The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-10-31
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.

ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.
Nav YoRK, Oct IS.
The u. s. mail steamship Washington arri-
we'd at New York at II o'clock last night from
Bremen, via Southampton, having left the lat
ter port on the l1th instant. Among her pas
sengers is Baron Geot, the new Russian Minis
ter.
Since the departure Of the Africa on the 7th
instant, Cotton lad been in moderate demand
at previous rates, and the sales during the three
days ending the 10th instant, comprised IT.
600 bales, of which spectators and exporters
took 1000 leaving $4,000 bales of all dcscrip
tions to the trade. The circular of Messrs.
Hollinshead. Tetley & Co., of the 10th lust,
says the sales on that day comprised $4,000
bales; the market closing dull.
Flour was unchanged. Corn had declined
Is per quarter, and holders were pressing sales.
The London money market was unchanged.
The official accounts Of the battle of Alma
show that the loss of the English was 5000,
and Of the French l400 men.
The allies had changed the plan of attack
upon Sebastapol, and the basis Of their opera
tions was at Balaklava. The bombardment
was commenced on the 4th inst -
The Russians had sunk ii of their ships at
the mouth of the harbor of Sebasapol.
Marshal ST. Arnaud, who had been for some
time indisposed, is dead, and the command of
the French troops has devoved upon General
Canrobert.
After the battle of Alma the Russians burnt
all the villages which they passed through in
their flight, and left six thousand of their woun-
ded behind.
A thousand Russians who were escorting
munitions of war had been captured, and Men
chikoff himself narrowly escaped similar fate;
rs it was, his carriage, in which were his prI.
vate papers, fell into the hands Of the allies
The allied forces had destroyed the aqneduct
that supplied Sebastapol with water. Eight
thousand of the allied cavalry had arrived in
the Crimea.
The inhabitants of Odessa were pledged to
burn the city.
An outbreak was feared at Warsaw, and the
Russian imperial Guard was marching to that
city by forced marches.
Memel, a fortified seaport town of East Prus-
sia had been nearly destroyed by fire, invor-
ing loss of sa,000,OO0 sterling.
Arrival of the Niagara.
HALIFAX. N. S. Oct 25.
The British mail steamship Niagara has ar
rived at this port from Liverpool, with dates to
the 18th instant.
The circular of Messrs. Brown and Shipley,
of the 18th inst, reports sales during the week
Of Cotton at $4,000 bales of which spectators
took 1000 and exporters 5000 bales, leaving
$1,000 bales of all descriptions to the trade
Fair Orleans was quoted at Id, MiddIing
Orleans lid, Fair Uplands Cd and Middling
Uplands at S I'd. The sales on Friday, the
18th inst, comprised 1000 bales, and the mar
ket closed quiet.
Flour was in good demand, and prices had
advanced Is. Cd. per barrel.
Sebastapol was invested on the South and
East, and the guns of the allies were playing
upon the walls Menchikof kept the field to
the North, and was daily expecting Ostensack
en- and Gonschakotf with reinforcements. =, p
In the battle of Alma twentysi six English
officers and ten sergeapts were killed, and ST.
venty-three officers and ninety-fve sergeants
wounded. Three hundred and six privates were
killed and fourteen hundred wounded.
The loss Of the Artic has created a profound
sensation in England
New ORLEANS. October 26.-Ctton was
firm to day, and 5000 bales changed hands, at
cents peri pound for Middug Flour was
worth $7.25 per bbl.
New YORK, October 26- Cotton declined
today an eighth of cent, and Middling Or.
leans was quoted a, 9 rs cents per ponnd.
Ohia Flour was worth from 1912 944 per
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AN AMERICAN VESSEL FIRED ISro.-'rhe
steamer Bay City, at Rio de Jaueiro in des-