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stud the shore for miles is visible. Let us go and
make a close inspection. Mr. Ellis, a lieutenant in
the Louisiana regiment, who is aide-de-camp to
Brigadier-General Bragg, has just arrived with a
message from his chief to escort me round all the
works, and wherever else I like to go—without any
reservation whatever. He is a handsome, well-
built, slight young fellow, very composed and staid
in manner, but full of sentiment for the South.
Returned from a tour in Europe, he is all admira-
tion for English scenery, life, and habits. " After
all, nature has been more bountiful to you than to
us." He is dressed in a tight undress cavalry
jacket and trousers of blue flannel, with plain gold
lace pipings and buttons, but on his heels are heavy
brass spurs, worthy of the heaviest of field officers.
Our horses are standing in the shade of a large
tree near the wharf, and mine is equipped with a
saddle of ponderous brasswork, on raised pummel
and cantle, and housings, and emblazoned cloth and
mighty stirrups of brass fit for the stoutest marshal
that ever led an army of France to victory;
General Braxton Bragg is longer in the leg than
Marshal Pelissier or Canrobert, or the writer, and
as we jogged along over the deep hot sand my kind
companion, in spite of my assurance that the
leathers were quite comfortable, made himself and
me somewhat uneasy on the score of their adjust-
ment, and, as there was no implement at hand to
make a hole, we turned into the general's court-
yard to effect the necessary alterations. The cry of
" Orderly," brought a smart soldierly-looking young
man to the front, who speedily took me three holes
up, and as I was going away he touched his cap and
said, "I beg your pardon, Sir, but I often saw you
in the Crimea." His story as he told it was brief.
He had been in the 11th Hussars, and on the day
of the 25th of October he was following, as he said,
close after Lord Cardigan and Captain Nolan when
his horse was killed under him. As he tried to make
his escape the Cossacks took him prisoner, and for 11
months he was in captivity, but was exchanged at
Odessa. " Why did you leave the service 9" " Well,
sir, I was one of the two sergeants that was per-
mitted to leave in each regiment on the close of the
war, and I came away." "But here you are sol-
diering again 9" " Yes, sir; I came over here to
better myself, as I thought, and I had to enter one
of their cavalry regiments, but now I am an orderly."
He told me further, that his name was Montague,
and that he "thought his father lived near Wind-
sor, 21 miles from London ;" and I was pleased to
find his superior officers spoke of him in very high
terms, although I could have wished those who
spoke so were in our own service.
(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) I do not think that any number of words can give
a good idea of a long line of detached batteries. I
FORT PICKENS AND PENSACOLA. went through them all, and I certainly found
A VISIT TO BOTH CAMPS. stronger reasons than ever for distrusting the extra-
MOBILE, MAY 16. ordinary statements which appear in the American
Our little schooner lay quietly at the wharf all journals in reference to military matters, particu-
night, but no one was allowed to come on board larly on their own side of the question. Instead of
without a pass, for these wild looking sentries are hundreds of guns, there are only 10. They are
mostly of small calibre, and the gun-carriages are
excellent men of business, and look after the prat- old and unsound, or new and rudely made. There
tical part of soldiering with all the keenness which are only five "heavy" guns in all the works, but
their direct personal interest imparts to their the mortar batteries, three in number, of which one
notions of duty. The enemy to them is the incar- is unfinished, will prove very damaging, although
nation of all evil, and they hunt his spies and ser- they will only contain 9 or 10 mortars. The bat-
teries are all sandbag and earthworks, with the ex-
vents very much as a terrier chases a rat —with
ception of Fort Barrancas. They are made after
intense traditional and race animosity. The silence all sorts of ways, and are of very different degrees
of the night is not broken by many challenges or of efficiency. In some the magazines will come to
the ' All's well' of patrols, but there is warlike sig- speedy destruction ; in others they are well made.
