The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1861, Page 1

THE NEW Y afk —————— HERA LD. WHOLE NO. 8978. SDAY, APRIL 9, 1861.—TRIPLE SHEET. NN APPROACUING CIVIL WAR. he Departure of More Steam Trausperts with Troops. ‘ATE OF FEELING AT. THE SOUTH. ur Charleston, Savaneab, New Or- leans, Mentgomery, Richmond and Alexandria Correspondence, DPERATIONS IN THE GULF. Map of Pensacola and Fort Pickens. ngements of the Confederate States PORTANT PROCEEDINGS IN VIRGINIA. E SCHOONER FERED INTO AT CHARLESTON, The End Approaching at Fort Sumter. ure of Capt. Taibot from Washington with Despatehes for Major Anderson. LATHST, ke s HE VERY Mey Bes, ‘The revolution im the Souti is beginuing to assume @ decided attitude, and its proportions apparenuy struck terror into the midst of the present adminis- a. Tho arrival of Lieutenant Gilman at Washing. on, on Wednesday last, with di tches from Lieutenaat the commandant of Fort I'ickeus; the subse- quent closeting of that officer with the Secretary of War d General Scott; the Cabinet meeting that succeeded, & the immediate orders for the fitting out of an ex‘ra- ‘army and naval force, and the subsequent sail- ‘of part of the force from this port, would make it ' ‘that Lincoln and his Cabinet had decided on adopt- and carrying into effect extreme measures with re- to the Southern revolution, Again, the arrival of Capt, Talbot at Washington on the th, with despatches from Major Anderson, at ort and the hasty return of that oilicer, are veiled ‘a mystery that but afow days wil! suflice to dissolve. Our private despatches from Charleston of the 6th inst. that five thousand Southern men, in addition to ‘at present in the fortilicatwus, are ready to take es field within twenty-four hours. ‘Troops have beoa ordered 10 rendezvous at points re from Charleston, but withia supporting distance, to ‘ae movements of the euemy. They move at ow despatches fom Pensacola state that General rg, with ou army of nearly six thousand Confederate troops, ‘was ready for immediate action should any be made to reinfurce Fort l’ickens. The precise ition of things inside of Fort Pickens is not known, it is thought that its stock of provisions is nearly ex- and its garrison inadequate to meet the great army now besieging that work. In view of these ts, and the probability that Mr. Lincoln's warlike ements are intended to reinforce Yort Pickens or , we have prepared a full doscription of the de- of Pensacola, PENSACOLA. Pensacola is anancient town, haying been founded at lan carly period by the Spaniards. The houses are built Jin{the olden style, with low, narrow windows and pro- cting roo’s, which in some instances ran into a shelter the sidewalks. In speaking of Pensacola, the foile Advertiser, in a recent issuc, ei} sehistoric ground, and its listoric note is ial military, Centuries ago the warlike events ich it, with ila yicinage, was ascenc, gave ‘a place on the page of iory. Imite time it ‘know: many masters, and none surrendered it «xeopt ‘necessity, few without a struggic, and none gained Mt except b; the power of compulsiou. ' Ivis a * debate HA nd” (by its of common ‘could spend a warm season corr beeeres which fanned -—f quasi neutral ground, where they terre aan fishery. and enjoy the coel the waves of the bay of “Per "of “Pensacola, for atime, There Kee ig cemate Siy ist bh |, Spaniard wi shman and Indian. tod tndien ‘with Indian—and now again it is he fair bone of treaty right, ing of fame contention botween the rival races of rlo-Americans. In these wee og “ ras of interest 0 10, ome, the pilme sty bare tho eyes of the worlt to it as he’ Crimea. of ‘tho World, consider poeribiity, promising that if = tinget upon hy course of Tovernmenta, and not id on the humors of those concerned iu the proceedings of locale. The war detwoen those mighty Powers, Russia, France and ‘England, was fought ont on the narrow felt ‘of the Crimea, and now, before » blow is struck, it may of Wesidered thst, i & large measure, tho complexion of our differences with the United States may be decided the course pursued at this new Crimea, the classie ‘of Ochus,”’ aad before this Sevastopol of Pickens Af we get into dificulties, it may be through the agency this same troublesome tocality, iu its proving true to traditio ‘As a simmer residence, Pensacola is delightful; for ha pleasant, the drives good, the scenery romantic, aie excellent, and there isa fine breeze from the sea Jn the