Republican Vindicator

THE FLORIDA WAR.

FURTHER INDIAN OUTBREAKS.--A slip from the Savannah Georgian, dated July 28, has the following information from Florida:

By passengers on the Florida boat, arrived this morning, 10 o'clock, we learn that a further outbreak of the Indians was made at Charlotte's Harbor, on the Gulf coast, nearly simultaneous with that on Indian River—so near that the expresses from east and west met at Tampa.

The Indians, some fifteen or twenty in number, came in at the trading store at the mouth of Pease Creek, at the head of Charlotte's Harbor, and inquired for Mr. Kennedy, the principal in the establishment. He being absent, they killed the clerk and another man, and wounded several others, among them women—plundered the store, set fire to it and burned it to the ground. They then decamped with their plunder, and drove off with them a number of cattle.

No suspicions of hostility were entertained by the inhabitants, who were of course entirely unprepared for an attack, or for defence. An express was sent to Tampa, and the officer in command immediately dispatched one of the two companies at that post to give protection to those of the settlers in the neighborhood of the depredations. There was not a sufficient available force to pursue the Indians into their recesses.

The express from Tampa was sent by the citizens with despatches for Washington, which met the Florida steamer at Palatka. The frontier is almost entirely deserted, as it is believed that the Indians contemplate another desperate war.

In both instances at Indian River and Charlotte's Harbor, when the Indians first made their appearance, they were perfectly friendly, and received the hospitality of the whites, which they returned in the savage manner described.

The greatest alarm and confusion prevails among the frontier settlers, all of whom are abandoning their settlements and their crops, and fleeing for safety to places of security, leaving their all in many instances to the mercies of the relentless savages.

We stated the number of the Indian warriors in a former notice at two hundred and fifty. This we believed a full estimate, but we are now informed that at Tampa and Charlotte's Harbor, the estimate is much larger, from five to six hundred.

Mr. Russell who was wounded in the arm at Indian River by the Indians, has been obliged to have the arm amputated.

Who can now doubt that we shall have another Indian war. Doubtless the two attacks were by concert, and although but few of the Indians at either place made their appearance, yet circumstances go to show that there were others in reserve to assist in case of any resistance on the part of the whites.