Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 44, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 April 1836 — Page 2

CRA WFORDSVILLE RECORD.

THE FLORIDA CAMPAIGX.

Charleston, S. C, March 1 1. The schooner George and Mary, captain Willey, arrived at this port on Saturday, in 10 hours from St. John's, Eist Florida. We are indebted to capt. Willey for the Jacksonville Courier of the 10h inst., from which we have copied the interesting intelligence from the seat of war, given below. Captain W. informs us that the sleam boat Florida arrived at Jacksonville late on Thursday afternoon, from Picolata, but brought no news in addition to what is given below: Latencies from gen. Gaines. The intelligence from the Wythlicochee continues to be of great interest and importance. Soon, after our last publication, we learned that gen . Gaines continued fighting the Indians. After the battle of the first day, general G. found thirty Indians killed. He had two of his men killed, and several wounded. On the third day the Indians crossed the YVythlacoochee to attack him. He having taken only eight day's provisions, an I being thus closely pressed, sent for reinforcements, provisions, and ammunition. General Clinch, bein: under the orders of jzen. Scott, and having received no order to send the provisions for the army, snt corn from his own plantation, and Mr. Ii. M. Dell stalled with upwards of eighty head of cattle. They had not proceeded many miles, when an express arrived from gen. Gaines, con taining the intelligence that ho was entirely surrounded by the Indians, and, unless lie reeeived provisions, he should be under the necessity of cutting his way through them, leaving his wounded. He requested the assembling of the Alachua militia, to guard the provisions which might be sent to him. After receiving this unexpected intelligence, the provisions, which were on their way, were ordered back. The soldiers of Alachua, though so unceremoneouslv discharged, and who refused to be disbanded in the present defenceless stale of the country, assembled to the number of about two hundred, to go to the assistance of gen. Gaines. From the same. By the arrival of Mr. Samuel Harrison from Alachua, on Tuesday evening last, we are furnished with still later information. Gen- Clinch, with his forces, in conjunction with the Alachua militia, making in all about eight hundred, had gone to aid general Gaines. He reached the camp on Saturday last, and effected a junction with him. With their united forces, amounting to nearly two thousand men, gen. Gaines intended crossing the Wyihlacoochee on Monday last. His boats, floating bridges, fcc, were all prepared. He has four twelve pounders with which to cover his landing on the opposite side of the W'ythlacoochee. The Indians will undoubtedly make a desperate struggle to prevent his crossing. Mr. Harrison says that on Monday the cannon were distinctly heard. It is all over now, and we are anxious to learn the result. He states that gen. Gaines has never shown to the enemy more than 200 men at one time. That in every instance of an attack, whether by night or day, he was prepared for them, having anticipated the movements of Oseola. In this way he made great havoc among the enemy, having killed several hundreds of them. His loss, before gen. Clinch joined him, was only eight killed and about forty wounded. Mr. H. says that, in his express, gen. Gaines saiil he had men enough, and asked only for provisions and ammunition. From some observations made by general Gaines, the number of Indians is estimated at between two and three thousand. By some negroes, who have escaped to the whites, it is stated that the Indians have made a fortification on the other side of the Wyihlacoochee, only four miles distant. It is made of earth and facines, and surrounded by a wide moat. This is at Oseola's town, and is probably the stronghold of the enemy. It is impossible to say how much credit is due to these reports of the negroes; but in most other instances since the commencement of hostilities, much has been lost by not crediting their statements. Gen. Gaines intends marching for this place after crossing the river. There he will see whether Oseola yet knows how to make fori itications which can withstand our means of battering them down. Before that place is taken, the one in which the women and children probably are, the struggle will be severe. It will be the fight of death to many. Should gen. Gaines succeed, as he probably has before this, he will have conquered the Indians, and they must either surrender, or betake themselves to the hammocks and swamps for the purpose of concealment and eluding the whites. By all his movements gen. Gaines has evinced great skill, and has shown that he perfectly understands the enemy with whom he has to contend. The manner in which he cuts them off with so little loss to himself, shows that he has been no idle scholar in the art of war. We now confidently expect a speedy close of this savage warfare, and that Oseola's boast of five years will prove five short months. From the same. More toluntcers arrived. By the arrival, Saturday, the .rth inst., of 750 mounted volunteers from South Carolina, our town was made a stirring scene of din and bustle. The steamer Essayons was employed in assisting them across the St. John's. They are undrr the command of col. Goodwin, col. Butler, and major Simpson. They proceeded to St. Augustine, where they unite with another South Carolina regiment of infantry. The brigade thus formed will proceed to Volusia, under the command of gen. Bull. The militia of South Carolina are well organized, and have brave and gallant officers, who do credit to the state. LATEST FROM TEXAS. Charleston, March 11. We are indebted to an officer lately in the Texian naval service, who arrived in this city

