Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-04-01
Starvation in Ireland.

COMMANDER CAPPIN, OF the Royal Navy, COM
handing Her Maiesty's steam sOOP "Scourge."
writes the following private letter, under dale oil
February 10, lS47, which we find in an English
paper. 1t conoborates, most fearfully the worst
accounts we have had from poor, devoted Ireland
My Dean SR,-HaVing in the course Of ny
late duty (of discharging cargo oil meal, 0e,l
at Schulz, been brought into direct CONTACT VIVA
the distress that prevails there and IN its negAOO
hood, venture to lay before you IeeiIng assured
il would interest you in their behali) that WHICH,
had ocular demonstration Of
In the village Of Schulz three.fourihs Of me ~
habtants you meet carry The tale oil woe IN lnen
features and persons, as they are reduced 10 ue's
skeletons, the men in particular. All thel' PIls'
cal power wasted away; they have all become Osss'
gars
In landing the meal, &c, they used all the cum
ming they possessed to avoid detection IN cu''i1s
open the mouths of the bags, and purlonIng 'ns
contents, and il required great walchlaness !" PIC
vent il.
Having a great desire to see with mine own eye
some OF the misery which was said 10 exist "
Trail, the rector Of Schulz, offered TO drive me %
portion Of his parish found there was no neea
10 take me beyond the village TO show me the nor
rors of famine in its worst features. had reau u
the papers letters and accounts oil this s1ale .,
things, but thought they must be highly eolOsI
10 attract sympathy; but there saw The realiY "
the whole-no exaggeration, for it does mol ao@n
of ;t-lamine exists 10 fearful degree WIN all W
horrors Fever has sprung up, consequent! upr'
the wretchedness and swelling Of limbs and pow,
and diarrhna from the want OF nourshmen'' :"
everywhere to be found DR. Trails parish IS .s cOo
iy-one miles in extent, containing ABOUT 80
souls, with not more than half dozen gen"'"s,
in the whole Of il. He drove me aoou. "e " =.
miles but We commenced our visits before 's''%s
the village, and in no house that eh'e'eu
there not 10 be found the dead or dying uPa' n.
ularizing two or three. they may be take"
picture of the whole-there was no POA"s
choosing, but took them Just as 'hey eI'Is ,,b
The Srs, which shall mention was cabin 'a"
or above the ordinary ones in appearance aho
fort in /, were three Young women and one !Os"s
man and three children all crouched over ,ne Ia "a
and the pictures Of misery. Doctor Iran s
alier the father, upon which one oil the gus
door leading into another cabin, and ihe.o os
the father and mother in bed, the ia'hef "'
w-eiohed picture Of starvation possible 70 NM
skeleton with life, his power Of speech gous ,ud
mother but little BETTER her cries 'or me, ,;;oon
food we're heart rending; it was sheer ssI hssu
which had brought them to this. lhey naS Csw
well to do in the world, with their COW ano and
sheep, and potato ground their crops l s,0sthb
their cattle were stolen, although, aniiePau Az" s,bn
they had taken their COW and sheep mo wv n lh
with them every night, but they were s'Os" and
day time The son had worked on the . o,"Id not
earned his eighipence per day, but TINS ""e;cisr
keep The family, aud he, from work ana "'s. bsd u
cy Of food, is laid up, and will soon DC ~ house
his father. They had nothing to eat n .'o
and could see no hope for any one Of 'n, .%s, and
In another cabin we went into, "o'"aed
her daughter were there the daughter n%sd %.
and lying against the wall tho mother "s nSs, her,
on some straw on the ground with rug '~,ithsd
most distressing object Of misery ~, .hov her
about and barred her limbs in order 10 ' until
state Of exhaustion. She had wasted avs" ne can.
nothing but the skin covered the bones
not have survived to this time Il. appear
Another that ! entered had, indeed wv 0.Ide vas
ance Of wretcheduess without, but us The
misery. DIR Traill on putting his hes ..well Phil
hole which answered for door, sad . YIN" been
lis, how is your mother TO day ~ ne h" soS sr
with her the day before, was rePhep-