JEFPERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
IIARRISBURG NEWS.
January 26, 1842.
Imprisonment for Debt Appoint
mciit of fudges The introduction
of free negroes matrimonial divor
ccsEieasing of the Public works-
Tavern licences.
A great number of petitions have been pre
sented in both branches, praying the repeal of
the law authorizing the Trenton Kail Road
Company, to continue their road throughout
Kensington. There have also been presented
several petitions in favor of the abolishment of
imprisonment for debt. Jhese petitions have
been referred to appropriate committees.
In the Senate, the following nominations
have been unanimously confirmed, viz : John
Shaffer, of Centre county; Benjamin Lathrop,
of Susquehanna; and Samuel P. Lilley, of
Clinton county, as Associate Judges.
The political circles had no little excitement
the other day, in consequence of the resigna
lion or discharge of Francis R Shunk, Esq.,
from the office of Secretary of the Common
wealth, and the appointment to his plaec of
Judge Anson A . Parsons. Calvin Blythe, late
Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, was im
mediately appointed to the Judgeship thus va
cated, which is the judicial station he occupied
before he was appointed Collector.
The nomination of Moulton C. Rogers, as
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, pro
duced much debate in the Senate, but was final
ly confirmed by a vole of 30 to 3.
In the House of Represntatives, on motion
of Mr. Deford, the Judiciary Committee have
been instructed to inquire into the expediency
of preventing the introduction of free negroes
into this Commonwealth.
The Old Bachelors of the House took the oc
casion to make themselves merry, on the con
sideration of a bill to annul the marriage con
tract of Samuel Tyson and Elizabeth, his wife.
The application for divorce came from the hus
band, who has the curious plea that his wife is
"quite too smart." After a running discussion,
in which there was not a little development of
misapplied humor, the bill passed and was sent
to the Senate for concurrence.
On motion of Mr. Futhey, the Judiciary Com
mittee hare been instructed to inquire into the
expediency of securing women, divorced from
their husbands, the right to possess property
which may have descended to them previous to
their marriage.
The Committee of Ways and Means hare
been instructed to inquire whether it will not be
best, to lease for a term of years the main line
of Public Works, from Philadelphia to Pittsburg,
and also the Delaware Division of the Pennsyl
vania Canal.
Capt. Partridge lectured here, the other night,
on Military tactics. He goes for the sugges
tion of Washington, "In peace, prepare for war."
Elizabeth Rice asked to be divorced from
her husband, but they did not grant her wish.
The resolution of Mr. Stevens, which was
submitted early in the session, that the State
debt shall be limited to $40,000,000 was taken
up and produced discussion, but a motion of
Mr. Wright, to postpone for the present, finally
prevailed.
A bill to erect a new county to be called
Blair, out of Huntingdon, has been reported
by Mr. Moore.
The annual statement, from the City Coun
cils of Philadelphia, in regard to the Girard
Fund, with the report of the Building Commit
tee, (which should have faithful investigation,)
has been received.
A bill has passed, allowing the citizsns of
Adams county the right to decide at the ballot
box, whether tavern licenses shall be granted
within the limits of said county.
The resolutions, asking Congress to favor a
protective tariff, have been warmly debated,
but their further consideration has been post
poned for the present,
Mr. Sulliran offered a resolution to inquire
into the expenditure of the contingent fund of
the State, to ascertain about reform in various
expenses, which was adopted.
A petition has been presented from the offi
cers of the Erie Bank, praying the privilege to
issue an additional quantity of paper, so as to
finish the Erie Extension of the Pennsylvania
Canal.
Mr. Eyre has given notice of his intenion to
bring in a bill to secure to laborers and mechan
ics their wages, in case of the bankruptcy of em
ployers. A resolution, proposing an amendment of the
Constitution, so as to put it out of the power of
the Legislature to legalize the suspension of
specie payments by the Banks, and declaring
that a suspension shall work a forfeiture of
their charters, passed the House, nem, con.,
and was sent to the Senate for concurrence.
The Senate has passed the bill from the
House, erecting a new election district out of
part of Germantown.
Rescue of a CreW.
