The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-14


SATURDAY MOANING, OCTOBER a. 1884.
D Sea First page for Interesting particulars Of
the los Of ths Arctic.
"MEN WITH TAILs.n-The French saraas,
most Of whom have found Moses and the
Prophets too much for their credulity; who
cannot recognizein the sublime and rational
Bible narrative Of the Creation, which has me-
yer been approached by the accounts OF 'nal
event given by the most polished nations o.
antiquity; and in that decalogue, which, IN us
absolute perfection, stands alone among all
the moral codes of the world, any higher or
gin than the invention of leader OF igno
rant and barbarous men, are ready to swai-
Low without q question any fiction which
contradicts the truth of Scripture, NO matter
how slight the foundation of fact on which it
rests, or how absurd and disgusting, and de-
grading to humanity may be its character
Geology. which has just Clipped the shell Of
this vast globe, and looks as knowingly into
it as - magpie into a marrow bone" is re-
garded as more infallible historian OF the
beginning Of the world than the books OF
Moses; and now the French philosophers
have discovered, to their unbounded salts
faction. that there is race Of men in Africa
pitk tails, fact which confirms them in the
exalting conviction that the human race was
originally monkeys, theory to which, it
must be confessed, the character and habits
of their nation had already given some plau-
sibility.
AFrench medical journal, the France Med
scale Of Paarmaceutique, contains full length
picture of man with tail. So at least says
the New Orleans Bee, on the authority of NJ.
Victor Meunier, the correspondent of some
literary or scientific journal in Paris what
journal the Bee does not say, 80 that there is
as yet no positive or satisfactory evidence
even of the existence of the picture. But that
point we will not dispute. Any one who can
draw q picture of man, can easily add a
tail to it. We therefore do not agree with the
observation of NJ. Meunier, that "every one
can satisfy his doubts by inspecting the
authentic picture of man with tail" We
are not prepared to give up Moses on the
strength of such logic. You philosophers
say to us, respecting Christianity. "Unless
we see, we will not believe" Well, we meet
you with your own weapons. Unless we see
your man with tail, we cannot have faith,
though we be damned. We can show you
picture of the miracles of Christianity, if that
will be satisfactory to your reason. If not,
excuse us from being overwhelmed by the
picture of man rejoicing in the ornament of
Q tail
However, the picture is not the only evil
dence which is offered by the writer of the
communication in the French journal, whose
name is unknown. The picture we are told,
was "sketched at Mecca in 1s42 by the only
European ach0 can speak otherwise than by
he0rsay, of this singular variety of the hu.
man species" He is French traveller in
Africa, one NJ. de Couret. He states that q
black man with tail sat to him for this pic
ture; that this individual, who was a slave,
did to him q tail unfold which was about three
inches in length, and with almost as much
dexibility as the fail of monkey, which, hav-
ing done, NJ. Couret took his tail, or rather
the likeness of it, and around that tail the
French nation are now clustering like a
swarm of delighted bees. The lovely model,
M. Couret informs US, spoke Arabic, and was
in the habit of RECALLING himself in the morn
ing with raw sleeps fesh, which he adopted
as the best substitute he could find for the
diet on mans Resh to which he was accus-
toned. There is no doubt that but for this
he would have swallowed NJ. Couret, which
would have been but fair, as NJ Couret had
swallowed him, or at least his tail. This ne
gro said that the other members of his tribe
were provided with similar caudal appenda-
ges, and it is said by M. Couret that there is
other negro Evidence to the same effect. The
tails, however, may be the work of some ne
gro wag, DESTROYS of imposing upon the white
man, or Of an African Barnum, four Ameri.
can Barnum could easily manufa cture tail
twenty feet long,l or, with due respect to M.
Couret, it may be only q travellers tale.
Speaking of Barnum, we recommend him
to settle the question by sending at once to
Africa, and procure if ne can one of these
men, with handle behind. If any body can
produce the living evidence ofsuch monste r,
it is Barnum who has silenced unbeIevers in
the sea serpent and the mermaid by the &C.
tual exhibition of those extraordinary ami
mails. N. Couret, since his FIRST communica-
ton on the subject, has been commissioned
by the enterprising French government,
to visit Africa, and procure Mon.
MAN, the tribe which has tails. M. Cou.
ret proceeded to his destination, but, we
are told, that unfortunately he was not
able to reach the nation provided with
these fascinating extensions. Why he could
not reach them we are not informed, nor
1, we learn why he did not proceed at
once to his former studio, and procure the
same gentleman who had so kindly sat to
him for his tail. Whatever the reason, M.
Couret has as yet been able to show to France
nothing but picture, on thestrength of which
the world is expected to discard Divine Rev.
citation. We have often seen likeness of
the Devil. which represented him with very
tail, and, if we are to put faith in
pictures, Ne have right to conjecture that