Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-14
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Chinese Rebellion 1000 coolies
Running A-muck-Men and We
men Murdered and Horribly
Outraged village Attacked :
The Sayages Finally Put to Flight
40 whites and 300 Chinese
Killed. gh
NEW YoRK, Oct. 13.-The Herald's let
ter of Sept. Ia gives details of the Coolie
instruction in the valley of Lupe, $50
miles from Lima On Patchila and Gal
hon nearly 10000 Chinese were en-
ployed, and in the neighborhood more
than 4, 900 coolies were contracted. Sew
eral months since symptoms of disaffec-
ton were noted among the laborers, but
the overseers and owners trusting to their
authority and power paid but little at
| tention to these manifestations. Unfor-
tunately no precautions were taken
against surprise, and the Chinese were
left in tranquility and were able to ma
ture plans.
An agent of the estate of Patrilico had
arrived from Lima with large sum, des-
tined for the payment of the laborers and
the purchase of cotton from surrounding
planters. While this person, with the
overseers and several other employees,
were at supper on the night of the 4th,
the dining-Ioom doors were suddenly
broken open, and crowd of nearly 200
Coolies, armed with stakes and every
imaginable weapon, burst upon the whites.
In less time than required to narrate it,
the Chinese had murdered all those save
one, who being grievously wounded, fell
under the table and was thought dead.
After sacking the house and securing the
revolvers and rifles on hand, the insurgents
proceeded to an adjacent plantation and
repeated the same barharities. Not salts
fed with killing the whites that they en-
countered, the most revolving atrocities
were practiced on their dead bodies, and
delicate women and children were sub
jected to shameful and cruel tortures.
The number of the Chinese now
amounting to LOO, their movements ap-
peared to be directed with some degree of
intelligence by one whom some hailed as
chief, and having secured all the money
and valuables to be found on the estate,
large game was anticipated in the sack
ing of the little village of Baranco.
In the meantime the owner of an estate
that lay on the road to that village was
notified by friendly coOlie of the ap-
proach and designs of the marauders.
Hastily placing IFS wife and family in the
chapel belonging to the plantation, he,
with another friend, strongly barricaded
the doors and received the advancing
coolies with fire from their rifles. The
Chinese were vigorous in the attack, but,
unaccustomed to the use of arms, they
fell easily before the defense of the
church. In less than two hours these
two men had killed and wounded more
than sixty of the assailants.
So desperate indeed had become the at
tempts of the latter that retreat was de-
termined upon and the accomplishment of
the design to sack the town ere the in
habitants had time to make some slight
preparations for defence. Impromptu
breastwork were erected at the entrance
to the village and men well armed were
posted behind to resist the assault. They
reinforced to the number of 1000, APP
peared and senta leader to the party with
the defenders, demanding a surrender.
Hardly had he opened his mouth when q
well directed rife ball put an end to his
existence. .t. .
The Chinese, goaded to madness, threw
themselves on the barriCade. The fight
for few minutes was hand to hand, and
the whites suffered severely from the
hands and weapons of the assailants.
Soon, however, the power of gunpowder
began to assert itself. The coolies retired
to distance, and appeared to be deliber-
ating on their future movements
At this juncture the defenders of the
church having placed the family in a
place of safety and found several COM
panions, appeared in the rear and COM
menced such vigorous fire upon them
that in short time all order was forgot
ton and the insurgents, were in headlong
flight.
kilograms had been sent to Lima and
on the morning of the 9th the Project,
with couple of hundred soldiers, arrived
at the scene. The Chinese had dispersed
to the mountains. The soldiers, after Sc
curing the few who could be found,
started in pursuit and are still on the
march.
The results of this terrible tragedy are
forty murdered among the whites, and
nearly three hundred Chinese killed; but
crops were destroyed, and the coolies are
seeking refuge in the hills, roaming in
bands and devastating unprotected ham,
lets, which they fire on the way, and which
are not only lost to their owners, but still
form dangerous element to peace and
security.
Great excitement is manifested at this
unhappy event, the number of Chinese
throughout the Republic being so great as
to cause general uneasiness and distrust.
The white planters are perplexed to find
laborers for their estates, which are left
uncultivated. In an incredible short time
they will be almost irretrievably ruined.
The latter letter, dated the 29d of Sep
TENDER, says the Chinese instruction is
beginning to be productive of trouble
some results. Troops have found it i'm
possible to discover the hiding places of
q large number of the Coolies, they hav-
ing taken refuge far in the interior in the
Businesses of the neighboring mountains;
consequently several of the most valuable
estates in that section of the Republic are
paralyzed and will doubtless continue in
that position for some time to come. A
million dollars will possibly not cover the
damages suffered by the planters.
A motion made in the Congress to au-
thorize a company to procure negroes
from the United States and Africa was
defeated, the members of the Con-
gress appearing to view it as an effort to