The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-03

The Troubles in Florida.
Captain Grice, of the Olivia steamer which was
chartered to take down General Twiggs and staff
10 Tampa Bay, has returned to the city His boat
resumed her trips on the Lake yesterday, and had
the good fortune 10 be of service the Lenora when
the boiler of that boat collapsed yesterday. Capt
Grice made a report at Pensacola Of bis arrival at
Tampa, and return to that port on his way hither,
with such news AZ he had been able to gather The
Olivia conveyed Maj. Gen. Twggs and staff from
Pascagoula; also, Col. Gardner, Capt Howe and
Lieut. De Russey, A. q. NJ, from Pensacola, and
arrived at Fort Brooke on the 24th ult. No COM
munication has been had with the Indians. They
are supposed to be withih the boundary, and to
number 500 warriors under Sam Jones and Billy
Bow-legs Gen. Twiggs has dispatched Company
F, 4th Artillery, to the Marietta settlements, and
will order two other companies towards Pease
creek and Hiclapossassi. The inhabitants of the
above districts all in fort and their crops aban-
doned. No new depredatons We're heard Of Lit
tie confidence is placed in the suppositioa that ,ae
Indians will come in 10 make peace, and the Com
mandng-General is preparing to give efficient pro-
lection the inhabitants, in case they should re-
new their depredatons The 9Th Infantry had not
arrived on the 9th. The Government steamer
Col Clay had arrived in good order The health
comfortable condition.
The Government at Washington has expressed
the opinion, upon all the testimony, that the depre-
dations and murders lately committed in Florida
are not at all countenanced by the great majority
of the Indians residing in the State but are the
work Of a few abandoned outlaws. This opinion
Is not shared by the authorities of Florida, and in
consequence the measures adopted by the Govern
ment are not approved by them or their friends
The Governor had ordered out volunteer force
for Immediate service, 10 be retained az the option
OF the Federal Government, only till the regulars
could take their places, or for twelve months, If
wanted. The Secretary of War has declined to
muster them into service. His letter to Governor
Moseley, announcing this, says that " it will be
subject of regret, at a period when the United
STATES were about to attempt the peaceable re-
moval Of the Indians from Florida, with the hope
and probability Of success, that the authorities of
that State would seek to substitute another element
and place at hazard that which appears TO be the
object of deep concern to Florida, and also duty
Of the United States, the removal of the Indians
from the soil of the former" It will be remembered
that the first outbreak of these hostilities Gov
Moseley sent two special agents to Washington to
confer with the Federal authorities on the subject
of the protection of the State. These have made
report Oh LnSr uterNleW Win the secretary OF
War and the Secretary of the Interior, by which
they announce as the policy determined on by the
Administration l. To use and rely alone on
u s. regular troops for the protection of the from
tier settlements; 2 To decline the services of the
Florida volunteers, even for temporary protection
in the interval that may occur before sufficient
force Of regulars be placed at the proper points
10 afford it; 3. To order the 9TH Regiment of In.
iantry, now at Jefferson Barracks and eight Other
companies of regulars, chiefly Artillery, to Florida
for this service L. To order Brevet Maj Gen
Twiggs, upon duty there, to assume the command
in person 5. To confne the operations of the
army to a line of posis TO be selected by the com
nanding officer, in order to restrain the Indians
within the limits assigned them by Gen. Worth
and also TO prevent the whites from ntruding on the
neutral ground around those limits; 6. To efiec
the removal Of the Indians without blOodshed, ant
to entertain for that purpose proposition whel
has been submitted, by one or more private indi
viduas, for remOUing the Indians by contract allow
ing liberal sum, viz: $65,O00; Z. In case al
pacific methods for removal fail, then to use tn
strong arm of force, and TO accomplish il at al
hazards. IS
BY the Secretary of the Interior they were II
formed that steamer had been detached for sci
vice on the coast. The Commissioners are yer
much dissatisfied with the Secretary. and expre
the hope that further consultations in the cabin,
may lead to a change of their plans. But we ne
ceive that all the late accounts from FIori5o ;y
cate that this policy of the Government bog -,
been modified. IN