The New York packet ship Koscius
arrived at Liverpool Dec. 15, in less
than 18 days from New York. She
liad the good fortune to be the means
of saving the captain, crew, and one
passenger, of the ship-Erin go Bragh,
from Quebec, bound to Liverpool
which she fell in with hr a sinking slate.
She was laden with Hour and grain,
and the latter had choked the pumps
She sunk immediately after the men
were taken off, and not an article be
longing: to either was saved from the
wre&k.
. Partridges are selling, at fifty cents par brace,
mi Yvfi$toigton city.
Ckecever's Tour in Egypt.
THE SLAVE MARKET IX CARIO.
Cario. A melancholy visit to the slave mar
ket of Cario marks this day's experience of the
depravity and misery of our fallen world. And
so much has been said about the Pasha's efforts
and intentions to abolish slavery in his domin
ions, that some littlo description of the scene to
be witnessed in the heart of his capitol will
have at this time additional interest, the mar
ket is deep within the intricasies of the city, in
a quarter as black and prison-like as its purpo
ses. Leaving our donkies in the street, in the
care of their squalid drivers, we passed through
a dark archway into an irregular, ragged, dirty
square surrounded by cells like, dens in a men
agerie for wild beasts, and filled with groups of
aegroos and slave drivers, men, women, and
children. Most of the captires were young; in
deed, I do not recollect to have seen a middle
aged man among them. The first cell we
looked into, was tenanted by several fine look
ing Nubian girls, modestly dressed, and laugh-1
ing as if they were happy. Parhaps they
thought we had come to buy, and pleased them
selves with the hope of belonging to a Frank ;
a miserable alternative indeed, judging from
the Frank population of Cario. Is it not the
case all the world over, that foreign masters
are more despotic than native ones ?
In the next den a young girl was on her
knees, with a sort of stone basin beforo her, in
which, by rubbing with another stone as large
as a brick, she was grinding corn to make into
bread. Another sat by her side, looking like
moping idiot, with arms of such prodigious
length, and so slender, that she might easily
have been taken for a baboon. In another cell
there were 3 or 4 bright little negro boys, gaily
dressed in white jacket and trowsers, to allure
purchasers. I asked the price ? it was about
eight hundred piastres, or forty dollars. Some
of these very boys may possible be the future
ruler of Egypt. It would not bo much more re
markable than the elevation of Mehemit AH.
The middle of the square exhibited the
most painfully disgusting spectacle I ever wit
nessed in any collection of the degraded forms
of human beings. There seemed to be several
distinct races, some of them verv little elevated
in their appearauce above the brutes. Chains
there were none, nor were they needed to ren
der the spectacle more apalling. Some of these
beings were almost entirely naked, and with
the united effect of tatooing, exposure to a
burning sun, and disease superaded,the skin in
some places looked like that of a rhinoceros,
while the hair, plaited and turned flat from the
top of the head over the forehead and temples,
looked as if it had been drbpped in some mix
ture of dirt and tar and formed into sticks.
The features of these wretched beings in most
cases were ugly almost beyond description, and
they were principally woman, and were em
ployed in dressing each other's hair ; or sat
looking vacantly around them. Their masters
or keepers appeared to be reclining against the
walls, without the least mark of interest in the
scene before them.
The square of this slave market is surround
ed by arches which, like pillars, or a colonade
wnn recesses about a court, support a sec
ond storv. This storv consists of a sort of
platform, terminated by other cells, tenanted
like those below, by slaves. Some were to
be seen still higher, like monkeys looking
down as from the tops of the houses upon their
fellow prisoners beneath. On this second plat
form 1 passed a group where stood one young
man with the air of a captive prince, in altitude
and with a countcnence which would have
made a subject for a painter. Beside him were
two or three more youthful companions, per
haps his brothers and sisters, with the like ex
pression of silent and deep melancholly. They
wore some golden ornaments upon their person
the only instances of such -a custom.
In tins sssemblage above an below, some of
the groups consisted of fine looking, intelligent
well fermed negroes, but many of them were
a species of the human race, such as I had
never seen, and more degraded than any thing
in human shape I had ever imagined. The Af
rites and Gauls of the oriental mind, must have
had their prototypes in some such realities.