hottest day of summer. ‘The sunset «cones are as Deautiful s# avy in the Bay of Naples PENSACOLA WAY. ronsaco! ts twonty geven miles in length, and in Bioraenesr jan twelve pier in width, It ties imme- diately at the mouth of the Escambia river. Running long the front of the bay for fourteen leagnes, nearly ‘past and west, is a long line of sandy shore, narrow, bar- ren, and go tow that in afevere gale the mad waves dash over it, Pensacola bay has rare propertics 08 a barbor, and pannot bo excelled on the Gulf, If by «ny in thie country, ‘Tt is acceaeibie to frigates of large size, there being twen- ty-one fect of water on the bar; and when once inside, all the ships of our navy coukl rive in anfety. Thechan- ‘runs near the coast aarose the bar, which is short and easily passed, The harbor is completely landlocked, and roadstead capactous. "mesinmer position of Pensacoly bay makes it de pirable a6 9 naval station, a° exc cllont positions for dock- yards can be found inthe harbor. When the railroad from Montgomery, now in progress of completion, shall have been finished, the facilities for reaching it will be go much increased that it will present quite another ap- pearance. ‘Tho upper arm of Pensacola bay recetyes the ‘Yellowwater or Pea river, Middle river aud Kecambia river, eleven miles from the Gulf of Mexico. SANTA ROBA ISLAND. Rosa Island ia tho great barrier that forms the ‘or sea onclosure of Pensacola bay. The island ia Jongues in length, and,on an average, is not than one-fourth of a mile wide, although in sorno it cxcceds this considerably. At high thero sro many places where the waves | over the land. Upon the extreme western end and commanding the ontranes ae Port Pickens, ——————_—_—X£* 2 PRIVE TWO CENTS, THE SEBASTOPOL OF THE GULF OF MEXICO. The Probable Rendezvous of the Northern Naval Forces. PENSACOLA BAY. «= QUARANTINE STATIONS 3 st opousr O WAVY ANCHORAGE IE ts FT. MCKENS TSCUNS ‘VIEW OF CHANNEL i ani PENSACOLA HAR a, SE Or MAIN SHIP CHANNEL COURSEN, By w AND DEFENCES. ‘eo =o 7@ MORILE. recently ordered the removal of sixty heavy guns, to be taken from Fort McRea and distributed among the new ‘sand batteries. Fort McRea is ombrasured for twoticrs of guns under bombproof casemates, and has one tier en bartxtle. Its present armament consists of—Lower tier, 22 forty-two pounders; second tier, 12 elght inch columbiads, 18 thirty-two pounders; in barbette, 62 twenty-four pounders, 3 ten inch columbiads, and in | Firat New Orleans Zouaves.. A. time of war requires a garrison of six hundred and fifty | Second“ * Pickens it ig barren fora mile or thereabouts, and then commences alow growth of shrubbery, scraggy pines, live oak bushes and small trees of different varieties. It is too sandy for cultivation, and is of no manner of use, except to protect Pensacola from the sea, and to forma reliable roadstead. The island is separated from the ‘mainland one and a quarter miles; there are two channels for the passage of vessels, one on the side of the main- land, and the othcr on the jaland side. The outer shore bark bound for P the emoke of two steamers where they meet on their trips going and coming. we had right, and dot lying insiae, same moment. We were hardly made fast at the Navy Yard when tho two steamers and the British bark passou of Santa Rosa Island is sometimes dangerous to incom- | men. The work cost the federal government about ‘Third ” . be Lp od ~~ dj Sista ate a r a capital breakfast on board, having found « com- ing veeeels. The island, however, affords the facility of | $400,000, Its guns radiate at every point of the horizon, GUE ai ois ide i076 Kevdentaceas: penian ‘e:the pesmon Of G0. 0 ae ae ——. The full armament of the fort is not complete, but a sufficient number of guns are in battery to make a very good opposition to Fort Pickens, Below this fort is a Water battery, which mounts some cight or ten guns, The interior of Fort McRae is provided with the neces fary shot furnaces, officers’ aud soldiers’ quarters, maga- zines, &c. THE CHASE BATTERY—SAND FORT Ay This is a new sand battery erected by the Confederate troope, and is so situated as to rake the front of Fort FROM MISSISSIPPI. making regular siege approaches by an attacking force, ‘ Reigndier General Charles Clark, commanding State Troops. and yet this force could be excessively annoyed in the daytime by the shot and shell of a squadron playing upon them in flank from the Gulf or bay. FORT PICKENS. Fort