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JTOB PRINTING. ilivins a general assortment of large, elegant plain and orna mental Type, we are prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, BUS Heads, Noics, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatchon reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE .Teffersonian Republican A PARODY. Take a little wife, The pretier the better; -v r. ' Pat her-cheek, and when She wants to kis3 you let her. Keep her in the "house Jf " There she'll cook your nYuftbh ; Darnjyour jacket too, If she's worth a button. - i Nevermind the lots Of her aunts and cousins;. Ask them to " drop in ;" ' Dine them all by dozens"?' : " &4' Ona of these odd days, ' ft " ' Tou'll feel one inch taller,,, ' v . When you see her hug A chopping little. :squaller. Perm Corrcjfitmdence of ihe Jduitial of Commerce. Inamujr letter, I mentioned io you thalf0-Du-JCouret who had already penetrated far in'Ari a, was about to seYout on a new and extensive ex ploration of five years, under the special auspices of the French Government, and at the charge jo( the treasury". The Minister of Public Instruction skedaftho Academy of Sciences some iristrux tions for him, which was read at the sitting of ihe 20th inst. At the same time the Colonel addres sed to ihe Academy a notice of the race of the Ghilanes inhabiting the interior of Africa, and re- .., i l - ! . Jj - 1 nuwnea among me neignoonng irioes as cauaaieu w having tails'- The matter is so curious that I , Lave caused to be translated for .you what has been pabliBhed about it, by one of the scientific repor-. lets, liord Monboddo will nornave errea so mucn an his primitive stock. From the Scientific Reporf. There exists a race of men who. according fd',ab,els was god and J3 fidelily e report of certain travellers, are originally frdhrj - - Ifae the kingdom of Gondar, or of others, who'Say-th'ey anliabit Soudan in the South, whose zoological characteristics are remarkable. They haveaail-like apperfdage, fortaed by the elongation dfrthe.vr lebral column, and they ar,e xthe. la$t-linkin the 1 rrv - i i 1 j: i race m x-nveunis uu. .o. . uJS -c oi taem without great dimpuity.: so Dap is tne.r Tepuiation. t Tbe. traits, whiqh distinguish them are hideous upimess ot lace and hgure.iingQVem- tace are to be found, J also; ih -the Phillip" pine Is lands, but they were, doubtless, earned thither by the slave merchants. Howe"fcettth'is may be,, when. a Levantine is looking put fofjsjavs ip the EajstJ tie is altoav warned not to urchasa one who has laih he is tdld "Of all slaves tHis is the' least prohiable." i,his race ot men is very laroemnd . - - r r v - ' i that of which Fourier ;dreameatvd ;whiclr was, -y same day, to become the type oT mSrily beauty, morally and physically. - M. I)u Con ret? who was in-Meeca in the year 1842, saw arf irMvidual bfHe species we have just mentioned, and belonging,, he was told, to the breed of;Ghilanese in tha South. Though it be J not the first time that we have, heard, .the race, of men spokenf, who are furnished wj.tn tails,, nevr ertheless the fact is not sufficiently common to ,! '. - . i tir in .ifi '"-.i t 'hb away us jnteresi. .uureiv.c, euiei somewhat in detail upon tbisstrarige organic man ifestation. ? inhabited Mecca In 1842," says M. Du. Couret,' " and being sften at .the house of a Lmir with whom I was, intimate, I sppke to him of the GHilaae race", ad told hipi.hpw much lhe European s doubted of the .existence, of men u'iih tails, Jljat Js to sa ifit .vertebral column elongated .externaily. Jn order to pdnvince me f the realftv nfth's sheeVesVharrffr ordered be fore me one if his slaves calfed Belldi. whb was 3 '""ui Unity ycaTS U1U W wwuiu- iuih auu. hk belonged to 1 .his tribe. On ;sur,veyjngr this man, "I was ihorous liiv: convinced.