..., but that he would seize the first opportunity to repair to the field. To-day the President took the cars for Pensacola, where it had been said everything was in readiness for an assault on Fort Pickens . Military men said it could be taken, and Toombs, I think, said it ought to be taken. It would cost, perhaps, a thousand lives; but is it not the business of war to consume human life? Napoleon...