Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

ensafVPy' hnVso Wno AnoW tAo nistory
Of British policy for the last twenty-five
years-since the tendency Of the commerc al
and political affairs of the world has made 1t
apparent that but for her active exertions to
the contrary, We are destined sooner or later to
rank her as the leading commercial nation of
the earth-are we'll aware that her liberation
of the slaves in her West India islands was
the result wholly Of tho purpose Of destroying
eventually the institution in the United States
Her statesmen and political economists regard
1t as The key to or foundation Of our business
which enables our North to rival
her In the shipping and manufacturing bust.
ness. Hence her desire to deprive Us of it.
Her Government, while protesting to have
been actuatsd wholly BY philanthropic mo.
tives in changing the stairs of affairs in her
West India islands, have very lately afforded
proof in other points Of their policy of the
utter hypocrisy Of such professions on their
part. They have bought q fifteen thousand able
bodied men from the King of Sardinia, at
1888 each. (dog cheap as food for Russias
powder and balls. Their own citizens are not
to be persuaded to enlist in any such forlorn
enterprise on any terms; 50 they pay Sardinia
a million pounds sterling for the number Of
men and Officers, indicated above, to serve in
tho crimea. The history Of the war Groves
that half of them have bsea sold unto death
Unto fate, the risk Of which British subject,
are nee sufficiently loyal to encounter on any
reasonable terms including bonus of 1888
per annum; for if Britons, to the manor born,
could have bsen induced to enlist on the terms
offered the foreign mercensries, as matter of
course they would have been preferred.
We cannot understand why 1t is more philan-
thropic to buy Europeans, civilized, educated,
and to certain extent, refined, to be used
only to be killed, as in this case, than to buy
African negro savages to be used in agricuI.
tural labor, and have their condition and
prospects in all respects improved by the
change Britain's traffic in coolies from India
ADD China, exhibits her hypocrisy in q still
more odious light She has broken ND the
African slave trade to Cuba, to cripple as, if
possible, and essays to supply the demand for
ices. Her merchants and ships alone traffic
in them. They are landed, apprenticed under
great pretensions of determin alton to care
for them and protect their rights But that's
the last heard of them. Once on plantations,
they are worked and treated far more cruelty
than Africans are, and, if any of them come
out of their apprenticeship with life, We have
never yet heard the fact asserted She fur.
nishes (sells toy the Peruvian Government the
coolies who dig out the guano on the Chineha
Islands and load the vessels engaged in the
trade. No other slavery known to modern
times is so hideously cruel as that The term
of years for which she sells them to Peru Is in
zine out of every ten cases longer than they
live, when so employed. That is, not one in
ten survives to the end of the term. The
guano is in banks or deposits as hard as baked
clay, and it is only to be loosened with pickst
On being picked, it crumbles into the state of
fine dust in which it Is imported here.
Every time the pick is struck into the mass,
cloud Of dustlike thick smoke rises, and
getting int the eyes, nostrils, and mouths of
the laborers, 30 initiates their lungs, IS, after
they have been a short time at the LABOR, to
sot them bleeding at the lungs, ending rapidly
In their prostration and death. They are
without family ties there, or any comfort what.
ever, faring in all respects worse than dogs in
any civilized country. Suicide is their ia.
vorite method Of escaping the horrible tor
lures of the situations into which tho English
Government imports them by the ship load,
with full knowledge of the consequences of
their act upon the poor creatures 1t not IN
frequently happens that We receive in this
country as part Of the cargo of guano ship,
the mummied body OF cody, who, either by
accident or choice, goes down in the wind sail
slide in which the article is shot" from the
bank Of guanO against which the ship laws in
loading, into the hold.
These things are gro wing worse and worse
yearly, and have already come to involve far
more actual physical suffering annually, than
was ever experienced by the savage negroes
Of Africa in year, from the undoubted enor-
mites Of the original slave trade Whenever
the history of Britsin's traffic in coolies comes
to our mind, we shuddsr over the utter hypoc-
risy OF her prstensions to governmental phi.
lanthropy, as being, in peint of fact, almost as
bad as the thought Of the bodily suffer ings to
which her cupidi'y thus annually subjects 80
many thousands Of human beings.
List Of Patents issued from the United
States Patent Office, for the week ending April
"a, 1855 each bearing that date:
Jearum Atkins. of Chicago, IlI.-For Inn
provement in platforms of grain haryesters
Jason w. Corey, o. Charlottesville, Ind
For Improvement in spring connecting rods
for washing machines
Jonathan johnson and John e Crane, of
Lowell, Mass For improvement in stoves 10.
Noyman c: Harris, of POultney, Vt.-For
improvement In the manufacture of slate pen
ellis
Palmer Lancaster, of Burr Oak, Mich.-For
improvement in implement for shesring sheen.
Isaac Livingston and Miles Waterhouse,
of Barnet, Vt-FCr machine for feeding paner