Pickens, the great bone of contention in the Gulf section of the South, is the principal work of defence for Ponsacols harbor. It is built on a low, sandy spot on the westernmost end of Sonta Rosa Island, and a little over one mile distant from Fort McRea, which forms another about the Navy Yard, where the general appearance of things differed but little from what wo had noticed ona former visit some ten months ago, the first thing that strack the eye being the absence of the United States ma- rine uniform from the oficers aud sentinels on duty. The steamer Fulton, lying on the stocks where she bad been placed after being wrecked a your ago last fall, has been stripped of her planking to tho bends, and tho timbers of her upper works have been sot up and partially planked; most of the guns have been removed, and two have been planted in a battery behind a rampart of just ont- side th@ main wharf; but t ruimids of balls, the qnan+ Uty of which we amused onrecives with calculating, and + R. McGowan, sseee SC. Bollard.... J. R. Chalmers. &. G. B. Crockett. + AR. Bowdrie. . J. U, Poster. ¥¢ is Pi . K battery, + B, Moore found to amount to about sixty thousand, do not ecem ta sentinel to the bay. Fort Pickens is a first class bastioned | Pickens. The work has several columbiads in ’ : 9 " 4 ‘ 2 W. HL Kilpatrick. have bocn meddied with. There are now more than one work, built of stone for foundation purposes, with walls | Sud in cage of an attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens those : W.B. Wade...... thousand tons of these missiles here, besides whut there guns would deal out death at a fearful rate to those of brick and bitumen. Its walls are forty fect in height, Southern Ay 8. A. Lipecor may be at the different forts and batteries. 7 ‘ embragured for two | making the attempt. Port Gibeon Riflemen. : —— Mekeever ‘Among the passengers on board the Kate Dale was Cap- wc dhdemigaboapiarthomy malate sent VORT BARRANCAS. Madieon Rifles. R. Davis... 73 | te ry, of the Red Eagles, who brought ovags hamster tiers of guns in bombproof casemates, and one tier open ort Barrancas is on the north of Pensacola Bay, and | ¥#700 Rifles $1 } of recruits for his company, and trom whora he had ro- or en barbetie, The work has ali the usual concomitants J Jackson Rifles... 68 | ceived an invitation to dino at his quarters near the re- of a first class work, viz: covert ways, dry ditch glacis | ‘rectly facing the entrance to its tap ‘The work is Vieksivarg Cadets 7 | doubt in rear of fort Barrancns, tor having “done” : 5 ie erected on the site of an old Spanish fort. It isa bas- | | ounds Southrons . 101 | the N Yard, we emerged therefrom by the Warring. and outworks complete. The guns from this work radi Colvrabus Riflemen. . 76 | ton gate in search of the road to the Eagle's Nest, tioned work, of heavy masonry, aud mounts forty-nine Gaitman Light Infaatry ate to all points of the horizon, with flank anc enfllading Just outside the gate are the marine barracks, a yery all of which are in battery and ready for action. It | j’huderdale Rif'es. seat nad conveaiontte arvanaed eroue ef baridinn fire in the ditches and every angle of approach. Its guns | 7D) a neat ond cony Pn god grour dings, con i “Rea, the i ‘esent garrisoned by three hi troops of the | fnterprise Guard . sieting of a Corps de Garde in the centre, with a house for command Fort Barrancas, Fort McRos, the Navy Yard | i# st Present #1 A ofilvers’ quarters, Xe., on cach si 1 the quarters for regular army of the Confederate States. In the rear of the men in the reur. The whole iss pandea the fort, and a short distance from it, is a redoubt from aia e attaedite seaeteit ecae and encloses a sufliciently -pacious para te Total... aad the other works now in possession of the Confederate States troops. The work was commensea in 1828, ya wall, ground for a * FLORIDA, vr which Barrancas receives reinforcements in time of ac- Conmny Captain. battalion of men. The barracks were cccupied in py and finished in 1853. It cost the federal government recent] Silver Grays se - a company whoge name we omitted to learn, and t! nearly one million of dollars. When ona yar footing the | ton. Some extensive repairs bave ef tea com | Pensacola FY - has now been assigned as quarters for th ves, garrison consists of 1,200 soldiers. Its present armament | Pléted on this redoubt, and flanking howitzers of searp | jiome Guard = Warrington ls a town