Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-26

Sand batteries are N process Of construction
there now.
preparations are making for CONSTRUCTING batteries
on Craney Island. In u few days with the meaus
now at commend, this harbor will be efficiently
projected,
ANOTHER Acco1ST CT THE AFRAIR.
From The Rzprsss' own Reporter.
We cnnversed with Capt &. t. Biamre who ar
rived on the Norfolk train yesterday and learned
from him many particulars interesting to the COM
munity Capt. Blamire has just raised Compa
ny Of Volunteers. and Is on his way to Richmond
10 procure arms for them having served as an off,
Ger in the Mexican war, he is fully competent for
the situation be has been called to.
lit gives much pleasureio say that the damage to
the Navy Yard Is much less than at first antici
pated. The large brick building (which occupies the
front Of the yard and is used as sail loft rggers
and gunner's shop was fred. and all the woodwork
destroyed, but the walls are standing and still good
Both of the ship houses in the yard burned. In
one of them was the seventy four Ne,c York which
has been on stock forty years. The ship house at
the dry stock was not touched.
All the ships in the harbor, excepting the old fri
gate United States, were set fire to and scuttled
They the Pennsy lvania seVenty-fours, Column
bus and Delaware, steam frigate Merrimac, sloops
| Germantown and Plymouth, frigates Raritan and
! Columbia. and brig Dolphin The Germantown was
| lying at the W harf under large pair of sheers,
which thrown across her decks By cutting loose
| at the wharf Many of the cannon. besides being
spiked had their truncheons knocked off, thus
derng them useless. But there yet more than
1 five hundred heavy ordinance in good shooting Or
| der The brass guns taken IN the Mexican war are
| unnjured.
| All the small arms of new style and pattern were
taken away in the Cumberland, and the others brok
| en- and thrown overheard.
| The dry dock has suffered no damage, except the
gates which can be repaired at very little cost.
i a mi int Qp0uSitiOn
| ton cost over 81 100000.
All of the timber Sheds eight in number, and fill
| ed with the best timber are yet standing. These
houses about six hundred feet long and the ma
tel ial contained in them Is not worth less than
| 100000.
Ii is peculiarly gratifying to to have it in our
/ power 70 say that the several stores with porkJ
beef, bread, beans, whisky, tobacco, cordage, can
yass, spades. shOvels and every other conceivable
article which is most needed by US at this time
capped the incendiary;s torch, aud is now in cur
possession. The value Of the stores at this crisis
/ cannot be estimated.
The machine shops, smithing, steam saw mill,
officers quarters, and ali other buildings left
untouched. At St Helena, opposite the yard,
wheI the coal aad cannon were kept number of
houses and sheds of little value were destroyed.
The damage done TO Gosport, amounts to the burn
ing of eight houses. All those situated Lincoln
street. between Water and Second. and on Water to
| Henry, were consumed. These were not of very
great value, and $4,000 will probably pay the
damage.
Two young men, Degesnd and Richardson, who
were boat rowing about the harbor, were taken
| prisoners. One of the officers in attempting to
shoot at Them killed q seaman attached to his own
| ship These two young men were taken to the
yard and kept in front of the guard at the gate
that in of an attack from the citizens, they
might be The first to fall. They kept in this
position for four hours Sunday morning, while the
work of destruction was goli.g on, and then sent
aboard the ship and taken to Old Point where they
were discharged.
There was only one deserter from the Marines
OF course we do not refer TO Sergeant j. II. Myers,
who resigned suddenly. The Sergeant is gallant
soldier as ever lived, and man is truer to the
| South.
The best spirit prevails in Portsmouth Every
body has gone to work to do what can be done for
our country. 1t matters not how they may have
been divided before, they all now united in the
glorious cause of southern emancipation from Black
! Republican nisrule.