The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-04-17

,z.,i,, offs character. and ms fHcreasins
,l'a,.la be directed 20 50 desirable an oh
GUMS ~. posttsasier General acknowledges
yet L.,t degree of satisfaction, the efficiency
-, thousands Of those who are connected
81 ~ ~, IN the discharge of aiduous and respnn.
si, ,' 1,,-s and he confidently expects conti-
'ipe of their exertions.'
.,ofo letter from Commodore PORTER, 10
f1"a s',,ls,aafl in Pensacola. dlted at hey Htd
. sagrd the Liberiad, February 2o. 1927.
,,,vhen they 1.-THE Spaniards) procla lined that
,ye,e blockading me, and a dlsmasted
'ooer (which was converting into brigan-
~ ~ with four frigates and three brigs, they
np Va also have told that one OF my briggs, was
' a,.np in SIGHT of Moro Castle, and the other
1,s,oy,ne all the trade between Matanzas and
.a,y,Ias. While | was thus necessarily EN-.
I'D. they cap ured eight sail, six of which
=. de.troyed aud two are now here. We have
sa,nred ten altogethet-two | sent TO Vera
cIs,,--one being very valuable (say S60, COO
.bs other fine armed schooner fit for the ser
Tice.
IA ms. when our brigs s. our PRICES come in as
,sey nease. in open day. They cannot block
,dsns-and, since they nave reduced their
s'soe IN two frigates and a brig, they dare not
The other day got under way with the sqna.
~ and went out, when Lsborde made all sail
-, me. When hove about to come in,
I'D scarcely see him.-lhiS does not look
Inc blockade.
-, M.x,cans at Pensacola am proud of
,ssm--saw them when in an unpublished state,
they are different beings now, altogether
- men could learn fasteL no men could be-
20 better. have never seen a ship worked
s.,,er or guns better managed-and those are
che most essential things. My squadron, al
.ss,gh small. looks well. This is not the Last
-, viii hear oft, if | recover" from an a.
,,ck of Feyer,)" and can enjoy my health"
id.-One of our London papers relates an
ts,,nce of week dness, arising from the "accnrS-
"A thirst af,er gold" which perhaps has never
bonn surpassed. II was the case of a girl who
,as about 10 be married and resolved on des-
,,ovi,p her father and mother, with their five
children, in order to possess herself of their pro-
noftv Accordingly she infused into their d ink
n dinner (buttermilk) the deadly mixture, of
which her parents and their children partook
The account states that the children luckily es-
eaped; but the wretched mother, having drank
LARGELY Of the milk, was lingering in dreadful
spony. Even when she was writing under the
effects of the poison, and parched with deadly
thirst, her guilty offspring gave her, to quench
erthirst, whey made with the poisoned butter
milk! The girl subsequently confessed her
guilt.
The Editors Of the Lite ary Gazette whose
s,atements are entitled to great confidence, ap-
prise us Of another attempt, by the agents of the
General Jackson Faction, TO purchase public
Journal The Editors say" We are able to
announce to the public fact, equally important
and interesting TO the politician namely, that
within the last week the agents Of the Opposi-
ton, have been in town, and have thus far vain
h negotiated for the purchase Of one of the Pro-
Yidgnce Presses, with view, to make ii the
firIe Of Cen Jackson'S interest We learn that
an exravagant price was offered for the Press
to which we now ailude, but was rejected by its
proprietors.
The principal agent in this negotiation, is said
70 be prostrate politician, man who figured
two or three years since, in the public papers,
and Intellectually undertook to prove the analogy
between "dapttcate" Letter, and lis original
We state this as a fact. and il is not Improbable
that AT another time, we shall give ruA account
Of the transaction"