Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-03-04
RELIEF FOR IRELAND.

Weiearn that the Friends Committee of Balti
more have received from the citizens OF Lynchburg
Va, through WIN. DAVIS, Jr., the sum Of $2l6 90
Also 200 bushels of Corn and one barrel of Corr
Meal from the Ladies of York, Pa Also, IO(
bushels of Corn from Z. "A. s. 5. SMALL; and sun
dry small donations in provisions and money from
persons at distance rs well as from their fellow
citlzens--the aggregate of which will be made
known at 4 suitable time.
we also learn that the sum of one thousand
pounds sterling-about S5,000-will be RENTED
10y HUGH JENKINS, Esq, Treasurer of the Irish
Relief Fund of Baltimore, TO the General Commit
tee Of Friends in Dublin, by the next steamer for
Liverpool
The Philadelphia IS Gazette saws that a good
ly number OF the citizens have given $500 each for
the relief of the suffering Irish people The amount
subscribed in Philadelphia for this object is already
upwards Of $4,000.
The same paper says
The contributions nj the Roman Catholic Churches
on Sunday, were highly credtable. notwithstand-
ing the exceeding inclemency of the day. So far
as the reports have reached us, they are as follows
st. Johns Cathedral 1929 sc
st. Joseph's, about GOO 90
1t. Mary's, 600 90
St. Patrick's $40 10
They will probably amount to little more than
$4,000
The Congregation of Grace Church. New York.
contributed ON Sunday $.745 10 the Irish Relief
fund
The Brokers' Board Of Boston have generously
donated 5000 for the relief Of Ireland.
A resolution has passed the lower House of the
Pennsylvania Legislature unanimously, directing
the Canal Commissioners to pass, free of toll over
the State works, all donations of produce clothing
&c., intended for the reefof Ireland..-BaH finer
Remarkable Prophecy Of Goblet, respecting
Ireland, and the failure of the Potato From the
London Economist, Dec. 10Th, 1S46l
''Io the Editor: Leamington-My Dear Sir:
Last evening | met at dinner. n Roman Catholic
Priest, Doctor Smith, from Conneamra, Galway
County who related the following conversation he
had with that extraordinary man Goblet in 1896.
While speaking of Ireland, Goblet said that the
dirty weed. abiding TO the Potato, soould be the
carse Of Ireland. Glow so ?" replied Dr. Smith.
'what must the people do without it they live
upon II. They have had it in cultivation lSS
years" Cobbett answered, ''they must 90 back to
the same food they were accustomed to live rpon
previously To the general cultivation of the dirty
weed and that is To grain, as wheat, oats rye Sc
You have four millions Of souls in Ireland and
eight millions OF acres OF uncutivated pround-
ms ground must be drained and brough, into cul-
ovation, and you must again grow wheat oats,
rye, &c. The p0tatOe soH not tSi moro than t,cen-
~ years. 'rten ii rW acork itself out, and then nor,
ac'H see 10 achdt Il state Ireland acW be reduced
You nhtSt return to grain crops and Ireland, in
stead OF being the most degraded, will become one
OF the finest countries in the world You may live
TO see my words prove true but l never shall"
Doctor Smith made note OF the above i'm 1896
and the same opinion and prophecy, concerning the
pota TO rtrrrrs OF Inhhatts bool.e Co,to9o X
economy, or Cottage Comforts, forget which