Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-09-07
In abiding to the subject the Courier

Once more we bring before ourread-
ers the subject Of Ireland, or rather of
that unhappy portion OF her inhabitants
whose miseries are in danger OF being
too soon forgotten, from their very mag
nitude and permanency. Ii may seem
strange that we use such language, in
the midst oil those charitable efforts which
are daily making all over the country +;
but ii Is because these efforts are grea,
that we are apprenticeship of their pre-
mature termination, II ten individuals
were utterly incapable of providing for
their own support, ill after the elapse of
three months, what sor, of consolation
would j. be to tell them, VIC will give YOU
food for one month out Of The three, but
we can do no more; you must perish
from hunger at last, but meanwhile eat
and be merry ? This would surely be
cruel Kindness, and yet this is what we
shah in effect be doing with regard 10
the peasartry Of Ireland, if we stop short
Of the full measure OF relief which their
necessities require. Almost all other
evils we can hope to surmount finally,
by diminishing their present pressure
we can leave something to be done by
time and circumstance---hut not SO Wit,
famine, that brooks no delay there is
no saying to hunger wait and will feed
you. Death in lis appalling form mocks
the promised boon"
+ A lady residing in the county Of Mayo,
presents her spondents with The
following picture of human misery:
F" Powerful necessity torecs rae 10
write you, TO lay before you the awful
circumstances in which Justly incenscd
God has seen fitlo plunge this misera-
bic country4; and TO lnplore you by eye
ry motive ofpity for perishing thousands,
by every feeling which would make you.
desire TO avert the commission oil the
atsocilics to which the desperation Of
famine viii lead, and by your affection
Tor ne, placed 10 circumstance OF the
utmost donger, from the Presidential
diseases, which iiving ON The haYhatrid
catcases Of co7ss and hor8es, must inegi-
tably produce m1he Flainisling Wretches
10 the healthy and comparatively rich.
by al these considerations, and more
than all, by the dictates Of your own.
generous bosom, conjnrc you to Try to
interest yonr friends, and the religious
public On behalf Of the perishing Irish.
Matters have atflcngth come to crisis
indeed hundreds who never wanted be.
fore, are now s.aryias."
Some idea OF the extreme distress to
which the peasanTy are reduced may be
formed from the the fact that in the toWp,
Of Galwsy,a numbcr OF women are dai
ly mp!oyed in drawing down turf from
the bogs in the neigbbnrhood oflIis town
on their backs. Foras grea, load as
they are capable Of carrying they obtain
but one penny haIlpenny---aad 10 order
to obtain this scan'v pittance 10 sustain
life, they perform journey Of six miles
bare footed, under burning sun.
The contributions have been liberal
and extensive i'll most parts of England.
~ BALTIMoRE, AUG. 9.
BY the arrival Of the schooner Mary
and Aan, Captain Gates, in fifteen days
from Laguayca, we have received letters
and papers from Caracas to the Esd Of
July inclusive. An extra page OF the
AgIo- Colombiano OF the eod July, con-
ains from Bogota the following impor-
,ant Gazette Extraordinary )"
"WAR or THE SOUTH TERMINATED.
"Gazette Extraordinary Of Colombia,
f .iionday, Iune ?, 1922. +
Government. has just received ac-
counts from The head quarters of the Ii
berator, at Pastos, dated Juns 8, incosing
the capituiaiions conceded by the Libe-
rating army to the Spaniards who de-
Tended Pastos and Qnno, i'll virtue OF
which those places We're occupied--the
frs, by his Exccllency tie Libsrator
the second by General Suere, on,he 25lh
Of May. The brilliant marches made
from Bombona and plchincha, preceding
those capi,ulations, obliged the.enemy to
surrender, and the liberators OF the South
we're as generous as they were valiant.
"The Colombian guards have aug
mented their reputation, and the warriors
Of Flchincha have manifested that their
love for liberty was paramount to al!
other considerations.
"The war otthe South has terminated
with glory to the arms of Colombia. A
million of Americans are thus added 10
the family of the Rehu6tic, and the con-
queror Off hundred battles, the generous
enemy of Spain, the creator of Colombia,
the immortal BoAvar, has added new