on Friday last, via New Orleans, and who left Victoria, a port in Texas, on the 8th ult., for several particulars in relation to the state of affairs in that territory. Our informant states rhat gen. Houston arrived there fiom the Mission de Refugio, (which at that lime was head quarters) on his way to San Felippe, the seat of government, some difficulty having taken place between governor Smith and the provisional government, who had not, however, resigned. The troops were concentrating at Copeno. They were to move on the 1st of March, and the forces consisted, as well as can be recollected, of the following: At the Mission, lSOat Labndie, 1 10; atCCopeno,210;at Bezar $0. One hundred men had landed at Dim mot's point, from Alabama, about the lOlh of February; ISO sailed from New Orleans about the 2.'?d. They are the troops that left New York, and were carried into Nassau. N. P. Colonel Fanning commands the forces at Copeno. The gallant corps of Volunteer Creys, from New Orleans, had generally returned, disgusted with the service, saying that they would no longer fight to enrich a .few land speculators; they went to establish the liberty of the country. The general supposition in Texas was, that there would be no fighting until the summer was far advanced, as the insurrection of the two generals of Santa Ana's occasioned a division of his forces, which at no time amounted to more than eight thousand troops. Colonel Bowie had gone among the Catnanche Indians to have a talk, and lie will endeavor to keep them quiet. Elections were going on, a, die time our informant left, for members 1o the convention, which was to assemble on the first of March. On the 4th of March the Texian declaration of independence wat to be made at San Felippe, and the provisional government, under the new order of things, instituted. Patriot.

LATEST FROM ENGLAND. Liverpool papers have been received at New York to the 14th February, by the Virginia, capt. Harris. The most important news is the defeat of the opposition in the British parliament by a majority of 41 in fivorof the ministry, sustained by lord John Russell and Mr. O'Connell. There was a general turnout among the firemen and engineers of the Liverpool and Manchester locomotives, but their place was scon supplied by persons from the shops, and those wlio turned out were left without work and without pay. The ship Ilibernia, with cotton and turpentine, took fire in the Princess dock from spontaneous combustion. She was scuttled, as the only means of checking the fire, and preventing an extensive conflagration. From the Liverpool Chronicle, of Feb. 13. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. The session opened with a signal defeat of the tories, and the annihilation of all the hopes of triumph which for weeks they had been asserting would attend 'he first division that should take place. Having talked themselves into a certainty of success, they seized the earliest opportunity of proving their strength, and ventured an amendment to the address. Ministers, however, prevailed by a majority of 41, so that their hold of office is happily confirmed without having recourse to a dissolution of Parliament. SPAIN. In Spain the Cortes have been dissolved by M. Mendizabel, who was outvoted in one of the clauses of the electoral bill by a majority of 70 to 03. Itisexpected that he j will gain a considerable addition of strength by the new elections, and is at present engaged in fresh organizing the ministry. The usual contradictory statements prevail with respect to the state of the contest in the nor their, provinces. The Carlists have suffered severely since the engagement of the lGlh and 17th. The fort of l'Hort has been taken an event which Mina announced in a proclamation setting forth the ardor of his troops, and the sure destruction of the enemies of the queen. The governor, Mirales, was shot, and the garrison put to the sword. The queen's troops are augmenting in numbers, and begin to observe a more rigid discipline; the Carlists, on the contrary, are without any resources, save such as desperation is capable of supplying. FRANCE. The Paris papers have brought the intelligence of the resignation of the whole of the French ministry, owing to a defeat on the question for reducing the interest on the five per cent, stock. The discussion commenced in the chamber of deputies on Thursday, M. Goum having moved the reduction. The debate was resumed on Friday, and the motion strongly opposed by the ministers, who moved an adjournment. The chamber then divided, when the numbers were for the adjournment 192; against it 19 1; majority 2 r on which tIo ministers placed their resignations in the hands of the king, which were accepted. The trial of Fieschi and his accomplices is still proceeding. Fieschi, who boasts of his own guilt, and who acts and talks like a mad man in court, has given evidence against his brother prisoners, which they declare to be false; it remains to be seen how far it will be corroborated by other witnesses; at present it is supposed that Fieschi is the tool of Morey, who was the chief plotter. This is the man who attempted to starve himself in prison. Fieschi has charged Morey with loading the gun barrels in such a way as to cause some of them to burst, in the hope that he (Fieschi) would be killed by the explosion; if this be true, it accounts for the anxiety of Fieschi to implicate Morey in the plot. As far as tire evidence furnished by the accused themselves goes, we see no reason to conclude that any men of note, or influence, among either Carlists or Republicans, were cognizant or instigators in the conspiracy.

