INDIAN MURDERS.
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MINERAL SPRINGS. (Fla.) Oct. FL, 184l.
To the Editors of the Mems ::


S1R-I here hasten to give you an account OF
recent murders committed by our savage Toes.
on the family Of one of most respectable cItI-
zens On Sunday night 9th inst between the
hours off and o'clock. the house of Mr.. Geo
Overstreet, distant 10 miles from this place. and
on the West bank of the Savannah river, IN
Hamilton County, was fired on by party OF In
dams, supposed to number abou: fifteen. Two
of Mr.. G. Overstreet's children were killed, and
his wife and two children wounded. Two OF
Mr.. Silas Overstreefs children were in the house
a. the time, but escaped unhurt. DR.. Raglln,
who was also in the house at the same time. is
! mortally wounded, having received three balls
in his body He Immediately fed from The
house, but from the loss of blood, was unable to
proceed more than three hundred yards, where
| he secreted himself until morning. Mr.. Over
street. his lady. and two wounded children tied
and made good their escape. Mrs. O. andher two
children who were wounded were shot with ar
roaos This is most conclusive proof that the
ammunition ofthe Indians must be nearly ex-
hausted. The Indians pundered the house and
then applied the torch. burning it to the ground
with the HfeleSs bodies of Mr.. Os two children
! in it, Mr. o. who was we'll situated in lite. and
who had every thing comfortable around him. is
no " with his wounded wife and two children
thrown upon the world with scarcely chan ge
! of cIothes