- . He -i . He -sp,oke Arabic well, and a orfeared rather intelligent. He, told toe that in h af country, far beyond the Sennar, whtch he'ha xl crossed, they spoke a diflererit kn "aee: this . forwantof pra'ctTce, he had entirely 'orfiotton ; t that of his compairtots; whom he estjo fin the mt 6D,'oc3tara ;. .o.ther&Uerpe.nX and; the Sources of an jfempse tjver., in which they immo- . '4 thfttr ioiTm-i'nrobablvtha anrinorn of the.l -4bo-ve ffftesV tHey sYiughiired an'tf d'ev De fiOigb.boti. in"er tw'iiliout istinction;of age fi"u weir xhrjvioffleH Tand.qhiliefh jWere eferable, io-00" de.T.out .MjJssulmari, and .hilano had become ... Wfond; 4 lived - foYkfohreally STROUBSBURG, MONROE COtJNTY, IA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, L849. . was a tyant for hirii) did not fail to return upon him and his master, therefore, by a precaution, never failed when this fit was on him, to provide nun wnh an enormous niece of raw mnttnn. whinh he consumed ravenously before everybody pres ent. This eager 'desire for raw flesh sbnwp it self periodically ; sometimes twice a week. Being uocu no uiu noi uy io correct sucn a naoit, auawciBu wuu greai irannness : " l nave olten tried to overcome this appetite, which I received lrom my father and mother. In my countrji great ana sman, young ana old, live in this manner, be- sine eating nsn, lruits and vegetables. If my master neglected to supply this requirement or my nature, I am sure 1 could not resist the desire which possesses me of devouring something, and I should cause great sorroiv bv fallincr on nomo person too weak to contend with me, an infant, lur example." Having asked him to allow me to see him naked (for I wished to sketch him,) he resisted for a long iime, but finally yielded, on re ceiving ihe promise of an, entirely new dress, which I was to send him. He came Drivatelv to my house, where he look off the scanty shirt of course Diue unen wntcn ne wort tvns thus Pri. abler to cbmtemplate him quite at ttiy ease, and to paint his portrait wlthbut exposing him to the punisnmeni wnicn wouia nave been inriicted on him, if he had been detected by his fanatical and superstitious master." The drawing made under these circumstances has been placed Under the ejres of the Academy. Here are some extracts from the description given by M. Du Couret, of the Ghilanes : '.'The Ghilanes are" a peculiar race of negro; which hive a strongTesemblance to the monkey : much smal ler than the usual jrace they are rarely more than five feet high. They are commonly ill iriade j their bodies are lean and seem weak ; their arms long and slim ; their hands and feet are longer and flatter than those of any other of the human species ; their cheeks pioject, and their forehead is Jow and receding ; their ears are long and de formed ; their eyes are small, black, piercing, and twinkle constantly ; their noses are large and flat ; their month wide, and furnished with teeth very sharp, strong and of dazzling whiteness ; their lips are full and thick ; their hair curled, but not very woolly, not thick, and remains short. But what particularly distinguishes them is the prolongation of th& vertebral column. This gives to each individual, male and female, a tail of two or three inches long. Finally , here fs the portrait of Belial, the, name of the personage the author encountered at Mecca. ' He was thin and dry but nervous and strong. His skin was black-bronzed, shining, soft to .the touch like velvet. His feet were long and flat ; his arms and legs appeared feeble, but well sup plied with muscles. His ribs could easily be counted.. His face was repulsively ugly. His mouth was enormous, hts lips thick, his teeth strong, sharp and very white ; his nose broad and fiau his ears long and deformed; his forehead 1 1 - , . . ! IT.. iow ana very receamg ; nis nair not very wuuny nor thick, but nevertheless curly. He had no beard, and his body was not hardy He was ve- ry active and handy. His height was about hve feet. His tail was more than three inches long, and almost; as flexible as' that of a monkey. His disposition, setting aside the oddity of his taste's was above Scenery on ChifgirltTrcr. By Bayard Taylor. There is nothing in the world comparable to these forests. No description that I have ever . conyvs n H f .... srilendid overnlus of ve!able -fe withfn t t . ' Tha . broad and wUh ft fr j ,. .. . . ,r . r r ,: 4U .rise irom its very surlace. All the gorgeous growths of an eternal Bummer are so mingled in one impenetrable mass that the eye is bewildere'd. From the rank jungle of canes arid gigantic lilies, and the thickets of strange shfubs that