The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-07-22
FOREIGN.
New York. ] July 8.

The T.. 8. mail steamer Baltic arrived
at .his port at l. o'clock this morning.
She left Liverpool at / o'clock On
Wednesday, June %, and made the ran
in nine DAYS, nineteen hours and nifty
three minutes by steam alone.
The continental news is very scan'y'
There is no fresh intelligence from tha'
east, Of importance.
On the ed, Maicissa and kostra,
mother of the former minister OF that
name, was arrested at Madrid.
The following is paragraph dated a.
St. Pe,ersburgh, June l7sh. ana contain
ed IN the Moniteur OF yesterday
"Tbe damage by the blockade OF the
coas, of the Baltic and Black seas, may
be estimated nearly according to the or
dinary rates OF exports and imports"-
Thus. in lS.5a, three hundred treighted
vessels entered the ports OF the Baltic,
and about the same number lett these
ports. Two thousand six hundred ves-
sells entered the Back sea.
The express in anticipation oil the O.
verland mail has arrived.
The Russian Squadron Is supposed to
bav, taken refuge on the coast Of hams-
! .a,ka One Of its vessels was seen
about thirty days since at osr'z' where
she had pul in for Intelligence.
After deduc,ng the vessels ordered
home. our naval force in those seas on
sisted Of fifteen vessels OF the roya1 ma
w, mounting 24i guns, and "a steamers
Of the Indian Navy, mounting Ia guns
of the very largest cahbre, and OF navy
metal Twelve sail vessels ot the same
service mounting one hundred guns,
making a total ol 5l vessels ana 400
guns. exclusive of the French squadron.
I, il not the Russian squadron tina, Is
feared bv our mercantile marines, but pi-
rates sailing under Russian colors.
4 pr,vs,e letter from Constantnopie,
dated June lith, contains important news
: from Silistria, oi which the following Is
) brief summary: ~
t Al,er the attack on the Doth Of May,
E which was described as sangulnary, the
e Russians retired to prepare tor fresh
!, assault. =,
q On the 3lst, they advanced with re-
n newed force and commenced the assaul
II in the same order as before. Alter
i prolonged and bloody struggle, the Rus
;, SANS were repulsed and on the same
u evening, under flag OF truce, demand
= cd permission to take oil their dead, whc
were not less than 2Ooo.
= q, the % the general assault tool
Mace. and the whole Russian tiotilia bonn
barded the town, but, thanks TO the trui
- heroic ;nterpiditv of the Turks, and tn
as axcellent management OF the General
ne Chief, the Russians were again victe
rioaslv beaten off. The victory howes
g" or cost the Turks dear, as they LOST the
, pallant chief, Qussa Pasha, who wa
Struck in the side by the fragment OF
b.. Grenade. On the same night, .nlf
e which had been carried by the first ru
~ kish battery, was destroyed 10y eoante
mine, and four hundred Russians, =
ion foremost oE who attacked the mole, we
sh- blown into the ar.
Hinder cover Of this explosion, and
has confusion that followed, the ottoman .
of lied. The enemy were routed In all
rections, and the entrencnmen's taken.
The total loss OF the Russians III t.
nus ssanlts - from five thousand 10 SIX ~
=, sand Elll1j. Nniit lEtS aA aS 'o's sistA@
49, proportion.
'w- pes,m Pascha, who had left Shuf
for that purpose, approached oAis
)ut, with divisions of twenty thousand me-
in Letters received at Constantlaople 4
Shumla dated June ith, announce tr
girl attacks against Slistria on the 3ls'
Nav and "a Of June, in which the IL
81 " obtained the most brilliant success.
Liverpool, June q
.1, We had heavy gale OF wind
.Ln -, night, from the southwest to the ives
'''''' This morning, the weather has quits
-. anseuIea appearance.
1Ae Our market IS moderately after
this morning, principally BY those
per- town, who purchased whea. in s.
4. quantities only, Of the best descrlpllo
,;e cannot quote a decline IN pfle
=, 'hai On Friday, middling parcels
'o''- much neglected.