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and in Washington City at $4 48. The present contract costs the Government $8 per hundred. the Southern blockade. The Destruction of the Defenses on Ship Island--Texas Ports Blockaded. The New Orleans Picayune, of the 24th inst., has the following additional particulars of the destruction of the unfinished fortification on Ship Island: Biloxi, Miss., May 22. Our village is all excitement at the supposed destruction of Fort Ship Island. The Fort is located from this place distant thirteen miles. The flames are bursting from the direction of the fort, and all come to the conclusion that the quarters in the fort are being destroyed. Handsboro' (Miss.) Democrat, dated May 22d, says: "We have just received information from a number of eye-witnesses that the unfinished fortification on Ship Island has been leveled to the ground and completely destroyed.-- The buildings, comprising a large dwelling and various houses, have been set on fire, the smoke of wh