nificance enough in the sound of the shot which Some are of the finest white sand, and will blind the
working parties are rolling over the wooden jetty
gunners, or be blown away with shells; others are
cramped and hardly traversed; others, again, are very
with a dull, ponderous thumping on board the fiats
spacious and well constructed. The embrasures are
that are to carry them off for the food and nourriture usually made of sandbags, covered with raw hide to
of the batteries. With the early morning, however, save the cotton bags from the effect of the fire of their
came the usual signs of martial existence. 'started own guns. I was amused to observe that most of these
up from among my cockroaches, knocked my head works had galleries in the rear, _generally. in connec-
tion with the magazine passages, which the construe-
against the fine pine beams over my hammock,and,
tors called "rat-holes," and which are intended as
considerably obfuscated by the result, proceeded to shelter to the men at the guns, in case of shells fall-
investigate all the grounds that presented themselves ing inside the battery. They may prove to have a
to me as worthy of consideration in reference to the very different result, and are certainly not so de-
theory which had suddenly forced itself upon my sirable in a military point of view as good tra-
verses. A rush for the "rat-hole" will not be very
mind that I was in the Crimea. For close at hand
dignified or improving to the morale every time a
through the sleepy organs of the only sense which
bomb hurtles over them ; and assuredly the damage
was fully awake, came the well-known reveillee of to the magazines will be enormous if the fire from
the Zouaves, and then French clangours, rolls, Pickens is accurate and well sustained. Several of
ruffles, and calls ran along the line, and the volun- the batteries were not finished, and the men who
teers got up, or did not, as seemed best to them. An ought to have been working were lying under the
ebony and aged Ganymede, however a eared
shade of trees, sleeping or smoking—long .limbed,
, long-bearded fellows in flannel shirts and slouched
with coffee, and told me " the Cap'n wanto mak hats, unlformlebs in all save bright well-kept arms,
weder you take some bitters, Sar ;" and indeed the and resolute purpose. We went along slowly from
Captain did compound some amazing preparation one battery to the other. I visited nine altogether,
for the judges and colonels present on deck aq not including Fort Barrancas,-and there are three
below that met the approval of them all, and was others, among which is Fort M‘Rae. Perhaps
there may be fifty guns of all sorts in position for
recommending it for its fortifying qualities in mak-
about three miles, along a line extending 135 deg.
round • Fort Pickens, the average distance being
ing a Redan and Malakhoff of the stomach. Break-
fast came in due time—not much Persic apparatus about 1 1-3 d mile. The mortar batteries are well
to excite the hate of the simple•minded, but a great placed among brushwood, quite out of view of the
deal of substantial matter in the shape of fried fort, at distances varying from 2,500 to 2,800
responding nearly with our 10-inch pieces. Several
yards, an and the mortars are generally of calibres cor-
onions, ham, eggs, biscuits, with accompaniments
of the gun batteries are put on the level of the
of iced water, Bordeaux, and coffee. Our guests
were two—a broad farmerlike gentleman, weighing beach; others have more command, and one is par-
some 16 stone, dressed in a green frieze tunic, with ticularly well placed, close to the White Lighthouse
gold lace and red and scarlet worsted facings, and on a raised plateau which dominates the sandy
a felt wideawake, who, as he wiped his manly brow, strip that runs out to Fort M‘Rae. Of the latter I
informed me he was a "rifleman." We have some have already Fort Barrancas is an old fort
spoken.
—I believe
of
Spanish construction, with a very
volunteers quite as corpulent, and not more patrio- meagre trace —a plain curtain-face towards the sea,
by dry
tic, for our farmer was a man of many bales, and in protected a ditch
and. an outwork, in which,
becoming an officer in his company of braves had however, there are no guns. There is a
drawbridge
given an unmistakeable proof of devotion to his in the rear of the work, which is a simple paral-
distant home and property. The other, a quiet, lelogram showing twelve guns mounted en barbette
on the sea-face. Th
modest, intelligent-looking young man, was an offi- thewalls
E are of brick, and
sand-
cer in a different battalion, and talked withsense guns are protected by thick merlons of
bags. The sole advantage- of the fort is in its posi-
about a matter with which sense has seldom any- tion ; it almost looks down
into the casemates of
thing to do—l mean uniform. He remarked that in Pickens opposite at its weakest point, and it has
a serious action and close, fighting, or in night a fair command of the sea entrance, but the guns
work, it would be very difficult to prevent serious are weak, and there are only
which can do much mischief. three pieces mounted
While I was looking
mistakes, and even disasters, owing to the officers round there was an entertaining
dispute going on
of the Confederate States' troops wearing the same between two mea, whom I believe to have been
distinguishing marks of rank and similar uniforms, officers, as to the work to be done, and I heard the
whenever they can get them, to those used in the inferior intimate
his pretty broadly his conviction that
regular service of the United States, and that much his chief did not know own business in refe-
rence to some orders he was conveying.
