American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-06-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.
Sangainary Fighting Before Sevast6pOI.
HIGHT THOUSAND MEN KILLED on WOUNDED.

EIGHT THOUSAND MEN KILLED Or WOUNDED.
New YoaK, June I3.-The steamer Al.
lantic, with adyices from London and Lv-
erpool to the Cd inst, arrived at this port
this morning.
COMMERCIAL ALISTELLIoEscE.-The Bread
stuffs market at Liverpool was dull, but
provisions were better. Cotton continued
in active speculative demand, the sales
during the week reaching i59 900 bales. of
which speculators took 81 500 bales. The
market is reported steady. The stock in
port was 529, 900 bales, of which S32, 900
bales were American.
The money market was easy. Consols
had advanced to 90 8a934. Iron was
slightly higher. Scotch Pig is quoted al
lbs Cd.
American stocks were in active demand,
and prices We're better.
GENERAL IHTELLIGEHcE.-The news
from the seat OF war by this steamer is
highly important. The allies had captur-
ed Kertzch on the sea of Azof, and also
have taken the Russian camp at Tchernaya,
besides having obtained various successes
before Sevastopol. The news generally is
of more importance than any received
since the battle of Alma.
The Allies have been successful in three
engagements.
The conflicts on the nights Of the 22d
and 23d, between the French and Russians,
briefly reported by the last steamer, turns
out to have been of the most sanguinary
description. The conflict lasted the whole
of each night, and the loss in killed and
wounded, on both sides, is set down at
eight thousand men. The French took
and maintained an important position of the
defence, as was before stated, and retained
it.
The Allies made rapid advance, and
seized and retained the Russian lines on
the Tchernaya without much loss, the Rus
slams having retreated to the hills upon the
approach of the allied forces. The secret
expedition of the allies went to the Sea oi
Azof and obtained easy possession oI
Kertzch. and consequently the full COM
mand of the Sea of Azof, in which are now
fourteen of the allied steamers. The Rus
SLAMS retreatcd on the approach of the al
lies, having first blown up the forts, burned
four steamers, thirty transports, and half a
million sacks of breadstuifs.
France and England have declined to re-
new the Conference at Vienna.
The latest advices say the French have
established camp at Tchernaya.
1t is said Belgium will furnish coniin
gent Of 10000 men.
Strong hopes of peace prevailed in Eng
land. The details of the engagement OF
the night of the 22l and 23d Of May, be
tween the French and Russians are fright
full in the extreme. Nearly the Who'll,
Russian garrison was engaged, and the
conflict was chiefly ''hand to hand fight
the bayonet being the chief arms used ,anC
nearly two-thirds of the killed were bayo
neted.
General Pelisser says the Russian los,
was enormous, and Of his own troops quite
heavy, though nothing in proportion to th'
! Russians.
Gortschikoff' account of the affair is a
follows:
yesterday evening seventeen battalion
of the enemy, with reserves, attacked tn
front of our counter-approach, which hat
been commenced the day before in front o
bastioas five and six. The combat wa
sanguinary, and lasted during the who'll
nigh:, and our loss in killed and WOUNDED
is nearly two thousand five hundred"
Gen. Pelissier, telegraphs, under date .
May 25, "To-day we have occupied til,
enemy's line on the Tchernaya. The en-
emy not being in force, offered but it'll
resistance, and retreated rpidly into tn
hills. We have established ourselves il
the work, taken on the night Of the 23l.
A ma rmistce was agreed upon for t.
bury the dead, which enabled US to form
an estimate of the enemy's loss, which
am satisfied cannot be less than five thou
sand, including the wounded. The enem.
has not made any demonstration agans
the lines on the Tchernaya. The work
on the Notifications Kameisch are progres
J, sing. The sanitary condition of the arm
continues good.
1t was rumored at Paris on Friday tha
Pelissier had attacked and routed Liprand'
! force, and that Gen. Canrobert had bee
r wounded, and another General killed, bu
this report was doubted.
CAMP BEFORE SEvAsToPoL, May 97,-
We are masters of the sea of Azof, with
: out casualty. The troops landed at Kertzc
= on the Gath, her Majesty's birthday, an
: the enemy fed, blowing up the fortifcf
tions on both sides Of the straits, and de
stroyiEg their steamers. Some vesse
and about fifty guns have fallen into OF
, hands.
: In dispatch of the following day, i
thus gives an account of the landing
Kertzch in more detailed manner:
! "Gen. Sir George Brown reached En-
|, kaleb straits, having the previous day d.
= stroyed the foundry near Kertzch, whel
= shot and shell and Minnie balls were mai
: ufactured.
= Letters from Brown and Admiral Lyol
i say the enemy had destroyed four steame
: and large quantity of grain. The slool
the Allies succeeded in blowing up Il
: magazine and destroying about one hui
u ! dred merchant vessels. Only one Russia
:, = steamship remained on the Azof."
The occupation of Galatz and an attac
!, upon IsmaiI and SEM, was confident
spoken of.
The garrison Of Sevastopol and most
its supplies from Kertzch-the capture.
> the place must therefore be looked upon
of great importance.
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