The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-15
and Russia on the point of Hostilitiesl
H.Ipav Nov q

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ANNEXATION OF SUMANAl
HALIFAX, Nov. 9.
he steamship Americ,, with Liver
pool dates of the 2sth uIt,, has arrived
at this port.
CommercinI EnfsIiigsnce.
Milligan's circular quotes Western
Canal Flour at 42s, and Ohio at AS /;
yellow and whito Corn AIS, and white
Wheat lbs cd.
Richardson, Spence & Co. report
Flour and Wheat considerably Higher
and prices firm, with a large business
doing until Friday, when, with a small
speculative demand, prices declined a
shade, yet closed on the whole at an adj
vance of Is on Flour and Cd sd on
Wheat Corn has advanced 8 "a As.
Western Canal Flour; 40@4ls;. Phila-
delphia and Straight Baltimore 429@
ASS, and good Ohio 44@45s@White
Wheat i14@t24s; and Red 101OI14s;
white and yellow Indian Corn 43@45s
and mixed 44s. .aia aessu4
GARDENERS circular quotes Beef and
Il 4 QuGtluu&CQ, Wlba d uIO0CE 6bC u0-
mand. Bacon opened heavy, but inn
proved, and at the close ls@2s advance
was asked. Spectators report the mar
ket as having recededfrom the previous
advance. Sales were made at 54@545s,
although D nniston's circular says pricies
are higher. Sales of TaTlow at 67s.
Linseed Oil was unchanged and dull.
Coffee and Sugar were firm Tea was
weak and transactions small.
LONDON MONEY MARKEr.-The trans
actions in American securities were
small. q. S. stocks. are unchanged.
The rates of interest are lower. Con-
soils closed at 90 The bullion in the
Bank OF England had increased $780,
600
Bell quotes U. S. Skies, stocks Of
1862, at 19I@l92 lido do bonds 1868,
I07@l09 ; do do stocks 41S66-S, 1864 +;
Pennsylvania skies, bonds, 82@523 /;
Pennsylvania Central Railroad bonds
90a@92 Erie, first mortgage. 1910
1903; Northern Indiana Railroad II.
Money was easier, the rates of discount
being AZ Consels 944@945!
General InfeIlIgcnce.
Sebastopol 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: "We are
informed that Mr.. Soule, the American
minister to Madtrid, was on Tuesday,
tba OAfb -ae,aaJ 80,
through France on his return from
England to Spain"
The Pot announces semi-oficially the
acquisition of SANTANA, and says It
amounts virtually, if not absolutely, to
the annexation of st. Domingo. The
acquisition by the United States of so
Important, a position, threatening on
either hand the Spanish Islands of Cuba
aud Porto Tiso, and SO directly affecting
the British West Indian possessions,
cannot be viewed with indifference
The War. ssA5
A dispatch from Sebastopol to st
Petersburg, dated the 21st, says the
operations of the besiegers continued.
Their fire was effectively answered, an6
the Notifications hadebeen but slightly
damaged. s9
PMS, Friday Night.4There is no
confirmation of the entry of the Rus
slams into the Dobrndscha, and it is
therefore doubted. Sir John Burgoyne,
/ on the IA. fixed the sites for the batter
les, which will destroy the Russian ship
ping. A Russian war steamer had been
captured by the feet. The Moaitenf
Of this morning contains al account of
a victory over the Russian near Gumni.
They lost their baggage and 80 guns.
"A Russian General was killed: The
Turks began to besiege the citadel
of GuInni, when the Russian corps which
formerly defeated the Turks at Bajazid,
advanced to the rescue from Efivan.
It was repulsed and shut up in a defle,
and suffered considerable loss.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday noon. -The
latest adVices show that 26 days elapsed
between the departure of the besieging
armies from Balaklava and the opening
of their fire upon Sebastopol. The bat
teries were ready on the 18th, and on
the 18th the fire opened from land and
sea. The bombardment continued till
night. The Russians lost 800 killed
and wounded. Admiral Kormlef was
killed. The Notifications suffered but
little. On the 18th the bombardment
was rusu med. Russian dispatches say
the garrison made frequent sortfes-
When the mail left Constantinople IN
the 10th, five steamers had arrived at
Balaklava with those wounded in repel-
ling a great sortie of 10000 men.
Raglan and Canrobert had formally
summoned Sebastopol 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 As 1000: The allied army is
divided now into a siege army, aud an
army of observation. The latter is
posted on the extensive table land which
Separates Balaklaya from Sebastopol,
which is accessible only from W points.
The Russians are lowering on the out
side of the Allies positions, and on the
9TH made a strong demonstration on the
northwestern extremities of the camp,
but were kept in check and retired with
out giving battle. -
on the I'd, 9Th and Ilth, the garrison
of Sebastopol made sorties and destroyed
small works. On the evening of
the 9Th a convoy of 1000 Russians sue
ceeded in entering Sebastopol
The allies number 10000 and 10000
additional French were already to en-
bark from Marseilles ON the 2ist,5 and
5000 Turks from Varna.
Letters say that the allies have 5000
guns in battery. t1eo ~ 9sset4 Is
After a few days fire, the Alliesawill