What a transformation is yet to be effected by
the gospel in that heart of Africa, from whence
these wretched beings are transported!
In journeying up to Thebes, after this, we
met with many boat loads of captives appoint
ed to the same destination, and sometimes
gangs or encampments of them on the shore,
presenting the same spectacles of misery and
degradation. ,
We saw no white slaves of any kind in the
market. Mr. Wilkinson, has stated the price
of slaves in Egypt as follows: black slaves,
boys 25 to 50 dollars ; girls, 40 to 50 ; eu
nuchs, 50 to 75. Abysinian boys, 35 to 50 ;
white boys, (Mamlocks,) $6 to 220. Degra
ded and painful as these scenes were, we should
certainly have thought it worse to have witnes
sed any thing like them in England. But is
Ucre not one country in the civilized world
concerning which it may be said, nomine mu
tat'o, de te fabula ncrratur ? It would not be
wonderful, after all, if barbarian Egypt should
get rid of the curse and sin of slavery sooner
than that country. May God in his mercy
hasten the time when the power of the fosnel'
shall nave removed this evil, and no more such'
a thing as a slave shall be known under the
whole heavens.
The New York Tattler says the in
come of John Jacob Astor is fuur
thousand dollars a day.
Week' before last, a colored woman
died near Paterson, 3Sr. Jl,- aged- 1M
years leaving a grand-daughter aged"
70,
Tlie Saula Fc Captives.
The President has communicated to Con
gress the Correspondence of the State Depart
ment upon the subject of the American citizens
taken captive by the Mexicans while accom
panying the Expedition to Santa Fe. Among
them is a letter of the 3d inst. from Hon. D.
Webster Secretary of State, to Hon. P. Ellis;
our Minister at the Mexican Govornment, with
an urgent demand that the inoffensive citizens
of the United States, but especially George W.
Kendallj Franklin Combs and J. C. Howard,
be promptly restored to liberty unharmed.
There are also lette'rs of a similar tenor to the
U. S. Collector and District Attorney at New
Orleans, the last announcing the appointment
of Mr. Dimon McRae of North Carolina as a
Special agent to proceed to Mexico on this sub
ject. Also, a letter Irom M. Alvarez, Jate U.
S. Consel at Santa Fe, announcing his arri
val at Independence, Mp. and announcing that
he will start as soon as able for Washington,
to represent more fully the indignities, perita
and injuries to which he has been subjected.
There is also a letter from Mr. Ellis, our j
Minister at Mexico; to the State Tiepartment, j
dated Dec. 16, announcing the fate of the Ex
pedition, also, the arrival of the. prisoners at
Chihuahua, with an extract from a Mexican pa
per of the 14th, announcing that three of them
had been killed on the way by Capt. Solozar,
because they had become wearied and unable
to proceed. Mr. Ellis states that he has not
felt authorized to interfere in favor of American
citizens who had denationalized themselves by
engaging in such an Expedition. N. Y. Tri
bune.
A Tale of Horror.
The Cincinnati Chronicle is indebted to a
friend for the following:
0-Kon-po-Ho, Indian Ter., )
Dec. 15, 1841. J
Messrs. Editors; Mostmelancholy intelli
gence has just been received by the Osage In
dians, who have recently returned from the
Buffalo country. They state that about the
last of October, they met a very large company
of Chamanchee Indians, near the Salt Plains,
having in their possession the young women
and children of three hundred white families,
citizens of Texas, which they had taken pris
oners, having put to death the men and old
women.
It is said they treat their prisoners most in
humanly. They offered to sell them' (o the
Osages for a blanket for each.
The principal Chief of the Osages (White
Hair) has now in his possession a liitle white
girl, about eight years of age, which he purchas
ed of the Chamanchees. Yours, &c.
S. G. PATTERSON.
Knitting; Machine.
