Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-07
From Pensacola.

From Pensacola.
The following facts have come to our
knowledge from a source that we know to
be reliable:
About ten days ago Gen. Bragg issued
an order interdicting, in the strongest
terms, all correspondence from Pensacola
for publication. A few days later he re-
peated the order, threatening total sus-
pension of the mails if this correspondence
we're not stopped.
There are some indiscreet and reckless
writer's who continue their correspondence
with the press, making their quarters at,
and heading their correspondence from,
Pensacola. This may soon cause a sus.
pension of the mails.
There are about 5000 Confederate troops
at Pensacola. The work of erecting bat
teries at all points within reach, goes on
briskly aud assiduously, though it is un-
derstood that they still lack some days of
preparation to enable them to open effec-
lively. The unfinished gap in the railroad
to Montgomery will be closed.up by the 18th
of May, which will enable our Government
to transport some heavy siege artillery,
which is greatly needed. About twenty
Columbiads, most Of them of eight.incb
calibre, and two or three mortars, are al
ready mounted. The other artillery is most
ly 32-pounders.
The depot for provisions has been re-
moved few miles in rear of the camp, to
place it out of reach of the enemy's guns.
The Navy Yard was the depot, but it was
unsafe to continue it as such.
It is not thought that any immediate COL
lisiou will take place. The enemy are too
weak to attack, and our forces are uupre-
pared to attack them. Neither will, there
fore, attempt an assault. The prospects in
dicate slow and long siege, probably of
six months duration.
The garrison in Pickens is $50, and there
is reserve on the ships of about 1000
more.
The fleet Of the enemy will not be very
effective. 1t will be utterly impossible for
them to enter the bay, and they cannot get
within effective range of our troops. The
channel is narrow and tortuous The en-
trance of sailing vessel, even with ia.
vorable wind, is slow and difficult, Oh &C.
count of the peculiar channel and the pecu.
liar tides that run in it.
The feet would be troublesome only in
our operations upon Santa Rosa Island.
Two deserters reached Pensacola, April
20, from Pickens. They report that there
are eighty negroes in the fort: who we're
hired at Key West, and are used for labo.
rers. A boats crew of seven men, belong
ing to the enemy, we're also captured on the
same day.-Mercu1y.
@- Col. Spaldiug, of Virginia, recently
from Washington. informs the Richmond
Dispatch that, in coming through the streets
in an omnibus, he saw party of gentle
men dusty with travel and paning with ho:
haste. These were the Wall s'recr bankers
on their way to the White House, whom
the New York Herald reports as hurrylng
to Washington to offer their money 70 the
Government. They are hurrying there,
Colonel Spalding learned, for very differ
ent purpose, viz: to invoke Lincoln, in
Heavens name, to stop his proceedings, for
the present, at least till some arbitration
could interfere, or New York would be
ruined. This Col. Spaldiug had from high
authority.
@- The Governor of Missouri has taken
half q million of dollars, intended for the