Ifne the water, rise the trunks of the mango, the ceiba, the cocoa, the sycamore, arid the superb palm. Plain- fa;nc f-u0 rnnt ;n t,0 nira f.Mina tbR soil with i .i j l ir ?s vi.i their leaves, sliaken and split into immense plumes by the wind.andj rain the size of a man's he The zapote, with a fruit head, the gourd tree, and other vegetable wonders, attract the eye on all sides Blossoms of crimson, purple, and yellow, or a lorm and 'magnitude unknown in the north, are mingled with the leaves, add flocks of paroquets and bril liant butterflies circle through the air like blos- tsom&,blown away. Sometimes a spike of scarlet flowers is thrust-forth like tbtpnna oi a, ser pent, from the head of some couvolutiop of unfol ding leaves, and sometimes the creepers and par asites drop tails and streamers of fragrance from boughs that shoot half-way across the river. Ev ery turn of the stream only discloses another and more magnificent vista, of leaf, bough and blossom. All out of the landscape is lost under this deluge of vegetation. No trace of the soil is to be seen; a mountain is but a high swell of the mass of ver dure. As ort the ocean, you have a sense rather than a perception of beauty. The sharp, clear lines of our scenerv at home are here wantfng. -'.. . lit lr What shape the land would oe, n .cieareo, you can not tell. You gaze upon the scene before you with.a: never stated delight,, till your brain aches with the sensation, and you close your eyes, over wWlmed with the thought that el! these wonders Jikve bfcen from the beginningr-that year after year takes' away no blossom that is not replaced, but the sublime roy.tery of growth and decay is" renewed" forever. A Pig JoKe We rfad a hearty laugh the other day.-at hearing a frieridejliof a:man who Was atterhpfipgto put e voke on" a nig. He had c6rnerer4 the grpunter jp a roorr -having a glazed ynndo'w, when the an imal. believing they tfere preparing to infring dimen?i9D anyway, seyen by nine exactly." 3 upon his full freedom, went "with a single bound through; flie" wmdow. " ftrat it," said the old man. looKinrr aner uuu uiumcns. , a - eu tuui SOCIAL CARD PJLAYIIVG. How to mae Gamblers The fol lbwlng short history of the schooling of Green, the great Garribler, written by himself, ought to be a warning to otliers. Although I belong to the despisecl ' fraternity called gamblers; I have always made'it a rule to advise young men to shun the gambling lable", that they might avoid the rock upon which 1 will now offe?, through your paper, I split; and some sug gestions to the heads of families on the subject of social caid playing. I was at least twenty years of age, and had lived softie months in New York, before I even knew the names of the ordinary playing cards ; but the importance of a thorough education in the science of games was soon made apparent to me, and in a quarter whence I least expected it. Boarding in Broadway, I gradually formed an ac quaintance with a number of highly respectable families. By one of these I was invited to atterid a social party. The heads of this family I knew to be members of an Evangelical church, and you will readily judge of my surprise, when 1 made my en tree into, the parlor, to behold most of the com pany, together with my pious friends, deeply en- j gaged at play ! not the plays of innocence', but the plays of depraved gamblers. The father of the family was engaged at chess, whilst his wife presided at a card table ; their children were among the whist players, and others of the com pany were engaged at backgammon, dominoes and chequers ! The wine circulated freely ; and all seemed happy but myself, who in such a party was. a barbarian. I could do nothing but look on and confess my ignorance, or occasionally engage in conversation with same old lady, whilst ! The young and gay, Were all engaged at play." , It is needless to say, that I spent a very Unhap py evening ; and that I resolved to acquire at once ah education so necessary to the mainten ance of a respectable standing in good society ! I was not long therefore, in mastering the myste ries of High, Low, Jack and the Game, and o!f Whist, and a slight knowledge of ihese led to a desire for farther information ; until at