New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-19
LATER FROM FLORIDA.
Progress OF the Indian Troubles
ALARM NEAR ST. AUGUSTINE.

A few days since We published. in advance Of
our contemporaries, m account OF another Indian
massacre near Fort DeJnaud.
The bodies of three Of the murdered men have
,;nc. been recovered, rs will be perceived by tho
col.yiuc letter from the same authentic source:
"Fo,1 MYERS, Thursday jan. 81, 1886.
Bv order of CT. Brorn Lieut.. Thomas, with
twenty men. let here on & scent few days ago.
Lieut. Small accompar ed the party az volunteer.
They started at midnight, and went to a hammock
some twenty miles from here which they reached be
fore iay. Their object 10 surprise any Indians
who aish, be .ouDging around to Gus Oh our express
rid,rs 10 and from Fort Dcyaaud. Bat though they
secured the country thoroughly they fadnd not sgn
or a trace of invisible foe, who staTts up wheo
least eyosrted and never seems to be on hand whco
wanted. They found the country almost ell under
water, ana 40 soN that in crossing hammock man
went up to his neck in water.
:" Ftb. Am express arrived shis morning nom
Fort Deynsud, reporting that the boties OF Corporal
Lore and two men were found after diliycnt search
Tie corporal had evidently had desperate struggle
before he yielded his life, as his clothes wero much
tom and the corpse much mutilated. The other
bodies too looked ~ il they had fought braycy To
the last All three brought in garrison and in
tered with the honors Of war Lieuts. Garner and
Webb had been on. on various scouts IN different d.
rectons, but have seen no Indians nor any sigma OF
them. Lieut. Mohnard who has been on Lake Okcc-
chobec, reports ice half inch thick there on The
25th of January, as we'll as heavy irosts. This a
most unprecedented occurrence.
A letter from correspondent in another quhrtor
shows the effect produced by the tragedy at dis
lance from the scene:
"Sr. ArGUsTIsE, Saturday, Feb. ,, 1856.
my bunting trip to Indian River has been Knocked
in the head completely by the Indian difficulties.
had got all ready to start, provisions bought, NO.
and in three days time expected to be on my way !"
the old hunting grounds OF the Seminoes, when news
cane that murders had been committed by these ref
men, and that taking scalps was to be the order ID
the day and night. Not caring much about losing my
scalp aud knowing that there was not much glory m
being hunted by or hunting Indians concluded 70
abandon tie expedition and thy TO while away tbs
time in the spot where now am
I'VE have quite a good number Of strangers hero
,hi, Winter in search of health but they are all dis
Amounted with the climate it not coming up TO the
mark a. represented. I myself am disgusted with
it. have lived in the crune Of my life, eleven yea~
in Florida and never saw such weather as We have
had this Winter.
"Itbpk shall leave here in few days for tbs
North | have q little cough just now-the flag eods
of one that has been pretty bad for some weeks past
and az coon as get rid of it, shall pack my trunk aud
leave these diggngs before the Indians get my scalp
There il no knowing where these mscreants won't be-
row that a war is inevitable. We are daily looking
for news from the Indians the troops are hunting
them up now. There will be hot work with our vol
unteers, for they as savage as meatax, and
fear little mefcy quarter will DO shown tho red men,
prisoners wiH be scarce Many farmers within twenty
and Thirty miles Of US moving their families into
the city. The number of the sayages to be sure, I"
small; but by scattering, they can DO good dnei "a
damage