The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-03

speciai correspon dcnt Oi the Clncihhau
Commercial, who for the present, is so-
;ourning In the ancient town OF Iusca-
ioosa, The 9.toadans capital OF Alabama, In
a letter dated at that city. tells how n
e.trick that was dark was played upon
Mr.. j. p. Stanton, the contractor, who is
building one of the great southern hncs o.
railroad that takes Tuscaloosa in It's couIse t
For ways that are dark and tricks tnas
are vain the heather Chinee is nor nea s 40
pecnIiar as the white man, when ali 'i I -,
To maintain, and will rise to expiain. .,r
Last July Stanton brought oyer a .no ~
sand Chinamen from the Paclnc eo sst,o "
work on his railroad. Their t daa p, Sroid
alone cost him over SioV,voo III Com.
,,Jsted nv the 1st of June next, ne was
nnn,na,,ea TO have additional help from
so,,,a nnartnr. The result was only par
,1ss.cacs ne ;t was found that one negro
49,. sr., al The work of two Cinnamon, But
w Az Chinese only received about half the
nav the negroes did, the amount STOOD
about even. . eor,
weeks ago. cot away from Stanton in a
,oanner which illustrates that our, own no.
ble race are as tricky as the heather Chinee.
A New Orleans adventurer. named A. His
sam, white man, of course, took it into
his head to make few honest pennies out
Of the heathens that Stanton had imported,
and set about laying his plans accordingly.
7 He got a Chinese Interpreter, bearing the
elegant name Hang All Roak, to help him.
They first opened q correspondence with
the Chinese on the road, breedlnS
discomfort among them, telling them they
could do so much better on Louisiana
plantations. About the first OF Febru-
ary these two conspirators came to this
CITY to perfect their plans for bagging as
many Of the heather as possible. In about
q month, they came again, bringing with
them the agent of q New Orleans emisrant
house, who had the ready means to aid IN
the enterprise" A steamer was char
tered, and all went well, when j. 7. STAN
ton got wind of the movement and mad The
rirgleadcrs arrested. They gave bail and
returned to New Orleans, where they hied
a petition before the United States Circuit
Court. swearing that the Stantons illegally
restrained two hundred and twelve China.
men of their liberty, in violation OF the
feelings of said Cinnamon, and of the Con.
stitution Of the United States. They got
their writ, and returned to this city with q
man purporting ty be q United States mar.
s sinai, who served it upon Stanton and others,
and subp9uaed as witnesses in the matter
the two hundred and twelve Cinnamon
mentioned in the writ.
ms WIS II SDdiD tjiChs auIOlI'yS
played. Who ever heard of two hundred
and twelve witnesses being summoned to
prove a single fact )? For fear the heathens
would not fully understand the awful ma.
jesty of subpoena in this enlightened coun-
try, an armed guard was placed over them
These witnesses were summoned to
appear ut Mobile, but Us soon as the boat
reached there they were hurried on to the
cars and taken to New Orleans, were they
toI n,,f 20 thn ,1anf fN
work on the adjacent sugar and cotton
plantations. This is what became of the
witnesses"
When the case was called in court Mr..
Stanton appeared, as did also Cheminant
and Chin Poo, two Cinnamon who came
here with the Chinese, not rs employees, but
tor the purpose of looking after the tenn
poral welfare of their countiymen. They
confirmed Mr.. Stanton'S testimony in every
particular, and explained the contract un-
der which the Cinnamon came to Alabama.
His Honor, the Judge, was puzzled. 1t
began TO dawn upon his mind that the
solemn process OF his court had been used
TO steal Cinnamon. 1
He looked in vain through the books for
4 precedent TO throw some light on the
subject. There was no precedent. Mr.
Stanton desired to know what had become
Of the two hundred and twelve witnesses
tliit had been summoned. Nobody seemed
10 know where they were. The judge
finally decided that rs no witnesses had
put in IN appearance for the complainants,
although over two hundred had been SUBJ
p9naed, he would dismiss the respondents.
two hundred and twelve Cinnamon from
the employ Of Mr.. Stanton, and spirited
them away to New Orleans. Was there
ever such trick performed before? Who
bat Il white man would have ever thought
OF subpenaing over two hundred witnesses
in a case that he never intended to try
Yet it worked well, and paid the schcmer
handsomely. For ways that are dark and
tricks That arc vain the white man is more
peculiar than the men of any other color.
1na.l,,nAslks saANh.snaAE