inconvenience will inevitable result from the great The amount of am
munition
variety and wonderful diversity of the dresses of which I saw did not
appear to me to be at all sufficient for one day's
the immense number of companies forming the dif- moderate firing, and many of the shot were roughly
ferent regiments of volunteers. The only troops cast and had deep flanges from the moulds in their
near us which were attired with a regard to sides, very
destructive to the guns as well as to
accuracy. In the rear of these batteries, among the
military exactness were the regiment of Zouaves
pine woods and in deep rush, are three irregular
from New Orleans. Most of these are French-
which, to the best of my belief, could not
men or Creoles, some have belonged to contain more than 2,700 men. There are probably
the battalions which the Crimea first made 3,000 in and about the batteries, the Navy-yard, and
famous, and were present before Sebastopol and in the suburbs, and there are also, I am informed,
Italy, the rest are Germans and Irish. Our friends 1,500 at Pensacola, but I doubt exceedingly that
went off to see them drill, but as a believer in the there are as many as 8,000 men,. all told, of effec-
enchanting power of distance, I preferred to look tive strength under the command of Gen. Bragg.
on at such of the manoeuvres as could be seen from It would be a mistake to despise these Irregulars.
the deck. These Zouaves look exceedingly like the One of the Mississippi regiments out in camp was
real article. They are, perhaps, a trifle leaner and evidently composed of men who liked campaigning,
taller, and are not so well developed at the back of and who looked as though they would like fighting.
the head, the heels, and the ancles as their proto- They had no particular uniforms—the remark will
types. They are dressed in the same way except often be made—but they had pugnacious physiog-
that I saw no turban on the fez cap. The jacket, the minks and the physical means of carrying their
cummerbund, the baggy red breeches, and the inclinations into effect, and every man of them was,
gaiters arc all copies of the original. They are all lam informed, familiar with the use of arms. Their
armed with rifle-musket and sword-bayonet, and tents are mostly small and bad, on the ridge pole
their pay is at the usual rate of 11 dole., or some- pattern, with side flys to keep off the sun. In some
thing like £2 Os. a month, with rations and allow- battalions they observe regularity of line, in others
antes. The ofa..ers do their best to be the true they follow individual or company caprice. The
" chacal." I was more interested, I confess, in men use green boughs and bowers, as our poor fel-
watching the motions of vast shoals of mullet and lows did in the old hot days in Bulgaria, and many
other fish, which flew here and there, like flocks of of them had benches and seats before their doors,
plover, before the red fish and other enemies, and and the luxury of boarded floors to sleep upon.
darted under our boat, than in examining Zouave There is an embarrassing custom in America,
drill. Once, as a large fish came gambolling along scarcely justifiable in any code of good manners,
the surface close at hand a great gleam of white which in the South at least is only too common,
shot up in the waves beneath, and a boiling whirl and which may be still more general in the North;
marked with acrimson pool, which gradually melted at all events, to a stranger it is productive of the 1
off in the tide, showed where a monster shark had annoyance which is experienced by one who is
taken down a part of his breakfast. " That's a obliged to inquire whether the behaviour of those
ground-sheork," quoth the skipper. "There's quite among those whom he is at the time is inten-
a many of them about here."
Porpoises passed by tional rudeness or conventional want of breeding.
in a great hurry for Pensacola, and now and then a For instance, my friend and myself as we are riding
turtle showed his dear little head above the enviable along see a gentleman standing near his battery or
fluid which he honoured with his presence. Far
his tent,—" Good morrow, Colonel," or "General"
away in the long stretch of water towards Pensa- (as the case may be), says my friend—" Good
cola are six British merchantmen in a state of block- morrow (imagining military rank according to the
ado—that is, they have only 15 days to clear out, notion
possessed by speaker of the importance of
according to the reading of the law adopted by the the position of a general's A.D.O ), Ellis." " Colo-
United States' officers. The navy -yard
-yarlooks clean nel, &c., allow me to introduce to you Mr. Jones of
and neat in the early morning, and away on the London." The Colonel advances with effusion,
other side of the channel Fort Pickens—teterrinra holds out his hand, grasps Jones's hand rigidly,
casasa—raises its dark front from the white sand and says warmly, as if he had just
gained a par-
and green sward of the glacis, on which a number titular object of his existence, " Mr. Jones, I'm
of black objects invite inspection through a teles- very glad to make your acquaintance, sir. Have
cope and obligingly resolve themselves into horses you been pretty well since you have been in our
turned out to graze on the slope. Fort M'Rae, at country, sir," &c. But it is most likely that the
the other side of the channel, as if to irritate colonel will just walk away when he pleases, with-
its neighbour, flings out a flag to the breeze out saying a word to, or taking the least notice
which is the counterpart of the " Stars and Stripes" of the aforesaid Jones, as to whose acquaintance
that waves from the rival flagstaff, and is at this he had just before expressed such friendly feelings,
distance identical to the eye until the glass detects and in whose personal health he had taken so deep
the solitary star in its folds instead of the whole an interest; and Jones, till he is accustomed to it,
galaxy. On the dazzling snowy margin of sand feels affronted. The fact is that the introduction
that separates the trees and brushwood from the means nothing ; you are merelyk
pea close at hand the outline of the batteriep which names, and if you like you may improTe the ac,

returned to time, and under any circumstances it
was not probable that they would be permitted to
land, as undoubtedly they were no friends to the
garrison or to the cause of the United States. Our
skipper opened his eyes and shook his rough head
a little when he was ordered to get under way for
Fort Pickens, and to anchor off the jetty. Up
went the flag of truce to the fore once more, but
the ever-watchful sentry, diverted for the time from
his superintendence of the men who were fishing at
our pier, forbade our departure till the corporal of
the guard had given leave, and the corporal of the
guard would not let the fair Diana cast off her
warp till he had consulted the sergeant of the
guard, and so there was some delay occasioned by
the necessity for holding an interview with that
functionary, who finally permitted the captain to
proceed on his way, and with a fair light breeze the
schooner fell round into the tideway and glided off
towards the fort. We drew up with it rapidly, and
soon attracted the notice of the lookout men and

some officers who came down to the jetty.
