--The
Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Evening News writes, June 14, as follows:
‘
Last evening, about 8 o'clock, a man was picked up on the beach near
Barrancas, perfectly naked, who gave an account of himself thus: He, as usual, went in to bathe near
Fort Pickens, and venturing too far, was forced by the current and winds into the sheet of deep water that separates the two forts, and driven against his will to our shore.
This is all he acknowledges of himself, and is probably correct.
He refuses to give any information in regard to
Pickens, its defences, the number of troops, or anything else connected with the
Island or its peoples.
He is in durance, and will be kept so. He says he is a Massachusetts man, and his cause is just.
He looks like a fellow that has been hard worked.
The flags of the squadron, as well as that in
Fort Pickens, have been at half-mast all day. At noon a salute was fired from
Fort Pickens.
The cause we know not. It created some excitement among the troops stationed at
Pensacola.
Within the last few days, nearly all the sand-bags which caused so much apparent labor to mount, have been taken off the parapet of
Fort Pickens.
The addition of this sand bag story probably rendered the fort too hot, as it cut off the breeze entirely, and hence its removal.
A spy was taken at the yard last night.
He was on the beach signalling with a lantern to the opposite shore, which was answered.--What the signals meant can not be ascertained, as he obstinately refuses to give any account of himself.
He is now in irons, and awaits the fate of a spy, if such should be proved his true character.
It is not likely he has any connection with the fellow picked up on the beach.
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