Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-11-16
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CoMMERc1AL IsfELLIeEEcE.-AIllI
rsn,s circular quotes Western Canal
Flour at 42s, and Ohio at 44s; yellow
and white Corn ASS, and white Wheat
I2s Sd.
Richardson, Spence & Co.. report
Flour and Wheat considerably higher
and prices firm, with large business
doing until Friday, when, with small
speculative demand, prices declined
shade. vet closed on the whole at an ad-
vance of 9s on Flour and 6d@9d on
Wheat. Corn has advanced 2@4s.-
Western Canal Flour 4O@41s; Phila-
delphia and Straight Baltimore 414@
ass, and good Ohio 44@45s. White
Wheat 114@194s, and Red 10t@14s;
white and yellow Indian Corn 43@45s,
and mixed 44s.
GENERAL INTELLIGEEcE.-Sevestopol
was being bombarded, but had not been
taken.
Austria and Russia are on the point
of actual war.
Mr.. Soule has been prohibited enter
ing France.
The London Times says: 1--WE are
informed that Mr.. Soule, the American
Minister to Madrid, was on Tuesday,
the 24th, refused permission to pass
through France on his return from Eng
land to Spain"
The Post announces semi officially
the acquisition of Samana, and says
''It amounts virtually, if not absolutely,
to the annexation of st. Domingo.
The acquisition by the United States of
so important position, threatening on
either hand the Spanish Islands of Cuba
and Porto Rico, and SO directly affect
ing the British West Indian possessions,
cannot be viewed with Indifference.
A dispatch from Sevastopol to st.
Petersburg, dated the 9lst, says the
operations of the besiegers continued
Their FIRE was effectively answered, and
the Notifications had been but slightly
damaged.
PARIS. Friday Night.-There is no
confirmation of the entry of the Rus
SLAMS into the Dobrudscha, and it is
therefore doubted. Sir John Burgoyne,
on the 18th, fixed the sites for the bat
teries, which will destroy the Russian
shipping. A Russian war steamer had
been captured by the feet. The Moni-
teur of this morning contains an account
of q victory over the Russians near
Gumni. They lost their baggage and
30guns. A Russian General was killed.
The Turks began to besiege the citadel
of Gumni, when the Russian corps
which formerly defeated the Turks at
Bajazid, advanced to the rescue from
Erivan. 1t was repulsed and shut up
in de6le. and suffered considerable
loss.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday noon.--The
latest advices show that 90 days
elapsed between the departure of the
besieging armies from Balaklava and
the opening of their fires upon Sevasto-
pol. The batteries were ready on the
18th, and on the 18th the FIRE opened
from land and sea. The Russians lost
300 killed and wounded. Admiral
Kormleff was killed. The Notifications
suffered but little. On the 18th the
bombardment was resumed. Russian
dispatches say the garrison made fire.
quent sorties. When the mail left Con-
stantinople on the 10th, five steamers
had arrived at Balaklava with those
wounded in repelling a great sortie of
10000 men.
Raglan and Canrobert had formally
summoned Sevastopol to surrender, and
required that the women, children and
sick be sent away, and flags hoisted
upon the hospitals.
The Russian army is concentrating
on the Upper Belbeck, and already
numbers $4,000. The allied army is
divided now into seige army, and an
army Of observation. The latter is
posted on the extensive table land which
separates Balaklava from Sevastopol,
which is accessible only from two points.
The Russians are lowering on the out
side of the Allies positions, and on the
7th made a strong demonstration on the
northwestern extremities of the camp,
but were kept in check and retired with
out giving Dattle.
On the I'd, 5th and 18th, the garrison
of Sevastopol made sorties and de-
stroyed some small works. On the eve
ming of the 9th convoy of 1000 Rus
slams succeeded in entering Sevastopol.
The allies number 11O, 900, and 8O,-
900 additional French were ready to
embark from Marseilles on the 21st, and
5000 Turks from Varna.
Letters say that the allies have 5000
guns in battery.
After few days fire, the Allies viii
attempt to storm the garrison, which is
estimated at 10000 men.
Admiral Menchikoff, who commanded
at Sinepe, and is commandant of Sevas-
topol, has published an address, saying
that he will defend it to the last. Any
one is welcome to shoot him if he don't.
Advices from Constantinople of the
18th say the Russians had re-taken
Upatoria. The English garrison of
500 retired. with a loss of one gun; but
it is denied by the English papers.
An allied force had been sent under
General Bosquet and Achmet Pasha, to
prevent the advance of the Russians.