Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-16

hooking At under the cart, ats usual place, he being SO
near the end of HE journey, threw il into the cart.
On arriving at the gates Of the town he recol-
'ected the poor woman, and called to her 10. come
down and go about her business; but, receiving
no reply to his repeated calls, he got up on
one OF the weeels, aud, in no very gentle man.
ner, pulled her by the legs, crying out-"Good
woman, good woman, come, DO stirring; but the
good woman neither stirred nor spoke; when the
carter tearing something WIS wrong, got into the
cart, aud, raising her up, discovered that she was
a corpse. He gave the alarm. and, in a short time. y
physician and a municipal officer arrived. when it was
discovered that her death had been caused by a
blow on tho temple, which blow was given by the
heavy iron wheel shoe, which the carter, forgetting
at the moment, that there was any one in the cart,
had thrown into il. AZ they proceeded with the
examination of the body, one cried out-"Oh..
tins woman is n mani" which explanation was
shortly followed by another of-'IIere is a dag
ger and pistols!" This led To still more minute
search, when there was found, i'm one of the pock-
cts, u letter, telling the pretended woman to repair
about twelve o'clock that night, to a certain cha
thcat, not far from Geneva; where there would be
n plentiful booty, and sufficient aid to secure it,
Information being given To the magistrates, n mum
her OF gendarmes were placed in ambuscade in the
vicinitv OF the chateau in question; and, about mid
night, nine men, who approached it with great eau
lion, were seized aud bound hand and foot. The in
mates oil The Chateau were reused up; and the ow-
ner, n rich old gentleman, informed OF the imminent
danger he had been in. and the extraordinary acct
dent that saved him from il. Ii is said, that in the
frnlness of his gratitude, he Immediately settled a
pension, for the rest OF his life, upon his uninten-
tional saviour. A liberated convict, residing in the
reimbursement Of Mantua wa amongst the brig
ands taken.
The Republican contains the following items from
Bucnos Ayres papers to the 18th March, received by
the Matilda:
The Emperor Don Pedro, obse. vcd lately, speak
ing OF his brother: Miguel shall never be my son-in.
4 IHw. M hlnn nj rf.t~ -ll &C
my crown OF Brazil, than not employ every possible
means to regain my Daughters crown"
Yesterday the corvette Boston made sal. for the u.
suites, after cruising Ill our waters for two yeors
anu a nan. Capt. Hoffman, her commander, and his
ohlccrs, have m ,rited the esteem of all the worth,
citizens of Buenos Ayres, by the noble and gene
rous conduct which they have observed during oui
war with Brazil; our prisoners have received from
them, all the attentions which were compatible will
the neutrality of the American flag. and which wer,
conferred upon them in contempt Of the hatred of tn,
BRAZILIAN Authorities. We feel the greatest sstis
action IN offering to these amiable officers, the sin
cere expressions Of our gratitude Mt the moment O
their departure from our coast. The Boston has beer
relieved by the corvette Vandalia.
Mint Establishment. = One Of the papers contains
a notice that "a ne,o Mint Est1biishment is to be @
rected in Philadelphia, and states that a lot of Ian,
has been purchased by the government on which t
place the buildings. a genius who might be mista
Ken Tor the original of Joliuson's ''Liquorary Charac
Ter, was studying the paragraph at the corner O
Congress street, and after u silent contemplation O
several minutes gave the paper to his companion, re
qnesting him to observe how much earlier in tn,
year they got their juteps at the South, than in Bos
ton Boston Paper.
.4ccomptishrd Thiec-A considerable wager wa
laid by a gentleman that he would procure a bhee
an Indian chief who would steal the sheet from un
der u person without waking him. The thing wa
effected III the following MANNER
The hheel approached the person. who lay oh hi
side, from behind, carefully folded up the sheet i
small compact pats till it reached his back; then tn
king a feather, he tickled the nose of the sleeper. VIII,
Immediately scratched his face and rolled over to tin
other side, when. with a slight effort. he complctel
released the sheet, and bore it off in triumph.
(Iiretre Years Military .4dreature