We went yesterday to the machine shop of
Mr. Charles Evans, No. 6 Quarry street, above
Second, to see trr operation a knitting machine
the invention of one of our cunning brethren of
the East, Mr. Richard Walker, of Portsmouth,
(N. H.) The machine is called the Patent Ro
tary Knitting Loom. It is a very small affair,
not more than 22 inches in length, 12 inches
wide, and 18 inches high. The movement
wheels of the machine are very few, but very
eccentric. 1 he needles, or teeth, however are
wonderfully ingenious. The machine is pro
pelled by steam ; -and a young woman can
with perfect ease, attend to three of these ma
chines, and with them weave ninety pairs
of stockings a day. What would say Bailie
Nichol Jarvie, whose father was a weaver, m
Glasgow, when three or four pairs would have
been a glorious day's work. N. H. Gazette.
Deaths in Boston last week, 55.
Pike conniy Jury last.
Persons dcaicn to serve as Grand Jurors for
February Term, A. D. J842.
1 Calvin Pallet, Palmyra.
2 Phillip Rose, Delaware.
3 Jonathan Weeks, Milford.
'4 Samnel Rowland, Lackawaxen.
5 Solomou Van Etten, Delaware.
6 Joseph Cuddcback, Westfall.
7 George Smith, Palmyra.
8 Robert K. Van -Etten, Delam'are.
9 Cyril! C. D. Pinchot, Milford.
10 Daniel Wilsoncraft, Delaware.
1 1 John Sawyer, Westfall.
12 David Van Gorden, do.
13 Benjamin Holbert, Lackawaxen.
14 Elisha Jones, Green.
15 William J. Conklin, Lackawaxen.
1G Samuel S. Thrall, Dingman.
17 Benjamin Courtright, Delaware'.-
18 Samuel W. Hunt, Jr.. do.
19 John B. DeWitt, Milford.
20 Walter Bowhanan. do.
21 Daniel W. Dingman, Jr. Delaware.
22 Henry C. Mi'ddaUgh, Westfall.
23 Jacob Kimble, Lackawaxen.
24 Urban Roberts, do.
Persons drawn to serve as Petit Jurors.
1 Charlin Chamberlin, Lehman.
2 William J. Custard, Westfall.
3 Simeon Lord, Lackawaxen.
4 Walter Nearposs, 'Westfall.
5 William T. Willson, Delaware.
C Benjamin H. Rose, Westfall.
7 William C. Crawford, Dingman".
8 Jared Bennet, Palmyra.
9 William R. Holbert, Lackawaxeril-
10 Alexander McCarty, Milford.
11 Elijah Petton, do.
12 Lemuel C. Gobb, DingmaiK
13 Marcus Kellum, Green. ' "
14 Edmond' Powers, Milford.
15" Jacob McCarty, Dingman.
16 John V. Custard, Lehman. y
17 Timothy Depue, Delaware, '''.'
18 Michael Aldridge, Dingman.
19 Phillip V. McCarty, Milford.
20 Jacob Braining, Lackawaxen
21 Hiram Helms, Milford.
22 George Helzel, Dingman
23 Daniel W. Dingman, Delav
24 Gorden Pallet. Palmvra
25 John Stiff, Milford.
26 Peter J. QuickDingman.
27 James Edwards, Green.
28 Ezekiel Schoonover, Lehman.
29 Samuel Preston, Delaware.
30 Redman Drake, Dingman-.
31 Ellis Carhuff, Delaware.
32 Samuel Cox, Milford.
53 Abraham B. Decker, Delaware.
34 Benjamin Kellum, Palmyra.
35 Joseph Kimble, Lackawaxen.
36 Edward Ferguson, Delaware.
A NATVIIAIL REMEDY,
Sailed to our Constitutions, and competent to the
cure of every curable disease icill be found in the
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS,
OF THE
SfGrtia American College of Health.
