Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-18
PENaAooLA, AMI DO, ls6l.

PENSACOLA, April 10, 1861.
Eps. LRADRR; Soldiers I more soldiers, and
the cry is still they comel Eight hundred
Mississipplans arriving on sunday last mad,
the aspect Of this auneient cytlsa anything
bat devotional. On Monday two finely equip
ed companies from Augusta, Georgia on
Tuesday, zouaves nom New Orleans; on
Wednesday more GeOrgians from Atlanta,
and a company OF Missippians in the evening.
This morning more Mississippiansaro encamp-
cd on a green square near our windows, and
gathered around a half dozen fires, are cook
ing and eating breakfast, They will leave
the pretty green trampled, scorched and ru-
ined. They leave Immediately for the Navy
Yard, where not less than six thousand are
now gathered, eager for an assault upon Fort
Piekens. Their anxious-not to say blood
hirsty-impatienee, may precipitate hcstili-
ties, but at present they are compelled to
content themselves with killing each other.
Yesterday a quarrel arose in one of the
newly arrived companies, from what cause
I have not learned, which ripened into a
bloody fight in which were killed and
Others injured. Previous to that eleven cases
OF street broils and duels had occurred, eight
or nine Of which had a fatal terminstion.-
Not long since a man was severely wounded
in a fight at the Redoubt an unfinished for
tifeatiOn in the rear'of Fort Barrancas, and
two OF his comrades were depnted to carry
him to the Hospital. On the way they quar-
relied, laid the bleeding man down in the
sand, fought awhile with knives, and then,
as they expressed it 'made up" again. This
horrible farce was two or three times re-
peated, they treading upon their charge in
their drunken frenzy until at last they
reached the Hospital, covered with blood and
bearing a corpse in their
Since Capt. Bragg's order, lately prOmul-
gated, which closes all the liquor shops, it is
to be hoped these outrages will cease.
The opinion most generally prevailing
now is that a conflict is inevitable. Wehear
that a battery has been commentator Santa
Rosa island, which if completed will be far
more dangerous to Fort Pickens than even
the guns of Fort BarraDcas. We hear the
most extravaganza rumors, all given as tele-
graphic, and know not what to believe, but
from the arrival of the Supply with provis-
ions for the fort and ships, we opine that IN
Gle Sam is not quite ready to ~reIinguish his
whilom possessions.
Meanwhile the mechanics at the Navy
Yard, working at starvation prices are clam
sorOuS for better pay, and many, if they dared,
would doubtless cry-"Give US our old pay
masters There is a peculiar look of in
gratitude in the course taken by this partic-
ular section of the South, which has levied
and thriven, and wa1ed fat upon the Gov
eminent it is so anxious to destroy. Truly,
Republics are ~ungrateful.
I hear some little complaint of the in
creased rates of postage in the COnfederacy,
but we think FIVE cents cheap enough for a
budget of pews from OHIO. We pay that
sum extra upon every letter we send or re-
eeiYe.
The country now is in its most delicious
beauty. This city, with its streets lined
with poisoning locusts and China trees, and
its yards bursting over with flowers, is inter.
estiug enough to a stranger, without the old
Spanish romance and national associations
which cluster abouti. Alas, that amid such
loveliness the s'spirit of man should wander
so far from the adivine" al to seem actually
inhuman. May the olive branch of Peace be
yet stretched over it'll H. l.. B.