The daily union., 1856-04-10
From the NY Tin.
COMMERCE In COOLIES. '''

VsiteTs TO Cuba during the past winter have haa =.
larged opportunities Of noting the condition Of the cool
apprentices Of whom thousands swarm everywhere on b
lovely island on the plantations they have seen then
driven To the field the mill like cattle retained at o
with the LASH and whipped cruelty for dleness or insuh
dinston In all particulars they will have noted tb
agresto life suffers in comparison with that OF the Africa
who tolls at his side for be is spared because owned
his MASTER while cody seryitude is restricted 10 oe
term Of years and every interest of the sugar and oba
eutyator lies in extracting the largest amount Of s
vice within that term. Those reserved for domestic a.
ices fare better. Yet in the cities the comparison n
the African and Asiatic is always favorable "a th
former The cody, though Of much greater ineip,0,
tact and industry, is frequently whipped more r0
stantly oyerworked, more unsparingy abused They a,
bought and sold precisely the African. When By sn
cessye cruelty they driven to despair their regs
suicide opium supplying the means and the expectsb
of immediate translation after death the Celestial ~
pire whence they came, the inducsment The number n
suicides is represented frghal This scheme Of saye
every feature Of which Is in all particulars than
gro serytude sekens the traveller In Cuba every ur
Every domestic duty Including those ordinarily assigned
women, he finds executed in the house where he lodge,
these Oriental slavesslaves nominally for seven ys
but substantially, for life since provision is made 6
restoring them to their homes and while in Cuba A
portion is the inevitable yoke.
vessel laden with these wretched creatures was c,,
away near Havana the 2sth ult 1t was we regret
say, vessel owned in New York and well known in m
mercantile marine for its speed though certainly no m
dence Of that quality afforded by its last and hbI
voyage from Annoy to Cuba four months being the tim.
II left the former port with crowded freight deeoye On
board doubtless, by those atroeous and reckless rep
sentations which correspondents from that part of h
world repeat to the staple Of imposition upon an H.
norant and guileless people. OF the FIVE hundred and
eighty embarked eighty had pershed before the yoysu
ended. What homeFickness discomfort prvations ami
despairwhat close crowding in pesuferous holds ana
cabins, while twice crossing the equaor-must han
fed this awful ratio OF death to hie we can
readily imagine, with the aid Of data furnished IN
other instances. Unlike the Guinea voyage, the poa
is long, reaching than half around the plob
The food is proportioned TO the wants Of the captive,
but 10 nice estimate of the lowest amount upon which
human life exist slightly reduced in favor of the profit
aud loss account of the No occupant Of Stat
prison subssts upon such lenen fare Water doed ont
with equal parsnony. Discipline is of the sternest On
course discomfort with such starvaon-die and with M
first awakening TO the fact that the journey is not Of d
two but of months and that instead Of being free men
and passengers, they are of less consideration than 10
many quadrupeds ia anticipated and provided against
The crew being comparatively few, the odds are made
up by armng them TO the teeth. few cram.
Piles always made the first week out; what
the sacrifice of hafdozen Asatics in the seal,
with the safety of the captain and crew? The cruelty
systematically practsed upon the poor creatures in order
to righen them into ahect submission and silence is de-
scribed by occasional passengers in such vessels aso
lutey demoniaca and hearreading Thus beaten Knocked
down. kicked cuted, stabbed thrown overheard or shot
If more than usually troublesome; pent up in quarter
filthy and hronged to that degree that those who survive
the fevers thus engendered eneebed and wasted TO h
last tenuity with clothing or means Of warmth
blpak at fta en,,fb fha~ ~,
passing under the burning line is II any wonder that IN
loss OF but 30 out of $50 should be credabe
officers Of the vesse2 More frequently 20 per cent are sac
rihced the voyage Nay, in instance the eapah
found it due to hi safety to smother the whole ara
over 50O beneath the matches notwithstanding IL nvov
subsequently the labor of throwing the dead bodies o
board--a task of considerable magnitude
And this barbarous commerce, begun in the practice
deception and falsehood upon the ignorant and nedt
continued in spirit of inhumanty at which human n.
ture recois with horror and ended in booming victims
to rretreyabe slavery employs whole fleets of ships and
sweeps every thousands carried to perish
the guano islands Of the Pacific and in the mines OF Ps
and Bolivia thousands carried to the British coopa
adjacent to Demerara aud the British islands in th,
West India archipelago thousands carried to Cuts
and Porto Ricoi they in Calornia-there happily
not in condition of involuntary servitude and the
painful fact Of all is, that American merchants doubttp
in business not bit humane respectable than
gro sayetadng and which has already like that been
condemned as piracy by the common voice and law of
tons merely because the evidence of Its enormous chas
ter has not been fairly spread before the world That such
current publicity may be attained should be the de-
sire of every phlanthropst 0ace instructed as to the
ure Of the cody commerce the sense Of mankind
must be so loud in its reprobation that law would
needed to deter humane merchant from sharing in IT, il
attendant infamy would be prohibition enough UnuI
that condition Of public sentiment shall have been excited
the task that Carkson and Wilberforce believed hems
to have finished viii be shl incomplete
By referring to our telearsphc reports from Washing
ton it will be that this matter has at last ARRESTED
the attention OF Congress and Is be made The subd
special investigation the Committee on Foreign Afan
having been instructed inquire into the expedieuey
declaring the cody trade to be- like the African sls
trade, Illegal and on the motion of Mr.. Prnge tt
President was requested to furnish all the information
may have touching the traffic in coolies by American
chants and also In relation the loss Of the Sea Vita
on the coast Of Cuba, 10 which We have alluded in Tbs
article
THE GEEAT RoRaRRr IL Nrw YoEK-The NsV
York Express of Tuesday has the following particulars Of
this great robbery: ~7~
At about o'clock this morning G. W Hayden, one
Of the clerks employed in the cwelry store Of Mess Ball
BLACK CO. corner Of Murray street and Broadway
supposed TO have decamped with diamonds pearls ket
the amount OF between $4,000 aud $4,000 lie asked per
mission Of Of the firm day since to sleep in The
store which refused During the last three nights Be
has N IL