Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-04-24
HEADQUARrKRs Provisional ARMY. }
Warrin1fO ton 4 L. ANIL L. IsRi


Nothing Of much interes. has occurred since nv
last letter Of the 18th. Silence and solemuitv per
Vdue The ennTe camp. Every one feels Connections
OF lne forthcoming struggle, and things have as
sumtd the stiffness that precedes the storm The
bay Is cleared Of all sails Scarcely yawI-boat
nipples the calm surface Of the BAY But In tSe
midst OF all this external Stiffness Intense activity
marks our operations. Yesterday-Supdav tbou1b
1t was-was spent IN making new batteries TSo
new ones are going forward on the beach in War
f,hg'on. Another is going up just outside of Fort
Ba rdncas
The enemy are wide awake and actively alert
They expected an attack from US on Fort Pick.ns
on Friday mig ht, the 18th A Warrington cor,e.
pondent OF Pensacola paper publisne letter on
FRIDAY, which stated that Fort PickeDs would be
attacked. The paper eached Fort pickens and
the garrifon took the alarm Ii is said that large
reihloIceHientS were that night thrown into Pick
ems: ms correspondent, whose nom de plume
was Memo" was yesterday arrested and sent
away, by order OF Gen Bragg. His name is Mat
thews, and he is a schoolmasier of this place He
sa nibing fellow, and issuspected of being spy
FOR the enemy. RI
On last Tuesday, the 9th inst Gen. Bragg gave
orders TO close all the liquor shops During the
DAY liquor was still sold secretly. On "wednesday
the whole town was patroled, every house and
room was searched aud large quantities of Iinuoy
were destroyed. 1t is now i'm possible To or n
camp. ~ Oui
A little schooner arrived this mo,ni,o finn,
New Orleans, with hay and corn for the 6ua,'sr.
master. Two hundred more Zouaves arrived
Yesterday by way of Mobile They marched
eighteen miles day through deep sand They
are now four companies Of them, numbering ll0
neh They are IN full Xouave costume, and far
the most soldierlylooking of any corps of the
army fo VI 'no
yesterday evening, at 5 o'clock there was q
great deal of signalling between Fort Pickeps and
lne nset The result OF IL was that the Brooklyn
dropped down the Island opposite s'the Sanm
which is about four miles east Of the NAVY sp,d
a. THIS gap the Island is only 300 yards wide
ne OTHER ships drew up In line along the Island
between the Brooklyn and Fort Pickens. The
eFoeht Objection Of this manpuvre was In nye
vent an ahticil a,ed landing upon the Island bv
troops ny
do not think that the enemy will a,t,ck -.
they will await the first fire from us. I thjnk
tnat you may look for battle here soon after the
<o.n. some unexpected event may hasten IT.
am, since have been writing this letter re-
hably Informed that troops have been tbrown
Into Fort Pickens. This is small matt, o.,
or flcEens has been yirtually reinforced since
the sih OF February. The fleet has. al anv tins
oeeh aDie 10 land achievements in sing lie hour
e, Extract OF letter dated Warrington. April II.
1901, from member Of the Oglethorpe Infantry
We arrived In PensacoIa on SUNDAY nSuht :;
II o,cioc having left Evergreen In the Afternoon
AT nYe We had delig htful ride on Monday mn
The bay from Pensacola TO our present sIafSinnp
We are s1fioned Ia front Of Fort fickens bar ont
~ o. ,n e. reach OF her guns begin to think that
foft Plckens is NOT such terrible thing afte, all
YEA bragg says when our batteries are .Sorouo hlv
prepared We can take II easily"
From another letter:
WARRINsros NAVY YARD. Fla.
we arrived here yesterday evening from pen.
sacoia, on the steamer Ewing. This p.sce 10 about
eish miles from Pensacola. / gszed with pI,asnrs
on tue deep blue sea. We amused ourselves win
singing ana shooting guiis and porpois., Ws