Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-27
WAR0&1 1j-W
Letter from Pensacola.

Ihe letter below Is from Pensacola, and
bears the date of the 18th of April. 1t
comes from one of that army of brave, hero
ic men who are waiting impatiently for the
word of command.
This letter contains the latest account from
that point on which the intensest interest has
centred for some time, and will be read with
profound interest
We are situated thus The Warrington
Navy Yard is seven miles by land from Pen
sacola and six miles and three-quarters by
water Our bay is large--somc six miles
wide and ten or fifteen miles long. About a
mile from the Navy Yard, West, is Fort Bar
rancas, and about mile from Fort Barrancas
is Fort McRae, which commands the bar
Directly opposite Fort McRac is Fort Pick
ems, the channel running between them
Near Fort Barrancas is a redoubt On the
opposite side of Pensacola, across the bay, is
Santa Rosa Island, which runs West several
miles to the bar, at the extremity of which
is Fort Pickens. A vessel coming into the
harbor must necessarily pass between Forts
Pickens and McRae, and in close proximity
to Barrancas and the Navy Yard.
General Bragg has several sand batteries on
the beach, strongly fortified, between the
Lighthouse and Fort McRae, and between
Forts McRae and Barrancas, and between
Barrancas and the Navy Yard
The Confederate States have now stationed
at our Notifications about 5000 men-two
regiments from Mississippi (terrible men, ~ one
regiment from Georgia (bravo and well disc-
plined men,) and one or two regiments from
Alabama.
We are placed here in different position
to that of Charleston and Fort Sumter
There is a connection by land to the fortresscs,
while at Charleston your connection is by
water.
Troops are arriving hourly, and I don't
know how many VIC will have here when all
arrive.
There are four vessels outside of the har-
bor-the frigate Sabine, the sloop. of-war ST.
Louis, the steamer Brooklyn Gall large vcs-
sels,l and the gunboat Wyandotte of four
guns, The storeship Supply, with one gun,
has just arrived.
Lieut.. Slemmer had in Fort Pickens about
eighty men, (most of them with the South, it
is bclievcd,) and the Fort could have been
taken but for the want of reflection on the
part OF a Warrington correspondent of the
Pensacola Observer, signed Ncmo," who in
some way ascertaincd that Gen. Bragg intend
ed to send mon on Santa Rosa Island last Fri
day night to erect batteries, and sent it up to
that paper for publication, thinking, perhaps,
that it was smart The paper, no doubt, got
aboard of the feet of Fort Pickens; anyhow
fort Picllcns was reinforced that night This
has been the consequence of newspaper cor
respondencc.
We received to-day the news of the attack
and surrender of Fort Sumter, which was
hailed here with JOY. Our turn comes next,
and look for the attack very shortly. We
have the men to fight with and if they ever
get into Fort Pickcns their officers will never
be able to restrain them We are to have the
hardest fighting here. Here will be, in reali-
ty, the "scat of war" God knows what the
result will be, but our belief is that Prov-
dencc is OH our side Fort Pickens will be
taken. have written more than [ intended.
cannot give you any information respecting
the number of guns we have mounted, or those
the ene:ny haze.
The CONFEDERATE LoAN-The Charles
ton Courier, of yesterday, says:
"The quota of the Confederate loan which
ii was deemed proper and fair to expect, and
which it was desired to procure from South
Carolina, was 81 100000.
The persistent slandcrcrs of the South
will say, of course, that ga forced loan to
that amount was raised or ordered. The
books opened on Wednesday, however, for
the first day, showed, in and for this city
alone the acceptance Of the loan TO the
amount of S2,080,o00 or well nigh double
the whole amount expected from the whole
State. We have no doubt other towns and
cities in the State will respond in equal pro-
portion to population and resources"
A dispatch from Savannah says chat the
private subscriptions on Tuesday amounted to
Sl87 900. The banks had not made their
subscriptions yet.
In Columbia the amount subscribed yester-
day was $3.50, $4,000.
RELIaroNs.-0f tho population of the
world 45 per cent. believe Che Asiatic rei.
gion, 25 per cent. the Christian, 15 per cent.
are Pagan, and Upper cent. AIohammedans.
OF the Christians, about 25 per cent. are
Protestants, or one-sixteenth of the whole
earth's population.
~ ----~s $780, ~
~ A FELLOW out west being asked whether
Che liquor he was drinking was good article,
replied: oval, l don't know, I guess SO. -
There is only one queer thing about it, when
ever wipo my mouth, burn d hole 10 my
shirt sleeve ~ - tf'4 t8f e9t +