The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-06-27
dolar Neus.
BY the St Louis.
THE WAR.

THE WAR.
From a dispatch which had been re-
ccived at the Admiralty from Sir E.
Lyons at Kertch, dated May 81, it APP
pears that the squadron in the Sea OF
Azof had appeared before Genitchi,
landed . body of seamen aud marines,
and after driving tha Russian force from
the place had destroyed all the depots
and vessels laden with corn and supplies
for the Russian army. Only one man
was wounded. Since entering the Sea
of Azof 4 steamers-of-war and 240 YES
sells employed in conveying supplies to
the Russian army in the Crimea have
been destroyed.
The MonitehT of the 4th inst. pub
fishes the following dispatch from Gen.
Pelissier to the Minister of War:
CRIMEA, Friday, June /, 1855.
We have sprung two miEes in front
of the Flagstaff bastion; the second ex-
plosion did considerable damage to the
enemy. In the ravine of Careering Bay
in advance of our works, our engineers
discovered a transverse line of 20 cubic
cases filled with gunpoWder, each 40
ceutimetres thick on the inside, placed
at equal distances and buried just be-
meath the sod, each case containing one
fftieth of a kilogramme of powder, is
covered with a Illuminating apparatus
which would explode by the simple pres
sure of the foot. These cases have been
taken up by our engineers.
A dispatch f ON Prince Gorchakoff
dated the 29th ult., states that the AL
lies have occupied Kertch, but have not
.-al41 5000 ~. $1,000 khof IN
consequence of the measures which he
has taken the Allies will not be able to
cut off the communications of the Rus
sian army.
Letters from Berlin of the LIST inst.
state that the successes of the Allies in
the Sea of Azoff have made a deep i'm
preston there. 1t is observed that the
large proportion of cavalry in the Rus
sian Army will cause the stoppage of
of supplies from the countries of the
Don to be felt with peculiar pressure by
the enemy. On the 23d ult., there
100 CAGES of cholera at st. Petersburg.
News from Kerteh to the Sd inst.
state that everything was going on sat
isfactorily. Souyuk Kah was evacua-
ted by the Russians on the 2Sth of May.
They burned the principal buildings,
and abandoned sixty guns and six NOR
tars, having first rendered them unser-
viceable.
TIE following dispatch was from vi
emma, dated Ga,atch, juno l:
"There was a great fire last night in
the artillery and cavalry stable close to
the ammunition depot. The Austrian
garrison succeeded in extinguishing the
fire, but los horses were burned. The
cholera is said to have appeared in the
Austrian army at Galicia."
A letter received from the French
camp before Sebastopol, and dated May
%, states that the Allies were on the
eve of great events-eVerything was
prepared. The last arrangements had
been made in a council of war
at which Gems. C~anrobert, Pilissier,
Bosquet, Lord Raglan, Omer Pasta,
Brown, Bella Marmoa, aud Admirals
Bruat and Lyons were present. All
the re. endorsements had come up, max
ing the army amount to 200 900 men.
A telegraph from Cayliari announces
the death of The Bey ofTunis on night
of the LIST June. His successor and
cousin Lisli Mohammed Bey, assembled
the throne without obstacle.