The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-11-22
From the National Intelligencer.
TIE TERRITORY OF TORIDA

/ We have received from a correspondent
at st. Augustine letter making some sug
gestions, plausible if not important, respect
| ing the means which he deems proper 10 b
employed hereafter in quieting the posses
sion of the soil Of Florida to the authority O
our Government, and to the inhabitants o
the Territory. We shall give to these sug
gestions a direction which appears to n
more expedient than publishing them in
newspaper. We extract from this DISPOSE
Etion of the letter, however, the following
description Of the country itself and. its alb
original inhabitants, which appears to US moi
less wildly picturesque than We dare say il
is true
1.-The Territory of Florida would eonsti-
tute an empire Of ITSELF From the bounda-
ry line between it and Georgia, 10 Cape
Sable, the-distance is four hundred miles,
its mean breadth one hunderd and fifty.
When we reflect that this immense country
is, with very few exceptions, an uncultivated
Wilderness, occupied by a people perfectly
familiar with all its Businesses, how prepos-
ferrous is it to suppose that a few thousand
men can occupy important point, and thor
Onghlg scour every district. Add to this
the character of the country, which would
forbid the success of any such plan. Every
river and creek is bordered with hammocks
so thick thatsit is impossible to distinguish
any object beyond FIVE or ten feet.
Large belts of scrub-oak and palmetto,
varyingin breadth from five to ten and if-
teen miles,, traverse the country to tie dis
lance oftwenty and thirty miles, so dense
and luxuriantin growth, that an army might
pass within fifty yards ola large Indian force,
and not even suspect their existence. I'm
mense cypress swamps, DOGGY and entangled
with underground, and almost imperevious
to the white man large lakes, with innuer-
able islands-and, lastly, the most formida-
bic Of all, the everglades, vast region of
grass and water wholly unexplored. The
facilities for subsistence, too, are unparallel-
ed BY any country, Il Is a land, in the en-
phatic language Of Scripture, flowing with
milk and honey. The rivers abond in fish
the lagoons bordering the ocean, along
nearly the whole eastern coast, sgFFFP!!y turtle
and oysters Of the finest descriptions athe
earth produces the coonii and cabbage tree
and the forests are alive with deer aRdother
game. Good IS ever within reach, and can
Be procured with the least possible exertion,
whilst the climate is somild that clOthing Is
rather an inconvenience to the Indian.
Elm dditon 10 all these natural advantages
offered BY The country, the Seminole Indian
Is remarkable for inning and dnYlieitp. He
seems 10 paTtaie of the character Of hsl
country to have borrowed from its peculiar
features tie sagaeity which enables him toll
turn Il 10 the best account ever vigilant and |
active, he hangs, by means Of bis sconrs, up
81 every military post Or marching detach-
nent, discovers all their movements, and
takes his measures To secure his safe TT.
Col. r. N. Johnson says the Louisville
Journal few weeks ago, aentinto store
ma asked for pair Of gloves. s'Of what