GEN. HARRISON'S REPLY. The following is the reply of general Harrison, to the letter informing him of his nomination for president, by the New York state convention: Cincinnati, 20th Feb. 1836. Gentlemen I have the honor to ack nowlcdge the receipt of your communication, announcing that a "convention composed of delegates from a large majority of the counties of the state of New York, had, by a unanimous vote, nominated me a candidate for the presidency of the United States, at the ensuing election." The situation in which I find myself placed by the partiality of my fellow citizens of several of the states of the union, is one which I had never the least expectation that I should occupy. The high office in which they wish to place me was never, for a moment, the object of my ambition. I never, even in imagination, supposed that I would be deemed worthy, by any considerable portion of the people of the United States, to fill the seat once adorned by the father of his country'; by the high intellectual power and moral worth of his immediate successor; by the immortal author of the declaration of independence, and his distinguished associate in developing the principles of government, and producing the happy combination, in our constitution, of all that can be required for liberty, with all that is necessary for security and order. At the moment of the annunciation of my nomination, by a portion of the citizens of a state whose history is that of self-denial and devotion to the common good, I was casting about in my mind the probabilities of success of each of the distinguished statesmen, who had been held up to their countrymen as candidates, under the recommendation of being supporters of the constitution, and to that one it was my intention to have given my feeble support. A large and respectable portion of my countrymen have, however, determined that I should be placed in the list of candidates. I have therefore no choice remaining. I must acquiesce in their decision. You have been pleased to say, gentlemen, that in your opinion my elevation to the chief magistracy will redound to the permanent welfare of our beloved country, by contributing to the permanency of its free institutions. With a consciousness of my imperfections, I must attribute this high encomium to the belief that, from the disposition I have ever manifested. together with my long abstraction from the contests of the political arena, I may carry into the chair of the chief magistracy a mind uninfluenced by the passions and the prejudices w hich the heat and violence of the late contests have unfortunately produced. If such was your intended reference, gentlemen, let me assure yrou that you shall not bo disappointed. In the retirement in which 1 have been for some time placed, I could not fail to remark, that the spirit of party was daily increasing; that it had reached a degree much beyond that whicb had been considered wholesome and sanative for free governments, and that from its rapid progress, and increasing violence, it was approximating to that point where nothing would be considered right which has a tendency to arrest its march ; nothing wrong which could be appropriated to the use of those for whose aggrandizement it was created and sustained. In this lamentable state of affairs it would seem to require a combination of all those high qualities which are to be found in the possession of several of the distinguished individuals from whom a choice might have been made, to restore the government, in its practical operations, to an accordance with the simplicity and beauty of its theory, and to a large portion of our fellow citizens a participation in those rights to which all have an equal claim. But as I have no right to dictate, gentlemen, I must submit myself to the will of your constituents, and to those of other states who may unite with them; under the promise that should their efforts be successful, they may depend upon my utmost exertions to fulfil their expectations, and to carry out the great principles which were established and practiced upon by the fathers of the constitution, and which are as much opposed to Jacobinism and agrarianism, as to monarchy and aristocracy. A child of the revolution, my attachment to liberty was instilled in my earliest youth: I have never ceased to cherish it in my progress through life; and to the end of that life, I will faithfully adhere to it. With the most profound respect for your constituents, and of personal regard for yourselves, I remain your fellow citizen, W. II. HARRISON. ' To John W. Taylor, president. Luther Bradish, Cornelius Harsen, Millard Fillmore, John Taylor, esquires, vice presidents.

DICTATION COMMENCED. We see by a late circular from the Van Buren central committee, that orders are issued to all the counties to bring out men who have been "tried under the Democratic Standard," for the Legislature! This is to be accomplished by what the overseers at Indianapolis call 'County Conventions,' composed of two from each township or about twenty individuals in each county! Whoever they nominate must he supported nolens volens gulped down the throats of men who have no confidence in the nominees,

whether they will or no. We tell the tyranical few at Indianapolis, that this caucus system will never do in Indiana. As Mr. Wright, of Parke, told them in the Convention, "die People of Indiana are not die People of New York, and they will not bear ii." We have Kentuckians here and North Carolinians and Tennesseans and People from Ohio finally we have freemen in the free West, who will never consent to be led to the polls by a few briefless lawyers, and n few brainless politicians at Indianapolis and elsewhere. Mark that my masters! The article upon tins subject, from the Bedford' Spy, breathes the spirit of freedom,, and we bespeak for it the attention of our rea d e rs. Wabash Courier,

