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Jiortation on Those Mail 8°N'n ; on the corsair’* decks : whilst the main YOUNG SPENCER, THE MUTINEER. REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAt. From the Manx Liberal. and, body battled the astonished ruffians, one or To the Editor the Pmlladium: We notice the annual report of the THE ENQUIRER. THE PIRATE. if to-day two scoured the helm, and got the brig; be- Postmaster General. It exhibits an Impelled, by reading an account in Sa- improve- LITCHFIELD, DEC'RM, 184*. By the time that the several dispositions for the wind—Saucy Sally bearing her faith- ment in the revenue of the that turday evening’s paper, of the awful events department, ordered by the captain had been made, a ful companion, her passenger riflemen pick- be as a of the that lately transpired on board of the U. S. may regarded proof efficiency WHIG STATE CONVENTION. stranger, a beautiful brig, had ing up the banditti with accuracy. with which its affairs have been conducted. approached surprising Brig Somers, and the dreadful death of Whigs of Connecticut will bold • Stale Cor within gun shot. We (that is officers and Discomfited on every hand, the This has not been ven tion at on the 18t surveyors Spencer and the other two ringlead- improvement produced THE Hartford, Wednesday, passengers) were congregated upon the hurried below, leaving their trophy in the young an increase in the number of letters day of January ext, for the purpeee of nominate ers of that mutiny and conspiracy, which, by candidates for Lieutenant Governor, Tret poop deck, in anticipation ot momentarily Sally’s power. The bouts meanwhile, foiled but upon the Governor, if it had been successful, would have been transported, by enforcing surer. Secretary and Comptroller, and for doing an receiving an iron summons to round to — almost in the moment of possession, rowed a To succeeded by the most horrid and revolting postmasters rigid accountability. other bnainess proper to come before them- The Cot, This, however, did not to be a of with all the energy of but the settlement of to consist from each town appear part despair; crimes that have ever blackened the page complete regular quarterly vention of delegates equt the unknown’s policy : und whilst l>e was | breeze had once more set in strong and accounts, with 13,633 contractors, must re- to double the number of its representatives in the G*f of the too many already blood-stained re- the fast who car- and both the and the the of neral Assembly. The committees in seven; drawing ahead, Macsawney, steady, Saucy Sally has me to a quire not only a great labor on part cords of piracy, induced give towns will please call meetings of the Whigs c ried oil the duties of the ship as if suw- Vomito were dropping them fast. the subordinate but a su- short history of this Spencer, the son of the agents, vigorous Tuesday, the 10th of January, tor at some other cot who carried on the duties c f the The maniac rent the air—the water ney, yells Hon. John C. of War.— perintendance. venient time,) for the purpose of choosing delegate j as if she floated flashed under the of their and Spencer, Secretary and it is ship unquestioned mistress fury strokes, So much of the life of the late midshipman If one would compare the speed of trans- to said Convention: particularly requests § of the blue ordered the boats were onward with a that town be fatly represented. Ttie Whigs cl expanse, eight bells (hav- urged strength as on those mail routes on which by eveiy (not passed midshipman erroneously Connecticut remain firm and unbroken, and the* ing taken the sun) to be struck, and invited almost superhuman. At the moment when ar the number of letters are con- stated by some papers) Philip Spencer, as I Jiortationgreatest have only to put forth exertions such as were masl his to their hope must have been all but deud within and from which the passengers partake customary I propose giving you, was repeated to me veyed, consequently in 1838, ’39, '40, and ’41, to ensure a glorious triumpl were in the of the hove in the median. They act descend- them, Vomity suddenly up from own I greatest amount of revenue is derived, with JAMES F. BABCOCK, 1 Whig his lips, and suppose coming * when the hav- wind’s Could it be] Had the mer- EZRA S. HAMILTON,> Slate Centre ing Bosy, reported that brig, j eye. a and not what it was or ten ago, it will from such source, second-handed eight years HENRY Committee, a broad to leeward, showed ehantipaii tailed find were their comrades be found its has been PECK, ) ing given yaw | to the writer of this article, was once that rapidity nearly Nov. victors I their (who fiew Haven, 29,1842. Spanish (colors at her peak. These wore They paused upon oars, join- his friend and messmate, and who continu- doubled within that period, in consequence ere were an indi- ing as if to the course of the of railroads on those routes. scarcely;set they dipped, company, ponder ed and cherished the former term, until in- opening Late from Washington.