The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-12

Died, a MaxshGsld, Mass on tho 23d u Maroh, NJ
one os, HIS ancestors and rs,s.ves' from the sar,i.
settlement Of Plymouth have many OF them attained very
great ages. His fstses's age was ninety years, I've
months and twenty SIX days. and his grand parents o.
MS iathers side respectively eighty years,
Ten months and twenty eight days. and eighty ave years
years, one ninety nee years, five months and 10 irtcsn
days. and another eighty four Ave months five days;
brothers and sisters, eighty. eighty years eght
months and eight days; another eighty years. niue
eight as ns oT vs snS Ss
at Nashaed, except two OF his uncles and sister,
Many Of his cousins were at their DEATHS between eighty
and ninety. He the last living descendant in tbs
fourth generation Of Thomas Little and Anna Waren who
were married at Plymouth, April 10th goth N 3d. 1885,
she beng daughter Of Richard Warren the Mayaower
Pilgrim. Her mother died at plymouth, October "a 2th
NJ 1878, about ninety three years Of age. Tho Ply
Be was sso, through his grandnother, adescsndsns in
the fourth generation OF Constant Southworth and Eliza
beth Collier, who were married at Plymouth, November
I'd (l2th N. S) 1887 The mother or Constant South
worth, who was the second wife Of Governor Bradford
died according to the Plymouth Colony Records March
abouts." Many others Of the Little family Of Plymouth
county nave lived 70 ages quite as great as those above
DEATH OF GEO, THE SLAVE KING OF pAHoMEY,
From the North British Daily Mail, Maroh 70.
we have TINS morning 70 announce the death OF
true but nevertheless notable monarcn-s trained ~
experienced warrora king whose deeds resouuded Ter
army and policy had shed more blood than s,essr
kings, and had am otons Of his own he raised STATE
TO external importance made treaties concluded Alliances
and brought himself within the vortex Of European d.
plomacy. II the demise Of GEO. the Slave King Of
Dah0mey that we record The exact date When the evest
occurred given the lesters before u.s. but the
brought with such particulars by the last nail
from the West Coast Of Africa that doubt be
tanned that GEO gathered to his fathers and that hB
son regDs his stead. In his time he had thwarted W
bis conduct and measures the policy of England aud in
posed his proceedings, threatened him with chas-
tisment, resisted the extension or his DON'T
mons, and supplied the smaller communities
whose independence was aseailed with arms and
munitions OF war. LaerIy he became object Of attrac-
ton 70 France LOUIS Napoleon sought bis friendship and
commercial intercourse, sent to his capital and
presented him with brass field pieces wherewh
sh his subjects English travellers functoaaries ma
val officers TOO visited him, were Hospitality entertained
despite international differences returning after fruit
less discussions from his court published narratives Il
his DIRE adful deeds, that have given him world wdo
name and enrolled him amongst the monsters Of hu-
mainly.
GEO deserved the odium and detestatiou which he 40
abundantly obtained; all the that he was both
able sagacous For OF and twenty years
he supplied all the demands the Spanish and Portuguese
slave dealers who infested Blight OF Benin, ravagng
and devastating the interior far and wide by bis slave
hunts to obtain victims for his European customers He
the largest scale Africa has known and annually Sold
without remorse or sorupe his own countrymeu In tens
rested the progress Of Africa fed the wretchodness
and mortality of the Middle Passage and by depopu.
iatlng NegrSand promoted the IN immense material
wealth he derived from il, excited the cupidity Of
his neighbors, and from Whydah to Lagos the slave
trade became the business Of the whole population When
GEO succeeded to his patrmonia throne tho adjacent
country inhabited by Independent communities or tho
Egbas, and was on them he perpetrated his earlier
atrocities He attacked them, burnt their towns, carried
of their choicest people, and when his violence
unsuccessful, his intrigue introduced civil war, which
completed their ruin Badagry, which boosted Of 10000
Inhabitants burnt down In cut throat affair amongst
It's own lawless population; the whole Blight closely
bockaded by English cruisers and Lagos destroyed
by a British bombardment. The liberated Africans Of
Sierra Leone founded the Of Abeokuta established
the interior anti slave trade interest," encouraged
by the English missionaries, and supported ~ English
assistance This brought Abeokuta the wrath Of Geo.