THESE extraordinary Pills are composed of
plants which grow spontaneously on our own soil;
and are therefore, better adapted to our constitu
tions, than medicine concocted from foreign drugs,
however well they may be compounded; and as
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS are found
ed upon the principle that the human body is in
truth
SUBJECT TO BUT ONE DISEASE,
viz: corrupt humors, and that said medicine cures
this disease on
NATURAL PRINCIPLES
by cleansing and purifying the body; it will be man
ifest, that if the constitution be not entirely ex
hausteda perseverance in their use, according
to directions, is absolutely certain to drive disease
of every name from the body. j
When we wish to restore a Swamp or Morass
to fertility, we drain it of the superabundant wa
ters in like manner if we wish to restore the body
to health, we must cleanse it of impurity.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS
Will be found one of the best, if not the very best
medicine in, the world for carrying out this
GRAND PURIFYING PRINCIPLE,
because they expel from the body all morbid and
corrupt humors, the cause of disease in an easy
and NATURAL MANNER; and while they every
day
GIVE EASE AND PLEASURE,
disease of every name is rapidly driven from the
body.
The above named Indian Vegetable Pills, nave
been three years before the American public; and
we can now say withont fear of contradiction, that
of all the various medicines which have' heretofore
been popular, not one has given such universal
satisfaction, or obtained such a permanent hold
upon the affections of the people. Not only do all
who use it invariably experience relief, and re
c6mmend it in the strongest terms: but it has ef
fected some of the most astonishing cures ever
performed by medicine.
Hitherto, very few of the numerousrfestim'onfals
which have been received in favor of this extraor
dinary medicine have been published, as the med
icine obtained its present great celebrity more' by
its own intrinsic goodness than from extensive ad
vertising. It has been deemed proper however to
offer the following opinions of the public press,
together with a few extracts from letters of Agents,
merely to show, that the fame of the Indian Vege
table Pills, is not confined to any one section, but
is rapidly extending itself to every part of the Union.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS-.
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills are' attaining
great celebrity in New England as well as other
parts of the United States. The attempt of per
sons to defraud the public by the sale of spurious
articles, meets with general reprobation. Mr.
Wright is an indefatigable business man, and
shows an array of cures by the medicine which
warrant confidence in the virtues of his Indian
Vegetable Pills.
From the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.
People are pretty well satisfied by this time,
that Calomel, and the other thousand and one min
eral preparations of the shops, are better adfipte'd',
as a general rule, to kill rather than cure the pa
tient; as a matter of course, vegetable medicines
are therefore in great request. There are very
many humbugs, however, among the latter, and
we would advise all those who- have the least re
gard for their health, to try the' INDIAN VEGE
TABLE PILLS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF HEALTH, sold at 169 Race'
street, Phladelphia ; as they aYe the preparation of
one intimately acquainted with the healing art.
From the Boston Daily Times.
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.
Of all the public advertised medicines of the
day, we know of none that we can more safely re
commend for the "ills that flesh is heir to" than
the Pills that are sold at the depot of the North
American College of Health, No. 198 Tiemont
street, Boston. Several instances we know of
where they are used in families with the highest
satisfaction; and no longer ago than yesterday, we
heard an erninont Physician of the city recommend
them in high terms. There used to be in the
community, a great repugnance to the use of
QUACK medicines, as they are all indiscriminate
ly termed, but it was mainly owing to the regular
iu. u. s constantly denouncing them. They are,
however, becoming more liberal in this respect, a,nt
the consequence is that good vegetable medicinjfi
are now more extfnivlv ia r 1 w
. ujcu man luimenv. '
xtract ot a letter from Peter Christ, Uniontown,
Carrol County, Md., Nov. I7tb, 1S38.
Dear Sir: About two months ago, T had busi.
ness in Baltimore, and called at your office, anj
bought a few boxes of the Indian Vegetable Pills
and upon trying them 1 found them" to be far supe
rior to . PiHS) or any other medicine I had
ever used. I had been subject to a couch for five
years past, and during the time have taken a vari
ety of medicines without any relief, until I got the
Indian Vegetable Pills, and by taking fourdoses
the cough began to leave me; and I now enjoy bet
ter health than I have done for years past After
I found them to be a valuable medicine, I imme
diately sent to Baltimore for a large supply. I
have received so much benefit in using the J.Y
DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS that I cannot
help but recommend them to every invalid I see
ad think so well of the medicine that I have sent
two dozen boxes to my invalid friends, in the
ate oi maiana. Signed,
PETER CHRIST.
