The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-20
From the National Iatsligencer.

from the NuLtOn0t
INTERESTING FROM FLORIDA.
The annexed letter was addressed TO the
Editor of the Army and Navy Chronicle, but
not being able to give it Immediate publicity
through his own paper, ne has politely trans
ferred il to US.
TAMPA, NOVEMBER 3, 1910.
/ take pleasure in announcing the arrival
last night of the Western Deputation of Sem
iuole Indians under the charge of Capt. JOHN
PAGE, of the United States Army. 1t consists
of the two principal Chiefs, HoLA-TooCHEE
and NoLosE OHoLA, twelve other Indians,
and two Interpreters.
The party is in fine spirits, and sanguine OF
success in their mediatorial mission. They are
happy and contented in their western homes;
their corn-felds have been highly productive;
their quiet undisturbed; and they carry the ap-
pearance of fine health and cheerful minds
Their arguments and persuasens must have
weight with our Indians, with many of whom
they are connected by the ties of consanguinity,
and to all of whom they known. They have
fought side by side by many of them in the
same cause, and have now come to show and
convince them that they can make happy ex-
change from the privations, harrassments, and
sufferings of a war from which they can have
no other hope Of relief, for a fertile country
which, as they say, produces them more corn in
one year than they can consume in two, and the
quiet, the comforts, and all the blessings of
lasting peace.
The parting of the deputation from THEFT pco-
pie, their kindred and friends, was an interest
ing as we'll as an affecting scene. Hola-toochee
and the other chief made parting addresses, in
which they gave them confident assurances OF
being soon reunited with their Florida friends,
and promised their most strenuous exertions to
accomplish an object so desirable to all. The
chief, obligatory formerly one of the most an
compromising as well as brave and successful
cd Sem mol wa
took the stand in behalf of the people, with
whom he remains,) and in an animated strain
conurcd the members of the deputation to
glect no effort with their suffering brethren
babe them say that their friends, relatives, and
all their people sent their eager and earnest
wishes, and implored them, by all the motives
which could influence them as brethren OF one
family, by the advantage of strength, efficiency,
and responsibility which would result from their
reunion, TO listen to wise councils and earnest
and sincere entreaGes
Captain Page represents the scene to have
been deeply affecting. There was acting
there A feeling of deep and pervading inter-
est strongly and unequivocally manifested, gave
the fullest evidence OF the sincerity of profess
sions, urged with all the zeal and feryor of ma
tive el0quence.
The party has been one month and two days
on their way, and reached here in the ship Har-
binger from New Orleans; the hdrbtnSeT, we
hope, OF better days for our afflicted Territory.
Gen. Armistead, Capt. Page, and the deputa-
ton, march this morning to Fort King, 600
miles,) where Tiger-tail and other hostile ehIeis
are to meet in council.
SAVANNAH, Nov. IA.
The steamer Gen. Clinch, Capt. Smith, ar
rived Yesterday from Florida We indebted
to our attentive correspondent for the following
letter, dated
FoRT KING, (E. F. Nov. 7.
We arrived here yesterday, and found that
Gen Armistead had not arrived. One Indian
had been in, stating that the whole posse were
in the woods close by, and would be in to-day.
About shutdown Gen. A. came in, accompanied
by Capt Page with detachment or delegation
OF fourteen OF the emigrated Seminole Indians
from Arkansas, and one or two from every clan
in Florida. They are prepared to tell that
milk and heney flow in every river, creek, and
BAYOU in Arkansas, and that deer and turkeys,
ready cooked follow in their trails, crying eat
me, eat me. Gen. A. kaotos the war is over
/ shall not leave here for several days, and
will write you again before go.
p S.-Some of the Indians are in, and meet
their Western brethren with manifest joy.
Spors ON THE SUN-A writer in the Gin
cinnati Gazette says on Friday week large
spot was observed on the sun. He says: 81 had
observed it several days with the telescope.
On Friday at noon, / observed that it was
near 0 seconds in crossing the hair of the
Transit instrument, e seconds and eight-tenths
of a second). Its actual diameter must then
be more than 6f, 900 miles, or times the di-
ameter of the earth. Surprising the sun to be
IL inches in diameter, as it appears to many
persons, the spot would be about l inch in
breadth, size sufficient to be quite visible to
the naked eve by means of smoked glass.
There are almost always spots visible by means
of telescope. They consist mostly OF dark
center, surrounded by penumbra or shading
like the representation of a small island sur
rounded by the usual water shading on map.
The spot so conspicuous on Friday last, was
not a Single one, but cluster so close that the
standings run together. This cluster, by the
suns rotation on its axis, has now nearly disap-
peared, but will probably occupy the central
portion of the sun again on the first of Deem
Der, changed likely in appearance, being In
creased, diminished, or possibly obliterated'
YOUNG MEN FROM THE CouNrRy.-Little do
parents and guardians in the country realize
to what frightful precipice they push the youth
under their control, when they send them to the
city. They usually come here at an age when
moral principles cannot be so firmly established
as to be mmovable, when they are full of the
spirit of adventure, and naturally captivated by
the thousand novelties with which the city
abounds
A view of the dangers to which young men
from the country are exposed, should lead pa
rents and guardians to be more cautious. They
should remember that however promising the
bow may be, it is impossible to say that he is Sc
cure from temptation, or that thousand acci-
dents may not occur, which may render the
man victim Of dissipation, or an abandoned
Villain Care should therefore be taken to find
places where the moral characters of young men
cent 10 the city will be closely looked to, and
carefully guarded. If such places cannot be
found, let parents in the country keep their chill
dren at home, unless they are willing to run the
dreadful risk of having their gray hairs brought
with sorrow to the gravs.-.North .dnertcan.