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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Soon after the arrival of the Brooklyn, of which I told you in my last, the other vessels belonging to the Gulf Squadron came in sight, and since have been cruising outside the bar, never getting entirely from view. Sunday another bearer of dispatches for Fort Pickens arrived and was passed over to the fort. His mission must have been a peaceful one, for since matters have somewhat changed. The work of mounting guns on Pickens is stopped, and also the work going on at the Navy-Yard. Lt. Slemmer sent a note to Col. Forney, who has succeeded Col. Lomax in command, demanding that no more guns. should be mounted upon the battery which bears upon his fort. As the demand was made in conformity to the armistice, which is understood on both sides, it was regarded as right, and the work upon the battery was suspended. One heavy ten inch Columbiad was already upon its carriage, another just ready to mount, so it will be but little labor now should occasion require to place it in workin