From the Mobile Register.

Extract of letter from an officer ofthe Army
in Florida to friend in this city. dated


TAMPA BAY, 18th Dec. 1888.
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AMPA DAY, lOlll DGC. 1000.


"Our Uhe third artillery march was made
from the Tennessee River 10 this place, a dis
tance of upwards of thousand miles, in forty
days. Five hundred miles were performed on
foot--the officers and men stood the march
well. We passed through Augusta, Savannah,
to Black Creek, thence to this place, expect to
leave here in about a week to superintend the
cutting OF a road across the country to Lake
Monroe on the St. Johns River; the distance
is about ons hundred and twenty miles, and
we shall probably accomplish the work in a
bout twenty days. This done, we shall prob
ably be stationed at posts along the road du-
ring the winter. Should matters undergo no
change, and we be required to garrison these
posts during the summer, it will be for many
of us fatal business. The plan now seems to
be, to undertake no regular campaign during
the winter; roads will be cut and posts estab-
lished through the country, and efforts made
to ascertain he lurking places Of the savages;
but all this seems to promise little towards
bringing our difficulties to a termination. The
Indians will continue, as heretofore, to skulk
about the country, in small parties, eludng
pursuit and committing depredstions at every
favorable opportunity. Things seem to have