composea of Louses some neat consists of—In bastion, 26 twenty-four pound howitzers and counterscarp mounted. in the flank defences of Fort | Warrington Dragoonr ar pees ond others shabby, built by pert of the goyern- 4 Ba y fow id howitzers h Lecn Rites, x re ment on government land. Its 8 more pecnlii eagemate, 2 forty-two pounders, (+ thirty-two pounders, | PuTancas eight twenty-four pound howitzers have re. } let Shi LLP. Anderson than romantic, the principal street ‘being ‘macahataised cently been mounted. Fort Barrancas contains 298 eight with tan bark, and running along the backbone of a rift 59 twenty-four pounders; in barbette, 24 eight inch howit- is, D hteen | Tot of that white sand which Pensacola bay produces i ct ders, 12 twelve pounders, 1 ten inch | inch shells, 993 twenty-four pound balls, 639 eig! of ¥ produces in euch Teen asncetod, and 4 ton inch mortars, in but | Pound balls, and all the Implements for working the can- uprivalied pority. ther drifts intervene between. the ceder. Tho poseesgion of this work, therefore, by the | N00. its prosent armament eongists of cleven thirty-two | | Comany nraie. ses: | ee athe Aiocted inearte Wet Pickens te cena seceesioniste ie, of course, of the first importance; for | Pounders. three eight inch paixhans, twoeight inch co | {1h 2 r . —= Hanvey. 0 ware facing the water, and the whole current uniegs it is oscupied by them it will secure to the C1 lumbiads, eight twenty foar pounders, five eighteen | jringgold Votunteer H. J. 8 oraybery 83 ik in front of thege, and hard- jrcomec a base of operations along the whole pounders, two twelve pounders, eight twelve pound | Cartersville ivard..... rte ne hen floor of an old fashionsd New Huland- forse const, and keep open a road right into the heart of the | hewitzere: thank defence, two eighteen inch mortars. Weiner Light intense. »7 | house—clear from the encronchments fof the sand. We Routh, which cannot be obetructed by any fixed for- THE SAND BATTERIES. eS soon ‘shes tay. Wine mo that, Or al yeuiien net ° on ont - v . AL a EOE 0 e a y J cl ‘or sloveuliness of tifications. Once within the gates of the barbor,andan } Along the bend from Warrington Navy Yard totho | (Mtn tg Pinkard.. a1 | house or dress, oF for dirty faced chidren. A company 4 arted 06 ox on tho wide | €xtrome right of Fort MeRea there aro efficent sand ty Gate Guard ee Ezzard 72 | of solaicrs ie quarterea in the western part of Warrin, army could be disembarked y pol ia City Get Bee see sy J gton, bay which it might select. It could ran up beyond the | batteries erected at suitable intervals, with the guns bear- ain I Guard - Houser aaa iis = =e ih & boleh proct eoictee ctennae br Pp 4 ‘ Washington Rifles. —— Jones og | ede, wi y ched, whole Peeambia river and lend many hours ahead of any op. | ing upon Fort Pickens. They are built at considerable Sunpanty D, foun ¢ pened «124, being courtructed with @andbays on a foundation of pork barrela, that being the style of military architecture most afiected by the Todtleheas of the confodemoy, and Ithey have ample supplies of both kinds of material at Warring- ton. in the neighborhood of this battery a clear and eo- distances apart, so as to scatter the fire of Fort Pickens ehould an engarement take place with that work. THE PROBABILITIES OF A BATTLE AT PEN- Ftowan Guard. . Brown Infantry...... Independent Volunteers Larey. — Smith. Adderbold .. poring force which might bo at Pensacola, besides placing a wide river betwoon it and the latter—oreven two rivers, the Escambia and Black Water—by yoing far | ve, with o start of at least forty-eight h Gein ci sunspaaveaasec ice pious stream runs inte the a ving token that go im- ryt amet at 0 interior Alabama. Peppa SACOLA. REC APTTULATION, portant a military clement as fresh water {s not deficiout hours, it could march in oe 'Y | We lave the best reavoms for asserting that the Con States in this our Southern Crimea. holding Fort Pickens could rendezvous a naval force there | waorate Stato trospe will not precipitate aa attack | Georyin ’ this stream we sou come to the Marine Hos pital, now the headuarters of Gen. Bragg, and somo dis tance beyond it are the general barracks, a large threostory building, only a portion of the plan’ of which is com , but even now having reom for (ive or six hundred reare yuurterod about half of Col. Clayton's t, his own quarters bein in a comfortable framo pore to ihe front audeast. In the rear