Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-18
rRor FORT pIcKrSs-HARp TINES.

The following choice extracts are from 9 Northern
source, the correspondent of the New York limit
How New York rtjoioes at tho IijdAnce of Billy
Wilson:
Twsnty.four hours sgo reinforcemsnts were com.
fortably camped on Rosas. You probably know more
about them than do. "Billy Wilson's Regiment" et
inside the lights on the "a b. and Is Rosas Island
write there 10 battalion drill going on and Il looks
queer enough to one who has been thirty years
lar. Their advent here was grand affair, and %
noisy as you can imagine. Cheers do not describe the
extraordinary roars with which every Of vessels
and subseque ntly ourselves, were greeted
"Three groans for Old Bragg" Three groans for
JEFF Davis" "Say, old handy legs, fling down that
fovip9 piece Hold on there squint-eye, thems my
groceries" "Pull that DID niger overheard, and q
thousand other Undesirable phrases greeted my ear
from the crowd, as the Vanderbilt hauled near 70 let
them land.
We have now pretty moderate sick list, considering
the locality, and the circumstances; and scurvy which
recently appeared 10 have design on u.s. gong away.
The heat IA intolersble There times when damp
cloth pressed tightly 10 the wallis will actually emit smoke
Drilling in the sum has been abolished and regret to
see Mr. Wilson's men forced to endure It. Several IN
vads belonging to the regiment and TO our force nave
given way before the scorchng influences Of Foridian
sun and many of them will be sent home 10 the Wander.
b;lt We sent few to the States in the rgate Sabine,
whose officers and men miss sadly. Toe RUNNER
clothes of the troopsas much Of them as We had at
east-hsye been served out and this fact will go far to
neutraizs the dreadful susriDgs endure from the
weather.
The latest news from shore Is dated last evening
amounts to this The rebels have completed their four
new batteries and have them well fitted with guns This
makes about eighteen they have in all including AcRae
and Barrancas Wherever columbads came from, seve-
raj have been mountei on Barrancas, instead Of the
common guns heretofore located there. receive from
several sources assurances that the Secesonss really
need tho necessares OF life and have narrated accounts
10 that effect before. But do think they are exsgger.
ated for this reason that the Alabama railroad Is open,
and surely II there any provisions in the sc-called
Confederate States troops would not be permitted TO
starve in Florida. Besides to tell the TRUTH our own food
is not 10 good that We can afford despe salt pork and
bad biscuit There about FIVE thousand soldiers
attached to Brsggs command The Navy Yard dyest'
ed of everything calculated to burn that could be emov-
ed. company Of Atlanta mechanics garrison the pre-
misses and 90 outside occasionally TO assist in tapping
and mining" on the road to McRea which is better for.
tilted than many suppose. understand that the artie.
ris,s who came from Louisiana rng several of the
guns mounted near tho old navy yard water tsnks.-
There plainly Visible 70 the rraccAd i"a on,
1892 pound pieces lining the wharves at the navy yard
They are well situated, and could seriously annoy
landing psrty in open bo4ts. Tpe bssesy the south
end OF Warrington is said TO be admirably constructed
and manned by good gnnners