Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-02-06

Major DADE had set out with hi.
troops from Tampa bay to Camp King
to join General Clinch, when, on the
morning of the 28th December, at {
or 8 O. clock, being the third or fourth
day of their march, they were sur
rounded by a large body Of Indians
supposed to number from 800 to 1000
and were cut to pieces. Only three
men of the 112 escaped, badly
wounded, to recount the lamentable
history of the butchery Of their fel.
low-soldiers.
Major DADE was off his horse on
the commencement of the attack.
Captains Gardner and Fraser soon
after fell MORALLY wounded, and
their scalps were taken by the sava-
ges. Lieutenants Bassinger Hen
derson, Nudge, and Kean, and DR..
Gatlin, Surgeon to the detachment,
were all slain. Lieutenant Basin
ger was wounded ON the onset, and
was discovered by a negro in the
party of savages, crawling off to a
place of concealment, and tomahawk-
ed. So little were those troops a.
ware of their danger, that they did
not see an Indian until many shots
had been fired. They were caught
in an ambush, and dearly paid the
penalty of insufficient precaution a.
gainst surprise.
Colonel Twiggs, of the United
States army, chartered the steam
boat Merchant, and started with four
companies of troops from New Or
leans to Tampa bay. Major Bolton
was at Tampa bay with the force
under his command.
The public sympathy will be deep
ly excited by this news, even here,
at a distance from the scene. 1t
may be readily imagined, therefore,
that the People of the parts of the
country adjacent will come, as strong
ly as they can, to the aid of the
troops and people, now in imminent
danger, in Florida. For this purpose
a public meeting was to be held at
Mobile on the 2 instant.
The above Massacre took place,
the reader will see, on the 28th of
December. The battle between
General Clinch and the Indians took
place on the 3Oth. The distance be-
tween the two scenes of action being
not greater than could have been
traveledin the intervening time, there
is reason to believe that The Indians
whom General Clmch was engaged
with were those which destroyed the
command of Major Dade. The fol-
lowing is the latest information we
have direct from Florida, under
date of the 18th instant:
~The Editor of the st. Augustine
Herald has learnt from an officer who
had arrived at st. Augustine from
Camp King, that it was the general
impression that an understanding ex-
isted between the Creeks and Semi
noles.
"a public meeting had been held
at st. Augustine to consider the
danger which threatened that city
and the adjacent country, at which
various resolutions were passed con-
nected with the defence of the Terri
tory, and, among the number. one in
which the thanks of the citizens of
St. Augustine are rendered to the
citizens Of Charleston, for the prompt
conduct OF the latter in affording re-
lief to the former"
ANOTHER CRIME.-On the upward
passage of the steamboats, Paul Jones,
and Swiftsure, on Sunday, adifficulty
arose between the pilots, which re-
suited in the shooting of Mr.. S. Ed
wards, of the Paul Jones, through the
neck, by David Dryden, Of the swift
sure.-After a patient hearing of the
case, throughout most Of yesterday,
before w. Doty, Esq. of this city,
Dryden was committed for trial, at
Lawrenceburg, Ind. the neighbor-
hood where the crime was commit
ted. 1t was not supposed, last eve
ming, that Mr.. e. would survive
throughout the night.-Cin Gaz.
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