, 1868-10-09
Origin Of Negro Slavery.

purchased unlte men, ana OhrlStlans, and
others, and sold them to the Saracens in
Sicily and Spain. In England, the Anglo
Saxon nobility sold their servants as slaves
to foreigners. The Portuguese first import.
ed negro slaves from Western Africa into
Europe in l442. Spain soon engaged in
the traffic, and negro slaves abounded in
some places of that kingdom. After Amer
lea was discovered, the Indians of Hispsnio>
la we're imported into Spain and made slaves.
The Spaniards visited the coast of North
America, and kidnapped thousands Of the
Indians, whom they transported into slavery
in Europe and the West Indies. Columbus
himself enslaved 500 native Americans, and
sent them to Spain, that they might be pub
licly sold at Seville. The practice of selling
North American Indians into foreign boud>
age continued for nearly two centuries.
Negro slavery was first introduced into
America by Spanish bondholders, who emf
grated with their negroes. A royal edict of
Spain authorized negro slavery in America
in 1903. King Fedinand himself sent from
Seville fifty slaves to labor in the mines.
In 1911 the direct traffic in slaves between
Africa and Hispaniola was enjOined by
royal ordinance. Las Casas, who had seen
the Indians vanish away like dew before the
cruelties Of the Spaniards, suggested the
expedient that the negroes, who alone could
endure severe tolls, might be still further
employed. This was in 1917. The mis-
taken benevolence of Las Casas extended
the slave trade, which had been previously
established.
Sir John Hawkins was the first English
man that engaged in the slave trade. In
1552 he transported a large cargo of Afri-
cans to Hispaniola In 1867 another ex-
pedtion was prepared, and Queen Elizabeth
prepared aud shared in the traffic. Hawkins
in one of his expeditions, set fire to an Afri-
can city, and out of 5000 inhabitants sue
ceeded in seizng $50 james Smith of
Boston, and Thomas Keyser. first brought
upon the Colouies the guilt of participating
in the African slave trade. In l645 they
imported a cargo of negroes from Africa.
Throughout Massachusetts, the cry of justice
was raised against them as malefactors and
murdererS; the guilty men were, committed
| for the offence, and the representatives Ur
the people ordered the negroes to be restored
to their native country at the public charge
At the latter period there were both Indian
and negro slaves in Massachusetts. In 1920
Dutch ship entered James River and land
ed twenty negroes for sale. This Is the sad
epoch of the introduction of negro slavery
into Virginia. For many years, the Dutch
we're principally concerned in the slave trade
in the market of Virginia.
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A VERY RARE DIsEAsE.-There exists,
says the British Medical Journal, on record
in medicine up to the present day only one
case of enormous overgrowth of all the bones
of the body with wasting of the muscles. 1t
was observed by Saucerotte. The second has
been recently observed bv Professor Fried
reich, and is now described at length in Vir>
chow's Archiu, bd. 1868. Saucerotte's case
was that of a man, aged SO, the weight of
whose body rose 10 the space of four years,
from 1l9 pounds to 178 pounds by the in
crease of his bones, the muscles all the while
wasting. The head of this man was mon
strous, the eyes being pushed forward to the
level of the forehead, and the lower jaws
having attained an enormous thickness. At
tacks of insensibility and difficulty of breath
ing characterized his complaint. Nj. Fried
reich's patient, aged 26, is one of six chil>
dren, of whom all are healthy except the
youngest, who has mino- form of the same
affection. At 1S, he began to find his feet
and ankles growing large and heavy; then
the hands and fingers. The lower and upper
limbs are of an enormous size, (the measure
ments are yiven,) due entirely to the growth
of the bones, the muscles being wasted.
Standing, walking and lying are all difficult.
He fiuds comfort from cold baths. His in-
ternal organs appear to be healthy, and there
is no disturbance of the brain Medicines
have been Intellectual; but. latterly the dis
ease has seemed to be stationery.
THE Russian Government having forbid>
den the Poles to speak Polish on the streets
and at the theatres, the educated classes of
Warsaw, when they leave their houses, speak
French or English, and, when they now and
then utter Russian word, they pronounce
it intentionally in a very ludicrous manner
The ladies of Warsaw, especially, are firmly
determined not to be dragooned into speak
ing Russian. Whenever Russian address
ses, them in his native language, they shake
their heads in feigned surprise, and say that
they do not understand word of it. Since
instruction in the Polish language is pro-
hibited in city schools of Warsaw, only one
tenth of the pupils that formerly visited them
attend. The hatred'prevailing between the
Russian officers and higher classes of Polish
society, Is intense. The former are entirely
excluded the parties given by the latter.
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4. TIE SEx.-A lady was told BY travel~
iup gentleman, that every lady who had a
small mouth was provided with husband
by the government. 18th it pOthibleF z said
the lady, making her mouth as little as she
could. The gentleman added, that If she had
a large mouth, she was provided with two
husbands MygraciOusP exclaimed the laoy,
at the same time throwing her mouth open
to its full extent The gentleman became
alarmed, made his escape, and has not been
heard Of since.
DRUMS are now ornamented with liKe-
ness of Grant. A better man to beat doesn
exist.