his assaults and sieges were repused until at last in 1851
the Slave King was completely routed under its mud
walls and from that time his power declined British
policy prevailed the coast Lagos, under the in1u-
Of consus Beecro and Campbell became the Of
large and profitable lawful commerce. roads Open
cd up into the INTERIOR peace being established, industry
took 10 honest courses, and from whydah to Lagos tho
commerce in palm superseded the slave trade, and in
creased at q nothing less than marvellous and even
Gezs sought however ermly, regain his diminished
revenues by participating IN 1t. Geza however,
pulsed all diplomatic advances rejected antislave
treaty denounced cruising system, complained that
We had deprived him Of his revenues, and the
alert to revive the traffic. Thus disposed he re-
Spondcd to the French scheme of emigration and gladly
received at Abomi French mission. But the French
and although the slave trade partially revived,
to the serious injury of lawful commerce, he had
greater libera,y Of his Oh friends and connections
the Spanish and Portuguese dealers in men. At
been mourned and his funeral celebrated by the entire
slave trade interest Of the coast and the interior His
sequies performed at Abom all the traders Of
Wbydah attended and ass sted at them; each carried
biher his contribution of to be sacrificed to his mo-
mory and Of merchandise to BIO presented his success
1t had been proposed to facilitate Gezos admission
into the other world by the slaughter of 1000 Africans
but whether from the difficulty procuring that number
the massacre was happily limited TO soo Gezos Eurouean
agent at Whydah, usual displayed his magnicence on
the OCCASION He offered to the new sovereign large sill
caivn vtfh hriub
for the enjoyment his old master the Paradise whittier
he s supposed to have beaken himself the model Of
hung for his use when disposed to the fragrant weed the
choicest Of Havana aegars. The terrible c.
that father Report adds that he at once len Abomi
at the head ola large army slave hunting expedition.
MANUEL JOHNSON, THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVER, ENG
LAND.
From the London Times, March a.
We recorded Wednesday the death of true disciple
and lover OF science Mr.. Manuel Johnson Radcliffe OBJ
1921 entered the Artillery The leisure Of ten years.
military residence at St. Helena to have guided him
naturally 70 the choice OF that department Of SCIENCE
tastes and the line in which his power lay Upon the dis
banding of the artillery corps in ST. Helena Mr. johnson
returned to England, and after months European
travelling entered at Magdalene Hail. Oxford, where he
went through the academcal He had no sooner
taken his degree than the Radcliffe Observatory became
vacant by the death Of Mr.. Rigaud, and he re-
ceived the appointment from tho trustees. He
now recommended in earnest his astronomical Iabors
and selected as the region Of his observations the
circumpoIar heaveng. Taking the Groombridge Ca
taogue as his foundation, he reobserved all the stars
moro than 4000-incuded in that catalogue and added
800 other stars not found In Groombridgc Tho meri
dian instruments of the Radcliffe vaory were for
several years almost wholly employed this work. and
volumes 4053 Of the Radcliffe Observatory are oiled
with obser vatons and special catalogues all designed for
ultimate collection into one large catalogue of ccumpolar
stars In lss9 the magnificent heliometer was mounted
splendid instrument, the work of Repeold of HAMBURG
the erection Of which Sir Robert Peel intended 70 como
70 oxford 70 naugrate being only prevented by his own
sudden death In 1880 The observations with this nstru-
ment began very after ts erection They include
great number OF double stars and other objects for which
tbs instrument IS particularly appropriate. The OBJ
jcc OF these observations 10 determine the paral
LAKES OF several fixed stars In 1853 tho first series
OF heliometer observations published together
with an investigation OF the paraaxes of 81 Cygn and OF
the star 1880 Groombrdge Another seres came out in
1857 together with investigation Of the paralaxes OF
Castor "a Geminnrum), Arcturus Ia Boois), VEGA IA