We anchored a cable's length from the jetty. In
reply to the sentry's hail, the skipper asked for a
boat to Rut off for us. " Come off in your own
boat.* Skiff of Charon ! But there was no choice.

island with its guns it is not possible for the Con
federates to effect a lodgment. If Fort M'Rae
were strong and heavily armed, it could inflict
great damage on Pickens; but it is neither one nor
the other, and the United States' officers are con-
fident that they will speedily render it quite un-
tenable. The beuches a feu of the fort may be put
down at 40, including the available pieces in the
casemates, which sweep the ditch and the faces of
the curtains. The walls are of the hardest brick, of
nine feet thickness in many places, and the crest of
the parapets on which the merlons and traverses
rest are of turf. From the walls there is a splendid
view of the whole position, and I found my com-
panions were perfectly well acquainted with the
strength and locus of the greater part of the enemy's
works. Of course I held my peace, but I was amused
at their accuracy. " There are the quarters of our
friend, Gen. Bragg." "There is one of their best
batteries just beside the lighthouse." The tall
chimney of the Warrington Navy-yard was smoking
away lustily. The Colonel called my attention to
it. "Do you see that, sir ? They are casting shot
there. The sole reason for their forbearance' is
that navy-yard. They knowiwell that if they open
a gun upon us we will lay that yard and all the
work in ruins." Capt. Vogdes subsequently ex-
pressed some uneasiness on a point as to which I
could have relieved his mind very effectually. He
had seen something which led him to apprehend
that the Confederates had a strong entrenched camp
in the rear of their works. Thereupon I was en-
abled to perceive that in Capt. Vodges' mind there
was a strong intention to land, and carry the
enemy's position. Why, otherwise, did you care
about an entrenched camp, most excellent engi-
neer ? But now I may tell you that there is no
intrenched camp at all, and that your vigilant eye,
sir, merely detected certain very absurd little fur-
rows which the Confederates have in some places
thrown up in the soft sand in front of their camps,
which would cover a man up to the knee or stomach,
and are quite useless as a breastwork. If they
thought a landing probable, it is unpardonable in
them to neglect such a protection. These furrows
are quite straight, and even if they are deepened the
assailants have merely to march round them, as they
extend for some only 40 to 50 yards, and have no
flanks. The officers of the garriscn are aware the
enemy have mortar batteries, but they think the
inside of the fort will not be easily hit, and they
said nothing to show that they were acquainted
with the position of the mortars. 0
From the parapet we descended by a staircase
into the casemates. The Confederates are greatly
deceived in their expectation that the United
States' soldiers will be much exposed to sun or heat
in Pickens. More airy, well ventilated quarters
cannot be imagined, and there is quite light enough
to enable the men to read in most of them. The
plague of flies will infest both armies, and is the
curse of every camp in summer. As to mosquitoes,
the Confederates will probably suffer, if not more,
at least as much as the States' troops. The effect of
other tormentors, such as yellow fever and dysen-
tery, will be in all probability impartially felt on
both sides ; but, unless the position of the fort is
peculiarly unhealthy, the men, who are under no
control in respect to their libations, will probably
suffer more than those who are restrained by disci-
pline and restricted to a regular allowance. Water
can always be had by digging, and is fit for use if
drunk immediately. Vegetables and fresh provi-
sions are not of course so easily had as on shore,
but there is a scarcity of them in both camps, and
the supplies from the storeships are very good and
certain. The bread baked by the garrison is ex-
cellent, as I had an opportunity of ascertaining, for
I carried off two loaves from the bakehouse on
board our schooner. Our walk through the case-
mates was very interesting. They were crowded
with men, most of whom were reading. They were
quiet, orderly looking-soldiers—a mixture of old
and young—scarcely equal in stature to their oppo-
nents, but more to be depended upon I should
think in a long struggle. Everything seemed well
arranged. Those men who were in their beds had
mosquito curtains drawn, and were reading or
sleeping at their ease. In the casemates used as an
hospital there were only 12 men sick out of the
whole garrison, and I was much struck by the ab-
sense of any foul smell and by the cleanliness and
neatness of all the arrangements. The Colonel
spoke to each of the men kindly, and they appeared
glad to see him. The dispensary was as seat as care
and elbow grease could make it, and next door to it,
in strange juxtaposition, was the laboratory for the
manufactory of fuses and deadly implements, in
equally good order. Everything is ready for im-
mediate service. lam inclined to think it will be
some time before it is wanted. Assuredly, if the
enemy attack Fort Pickens they will meet with a
resistance which will probably end in the entire
destruction of the Navy-yard and of the greater
part of their works. A week's delay will enable
Col. Brown to make good some grave defects; but
delay is of more advantage to his enemy than it is
to him, and if Fort Pickens were made at once the
point d' appui for a vigorous offensive movement by
the fleet and by a land force, I have very little
doubt in my mind that Pensacola must fall, and that
General Bragg would be obliged to retire. In a few
weeks the attitude of affairs may be very different.
