Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-04-02
From Wilmer Smiths European Times.
ALARMING STATE OF DISTRESS.
DunLIN. Feb. 2s

From Wilmer & Smiths European Times
ALARMING STATE OF DISTRESS.
DUBLIN, Feb. 2S.
The period Of utter restitution has already COM
menced in various localities, and people suffer-
| ing from famine. Day by day their condition will
become more alarming; and if effectual measures
De not speedily adopted pestience as much as want
will prevail among us. The following statement
of facts is copied from the Ifpperoy Vindicator of
that day:
"From Templcmore and Thurles our letters are
of the gloomiest description. In those districts
many of the laborng population expected work on
The Cashel line of Railway-but up 10 this moment
they have not received work--and the result may
be better imagined than described. We have also
memorial from the Carrick on-Suir board of guar
dams to the Lord Lioutenant, setting forth most
distressing and painful facts connected with that
large populous, and important union The people
| OF Carrick also complain that the works Of the
Limerick and Waterford Railway not set going
IN that neighborhood; and that the utmost dlsap
pointment is experienced by the laboring poor
The guardians addressed the directors the Rail
way. They received letter from the respected
| chairman Thomas Meagher, ESQ, of Waterford,
setting forth the important fact that were it not for
the opposition of certain propretors and landowners
the work should have been in operation before this.
We believe the company have offered the most
reasonable compensation to proprietors and land
holders, and they not to blame if the works are
stopped by those who seek compensation, which,
in the judgment of men well qualified TO Judge, is
entirely enormous Something immediate must be
done in the Carrck district-the people cannot
bear up against the pressure Of extreme restitution.
The workhouse not only crowded to repeton,
but within the last few weeks upward of eighty
able-bodod persons have been refused relief and
crowds daily present themselves for admission -
From Roscrea we are also in the receipt of really
alarming intelligence. In that important and pop
uous district the poor are living on the refuse of
tho diseased potatoes-and crowds may be seen
from morning TIL night in the fields, grabbing the
stray potatoes that may have remained on the
ground after digging. This is Il new and awful
phase in the type Of Irish misery and and it
is well if it be not worse. We have equally dis
tresslng and narrowing reports from other quarters
In the Shlnrone district the complaints are unver-
sal. Starvation" says correspondent, sis star
ing the people in the face" In the Birr district
we have also the same sad intelligence-and wher-
ever we look, the distress and misery Of the poor
are really heart-rending."
| UpwardS of Eour hundred iiUes LOST. Accounts
have been received of the loss of the emgrant ship
Cataraque. The vessel left Liverpool in April last
with 3t9 emigrants on board and crew Of forty
six for Van Dleman's land. In August she reach
ed Bass's Straits, and on the 4th Of that month
struck on a reef off Kings Island. Nearly one
halt of the passengers were drowned below. A.
oOuL ~OO ueCh, Cluup 10 IIle snip,
but the severity Of the weather caused her to go
to pieces. Only nine of all on board survived
The ship was out of her reckoning.
From Persia, we hear with alarm, that the choe-
ra is raging iuriously.
Twelve men were killed near Dover recently
by an explosion of un-powder IN a cave where
they had taken refuge, and others terribly wound
ed. The men had been warned of their danger.
According TO the German newspapers, there is
now raging in several parts OF Russia a violent
disease among cattle, similar in every respect to
the cholera.
great sensation is stated to have been excited
at Paris by the extraordinary phenomenon cf
young girl, from Normandy, who possesses the
electric power OF the torpedo NJ. Arago has made
several proof Of this singular quality.
Wheat, it is said, can be grown in England for
As, 10 I'D. the bushe or Cos. the quarter: barley,
Is. 10 Id or 22s. l0d per quarters; and oats, IS.
I'd per bushel, or l6s. per quarter, including
rent and all other charges.
Louis Philippe is said to be in favor of referring
the Oregon dispute to the Arbitrat ion of three
| English and three American gentemen-thus car
| rying out the idea of Mr., Winthrop of Massacbu-
sets.