The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-04
Highly Interesting from Pensacola.
What the Southern Correspondents say
o. Affairs at Fort pickens.

" AHabFs at Fort PlckeHss
oas dispatches have already announced that
stebels around Fort Pickens are getting unea-
+ discouraged and scared. The correspon-
snce OF our Southern exchanges corroborate
ne statements Of the telegraph. A recent let
% The Memphis Appeal says that there were
y sixteen batteries erected against Fort PICK
= OF which the first, second and third have
IA two forty-four Founders, and two eight and
sinch Columbiads. Fort Pickens was brist-
E,ith cannon. The guns OF the flying artil-
nvere so close and numerous that it was i'm
Ysbe to count them from the rebel quarters.
Il United States troops had twenty horses
ElIng on Santa Rosa Island. Five sand bat
sFss we're being erected on the island by the
eOye'sUent Engineers. The st Louis and Sa-
bHe we're some five miles off, while the Wyan-
doite and Brooklyn were up in the bay opposite
ee Navy Yard, just in position to prevent the
accession troops from landing above the Fort or
Santa Rosa Island.
The writer hints at dissatisfaction among the
lsnAessee and Mississippi volunteers, and ex.
ssses opinions of some Of the officers not at all
NPiimentary to the latter. Without saying
sa as many words, he plainly implies that an
ssek on the Fort will not be attempted at pre-
a. correspondent of the Charleston Mer'
esy, writing from Pensacola, says there 10 a
stal deal Of distress and poverty there and at
''Osey, near the Navy Yard, all the. laborers
. mechanics being thrown out of employment.
correspondent Of one Of the New Orleans pa
p. uses the following language:
Inc United States evidently design naval
~pot Oh Santa Rosa Island. |, is their strong
~ in the South, and will defend it to the last
a. When the fight is to commence no one
q the least idea; but if Gen. Bragg opens Ere
siso weeks, rm no prophet. Prepared or
sl be will answer the first shot. His military
Sss.e;s are bis own"
sa Dc End no praises Of Bragg in any OF the
y Br,irom which We have made our extracts
1 Nsselty of grumbling at the rightly of his
aip&, OF the future policy of tha: com
slider NJ Of the movements of the United
Sps g. u writer in the Mobile Advertiser
sE:
Gen. Bragg is determined to defend at every
an The territory entrusted to his charge
9. Stevens, Of the Engineer corps, came W
:, ~ evening to survey and determine on the CT
ss cetense. The possession ef this Piac!
'ouic be Of immense advantage to the Federal
~ snd hence the precaution OF the command
Nsseheral in having it well defended.
! here is much mystery in the movements o
4 ,swyandotte; for the last two days she ha
s ealloping up and down Santa Rosa beacl
FACE horse Can't you rig up something
Mobile and take her y"--I Gin. Gaz.
,,WsaE WAR PArH.-Gen. Wool, the veteral
1iee ssss, is fully reused to the importaDc
sae occasion, He has notified the govern
nv NJ Washington Of his ability to bring LOG
saen into the field aud open The route throug
ssAoIe. He would also bring into the fell
sixty days force sufficient to dispers
NJ from Richmond, and hold that city
n. POSSESS New Orleans and the mouth Of tn
a. ssppi. This is the way TO talk and act. LIE
N ~ be, to arms to arms! and the Mort
,ssseep down on the South with the wrath Q