The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-08
NEW YORK.
Sinking or the Yacht Tony Mil,

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Sinking or the Yacht Tony Miller
New YORK, August 7.-Yesterday q
number of members of the Flushing
Yacht Club, including Messrs. w. B,
Bowling. District Attorney; j. W. Car
roll, Surrogate; c. H. Rose, Treasure,
OF Queens county, and others, embarked
on the yacht Tony Miller to 60 on q
cruise with the New York Yacht Club
to Glen Cove. At Little Bayside the
yacht struck a submerged rock and al
most instantly sank in fifty feet Of
water. Two gentlemen, Messrs. Car.
roll and Bowling, being in the cabin,
went down with her The rest of them,
who could swim, struck out boldly,
and all were rescued by boats. After
almost superhuman efforts on the part
OF gentlemen present, Messrs. Carroll
and Bowling were rescued in an insen-
sible condition, and after much careful
treatment were resuscitated. The
greatest excitement prevailed in Flush.
ing over the accident. This was the
first cruise of the Flushing Yacht
Club.
The Westfield Disaster and Churches
The Westfield disaster formed the
subject of the sermons in majority OF
the churches in the city yesterday.
Many eloquent discourses were deliv-
cred, all pointing to the calamity as
terrible warning to Sa.bbath-breakers.
A notable fact is that accident resulted
in considerably reducing the number Of
Sunday passengers to Staten Island
Yesterday. Not even half the usual
number visited the Island.
Collectors OF Customs.
The correspo,. sent Of the New York
Tribune telegraphs from Washington
that Secretary Boutwell, has discovered
that there is no law to allow Collectors
of Customs commissions for dis6urse.
M ent of moneys on account Of the reve-
nue. marine service and has decided to
allow it no longer.
The CoOlie Trade.
A Washington special says that the
question OF suppressing the coolie trade
is possibly to have judicial solution in
advance of the treaties legislation
Chief Justice Smale, at Hong Kong
having been applied to for writ Of
habeas corpus, set at liberty the Chinese
coolies Nanut Kwak A'Swing, who had
been arrested for mutiny on the high
seas in numbering the captain Of the
screw coolie ship Novelle Penelope.
after hearing a long and able argument
the prisoner was released. At the same
time, going beyond questions strictly
involved in the case, the Chief Justice
decided that the coolie trade was slave
trade, and that the vessels engaged in it
are carrying on piracy; that the coolies
were not liable to punishment for using
any means whatever to gain their free
dom, and that their seizing the vessel
and killing the crew. il necessary to that
end, was justified by the English law.
If this is pronounced a good law in
England, and it is believed itmay be, the
same view can be taken by France, the
United States and the German Empire
as we'll. If the coolie trade is slave
trade and piracy, it can be swept from
the seas in few months more ettectu-
ally than the African slave trade, and
by the same means. There is only one
difficulty in the way, if Justice Smales
opinion should be affirmed, and that Is
that the Governments OF some Of the
British colonies have taken measures
for the regulation Of and not the en-
couragement Of traffic.
Letter from Empress Eugenie.
The Herald publishes private letter
from the Empress Eugene, dated CHS
elhurst, June q, upon Trochu's charac'
ter, and which animadverts upon him
with severity for his defense of the
French Assembly. She says he be-
trayed the Republic and was equally
false to the Empire. She charges him
with knowledge Of the plans Of the
revolutionists on September 4th, which
frustrated the engagement TOR lnterfer-
ence to which certain powers had been
pledged.
The Mayor and the Italian Pro-
cessiOn.
The Italian General Committee have
received a communication from the
Mayor declining to review their process
sion. The Mayor says that the refusal
is from reasons arising out Of his late
official action respecting street process.
sions, and that he may be compelled
hereafter 70 decline reviewing all civic
processions. The Committee, at a
meeting to be held tonight, will make
arrangements for the celebration.
Nycol Barlly, the Italian patriot, will
act as Grand Marshal for the day, and
Lewis Antoneli, said to be the Oldest
Roman citizen in America, will be prln-
cipal flag bearer. -.
The Nautical Gazette says, in an arti-
Gle on the West6eld catastrophe, that
thew shall ask the Coroner to take the
testimony of the gentlemen who refused
a certificate to the boiler Of the West
field not two years ago, and who told
Jacob H. Vanderbilt if he did not OBJ
tain a competent Superintendent, some
terrible accident would befall his boats.
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