Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-02
HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM FORT
PICKENS.
Active Preparations for a Fight.

AcGtFe preparations LoF u ElkHts
The Warrington correspondent of the New Or
leans Delta writes under date of the 18th ult.. as
follows:
: In the meantime The stars and stripes futter in
the breeze which sweeps the ramparls of Fort
Pickens. Many military eye views the shelving
redoubts, and the saying angles of that fort with
keen desire of scaling their heights and planting
the eightstar trcolor of the South upon its flagstaff
Like noble hounds in the lesh, they await the cry
of 4" charged And if the taking of Fort Plekens
depended upon the decision of the young men now
encamped on the semicircular coast which faces IT,
tomorrow's sun would shine upon the Southern
ensign floating over its guns or upon their bodies
Ali the rumors you have heard about the demand
of Com. Slemmer, that the Navy Yard should be
delivered up. etc., etc., have no foundation. Inc
stan quo ben since the arrival of the troops here
EXCEPT the building of batteries mounting of heavy
guns ETC.. has been preserved. There IS apparent
ly busy times at Fort Pckens, and men and mules
are constantly at work there. They will have
buster times by and by. Martial law has been in
existence here for 10 these many days. and civilians
find it difficult to get along without coming under
the shining point of picket guards bayonet. One
is never out of sight of sentinel, who brlngs you
to" with stern Halt" and rather suggestive in
dication of thesaforesaid bayonet But these senti
nels are always polite, and though this measure of
precautOn is eminently udicious and proper. those
who are properly prepared have no difficulty
IN getting along.
Pensacola is seven miles across the bay from the
Navy Yard. Woolsey is iDmeda ely this side of it,
and Warrington the other side of the Navy Yard.
Barrancas is about mile and half, and Fort
McRea four miles, by land, from Warrington. Fort
McRea is the nearest fertilization Pickens and in
the event of pyrotechnc display from the guns of
these warlike masses of masonry, will make dread
full havoc among the defenders of that fort. Col.
Jo Davis, of Canton. Madison county, Mississippi,
relative of the President is in command Fort Nc
Rea. Two whole coast, for a distance of eight or
ten miles, is bristing with Southern bayonets and
the fierce mouths of "a and 36-pounders point sea-
ward from every conceivable point on the beach
Beyond, and seward of Santa Rosa Island, the
masts of the Lincoln men-of-war stand out boldly
above the scrubby timber behind which they seem
to sneek. They six in number, and in the event
of gale would be utterly useless in giving assist
they could not do any material injury either to
forts or batteries, to the towns our beach, as
the distance from where they too great to cast
shot shell accurately. and they dare not ap-
proach nearer for fear of being sunk by Colum-
biads. Besides before U9y long, fleet they 1rot not Of
aoW appear from certain quarters, politely throwing
down the guage of battle and then
"May God defend the righti"
We are daily IN the receiptof heavy guns, NOR
tars and other munitions of war. Ia ten days, the
gap, which is now only four miles in length. in the
Montgomery and Pensacola Railroad, will be COM
pleted, and large amount of heavy ordnance, in
Guiding sixteen Counbiads, mortars, &c, now at
Montgomery, will be shipped here.