The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-04-27

DEATH OF A SLAVE KING The las.
mail from the West Coast oe Afrien hrinos
tldi 'gs of the death of Geo, the notori.
Qua slave-kine Of Dahomey, who. for mn.
wards OF twenty-five years, s%upulicd al
the demands Of the Spanish and Poru.
gese slave dealers who infested the B.olt
OF BENIN rayaging and devastating the
interior far and wide by his slave hunts to
obtain victims for his European customers
He organized and led those Internal for.
avs and cruelties on the largest scale Az.
RIGA has known, and annually sold. with.
out rcnorse or scruple, bis own country.
men IN tens OF thousands for oxportation.
His horrible cruelties arrested the nro.
gress OF Africa, fed tho wretchedncss and
morality of the Middle Passage, and. bv
depopulating Negroland, promoted the
immense material prosperity of Cuba and
Brazil. AT length, owing to the efforts of
the English, this prodigious and terrible
traffic was very materially circumscribed.
and even King Geo was beginning to
learn that he must resort to
instead of to slave-hunts, to support his
dignity and fill his treasury, WIN n the i'm.
migration scheme of France again revived
a portion of the old feeling and old habits
OF this black barbarian. His death has
been mourned and his funeral celebrated
by the entire slave-trade interest of the
coast and the interior. His obseouies
were performed at Albomi all the slave.
traders Of Whydah attended and assisted
at them; each carried thither his contri-
button Of Saves to be sacrificed TO his
memory. and of merchandise to be presen.
ted to his successor. 1t had been pro.
posei 10 facilitate Gezo's admission into
the other world by the slaughter of 1000
Africans, but whether from the difficulty
Of procuring that number or from their
greatly increased value to Sp1niards, the
massacre was happily limited to 800.
The Washington Union is no more.
The sale-to Gen. Bowman ostensibly but
really to President Buchanan-has been
made. So the event, foreshadowed some
weeks ago in the Philadelphia Press, has
been realized-perhaps in all the partic-
ulars, Executive patronage and the prom
Use of the Senate printing included.
The Unicn" has been discarded, and
the Presidents organ is now called. The
Constitution" We suppose that Federal
ofice-holders will be required to swear by
it and subscribe to it, rather than by and
to the Constitution of the United States.
- Watchman.
L%EAvENwoRrH, X, T. April ., 1859,
Gov. Medary has issued a proclamation
for the election of Delegates to the Con.
stitutional Convention which is to as.
semble at Wyandotte in June. County
Conventions have been called Throughout
the Territory to perfect party organiza
tons. Both parties will make strenuou.
effort to obtain the control of the Consti
t%utional Convention.
Tho Official majority for a Constitutio,
is 1881,
SAhsArARILLA.-This tropical root ha
a reputation wide as the world, for curin,
one class of the disorders that aflict man
kinl-a reputation too which it deserve
as the best antidote we possess for scrofu
lous complaints. But to be brought int,
use, its virtues must be concentrated an,
combined with other medicines that in
crease its power. Some reliable comnoun,
of this character is much needed in tn
communicated the advertisement O
DR.. AYERS Sarsaparilla in our column:
and we know it needs no encomium frot
us to give our citizens confidence in wha
he otfers.-Organ, Syracuse ". Y.