The Litchfield County post., 1827-03-29

gospel, break their windows and menace their lives, to induce them to consent to the repeal of the law, and to employ their iuflu- ence for that purpose, ,--that they should endeavor 10 intimidate the Mayor and AL dermen by threatning to s'biow the town down." if they would not comply with their wishes: what would our countrymen and our government say and do in such a case 2 Would they not demand satisfaction for the outrage, even at the risk of another war; And shall they tolerate in our commanders and seamen, such conduct toward other na- tions, as they would deem cause of war, when perpetrated by foreigners against our own people? Is it for such purposes, that our nation has expended such sums, in form-
 ing and supporting navy, and in sduca- ting young men at Military Academies !? In my opinion, our nation would be far more safe without single ship of wal, than with 300 such ships, if commanded by such men as Porter avowed himself to be, or as Percival is, ifhis conduct at the Sandwich Islands has been correctly stated in the public papers
 What degrading opinion must Capt. Por- ter have entertained of the morals of his of his countrymen, and of the officers of government, when he published his "Jour- nal," of the most shameless debaucheries. and of his war on the natives of Madison's Island ;--a war in which he violated the laws of nations, the laws of his own coun- try ,wantonly sacrificed the lives of the Typ ees, ,6 inhumanly burnt a beautiful range of villages, nine miles in length blush for my country, when l reflect, that "Jour- nal of such horrid deeds, perpetrated by an Anne rican officer, could escape the cen- sure of our government, and find subscri- bers for second edition. If that " Jour- nal," with cts sale, may be regarded as a thermometer, expressing the state of mor- als in our land, our virtue would not be found higher than zero. If such conduct as Porter's is still to be tolerated in our na- val commanders, the sooner our navy is nation. However, cannot but hope that the present officers of government have virtue enough to cause justice to be done in the affair of Capt. Percival." R.
 "Signs of the Times. "A series of arti- cles, under this head, has been commenced by the Editors of the National Intelligencer in the first number of which they announce the organization of an Opposition to the present Administration, the object of which is to put it down, right or wrong; or in the language ofone of the party, to ''put it down though it be as pure as the Angels which stand at the right hand of Gods throne" The first annunciation of this organization, it appears, was made by the Hon. M. Van- Buren, in speech delivered in the Senate on the choice of printer, when the snb- ject avowed,u under the guise of ''promoting the condition of the Press'' to prescribe the National InteUigencer, and identify the Senate of the United States with the Iele- graph. In the vote which succeeded, % Senators were found adhering to their chief and spokesman, among whom the IntelIi- >gcncer, with evident sensibility, ,enumerates their ''old friend Dickerson, the incorrupt- ible Macon and Smith of s. c. Benton of capacious mind, & Chandler of blunt hon. esty, not to speak of others, as ranging themselves under the standard of a new ca balistical party organization" We regret our inability to give these able and spirited
 articles at full length.
 From, the Montreal Gazette of March ,.
 Singular occurrence # true.-A corres- pondent in pIsle Jesus, has informed us that a woman that resides there, had, few days ago, three of her children and her servant girl poisoned in the following extraordinary manner. Previous to her going to church, she gave orders to the girl to make soup, in which she desired her to boil head of cabbage whole. The girl did as she was ordered, and about noon gave the three children some of it. 1 The children almost immediately after swallowing the soup, sickened and died.-- This had such an effect upon the girl, that she ran screening till she met her mistress, who hastened home and found that her girl was not crazy as she imagined, when she beheld her three infants lying lifeless. Her distress on beholding such melan- choly spectacle beggards description. In her phrenzy she blamed the girl for being the cause, and, as punishment, ordered her to take some of the soup. The poor girl, conciencious of her innocence, and to convince her mistress that she knew noth- ing of a poisonous nature being put into the soup, took some, and was soon after ] corpse. A medical gentleman was then