The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-27
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| Correspondence N y EEraHl
FORT PICKENS.
! GARRISON AT FoRT JEFFERSON -DlsEMBARcATToN OF
the WILSON ZoUAvEs-A DoLEFUL COMPLAINT
| The h'nckading fleet at Fort Pickens embraced
on the 10th, the United States vessels Mississippi
| Wyandot, Colorado and Water Witch. The crew
of the Mississippi brought in a rebel schooner,
! called the Sam Houston, as prize, on that morn
ing, making the eleventh small vessel captured in
| tn Sc waters since the middle of June.
The Vanderbilt reached Torugas on the 10Th of
July, with cargo and dispatches for Fort Jefer-
| son. Here six cOlumbads, ten-inch bore and
! large quantities of shot and she'll were landed
| The fort contains five hundred dweers of whom
the great bulk are Iaborers. The fort is not vet
| hnlshed, but Is rapidly progressing towards COM
p'etlon under the active supervision Of Lieutenant
| j. ST Clair Morton, Of the Corps of Engineers
The work was planned by General Totten, of the
Engineer force. 1t will be completed by next New
ears day, 1t no unforeseen event occurs to pre-
vent. Between now and then Sl65 600 will be
spent among the laborers, of whom Lieutenant
Morton would be glad to have many more.
Those at present employed there are from New
York and Brooklyn. The wages range from dol
lar and a half and tive d"srs TO two dollars and
half per day, and excellent board so that a work
nearly all the money that he earns.
Fort Jefferson, in a very good state of Defence
although unfinished, is under the military urisdc-
ton OF Major l.. G. Arnold, United States artillery.
The garrison consists OF two companies of the Uni
ted States artillery and two Of Wilson's Zouaves,
viz: Company B. Capt. a. 7. Whiinp and Com
pany L. Capt. Dufresue The Zlusves are to be
set to work upon the six cOumbi -dS as soon as
these monster guns shall have been placed upon the
platforms. on the terrerIejnes, in the bastions.
News bad reached TaTtugas that the yellow fever
had broken out at Key West bu, !, was generally
discredted at the time the Vanderbilt left for Fort
jefferson, which the 20th inst.
But to return from this disgression to our disem-
barkAtiOn. On the 25th Of June operations we're
cNmmpnced. eOCiDPprs
sent on shore to clear the land and properly mark
out the ground on which to encsmp. This
accomplished, the cutters, bargss &c, Of the va
riOus men-ot-war lying in the harbOr were brought
alongside, and the men, with heir tents and food
sufficient to sustain them till the stores of the ship
were landed, were huddled together into the boats
and by noon on the following day the decks of the
Vandes biIt were comparatively deserted, and Will
sons Zouaves, amounting to about eig ht hundred
men, landed on the inhospt4bIe island on
the face of this earth. For moment imagine it.
1t is about tweuty-tour miles long and about three
wide. With the exception of Fort Pickens and its
twelve hundred men, no human being habitation
can be seen. As far as the eve reach nothing
is visible but fine white Sand, nterspersed here
and there with few patches of stunted vegetation.
Sufficient timber could not be obtained to supply
the use Of dozen families for a winter. As rep
tiles and other abomiuations their is legion.
Mathematics, moccasins cOpperheads, alligators,
(the latter in a limited quantity. as we highly
encamped,) mosquitoes, sand flies, lizards, toads,
frogs, are our companions by day and night.
n
from mine, awaking from his sleep few nights
ago, discovered moccasin coiled underneath his
arm. This not only unpleasant. but danger
Gus, for they tell me that the moccasins bite is
evitably fatal. Fortunately, however, his unwel-
visitor departed without burtiug bim. Add
to these trfug iHcnnveniences the fact that the
waters around are alive with sharks. both Young
and oil, so that it is very dangerous to advance
into the water higher thsn the knee Zone of the
regular troops was seized while at that depth but
a few weeks ago); the thermometer at 10 degrees
in the shade; the wet season about setting in and
drenchiDg us to the skin, without the possibility of
a change-tor we at present possess but one suit
add to these, say, the near approach of the yell
low and intermittent fevers, fever and ague, cholera
in all its hideous FORMS and you will be able to
tertain some conception of the island we inhabit
and the condition of ourselves.
Mark my words for it, and call me false pro-
phet if my prediction is not verified, that if
compelled to remain here till the end Of August,
more men will be summoned to their last account
from the ravages of climate, the sated provisions
generally provided, and the exposure to the sun by
day and the heavy dew bv night than by the bullet
sabre of the enemy. What i'll the name of
mon sense could have induced the administration to
consign troops like these TO this living tomb, battles
my comprehension. They Ger tainly could have Sc
ected 40 place more pernci0us to the health of the
Northern man than the sandhills we now occupy.
