The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-08
NEW-YORK.
CHIEF.JUSTICE "SMOTE" ON
THE COOLIE TRADE.
MAYOR HALL AND THE ITAL-
LIAM PROCESSION.
THE EMPRESS EUGENIE ON
TROCHU.
YOUNG LADY KILLED BY A
FALL.
KILLED BY A FALL.

Ngw-l oRK, August 7.-Early on Sun
day morning u German girl, sixteen years
Of age, while in O somnambulistic nt,
walked or fell from the attic Of her resi-
dence on East Broadway and on striking
the pavement was instantly killed.
The National Gazette says, In an article
on the Westfield catastrophe, that they
shall ask the coroner 10 take the testimony
OF the gentleman who refused the certif-
cate to the boiler Of the Westfeld not two
years ago, and who told Jacob II. Wander
bilt that IL he did not obtain \ competent
superintendent, some terrible accident
would befsll his boat. ,-
MAYOR HALL AND THE ITALIANS.
The Italian general committee have re-
ceived a communication from Mayor Hall
declining to review the Italian procession.
The Mayor says his refusal 10 from rea-
sons arising out Of his late oficial action
respecting street professions, and that he
may be compelled hereafter TO decline re-
viewing all civic professions. The COM
mittee, at a meeting to be held tonight,
will make arrangements for the celebra-
ton.
THE cooLIE TRADE.
A Washington special says the question
Of suppressing the coolie trade is possibly
10 have judicial solution.
Chief Justice Smote, at Hong Kong, has
been applied TO for q writ Of habeas
corpus to set st liberty Chinese coolies,
Nornub kwok, and Ausang, who had been
arrested for mutiny on high seas and for
numbering the captain and certain Mem-
bers Of the crew Of the ship Penelope.
After hearing long and able argument,
h ~ 81; ;af t,sN 81 ~ 90 Al
prisoners, at the same time going beyond
the questions strictly involved in the case
The chief-justice decided that the coolie
trade was . slave trade and that vessels
engaged in il are carrying on piracy; that
the coolies were not liable to punishment
for using any means whatever to gain
their freedom, and that their soizing the
vessel and killirg the crew il necessary 10
that end was justified.
The English law if this is pronounced
good law in England, and II 10 believed il
may be the same view will be taken by
France, the United States and the German
empire. .a.
If the coolie trade is slave trade and
piracy, it can be swept from the seas in q
few months and more ehectuslly than the
African slave trade, and by the same
means.
EMPRESS EUGENE on TRocHU.
The Herald publishes a private letter
from the Empress Eugenie, dated Chisel-
hurst, June 81, upon Trochu's character,
and which snimsdverts upon him with
severity for his defence Of the French As
sembly, She says he betrayed the repub-
lie and was equally false to the empire,
and charges him with having known the
plans Of the revolutionists of September
4, which frustrated the Intervention TO
which certain powers would have been
pledged. .... .-
THE LATE EXPLOSION.
Commodore j. ii. Wong, an inspector
of the light house, testified at the inv esti-
cation of the Westfield this morning that
when in the Staten Island ferry boat three
weeks ago he noticed five minutes before
starting that the steam was rising and no
one present to look after it, and he informed
| one Of the hands 10 look out or they would
have blow up. Robt Oliver, steam
! gauge-maker, went to Staten Island on the
Westfeld the Sunday before the explosion.
Five minutes before starting he saw no
one in the engine room, and the stoain
gauge indicated nearly 293 pounds pres.
| sure.