Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-18

OF anticipation is almost as painful (more so in
some respects) as the contest ilself''
We hope to give soon a sketch of the Init
terIes. They are first, nearest Pulaski. bat
trTy Iolten, four l0-inch mortars, atoul 1850
yards from fort Pulaski, under charge of
Capts Rodmn and Gray then, battery Hal.
leck, two mortars, Those and all the following
are lS inca) 1900 yards, Capt. Sanford bat.
terry Sherman, three mortais, 2400 yards,
Capt. Francis; battery Burnside, one mortar,
Capt. Skinner; battery Lincoln, coiumbad
&C., 800 yards, by third Rhode Island bat
terry Grant, three mOrtars, 3400 yards, Capt
Palmer; and battery Stanton, three morlars,
Capt Bacon. These batteries were 10 be su.
pcrvised by the colonel, lieutenant colonel,
and MAYOR of the 7th, ON duty eight hours
each.-Ed Press
he sand on most OF the batteries, especial
ly Burnside and Sherman, cannot be thrown
up sufficiently TO cover the magazines and
raise the parapets or epaulements, until the
night before the fire opens. That will be a
busy time. As day light approaches, the NOR
tars will be loaded and carefully pointed. Our
men at Goats Point will listen carefully to
the drums of Puiaskis reveille. Tie moment
alter 1t stops, when all the men there will
prooaO!y De drawn up IN tile open area of the
Tort attending to roll call, gun from Goats
folht VIII lead The way. aud the whole "a
pieces mortars and all, wifi fire, aud our guns
at the MarleilO Tower and the IN the
river on Jones and Bird Island all will below
together,-lhe latter tor moral effect Oh.
the grandeur OF that thunder! II will shake
Inc Islands about, as $500 pounds of iron roar,
Mss aud rush through the air for halt minute
on their merciless errand. Then the rolling.
echolng thunder will be reinforced by l6e
bursting OF sixteen mortar shells. These we
nope 10 burst in the air nvar rho m,
cOlumblads and PARROTS will most of The m
IRE shells also, and the great thunder will last
Two or three minutes. Then the work will be
taken up steadily. The IL lnchcrs will he
nred, ny The watch, four times an hour; the
lo-ihchers SIX times the columbiads, James
anu PARROTS from five to ten times. as occa.
sion may offer
Each mortar is in a sort of pit. In front
NE ;::ces from nine TO fifteen feet the
Tort being aimed at by means OF stakes.
iI'tc"eS Iouf TO SIX feet deep, with the dirt
t"lo"h up on either side, run from one NOR
tar TO another, and to the magazine The
magazine 10 low rooted cellar, covered by
eight or ten ct OF sand, and each now packed
iuIl OF barrels OF powder. The entrance is
crooked, SO that bursting shells outside may
not ehuangtr the powder. In the ante.room
stay several 'hcrs, who scoop out powder
from single barrel at u time, putting from
II 10 IL pounds in a flannel bag tor the cart.
ridge, and taking pounds to pour into shell
outside. The shell is then firmly stopped by
a plug with pm OF composition that burns
an men to live seconds, and is sawed off at the
right length
Speaking of the barbette guns OF fort Pu.
iasKl, II Is confidently believed that they will
Oe sllenced very soon. La the first place, sol
ID shot will be pitched at them from Goats
FONT: secondly the pnIun,Lia1s anil IN :,.L
mortars will try TO explode their shells in the
AR over them; and thirdly, our 13.inch shells
VIII constantly be bursting all about them
Ii we ann well, no bravery on earth can
work those guns an hour in the open air on
the top OF high walls
"WEDNESDAY, April 2-Monday was ex.
cessively hot, Tuesday was chill with a cold
northeast wind and this morning it is warm
again, with heavy fog, and drops continual.
ly tall from the trees
lie deciduous trees are beginning to have
Drlght green leaves an inch or two long; the
llVe oaks look rnsty i'll their state of betweeni.
ty, losing their old coat a little faster than
they get their new-they are evergreeus. Won
know Wild flowers are abundant h;rLo
sing constantly all about us-the brilliant red
bird cardinal bird) with his hat, like the rice
Oltd mat you see i'll Connecticut, and the
peerless mocking, and host of other wood
and meadow birds
DO you know where the meadow lark has
been! lie quit Connecticut, should think
about the first of October, and here he has
been all the winter long, in little fiocks. skilter
ing ABOUT over The higher open land, but never
crying you can't see me, as he does M th re-
where he pairs and makes his home in Il little
TUT IN the meadow. And all the winter
thousands OF ducks have lain day and night.
Just OH our shore, in the channel of the Sayan.
nan GOOD swimmers they must be, Tor at
Hood tide they all headed seward, and at ehb
they pointed towards Savannah, but otherwise
apparently did not change position. They
nave nearly all gone-one, or two, or three
scattered along, being the most that we can
see. Great gulls squat along the shore or sail
lazHy about, and few pelicans have been
seen The hide0us but useful turkey buzzard
Is certainly graceful and strong on the wing.
and amuses himself very much as hen hawks
do except that the dirty rascal makes no
noise.
The warm sun begins TO bring out the
nulsances of the land. An algafor's skin
hes on the piazza at headquarters, and several
huge moccasns have been slain Probably
the fleas have been but little troubled by cool
weather, Tor they are as many and no more
ana no less than when we came The ticks
begin to show themselves"