Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-03-23

dSafASs y lestIlution in lhe various towns
ard villages ia that extensive county
Many more deaths from starvation are
reported. The reporter Of the Cork Ex-
amlner gives the following account from
Skibbereen:- ~AsA - s&B
4. After an absence Of nearly a week
from SkibbereeD, passed through that
town on Thursday last. BY two repect-
able inhabitants / was assured that the
mortality, SO far from diminishing, had up
to that day appeared to increase. One of
these gentlemen told me, positively, that
one day during the week he had counted
no less than fifteen funerals. On leaving
Sklbbereen, the coach was surrounded by
at least sixty women in the most extreme
destitution, and who appeared to pay par
ticular attention to a gentleman who was
leaving Skibbereen for Cork. On making
inquiry as to this gentleman's name, l was
informed that it was Inglis-that he had
for some time held the situation of Com.
miss9Fy; General, and that he was sent
down specially by Government to inves
tigate the condition of the people of this
dIstrict. BY chance happened TO travel
with him on Thursday last, and, during
my journey, received some important in.
regarding the effects ofthe pres.
- ent mortality, and the operations of the
- Tellet asd soup committees. He related
Home several incidents connected with the
present destitution of the town, and allud
ed to one particularly, which, even in this
abode ct misery and desttntion, is SO SIM
gularly shocking as to require more
heightened notice. On Sunday both Dec
Ryoung woman with difficulty entered the
pubic streets from one of the narrow and
Informed lanes that compose the outskirts
sof the town; with lettering steps and
tremuious voice she besought the charity
ofthe passers by but for some time her
solicitations were useless, and from con-
tInued absence of food, and consequent
exhaustion, she fell in the street, and re-
manned there for a short time unable TO
rise or even to speak. She was shortly
''Htter removed from the place where she
tell, and, after the proper restoratives had
beer supplied, the poor sufferer was con.
.yeyed tosthe wretched cabin that she cal
led her homS. She there informed the
charitable persons in attendance that her
father and mother had died within the two
previous weeks, and at the same time d.
rected their attention to a heap of dirty
straw that lay in the corner, and appar-
entity concealed some object underit. On
.S"'"V'rs This covering OF straw, the spec
'Stors were Mortified on beholding the
mangIed corpses oftwo grown boys, a part
! OF each of which had been removed by the
rats, while the remainder lay fostering in
It's rottenness. There they renamed,
perhaps, for a week, or it might be for a
fortnight, unknown and UNDECIDED, the
wretched relics ofpoor mortality, on which
tnese loathsome vermin had nightly held
their disgusting banquet. Such fact, &
such state of society, communicated
Ito me by responsible official ofthe pres.
ent government, requires in this place
neither comment or remark indeed
mus: do the gentleman the justice to say
that ne evinced generous sympathy in
the distress of which this incident is but
enc OF the results. From the same I'm.
Questionable source l learned that the
deaths IN tho town of Skibbereen alone,
for. thethree weeks previous to my second
arrival, amounted to 1863, and these, in
almost every instance, of insufficency or
Total abstinence from food. This number.
OF course, included the deaths in the work.
ihouse, but does not refer TO the mortality
that prevails in the rural districts.
From the North the cry of famine and
death by starvation comes as fatally at.
tested as from any of the other provinces.
IAe restitution which prevails throughout
the whole of the northwest district saws
the Londonderry Journal, is deplorable in
thesextTeme. There is scarcei " parish
IN which there are not hundreds of FAM.
lies who are writhing in the agonies of
famine. In our1ast we gave a letter from
most respectable source, stating that M
lever than twelve persons, In 1hcNcourse
o. 2 week, had died In West Ennishowen
alone, within twelve miles of this city,
we have a letter from KilIybegs, where
rae acme OF misery appears to have been
reached Ibe same unvarying tale of
nHmnlgsted misery is repeated by all the
Journals of the districi-those of Bajv-
shannon, hpniskiAen, Armagh, and magh.
Even IN the city there occur, az the MEM
berssof the relief committee can attest
the most harrassing scenes arising from
want OF food. The whole district, in short
though i may not include Skibbereen
or Csstlebar-appears to be suffering
fully as much as those which are farther
south. We spesk advisediy, and upon the
strength Of what we have heard from Der.
aons high in Office, that if something be
not done speedily, more especially for the
barony OF Ennishowen, the public peace
cannot much longer be maintained.
Even OF the rich and pros porous county
armagh, Il itissaid BY the Belfast vindi.