Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-05-31
Foreign News.

The steamer America arrived at New
York on the Gath, with the following
news. .
THR WAR.-The details of the bonn
bardment of Odessa have at last been re-
ceiyed. The affair was very destructive
but the result was decisive. The attack.
ing force consisted of 8 steamers and n
detachment or rocket boats. The Rus
sian batteries fought with great bravery,
the battle last 12 hours. During the action
red-hot shot from the steamer Terrible
blew up the Russian magazine on the I'm
perial mole and silenced q formidable bat.
terry.
The Russian frigates in the harbour
were burned to the waters edge. 12
smaller vessels and ships of war in course
Of being built, were destroyed. The
rockets set part of the lower city on
Gre, which burnt for two days. Three OF
the attacking steamers were disabled
The British loss was twenty killed and
wounded. The Russians had 90 killed
and 60 wounded.
The Russian account states that on
March 9th the British steamer Furious
approached Odessa, when two guns with
out balls were fired, and the Furions or
dered to stop. The Furious sent boat
ashore with flag of truce, which was re-
spected. The boat landed, when she
was sent back to the Furious with the
information that the British consul had
2 left.
The Furious again approached as if to
survey, when the batteries fired shots on
her and not on the truce boat. On the
the ed of April three allied steamers came
TO Odessa to demand satisfaction. The
Russian commander expressed his surprise
in writing that the allies imagined the
Russian shots were fred at the flag OF
truce, explained the facts and refused to
deliver up the shipping in the harbour as
demanded. Hence the attack.
Negotiations for an offensive and dcfen-
sive alliance between Sweden and the al
lied powers were reported to be progress
ing to satisfactory conclusion.
1t was reported in Paris that Spain and
Portugal and Piedmont were willing 10
Join the allies and furnish contingent.
Hanover has declared against letters Of
marque. The Moniteur announces that
Austria is about to do likewise.
The Arab Chief Jessuf. with 1000 fol-
Fourteen Russian merchantmen had
been captured in the Black Sea.
Admiral Dundas had proposed change
Of prisoners.
A new French loan of 10000, 900
francs was talked of.
1t was reported that the English frie ate
Amphion was ashore near Revel, and it
was supposed that the crew had been made
prisoners.
SICK AND WOUNDED RUss1ANs-A let
ter from the theatre of war, published in
the Vienna Lloyd. says that demand
from Cherson has arrived from Bucharest,
requiring medicines, &C.. to be sent for
5000 patients. who are distributed among
the hospitals there.
In consequence OF the wounds received
in the various combats near Silistra, there
had arrived in Bucharest, up to the gath
of April, two colonies, four majors, 43O
privates and non-commissioned officers,
and about 80 officers, all of whom were
placed i'll the already over crowded hos.
pitfalls of that city. A military transport,
5000 strong, will shortly leave Bucharest
where it has been collecting from the va
rious stations. In addition to the men re-
quired for the convoy. it consists only of
crippled and manned soldiers, most of
whom have lost hand or Il leg. Two
similar transports, each / 900 strong, had
already gone from there back to Russia
How PRISONERS OF WAR ARE TO BE
TREATED.-A letter from St. Petersburg
of the 10th ult., shows how the Russians
are reckoning their chickens before they
are hatched."
'' am now looking at a regulation.
drawn up and relating 10 the treatment of
prisoners of war. 1t will be published in
few days. 1t comprises Al paragraphs,
and concerns those who may be taken
with arms in their hands on the field Of
battle or on board ship, and who may be-
long to this or that nation. Thus, the
Hungarians, when made prisoners, are
to be sent to Siberia, or else given up to
Austria !; the Turks will be treated as
prisoners of war generally are but
strangers and Christians serving in the
Turkish ranks, as also renegades, will be
treated as common felons.
Medical men are in the same catego-
ry as the Turks--that is simple prisoners
of war, and so are all that are not virtu.
ally combatants. The Poles, like the
Hungarians, and all the prisoners, indeed,
should they be refractory. are to be trans
ported in chains. The Turkish officers,
if Musselmcn. are to be consigned to Tu-
Ia, in the interior, the soldiers to Orol,
the Christians to Karsk, the strangers
Except the Poles and IEungarians) to
KalOga and Riazand. Russian Poles are
to be confined in the dungeons of the for
tress Of Knew, aud tried by courts marti-
al"
GREECE.-We find the following in the
London News Of 10. 1t may be true:
When Grivas was reduced 10 extre-
mites he found he must cut his ways
through the Turks. But he had 100