Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-10-17
rom the New Orleans Delta
From the New Orleans Delta. Further from Pensacola. Details of the attack on Santa Rosa Island--The Zouapes' T0n0mini0us Fii0hf

Details of the attack on Santa Rosa Island-7he
 Zouapes' Ignominious Flight.
 MOBILE, October l0.-rhe special correspon- dent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing last even- ing Wednesday, at Pensacola, sends the follow ing details of the night attack of our forces on Santa Rosa Island
 There were HOO men in the expedition, under Brig. Gen. Rusgles They crossed over to the island at o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, About % minutes past the first gun was fired, and in 46 minutes all that was left of the numerous camps, and the extensive cOmmissary build ings that had been erected there, was but one mass of smouldering ruins. The hospital structure is the only building standing upon the island of Santa Rosa.
 Wilson's (New York Zouaves) camp was the first one reached. The sentinels, completely sur prised, were either killed or captured, and the whole regiment, with it's chief found safety only in rapid flight beyond the eastern walls of Fort Pickens. The scenes which occurred when this camp was invaded, are described as being ludcrous beyond description or belief.
 The gallant colonel took to his heels with nothing but brief skirted neither garment to cover his na- kedness, and the race between him and his valiant braves presented struggle for precedence more closely contested than any ever witnessed over the race course. Bull Ran was nothing in comparison with it.
 Our men pursued the fugitives with determina- ton, pauSlnS now anu tueu GO Ire DuluiS UT ell campment, or to drive rat tail file into the touch holes of the huge cannon that met them at almost every step They advanced to within mile of Pickens. Not gun from the ramparts was fired to check the advancing column; while the nearest sentinels including those on the very mound that goes down to the heavy swinging gates of the fortress, were sent to their long account.
 The expedition having succeeded beyond the hopes of the most sanguine, our forces returned eastward. On their return, corpse after corpse of the enemy met their view, while many were badly wounded.
 Not gun all this time had been fired from the fleet, whose presence and whose menaces have so long insulted us.
 Our troops were on the Island from until in the morning. The boats engaged in the expedi- tion were tow ed back by the steamers Ewing, Tune and Neafe.
 Of the Confederates dozen or more were kill ed, and twenty-n nine were wounded. The latter are now in the hospital at Pensacola
 Among the killed are Capt. Bradford, of Flori- da and Lieut. Nelms, of Georgia The latter, an adutant nf one of the Georgia regiments, died iust the boat, on its return, reached the wharf 4 braver chivalric gentleman never breathed. Lieut.. Sayre, volunteer aid to Gen. Anderson, was shot through the hip.
 Some of our exhausted men were probably over looked and left on the Island. Major Wedges, U. A., and thirty other federals are prisoners in our hands.
 Lieut.. Slaughter, of the Mobile Continentals, who was taken prisoner while bearing white flag to Fort Pickens, has been released.