The schooner Beauregard.
--We learn from a trustworthy source, that the schr.
Beauregard, which left this port on the 5th of November, was captured by the
Federal bark
W. G. Andrews,
Capt. W. G. Rogers, on the 12th of that month, and all on board, numbering twenty-seven, taken prisoners, and conveyed in chains to
Key West.
These unfortunate men have endured great suffering and every imaginable indignity during their captivity.
On the passage to
Key West they were fed with felon's fare, compelled to remain in a recumbent position, with chains on their hands and feet during the day, and at night were confined in a bread-locker, about six feet square.
The four officers were treated with special roughness.
They were assailed with the most offensive epithets, and annoyed by every means at the command of their brutal enemies.
Since they have been at
Key West they have been in rigorous durance, fed on the coarsest food, and watched day and night by heartless and base fellows, who take a fiendish delight in aggravating the miseries of their condition.
Key West is completely under the control of the Lincolnites, and they rule the inhabitants with a rod of iron.
The people have been required to swear allegiance to the
Lincoln Government, and so rabid are these slaves of the despot, that they have compelled children eight years old to take the oath.
More than two-thirds of the population are with the
South, but they dare not give expression to their sentiments.
Those who were bold enough to give utterance to the feelings of their hearts have been seized and dragged to prison.
There are twenty vessels of war lying at this port, and three thousand five hundred men stationed on the island.
The soldiers are represented to be the sorriest looking creatures that ever disgraced a military uniform.
They are coarse, vicious, and ignorant, and so brave and generous as to insult women, steal whatever they fancy, and destroy furniture.
There is always a strong police force at the post-office, who examine every
letter, paper, and package before it is dropped into the mail.--
Charleston Courier. 
