Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-06-29
The Turks had retired from Lesser

The Turks had retired from Lesser
Wallachia, and were concentrating at Kala-
fat
The first de,achmen. Of troops for Cuba
had left Cadz on the Is, instant.
The London Gazette officially announces
the blockade Of the Danube.
The seige of Silstria was continued on
The 7th, without any importsn, result-the
Turks still holding on. msnfuIly and with
great bravery.
The concentration Of the Russian corps
at Moldavia was confined
A portion Of the combined feet was on
the Crcassian coast.
[By Submarine Telegraph from Treste.]
Hong Kong, .April 22.-Accounts from
Pekin state that the place mus. full in a
fortnight. The Emperor had been in great
danger, having escaped only jus, in lime, at
tended by 1000 cavalry.
The affair 3, Shanghe is explained. The
European residents having been insuted
and pillaged by the Imperial besieging force
formed themselves into a body Of 300 vol
unleers made sortie with four guns, and
enabled the insurgents to Capture the enc
my's artillery and camp, with an immense
booty.
The English and French squadrons on
the station were preparing TO attack the
Russian fleet.
The instruction egains, the authorities
at Manila had been with difficulty suppress
sed.
THE SIEGE OF SILIsTRIA-The cores
den. of the London Times, writing from
Silistria under date Of May IL, says:
had just time, a, the conclusion Of my
last letter, Of the lllh inst, to inform you
of the commencement of the Russian can
nonade sgains, this place, which commenced
about z. NJ, and was Immediately an
swered by the Turkish batteries. 1t was
kept up sharply on both sides ill after q,
when the enemy began to slacken their
fire, and by 8 O'Clock j. had ceased entirely,
the Turks having the last shot.
AT the commencement Of the firing num-
bers of the enemy's shells fell and burs, a.
mong the streets end houses of The town, and
the whole place was soon scene of painful
northumberland woman and children
rushing wildly about seeking for shelter
the terrified Inhabitants collecting their
goods end hurrying to the subterranean
rooms which they had constructed in an'ici-
patton of this event; and by the time my
friend and were on our way down TO the
battery on the Schenegsl bas,ion, we found
the whole of the streets silent and deserted.
On reaching the battery We found Mussa Pa
hs, the commandanl of the garrison, Hussain
Pashs, of Tur,uks; celebrity, and Col. Grach,
the Prussian instructor OF artillery; and while
there We were particularly struck with the
admirable manner in which the Turkish ar
ullervmen worked their guns. Their NOR
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bursting in or INN edia,ely over the Russian
The practice of the enemy was very
slovenly, and on the whole Indifferent, as
our list of casualties only shows one chss-
seur and horse killed, a peasant and child
in the town wounded, and trading shall Jp
on The bank Of The river destroyed. As an
instance of the carelessness Of the Russian
artillery, we found an s inch shell fred by
Them with the fuze uncapped, and ! was
told this was BY no means rare occurrence.
Considerable damage, however, has been
done to The buildings Of The town.
News has just come in tina! large
body of Russians are within twelve miles
of the place, and they have succeeded in
driving in our cavalry outpost at Yenikoi,
with loss on our side Of forty men killed
and wounded. Tomorrow we msy expect
to see them here.
As to the relief of sils.ria, it appears as
stated in our leIegraphic dispacb, tina. TO-
900 men, French, English and Ottoman, have
been detached for ,ha, service.
The lates. accounts, TO June 7.b, Of the
operations before SiIistria, are decidedly
favorable to The Turks. Full particulars
of the several engagements which took
place during the las! days of May have no!
yet been received, but there appears 10 be
no doubt iha, on May 9Th, the Russians
made another fierce attempt to carry the
place by storm, in which they were repul-
sed with great loss, and that on the 3O!h,
The Turks were able 10 assume the offensive
agans. the besieging army. ]. was stated
10 London ,ha! the English government had
received information from Admiral Dundss
hat the garrison had succeeded in coun-
ermining the Russian engineers to such an
sxlen, .ha. 5000 or 10000 Of the besiegers
had been blown up.
This last statement wants confirmation.
AT all events Slls,ria has been defended
with great skill and bravery and as yet
With success.
THE "KNow NoTHING" FEVER, says
The CaIoc,in (Md.) Whig, prevails to q
great extent in this community, and it is
now reduced almost to a certainty tina. an