Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-29

Tnportaut Intelligence from Fort Rlek'
e5...Tbe Home squadrOu Destitute Of Proc
visions. -, -.
We have sdvices from Florida which state
that If the storeship Supply can reach War
rineton, provisions and stores can be semitic
Fort P,ckens. We extract from the impor-
,ant communication which contains thisnews
the following;
usince the inaugural we have commenced
10 work with a will here. Forts McRsa ana
Barrancas have over one hundred guns. A
new sand battery has just been oompieteo'H
CAPTAIN Austin, Of the Warrington LIgh'
Infantry. killed a man named Garret Dur-
land for shouting for the Union. hespecUaole
,re,t,emen unfavorable to secession, have
6o5 to take shelter on board the steamer
Wysndotte. of the home q .et Eight negroes
oa5,a here last week, and offered their SER
vices 10 Lieutenant Slemmer, but he declined
and sent them back TO the Pensacola author-
tiles, which incensed many OF US. Ihey
were slaves owned in Pensacola. General
Bragg has arrived aud taken charge OF the
secession forces. The barracks and hospital
are in such a state Of filth that II the least
warm weather comes disease must break out.
In consequence of a rumor reported to the
commander OF the Wyandotte, that 1000
troops were about 70 make an attack on
Piokeps by coming on RATS from Santa holas
Island. the officers and men of the feet were
ali ordered to be ready for landing, every
soldier and sailor being supplied with forty
rounds of cartridges; but th7 thing was
boax. The officers and men are in state OF
feverish excitement to hear from home. Let
ters addressed to the care of MessEs. Jpdahh i.
Brown & Co., Mobile Alabama, will go
direct"
AN the ships Of the Home Squadron are
ont of provisions But for the energy and
enterprise of Captain Adams Of the Sabine
they would have had 10 leave Florida altogetn-
er. Since the vessels arrived at Pensacola
not line had been received from the Navy
Department. The steamers can get no wood
and water. Another ship illed with stores
should be sent of at once. 4" A smuggler
from Pensacola" was selling water at four
cents a gallon. The officers and crews OF the
entire feet are told of, to land at signal
from Lieutenant Slemmer.
A correspondent of the n. Y. Times writ
ing from the steamer Brooklyn, says;
Fort Pickens is in a state of admirable
delence-the guns glisten in the sun, as a
warning monitor not to approach It on a
hostile mission. Lieut.. Slemmer, with his
garrison, is able, not only to repulse all at
/ tacks, but as Pickens commands all the forts
and batteries in the hands OF the State troops
he is also able to silence them in an in
! credibly short space Of time
In construction this fort is a frst-class pen
tagonal Fashioned work, built OF stone, brick
and bitumen, with covered ways, dry ditch,
and outworks complete. It's walls are about
forty feet in height by thirteen feet in thick
ness it is embrasured for two tiers Of guns,
/ in bomb-proof casemates, and one tier ofguns
omen. or en- barbette. The guns from this
work radiate to every point Of the horizon
with flank and en6,ading fire in the bitches
and at every angle of approach. From the
date of commencing this fort to the period Of
finishing was twenty-five years. It cost th'
Federal Government over one million O.
dollars. Its spresent armament consists o.; II
bastion-Twenty-s 24-pound howizers.-
Casemste-Four 42-pounders, sixty-two 32'
Founders, sixty 24-pOunders. En- barbette-
Twenty-four inch howitzers, six ls-pouRd
ers twelve I2-pOunders, one inch Columbia
mounted, and five l0-inch mortars. Thes'
particulars, I believe, are very correct but
will not pretend that they are perfectly so.