The railroad is open to General Bragg, and he can
place himself in a much stronger attitude than he
now occupies.
At last the time came for me to leave. The Colonel
and Captain Berry came down to the beach with
me. Outside we found Captain Vogdes kindly
keeping my friends in conversation and in liquid
supplies in the shade of the bakehouse shed, and,
after a little more pleasant conversation, we were
afloat once more. Probably no living man was ever
permitted to visit the camps of two enemies within
sight of each other before this under similar cir-
cumstances, for I was neither spy nor herald, and I
owe my best thanks to those who trusted me on
both sides so freely and so honourably. A gentle-
man who preceded me did not fare quite so well.
He landed on the island and went up to the Fort,
where he represented himself as the correspondent
of an American journal. But his account of himself
was not deemed satisfactory. He was sent off to
the fleet. Presently there came over a flag of truce
from General Bragg, with a warrant signed by a
Justice of the Peace, for the correspondent on a
charge of felony ; but the writ did not run in Fort
Pickens. The officers regarded the message as a
clever ruse to get back a spy, and the correspondent
is still in durance vile or in safety, as the case may
be, on board the squadron.
All sails filled, the Diana stood up towards the
Navy-yard once more in the glare of the setting
sun. The sentinels along the battery and beach
glared at us with surprise as the schooner, with her
flag of truce still flying, ran past them. The pier was
swept with the glass for the Mobile gentlemen; they
were not visible. " Hallos! Mr. Captain, what's that
you're at ?" His mate was waving the Confederate
flag from the deck—" It's only a signal, Sir, to the
gentlemen on shore." " Wave some other flag,
then, while there's a flag of truce flying, and while
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of praises of " the quaint old Spanish settlement,"
but mine is, unfortunately, not an excursion of plea-
sure, and it was imperative that I should not waste
time. Everything had been seen that was necessary
for my purpose. It was beyond my power to state
the reasons which led me think no fight would take
place, for doing so would have been to betray con-
fidence. And so we parted company—they to feast
their eyes on a bombardment—and if they only are
near enough to see it they will heartly regret their
curiosity, or I am mistaken—and we to return to
Mobile.
It was dark before the Diana was well down off
Fort Pickens again, and, as she passed out to sea
between it and Fort M'Rae, it was certainly to have
been expected that one side or other would bring her
to. Certainly our friend Mr. Brown in his clipper
Oriental would overhaul us outside, and therheelayal.
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With all the bathos of that remarkable structure it

could not go down in such a short row. And if it
did ? Well, "there's not a more terrible place for
sharks along this coast," the captain had told us
incidentally en route. Our own boat was inclined
to impartiality in its relation with the water, and
took quite as much inside as it could hold, but we
soused into it, and the men pulled like Doggett's
Badgers, and soon we were out of shark depth and
alongside the jetty, where were standing to receive
us Mr. Brown, our friend of yesterday, Capt. Vogdes,
and Capt. Berry, commanding a United States bat-
tery inside the fort. The soldiers of the guard were
United States regular troops of the Artillery, wore
blue uniforms with brass buttons and remarkably
ugly slouched felt hats, with an ornament in the
shape of two crossed cannon. Captain Vogdes in-
formed me that Colonel Moore had sent off a reply
to my letter to the fleet, stating that he would gladly
permit me to go over the fort, but that he could not
allow any one else under any circumstances whatever
to visit it. My friends were therefore constrained to
stay outside, but one of them picked up a friend on
the beach and got up an impromptu ride along the
island. The way from the jetty to the entrance of
the fort is in the universal deep sand of this part of
the world ; the distance from the landing-place to
the gateway is not much more than 200 yards, and
the approach to the portal is quite unprotected.
