Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-18
g(Wistellan1epns Artieles.
A Ramble around Pensacola.

A Ramble around Pensacola.
A correspondent of the Mobile advertiser
gives the following pleasant sketch of Pen
sacola and its environs:
The general appearance of things differed
but little from what we had noticed on a
former visit some ten months ago, the first
thing that struck the eye being the absence
of the United States marine uniform from
the officers and sentinels on duty. The
steamer Fulton, lying on the stocks where
she had been placed after being wrecked a
year ago last fall, has been stripped Of ber
planking to the bends, and the timbers Of
her upper works have been set up and par
TALLY planked; most of the guns have been
removed, and two have been planted in
battery behind rampant of sand just out
side the main wharf, but the pyramid Of
balls, the quantity of which we amused our
selves with calculating, aud found tc
amount to about 10000, do not seem tc
have been meddled with. There are more
than 1000 tons of these missiles here, be-
sides what there may be at the different
forts and batteries
Just outside the gate are the Marine Bar.
racks, very neat and conveniently arran
ged group of buildings, consisting of a Corps
de Garde in the centre, with house fot
officers quarters, &c., on each side, and the
quarters for men in the rear The whole is
surrounded by a wall, and eucloses suf6
centIy spacious parade ground for battal
ion of men. The barracks we're occupied
in part by company whose name We omit
ted to learn, and the rest has been assigned
as quarters for the Zouaves.
Warrington is town composed of houses
some neat aud others shabby, built by per
mission of the government on government
land. Its scenery is more peculiar thar
romantic, the principal street being macad
amised with tan bark. and running along
the backbone of drift of that white Sane
which Pensacola bay produces in such un
rivalled purity. Other drifts intervene be-
tween the street and the beach, as we'll a!
few houses with their rear gables directed
towards Fort Pickens, but most of the
houses are facing the water, and the whole
current of travel follows plank walk il
front of these, and hardly keeps its surface
which is as clean and polished as the
kitchen floor Of an old.fashioned New Eng
land farm house-clear from the encroach
ments of the sand. We don't know how
housewives like Warrington, but it is {
place where they have no excuse for slove
illness of house or dress, or for dirty facec
children. A company of soldiers is quar-
tered in the western part of Warrington
and has in charge a two gun battery neal
the waters edge, with bomb proof maga
zue attached, the whole being constructed
with sandbags in foundation of pork bar
rels, that being the style of military archi
lecture most affected by the Todtelbeus o
the Coufederacy, and they have ample sup
plies of both kinds of material at Warning
ton. In the neighborhood of this battery
clear and copious stream runs into tht
sea, giving token that so important mill
tary element as fresh water is not de6cien
in this cur Southern Crimea.
Crossing this stream we soon come to the
Marine Hospital, now the headquarters o
Gen. Bragg, and some distance beyond i
are the general barracks, a large three story
building, only "a portion of the plan of which
is completed, but even now having room
for five or six hundred men Here art
quartered about half of'Col. Claytou's regi
tnent, his OWL quarters being in comfort
able frame building, more to the front onc
the east. In the rear of these is the parade
ground, with room for the maneuvres of {
full regiment, and with convenient houses
around for the quarters of officers, the whole
!, encompassed with growth of liveoak anc
other growth. From the barracks railroad
track furnishes means of conveyance fol
storesto and from the redout, about thous
and yards in the rear of Fort Barrapcas
which itself is some distance further up the
coast, and the light house still further, auc
one or two sandbag batteries have1 beer
constructed on the bluff above the beach ir
the intervening space, but these, we think
have not yet received their armament.
The redoubt, at which we next arrived
is barely visible in certain directions from
the sea, its purpose being to serve as de-
pot of provisions and ammunition for the
other works. 1t is not intended as a work
of offence, and is commanded by the guns
of Fort Barrancas. For its own defence, il
is abuudantly provided with loopholes fol
musketry, and is designed to mount some
eighteen guns of moderate calibre. In the
rear, the Red Eagles have knocked up some
com Portable shanties, which they call the
Eagles Nest, and as we learned that Capt
Posey was with his company, who had moi
yet saturned from inspection, we availed
ourselves of the proffered services of the ser
geanS Of the guard to examine the works.
The redoubt, which may some other day
prove the Malakoff of this system of works
and 50 it has been christened by some o.
its visitors, though unfinished, has received
more attention in its construction than any
other portion of them on this side of the
bay, at least. 1t consists of two long and
two short faces, the gorge being closed by
a curtain which is aanked by shoulders
each intended for one casemate and one
barbette gun. Four barbette guns are in
tended to be mounted in each of the latera
angles of the work, but the foundations even
: of the platforms of these have not been laid
and the whole terrepleine is at present
sand heap, CT rather sand pit, eacumbered
with rubbish. The work is surrounded
with a deep ditch and a ccanterscarp