New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-11
FLoR1DIAN CORRESPONDENCE.

| Special the New Orleans Crescent
WARRINGTON, fla, April G, 1861.
| Mr.. Edi0r-The man who daily manufactures
the war news for an excited and inquirng public
is likely, from present appearances here, to have
busy time of it. At no time since the commence
ment of the present difficulties have hostilties ap-
| peared so imminent and so inevitable.
Before forty eight hours, $500 men, who are now
| on the march, will have arrived here; and from
dispatches that have been received from Mont.
gomery and Charleston, it is generally understood
| that SO soon as Sumter has been taken or capitu-
lated, the heavy guns in use there will be trans
ported hitler and mounted for immediate service.
Lieut.. Slemmer will be called upon to surrender
his fort in given time and, upon his refusal, the
order will be given tor that attack which cannot
fail to be victorious one, but purchased by the
best blood of the land The sacrifice of life cannot
but be fearful; the guns of the fort commanding
every approach thereto, and when our men shall
have scaled the walls it is to be feared that still
more horrible fate awaits them.
1t is known that every bastion is thoroughly IN
dermined, and should the United States troops be
finally driven from the walls, the train will be
fred, giving them time to retreat into the keep,
which is a building Of solid masonry, completely
bomb proof, and our brave fellows will be blown
into the air. This keep is by no meansimpregnable,
that should this dreadful catastrophe occur the
butchers who have designed it must be taken, and
will, without doubt, be sacrificed to the fury of the
survivors. How many brave hearts are to be
stlled forever, and how many tender ones to be
left to weep for them, time alone can show. The
men are in high spirits at the thought of the APP
preaching brush' as they term it, and at every
mess-table individual hopes and aspirations to
laures, and wishes for the common glory of all,
are the constant topics
The g Z0N-ZOHS,' our ZOu-Zous, are highly
elated at having been promised the favor (they
call it) to be the first to assault the breach Their
only anxiety being that they hear nothing of their
comrades, whom they have been expecting daily.
The officers have been interchangeable, and the men,
as q rule, attentive and obedient, ana by these
several qualities have, considering the short time
they have had attained proficiency in their drill
that is surprising. Your correspondent went to
take a look at Pensacola yesterday. Dear Cres-
cent have you ever been to Pensacola? If not,
you've treat to come, and treat that would
by no means recommend you to avail yourself of.
We went once, and we don't propose to go again.
Fancy city composed of four drug stores,
three bar-rooms, two hotels and custom-hOuse,
where the road is alternately deep sand or sharp
oyster-shells and inhabited by a race who live on
sailors, soldiers, fish and oysters. Fancy this, and
you fancy Pensacola, although we cannot say we
ourselves fancy it at all.
1t s rumored that the men under Lieut. Slemmer
are very disatfected, but this is mere one of a
thousand similar reports upon which no real de-
pendence can be placed.
Dispatches have just been received, as the above
was being written, which it is believed are of the
utmost Importance. We close this to save this
mail, and by. our next we fear to have to report
that grim visaged war hath shown his wrinkled
front. ZoU Zou.
o.