The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-24
EUROPE'S PAUPERS.
SENT TO AMERICA BY THE AUTHORITIES WHO
wHIsH TO BE RID OF TIIEM-A CAIRO wo-
MANS TESTIMONY.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun
For some time past the indignant author
tiles at Castle Garden have been occasion.
ally advised through the department of
state, at Washington, of the intention of
overseers of the poor in certain European
countries to tranport their poor to the Uni
ted States. A few days ago letter was re-
Gelyed from, AIr EyartS int39" nG;or;c ~
inal from Switzerland might be exp2c:Fd in
one of the French steamships. In his letter
Mr.. Evarts writes that he has been inform
ed by dispatch from the charge d 'atfaires
Of the United States at Bernc, Switzerland,
that the poor authorities of Basic, Switzer-
land, intend to send to this country one
Daniel Sem, aged 81 years, who has spent
the greater part OF his life in the house Of
correction for crime. At the time of send
ing the dispatch he was an in
mate of the poor-house. He is refractory
and refuses to perform the duties required
OF him there. He has no resources and no
means Of supporting himself. A passage
ticket was purchased for HIM 10y the poor au-
thorities of Basic Of Job Baumgarden, an
emigrant agent at that place, to whose care
he was committed, \ draft Of 400 francs,
payable at the agents Of r. Kaufman u
Co., in this city, was given to him. He was
to sail, the dispatch said, in either the
Amerique or the Pereire of the General
Transatlantic line, from Harvc, on either
the Goth of July Or I'd of August. Both
steamships have arrived in this port,
but the man has not been found
The emigrant authorities, keeping a careful
watch, have discovered case PARALLEL to
that Of Sem. One OF the passengers in the
French steamship Amerique, which arrived
here on Wednesday and was watched for
Sem, was Louis Tschopp, Il single woman,
80 years of age, from Hellstien, Switzer-
land She was compelled by the emigrant
authorities to make an atiidavid as to her
history, and in 1t she AYERS that she used tc
work in tobacco factory at wages Of As
francs 4 month. She has child, illegiti.
mate, aged seven years, that she left with
her sister in Basic. The father, she alleges
was Jacob Mier, wealthy farmer, who
died about u year ago. The poor au
thorties of Hellstien, she says, through
their president, NJ, Leger, induced her tc
journey to America. Her passage was pald
through Job Baumgarden, the same emf
grant agent mentioned in Mr. Evarts' letter
and she was given a draft, payable in New
York, which is found to be worth 1888.
With her affidavit, the emigrant author.
tiles obtained that of Mrs. Mary Geek Of
Cairo, H., who journcyed with the woman
Mrs. Geek has been resident of this
country for twenty years, and it was when
returning here from visit to her native
land, Switzerland that she was
asked to take notice of the woman
Tschopp, and especially to see that she die
not fail to take the steamship. She mad,
inquiries about the woman, and found tina
she was thoroughly bad that she had spon
a large part Of her life in prison, and was
the mother of two Legitimate children, in
stead of one, as she alleged. She was OBJ
liged to occupy the same apartment Will
the woman in the passage, and says that heI
conduct was very improper, and proved her
to be a depraved person. She will be sen
back to Switzerland, and the Castle Garder
authorities will exercise unusual prccau
tons to thwart the efforts to foist these
criminals and paupers upon the county.