In Senate, March 17, 1836. DEPOS1TE BANKS. Mr. Webster moved the printing of 3000 extra copies of the report from the Secretary ol thoTreasury, transmitting a statement of the condition of the Deposile Banks. Mr. Webster made some remarks showing the dangerous sita ation of the public money in these banks. In these banks the amount ofpublic deposites is thirty millions and of private depositesiZeevi millions. The total amount of their obligations is above seventy-seven millions, and their means to pay these obligations but one dollar in six. Mr. Benton concurred in the motion, condemned the conduct of the Deposile Banks, and attributed it to that of the Bank of the United States. Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun viewed the condition of the Treasury as very critical, and the danger of the Toss of it to the public asimitif nt. Mr. Wright, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Walker and Mr. Black took part in the debate on the question, which was finally determined in the affirmative consequently the 3000 extra copies of the document were ordered to be printed, Mr-Grundy offered the followin": resolution and asked for its consideration at this time: Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing permanent contracts lo be made for the transportation of the mail, with the tiifferent rail road companies, or such of them as may be w illing to make contracts for that purpose,upon such terms and under such restrictions as may be prescribed by law. A debate sprung up on this resolution in which Mr. Clavton stated his wish that it should embrace rail roads in progress of construction as well as those already constructed. Mr. Webster, referring to the resolutions ofiered by him early in the session, expressed his intention to refer those resolutions to the same committee, when this one should be adopted. Mr. PORTER acquiesced in the propriety ot the object; and 31 r. CALHOUN had risen to speak, when Mr. GRUNDY withdrew his motion for the consideration of his resolution, and it lies over till tomorrow. PUBLIC LANDS. The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill to distribute the proceeds of the public lands, when Mr. Hill rose at half past two, to address the Senate against the bill. After he had concluded his remarks the Senate adjourned. A whole family found frozen lo death. The Haverslraw Times gives the appalling details of a most melancholy event in the vicinity of that town. On Saturday, as a per- j son had made his way into the mountains, which have been inaccessible until the late moderate weather, he found, after passing Orange county line, a man in a sitting posture near the cabin. On approaching him, it was discovered that he was frozen to death, with a wooden shovel in his hands with

which he had evidently been laboring to open a passage from his snowbound habitation. The traveller then entered the cabin and found on the floor the frozen body of middle aged woman and two children. The neighbors were then, raised the nearest living at the distance of a mile and a half and upon examining the house, it wasfound that every particle of food and fuel had been exhausted, and the wholefamily, without doubt, had fallen victims to the combined horrors of cold and hunger. The father probably endeavoring to make his way to a pile of wood at a little distance,, and had perished in the very midst of the attempt. The "Times'' describes the sufferings of the poor people in the mountains, now first revealed by the giving way of the snow, as being of the most intense description, iV. Y. Cour.

EXPUNGING RESOLUTIONS. The folio wing reso!ution,preceded by a long preamble, was introduced into the Senate of the United States by Mr. Humbug Bentonron the 16th of March, viz: "Resolved That the said resolva be expunged from the journal; and, for that purpose, that the Secretary of the Senate, at such times as the Senate shall appoint, shall bring themanuscript journal of the session of 1833 31 into the Senate, and, in the presence of the Senate, draw black lines round the said resolve, and write across the face thereof, in strong letters, the following words t "Expunged, by order of the Senate this day of in the year of our Lord 1836.,r This resolution is likely to become the subject of an animated and protracted debate. Mr.Bentonhas spoken at great length irt favor of it and he has been replied to at length and demolished by Mr. Porter of Louisiana. Mr. Benton and thetools of power will find more difficulty than they imagine, in procuring theadopiionof a measure which, all impariial men will regard as a direct and palpable violation of the Constitution. We feel some anxiety to-see what course our Senators, Messrs. Hendricks and Tipton, will take on this subject. Ind. Jour. In the Senate of the United States on the. lGth inst,, Mr. Benton laid upon the table his expunging resolutions. Should these resolutions now pass, Mr. Benton will have done another deed that will add quite as much to his fair fame as the pilfering from a fellow student'strunk. Would it not be well enough for him, after he has cleared the character of General Jackson by this expunging, to clear his own by obtaining the expunction of the resolution that expunged him from school. Wheeling Times. SURPLUS REVENUE TEXAS. There is a broad surmise that a plan is on foot to purchase Texas, and that the surplus revenue is to be thus applied, instead of dividing it among the states. Texas must make one or two more slave states. The bait is offered to the South and the South will swallow it. Verbum Sat. Should the deposito banks be suddenly called upon to disgorge, what must be the condition of the country Cii. Gaz. FIRE. There was a fire in New York on the morning of March 17. It broke out in a range of stables in the centre square, bounded by the third avenue and Eleventh street. Between thirty and forty horses were burnt alive, and three persons two Irish laborers, and a Lid, lost their lives. Loss about $10,000. No insurance. lb. ALHNIsYr ATORSN OTICE. OI1CL is hereby given that ihc undersigned has taken out letters of Ad ministration on the state of Peter Smith, deceased, lately of Montgomery counly la.; therefore all persons having claims against said estate will please present them for settlement within one year, and all those indebted to the same must make immediate pay ment. The estate is solvent. JOHN ELMORE, AdmV Marsh 26, 1836. 3w