Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-08-09
Another FIorida War.

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ting that the remaining Scminoles have become hos
Tile, and committed numerous depredations on Indian
River in South Florida. From the best information,
we learn tina. in the early part of last week the lndi-
ans made an attack on the settlements on Indian Riv-
er, IN st. Lucie county, and commenced plundering
the houses and firing on the settlers.
The Indians were in considerable numbers; so
much so that defence by the whites was entirely i'm
possible.
One person, a Mr.. Baker, was killed, and his body
horribly mutilated.
Major VIM. F. Russell, deputy collector at Indian
River, was shot in the arm, and it is feared that his
family have fallen into the hands of the Indians, as
they have not been heard of since.
A number of other persons, mostly females, are al
so missing
The settlers were obliged to leave their dwellings
and take to the river and come up the coast outside.
Some twenty men, women and children have arri-
we'd at St. Augustine, who report that others are on
their way.
1t is reported that dispatches have been forwarded
TO Washington. stating the facts, and likewise that
an express had been sent 20 Tampa by the command
ing officer al St. Augustine.
The settlers on the frontier are becoming generally
alarmed, and are moving into the larger settlements
for safety.
The military post of Tampa being the residence of
the former Agent, has given the Indians an excuse
for coming into the settlements, thereby throwing
them into contact with the whites.
The indians are we'll supplied with arms and anu
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frontier, as they will be, will give serious trouble.
THE WAY SOUTHERN NEGROES DIE OF CHoLERA.-
All have heard and read the terrible accounts of the
loss of negroes by cholera in some of the southern
States. Perhaps the following, from a Newport cor
respondent of the New York Herald, may throw light
on some Of these mysterious deaths:
A thrilling account was given to us the other day
in a social circle. by a gentleman Just arrived from
Louisiana. of the doings of the dire disease on a plan
tation in that State. The planter to whom the estate
in question belonged, received by almost every mail,
an account OF the heavy losses he was suffering on his
plantation. At one time his overseer wrote to him to
inform him that Pompey was dead, Juba and Cato,
some of his best hands were gone, and Cesar was dy-
ing. Then accounts came that Black Sue was dead,
and yellow jim, and three fingered Jack, and others
of familiar names to the afflicted planter. So the
mortality went on, and the mail brought daily the ac-
count of some death. AT length, however, the plant
err either got wind of the matter, or else his suspi-
cions were excited. He went TO his estate, and sure
enough, he found it was too true-they were all gone;
but not dead. nor by the cholera. They had been car
ried off by what is called an underground railway,
and had been transferred by the overseer 10 another
estate ia a neighboring State. where he himself had a
plantation, and being only n new beginner, was in
want of negroes to carry out his speculation. So
much for ''terriic mortality" 1t would be laugha-
BILE, were it not that deceit and dishonesty universally
in any case, are more serious than cholera, and too
serious to laugh at.
A RELIC OF THE BATTLE.-Ibe following article
is taken from the published proceedings of n ''great
Taylor meetings" without distinction of party, held
in Knox county, Tenn, or the 1lth of June, 1913:
1--WE believe that he, indeed, will be the President
of the nation, and not the President Of a party. We
believe that he will encourage, and not obstruci, the
freedom of the elective franchise, by appointing only
the honest and capable to public trusts, and by never
removing such for the fair expression and mainten-
ance of their private and individual opinions of pub
lie men and measures; that, like the immortal Wash
ington, he will regard Offices within his gift as not
belonging to him or to a party, but to the American
people, and bestow them upon that principle, and not
for mere partizan service. He will put down it is to
be hoped, forever, the shameful quadrennial rush to
Washington City, of importunate, clanorous, and
hungry ofice-seekers. demanding their share of the
spoils; and furnish to them and to his successors the
example of a government carefully looking over the
whole country, for the purpose of selecting and en-
ploying the honest, able, and eminent, who are stay
ing at home and seeking nothing at his hands"
The WOMEN MovING.-In the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts, a few days since, a memorial was presen-
ted from a large number of females, praying for GER
tain notifications of the existing law of divorce.
The tone and temper of the petition are rather extra
ordinary. We subjoin a few extracts:
"With all due Difference, we would ask, where,
from what source, in what enlightened age and nation
did the men originally obtain the exclusive right 10
moncpolize the privilege of legislating for females,
and of compelling them TO submit to their laws, how
ever unequal and Objectionable they might be Echo
answers where The Bible, it is said, gives them
the right, because it says. Wives, submit yourselves
unto your husbands in the Lord How a wife can
submit herself in the Lord, to a man who is dead
drunk one half of the time, and a fool the other half,
in consequence, from whom she receives only a scam
ty subsistence, of the meanest description, is more
than a woman's wit can devise.
We have ever been viewed, in a political sense, TO
be an inferior order of beings, totally incompetent to
selcgovernment, as the vassals, rather than the COM
panions of men, solely dependent upon them for pro-
lection, who have thus far condescended to rule over
us, without ever consulting our pleasure or our judg-
ment. Thus have we been led. muzzled and blind
folded, from age to age, from the cradle TO the grave.
Award to US our proper station in society abolish
all unjust laws in regard TO us; and with the light of
the Bible, and our own sense of justice, we will pro-
tect and defend ourselves, and each other, with the
aid of an enlightened community, which. to their i'm
mortal hcnOr be it said, is far in advance of the mus
ty laws that have long disgraced our statute books.
Should we, by legislative enactments, receive no
redress, upon our own strength, then, must we stand
or fall, there being but one alternative left. Better
that this earth be depopulated, than that the i~niquities
of the present and the past be visited upon fu nre
generations, US they are. and ever have been, upon us
and our ancestors, from time immemorial. Let the
elecents re-unite, and form a better and a nobler race,
to whom war, famine, slavery and inequality shall be
unknown
BURIED FOR Two THOUSAND YEARs.-Lord Lind
say, in his travels, writes, that while wandering amid
the pyramids of Egypt, be stumbled on a mummy
proved BY its hieroglyphcs, to be at least two thou
sand years of age. In examining the mummy, after
it was unwrapped, lie found in one of its enclosed
hands a tuberous or bulbus root. He was interested
in the question how long vegetable life could last,
and he, therefore, took that tuberous root from the
mummy's hand, planted it in a sunny soil. allowed
the rains and dews Of heaven to descend upon it. and
in The course Of a few weeks, to his establishment