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iduciion Here. Their gfent suit « I with the /ackson county boys‘I , was settled yesterday to the sat- « isfaction of both parties—the ,1 Jackson boys paying them $750 I for their expulsion aod destruction of property. There are thousands of these wretched beings encamped all over the country. The citizens have met, and concluded to let 100 families of them remain in that country. This couuty (Ray) has done nothing yet.”,! From the National Intelligencer.! I We have private advices from ! Florida, of as late date from St. b ! Augustine as the 26th of last , | month. Information had reach-b j ed that place of an encounter between a body of Indians and a f j detachment ofllie Army, employ-,jcd in removing and escorting stores, be. from Fort Dranej^ I (which is abandoned as a milita-! j 1 ry post) to Micanopy. The es-Jj cort, about eighty in number,' when within less than a mile of Micanopy, was attacked by :1 considerable body of Indians, and lt;h fight maintained for nearly an | hour with them; at the end of v which, the ollicer in command at' r Micanopy, having heard the re- j 'part of the firing, marched in- j v ’ | stanlly to the gound , at the head r ! of forty men; on the appearance ! piW whom Indians retreated.I During the action we regret |to learn that Dr. Rd. Weightman, Army Surgeon, and Captain Ashbv, of the 2nd Regiment Dragoons, were severely wounded, and twelve privates killed (|; and wounded. |sThe Seminoles, it is evident, js I are determined to sell their lives ( ami their lands as dearly as pos-; f side. * i ,It is not generally known that!^ . by a law passed in 1715, aud' still in force, Richard M. Johnson, were he an inhabitant of thisstHte j and amenable to its laws, would be liable to be sold to the highest bidder,ns a slave, for the term of 'seven years. Thus if the con-ipierer of Tecumseh had his lot i cast on the north bank of the Po-i toumc instead of at the Great • Crossings, the opposition might I have been under the necessity of ’ buying their candidate for the i: Vice Presidency at public auc-i tion. Such were the notions of ’• I onr ancestors with regard to the -1 proprieties of life, and their judge-' 1 mcnt has i-tNMkmst uidjsturbedI for more lh§»* cent'trick / MW ExamineToTie*. reaMmt.Extract of a fetter from a gen-tleimui aY Richmond, Missouri, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated July «, I!j30:on it. The respectability si paper, from which we m extract, is so great, tb*t i can-fie no donbtofthc ctjjjpetuesiu of the statement. CdOpfensorf, (he husband of a nil#* wife,* Cm town is aH commotion (O'- j would be liable in Mssyhtnt? to day. Indian hostilities have i he struck ofTas a slaveilMUflte commenced on the frontier of our hammer. And can it be, mat sute, about sixty miles from this the people, of this country will place. The ludimrt have killed ever elect a man to ihu Vice twer men, one of wfttom they liter- Presidency, wh«, if wesp a ally cut to pieces, The town is resident of certain portions * ; harhe onfy rribe that isyel known to be hostile, but there is no doubt h* the minds of the people of this country but there wifi be a general rise among the Pultawatio-mies, Sha wm.es, and many other! rribes. Oiir Governor has ordered out one thousand Iwrsemcn from lbe counties of Kay, ClHy, Jackson, Fayette, and Carroll. The two hundred of onr county are ready, muf wiU take up lit*Union, might be bought for $500 by n negro-trader nrtd sent to delve upon a southern platation?LouitvilU Journal, •VALUABLE MACHINE-We were invited, on Saturday last, by Mr. Jlsmes Lucksy, in company whHotbers, to inspect the operations of an ingenious machine at work underhitcharge at the Nail Factory of Messrs. line of march in about two hours; j Haxall in this city. This rrift-they are all volunteers, and well I chine is for the purpose of sawing, iinderatand-the use of tire deadly j jointing and smoothing the staves ride. The citizens of this town j of flour barrels, and preparing are now giving them a public ; them for the hands of the cooper, dinner, wnrf as soon as that is and most admirably does k per-ovcr they take up the line. They 1 form its1 taste. It gives the exact will nwtrch directly to the Iowa j bulge aod bevel desired by theworkmen, nod briogs into use nil“The Mormon question it not] sorts of stuff—oak, pine, or yet settled in this country, nor i hickory ,stre|ghtorcrpolied.Evenwill it be ki-my opinion, at long ur the “possum up hit gujir tree” it any of them remain here. Meet- no longer tafp, u« we learn thatingt arc being held in the various the latter tree hitherto of littlecounties to prevent their intro- value is converted by (hit ma-
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Bloomington Post
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 19, 1836
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