The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-04-12

little under the famea, bat the Gre would
not take hold. From the number Of In
disns we ooald zee, and 70 judge by the
yells Of those out Of sight, oar. eaemies
numbered At least City. After trying M
with fire they drew Oh to wait for day
light, and the most Of them probably
went tosleep. t'''.f = i'-''.'.''r f.
When daylight came our enemies wers
REINFORCED hya band Of twelve and
these newcomers brought With them two
settlers teams and wagons aud three
prisoners. Two of the prisoners, man
and q woman, were killed soon after
cemlng up. knew the man. He lived
about eight miles away, and had fre-
quently called at our house. The third
prisoner was q settler none Of as knew.
About an hour after daylight the Indians
sent him forward with . white Gag to
demand OUT surrender. He came up
within thirty feet OF our barricade, aud
then halted and told Us what he had been
commanded to do. A dozen or more In
dams had their rifles on him ready to
shoot in case he attempted to play them
false. He was big powerful fellow, and
/ never saw such grief and anxiety in Q
human countenance. In q voice loud
enough for the Indians to hear, he de-
manded our surrender, but in whispers
he warned us not to, as every one Of as
would be butchered. Miller replied to
him from loophole. telling him to 60
back to the Indians and ask their best
terms. When he returned he was to
come as close as possible, and at a signal
he was to spring forward, and the door
would be open for him. He was pretty
cool fellow, in spite Of all his sufferings.
He returned to the Indians, consulted
for q few minutes, and when he came
back to US he approached within twenty
FIVE feet before they shouted to him to
halt. Then he told Us that we would be
permitted to take one of the teams and
leave the country; that the Indians all
loved US; that all they wanted was their
land. We had our guns ready to cover
him, and I saw him draw long breath
just before the signal came AS Miller
uttered whistle one of the men pulled
open the door, and At the same instant
the stranger made spring for shelter. 1t
was veritable spring for life. The In
dians fred at him, but too late, and he
pitched in among us without scratch.
Then began . siege which lasted nine
days, and in which over forty Indians
were killed or wounded. They gathered,
in the quarry, as expected, and Miller
exploded the torpedo and killed four
and badly wounded a dozen. They
tried every possible way to burn us out,
and on one of these occasions, while
they we're congregated together, Miller
sprang another of his mines and killed
several of them. Five or six different
times they displayed flag of truce and
sought to coax or threaten Us into sur
render, but Miller was wise enough to re-
fuse to trust them. From first to last
they fired about 1000 bullets at our fort,
over hundred Of which logged in the
door, but none of as was wounded. The
besieging force never numbered less than
thirty-fve, and one day the number was
over 100. On the ninth day troops came
and drove the fends of, and it was only
then we learned of the widespread de-
vastation. Not q home nor barn had
been left standing for miles and miles in
any direction. Crops had been destroyed,
stock shot down, and settlers butchered
or driven off all over a great section of
the State We had been the only ones
outside of the towns to make fight, and
by our standing siege We kept large
force of the savages from going against
the settlers.-Ne,o York Sun.