of these Alabama. Florida Louisiana. Svee aeey Micwissippl. . eee Regular Confederate Plates troops in garriaou and keep up a blockade of all the ports of the Gulf, un lees it coukl be met on the sea, The fort is only appronchable by jand on one side. Owing to the openness of the country, which is but a barren bed of sand, a party attacking from that quarter would upon Fort Pickens, unless an attempt is made to rein Merce that work or otherwise succor it. The reinforco- mont of Fort Pickens is not an impossibility as long as General Bragg does not operate with a force on Santa Rows Island; but should he succeed in getting over a Total. .sovievvesivees be very much exposed. The federal forces now in garri- | tow pieces of heavy artillery, 80 as to command the ee eee is tho parade ground, with room for tho mano uvres of @ son at Fort Pickens consist of about two hundred and | anchorage where the United States vessels are now an- VISIT TO PENSACOLA BAY. quarts of Clbeers; he Whole envonipuand witwrers fifty men, under the command of Lioutenant Slemmer. | cored, the attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens worl! bo | AN EXPEDITION T@ PENSACOLA—IMMENSE SUPPLIES or growth, }rom the barracks ® rail OF MUNITIONS OF WAR FOR PENSACOLA MORGAN—THH WAR STEAMER REPAIRING DISTRICT OF WARRINGTON—FORT BARRAY FORT ve | and from the redoubt, about a thoteud yards in the g | Tear of Fort Barrancas, which iteelf is some distance fur If Fort Pickens be taken by the secessionists, Peasacoia will be the great naval depot of the Southern confedera- cy, from which no doubt privateers will be fitted out for extremely doubtful. As matters stand now at Pensn- | cola it is excessively dangerous for tho United States . forces to land reinforcements. REDOUBT—VISTT TO THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE | WEF UP the coast, and the lighthouse the purpose of preying upon the commerce im the Gulf of CONVEPRRATE STATA ARMY—MILITARY KEVinw, | (ROOT EWS Sandbag Padtorios ave he pao age ne ee CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY AT PENSA- | krc., td. these we think have not yet reoeived their armarseat FORT PICKENS, JUNIOR. ears i | (From the Mobile Advertiser, April 3.) The redoubt, at which we next arrived, is barely viet. s det au a DEI P blo In certain directions from the sea, ite purpow bei ‘This is @ steal outpost of defence or auxiliary of Fort Brigadier General Braxton Bragg, Confedorate States | Saturday night, having obtained a berth for a trip to werteaes depot of provisions and aamuattien for ie Pickens, erected by Lieutenant Slommer's orders. It is situated about one mile and a quarter from Pickens, aad commands the Warrington Navy Yard, in possession of | the Confederate Statet troops. Fort Pickens, Jr., is now the Warrington Navy Yard, at a little after eight o'clock wo cust loose from the Hitchcock's press wharf on board | the steamer Kate Dale, Capt. J. M. Brainard, bound for that place, with a load as per manifest of 10,000 solid and other works, It is not intended as a work of offenee, and ig commanded by the ung of Fort Rarraneas For its’ own defence it i# abtindantly provided with loopholes for mae ketry, and is designed to motint some eighteen yune of mode erate calibre. tn the rear iho Ted I agles havo knocked ch they Army. a ANY, Major S. H_ Lockett, Corps of Engineor. H Chase, Volunteer Aid and | used ag @ station for picket gunrds, vad it will answer | 1p. hollow shot, 40,000 catridges, some 140 boxes of grape, | up come comfortable shantice, whi en) the Eagles: } the purpoee of eff y preventing anythiny like a cur | W. Holt, Aid-de-Camp. and quantities of bacon, flour, and other rations for | Nest, and as we learned that Captain |" waa with hig psd . |, Ordnance Ofticer. | the troops of the Confede Daat also carricd | company, who bad not yet returned fi ection, wo { prise of the main fort FORT W'REA, Thie work is in the possession of the Confederate ) States troops. Itisa powerful and castie like ma: mry eebace , Cotontander of the Navy Yard. LT it, Second 1h command. John Rasco!ph, third jo command. row aALABsMma, Major Gencral Jere. Cleraens, commander State troops. avatied ourselves of the proffored eer vices of the guard (0 oxaraine the works, ‘the redoubt, whieh may some other day prove the Mainketi of this system Of works, and 80 it has boon christened by some of ita vikiters, though uniiniehod, over company A, of the Loujviana