New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-19

-'St sam the Pensacola Observer, of Tuesday last,
Wv enrs frract the following:
aicer AT Nturday morning last, in compliance with
tlabnma pm Col. Wm. Fl. Chase, commanding
Tenant ", (his point, the following companies from
IL rnare %, ennder the immediate command of Col.
Mont ntgo"J maX, of the State, took up the line
snupk I,5or the Warrington Navy Yard towit: ::
mess; and every True Blues, Capt. Andrews; We
rrsd, /, shsslLight Guards, Capt LOOMS; Tuskegee
Light ~ffhtanry, Capt. Swanson; Metropolitan
mandng Pensacola Guards, Capt. Bright; Rifle
Rangers Capt. Perry; Pensacola Artillery, Capt.
Jordan. The three last companies are of this city.
The command, rank and file, numbered nearly five
hundred men.
The troops arrived at the cast entrance of the
Warrington navy. yard about IL O'Clock, A. NJ, and
there halted Col. LomaX, accompanied by Major
Marks and Aljutaat Burrows, of the Alabama
regiment, and Co!. r. l. Campbell, ald; de- camp to
Col. Chase, and Capt. Randolph, late Of the United
States army, as also Capt. Farrand, of the yard
proceeded Immediately to the office of Com. Arm
strong, commanding, for an interview, which was
promptly accepted by the venerable chlet officer
of the yard, when an event Immediately transpired
affecting as it was important. After the introduce
ton of the distinguished parties, Col. LomaX read
the order from the Governor of Florida by au-
thorty of which he demanded immediate posses
sion of the yard and its paraphernalia of every des
crpti0n.
Commodore Armstrong responded, substantially;
for we cannot give the precise language that he
mad devoted nearly Gne Wlole OF Ills long lie TO
the public service of his country, that he had loved
and protected its flag in sunshine and in storm, that
his heart was then bleeding over the contemplation
of the distracted condition of the American Union ;
that he was a native of Kentucky, which had no
navy, and, therefore, knew not where he should go
to make livelihood in his declining years that he
had no adequate force to make resistance and that
if he had, Notwithstanding the foregoing COnsidera-
tions, he would prefer the loss of his own life to
the destruction of his fellow countrymen. His
voice trembled with emotion he closed his brief
and affecting remarks, by the announcement that
he renquished his authority to the representative
of the sovereignty Of Florida.
The order Immediately given by Capt. Rem.
shaw the flag officer, to haul down the flag of the
Union, which was done; and, in lieu thereof, is
another flag with thirteen alternate stripes of red
and white, and blue field with large white star
announcing the changed political condition of our
State.
Capt. Randolph was placed in command of the
yard, and Col LomaX took possession Of Fort Ba-
rancas and quarters, where he remains stationed,
Immediately opposite and in full view OF Fort
Pickens occupied by the United States troops with
the old flag of the Union flying in the breeze upon
its frowning walls. The spiked guns, fifteen in
number, at Fort Baraneas, have been replaced, by
drilling, for effective
Lieut.. Simmer, in command Of Fort Pickens, is
a native of one of the New England States, and has
the reputation of being brave officer. In reply
to the commissioner, who waited on him to know
If he would surrender the fort, lie said he had iii
structions from Washington to keep it, and shoult
not violate them. He will, doubtless, resist as lops
as he can. He must ultimately yield, however, tt
the superiority of numbers. We have never seeI
finer looking troops than those composing the com
panes from Alabama. Well schooled in military
tactics, gallant and devoted to the interests of the
qualifications, terrible will be the assault WheI
made upon the hostile fortifcation.