Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-26
ADDITIONAL FoREIGN NEWS.

Gen. Simpson, in his last despatch dated
Sevastopol, Sept. 20, says, that $500 men
are employed daily in making road from
Balaklava to the camp.
BY an explosion of a kind of internal ma
chine, numbers of which were dug up in var
lous parts of the town aud batteries,a officer
and nineteen men were wounded.
A letter from Sevastopol, in the Frank fort
Gazette, states that the sunken Russian ships
can be raised without difficulty, as the Rus
slams. closed them in every port but one, and
then attached hose to the hulls, so that the
water could be pumped out when required
The letter recommends that divers should be
employed to seek for the hose to draw of the
the water, and enable the ships to rise.
A despatch from Prince Gortschakoff, dated
Oct. 9th, says that the enemy had advanced
from Eupatoria, and threatened Perekop, but
had retired on meeting the advanced post of
the Russian left flank. Sixteen battalions of
Russians were thrown into disorder.
RETIREMENT OF THE misunderstanding
to the Frankfort Post Zeltupg the body of the
Russian army hes been withdrawn from the
plateau on the north side of Sebassopol, to-
wards the heights of Balbec; only few
thousand men now garrison the northern
forts.
In the nelghborhood of Nicolaef, some 49,
belong to the newly raised military.
ANTICIPATED BoMBARDMRNT OF ODESSA =
The allied feet, which, according to the last
news, had sailed on an expedi ion from Sebas-
topol, anchored off Odessa on the 8th of 0c-
tober. Prince Gortschakotf reports ships-of-
the-line, q steamers, and other vessels. No
news of the bombardment had been received.
up to The latest dates, but it was expected i'm
mediately.
Odessa, since the destruction Of the corn
ports in the Sea of -Azof, has formedthe chief
if not the sole means OF support of the Rus
sian army in the Crimea.
The same journal states that the Russians
lost 1900 men Oh the 10th of August, and 1000
men per day up to Sept. 9th. Thus it would
appear that the losses of the Garrison for the
last three weeks Of the siege, amounted to
$4,000 men, irrespective of disease.
The misunderstanding to the Journal de
ConStaRtinople, the commander OF the Turkish
army on the Danube, has received instructions
to provide ratons for 10 or 80, 600 French
troops, who are to arrive at Silislria about the
end of October.
A telegrrphic despatch from Constantinople
states that the Anglo Turkish contingent has
also received orders to proceed to Schumla.
THE BALTIC. = Further accounts, though
meagre, Of the bombardment oil Riga. state
that the batteries at the north mouth of the
Duna suffered little, but the battery at Ballen
suffered considerably.
On the 25th of Sept, frigates anchored
at the mouth of the river Sulis, and boats
crew set fire to 10 vessels.
MEDIATION. In a circular addressed by the
Austrian Government to its representatives., it
is intmated that though Prussia is at liberty
to act as mediator between the belligerent
powers, the present is not favorable time for
such mediation; that in fact the Western Pow
ers must follow up the advantage gained, and
treat with Russia when the Russians have
been expelled from the Crin.ea. The mani
festo asserts that the most perfect understand
ing exists between Austria and France