New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-28
MORE or THE SEMINOLE WAR.

The Tampa PeRinspldr Of the 9Th inst. has 0 long
account Of further Indian depredations in South Flor
rida from which we make the following extracts:
An express came through to this place from Fort
Hamer, a post about % miles east of Sarasota Bay,
on the Manstee River ~ miles from the lower settle
ment and three miles from the upper or Addisons
settlement on Tuesday, with the alarming intelligence
that the house of the Hon. Hamln Smell attacked,
during his atse1ce by a party of twelve indians; the
house was burnt old gentleman Owen Cunning
hsm murdered, and that the whole settlement in
the utmost CONSERVATION.
When Mr. Smell alarmed the settlement the greatest
excitement ensued. Messengers sent to the diff
ferent plantations to call in the hands, and all the wo
men and children at the lower settlement, with few
exceptions were taken on board the Ann Elizabeth q
little schooner lying in the river at the time.
Some six or eight families, who have contemplated
abandoning their homes ever since hostltes COM
menced, departed immediately on the United States
When our informant left, same evening, after hav-
ing assisted in getting the deenSeess part Of the
muny out of harms reach, two or three houses In the
neighbOrhood of SHELLS discovered to be on hre
Fears were entertained for the safety of several cit
zens who out cow-hunting, well as for Joseph
Woodruff, whose house was then burning.
A messenger was also sent to Fort Hamer, at which
post small detachment of Capt. Hookers company
was stationed, but they unable to afford the ct
zens any protection, and dispatched messenger to
this place to inform Col. Monroe Of the attack, aud
of the imminent danger of the whole community.
Wbereupon Capt. HOObers company ordered TO
proceed TO that place. and, this, presume has
reached It's destination and commenced scouting duty.
quantity Of provisions to supply the company
a guard Of twelve men from Capt. Turner company.
number of our citizens also went down to the rver
with view of affordng all the protection IN their
power.
At the upper settlement we are advised, Mr. Add-
son had good fort, and Fort Hamer being but three
miles distant, the settlers are more at ease.
The citizens have held public meeting and passed
resolutions concerning the Governor Of the State and
the General Government for their tardy and ineffec
tive measures for the protection of the frontier. We
again extract from The Penensslar:
We again ask: Ia the idea still harbored that the
forces now engaged will eectuate the removal Of the
indiana which is the ostensibe purpose OF the Gov
ernment7 If So it will prove an illusion which will in
the end be expensive cause the sacrce OF more
property by our exposed settlers and the sping OF
more blood than has yet been conceived. Had not Sec
retary Davis expressed his determination TO nd tiOr
da Of this curse the people would never have antci-
pated such determination; every measure thus lar
seems to indicate preparation for ten years cam
paign. While the Indians committing their dep
Iedations with an audacty unsurpassed our meager
forces are engaged in guarding posts and sending out
small detacbments of mounted men on scouting SER
vice in an open portion of the Indian territory where
Indians can be seen, and in protecting the from
tier What have they accomplished Are the Indians
to be ed by this force7 The idea Is as absurd
as il s foOlhardy.
This attack is but another evidence of the contempt
with which Bow-Legs looks upon the action OF both
State and Federal Governments. lie sees no ndlca
ton of force being sent against him that can capture
single Indian and, doubt is exutng ito the shame
of orr Government he recounts the number OF his
victims at the fact that his little band has come out OF
every engagement unscathcd. He knows that regular
troops cannot operate against him with success; that
the nature of the country he occupies renders cavalry
useless; and from experience, that he may roic out
his lifetime were it equal to Methusaas dancing over
the scalps of outraged Floridians, whose lives the
Government will have sacrificed to her etfete pohcy
and beaueath to hs tribe his native land better con-
dtioned TO maintain their position than at any time
since the close of the old Florida and leave to our
Government the glory of having spent an immense
amount of money to no purpose to be paraphrased IN
verse, as heretofore:
- Hi no, the money spent in the Florida war
Unless the Fabian policy OF the government Is
abandoned and force adequate to the protection OF
the frontier placed upon it, and force to
make thorough and simultaneous search OF the EVER
plades is put in this territory, and the enteprse prose
cued with energy which he regards as altogether I'M
nrobable and we are forced to admit, from present
Indications that his conclusions are not entirely
orouudIess Billy understands all this, consequently
his temerity. -,
NEWS FROM FoRr MYERs.-Lieut. Hartsuf, with
about twenty men, visited Charlotte Harbor few
DAYS since and succeeded in getting the bodies OF
Hudson and Martin out of the boat IN which they were
killed and had them inferred decenty as possible
No Indians were seen, and after an Intellectual enort
10 lanch the boat be returned to Fort Myers