Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-04-15
Continued Distress i'm IreIand--Famine
aud PeSlilence--iOrrible Scenes.


lence are doing fearful work there
At the latest date, the New York committee had
received Sl0l SIS. In Albany, Sll,539, in Cincin-
NATL S12 900 had been collected. In Cincinnati, the
money converted into provisions fast received.
Several boat loads have already been shipped. We
are pleased to see Pittsburgh moving at last.
Many affecting instances recorded Of the chari-
ty of the poor Irish girls in this country
The Liberty On. ~ IHteligencer says, servant
girl, In the employ of. Mr. Rust, of the Syracuse
House, lately deposited S25 with the Relief Com
mitiee, to be forwarded to Ireland. She said she
needed it for her own USE but her necessities were
to be compared with those of her poor mother and
friends in Ireland. The girl last summer trans
mitied $40.
correspondent of the Albany Erening Journal
says that Mary NJ. Graham, hired girl living
in his family, and who has means beyond her
limited wages, has sent $40 of her earnings TO Ire
land
Much is said Of the idleness and want of thought
of the people of Ireland but such instances these
show that when placed in circumstances whes sheir
labor is sure of reward, they not only make
and save, butt when the occasion demands give with
an unsurpassed liberality. National Era.
Elihu gurrtt, who is now travelling in Ireland,
thus depicts the sufferings which he witnessed:
The first habtaton we entered in The Castle
haven district was literally hole in the WALL
pied by what might be called, in America, squatter,
or man who had burrowed place for himself ard
family in the acute angle of two dilapidated walls
by the roadside, where he lived free. We en-
tered this stined den by aperture abcus hfee feet
high, and found one two children lying asleep,
with heir eyes spen, IN the straw Such at least,
their appearance for they scarcely winked
while before them. The father came in,
and told ptifu story Of want, saying that a
morsel of food had they tasted for tweny-our hours.
He lighted wisp Of straw, and showed or
two more children lying in another nook Of the
Their mother had died. and he was obliged TO leave
them alone during of the day, order to CLEAN
something for their subsistence
:" We were soon affoig .the most wretched habi-
tatlons that had yet Seen-far than those in
Skibbereen. Many of them were fiat-roofed novels,
half buried in the EARTH built up against the rocks,
and covered with rotten straw, seaweed, or turf In
one, which scarcely fec: square. we found
five persons PROSTATE with the fever, and apparently
near their end girl, about sixteen, the very pic
ture of despair, the only left who could
administer any relief; aud I'll she couH- do was
bring water In broken pitcher TO slake their parched
lips.
"As we proceeded up the rocky hill overlooking
the scene, we encountered new sights of wretched-
ness. Seeing cabin standing somewhat by itself,
In hollow, and surrounded by moat of green filth,
We entered it with difficulty and found single
child, about three years old, lying upon a kind of
Shelf with its little face resting upon the edge of the
board and looking sieadastly out at the door if
for Its mother. II moved its eyes as we en-
tered, but kept them fixed toward the entrance 1t
IS doubtful whether the poor thing had a mother
father left to her; but it doubtful sul whether
those eyes would have reapsed their vacant gaze if
both of them had entered at once, with every thing
that could tempt the palate in their hands No words
can describe this peculiar appearance Of the amished
children. Never have seen such bright blue clear
eyes, looking steadfastly at nothing. | could al
most fancy that the angels of God had been sent to
unseal the vision of these little patient pershing
creatures to the beatitudes of another world and
that they were listening to the whispers of unseen
spirits, bidding them to : wait little longer
g Leaving this, entered another cabin, in which
we found seven eight attenuafed young creatures
with mother who had pewned her cloak and could
not venture out TO beg for bread, because she
fit to be seen the streets.
"Hearng the voice Of wailing from cluster Of
huts further up the bill, we proceeded to them, and
entered one, and found several persons weeping
the dead body of a woman lying by the wall, near
the door. Stretched upon the ground here and there
lay several sick persons and the place seemed den
of pestilence. The filthy straw rank with the
fostering fever. Leaving this habitation Of death,
we were met by young wouspr m an agony of
despair, because one would l7<eSher a coffin to
bury her father in. She pointed to cart at some
distance, upon which his body lay; and she was
about to follow it to the grave; and he was such
good father, she could not bear to lay him like beast
IN the ground and she begged a coffin, for the
honor of God.' While she was waiting and weeping
for this boon, cast my eye towards the cabin had
just leIt, ana slgnt met my view Which made me
shudder with EorrUr. The husband of the dead
woman staggering out, with her body upon his
shoulders, slightly covered with piece of rotten
canvass. | will not dwell upon the details of this
spectacle Painfully and slowly he bore the remains
of the late companion of his misery to the cart We
followed him a little way off, and saw him deposite
his burden alongside Of the father Of the young
woman, and by her assistance.
=" As the two started for the graveyard, to bury
their own dead, pursued walk still further on
and entered another cabin, where we encountered the
climax of human misery. Surely, thought l, while
regarding this new phenomenon Of suffering, there
can be no lower deep than this. between us and the
bottom of the grave. On asking after the condition
OF the inmates, the woman to whom we addressed
the question answered by taking out of the straw
three breathing skeletons, ranging from to three
feet in height, and entirely naked. And these human
things We're alive If they had been dead, they
could not have been such frightfa spectacles They
were alive, and wonderful to say, they could stand
upon their feet, and even walk; but ii was awful to
them do it. Had their bones been Invested of the
skin that held them together and been covered with
veil of thin muslin, they would not have been more
visible Especially when of them clung the
door, while sister urging itforward, II assumed
an appearance which have been seldom paralleed
this side of the grave. The effort Whis 1t made
cling TO the door disclosed every ot in Its Frame
while the deepest inesof old age frrowsd its face
The enduring of ninety years Of serrow.seemed to
chronicle its record of woe upon the poor childs
countenance. ] could bear no more andswe return
ed Skbbereen after having been all the afernoon