Vermont Telegraph

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

From Florida.—The Charleston Mercury of the 5th inst., received by express mail, contains advices from St. Augustine to the 1st inclusive. If they may be relied on, we are likely to be entertained with a new act of the tragic-farce of the Florida war.

An express had come in from Fort Mellon, with intelligence that a large number of negroes had arrived at that post, who reported that the Indians had held a general election, deposed Miccanopy, and installed Sam Jones, alias Abiaca, as the head chief of the several tribes, and that at the next new moon they would resume hostilities. This, the informant of the Mercury adds, is only a negro story, to be sure, but then, he says, the negro stories have been found too true, in the end; and besides it seems to be the general impression in that quarter, that the Indians are in no mind to emigrate, at all events until the summer is over, and that the termination of the war is by no means an assured matter.

The posts of Volusia and Fort Mellon are said to be growing unhealthy, as the summer comes on. All the forces had been withdrawn from the former, except a sergeant's guard and one company of Creeks, and the guard is to be relieved every ten days from Picolata. The garrison at Fort Mellon will be kept up.

The letter from St. Augustine concludes with the following from Tampa Bay.—N. Y. Spec.

An express arrived this morning from Tampa, the contents of which are reported to be of an unfavorable nature. It is reported and confidently believed that the Indians have all left their camp and returned into the nation. These reports seem to confirm each other. We have now but little hope that the war will be ended by negotiation. The Indians have been enabled to possess themselves of much information, and are doubtless emboldened by their intercourse. If a resort to arms again becomes necessary, we apprehend much bloody work.