The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-17
[ From, the London Times. Aua. 2.
THE CO0LlE TRADE-H0RRIBLE ATROCI-
TlES--HOW THE COOLIES ARE KID
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THE C00LIE TRADE-HORRIBLE ATROCI-
TlES--HOW THE COOLIES ARE KID
MAPPED.
Some official correspondence respecting emigra-
tion from Canton has been laid before Parliament,
which shows the abominable character of the Coolie
trade carried on at Canton and Whamp0a. Foreign
vessels arriving there to engage and embark emf
grant aborers have sought the assistants of native
brokers, who, in their turn, have employed crimps
(also Chnese) to collect Coolies for them; $50
head or more were being paid last year for Coolies
delivered on board; arrived at Havana, the
Contract could be sold at $500 head. An in
lqutous system was thus created, which grew until
not only men were inveigled on board receiving
ships on false preteXts, such promises of work,
but force was used, and man could leave his
house in open day, without danger Of being seized
and taken to sea, never again to be heard Of
Chinese women have been employed. For instance
"a woman with child on back caused the child
bonnet TO fall as she passed two men; on their
picking 1T up she expressed her thanks and offered
them some cakes for their civility; these were
eaten, and, being drugged, the sat down stupi-
tied; the woman's confederates. then came up,
offered to carry the two men home, but lodged
them In receiving-ship instead.
A lew months ago, in consequence of exposure,
above 100 coolies were rescued from receiving YES
sells, and describes the way in which they were
kidnapped, and got into beats, where they in
undated or tortured, in order to wiring from
them, when taken board the receiving ship, a
nominal consent to an eight years engagement in
Cuba, deception being also practiced to make them
believe that their shipment had the sanction of the
authorities. 81 was very unwilling to CO." said
one, ''but still more unwilling to be punished,
and he added that mandarin told him he better
say he was willing, or he would certainly be killed.
The torture consists in tying a man up by the
thumbs and toes, and in beating him; applying a
lighted stick to the feet, binding the hands to-
gether, and then driving in wedge between them,
ducking him in the water, and keeping him half
drowned; and it is alleged that some who attempt
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countrymen like fish. Ifn the receiving ship they
would not give their consent to go, they were taken
back into the Chinese boat for renewal of the tor
ture. The system became so terrible last year
that popular rising was apprehended. Then the
Governor of Canton tried severe measures. Con-
victed crimps were beheaded-lS in one day-and
| one woman who had been the instrument of kid
nappers sub jected by the authorities to mutia-
tons which it would be shocking to describe.
Several kidnappers, also, were killed by the mob
with vindictive cruelty to which there was too
much nroyncatnn In those circumstances Loou,
acting Governor General of the Two. Kwang, "de-
corated with button of the first rank" consented,
notwithstanding the old law forbdding Chinese to
leave their country, to endeavor to put end to
this "saIe of pigs as it is called by substituting
for it egalized system of free emigration
Lord Duffern, who had been appointed British
Commissioner to Syria, left London on the LIST on
his way to the Holy Land ria Marseilles. His APP
pointment to this delicate mission gives great salts
faction in England. He is described as a young
man of singuarly gentle, conciatory and winning
manners, and OF the personal grace and bearing
calculated to gain favor in the eyes o! the Orien,
tails
DR.. John Bellinger, one of the delegates to the
South Carolina Convention of 1889, occasioned by
the differences between the Federal and State gov
ernments, died in Charleston on Friday last.
1t was reported on the street in Philadelphia, on
Wednesday, that one of the heaviest drv-goods
importing houses had been compelled to suspend
The liabilities reported to be very heavy.