last I was adept at a variety of games, able to teach others, and was a favorite partner wherever I went. I became exceedingly fond of cards.; arid as th'ey were introduced into every social circle where 1 was admitted, my fondness gradually ripened into' passion, which clings to me even in this hour". No better illustration of the dangers of social card playing can be given, than my ovvn history. In the parlors of respectale families I acquired a taste for play, which5 finally became an all ab sorbing passion, knowing nd bounds, and rapidly hurrying me down the road of ruin, where all is misery, desolation arid death ! But my case is not a solitary one ; thousand's of gamblers" have been made in the same way ; and tens of thousands have fallen before this ter rible vice in consequence of a taste for play being formed in the family circle. Green's National Guardian. The following very singular case, not pub lished as yet in any of the medical journals, is given in the September number of the N. Y. Knickerbocker. It is" recommended; io the no tice of inquiring physiologists' : A negro woman, Francis Couenhoven by name, residing at a place called ' Bead Horse Bay,' near Graveseri'd, Long Island, was mar ried about 18 rrioinhs ago. The day after the ceremony she started with her husband in an ordinary top buggy' wagon to visit some friends who lived a few miles off ; and it so happened lhat the horse took fright, and in spue of the address of the driver ann'V io' poats at the juction of the hay and Gravesend road, by which the top of the boggy was lorn off instantly and the sable pair narrowly es caped with' with their lives. In due course of time Frahcis became a mbihe'r. The child was born bald ; but ihe attention of the physi cian, Dr. Still well, was directed to an unusual development on the back of the infant's heo d Upon examination, it proved to' be a masVj 6( thin membranedus snbsiance, in texture ike a bats wing, ihterseiited with slender, elastic ra dii, resembling whalebone', and tuviiing upon osseous pivots at the ears, Jutle of the sur prise of-the physician, when, upon funher ex aminatiori, it proved to he moveable ; and genily drawing it fdrward over the infant's head it unfolded itself into a miniature represen tation of a gig itih! The child is now living, and may be seen at any lime by the curious at Dead Horse Bay, Long Island, about nine miles from ibis city, The ediior of an exchange paper says he never saw but oho ghost, -and that wag the ghosi of a einner, who died without paying for ltiK paper! " 'Twa horrrible 10 look upon the ghost of, Hamlet was no circumstance 10 ii." ' ' ' 'f ' ' ': To the FWeinen at Pennsylvania. The Whig State Central Committee address their fellow citizen's of Pennsylvania at a period of unusual interest, and amid events and tenden- ces of uncommon importance. It is a period of iioca, ui wuivu iue luriunus ui ine otate, OI IPC Union, of the 'world or at least the world of Eu ropeare all deeply involved, in Europe', the crisis of liberty is, perhaps, already'past : Rome, Venice and Hungary have fallen ; France is false or 'derelict ; Switzerland is threatened ; aha tHe last shattered relics of republicanism struggle but feebly against the vengence of kings and the pow er of their mercenary arrrlies. ih dUr own hnr Union, where Locofoism assumes the attitude arid preaches the doctrine of despotism, we have thb crisis of free soil ; and in Pennsylvania, where thb same evil influence is arrayed against the freedom of territories and the rights of citizens, we are called to o'dr dutiel in the crisis of the protective policy. Shall the unsettled territories of this broad republic be given up to the unresisted em pire of slavery 1 Shall the free laborers of Penn sylvania be robbed of their rights and adequte re -wards, be reduced to the condition of European serfs 1 These are questions which are to be an swered in the coming election in the Keystone State ; for nothing is now iriore certain ihan that, according as her people cast their suffrages on the side of the Whig of the Locofoco party, they vote for or against the principles of free soil arid for or against the doctrine of projection. Id these two particulars there can be no