Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-11-02
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her wharf without being autographed. She
brings Liverpool dates to the 18TH.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS, Oct. 17.-Richard-
son &, Co quote cotton steady, and in some
instances d light advance has been. Sales
for the last TIRES days-32 900 bales
The breadstuffs market was excited to-
day, and -four has advanced 3s Cd q IS vi
since Friday. Indian Corn firm, and some
NEGOTIATIONS at Is advance. Western Ca.
nal 36s "a So 3D. Ohio white wheat ! Is g
liz Cd outside. Quotations are at retail
supply Of breadstufis moderate. Provisions
unchanged Lard steady, 52s q 52s I'D.
Tallow firm at Is advance. Consols "a
@95.
No news from the seat Of war Dispatch
es such as they are, are conflicting, but It is
authentic that up to the Sth OF Oct. nothing
had been done.
The allies number 10000. They occupy
a strong position south of Sevastopol and
have all their siege apparatus landed.
n Menschikof yet held the field north OF
Sevastopol with 10000 men, and 10000
more expected BY Oct. 18th.
Latest accounts say tina, Gen, Cankobert
ordered the Russian out posts TO be driven
in on the 9th, and batteries to be erected
immediately. as
Ten thousand additional Preach are to
be supplied iro n France TO the scat o
war. ,sG.sE 800
A Vienna dispatch says secret treaty eX-
lists between the Gear and Prussia.
The Sebastopo dispatches are OF the most
conflicting character, some reporting an
other defeat and capture of the southern
heights. &c. But the most reliable indicate
that nothing remarkable had occurred up to
the 9th.
The garrison of Sebastopol numbers 30,-
600.
Samuel Philips, the Novelist, is dead
The commercial failures continue to ex-
cite public attention, aud had disastrous eli
tects.
From Copenhagen, October nth, it is
teleeraphed that thu House OF Representa-
lives had voted by majority of so to 90,
the appointment OF committee to draw up
articles of Impeachment against ,he MINIS
try for the PRONUNCIATION OF the July ordi-
nance.
PRusslA.-.At the recent great fire at
Mcneil the whole place would have been de-
stroved but for the exertions of American
and English sailors.
CHISA-M Martial law at Chaokofo, Pultawa
and QUEER. Letters mention that three at
tempts have been made by the nsurgcntssto
take Canton, had also failed
The Ilnperalists made but little progress
in the reeapture OF the city.
MaRsElLLEs, Oct. l6th.--Each ship of '
the allied fleet is to furnish company off,
marines and s guns, making a total Of 200
guns to assist in the siege of Sevastopol.
HAMBuRG.. Oct. l7.-Immediate steps are
to be taken for stopping the traffic with Rus
sia. through Prlssian ports. 1T /.
The cholera is rapidly aba,ing in Lon
don.
A court martial had been held on Captain
Mcclure and others and they were aequit-
ted
New York, Oct. 81.
In regard to the panic of oysters, DR..
Cotton publishes card in which he states
that he has tested all the principal kinds in
various ways and prenounces them aswhole-
some now as at any season.
A small keg of gunpowder, placed in a
small valise near the clerks desk in Fares
no tel exploded this evening, shaking the
and breaking windows, SC. II |
is supposed that it was the work Of some
hend, as a part of a fuse was found. No |
,ne was hurt. Some narrow escapes took
place.