The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-19

JUNE, 1889.
Death - = Rlng.
The news broughs from the Old WOrld by eh,
Canada, ID fraught with evil tidiDss los d,
American advocates Of the African Slave trade
The only Sovereign IN all the world Who sympa
thized With their objects and would have &C.
lively furthered their designs, 10 no more. Tht
tomb Of the African capulets has received hi'
Majesty the King Of Dahomey.
llis Majesty the King. For be was . King
though bis skin was black and bic hair vooily
monarch who but lately made = treaty wish
the Emperor Of France, sovereign With whom
an English Government had quarreled, and
whose archives, il he preserved any, could u
hibit negotiations with the Crown Of Portugal.
He was remarkable as having been ferocioua
brute, If an expression so strong may be applied
to = personage 30 exalted, and for having main
tanned . body guard Of female warriors,-a
troop of AmazOnian Ebony. And when hs
died the Kingdom Of Dshomey showed The sim
ceri:y OF its affection By sacri6cing, vith the
rost unniggardlv sacrifice, eight hundred nig1
gers to his honored names.
What kind Of . rising young man succeeds
King Gezo, in the person Of that amiable po-
tentate's son, may be judged Of from the fact
that the youth marked the severity OF bis 6lial
feelings by at once starting on slave hunIing
expedition, possibly with view to supply the
void in the Dahomey slave market, caused by
the holocaust At the obseques. The friends Of
the Slave trade revival, however, may take but
small comfort from this act of dutiful imitation
on the part Of the young king. He may have
all the inclination TO be as sharp man stealer
as his worthy pareRt was before him; buhas Il
is not often that two men in one family are
gifted with an equal amount of talent, so We
may scarcely expect TO End Gezo's son qaite as
''smart" q man AZ Gezo,-for he was an unde-
niable sharp negro In spite Of treaties, threats,
and gifts, he kept on the even or
rather very odd tenor Of his way, and did all
that he listed, John Bull to the contrary not
withstanding. As,ute and selfish, he obtained
influence over his people; and hav-
ing acquired riches by the almost unlimited ex-
tent to which he carried on the Slave ,rade, he
was doubtless regarded by those Of his subjects
whom he did not sell, as q gentleman and
scholar, as well ~ king. He made war upon
all the surrounding country, and the prisoners
whom he captured he conveyed into the ready
money of the Spanards and Portuguese, whose
vessels, American and otherwise, carried the
property so acquired to Cuba, Porto Rico and
Brazil. Nor did King GezO scruple, when the
foreign supply had been exhausted before his
Christian customers had been fully served, to
make up the deficiency from his own subjects
The young king will have some work 70 do If he
attempts to continue the Dahomey game against
The renewed influence with which the death Of
Gezo will doubtless induce Great Britain to again
assail that stronghold Of the horrid traffic.
In blaming King Gezo, however, it would
scarcely be fair to forget that be was no worse
han the white men who passed for Christians,
md who not only bought his wares, but even
melted him to fresh exertions for the supply Of
heir almost Unsuitable demand. We do not
greatly respect the majesty that bedged about
his king. in common with all other monarchs,
out we cannot regard him as quite SO villainous
IS the whites who dealt with him. They fiat
;rred hs vanity, ambition and avarice, with
beads, cooked hats, and old pantaloons, and
Dribed him with what the old wretch loved
more than all-rum, gunpowdeF, and dollars
Even Napoleon, of rein. d France, his brother
sovereign, Del gratia, but lately condescended
o present to Gezo field piece to furnish mu-
tic congenial to his savage ears. He a gone,
however, and there is an end of the energy,
and greed which animated the
negro who sold negroes to an extent unknown
before him. His death will be the signal for a
lew crusade against the system which Great
Britain has attempted in thousand ways, but
to destroy. Gezo rather en-
Dyed the fun when Lagos was bombarded, and
oamboozled every English agent who approach
ID him on the subject OF the Slave trade. He
promised amendment and went off to hunt
slaves; came back from the foray and promised
amendment; and so went on until he died.
Iczo's son may endeavor to follow in the foot
steps Of his royal father, but we are glad TO
hink it improbable that he will be able to do
30 very effectually.-[New York Times.
A STRANGE ELoPENENT-FAcr STRANGER THAN
Isadore Poulin, an independent
md successful merchant Of our city, has been
living serenely in the comforts OF quiet home,
where faithful wife and smiling babe gave
ouoyancy and Reetness to the happy hours
She was the second wife OF Mr.. Poulin, and had
borne to him one child, q daughter, now four
years old.
A few months since, Mr.. P. employed likely
young clerk named Augustus Lurges, and in
lroduced him to his household. The clerk
would linger long at meals, and soon manifested
a preference for social and domestic comforts,
which kept him much from bis commercial du-
lies. He was devoted to the little daughter,
and evnced such pleasure in attending to her,
that Mr.. F., feeling paternal pride and pleas
are, INDUCED him in many hours OF absence
from the store. Matters passed on thus-the
absence increasing IN dutation-and yet Mr..
7. had no suspicion that there was other at
traction than the little daughter, that kept this
,hild loving clerk away.
On Wednesday evening last, the clerk did not
'eturn from dinner, and, when tea time came,
Ar. Poulin proceeded as usual to hia bome,,
without the least suspicion that all was not right
here. He opened the door and passed into his
lrawing- room, where all was quiet and 10 order;
ne proceeded to the tea room; he went to his
to the kitchen and over the entire
premises, but could see no one. He called his
wife, his daughter, but no answer came. 81
ence reiened supreme, and desolation brooded
over all. HIS wife had flown. She and the
.lerk had departed by the evening train, taking
he little daughter with them.
Mr.. Poulin was astonished, mortified, indg-
1ant furious. He had never spoken an unkind
word to his wife, and he trusted her with un-
confidence. He would as soon have
that the sun would hy from its orbit
- that she would deviate from the paths Of
virtue. The clerk had been kindly, generously,
treated, and be could not dream that
ne would rob him Of his wife-his happiness
de found that his wife and clerk aud little
daughter were all gone, and had taken With
hem considerable amount Of money.
The strangest feature OF this strange transac-
lion is the disparity in the ages and appearance
of the criminal parties. The lady is about
forty pock marked, and not comely, while the
gentleman is about twenty six and good look
ing. II is suspected that they have gone 10
New Orleans or New York.-Lst. Joseph (Mo.)
Gazette, 9th inst.
NORTHERN LINE PAcKKrs.-The St. Louis Re-
publican OF . late dale gives the St. Louis and
St. Paul through line OF packets the following
and deserving notice:
The Northerd Line packets, Messrs. Warden
1 Shaler, agents, are doing smashing business
both in passengers and fright. They are
cleaning everything out and their prospects for
the season are brilliant. The Northern Line ia
fully answering the expectations Of the trav-
cling and shipping public, and are fulfilling
their promise OF last season. They had the full
and undivided confidence OF our mercha ants and
citizens last season, and this lire Of boats has
become a fixed fact in the navigation Of the
Upper Mississippi. Success to the Northern
Line and its worthy managers. Captain Ward 10
in Port devot'ng his whole time and attention
TO its interests, as President and General Super