Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-05-05
IRELAND.


IRELAND.
Accounts of famine, fever and death in Ire
land are still occupying considerable portion
of the press, but not to such an overwhelming
extent as formerly. They give partially to dis
putes about the proposed measures for the re-
lief of the country and to accounts of murders
and outrage. Both the Conservative and the
repeal newspapers opposed violently the pas
sage of the poor law bill. 1t is denounced as
a system that twill be ruinous to the country;
that will pauperize all classes save the wealthy
landlord and the funded proprietor, bearing down
by the weight of taxation consequent upon its
adoption, ''the middleman, the country gentle
man and the agriculturlst, and tending to the
total abandonment of northumberland as a
"plan to divide the small means of the nation
among the millions of the poor" From these
expressions one at distance would be apt to
conclude that it is in reality measure Of relief
In some degree adequate to the emergency it is
designed to meet.
The country, and little wonder, is rapidly be-
coming disorganized. Crime is following up
on want and misery. Ii is not apparent, how
ever, that the districts which have suffered most
are those where crime most prevails Lawless
men seem to be taking advantage of the gener-
al prostration and setting the law at defiance.
Mr.. Prim, holding some Office on the public
works in Kilkenny, and having large sum of
money in his possession, for the payment of
wages, was attacked, and, together with police
man, murdered, and the booty carried off. The
following extract from the address of the assis-
tant barrister for Kilkenny, at the opening of
his court, will show the state of things in that
country. One of the murderers was shot in the
ARRAY.
"Thesc murders were committed at an early
hour in the morning, In the midst of populous
country, surrounded by the residences OF coun-
try gertis@en, and in the vicinity of an employ
ed population. The assassinations were COM
mitted at moment when these public function
aries, as | may call them, were discharging
their functions, and doing nothing else. They
were barbarously murdered, if is said, by five
men, one of whom, In the gallant defence made
by the unfortunate young gentleman lost his
ielon life. But that the four men who have es-
capped, shonld, at such an early hour in the NOR
ming, and during the entire day, have marched
through country filled by dense population,
run the gauntlet of police stations, and escaped
notice of any description-except the notice,
taken from the mountains, attracted by the glim-
mer of their guns-is TO me thing most as
tonishing.
They very laborers in the vicinity of the place
employed on the public works, and for whose
support the sum stolen was destined, would
take no part in the pursuit of these felons.-
The people of the country took 10 part in the
pursuit, and that four men, encountered with
five guns and an immense quantity of treasure,
SO heavy, understand, as eight or nine cwts.,
should have travelled through populous coun-
try, crossed the bounds of this county, and
gone into another, is thing not easily to be
accounted for. Gentlemen, the state of
society in which such occurrences as this could
happen must be much disorganized indeed"
Similar disorganIzetion prevails in Limerick
county, Kings country and in others.
The county of Cork is in horrible state
Fever and dysenterey are making fearful hav-
&C among the people. In the city of Cork fe-
yer is daily increasing and assuming malig-
nant type. Many of the poor law guardians &
others employed in relieving the general distress
have fallen victims to it in the county. The
gaols of the county are crowded by class of
offenders created by the famine, and their fear
is of acquiial rather than conviction.
The Cork reporter says:
Most horrible-most dreadful arc the reports
from the west Of Cork. tits enough to curdle
the blood even to listen to the description Civ
en- by eye-witnesses of what is passing in that
part Of the country, and above all, in the two
Carbaries. 1t is not food the unfortunate peo-
pie now want most, it is medical attendance
A pestiential fever, more mortal and destruc- |
i've than cholera or plague, is carrying off the |
poor. There is not a house from Rantry to |
Skull that, with scarce dozen, exceptions, |
Toes not contain either the sick, the dying, or |
he dead. The latter lie where they die, or are |
barely pushed outside the thresholds, and there
suffered to dissolve! Their living relatives |
within the huts are too feeble to carry them |
farther; and the strong, outside-from distant |
they indeed are few, are afraid to
Rnde unshrouded and uncoffined bodies:
Judge of the consequences. The weather
begins already to grow warm; decomposition
cts in more rapidly than month since. Let
is state two or three facts which we have on
testimony. Our informant has
old us at in one locality, where public works
re in progress, the lab orers are forced to eX-
mine a cabin at some distance, IN consequence
# the noxious and intolerable effiuvium issuing
rom it. They discovered in it FIVE bodies in an
dvanced state of putrefaction-the whole of
amly, who had died, none knew when.
None of the laborers dared touch the bodies,
nd to protect themselves with remaining on the
york where they were compelled to earn their
read, and chance of life, they pulled down the
ovel, heaped timber and thatch over the black {
ned corpses, applied fire, and kept aloof until
he dwelling and the dead were consigned to
shes. Such was the interment. This occur
ed at placed called Ratoora. In another I
ovel were found the dead bodies of father {
nd son, and In the mouth of the latter was e
cen the fathers hand, three fingers of which d
ad been eaten off by his furnishing offspring.
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