There is a high ramp and glacis on the land side,
but the face and part of the curtain in which the
gate is are open, as it was not considered likely
that it would ever be attacked by Americans. The

sharp angle of the bastion on this face is so weak
that men are now engaged in throwing up an ex-
tempore glacis to cover the base of the wall and the
casemates from fire. The ditch is very broad, and
the scarp and counterscarp are rivetted with brick-
work. The curvette has been cleared out, and in
doing so, as a proof of the agreeable character of
the locality, I may observe upwards of 60 rattle-
snakes were killed by the workmen. An abattis
has been made along the edge of this part of the
ditch—a rough inclined fence of stakes and boughs
of trees. " Yes, Sir ; at one time when those
terrible fire-eating gentlemen at the other side
were full of threats, and coming to take the place
every day, there were only 70 men in this fort,
and Lieutenant Slemmer threw up this abattis
to delay his assailants, if it were only for a few
minutes, and to give his men breathing time to use
their small arms." The casemates here are all
blinded, and the hospital is situate in the bomb-
proofs inside.
it The gate was closed ; at a talis-
manic knock was opened, and from the external
silence we passed into a scene full of activity and
life, through the dark gallery which served at first
as a framework to the picture. The parade of the
fort was full of men, and at a coup d'ceil it was
obvious that great efforts had been made to pre-
pare Fort Pickens for a desperatt defence. In the
parade were several tents of what is called Sibley's
pattern, like our bell tents, but without the lower
side wall, and provided with a ventilating top,
which can be elevated or depressed at pleasure.
The parade ground has been judiciously filled with
deep holes, like inverted cones, in which shells will
be comparatively innocuous; and, warned by Sum
ter, everything has been removed which could
prove in the least degree combustible. The officer
on duty led me straight across to the opposite angle
of the fort. As the rear of the casemates and bomb-
proofs along this side will be exposed to a plunging
fire from the opposite side, a very ingenious screen
has been constructed by placing useless gun plat-
forms and parts of carriages at an angle against
the wall, and piling them up with sand and earth
for several feet in thickness. A passage is thus
left between the base of the wall and that of the
screen through which a man can walk with ease.
Turning into this passage we entered a lofty bomb-
proof, which was the bed-room of the commanding
officer, and passed through into the casemate which
serves as his head-quarters. Col. Harvey Brown
received me with every expression of politeness and
courtesy. He is a tall, spare, soldierly-looking man,
with a face indicative of great resolution and energy,
as well as of sagacity and kindness, and his at-
tachment to the Union was probably one of the
reasons of his removal from the command of Fort
Hamilton, New York, to the charge of this very
important fort. He has been long in the service,
and he belonged to the first class of graduates who
passed at West Point after its establishment in
1818. After a short and very interesting conver-
sation, be proceeded to show me the works, and
we mounted upon the parapet, accompanied by
Captain Berry, and went over all the defences.
Fort Pickens has a regular bastioned trace, in out-
line an oblique and rather narrow parallelogram,
with the obtuse angles facing the sea at one side
and the land at the other. The acute angle, at
which the bastion towards the enemy's batteries is
situate, is the weakest part of the work ; but it was
built for sea defence, as I have already observed,
and the trace was prolonged to obtain the greatest
amount of fire on the sea approaches. The crest
of the parapet. is covered with very solid and well-
made merlons of heavy sandbags, but one face, and
the gorge of the bastion, are exposed to an enfilading
fire from Fort M'Rae, which the Colonel said he
intended to guard against if he got time. Ali the
guns seemed in good order, the carriages being
well constructed, but they are mostly of what are
considered small calibres now-a-days, being 32-
pounders, with some 42-pounders and 24-pounders.
There are, however, four heavy Columbiads, which
command the enemy's works on several points very
completely. It struck me that the bastion guns
were rather crowded. But, even in its present
state, the defensive preparations are most credit-
able to the officers, who have had only three weeks
to do the immense amount of work before us. The
brick copings have been removed from the parapets,
and strong sandbag traverses have been constructed,
to cover the gunners, in addition to the " rat-holes '
at the bastions. More heavy guns are expected,
which, with the aid of a fewmore mortars will
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onishing rate through the phosphorescent watelvijl 9
with a prow of flame and a bubbling waked (lancing
meteor-like streams flowing from her helm, as
though it were a furnace whence boiled a stream of
liquid metal. "No sign of the Oriental on our Ice
how ?" " Nothin' at all in. sight, sir." The sharks
and huge rays flew off from the shore as we passed,
and darted out seawards, marking their runs in
brilliant trails of light. On sped the Diana, but
no Oriental came in sight.
