Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-20
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPoRTKp FOR TIE
DAILY EVENING STAR,
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of Steamship St Louis

Af11Val OF Steamenp St Louis.
New YORK, June 20-The steamer ST.
Louis, from Southampton, with English dates
Of the 9th inst, arrived here ct eleven clock
last night. Her news is highly important
The Asia arrived out at Liverpool on the I'd
inst, and the Hermann reached Cowes en-
roats for Bremen on the following day.
THE WAR.
Scarcely had the Atlantic, with the news Of
the great successes Of the Allies, left Liver.
pool, than further intelligence, in reference to
their position in the sea Of Azof, reached Eng
land. From dispatch, which had been re
ceived at the Admiralty from Sir E. Lyon,
dated Kertsch, May 81, it appears that the
squadron in the sea Of Azof had appeared be.
fore Gevitchi, landed a body Of seamen and
marines, and after driving the Russians from
the place, destroyed the depots and vessels
laden with corn and supplies for the Russian
army. Only one man was woun led.
Since entering the Sea of A.of four war
Steamers and 24O vessels, employed in convey
ing supplies to the Russian army in the
Crimsa, have been destroyed.
The Paris Moniteur, of the 4th, furnishes the
following dispatch from Gen. Pslissier to the
Minister of War:
"CRINEA, June 1st.-We have sprung two
mines in front Of the Flagstaff Bastion The
second explosion did considerable damage to
the enemy.
"In ravins of Carssning bay, in advance
n nnH rHu
traverse line of "a cubic cases filed with gun
powder, each containing 40 centimstres thick,
placed at squel distances apart, and buried
just beneath the sod Each case contained
one fftieth Of a killogrsmms of powder, and
was covered with Eliminating apparatus
which would explode by the simple pressure
OF the foot. Those cases have been taken up
by our engineers"
CONFERENCE FORMALLY CLOSED.
The Vienna Conference was formally closed
at the sitting held on tho 4th int
The London Morning Herald, in a Telegraph.
ic dispatch, dated June I'd, states that the
allies had taken the town of Slranychi, at
The mouth Of the Putrid Sea, and burnt a
months rations Of the whole Russian army.
and destroy ed the shipping; but there is but
little doubt that this account Is q French YER
sion Of the affair at Geritchie.
dispatch from Prince Gortsch akoff. dated
18th of May, states that the allies had occu.
pied Ksrtch, but had not pushed into the in.
terror, in consequence Of the measures he b ad
taken to prevent them. The allies had moi
been able to cut off the communicst of the
Russian army.
The Gazette of Frankfort publishes q dis.
patch from Odessa to the effect that the Rus
slams were raising batteries to command the
channel neer Geritchi, which connects the Pu.
trid Lake with the Sea of Acct Another
dispatch says, Gen. Onchakoff had arrived at
Pereko's with his division Of four regiments
of infantry, each numbering 5000 strong.
Gen. GrOsenheilrH had also arrived at Pere-
kop with his division of four infantry regi.
ments each numbering $50 strong. These
figures give Gort,hskof a reinforcement Of
$4,000 mem number which more exact il
formation would probably reduce.
Letters from Berlin to the LIST inst. state
that the cuccess Of the allies il the sea of Azof
made deep impression there
1t is observed that the large proportion Of
cavalry in the Russian army will cause a
'tofpage Of supplies from the countries of the
Don to be felt with peculiar pressure by TIT
enemy.