the 18th, off Cape Race, spoke and
was boarded by the British schooner
John Clemens, cruising for the missing
boats, &c., of the Arctic, end learnt
from her the particulars OF the catas'
trophe.
The Africa arrived out on the morn.
ing Of the LIST inst. The steamer Bran.
don arrived out on the Sd inst.
The U. S. steamer San Jacinto, put
back to Southampton with her machin-
cry damaged, having off Texel broken
one of the fans Of her screw, and would
be detained for repairs five or six weeks.
Capture of SevastopOl.
Eight hours after the departure Of
the Europa, official news was received
of the great battle at Alma river, in the
Crinea.
On the 2lst inst, the allies stormed
the Russian entertainments after four
hours fighting. In this battle the An
glo-French lost 2,SO0 killed and wound
ed, and the Russians lost 5000.
Private dispatches supply the rest Of
the news, viz; that the Russians, under
MenshikoF personally, rallied on the
river Katscha on the 23d, and again gave
battle to the allies, but were again de-.
feated and driven to the entertainments
behind Ssvastopol.
They again rallied, however, and
fought the third battle, and were third
time defeated, and fed into Sevastopol,
which was beleaguered by land and by
sea. .. t.. .ut.
On the 26th fort Constantine was in
vested by sea and land, and after an OBJ.
stinate defence was carried by storm
The allies then bombarded the city and
fleet, aud ten Russian ships of the line
were burnt and sunk. The remaining
forts wore carried, one after the other,
and 500 guns were silenced aud $4,000
prisoners taken. r
The Russian loss in dead and disa-
bled is estimated at not less than $4,000
in Sevastopol alone.
MenschikoF with the shattered re-
mains of his forces had retired into a
position in the inner harbor, threaten
ing to fire the town and blow up the re.
naming ships unles the victors would
grant him honorable capitulations. The
allied Generals demanded his uncondi-
tional surrender, and in the name of hui
manity gave him six hours considera.
ton.
A later despatch says that Menschi-
kof had surrendered, and that the Brit
ish and French flags were over Sevas-
topol.
The entrenched camp Of the Rus.
SLAMS on the heights of Alma containing
5000 men, and numerous cavalry and
artillery, aud was carried al the point
of the bayonet, after four hours hard
fighting.
No General officer of the British Tor
ces was wounded. H .a...
Marshal 81. Arnaud and General Rag.
Ian commanded in person. General
Thomasson, French officer, is thought
to have been fatally wounded. Gen,
Canrobert was wounded in the shoulder,
The second engagement, on ,heplains
of Kalantar, lasted several hours and
was very sanguinary, 1t ended in the
total defeat Of the Russians, who were
pursued 10 the entertainments before
Sevastopol.
The dispatches state that the garri'
son Of Sevastopol were offered free
withdrawal, but surrendered as prison.
ers of war.
The dispatches were very conflicting
One dated Berlin, Sd, says that tele.
graphic dispatches had been received
there direct from St. Petersburg to the
effect that Menschikof has telegraphed
under date Of September 25th, that be
had Withdrawn his troops unmolested
from before Sevastopol towards B akst'
chi Serei, and that he will there await
reinforcements; and adds that Seyastp'
pol had not been attacked up to the
2G,h. .
The Russian accounts do not conceal
the facts Of severe leverses in the Cri'
mea. Dispatches from Berlin to the
goth says that the return of the, French
feet from the Baltic has been counter
manjed. .t,s.s..t-.s
A despatch dated Kiel, Oct. Cd, states
that the fleets had left that barber to join
Napier in the Baltic. Napier was be-
fore Revel on the 23d ult.
Latest by Telegraph.
A despatch from Bucharest, dated the
3Olh ult., states that it is again asserted
that $4,000 Russians were in Drobud'
scha, under General Luders, and were
constantly receiving reinlorcemenls.
Omar Pasha was only waiting ST. Ar,
naud's orders TO attack Bessaraba.
All the arrangements in the Turkish
army indicate an intention for winter