Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-20
Chinese Butcheries.

ireaaihg our way under the guidance
OF some experienced friend-savs O
correspondent Of the London Timps-we
came up 10 a carpenters shop fronting
the entrance to a porter's field. 1t is not
= roo ~ area, Of an irregular shane.
resembling most an oblony. = row of
cottages open Inlo it OIL one side and y
wall Oh the other. The ground is GOV.
cred With BALI baked pottery. rbere
are two wooden c DISCS, formed of nm
MARKED wood, Standing in an angle with
a slicrsi 81 rotten rope ~ln,ngibp frau, ono
III them There r. nothing 10 tx Tho
attention in this small encIosure .xca,,,
that you stumble against il hulaan skull
now h'd then, as you walk along it
This Is the Aceldama-the field Of blood
the execution ground Of Canton.
The upper part Of that carpenters
shop Is the place where nearly all the
European residents have at the price of
a dollar each, Witnessed the Wholesale
mnssaeros Of which Europe has heard
with a hesitating skepticism. 1t as
within this yard that the monster Ych
has within Two years, destroyed the lives
OF seventy thousand fellow beings
These crosses are the instruments to which
those victims were tied who were con.
denmed to the special fortunes of being
sliced to death. Upon one Of these, the
wife Of a rebel generally was stretched.
and by Yeh's orders her flesh was cut
from the body.
After the battle at Whampoa, the reb-
Ell leader escaped, but his wife fell into
the hands of Yeh--that was how he treat.
his prisoner. Her breast was first cut off
then her forehead slashed and the skin
torn down over her face, then the Aesby
parts of the body were sliced way.-
There are Englishmen yet alive who
saw this done. but what part of the butch.
cry sensation ceased, and death came to
this poor innocent woman, none can tell.
The fragment ofrope which nov hangs
to one of the crosses was used to bind d
woman who was cut up for numbering her
husband. The siekening details Of the
masascrss perpetrated on this spot have
been related to me by those who have
seen them, and who take shame to them.
selves while they confess that, after wit
Messing one execution by cutting on the
cross, the rapidity and dexterity with
which the mere beheading was done, de.
prlYed the execution of one hundred mer
of half its horror. The criminals were
brought down in gangs if they could walk
or brought down in chairs and shot Out
into the yard.
The executloners then arranged them
in rows, giving them a blow behind which
forced out the head and neck, and laid
them convenient for the blow. Then
came the warrant. 1t is a banner. As
soon as waved in sight, without verbal
order given the work began. There was
a rapid succession of dull, crunching
sounds-chop, chop, chop. No second
blow was ever dealt, for the dextrous
man slayers are educated in their work.
Until they can with their heavy swords
slice a great Dubious vegetable as thin as
we slice c%ucumbers they are not eligible
for their office. Three seconds a head
suffice. In one minute five executioners
clearA off 100 lives. 1t takes rather
longer for the assistants to cram the bod
es into rough collins, especially as you
might see them examining two into one
shell, that they might embezzel the spare
woaden box. The heads were carried off
In boxes. The saturated earth was of
value as manure.