Zoaares, Capt. A. Cop: } pens, who, a# we left, wero saluted with hoarty cheers | by the Missiseippians quartered at the prose, which were | acknowledged by a roll of the drum, the Zouaves not | being much given to cheering, but being in fact the most of the wergeant Ce Com. ure, built on a low sandepit of the mainiand, and Stary. quiet corps we have encountered in these war times. | bas recetyed more attention in its construction than an: res to rige out of the water. It is farther scaward Colonel John T. Morgan, | ihe bay was calm, but not knowing what kind of woathor | other portion of them on this vide of the bay at least. Tt appears ‘on is Colonel Clinton Day there night be outside, Captain Brainard oxproseod a | consists of two long and two short faces, the gorgo bot than Fort Vickens, of which it is the visa fe across the Colonel H. P. Wataon, Adjutant General. doubt whether he should directly on the trip, | clored by a curtaim which is Manked by show ders, eac " procoed the Kate Dule’e cargo being of a kind which would strain the boat severely in a heavy sea, not to mention the dan- ger of ite rolling overt aod making a considerablc amich of things on board while got rid of. Mt twelve O'clock we found on: ‘os close under Fort Morgan, the relief of the fort showing itself sharp and clonr in'the moovlight, with no Fee lige about it but the Ogure of a sentinel walking watch on the ram- ta, Thero was toarcely a perceptable swell on the t. which we crorsed at onee, and on rietng in the morn ing Bargencan light was fesbing it ahead of is, and of tosewward By the frigate Sabiag wd sloop St. Louis, Colonel &. C. Bulicek, Inspector General, Com Stevenson Rites * South Alabama langera Noxubee Mifles one Prairie Guard Chickasaw Goard Alabama Light Dragoons Montgomory True Btue: Tnekeeee Light Inventey Independent Rifles....-.... Wetuapes Light lnipotry. intended for one casemate and ono barbotte gun. ’ Four barbotte cuns are intended to bo mounted in each of tho lateral angles of the work, but tho foundations oven of the platforms of these have not been laid, and the wholo terreploine is at prevent a locee sand heap, or rather aand pit, encumberod with rubbish. The work is surrounded with @ deep ditch and a countersearp, pierced with loop- holes, and provided with six or eight casemates for can- non to command the diteh. The covered way is crossed by traverses to enable the garrison to resist tho attack of m storming party, who, after gain- ing the Covered way, would be uoxt oxpoved to the fre Chantel, and a yeesel entering must needs run tho gaunt. Jet of its guns before approaching the latter. which, how ever, of iteelf effbetunlly closes tho harbor against the admission of an enemy of even very heavy force, ‘This fortification is situated on Foster's Rank, and guards the weat side of the mouth of lenea, cola Ray, It isa bastioned fort, built of brick masonry, with walls twelve foot in thickness. Tho work ix somo what out of repair, aod la viow of taiz fact Goneral Bragg and two vessels undor canvas, & British and an American Pensacola. As the light strengthened could be discerned still further at sea, which were recognized to be the boats of the New Orleans and Havana line, this being the point Soon Fort McRea ana the low battery on its heading toward Fort Barrancas, and running close to Fort Pickens, came in sight of the steamer Wyan- and of the rising sun at about the era | The dofeaders, driven fr from the ramparts. | would be abe toresort to the galleries boneath, im ese lt of wh.cd sre two loopholes (152 \n ali) and am ate hete above for purpos In the row, ow, citiier side, is a stairease foa.ig down to a pinco of tava darkooss, aad us the (006 aa UnWary step might plunge | ton well, the w of which ‘boils np from uarading rings, and runs off by cirenitous draing into the ditoa, aud is thence conducted away teom the work, Feclieg our way around these pitfalls, and mee G08 the iron doors ef & magazize or two (and there olLers in the galleries betore visited seo at leat & 3 di tho gallery of the count © frout of the piace, Ren stores aud ammunitic i nd of the garri » place, aad when fii Hywaliog they would not be compelled to surrender ovherrd like rate in their holes, batlesving daw 6 che trains communicating with (heir maga- “(retreat through subterranean passages te ar raneuR A portion of what we have deseribed was the resulgef A ouLsequent visit under the guicance of the