The true Democrat., 1856-02-12
THE RESULT.
Two Hundred and Fifty-One COolies kil-
 led on an American Shin.

renee on board the American ship Waverley, conveying Cooies from China to Peru. The captain having died, the ship put into Manila, when some disturbance took place on board, and the Chinese to the number of 45O were driven below and the matches closed. On their being opened again, 251 men were found dead! Some were killed by suffocation, and some by boiling water ipoured down upon them through the matches by Capt. French. The following letter, addressed to Ellwood Walter, esq., secretary of the board of underwriters, of New York, re- lates the facts in the case:
 "MAN1LLA, Nov 9, 1855. |" "Ell,0ood Walter, esq, Sec, etc., Ne1o York.
 "DEAR SIR:-We inclose herewith papers of yesterdays date, in which is an account of a tragical occurrence on board the American ship Waverley, which vessel took cooies on board at Swatow for CaIlao, and put in here on 25th ult, for an officer, Capt. Wellman having died few days before. There are many con hicting accounts as to the amount of sickness on board, and notice published in the the Official Gazette here, which we inclose, asserts that the captain stated to the health officer n the first place that Capt. Wellman died from dysentery, and many of the coolieS from the same disease.
 "We are informed, however that but two of the coolies died between Swatow and this place, and that Capt. Wellmans complaint was not dvsentery, 50 that there seems to have been not the slightest necessity for ordering the ship into quarantre and as the first officer of the Phe- nix was quite willing to ship i'll her with the consert of Capt. Honier, her mas CT, 1t is most unfortunate that the Waverley was not allowed to proceed at once on her voyage.
 "Aftcr proceeding to the anchorage ordered, distant some seven or eight miles from them, and mile or two from Cavite, preparations were being made to take the body of Capt. We'll man on shore, when the rising of the cooes occurred. It would appear by evidence since collected that there were but few troublesome characters among them, and tkat those were the leaders, rioting being quelled almost immediate y, after a few shots from the crew which kill led and wounded two or three coolies orly the rest retreating below. The matches were put on, and chains or other heavy things placed on them, and will remain in this state until the agents are heard from. The charterors of the vessel sent one of their clerks <r6 remonstrate with Captain French upon so inhuman an act, which threatened to result in great loss of life. In fact, upon removing the hatches it was thought that number was suffocated and up- ward of forty bodies were taken out, when the coolies were again ordered below, and the bodies thrown overheard. Eventually, as we hear, it was found that 290 had perished--a part, as ex- animation has proved, from the effect of boil ing water poured down the matches, and the remainder from suhocation.
 "There can be little question that the measur. es taken were unnecessarily harsh and that the rising was quelled almost immediately, with very tritling loss of life among the cooles; and that no consultation was held by the officers and in consequence the latter are now imprison- ed here, and judicial investigation is in pro- cess"
 In addition to the above, we extract the fol- lowing from the China Mail of Nov. 15:
 "The Waverley, an American ship of 75O tons, recently sailed from Annoy with 442 coo- lies for Havana or Callao. The captain having died shortly after her departure, the first mate in command of the vessel took her to Manila for the purpose of procuring another officer to take his place. On anchoring at Cavite it would appear the mate had alarmed the captain of the port about the sanitary condition of the ship, which prevented free intercourse with her, and as, besides the captain, one of the coolles had died, the prejudices of the Chinese were offend ed at the mode in which the burial was about to be conducted or at some other unexplained treatment of the dead bodies. But the only explanation accorded to them was the mates lifting revolver and shooting down one or more of their number, the rest being driven without difficulty below and made secure under hatches, without any precaution or ap- parenty any thought about ventilation. The mate thereafter attended the cap tain's funeral, and spent the day on shore; and it was not until after midnight that the agents of the ship, who may till then have been unaware how the matter stood, took alarm, and insisted that the mate should then scertain the state of his human freight and so, at 2 o'clock next morning, twelve hours after the matches had been put on, they were removed to disco yer that 25l of the coolies were lifeless corpses 45 more were missing leaving only 156 of whom several are not likely to survive. The mate and crew have been imprisoned by the Spanish authorities, and it is said that the United States consul declines to take any cog nisance of the matter"