--We clip the following paragraphs from the Mobile Advertiser, which possess peculiar interest at this time, as every one is looking with some impatience for news from
Fort Pickens.
Of course, the time for an attack is much nearer than when the article was penned:
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Gen. Bragg is an old soldier, and a famously brave and shrewd one, and will not begin the work before he is ready, or be provoked into beginning it; and he will not consider himself ready to begin before he is ready to end the work victoriously.
"The magnitude of the preparations which the
Commanding General considered necessary to making a sure job of the bombardment of
Pickens, may be estimated by considering the number of men who have been unceasingly at work for so long.
A small city could have been built by this force while it has been preparing for the destruction of one erection.
When the bombardment commences, it will be one of the grandest events of the sort on record.
"From the forts and batteries occupying an area of near three miles a continuous storm of shot and shell will be rained upon a common centre, the stronghold of the Lincolnites, and if it long holds out against this destructive shower it will disappoint the calculations of men best versed in the science of warfare.
"The able engineering officer who superintended its construction says it cannot with-stand the attacking batteries.
We have heard no complaints of the delay in the attack, but much natural impatience is felt.
Better that the army of the
Confederacy should wait six mouths, it necessary, and make a sure thing of the attack, than make it prematurely and encounter a repulse.
But
Bragg's 'big guns' are arriving, and certain signs indicate that the end is at hand."