I was tired. The sun had been very hot ; the ride
through the batteries, the visits to quarters, the ex-
ettrE4ion +.l):,_,kens had found out my weak places,
4;, nead was aching and legs fatigued, and so 1
thought I would turn in for a short time, and I
dived into the shades below, where my comrades
were already sleeping, and kicking off my boots
lapsed into a state which rendered me indifferent to
the attentions no doubt lavished upon me by the
numerous little familiars who recreate in the well-
peopled timbers. It never entered into my head,
even my dreams, that the captain would break the
blockade if be could—particularly as his papers
had not been endorsed, and the penalties would be
sharp and sure if he were caught. lint the confi-
dence of coasting captains in the extraordinary
capabilities of their craft is a madness—a halluci-
nation so strong that no danger or risk will pre-
vent their acting upon it whenever they can. I was
assured once by the " captain" of a 13illybov,"
that he could run to windward of any frigate in her
Majesty's service, and there is not a skipper from
Hartlepool to Whitstable who does not believe his
own "Mary Ann," or " Three Grandmothers," is,
on certain" pints," able to bump her fat bows and
scuttle-shaped stern faster through the seas than
any clipper which ever flew a pendant. I had been.
some two hours and a-half asleep when I was
awakened by a whispering in the little cabin.
Charley, the negro cook, ague-stricken with terror,
was leaning over the bed, and in broken French
was chattering through his teeth, " Monsieu, Mon-
sieu, nous sommes perdus ! The bateman de guerre
nous poursuit. Il n'a pas encore tire. va tirer
bientot ! Oh mon Dieu! mon Dieu!" Through
the hatchway I could see the skipper was at the
helm, glancing anxiously from the compass to the
quivering reef points of his mainsail. "What's all
this we hear, captain ?" " Well, Sir, there's been
somethin' a runnin' after us these two hours" (wry
slowly). But I don't think he'll keech w up no
how tide time." " But, good heavens, you know,
it may be the Oriental, with Mr. Brown on board."
"An wall—may bee. But he kep quite close up on
me in the dark—it gev me quite a stark when I seen
him. May be, says I, he's a privateerin' chap, and
so I draws in on shore close as I cud,—gets mee
centre-board in, and, says I, I'll see what yer med
of, mee boy. He an't a gaining much on us." I
looked, and sure enough, about half or three-quar-
ters of a mile astern, and somewhat to leeward of
us, a vessel, with sails and hull all blended into rt.
black lump, was standing on in pursuit. I strained
my eyes and furbished up the glasses, but I could
make out nothing definite. The skipper held
grimly on. The shore was so close we could have
almost leaped into the surf, for the Diana, when
her centre-board is up, does not draw much over
four feet. " Captain, I think you had better shako
your wind, and see who he is. It may be Mr.
Brown." " Meester Brown or no I can't help car-
rine on now. I'd be on the bank outside in a minit
if I didn't hold my course." The captain had his
own way; he argued that if it was the Oriental
she would have fired a blank gun long ago to bring
us to ; and as to not calling us when the sail was
discovered he took up the general line of the cruelty
of disturbing people when they're asleep. Ah !
captain, you knew well it was Mr. Brown, as you
let out when we were safe off Fort Morgan. By
keeping so close in shore in shoal water the Diana.
was enabled to creep along to windward of the
stranger, who evidently was deeper than ourselves.
See there ! Her sails shiver ! so one of the Crew
says; she's struck ! But she's off again, midis after
us. We are just within range, and one's eye become
quite blinky, watching for the flash from the bow,
but, whether privateer or United States schooner she
was too magnanimous to fire. A stern chase is a long
chase. It must now be somewhere about 2in the
morning. Nearer and nearer to shore creeps
the Diana. " I'll lead him into a pretty mess, who-
ever he is, if he tries to follow me through the
Swash," grins the skipper. The Swash is a very
shallow, narrow, and dangerous passage into Mobile
Bay, between the sand-banks on the east of the main
channel and the shore. Our pursuer holds on, but
gains nothing. The Diana is now only some nine
or ten miles from Fort Morgan, guarding the en-
trance to Mobile. Soon an uneasy dancing motion
welcomes her approach to the Swash. " Take a
cast of the lead, John ! " Nine feet." " Good !
