New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-30
WARR1NGToN NAVY YARD. FL.


Nh. Eaitor-Nothing of interest has occurred
here since my last. The army is daily reinforced
Yesterday there arrived the Shreveport Grays 1870;
Captain ST. Pauls Chasseurs d Pied, SO and the
first company Of Marines, Captain Van Benthuy-=
sen. The two first are encamped at Pensacola. The
last came down to the Navy Yard. The. compa-
MES at Pensacola now number 500 rank and file,
and are all under the command of Major Bradford,
of the 1st Louisiana Regulars who is charged with
the defence of thatimpOrtant pont--espeeally inn
portant on account of its being the depot of the
Montgomery Railroad, and of all the supplies OF
the army Major Bradford is engaged in throwing
above and below the city, SO as to command the
approach to town by boats. The boys had some
hard work in digging their trenches, The palms
OF their hands would hardly be recognized by their
most intimate friends in New Orleans. Delicate
young gentlemen, fastidious young clerks have
been compelled to try their hands at the spade,
shovel and Wheelbarrow. Some of them murlnur
little at it, not because the labor is too great, but
because it is grating to their heroic impulses and
military pride, to be reduced to the level of daY-la.
borers and diggers But all admit that this
has been of vast benefit to them developing their
muscles, IN lnyigorating their whole systems, in
making new men of many passe or delicate con-
stitutOns. In the camp at Pensacola there was
quite a sensational occurrence night before last
A suspicious stranger had been seen hanging
about the wharf and the hotel for several days
past whs appeared to be observing matters very
closely. Night before last this stranger mysteri-
ously disappeared from his room of the hotel,
IN which he slept with Tennesseean, having rihed
the pockets OF his room mate, and proceeding to
the wharf at midnight, hired boat to take him
over to a ship in the Bay.
The boat was rowed by black boy; after get
ting some distance out, the stranger told the boy
he wanted to go to the island the hoy objected
when the stranger drew bowie knife and threat
ened to cut the boys throat il he did not comply
with his demand. The boy, under this threat, was
compelled to land on the island, when the stranger
1rn1, nrf of hal l,ap3
Fort Pekens. 1t is believed that the fellow is a
spy There is great anxiety here in regard to spies
aud lmprudent divulgers of the movements and in
tents in the camp, since the defeat of the plan to
storm Plckens at night some weeks ago. This plan
would have certainly succeeded. The men were all
marched to the Navy Yard, whence they were to
be sent at midnight with ladders overt to the island
and surprising the outposts, they would have
stOfmed the fort and taken it by escalade when
there were less than 200 men in the fort This plan
was communicated to the commander of the fort
by some person on the wharf, in conversation with
some of the men from the FORT who had come over
In q boat to communicate with Gen. Bragg. This
information was impaired in the form of o silly
boast and not from any dishonest OR tratorous mo
tive. Butitis this very kind of Boosting which fre-
quently does as much harm as real treachery. The
men in the boat, on their return to the fort com.
municated what they had heard. There were some
movements in the troops this side to confirm the
Intelligence, and the commander immediately or
defed the signal for relief and reinforcement from
the squadron. A gun was fired from the fort and
three rockets discharged, and in q few minutes a
number Of launches Were seen putting outfrom the
ships; all the reinforcements. together with aIarge
naLnoef OF sailors and marines, were thrown into
the fort. After these preparatonsi it would have
been great folly to attempt an escalade. This in
eident led to the adoption of new and rigid rules
by Gen: Bragg in regard to the admission of out
slders into the camp, and the publication of any
movements of the army. which are not at all more
rigorous than the necessity of the case and sound
policy require,
The incident have related concluded the armis
between Semmer and Major Chase, by which the
former bound himself not to reinforce, and our
side were not to erect batteries on Santa Rosa.
This violation on the part Of Captain Adams, Of
the feet, of d solemn pledge which he had given
to General Bragg, ats dinner in Warringt ton d few
days before, produced an immediate non.inter
Course between the fort and the mainland. Since