The Republic

FLORIDA.

The Union professes much anxiety about the Indian depredations in Florida, and seems impatient for the instant commencement of another FORTY MILLION Seminole war. It has twice asserted that the regular troops under orders to Florida cannot reach what it terms the scene of action before the first of November. In the Union of the 24th instant we find the following language: "Thus, as far as the Federal Government is concerned, the Indians are free to carry out their murderous designs, without adequate opposition, until the first of November."

From information within reach of the Union, and which we gave in our paper of Saturday last, as coming from General Twiggs, it may be seen that five companies of United States soldiers were en route for Tampa bay, which point, without serious accident, they must have reached by the 16th instant. These companies were to join three other companies ordered from the Atlantic States, and which before this time are supposed to be in position. This makes the total force now in Florida amount to twelve companies, or about five hundred men. Is this force inadequate, in the Union's estimation, to contend against the Indians in Florida?

When the lamented General Worth left Florida, in 1832, he computed the number of Indian men in the territory at ninety-five. He was probably correct, and his opinion is sustained by that of Captain Sprague, who, in 1848, reports the number to be about one hundred and thirty.

If five thousand American soldiers can vanquish twenty thousand Mexicans, how many will it require to reduce ninety-five Indians? The sole organ has said a thousand times that General Taylor is nothing but a soldier, and has done nothing but fight the Indians for forty years; and yet it criticises his military movements with quite as much affectation of superiority as it assails his civil capacities.