Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-01-09
NEw YORK, Jan. 8.
STATE LEGISIA TIRE

STATE LEGISLATURE.
The Legislature of this State convened at Al.
bany on Tuesday. The 1t. Governor. and all the
Senators, except Messrs. Birdseye, Bogardus.
Spencer, Viele, and Woodward, look their seats
In the Senate Chamber a, IL O'Clock.
In the House, rs members were present.
General Root was elected Speaker on the first bal
io', having III votes. SO votes were given for
Francis Granger, and there were 6 scattering Ed
ward Livingston was elected Clerk; John c. Ellis
was appointed Sergeant alarms; Wm. SeeIv
dooTkeeper, and Jas. ID. Scotland assistant
On being conducted TO the Chair, the Sneaker
made short address 10 the House from which
| the following Is extract:
" 1t has been usual, occasions of this kind
ior "a Speaker to promise impariality in the dis
charge OF the duties of his station; but if imnar
tiaiity means disregard of all those distinctions
which divide felow-citizens ON political
questions, let not the House expect Impair
TALLY IRON me. am elected member
OF 'his assembly by political party, and I
am placed in this chair by the vote of a poitic.l
party, and when questions shall arise of political
character, majority of the committees TO whom
me consideration OF the same shall be committed
WIN DC composed OF members whose political pin
Ions correspond with mine. when a question of
great local interest shall be presented, committee
opposed to the contemplated measure, will not he
appointed, Tor the child shall not be put TO nurse
"heTe IL VIII be sure to be strangled. But if by
Importantly Is meant strict adherence to The rules
oil The house, and TO parliamentary usage in The
conuuct oil the business of the house, | can with
safely promise 1t. by those rules will be gov
erned, and my political friends must not ON this
subject expect lenency or indulgence from me be-
cause they are my political friends"
Inc Governors Message was received read
and ordered to be printed Infer. nd,
1t is asserted that the Legislature of New Yor,
10 manifest their attachment to the present od-
H,tnisrafton OF the general government will re-
eject Martin pdn Buren, esq. TO the u. States
"eha'e' Phil Sent.
CDIce OF the ALEXANDRIA PHENIx GAZETTE.
= SATURDAY Euening, Jan. 6, 1927.
IHDiAN WAR Dispatches, by express were
TINS morning received at Washington. from thu,
Governor OF Florida, stating that on the morning
OF 'he ON Dec the Indians committed wanton,
unPfovoked, and deliberate murder, on the West
sue OF the ociia River. The greater part Of Mr..
Cars family had been butche,ed and burn, in tho
hames OF their own dwelling-one man, four chill
dren and negro, were the victims of savage
cruelty. lhe Executive Immediately ordered out
the Militia, IN competent force, under the com
mand of Gen. II. X. Call, who is now in pu,sni,
OF the murderers. Orders have been transmitted
IN all the counties, 10 place the country in state
Va NS'S"NS' ahu capt Daue, oil the United States
Army with one company, is stationed on the
Su"annee river, and is actively engaged in arrest
ing and dsarming the Indians, many of whom are
painted Tor war, and display hostility
Companies Of mounted men have been ordered
from several 81 the Counties, and an express has
been sent to Colonel Lynch, commanding the IL
nted States Troops at Pensacola, and TO Colo
mel Brooke, at Tampa Bay, requesting their imme-
date aid, which, the Executive believes, will be
promptly given, and which, be says, will enable
INN TO project The inhabitants of the Territory.
and u necessary, to carry the War into the enc
my's Country.
The Executive states il as bis opinion. that the
body OF The Seminole nation, is not concerned in
the late hostile movements.
The Mckasuky tribe, who may muster about
two hundred Warriors, and the dsconteme ed
Creeks it is believed, have madly determined on
hostdilies.
We learn that The Department Of War, imme-
tla'eIy upon reading the dispatches, sent off an
express with the necessary orders for the most eff
cient defence. rGozonc
The question whether the Government Of the
United States will take any part in the Colonial |
ton oil Free Blacks oa the Coast Of Africa, was |
deeisiyey settled to-day, by the House Of Repre- |
'eniatives; IA refusing TO consider resolution.
roposed BY Mr.. Weems Of Maryland, asking An