Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-05-25
ANIMAL on THE ATLANTIC.


% brl. lower. Western Canal is quoted
at Sos 3D., and Ohio at SIS Sd. Rich
ardson, however, quotes Ohio at 38s
Sd. Corn had further declined 2s %
quarter, and Yellow is quoted at 38s,
and White at 39s.
McHenry says Bacon had further de-
clined 9s 4 cwt., and was still dropping
Pork dull and in but limited demand.
Beef brisk at full prices.
Rice is dull and dropping.
ConsolsIadvanced to 974@975.
Large arrivals of Flour had depressed
the market somewhat, but the demand
was good and Ohio was not to be had
under 38s Sd. Wheat was firm at the
last quotations. Lard was looking up,
but no advance had been established.
Tea was dull. Sugar was quiet.
At London money was tighter, and
the minimum rate of interest was per
cent.
Sugar was in good demand at previ-
= GUS rates. Tea very dull.
Scotch Pig Iron 89s 6d@83s.
The Paris Bourse closed firm.
GENERAL INTELLIGEScE.-The report
that Odessa was bombarded, which
reached us by the Canada, was correct.
On the Gath of April, the allied fleets
bombarded Odessa ten hours; part of
the city was laid in ruins, four gun for
tresses dismantled, and eight Russian
merchant vessels, and one Austrian,
burned in the hsrbor.
Three of the British bombarding
steamers were badly damaged, and an
attempt of the British to land eighteen
hundred men, failed.
The Russian fleet came out Of the
barbor of Sevastapol during the bonn
bardment, and threatened the allied
fleets, but without attempting an attack,
again returned into harbor.
The Russians have completely eva
cuated Lesser Wallachia; their right
wing now rests on the Aluta river, and
their headquarters at Bucharest. The
Turks have come out of Kalafat, and
and are occupying all the towns in the
track of the Russians.
The Russian forces are concentrating
at Silistra, and were to assault it on the
1st inst.
The allied troops who had arrived in
Turkey were still idle.
Nothing new from Asia,
Part of Napier's feet was blockading
the mouth Of the Cults of Finland and
Bothnia, and nineteen ships were at
Stockho1no o1 the 91st nit
France has ordered the Russian Con-
suls to leave the Empire.
The Preston strike is over.
The steamer Europa arrived out on
the Goth ult.
The bark Favorite, bound from Bre-
men to Baltimore, having on board one
hundred and eighty passengers, when
in the English Channel, came in collision
with the bark Hesper, bound from
Charleston to Antwere, and sunk in-t
mediately. All on board, except five
persons, were lost.
The Greek insurgents had been de-
feated in an engagement, with great
loss.
Russia has imposed a heavy war tax
on all classes.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
rati6cations of the treaty between Aus
tria and Prussia had been exchanged.
The Russians are reported as making
extensive preparations to attack Silistra.
On the 1st inst, terrible and sanguina-
ry engagement was expected.
LATER-IMPORTANT NEWS.
NEW York, May 19.
The steamer Europa, with adyices
from England, to Saturday, the 9Th inst,
has arrived.
GENERAL INTELLIeENcE.-The news
from the seat of war on the Black Sea,
by this steamer is of most exciting and
highly important character.
The allied feet had destroyed all the
batteries and military stores at Odessa.
Two magazines were blown up and
twelve Russian vessels of war sunk
Thirteen Russian merchantmen, laden
with ammunition, had also been cap
turred, and at the last accounts the allied
feet had sailed for Sayastopol.
The ice had broken up at Constradt
and the harbor was open at the end OF
April.
The American privateer "Grapeshot"
had been captured by French brig, off
Lands End. {
Omar Pasha succeeded in cutting off
the Russian army in the Dobrudcha,
when a terrible battle ensued.
The ship Black Hawk, bound from
Liverpool to New York, Nundered at I
sea. She had eight hundred passengers !
aboard, but they were all saved. One
hundred and twenty of them were
landed at Falmouth.
The allied fleet bombarded the Rus
sian port of Soulina, at the mouth of :
the Danube. on the 18th and 18th ult.
Omar Pasha, with 10000 men, gave
battle to Gen. Luders between Silistria
and Rossova, which lasted several hours.
During the previous night Omar had !
sent a division toward the sea, and du-
ring the hight of the battle this division
attacked the. Russians in the rear, caus-
inc great confusion and disorder The
Russians retreated with great loss, leav-
ing several guns and large amount of
military stores and chests on the field.