Again !" " Seven feet." " Good—Charley, bring
the lantern." (Oh, Charley, why did that lantern
go out just as it was wanted, and not only expose
us to the most remarkable amount of " cussin," im-
precation, and strange oaths our ears ever heard,
but expose our lives and your head to more immi-
nent danger ?) But so it was, just at the critical
juncture when a turn of the helm port or starboard.
made the difference perhaps between life and death,
light after light went out, and the captain went
dancing mad after intervals of deadly calmness as
the mate sang out, " Five feet and a-half! seven
feet—six feet—eight feet—five feet—four and a-half
feet (oh Lord!)—six feet," and so on, through a.
measurement of death by inches, not at all agree-
able. And where was Mr. Brown all this time?
Really we were so much interested in the state of
the lead-line, and in the very peculiar behaviour of
the lanterns, which would not burn, that we scarcely
cared much when we heard from the odd hand and
Charley that she had put about, after running
aground once or twice, they thought, as soon as
we entered the Swash, and had vanished rapidly
in the darkness. It was little short of a miracle
that we got past the elbow, for just at the critical
moment, in a channel not more than 100 yards
broad, with only six feet water, the binnacle
light, which had burned steadily for a minute,
sank with a sputter into black night. When the
passage was accomplished the captain relieved
his mind by chasing Charley into a corner, and
with a shark, which he held by the tail, as the
first weapon that came to hand, inflicting on him
condign punishment, and then returning to the
helm. Charley, however, knew his master, for he
slyly seized the shark and flung his defunct corpse
overboard before another fit of passion came on,
and by the morning the skipper was good friends
with him, after he had relieved himself by a series
of castigations of the negligent lamplighter with
every variety of Rhadamanthine implement.
The Diana had thus distinguished her dirty little
person by breaking a blockade and giving an excel-
lent friend of ours a great deal of trouble (if it was
indeed Mr. Brown), as well as giving us a very
unenviable character for want of hospitality and.
courtesy ; and for both I beg to apologise with this
account of the transaction. But she had a still
greater triumph. As she approached Fort Morgan
all was silence. The morning was just showing a
grey streak in the east. " Why, they're all asleep
at the fort," observed the indomitable captain, and.
regardless of guns or sentries down went his helm,
and away the Diana thumped into Mobile Bay, and
stole off in the darkness towards the opposite shore.
There was, however, a miserable day before us.
When the light fairly broke we had got only a few
miles inside, a stiff northerly wind blew right in
our teeth, and the whole of the blessed day we
spent tacking backwards and forwards between one
low shore and another low shore, in water the colour
of peasoup, so that temper and patience were ex-
hausted, and we were reduced to such a state that
we took intense pleasure in meeting with a drown-
ing
alligator. He was a nice-looking young fellow,
about 10 feet long, and had evidently lost his way,
and was going out to sea bodily, but it would have
been the height of cruelty to take him on
passed board
our ship, miserable as he was, though he
within two yards of us. There was, to be sure, the
pleasure of seeing Mobile in every
lump and
Ina
assible view,
far and near, and east and west,he and
more than our
d any
run out, but it was not relished a
very gamy Bologna
dinner, which consisted of °decided whether he would.
sausage, pig who had not
cook. At sin the even-
be pork or bacon, and °onions fried in a terrible pre-
paration of Charley, the
g been nearly 14 hours beating
were landed at an outlying
ing, however, having
about 27
miles,
wed off for the Battle House and
are filled with
wharf, andml
wi the usual rub-a-
-g .ands, an parades of
rest. The streetsb
dub- companies
dubbin
o
f the citizens in grotesque garments and arma-
ment, all looking full of fight and secession. I
write my name in the hotel book at the bar as
usual. Instantly young Vigilance Committee, who
has been resting his heels high in the air, with one
eye on the staircase and the other on the end of his
cigar, stalks forth and reads my style and title, and
of slapping
I have the satisfaction the door in his
face as he san-aters after me to my room, and
looks curiously in to see how a man takes off his
boots. They nre all very anxious in the evening to
know what, 1 think about Pickens and Pensacola,
and I am pleased to tell the citizens I think it will
be a vary tough affair on both sides whenever it
comes. I proceed to New Orleans on Monday.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.--•
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Juno was 2,605, of which 771 were new cases.
The "Antiquary " would have stoutly maintained the im-
possibility of a message being received in Landon within a
few minutes of its being written in Edinboro'. But it is un-
deniable. Equally so is the fact of grey hair being restored
to its natural colour, and neuralgia and nel TOW headache
cured by Herring's magnetic brushes and combs. Recent
improvements have made them almost ini fallible. N•n•-:
Counterfeits are Doing made. Caws, 32, Bo ,ainghall-stree"
London.