Washington telegraph., 1849-09-12
From the N. o. Picayune, Goth ult.
News from Tampa Bay.

The steamship Alabama, Capt. Wright, arrived
yesterday evening from Tampa Bay, which place
she left on the 23d inst, making the run in forty
three hours to this city.
Through the polIteness of Mr.. +. Besancon, who
came passenger on the Alabama, we learn the io-
lowing particulars Of news:
Mai WV. Morris, commandant at Fort Brooke,
and at present the acting Indian agent for the
Semnoles, in the absence of Mr.. Spencer, received
on the Goth inst white flag from the Indians
by the hands of Philippe, Spaniard. residing at
Sara Sofa.
Philippe, startled by account of the murders
at Pease Creek, left with others the settlement at
Sara Sofa, but returning on the 18th inst, found
his house and property untouched, and this flag
attached to his door, 1t is made of white crane
feathers, forming small flag, bound on it with a
string of white beads in small piece of smoking
tobacco, the sign used by Bow Legs, King of the
Seminoes
Phillipee's intelligence enabled him TO read the
signific ston thus: ''We desire peace wish to COM
IN municate, smoke and hold peace talk" He left
signs stating the time the flag found, and that
at full moon he would return, and started at once
with the flag to Maj. Morris
From the fact that not sign Of hostility has
been evnced since the attack upon the trading
house of Kennedy Il Darling. more than month
ago, added TO the appearance of the flag, the opn-
ion is entertained that further outrages will not be
those engaged in the last outrage will be delivered
up
This opinion Is sire sgthe ned by the fact that at
the time the most exciting alarm occurred, instea d
of two, fifty settlements could have been attacked
simultaneously, and those engaged in them have
escaped readily.
This information was obtained by friend during
a recent visit to Tampa Bay, and may be relied
upon, those best acquainted with all the partcu-
lar IA
are supposed TO know more than others depending
upon vague surmlses or worse rumors.
Maj. Morris was the old Indian agent. Mr.. Spen
is the present one, but he is now absent.
There are only about thousand Indians in
the whole Stale, of which number only one hun
dred and fifty are warriors.
al Morris will leave ampa Bay OIL the Henry
Clay Tor Charlottes iarbor, with interpreter,
to meet Bow Legs, the Seminole Chief at the full
Of the moou
The troops on their arrival encamped at Fort
Brooke, the commandant not deemng ii necessary
to send them into the interior until The council was
held or outrages committed. Many of The poorer
class of neighboring inhabitants come into the
Government quarters, saying that they arc afraid
of the Indians, and the Government is obliged 10
support them
1t is thought that the Indians do not desire to
have any war or difficulty with the whites; as they
appear to be much alarmed at the presence of SO
many troops in their region of country, and the
preparations gong forward The Indians would
much rather be brbed 10 leave the country lban
to fight, while the white population, feeling con-
stantly insecure with the Indians i'll their imme-
diate ne,ghborhood, insist upon their leaving on
some terms. The result will probably be the same
as ip many former instances; the Indians will be
obliged to succumb to superior force, and quitting
their old hunting grounds, take up their residence
on the western side of the Mississippi river.