The Late Fight At Fort Pickens

iforl ficlsens, inov. ü. The agony is, I hope, over, and well over. " We havo had as much succcss as we could reasonably hope for, and with much lesa loss and daiBttge than I could ha e expected. We were under a continuóos and heavy lire from the posts and batteries of the enemy, fourteen orfifteenin number, for two days, with a loss of only one private killed, and one sergeant, one corporal and fonr privates wouirded, and which is singular but one man was hnvt on the rampartB, the most exposed place. You can have some idea of the arnount oí tire we gave and received when I teil you we consumed fifiy thousands pouncla of powder, and that three guns were fired every minute tor two days. The avalancha of shoï and shell was terrible, but onr soldiers did their duty as Union soldiere fighting for heir country, should, and most ably did officers and men perforra iheir whole duty. The Navy, unfortunately, could not give u? the assistance we expected, in consequenceofdrawing too much water and we therefore failed in the great object of our hope, the capture of Fort MeKae. About two-thirds oí Warrenton is burned, and although we cannot seeit, I think as much of Woolsey, a villago north of'tho Novy-yard ; and a good inany buildings in the yard are burned and'the remaiiiiJer must be shattered by the heavy shot and shell bo unceasinglv poured upon them. Two steamers, the Time and Bradiord, had become particularly obnoxious to our soldieru, who ardently desired to destroy them, but Bragg, ai raid oí losing them, always kept theui at night at Pensaeola, and only sent them down when loaded. At nine o'clock they accordingly carne steaming down, little dreaming of the salutation that awaited them. ThO Time is one of those three story Mississippi steamer, ploturea of which you see in children's books, and the Braidord is a email low gun boat. We waited until they had both fastened to the wharf and let oft their steam, when the word was given to fire, and fire bolch forth simultaneously from twenty guns. We were immediately enveloped in war, at Elrnira, a few daya since, when, a difforenee baving ariien, some person proposecl to settle it by tnking a drink. " No, no !" said the volanteer, "thnt is not the way to talk. You and all other men, who can possíbly leavo home, should at once ogree to enlist. This war rnnst he fought out and settled with all poesible dispatch. Drink ing won't settle it; for if it would cur officen would have settled it long ago " TllE GliHAT ÏRUIH TO BE EsTAliLISIIED. - T iníenJ to ñglit in dcfcnse of this Government as long as life shall lust. It ■ is WKjDg-to destroy the best govermnent ever devised for the use of man. I would ratliersee this continent swept back iuto a bowling wildcruess, than to seca moiiareby plantod on the ruins of this repub lic. I would rather see this raoe swept out of being than that the sun should set forever in darkness upon man's liope for self governuient. The fall of this governuient would be to the world an argument that man's cflpability of ifilf-government was at an end, whieh lies at the foundation of our noble structure. Now is the time to establiáh the truth of what we hold to be true.- Andy Johnson. ernoke, and so cnntiuued tor an tiour ; when at length we could see, vo found tlie Time still there, but the Bradford had gone. The former continued exposed to our fire all day, and wae probably ruined, but lier huil beiog only a scow, we could not sink her, and at night she was towed off. A Destritctive Invention. - A citizen of Salom, Mass., well known for hia inveutive genius has concocted a preparation which, when ignited, becomcs an unquenchable flarae of fire and brimstone. He proposcs to put it up in bottles, raake an aeceugion in a balloon over tbc oamps of the rebels, toss over the bottles, whioh upon bi-eaking, will explode and set the camp on fire and blow up ammunition wagons - making them ai Sodora md E1 omorrah, A Good Hit. - A vol nn teer and Homft citizens were talkinor about the