Our character is well known. We are essentially
fighting regiment. The majority is composed of
men bred in their early days to privation and toll,
accustomed to laugh at danger, who value their
lives as nothing, and would AS soon 90 to fight as
to frOc. They the representatives, of the
bone and muscle of New York. What policy, then,
could have dictated the necessity of sending these
un- acclimated troops, whose lives have been any
thing but temperate sober, to the enervatng
influence of climate, the ravages of disease, which
they have no power to repe?
WHAT JOHN BULL, JR., SAYS.
The news Of the defeat at Bull Run has reached
Canada, and is the subject of much comment in
the provincial press. The Montreal Gazeue cites
the facts of the attack aud repulse, and then re
marks in this unfriendly tone:
General Scott did not believe his army in an
efficient state or the proper moment come for his
forward movement. But the New York Tribune
and other papers urged with such clamoTOus per-
sstency that the President and hi, advisers in
terfered with the plan of the campaign, prems-
ture advance has been made, aud we the result.
The "grand army" that was to exterrniuate the
Southerners is 10 full retreat upon Washing gton,
utterly beaten by the superior tactics of the South
ern General, which has enabled him TO mass his
troops as to do what the Northern intended to do
overwhelmn the enemv 1t was not pleasant
thing for philosophc minds to see that this defeat
of the Northern army received rather with
satisfaction than regret, by people rhe streets
here. The North has Dragged much and
loudly, has been ipsoent in it's tone, not only
towards the South, but towards Britain; it has
Dragged so much about threshing Great Britain,
and crumDling up poor little Canada, that sympa-
thy has been alienated from the braggart and the
"
conade was there could be the true metal of which
armies made, and when we discovered so much
lying in the newspaper reports about the Northern
and southern armies, we learned to dIstruSt all
that they said. The South has been bemmed in by
great masses of troops, portion of her territory
wrested from her-h ports blockaded-her every
effort jeered at-ber prospects OF successful hshrng
for her own territory turned into ridicue unit" no
one could help feeling desire to he bro9gGrt
,corsed, and the much abused South, driUen t0 6dy,
achieue a Let Northernsoi be invaded, ard
the current of sympathy would change at once
Ones sympathies, all unressOning as they often
are, will turn towards the side of the weaker power
the party in most imminent danger 80 the
people of Britain always sympathlZed with she
Greeks against the Turks, and the Turks against
the Russians, with the Spainiards and Portuguese
against the French, and the Italians against the
the French and Austrians. Nay, large numbers
of her people sympathized with the Americans
against the troops their government sent
against them in the Revolution. And to-day the
temporary defeat and humiliation of the most in
solent and overbearing power in the world is not
regretted by the majority here. No one believes
the South conquer the North; aud no one re-
grets that the North is unable to conquer and sub
jugate the South in the uen ridi uict style which
newspaper critics aud noisy demogogues so con-
ii IDENTIFY anticipated.
The Quebec Chronicle has the following:
The New York press will doubtless be sadly
downcast now. For ourselves, we have not ex-
ul.ed over the much Wanted Northern victories,
and see no great reason TO rejoice In a Northern
defeat.
cease, and that We should be spared the specta-
Gle of seeing brothers in and language en-
gagged in mortal combat. Neither the North nor
the South can subjugate the other. Let them agree
to what we call separation de bieaS, and be at
peace. There is room enough on this great con-
tinent for three great natOns-a Union of the
British colouies--a Union of the Northern States,
and Confederacy of the southern republics.
The SECRETARY THE Treasury ORDERS PRIVATE
FUNDS TO BAGGED WITHOUT PROCESS OF Law
The following let er has been sent by ex Governor
Pollock, Director of the Mint, to MIR. E. w. Hol-
land, President of the Bank of Fulton, Atlanta,
Georgia. Mr.. Holland sent ST, 1856 to the Phii-
delphia Mint to be coined, and then made an aPph-
cation for the money, to which tbs following
answer was returned:
MINT OF THE UNITED STATES,
Puu.DEIPHIA, June 20, 1861.
SIR-Referring to your letter OF tne iotu M ms
to the Treasurer of the Mint, have 10 stste tnaS
the SECRETARY of the Treasury, to "hom suolntteu
tbo nnostion Of the payment OF the MINT ceruncate
Ma fhu the agent of the Adams Express company,
r e. ~ danosit for coinage made by him IN behalf
lui Fnton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, directs me
y, % ;nfrm YOU that the same may be paid whenever
~ authorities of the State OF Georgia return to
,be;r allegiance to the United States.
am, very respectfully,
JAMES POLLOCK,
Director of the Mint.