doubt where the two parties respectively stand. Locofocoism, in this State, no longer conceals its alliance with and allegiance to the Southern fanaticism of the s'chbpl of Calhoun, which claims the unlimited right of slave-holders to carry slaves and plant the institution of slavery wherever they choose, and, at the same iime, to equally unlimited privilege of taking away the employments and markets of our workmen, to give them to foreign workmen in England and other distant countries. Loco focoism, in Pennsylvania,- is now openly preseri ted as a free trade and slavery extension party. The Whigs have ever been the' true, and they now rerriaih the only consistent reliable friends of the principles which reserve free territories for free rrien, and give all the lucrative employments, and profitable markets of our own country to our own citizens ; the principles which would consecrate the broad unsettled lands of North America to i the uses of freedom, and prefer the interests of American' industry over those of any and every foreign people. How many thousand stahvaith laborers in Pennsylvania depend for their bread upon the prosperity of the great coal and iron in terests, which are now languishing so miserably u'n'der that bitter gift of Locofoco love of the peo ple, the death tariff of 1846 ; and how many har dy farmers of Pennsylvania,of whom these labor ers bought their food, now suffer ih the poverty of their customers ! One third of our if on works thrown out of use, have entailed a loss of not less than sevea or eight millions of dollars a" yeart ev or eight millions of dollars a year ev- ery cent of which is taken from the pocket of Pennsylvania workmen a'nd farmers to bp, given fo British workmen arid farmers. It is orlly Whig protection and Whig tariffs which cap pm an end to this ruinous statS of thfngs and brJing back the prosperity enjoyed under the Whig tariff of 1842. Pennsylvania needs a wise anr!i economic sys tem of finance aiming to increp.se the productive ness of the State Improvements, and diminish the burthen' of public debt. C3'n any man of any par ty in the Commonwealth fail to contrast the change in the' State affairs, accomplished within the brief period in wlr.ch they have been admin istered by a' Whig; State government4yththe posture they occupied so lotinder Locofoco j-tmsruie ami mismanagement! Within this peri od, the State 'credit has been restored the inter est on the public debt is paid in hard money and, while the completion of the North Branch Canal and the Colurnbia Rail Road (for what is the road to a'vr,id the inclined plane but the completion of tha. great work) has been embarked Upon, a Sink ing Fund has been established aud is already in operation : the work of paying the State debt hav ing actually commenced, and commenced in such away, and upon such a systerrf, that it is calcula ted, that if no fatal change be made, no less than ten millions of dollars, or one fourth the whole debt, may be paid off in six years, and the entire , indebtedness of the Commonwealth be wiped out within fifteen or sixteen years. What a glorious prospect this for every Pennsylvania!! who loves his Slate and feels that he ought to disregard ajj politics, and all parties, which are not baaetTupon the first principle of entire devotion to the honor and interest of .lhe State and the happiness and prosperity of its people. To realize this prospect, the full infusion the entire predominance ; in fact of Whig, princi ples, is necessary. 1 o ensure economy and fidel ity in the management of the State works-r-nay, guaranty barely a check tipon profusion and raisgoyeriiuiuiH yuc n ing ui ieai ougm iu uu No. 10 in the Canal Board ; and the. election of Henry M. Fuller, the Whig candidate to that all-important post, will give but one Whig member, pow erless perhaps for aiiy absolute good, but power ful, to a great extent, in preventing evil. Of Mr. Fuller's merits, it is scarcely necessary to speak, a3 bis distinguished public careerhas mado them familiar to the people of the Commonwealth. A native of the State educated to a thorough knowledge of its interests, arid devoted to their maintenance and support a genuine republican, in tHe true sense of that