Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-23
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
''R. TooNBs, Secretary OF State"
The --latest from Pensacola.

The Detroit Tunes of Tuesday, publishes an
interesting statement, furnished by Mr.. Au-
gustus Husson, who left Pensacola June /,
from which we extract as follows:
He says there were about 10 900 men at
Pensacola. On the 18th of May, 500 left for
Virginia, but their place was supplied by
fresh recruits, from Louisiana, be thinks.
There was no talk among the troops that any
considerable number of them were to be
orally in good health. Discipline was strictly
maintained; but he says that Notwithstanding
thlss Gen. Bragg is not unpopular among the
troops, as has been represented.
Mr.. Husson makes noteworthy statement
as to the way the supplies reach Pensac ola.
He says that New Orleans vessels have been
accustomed to land them at a point fifty
miles above Pensacola, ever since the block
ade begun; and that they are conveyed
thence by wagons to Pensacola. He saw q
train of near one hundred and fifty wagons
thus supplied. They talk OF connecting the
two points by railroad.
At Pensacola everything was considered in
READINGS for an attack, a fact the discharge of
the machinists corroborates. All the build
ings at the navy yard had been removed and
the material taken some three miles back in
the woods The batteries, of which there
are some thirty in all were complete, or very
nearly SO. They are all masked sand bate
les, constructed with bastions, and thorough
ly concealed, both from being located in a
forrest in majority of instances, and by
earth coverings. They range all around the
curve, beginning at point above the navy
yard, and extending down past Fort Baran-
cas- 10 McRea. There are is masked batter
~ in the navy yard, and forty 4 to 6 inch
guns. aud four mOrtars not masked. Mr.. Hus-
son could not give Us the number of guns, but
says there is a great number of them. The larg-
est they have are ii inch columbiads. A batter
~ OF the heaviest mOrtars is located at poinls
about midway between the hayward and Fort
Barancas, and the latter and Fort Nj Rae, re-
spectiVely. There are ten mortars at each of
these points, which are Intended to meet the
fire from the bastions of Fort Picken in those
directions. The batteries above the navy
yard, on the spur of land, have been erected
since the Federal troops erected those at San
Ia Rosa Island, and are intended to oppose
them. He says it is impossible for the iH-
mates of Fort Pickens to know the locations
of the masked batteries in the woods. The
batteries located there are equal to the dis
charge of five hundred shots or shells an
hour, and think, in saying this, he does not
over estimate the capacity of the guns.
In the navy yard he says, there is an ob-
servatory some two hundred feet high, from
whch the interior of Fort Pickens can be
dimly seen, and the operations upon Santa
Rosa Island distinctly seen. He says the
Confederates have seen the Federal troops re
peatedly cutting down trees and erecting bat
teries on this island. They have also been
seen indistinctly, working by night. The feet
lay north of Santa Rosa Island, on the ocean
ward side