From G. C. Black, New York.
Mr. Wm. Wright Pear Sir you will please to
orward as soon as possible, some of your Indian
Vegetable Pills: as we1 are almost out of the arti
cle, and they appear to be getting into general use
here. We have a great call for the medicine at
present, and those that have used them, speak verv
ligh of them. One gentleman attributes his being
cured of DropsV to the use of them; and another
has been cured of Dyspepsia, solely by the use of
your Indian Vegetable Pills, and is willing you
should publish his case if you think proper.
G. C BLACK,
No. 1 Chatham Square, New York,
xtract of a letter from Mr. A. Larrimore, Indiana.
Doctor Wright Dear Sir Havingsome knowl
edge of your most excellent Compound INDIAN
VEGETABLE PILLS, and not knowing how to
get a fresh supply, my stock being nearly exhaust
ed, and wishing to always have them in my family,
take this method id open a correspondence with
f-W-1? Ml 11 f V . II .1 1. - 1
you. rne puis aiiuaeu to are wen tnougnt oi nere
and very much wanted.- I wish to make arrange
ments with you for a constant supply, as I think
a very great quantity could be sold in this section
of the country.-
Extract of a left e'r from Samuel Griffith, Stewart
town, York County, Pa.
Mr. W. Wright Dear Sir I am selling the In
dian Vegetable Pills by the dollar's worth, and at
that rate the stock of Pills-, left by your travelling
afgent, will soon be out.'
I am pleased to find they are such ready sale.
Those who have" u'se'd them, speak in the highest
terms Of them'. Many have already found great
relief from their use, and when the cures are final
ly effected, I shall do you the justice to inform you
orthe same.
Extract of a' let'ter from: Washington City.
Mr. Wm. Wright Dear Sir You will have the
kindness to forward me as soon as possible, too or
three gross of the Indian Vegetable Pills. The
sales have, for the last two months, increased rap
idly; those -who -buy, generally remarking, "that
they are the best pills they have ever used;" and
my opinion is that they will in a short time super
cede all others in this city.
ROBERT FARNHAM.
Washington City, D. C.
Extract of a letteffrom Lycoming County, Pa.
Mr. Wm Wright Dear Sir On being appoint
ed Agents for the sale of the INDIAN VEGE
TABLE PILLS in thrlpiace, we only took one
gross on trial; butit would have been better if we
had taken a half fozen gross; for on a fair trial
they have far exceeded our most sanguine expecta
ttons. In fact so much so th.atwe.have been oblig
ed to send to Mh Zimmerman, at Lancaster, more
than a hundred miles from here,-for ten dozen; but
these will last butlrtvery short time, the way we
are selling them since'tlfey have been fairly tested.
In the first place, I gavesome to our Physicians,
to make trial of since which thby have purchased
a number of boxes, and higlttyT&piDroyeof them. A
few days ago, there was a latly'sent 30 miles to get
a box of the Pills, she at the time was, very low,
and unable to turn herself in bed but in two days,
my informant says she was ablo to help herself.
We could mention many other cases, but deem
it unnecessary at this time; but would merely say;
that as the season is fast approaching when there
will be a great demand for the Indian Vegetable
Pills; and if we only could get a supply of the med
icine, we could establish other agents, which would
be of immense advantage not only to the NORTH
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF HEALTH; but to
the public generally. Please let us know your
views on the subject, and any directions relative
to the same, will be promptly attended to by
Very respectfully, your friends,
S. WINCHESTER tj SON,
Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, Pa.
AGENTS for tho sale of the above named IN
DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS;
Charles Boys, Stroudsburg, Monroe county.
John Lander, Craigs Meadows, Monroe co.
John Laforge, Milford, Pike county.
Stoll & Dimmick, Dingman's Ferry, Pika ca
Peters & Ladar, Cushkill, Pike county.
Myers & JJdinger,, Tannersville, Monroe cq
OFFICE AND. GENERAL DEPOT,
FOR THE SALE OF THE
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
" 16 J" RACE STREET, Philadelphia,
j August 25, 1811, ly.
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