The Litchfield County post., 1827-07-12

eteutnE, attcf supper aH tn the Cacih "e~S
 taken siolcntly ssck. excepting Tardy, who
 had always declined using sugrr, from hos
 first going en board. gthst 10 doubt being rars
 af lsis p,aa.) Tsrdy acted as physician on the
 nrcasinn, declared from the symptoms that
 ,hcv were poisoned, and all considered his being on board fortunate circumstance, as
 he was able to assist them, and actually ad'
 minisiered n,edecines which were taken free lg. All began tO recover except German gentleman passenger who died and was com mitted to the deep.
 C The morning after the captain and pas sengers were attacked, Tardy discOUered arse mic in the sugar bowl mixed with the sugar, and immediately suggested his suspcions Oi the steward, (anOther black man. and after arrival in this city, the consignees had an ex- amiation into the circumstances; butfrOm their own and the captains knowledge of the stew ard they doubted his guilt,an after strict and close examination they Jeff him at liberty. Tardy, however, persisted in his pretended belief of the stewards guilt; but said so much that he excited suspicious against himself and afterwards increased them by claim he made to have all the effects of the deceased German passenger on the plea that the gen tleman had verbally given them to him just before his decease, in consequence Cf hiS Gttea1- lion to him-The captain did not feel author ized to deliver them to Tardy, and applied to his consignees, who positively refused to have them given up 10 him, and were indu- ced to set spy over him, who ascertained that he went with his baggage to the Mason House Hotel in third street, where he remain ed that night and then removed to an ob- rfl, ofo street Here he did not continue long be- fore he began to lay another plan of piracy, to be executed on board one of the Rich mond Packets, hut man in whom he had contided turned against him, and he was be- trayed before the vessel sailed; & was then ar rested and charged with the crime on board the Regulator, for which he was tried and condemned to serve seven years in Walnut st. Prison at hard labor. There he was found to be very obstinate and refractory and constantly using threats of revenging himself when he should be released. He is said, to have boasted among his comrades that he had sent more men into eternity than any convict who had ever been in our peniten- tiary. After his discharge he took passage in the brig Francis, for Savannah, but as he was about to embark he was recognized and immediate notice given to her owner, who very prudently had him and his baggage put on shore. We next hear of Tardy in Charles ton, S. c. where he took forcible possession of pilot boat lying in the harbor, and with two blacks, was about to put to sea on piratical expedition, but was discovered, pur- sued, and brought back, and notwithstand- ing this act and information immediately sent to the Mayor of Charleston, of Tardy's character and former crimes, we now hear 0f his most horrid and internal deed on board the brig Crawford. How he obtained his liberty or escaped the death so often due to his crimes, let those who have charge of the public safety tell us.
 Tardy was Frenchman by birth, man of small size, dark complexion. about 55 years of age at his death; while on board the schooner Regulator, & at the time he took passage in the brig Francis, wore blue frock coat, and generally carried a small cane, had a genteel appearance and good address; spoke several languages, and was capable of forging any papers he might find necessary.
 He was cold blooded pirate, and has un questionably been guilty of and accessary to as many murders as any villain on record. The extent of his crimes were only known
 
 to make us mourn over the depravity of hu- man nature.--When a man can in cool blood murder deliberately, and that, while pro- fessing to aid fellow being in the agonies caused by himself, (as in the case of the German passenger in the Regulatory or. after shift the punishment due to him. self on an innocent negro, as in the case of Capt. Latham, he is gnilty of crimes too black to be believed, were not the evidence too positive to admit of doubt.
 Let those who have in charge the revision of criminal system. reflect well how they will dispose of such characters, and those in authority be careful how they extend their pardon to such internal beings.
 r From tue National IntelRgsncr.
 We have observed vague story coursing through public prints, that General JACKSON had challenged MT. SourHARD, the Secretary of the Navy. Not ourselves seeing how these eminent citizens could well have come in contact, whilst we give the rumor as we found it, we could not bring ourselves to be- lieye that there was any possible color for the story. We do not now believe that Gener- al Jackson has challenged MT. Southard.
 But from an artclein the Nashville Repub- lican, which we have seen in the columns of the Richmond Enquirer, we are not so snre that there is not some color for the story. In this article MT. Secretary Southard is placed Y" in the ranks of vituperators" of General Jackson. It is apparent, that, in some man. ner or other, MT. SOuthard has become ob- noxious to the immediate friends and neigh hours of General Jackson. who even go the Nnn nc. x,E, n vii