New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-21
Annals Of Misery.

1t was said plainly and as bitterly, by Dean
Swift, ages ago. as by the London Times, last
month"; that if the Irish landlords had not been the
meanest and most worthless Of their kind on the
face Of the earth, Ireland would neither have
kGown famine, want nor wretchedness. Many
thousands left their native land last Spring for Can
ada, and Of those whom fever and famine spared at
home, thousands have been cut of by fever and ia
mine abroad the great deep has swallowed up
nearly one thousand, and Of those who have reach.
ed Canads, may are in utter restitution.
The Montreal gazette says;
On Saturday afternoon two brothers emigrants
threw themselves from of the wharves into the v-
err They rescued by the exertons of the police
officer duty and being taken the station house
sisted that they wished to put end TO their misery
The Editor of the Montreal Pilot, Mr. Hincks,
late Inspector General Of Canada himself an Irish.
man, tells us that
The state Of the inning at the Montreal sheds 10
really awful Language inadequate to describe the
misery and wretchedness that prevails there Twenty
five we're buried Sunday, and six died yesterday
morning The food IL altogether unfit for the poor fam
shiog wretches. Hard black biscuit surely not proper
food There 10 no soup kettle, means OF giving
coffee, nor indeed anything but cold water.
Aud again:
Several complaints to the manner In which those
unfortunate immg grants who now throng our whsrves
have been treated, and the reception with which they
meet ON landing shores having reached US We.
In order 10 ascertain the particulars they exactly
stand visited the sheds adjoining this city, and horror
of horrors the which presented itself TO Wis
Ion battles description. On very low ground are
structed some coverings for the temporary sccommo.
daton OF those ororn beings who, unfortunately for
themselves obliged ~ have recourse to them for
shelter These sheds and all the avenues that lead 10
them almost saturated with the rain which during
the last two days has fallen In torrents and the poor
creatures who make them their home obliged 10
wade knee deep In mud ere they can approach them.
The interior of the which entered exhibited
oil the marks Of wretchedness and misery In their most
revolving forms aud the number Of beds. something
resembling those articles which were laid upon the
muddy filthy hoor and the number of sick male and fe
male Unfortunately hudded together TO cay nothing
of the noxious vapor which entering we inhaled, as
tonshed Here and there sccosted pi,cously
tho creatures imporing from medical prescriptions
thinking thereby alleviate their present suierings but
We told them that not in that capacity but that
our object how they were cared tor and ex
e ourselves In order TO the ameoraton oil their cond
ton Having made several inquiries relative to medical
attendance &c. we informed that no Doctor had
seen the same shed since they became its inmates
Numbers are dying daily of disease, superinduced no
doubt by the privshons and sufierngs TO which they
have been subjected In their weary journey to this I'm
aaiparv haven of repOse.