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mick's company of mounted Volunteers,
! which had been despatched from st. Au-
gustino on a scouting expedition TO the
south, had returned. They had fallen in
with q large Indian trail about St. Angus.
tine. The indians had captured a consid.
cradle number of cattle, and had taken up
Pattesar bridge after crossing It.
from The Saint Augustine Herald
ATTACK UPON MIcANopY BY THE In.
DtANs.-An express arrived in town last
night, from Micanopy, with the intelligence
that that place had been attacked on the
eth inst, by $50 to 900 Indians. The at
tack took place at noon. Major Heileman
who had just arrived there q few hours
previous, with a part of two companies,
had sent an express to Oakland, MIn.osh'sl
who shortly afterward returned stating,
that he had seen a large number of Indians
on the road advancing on towards Mean
opy. Soon after they came up and com
menced firing at the fort a long distance off.
Major Heileman, with a part Of Captain
Landrum's and Capt. Drane's companies,
with a piece ofartillery, and a few Dragons
amounting in all to about rs men, sailed
out and attacked them in front with the
artillery, and on both TANKS, with the other
troops, and succeeded in beating them off,
after an action of an hour and q half. The
loss on our side, five wounded; among
them one officer Lieut.. Lee.) The Indians
succeeded in carrying off their dead and
wounded, so that they could not be ascer.
tanned.
The above are all the particulars we have
been able 10 procure. An express is hourly
expected from Micanopy, which will bring
some further information from that quar-
ter. The post at Oakland has been order
ed to be abandoned Immediately.
Capt. Dimmick's and Lieut.. Twins COM
panies have been ordered to Fort Drane,
o'clock. The latter has been engaged in
securing the country between this and
Picolata during the past week, and will
join Capt Dimmick, at Picolata, and pro.
coed to Fort Drane Immediately.
The Columbus, (Geo.) Herald Of the
18th inst. furnishes the following.
WEDNESDAY, June 9Th.
A party Of Indians attacked the planta-
ton of a Mr. Edwards about Is miles from
Columbus; Mr. E. was p%loughlng in his
field and was shot down while thus engaged
after shooting him, the inhuman wrelches
went to his body, and mangled it in a most
shocking manner, scalping him and literally
cutting him to pieces 1t was truly for
tunate that this gentleman's family had, a
short time previous, removed to another
part of the country.
From 40 to so Indians visited the planta
ton of Gen, Watson, distant about 10 miles
from Columbus, and killed a negro woman,
shooting her twice, and carrying off with
them three other negroes. Gen. w. and
son made a narrow escape: thew were on
their way to the plantation, and had arriv-
ed within a few miles of the house, when
they were met by several Of the negroes
who were running from the Indians; their
master Immediately turned back to save
himself and son from the Tomahawk.
The Steamboat Metamora returned from
her expedition down the river, this morning.
She was fired upon briskly from both sides
Of the river as she went down, by the sa me
party Of Indians, as was supposed, that had
been at General Watson's plantation. The
troops were unfortunate as to be disappoint
ed in a fight. They landed near DR.. Shop
pard's the day after the engagement be.
tween the Gwinnett and Stewart troops
and the Indians, and visited the field of
battle. They found the dead bodies of
eight white men, four from each company,
and buried them decently. A few more
were missing from the ranks. but it is pre-
sumed they had reached some place Of
safety ere this. Capt. Germany, of the
Gwinnett volunteers, is on board the
Metamora, wounded in the tbigh--a flesh
wound merely. Two prlvates are also on
board, wounded in the same engagement.
The dead bodies of the white men are said
to have been dreadfulIy mangled.
The Indians. We confess we are pre-.
pared to believe most any thing which re-
lates to the hostile intentions of the Indian
tribes now residing within our territory,
and the following, from the New York Star
expresses our views upon that subject
'We have often adverted to the fact that,
however widely distant from or hostile to
each other may be the various tribes OF In
dams on our extended frontier, they are in
constant communication with each other,
and to a man are ever united in feeling and
sentiment against their natural enemies
and conquerors, the white population ofthis
country. The war belt, it is well known,
has been sent by the murderous Seminoles
TO the Winnebagoes of the extreme north.
and Black Hawk, their exasperated and
implacable chief, as the dethroned monarch
who has been supplanted by Keo Kuck,
has been industrionsly at work TO give it
circulation. We know that the Creeks are
at this moment in a bloody war with our
people, klndled by the exuiting Seminoles {:
and we learn by a letter from an officer at
Fort Leavenworlh, that the successes of
these latter have already reached the far
west beyond the Arkansas, and that the
Kickapoos nave held their war dances there
in celebration of these victorious.
From the Cour. & Eng. of June 90.
TExAs.--Extract Of q letter dated Ve-
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