captain; @r efore this first inspection was complete, the Red Kagtes had returned from their inspeetion, and joining Capsate Porey and the officers of the Zouaves, Wo proceeded te his quarters. The Red s furnished us with am agreeable eurprise, for we confess we have never cater- tuined a bigh opinion of the cold iers » tee popudia- tion of cities furnishes to the reeruitio, ood Captain Posey found at first that be had some ves forex: al, Dut it does not tuke long for soldiees te become dissatisied with the service when they Sind thal comrander and their comrades are ashamed and se whee the cpportunity was offered @& ives from the servico of the State te that of Lhe confederacy, these mavrais swes declined the oder and wore com“orfably got rid of. Tueir places have vince been partly filed by better men, and the captain now Jastly proud of Lis company. As usual ip Americam companies, (hore are mee of ‘every occupation a them and one cf them ism baker, who is stationed at the Navy Yard, where his military duties hiye beom commuted for that of supplying tue command with bread > Another of the spe aig Jommy Campbell, who bas pat ogiectad garden ih the rear of the rodoubt, apd it glory ing in the visions of the salads, ¢xbhages, pow And potatoes with which his horticultural skill’ wilt Ye caucct do justics to the captain's cool. uot having learned Lis name, but an excoiicat dim- ner of bis providing received full Jusiles at tho haads some coven cr eight guests, ineuding the Zousve oldie and the feast wus concluded with the usual accompant ments of auecdote and song, ending with the Mar and tuat was performed with a rattling accom) by the pet of the Red Eagles, a long enfant de la gtrie, with seven rattles and a button, from woick to his fangs ho measures about five feet and a half. The seven rattles are understoc! to be enfhleraatic of the Confoderate States, but there is somo dispate whether tue buttem stands for Arkansas or Virginia, After dinner the whole party took Fort Birrancas om their returu, is garrisoaed by the Extala Ri whore teats are hed tu the ditch, In its gut Une it dees aot differ greatly from’ th» redoubt, ¢ Ou a larger scale, og ao flauking fire except from epaulemonts of tho counterscarp in th frouting to the water being open aad pier ketry, while the guns, twenty-lve or thirty in al!, are mounted Oa the ramparts. The entrance is through the gliacis, and over a drawbridge in tho rear Jn tromt is @ communication vader ground with the old Spanish Cort which performs the part of an outwork in front, ‘This ia a ‘4 merciy a semicircular battery of ten o- twelve gums, Barradcas—or more fully, Fort San Carlos de Barraacas— occupies the most commanding position of all the works, ine of i and ts directly in th tho bay, but its defensiv » parade ground the Alabama regiment, robe companies, was out for evening them dismissed we roturned te Warrington, and there, in the company of the Zouayes, forgot thy e until after the gates were closed. 4 US no concern, as our friends had the ign, but when at length one of them ac uicd us to the gate to pass us in, it appeared he had oalg a countersign, being one of three, and nevertheless the TOuaves Ww ve guard inthe Navy Yard tu the course of tly It was plain that, in the language of Tenuyson, “some one had blundered,’” but it wae hardly the /ouaves, for there were parol and counter~ sigo Under the sign manual of the General's aid-de-camp. ‘After trott.ng back and forward for about half an hour, the eergeant of the guard let us in, and we were soom im the arms of Morpheus and the Kate Dale. Bow we visited the lighthouse battery next beveieny how it is manned by the Clayton Guard, how it is buitt ont sacks filled with sand, how the oats’ are growing out all over it, how it is mounted with four cignt-inch Oolam- biads, how they would knock the splinters out of Fort Pickens, bow we hadn’t time to visit Fort McRae, hew we left at ten o'clock, how we saw that the Brooklyn had joined the squadron during the night, how we took the small channel, how we rounded Mobile Point at six o'clock , and got to the city at nine—the it would be preposterous for us to attempt telling. The Warrington correspondent of the Observer says the Alabama regiment has beca transferred to the: Confederate States by General Clemens; Colonel Claytom Colonel; Williams, Lieutenant Colonel ; Steadman, Major. A man was shot at the redoubt om the night of the 27th, in attempting to