Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-08-28
THE SPANISH INVADING. EXPEDITION.

The schooner Ecpse. at New Orleans from Tam
pico which place she left the morning of the oh
which psI. q, shs Us
rigae, and corvettes, had arrived, and were
anchor off that place. The transports having OH
board the troops had not yet been heard of. The
commandant at Tampico had received inst uctons
from his government TO declare that port emba
the first appearance of the hostile fleet, which IL
was thought had taken place in consequence of is
arrival Ii is also stated that n levy by government az
ten millions of dollars to take place ON all moncs
that shall be brought from the interior for tho pur-
pose of clihng and paying the army, which WINS To
be accounted for at the close Of the campaign. Or
ders had been given To station 5000 troops nj Tam
pco. 8O0O at Campcachy, aud at all other places on
the coast in tho same proportion. The convoy with
eight hundred thousand dollars which was duo Mt
Tampco on the 9th July, had not arrivcd--bad
weather, 1t was supposed had detained it.
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Sasaringen conrietstA slip Cumberland A,lvo
cate Office under date OF 22d inst saysThe trial George
Swearngen for the murder Of his c in this county, on
the 9th day Of September as,, closed this day O'clock
r. ~ after patient and labQou session of three weeks The
jury retired to their about fen when they returned
into court and rendered verdict OF "tiuiiy Of Murder m The
The Pensacola Gazette announces that the U. s schooner
Shark Voorhees,, arrived at that the
The Shark with Of the large baIses attached the station
Cuba and has been able To give the digent seach
Capt " reports with confidence that there no pinIes
On the 10th July capt Voorhees, understood Trinidad that
letters had tina, day been received from Vera Cruz stating that
Mexico This report generally believed Trinidad
The officers aud of tho Shark have enjoyed excclen,
health, although much exposed Oh the coast of Cuba
From Me .Nt,o York american, August d.
The lNDIASs.-Tbe first number oG series of cs
says, under the signature of Uidn Penn. publishing
in the National Intelhgencer, will be found in our
columns of TO day-and it is our purpose to publish
the whole ofthem. They treat of the rights of the
Cherokee Indians inhabng portions of the States Of
Georgia and Alabama, and Of the duties towards them
of the State and Federal Governments. These are
not partisan essays addressed to the passions
interests of the day. They discuss the question SO
far Is we have read them, upon the high aud liberal
ground OF universal justice, of national character and
will certainly impart to most readers, to the real
nature of the questions now existing between our
Government and the Indian racc-aud conviction to
many, that, III our treatment past and present of
these dwindng tribes, have too often used 1.-The
giants strength"
The Cherotset--Thc second number OF the Es
of I'm Penn appears to-day, aud II makes known
all who will read il, the actual condition OF these
Indians. The Che: okees are not ignorant, wander
ing savagas that subsst by the chase but quiet civ
lized. Christanized agrcultnralists earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow, aud till a soil
handed down to them by their fathers, without any
race, Of whom their own newspaper, the Cherokee
PhpnX OF the eth ut says, 'we venture To assert
reading and writing common here as np,sRg
the neighborng whites, and certainly those Chero-
kees who have attended thai- ~iphabet Invented
ny Mr.. Guess) one wock, write more correctly than
the English scholar, who has been steadfast to his
book two years"
are wanted for another lottery i'll Georgia" ID. p.