Weekly North Carolina standard., 1858-06-02

| I now ask the attention of the House for a few
moments, while expose one of the most oppres
sive cruel, and monstrous systems that the worle
has ever seen carried on by any civilized nation.
shall first read few extracts from the daily papers
of the last few weeks among the items of telegraph
ic and other news. / may repeat that this report
represents the Coolies in Peru as having fine time
of it, and being thriving, prosperous and happy
Whereas in fact, it is established that Of those Cool
les who imported in Peruvian ships, thirty eight
per cent-a little over third-die on the pas.
sage Nor do those carried in American and British
ships fare much better, as these extracts show:
"On the 10th the American ship Kitty Simpson, from
Swaas and St Helena with three hundred and hiryseven
Asatics She had ninety-three deaths the passage
And the 2oth the British ship Admiral with two hum
dred and eghtythree Asatics She had ninety deaths on
alt worthy of remark that the number OF deaths has
always been poporonate to the length of the and
cannot omit drawing particular attention to the fact that
all these Asatics brought here males not single fe
male having arrived among the twenyur thousand and
upwards that have come to this island Is not this the
"Besdes this trade has not the sorry of the
African slave trade The Africans savages whom, it
may be said it is charity to cvze and Christanze the
Asiacs are far from being many of them are per.
of refined habits and considerable education. .Ne'c
intelligence has been received from HAVANA the 18th in
stant is reported that cargoes of had been
Two American ships had also arrived from China with
goes Of Coolies The ship Challenge Captain Kinney one
hundred from SWataS landed at
six hundred and twenty Asiatics During the pas
sage two hundred and eighty-six had died"
From the 10th of April, 1862 to the 18th instant
eneen thousand six hundred and oryfour Asatcs have
been received in Cuba for eight years servitude of which
than twenty cent have already disappeared On
dred and seventeen have died during the voyages by sui
eide or disease being more than onesxth of the whole
number taken on board This does not include
mutnies &c. which have caused the destruction of whole
cargoes Of three four thousand received previous
to the 10th of April 1885, nearly all have perished is
,hahl that of t,oSr
eight 1t said that arrival of Sepoys expect
ed to add to the mixture Of Cuban stock
py, or policy as may be.'-Union, Of February last.
"BosroN January 49, 1855. A letter received from Cap
1s sfs aE fn si Kae
Hooper, of Baltimore, Captain Jackson from Macao Octo
Der H. for Havana with Coolies was at Angler, November
%, waiting for men from Batavia. The Coolies mutnied
and got of the between decks and the ship
on fire three times and before they could be subdued the
officers had to shoot fifty of them"
CHINESE Coolies The Chinese emigrants arriving
at Havana in great numbers No less han three thousand
landed from four ships one week. They all readily
brought twenty-five ounces head The most of them
rived in poor condition. which probably owing to the
Coolies being kept in dirty unks in swatas. waiting for
vessel to bring them At the last accounts large Amer
lean vessels were waiting for cgoes in Swatas alone Or
der have been sent from Havana to procure twenty thou
sand Coolies, if possible. e."-Narch Is.
Some details, as given in the following statement
from an English paper, may be interesting:
"THE TsADE IN CHINESE CooHEs.-The frightful
tay of Chinese Board the British ship Duke of Port
land has been the subject of investigation for several days,
before the Local Marine Board Cornhll, Lordon Mr.
DUNCAN Dunbar, chairman
Captain Seymour the master the Duke of Portland,
deposed that the ship left Hong Kong with three hundred
and hirty-two Chinese Coolies
He says, in his statement one third had been kid
mapped.
"About two o'clock the I'd l left the shore with nv
papers all in order and proceeded board the Junur
the mate masheadng the topsas and attere
all was right Vain hope! had not been board five
minutes when saw the topsa haiards had been let 90,
double quick time and was followed by the captain and
boats crews from tie three other ships with whom
acquainted and the of riot and confusion that
ed my arrival shall forget The Coolies had
taken the opportunity of the mates attention being
pied in making sae and the iron behaving pins
and armed themselves with what else they could on
principally frewood, and gained Possession of the poop
and were yelling and shouting in fearful manner, throw
sail halliards."
The mutiny was quelled by force, and they were
guarded and confined:
"The third day 1 had the first suicide and from that
date until passed the Straits of Sunda had average
of about three overheard daily They also
threatening to burn the ship, and my Interpreter becoming
alarmed could not find the rngeaders. On the morning
Of the 18th, discovered plan they had laid take the
ship. One of the invalis was to be thrown over
board and during the absence of the boat pick them up
the Coolies make a rush, obta possession of the
poop and murder all hands, reservng the boats crew to
take the ship on shore; and the afternoon they
rsd their plan out but as was quite prepared for them,
after the failure of their attempt they became much queer
but had on an average from twelve to eighteen irons
for riotons behaviour and attempted suicide.
But could fill volume this subject and the hor-
rors by which was surrounded. We lost hundred
and twenty y-eght Chinese before arriving the Havana
fever We lost the crew. think the Coolies brought
the seeds OF the disease ON board with them When they
were one hundred and fifty days passage from
China to IIavant
AT the close of the examination of the witnesses the
chairman announced the decision of the board THAT
blame attaches to the and MASTER any con-
nected with the ship That Captain seymor conduct to
that possible precauion used by him to decrease
the mortality"
Sir, if these results follow where the Coolies are
treated kindly and judciously on board ship, what
are you to expect when they i'll treated? Let
US, however, see how they are treated when landed
in Peru From publication on the subject of ag-
riculture, guano, &C., by FL. N. Fryat, of New Jer-
sey. read an extract
"Now do you wish to know how all these ships are load
ed and thousand tons per day dug and sent from the
islands? WE'LL there about hundred convicts from
Peru and about three hundred Cinnamon from the Celes
al Empire The former in the right place the latter
for California acd engaged before they left their own coun
try, to labor after their arrival for limited time pay
California The brought them direct to hs pace and
the captain sold them for three and years. according
the men to work out their passage; and here they
for their food and of dollar per day for their
labor with pile of guano before them which will last the
Ten years. ana lOng before IL IS exhausted the
y Of them will be dead. Each is compelled to bring
to toe shoot five tons of guano per day failure thereof
is rewarded with the lash from strong negro such is
their horror of the a and the hopeessness of their con-
dition that week there less suicides In
the month of November have heard fifty of the bodest
OF them joined hands and jumped from the pecpce into
the sea- In December there were twentythree suicides
This is from authority. In january, quite
ber but have not learned how many"
Now, there are hundreds of these facts constant.
ly published; or made known, and they do not ex-
attention
known that ten negroes had committed suicide in
one OF our slave States. it would be published per-
haps, in every newspaper in the United States and
we should have many speeches on this floor, and