Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-02-02
from III ~ u Courier ond Enquirer.
THIN INDIAN WAR.

FLoRpA. We fear that the present critical sit
uatlon of the Inhabitants Of part Of this Tefrito-
ry IS not sufficiently known. for were IT, surely the
public attention wolld be more seriously directed
to it. BY the last accounts, II appears that the
Indians have carried their rsvages TO within six
teen miles of 81. Augustine having sacked aud
destroyed all the plantations within their reachan
killed many Of the white inhabitants. The whole
of the population have taken refuge 10 that place
where they we're not without approximations Of an
attack. The Charleston papers OF the Ism INST
announced the arrival there of MAJOR Williams,
Abide Camp of General Hernandez, IN commend
at St. Augustine, with dispatches for the Federal
Government, requiring immediate succor. The
citizens of Charleston had also been appealed to
for aid and we need scarcely add, that 1t was
granted with characteristic hberaliy.
From he Journal IF Comm,ree,
Accounts from Florida continue to be Of a dis
trcssing character. From St. Augustine letters
and papers 10 the 7h lnst we make the following
extracts
From The 81 Augostiae Of Jan. 6.
Information arrived in town on Monday. that
Mr.. Barto!ome Salano's aud Mr. John Purve's
buildings about lG miles $. w. from St. Angus
tine had been set on fire and burned down about
/ O'Clock on that morning.
LATER STILL. 1uesdny Morning. We learn
by lad who escaped from Mr.. Baya's plantation
last evening, and arrived IN town during the night,
that Mr.. Bayas's buildings were burned by the In
dams, and that Mr.. Bartoolo Genoyar, had been
killed. - Indians we're there, aud from their po.
siton they appear TO be on their way TO the north.
Baya's place is six miles north Of Solano's. The
lad made his escape by concealing himself IN Il
lhlcket until he had al opportunity ct maang bis
way unobseued to Mr. Weadman's. seven miles
distant.
From ne Cdaricsion Courer Of Jan. a.
considerable portion of the Territory which
has been the scene of these depredations was
sometime since purchased by the United States
from the Indians, whom the government were 10
remove by the sih Of January.
Major Williams, no arrived here on Tuesday
evening, gives most depIorable account OF the
state Of affairs in Florida lie stated that the
plantation at Spring Garden, owned by Col. Rees,
of this state, has been laid waste by the Indians,
the sugar works and buildings Of all descriptions
having been burned, and the negroes amounting to
100 taken away.
We have been shown a letter from General
Hernandez, dated ST. Augustine Jan. III, from
which we make tho following extracts; II return
ed yesterday from Augusta, aud am sorry to say
that the Indians haye laid waste most OF the SET
Elements south Of the Tomaka. Mr. Depeyster's
sugar works aud other buildings upon the place,
we're burned and oil his negroes carried of. AT
Col. Dummett's, they destroyed every article OF
furniture sud attempted 10 buJ1 tie house, out ca
not tuccCel--iae ure vas communicated to the
floor Of the house, but pot out after the Indians
lett 1t. Mr.. Dunhams large house was burnt, bus
not his sugar house, a. the corn vas IN q. PEW
Gus 10 the burning Of Williams house. they pro-
ceedcd 10 MAJOR Herlots plantation, burnt MS su-
gar and dwelling houses, and took away oil hls
negroes. Every plantation to the south OF Mr..
Bu!oa's lac Jeeu either destroyed u abandoued.'