Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-20

Clerks III Tie Public Offices improper
~ receiving compensation for extra ser
vice from indisiduals having claims be-
fore those Offices. II appears, that ru-
n,ors have been alloat in the country of
such practices: We can only say, the in
formation is new to us-aul We trust and
hrleve the enquiry will result III con
yiciion that nothing of lie sort has oc-
Cured, more blameable than the receiv-
ing compensation for labor done al
hours when the offices were not open,
and when the time and labor Of the clerks
employed III them are of course their own
property, 10.
New loRH, January I3.--We have
seen letter from Liverpool Of the 2Sth
Nov. received by Il respectable house in
this city via Boston, which states that
flour had fallen about As per barrel from
The extreme prices to which il had rapid
" risen. aud was then nominal at 64s.
Ten bales of the new crop upland cotton,
ofbeau;iiul quality. had been sold at 22d.
Her. AIDE.
Vim. Rufus King, Esq. late Secretary
OF Legation TO Rassia, arrived al Charles
ton on Bal instant, passenger, OH board
the Friends, from Liverpool.
An article in the newspapers of the day
states, that Joseph Bonaparte has offered
twt, millions Of dollars for the liberation
OF his brother from ST. Helena.
SAVANNAH, Jan. G.-General GAINES
passed through Darien on Saturday last,
(from Amelia Island, where he had been
to examine the state OF the military on
that s'ation) OH his way TO Fort Hawkins,
70 take command OF the troops that are
to go against the hostile Indians. We
will, no doubt, hear something decisive
from that quarter III shor, time. Req.
We stop the press To announce that
news has just reached town, that Amelia
Island has been given up by the United
States to the Patriots. We give The re-
port as we received it. II.
No intelligence confirming the rumor
OF yesterday evening, has yet been re-
ceived. no.
INDIAN DEPREDATIoNS.
JANUARY IA friend has obliginglv
favored us with The sight of "A letter, da-
ted ST. Mary's 3D. inst. from which we ex-
tract the following particulars:
The lnlans, To the number of 80 or
go, crossed The ST. Mary's near Traders
Hill, on the night of the 3lst ult. and
murdered All old woman. at one Bcvan's.
She was the only white person there :.
They took off a family of negroes, and
every thing they could find in the house.
A detachment of u. 5. troops from Ame-
liza has passed up the river this afternoon.
and draft Of one third of our militia
took place to-day, TO rendezvous at Corn
House Creek, on the 9Th inst General
Gaines unfortunately left this the day be-
fore the murder was committed, for Da-
rien. II5
SPANISH AFFAIRS
Ertract of a letter from gentleman of high res
portability, to another IN this place dated Hash
ington City, LIST January, 1918.
am induced to believe, from letters I got
from Georgia, that too much reliance is had OH
the looked for cessiou of East Florida to this
government. ] know of no good reason to be-
iieve the Spanish minister has any disposition
TO negotiate on the subjects in dispute between
the United States and Spain, viz: on the sub.
Jects of boundary, and spo.iations. have lust
read pamphlet, recently published, signed
Se't%, on these subjects, written by Don de
onls, or by some one he has employed, wherein
very plausible attempts arc made to prove that
The Claims ot our government on Spain for spo.
nations and FOR boundary, are unjust and ull-
Supportable
:" And indeed, whenI take into one view.
fia various reasons that will operate in pre-.
venting cession of Florida to orr govern
ment, l am of opinion no consideration will
ever induce Spain to agree 10 such n cession,
but conviction that the revolutionizing spirit
manifested in Spanish America will wrest the
civil authorities from her power. When such
an event is strongly anticipated the Spanish,
minister will propose TO sell to the United
States" I'm.
Another skirmisA NTH tile Indians.
JANUARY ~. An express reached Da-
rien on Wednesday last, from mai. gen.
Gaines TO major Nix, the officer com
mandiug at DarieD, dated at the mouth of
tie Oconee river, 5ib Jan. 1873, stating
that he general Gaines) had Just received
an express from col. Arbuctie informing
him that major Mulenbnrg, who was as
cendIng the Flint river with three vessels.
having on board a detachment of u. S.
troops, provisions, &c. was attacked thir.
~ miles below Fort Scott by t,ceice HIM.
dred Indians and -, from both sides
OF The river, on the leih ultimo. When
the express left, which was on the 18th.
the firing from both parties continued: al
which time major Mulenburg had three
men killed and thirteen wounded but
there was not the least apprehension of
any of the vessels being taken that we're
under his command The troops SO de-
tended themselves in the vessels, from
The enemy, that they were perfectly safe
10 man was killed or wounded only when
IN The act of warping, or casting anchor
capt. M'lutosb, who commanded post
y mites from Forl Scott, with 40 men, was
attacked OH The 9Th Hllimo, by between
and 300 Indians Captain NJ. defeated
them without losing d single man, and
has since been relieved. There had also
been a sfirmisll between the friendly and
hostile savages, IN Which Tie chief Of the
former was killed, IN consequence of
which number of The party under his
com mand deserted and Joined the hostile
Indians. The drafted troops from this
division were assembling al Darien every
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