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The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ment is finished as laid out, the troops here will be amply protected on every side by breastworks of a character that would resist the heaviest cannonading, perhaps for a twelvemonth. This work will cost the Government about $25,000 or $30,000. The effect of the blockade at Cairo is seriously felt at all towns along the river. A company is organizing at Humboldt, which, when filled up, will come forward to Union City. The talk there is to the effect that in less than ten days Gen. Pillow will have ten thousand men at Jackson and Union City for the purpose of attacking Cairo. Interesting from Pensacola. The Mobile Register has a letter from Pensacola, from which we take the following: There is a sand battery just above the city and one below, and soldiers from the upper battery down to Fort McRea. They are encamped as far out as three miles, and in all about 12,000 men. The Navy-Yard has no protection, and can easily be destroyed by Fort Pickens. No one o