The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-22

ing and great prostralion Of strength that
took place.
The following was to extract Govern
ment Revenue beyond the ability Of the
people:
The charges set forth in these COM
plants are the Selling and carrying
bound the inhabitants from their homes
to the parbutty, cheristadar, or other
revenue officers, either at their houses or
cutcherries, aud there combining them in
STOCKS without food, tying by means of
ropes, or by the fibres Of cocoanut trees
or the Adoomba vine, their neck and feet
together, and in this posture laying stones
upon their backs, hogging, kicking, and
beating them with their fists. making
them stand in the water or mud, exposed
to the heat OF inclemency of the weather,
making them stand upon one leg, and in
that position placing upon their heads
large log of wood; also breaking open their
houses and carrying off and selling their
property, and even slaves, without due
proclamation being made thereof; and all
these acts of torture and personal vio-
lence TO exact payment Of alleged reve-
nue. arrears, and in some instances of
presents Of money under the head Of
koori kallyanum aud chit ianam, and
alleged debts from one individual TO
another, without authority from any local
tribunal In most Of those complaints
the judge on circuit has, after much la
Dor, read through the magistrates or his
assistants proceedings, and has been tru-
ly'concerned 10 find that all, with hardly
an exception have been dismissed as not
proved or groundless, although the evil
dence in most has been such as TO leave
not a doubt that considerable personal
violence had been done by the parbutties
and other kOlkars 20 the cOmplainants,
and in most cases to an extent TO require
that the accused should have been sent
to the criminal judge for him TO try or
commit for trial before the Court of Cir
cult, according as the facts deposed be-
fore him might seem TO render necessary.
The witness thus testified to another
revenue case:
there saw at least a dozen ryots, who
were in arrears of kist undergoing the
ordeal. They We're all ranged in the
courtyard, under a meridian sun, in the
hottest period Of the year (if / recollect
rightly in the month Of Mayo They all
had heavy stones placed either on their
heads or on their backs between their
shoulders. Their bodies were bent
double, and several of them were kept in
that position standing on one leg, the
other being raised from the ground by
means Of a string going round the neck
and round the big toe.
As the result of inquiry the Commits
sioners record the following:
The description of violence commonly
in vogue for revenue and private extortion
purposes which have been spoken TO in
the course of this inquiry are as follows
Keeping a man in the sun preventing
his going TO meals, or other calls of ma
ture; confinement; preventing cattle
from going to pasture by shutting them
mp in tho house; quarteriDg a peon on
The deiaulter, who is obliged to pay him
dail y wages the use Of the kittee anun- |
dali squeezing the crossed fingers with |
The hands; pinches on the thighs slaps; !
blows with fist or whip running up and |
down twisting the ears; making man |
Iit on the soles of his feet with brick. |
pats behind his knees putting a ow-
,aste man on the back striking two de- !
aulters' heads against each other, or /
ying them together by their back hair; I
'lacing in the stocks; tying the hair Of /
he head to a donkey's or a buffalO's tail; I
llacing necklace Of bones, or other de-
'rading or disgusting materials, round
he neck, and occasionally, though very
Arely, more severe discipline still.
The Commissioners give the following
ketch Of the cruelties employed in the
olice cases:
Among the principal fortunes in vogue
n police cases we find the following:
visiting q rope tightly round the entire
Fm or leg so as 20 impede circulation
fling up by the moustaohe; suspending
y the arms while tied behind the back
earring with hot irons placing scratch
ne insects, such as the carpenter beetle,
n the navel, ecrotnm, and other sensitive
arts; dipping in wells and rivers, till
he party ia half sudocated;
eating with sticks; prevention of sleep
ipping the fesh with pincers; putting
epper or red ohillies in the eyes;
= these cruelties occasionally per-
'vered in until death sooner or later en-
ies.
Such is the statement Of the commits.
onsrs appointed to inquire in 1855
ich arc the evils under which tho ma
yes groan even in the Madras Presi-
ency, where, although these intolerable
-ievances remain unredressed, there has
zen no rising. II is not in human ma
ire to rest satisfied under such a state
things. Would IL be marvellous II the
hicied millions rose in their might in
der to rid themselves Of their oppres.
ne
What say tho vengeance" mongers. 3
e dealers in death aud desolation. 10 :
ese things? Here follows the extract I
Q made last week. The editor closes .
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