term active, intelligent experienced and upright a stauricli friend of free; labor, and an unflinching foe to the extension of slavery, in any form or under any pretext he pre sents in a high' degree all the qualities required tor a competent and faithful discharge of all the duties belonging to the office for which he has been selected as a candidate. Necessary as it is for the moral influence to be exercised, that the Canal Cbmmissidrier should be elected, it is not le3s necessary that the Levi's, lature should be Whig, that the interests of x'ca Stale and the people of the State should be goa ded arid defended. Shall we return to th& old system of finance d ahinplaster currency no sinking fund no redemption df the State debt no completion of the public works the bartheri of debt and taxation left to grow heavier-r-every-thitig neglected except the ignoble interests of partizans and party 1 Shall we have the samo declarations ih favor of free trade iri a Pennsyl vania Legislature which we have had in Locofocc conventiohs arid papers 1 Shall we there becalled upon; at one and the same time, to declare that Pennsylvania bur brave and honest Pennsylva-. nia, in which slavery was first denounced as arti evil and free labor was intended by nature to be best rewarded sacrifices the interests of freedom to the schemes of slaveowners, and wishes- to. give away the bread of her b'wn people tastran--gets', the inhabitants oi" foreign countries th sub. jects of foreign princes t "What safety; fe. there but in a Whig majority a Whig Legislature sup porting a Vhig administration tie predbmina-' ting influence of a party whose ruling principle, are free soil and free labor1 protection to home industry the restoration of State credit, the com pletion of the?Sta'te works and the payment of the State debt i This is, indeed, the d.ay of the crisis of the nr- tective policy in rennylvania ; and it will mainly depend upon the YirA of vote which the people of the State shall give in the coining election, wheth er that pblicv is o be restored, or utterly annul led arid abolished. The antagonisms df good and evil are now, in our State, tri full arid desperate struggle. ; a.nd the history of the morrow will bo one of good or bad fortune, of prosperous or ad verse fa.'ce, according as men shall rank themselves on the side of their own interests or against them. according as they shall direct their weapons w .. . D . - , i n .tainct thotr tnoo or Ihoir nwn hn4nm. VVochali . 4 . , , . . , . , to oe true to nersetr, ana inai ner peopie writ sianu up like men in support of their own righs and in terests. By the Committee : MORTON McMICHAEL, Chairman. Q'eorge H. Hart, John M. Coleman, Thomas W. Duffieldi Nathaniel glirhaker, Henry D. Matwell, Qaleb N. Taylor,. James Traquair, Joshua P. Eyre, Samuel B. Thomas,. Isaac Bartole, S. D. Lewis, James Moore, Jr., William R. Morris .anzwelderV M. C. Mercur, Johfyp. Kuhkle Simon Oyster, Jacob Criswell, junn JMTiohn. r rancis1 Jordan, J. Stuart Riddle, William T. Sanders, W. F. Murray. Samuel P. Johnson, Alexander Franklin; Humphrey G. Hill, Postponement of the National Com mon School Convention. At the suggestion of several State Superinten dents and Other influential friends of the cause of popular education in different sections of the Unt bn the meeting of the National Convention of tha friends of common schools, which was to have taken place in this city on the 52d inst., has been postponed to the 17th of October, on account of the prevalence of the cholera throughout the coun try. fly Officers of Conventions or associations which have aosointed daWateB. will nln asft fnr- 1 - , Q J J ' ward to the Corresponding Secretary tho names oi persons appointed as delegates. By order of Local Committee df A rrarigVmeut. JOS. R. CHANDLER, Chairman, ALFRED E. WRIGHT. Cor. Sec. Philadelphia, Aug. 1K 184U. Inflammatory KheHwatim. A gentleman wishes us to publish the following, for the relief of suffering humanity. He says ho has known a number of cures by it, and all of whom within a short time : Half an duhee of alum, half an ounce hr:niin-.- ized saltpetre,' 'put in half a pihf bf'8wee?'oil. Bathe the parts affected, when jTsoupq cufV will be speedily effect, ' "