Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-02-20
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The Sd, and Queenstown on the 4th, with
advices touF days laler. The news is high.
ly important.
An engagement, lasting ak hours, had
taken place between the Danes and Ger
mans at Missunde. The Danish outposts
we're driven in by the Germans, but the
danes 'ePulsed their assaults on the place.
~ Is confirmed that the ship Maftabun,
destroyed by the Alabama, was formerly
inc American sarque Texan State.
me Russians lost 100 men in their at.
tack on Missunde. They used "a FOUNDER
guns.
Cotton is easier; all qualities are slightly
lower, closing steadiel. The sales on
Monday and Tuesday were 10000 bales
Breadstutfs were frmer and u tribe
higher. Flour was from 6dals higher.
wheat was tending upward, and aA4d
Provisions steady.
ConsOls 40A9O5.
Beef steady. Pork steady. Bacon firm.
Lard firm at 43ss43s Cd.
steady. D''
Petroleum dullat 10 lOd for refined. .
There has been no renewal OF the attack
on Mlssunda by the Germans. The Danish
ioss was from $50 to 800. The Prussiun
loss was from $50 to 300, and some &C.
counts cay was much greater.
The Austrisns attacked Bistore, one mile
east Of Schleswig, on the Sd inst. The
Danes held their own.
An attack on the whole Danish lines
from Mlssuude to Angel, is expected to
take place to-day.
1t is asserted that England has offered
20 guarantee all that Austria and Prussia
have demanded of Denmark.
The Alabama was on the watch for ves-
sells, fifty miles south of Rangoou, on the
9Th of January.
o,&6es Tines hes es. the following telegram
mile south Of schleswig;." Nfff hgn 9s aEPR!is6
their ground. There was sharp fighting
till dark.
The King of Denmark walked towards
the outpOsls. No casualties are known.
The Danes lost one field piece.
LATER.
The firing continues. Another attack is
expected tomorrow. The wounded are
being brought in.
The Times seems inclined to cast upon
Parliament the task of deciding the policy
of the Cabinet. 1t says tbs future course
of British policy rests with the House Of
Commons. All that a neutral State may
do will no doubt be sanctioned by Parlis-
ment and public opinion.
The Times says the question whether
the state Of war, on the part OF Austria
and Prussia against Denmark, now def.
uitely existing, is such as to imperil the
ships of those nations at present in the
ports of this country, if they should put to
sea and meet with Danish cruisers, has
been = subject of anxious discussion.
The Times reiterates its arguments
against several claims against England for
the Alabama's deprRdations. 1t questions
whether Seward is in earnest, but refuses
TO suspect him of design to seek a quar-
rel.
There is great anxiety 10 England for a
meeting OF Parliament to learn the policy
of the Government on the Danish ques-
ton.
The Morning Herald asserts that the
government will do nothing for Denmark
The Peace Society had memoriAlized
Lord Russell against Intervention.
An embargo would be placed on the
German shipping at Copenhagen on the
Sd inst.
Itis stated that the Portuguese govern.
ment had sent steam frigate from Lis.
bon, at the urgent demand of the Ameri-
eau HlnISteFt 10 Walch the FeOel PrlVateeFs
at the Azores.
Marshal Wraugle, on the slst of Jan
uary. summoned the Danes to eyacuate
Schleswig forthwith. Gen. Demeza refu-
sed, whereupon the Prussiaus passed the
frontier, and shots were exchanged with
out effect. The Danes retreated, blowing
up the Scrg Bridge.
The Prussians on the Sd inst. advanced
to GOtlorfe aud Eckiuturde, from which
the Danish ships, after exchanging shots
with the PFussians, sailed away.
The entire Austro Prussihn cavalry en-
tered Schleswig on the LIST, and large mass
es of troops were moving noithward.
The London Evening Herald has the fol-
lowing special telegram:
RsHdsGllEg, Feb. 8, lO:30A. M.-Yester-
day the Germans were repulsed four limes
and. finally retrested.
The Paris Pays announces that. Austria
is making a movement on the Minclo.
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