—A correspondent of th cation thiat it was their wish to to us.— proper to be pursued. The Postmaster General makes no allusion speak gratitude marked by ferociousness of cha- U. S. Gaxstte, speaks thus of matters and things a The atrocities which have B. iof was the space permitted for consid- to this in the mode of degraded Spain’s racter, burst assunder the chords of nmity, change transportion, the I never saw so duf once eratiun. A a and an Capital:—“ Washington imperial banner, coupled with the rnk splash, stunning report which of his naval career but to complain of the extravagant com- in the beginning and destitute of all as it is thi ish loom of the and our iron shower its fatal demanded for the of lifeless, animation, at stranger, proximity sped flight, scattering had every seeming of being lasting,) can- pensation conveyance with one with moment. There is very little, sociat with the Cape de Verd Islands, the favorite crash, the dying and the dead, not be doubted. the mail on railroads- scarcely any, resort of the lawless, caused us to survey him the skiffs that bore them, in ruined fragments In the statement of the Postmaster on this intercourse — nothing going on to make gossip on I Philip Spencer was born in Canandaigua, with a curiosity in which was upon the devouring deep. Their own trust- point, '.here is an indistinctness, doubtless of—the weather is used up, Captain Tyler and hi 1 apprehension New York, and at the time of his awful ~ not ed weapons had been turned upon themselves; inadvertent, which would lead a casual rea- are used up, vacant offices are used al slightly mingled. — family up, death, was about 19 years of age but in and the mouth of their der to a erroneous of the who have been identified with the administration an Our doubts and fears were in course of O’Donoghue, by of at- very impression boasted had them unanneal- strength mind, intelligence, literary cost Long Tom, sped 1 comparative of transportation of the much used the feel as if hat speedy solution, for the self-styled Spaniard tainments and bold was far, far be- pretty op, Whigs they ], ed to their account. daring, mail on railroads, and in other modes. This had now lessened fnsdistance ton of his in his of been used up, and the Locos are using each othe: 1 couple yond years- Nothing history statement is in the words: miles. A more hull it was following Such a state of used on exquisite impos- the AT. Y. Tribune. much interest is the writer aware of, until up. upedness brings t sible to and of exceed- Correipondenct of i‘The cost of rail road transportation for look upon—long, low, Dec. 20. his college career. He was sent to Union strong feeling of listlessness, dont-care-itiveness, anc : Washington, Tuesday, the last year, stands at $432,568. The ing beauty—bow round as an apple, with a but did not out of which it it A strong desire seemed to be manifested College, Schenectady, graduate, whole length of mail road in the United dont-want-to-do-any-thing-itiveness, $ eut-water sharp as a wedge, from which pro- ex- as his conduct there became so notorious to-day by many—and I have noticed its States, is 146,732 miles, $3,087,796. no easy task to glean any thing worth committing to a female head of the most that he was or had leave to absent costing jected figure grace- istence to a considerable extent in conversa- expelled, Of this of mail miles line was length road, only 3,091 paper.” ful — proportions. Every symmetry tion with A'embers for some time to himself. He returned to his friends where _ past is rail road transportation, at a cost of itself—her bottom beautifully moulded, her of the Bank- he remained some time. Being of a wand- repeal only the voluntary’ part $432,568. one forty-eighth part of the WHIGS OF CONNECTICUT! copper bright as burnished gold, and her run to turn of mind, and fond of Only rupt Law, and to allow it, thus amended, ering anything whole number of miles one-seventh for the ! a voice as a in costing Organize Spring campaign (gays clear and fine the heels of _X /» X __ •• racer; remain either as a at alf bordering on the dangerous and marvellous, permanent law, or, W1 llio UOO OU Hi.
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