pass the with out the countersign. He died soon afterwards. Ne blame is attached to the sentry, who only disc! his duty. The deceasd was a momber of the ‘Red Eagles,’ Captain B. I. Posey. The steamer Kate Dale arrived at. Warrington on the 28th from Mobile, with large quaati- ties of provisions, live hundred stands’ of arms and twe hundred thousand ball cartridges from Mt. Veruom Ar- sepal. Tho Jacksonville (Ala.) Republican eays:—Captain Dra- per’s company of over sixty étalworth inon, who left this county last Saturday, were nearly one-half married inen— not more than ten or a dozen have any interest in negre property, and the three | icutenants and Orderly Sergeamt: are al! grandfathers. Fach one of them can take of « grey squirrel’s head @yery pop, in the tops of our forest trees. with the rile. Tho Montgomery Advertivr, of the 3ist ult., says:— We understand that five bundred troops for Florida. wilt arrive at Columbue, Georgia, about the 7th. The queta from Georgia, consisting of about 1,000, will rendezvous at Macon, and as goon as tents and euipments caa be furnizhed thom, will march direet to P a. Two regimente from Mississippi, in all_ about 1,700 men, are now on their way to that p They go by the wee Mobile, and thence across th intry from Makely. Toulsiana regiment, coneivting of ‘over 1,000 men, are now prepared to move, will Jeave in'a short the. ‘There are now 1,700 men at the spot which the ‘phile- sophic” Greeley calle another Febsstopol, and where he * ig to be crushed out; and when the ents now on the way and preparing to move sumber will amount to about spirits aa over de ar lives, if necessary, for the honor and im- nce of their country. AT FORT BAMA, ile Avgisier states that thirteen companies, im , constitute the garrivon at Fort Morgas, It THE GARRISON MORGAN, ALA- the all 1 072 mor iw much larger thea necessary, and it is quite likely come may be sent to Florida, eight There are two ten iteh and twe *, now mounted and commanding annel and outer bar, saya the Register, and to this y the thgee large guns cally expected will be added. new and heavy gune are additional to the regular nt of the fort. Fort Morgan i# now ® most power and we doubt the ability of any force, land or neh colt naval, to take it, Col. W. J. Hardee is commander, | NEWS FROM TEXAS. OUR NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE, New Oneans, April 2, 1961 Lote News from Tea ity Among the Terns State Militiory Authorities, dt Wo have Galveston ates to the Soth March, which give information of wnotber invasion of that State from the Mesiean frontier. J vive you from the Galveston Civiian oxtra, of tho 30th March, the following items:— The schooner Shark arrived at Brazos Inst Saturday, 20d jnet., taking orders from Gen, Nichols to Sergeamt Creer, ordnance Sergeant in charge at Brazos, to load the cheoner with ae full « cargo as he could put aboard ef connon, Sell, shot, &¢., and despateh ber to Galveston Sergeant Creer left the came day for Brownsville to communicate this order to Colonel Vord. ¢m Monday 25th, Sergeant Greer returned from Browas ville, Colonel For him orders to prepare all the heavy gan: and ordnance stores, to be shipped at once for Brownsville, on a "teamboat that the Colonel wookt tor aud send down ‘or them Colone! Ford stated that he had reliable information from merchants and cther reliable citizens in Matamoros: that General Ampudia, at the head of 3,000 hy waa sixty niles of, marching on Brownsville haa sent out expre: «far and wide with piscards ant handbilie announcu. that Texas of right bemeees CS Mexieo: that she had no longer the support of the United States covernment and army: that now waa the time te take her back, and he called on all good patriots and sol diers to come to his standard for thie purpose. He | wae receiving reinforeemonts in large numbers and ra- pity. | PORE own npinien is thit Ampudia would like to make Sand porhapa Brownsville, seize all , and then leave, | INTERESTING PROM GEORGIA. THE SCHOONER oy AT CHARLES~ OUR SAVANNAH CORRESYO! BavaNwait, April 4, 1868. Fort Moultrie Pires on a Schoomar—The Captain Hotes he American Pnaign—The Vessel Puts to Sea, @e., des Tho echooner It. H. Shannon, March, master, from Beg ton for this port, was fired upon yesterday in attempting toenter Charleston harbor, Captain March says the wee- ther had been stormy for several days, and he had ot Solmed no observations, aad boing uancqualated writ tg