The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-29

i Aft H'HA4fuNtA ~ IteH iNr HfikNst
Vas tlgunllsiy continued b. ihe allies
and Ihe l0Tfs Al fhe Quarantine snd
fnFt I unslaniine lad been lsLed. Tie
ssuthern tsNer and works had nlso
been demolished. The tsnn "a Sc.
bssfspd Was represented 10 be = mAss
Of rains. and on Gre 10 three deErfrnf
phases. Ii was evident that he place
nsuld not be able 10 bold onf much
longer.
According 10 one seesant an assault
Was 10 be made by the allies on the
2d or Sd af November.
A telegrsphic dispatch had been pub
lished BY a Greek honse. To the effect
that sebastrpoi had actually been Ia
KEN although believed by many. the
report wants confirmation.
Teiesraphic dispatches published in
London on the morning of the -th.
truesday.) state that lhe town Of Sc.
basfopnl is mass a. ruins. aud that
the French ehasseurs killed all the arr
tillery men nhu showed themselves at
the embrasures; aud shuwrr nf balls
was poured inta the forts during The
night, leaving the enemy no possible
chance for repairing their disasters.
/ The Russian feet had sought shelter
under the buildings along side nf the
guays. but the allies were about TO FIRE
upon them from new batteries, with
red hot balls.
s The Russians had all been with
drawn from the forts in the vicinity uf
Balakiara.
/ Lard Raglan states that Prince
Menchikoif was not in Sebastopol. but
with the main budy of the Rnssisn
army in the plains to the north Of Bat
chrsiai.
! IL was stated thai the French lost
200 men By explosions. while the Eng
fish loss was under 100 killed aud
wounded.
As the British and French forces have
been much cut mp by disease aud loss
es, reinlorcemenis were urgently call
ed for from England and France, and
they are forthcoming. During the past
two weeks 5000 men had been sent
from England. Including amongst them
detachmenis Of regiments recently ar
rived from Canada.
The reinfnrcements made So far TO
the British infantry in the Crimea num-
Der thirty thousand men. The French
reinfurcements are on still larger
scale.
| Thirteen out of The twenty-four iron
cylinders ordered at Woolwich for con-
vcyance ia Sebastopol to blow up the
sunkcn ships at the mouth of the har-
bur. have been completed aud shipped
for their destination. Each cylinder
contains ten thousand pounds Of pow
der. which will be ignitcd by an cleo.
trio battery.
One hundred and twenty gun-boats.
with two heavy guns ia each. have been
ordered by the war office, together with
forty floating batteries, with ten guns
each. all ready Tor the spring attack
upon Cronstadt.
A camp Of ten thousand men is to
be formed at Aldeshet for the spring
campaign in the Baltic region.
| Russia has 900, 600 men facing The
Austrian frontier, while Austria has
embattle,l along her frontier, from Cra.
cow to the Danube 100000 men, aud
q. 900 more in the principaities. Both
sides show great activity.
The latest news with regard to Prus-
STA is. that ON the 18th ult. the Gar re-
fused an entrance to the Prussian am
bassador at st. Petersburg.
The only news from the army in
Asia is. that Gen. Nicholas is reported
to have gained victory over Shamyl
near Fresnata on the frontier Of Cir
cassia.