Show the floridan Florl Flori dau dan daWar war ilg flow 17 tiie tile THE seminole eli NOLE WAR WAK IN IS 11 PREVENTED prevented FROM COMING TO AN endi indi END i received rede rege ived from in n florida the we following sketch of the indian war which has been going on nearly ever eier since the resolutions of OS our readers can I 1 get et an idea of how expenses acau accumulate and why vh it is that the war department is I 1 Is compelled to pay 50 a cord for wood W 00 d 60 a barrel f or flour and other favors in proportion tahir 1 I fl fla a tuesday feb fed fe b 01 1858 speaking of william bowle bowlegs a JE squire iet jet me in e give you an idea how bow the I 1 inan I 1 excitement Is kept up in this region acom A company adv of is enlisted for six mont fiB Well weil they scout for nearly that time and when their term of service is almost out olit lo 10 they take some prisoners generally generall aged squads squaws young children or very d dilapidated e ulal ilal ate oid old men thu thi i on the excitement generated by this 11 great reat j success other companies volunteer at a stunning expense to our hiir beloved uncle samuel and so the farce goes on A few days since capt a company co i of mounted mounded volunteers who had but a week more to serve while scouting in the big cypress dip found adi afi an indian grave which looked so fresh that they were induced to td open it 1 they found the bodi bode body of an old man with 0 only two teeth but from hib his is dress presumed he must have been a warrior of distinction thid this was on the sixth day of the scout and they had bad provisions to last eight days soon after digging di up the body which many people would call unnecessarily unnecessarily T desecrating dese crating the grave the men were fired upon by a indian spy who then attempted to escape he was however how aver wounded in both thighs and taken prisoner he told hib his brave capt captors ors orb that some of the people peo af pf were in camp a few miles off and odfer offer oner ed to guide them to the he spot to be released on their way they found and burnt over one hundred bushels of f corn which h had been stored by the indians I 1 the volunteers soon boon came ewe upon the camp when the inda indians lins brokel broke idt jut three I 1 directions ions lons the pursuers the largest trail and soon found cj nd a little 1 i atle child wandering bout haboub alone after a also found an old squaw who said sald she was the she wife of sam jones not the one of the chiefs and that the chud was waa liers hers finding no more bavage savage feeg they retraced their steps nd the lext rexf day da dauth thee jhee eighth of the scout they discovered and destroyed a number of hogs too took k e ight eight I 1 indian ponies and upturned to their own cam camp p out of provisions so after having wantonly destroyed i ed provisions enough to have kept them a week yeek during t which they could in all probability have com come e up with the main bodar of indians they returned to their camp with one wounded indian one old squaw and one little child since dead and they will now upon thein laurels or be mustered out of of trumpets for their brilliant ac achievement ble hie bievere bie veme t and other volunteers will bemus in to commence the game anew cannot sonde some in aut ant authority hority exercise Influence enough to put a stop atop to this petty petted warfare or are the corl cori tractors fork fori supplies too powerful yours youra truly s W r j JV r E i j 11 |