Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-26

dilIGe III lICidiu.
The reror!er Of the Cork Constitution, who
has visited the west of Ireland, gives the fol-
lowing awful picture of that dislrict:-
DuYMAywAY, Monday night, II o'clock
At ten o'clock this night, | arrived tere from
Ballvlehqd, and | now attempt to give you
a few of the horrible details, and Of some
scenes which | learned and witnessed here.
Ny heart is sick from the misery around me.
Description is unavailing.
Entering the town Of Dunmarway on Sun
day, | met four corpses going to Fnnlabos
graveyard. The first was carried on Two
sticks or wattles borne by men; it was fol-
lowed by about a dozen people. The next
was the body of a child carried in coffin on
a mans back, attended by no other person.
The next was a cart, followed by about TWEEN
ty persons and the fourth was on a butt,
driven by a wUman--no one else IN atten-
dance. In fact, funerals are nov of such hour
" occurrence, that few have heart t attend
them.
In Skibberdeen, no one can s1eak 10 you
on any subject but that OF the destruction of
human life. Men are all day digging graves
in the burying places, and all the carpenters
and cartwrights are at work day and night,
not excepting Sunday; still they cannot meet
the demands made upon them for the rough
est CBlilUSs vi leaving N0klDDNEUttn llllS
morning, | was acccsted by a policeman, who
said that his time and that of the other men
in the service in the town was occupied in
raising subscriptions to purchase collins fer
those dying of starvation, and that it could
not be continued, as. the people were drained
of money. "a Saturday, he gave an order
for seven collins, being all he could get
for the money he raised, and he afterwards
had to purchase one with money he borrow
ed to inter the corpse of a female brought into
the town, on the back Of her mother. 1t is a
, pity that inquests are not held, as the evidence
5 would be apt 10 convince tho English that
the misery is real.
Leaving Skibberdeen, I bad TO pass along
T side Abbeystowry graveyard, where | saw
two new collins containing corpses, and a man
I digging a grave in which to lay them. There
was no other person present.
, But the greatest miscry-if under such cir
! cumstances there could be comparison-was
reserved for me at Ballydehod. Here they
\ are in a deplorable state-dying in all direc-
tons. No longer can they be called II e fin
est peasantry IN the world-indeed, they are
t but skeletons. On entering the town, you
are surrounded by furnishing creatures, from
whom 1t is almost impossible to escape
every one Of them has a more distressing tale
. of destitution than the other.
V Here | heard horrible details Of the neigh
boring parishes-the parish of Skull adjoin-
II ing, which extends to the sea coast. 1t con-
tains 1892 acres, and has a population Of
$4,000. Here there are but tWo resident gen.
tlemen-Mr. Limlick and Mr.. O'Callagan-
o the landlords being all nonresident. In this
Y parish, as well as the adjoining, Kilcoe and
Kilmoe, the deaths are daily increasing, and
the bodies are carried 10 their grares lCiih2u
cqGinS.
The r. c. clergyman told me that in Skull
Ie the deaths were ten a day on the average, o
q the last fourteen days. The people are liv
" ing on sea-weed and cattle that they steal
they are carrying off cows and sheep every
night, and on Sunday night they broke int
the farm store of Mr.. Mccarthy, and stole al
that was in it-seven bags of wheat and tw,
barrels of barley. kilcoe contains 5,27;
acres, with $500 inhabitants. They are dy
"a ing here at five a day on the average of a fort
II night. | was told that one family of eigh
y persons were found in their hut on Thursday
> Occurring a dog belonging to them. Their,
- were thirteen buried in Skull churchyard yes
terday; only one of them had a collin-thel
U were taken on doors, covered with a littll
: straw
Under these circumstances, it is cruel t
u insist on these wretched skeletons going mile
" to and from roads to earn a few pence;
a would be much wiser and more humane t
III give them a little food, and permit their re
Sc naming within doors.
's The accounts from the islands of Sherki
N and Cape Clear are beyond description.
lg
is The Society of Friends in England an
a. Ireland have, by voluntary contributions, rails
ut ed the noble sum of Egg, 600 for the relief
an the starving Irish, and have sent several {
a. their own members to superinlend the dislr
ed button. They are still going on with colleC
or tons, and will probably increase the sum VI
nd ry much.
ie- "
ne The cholera was raging at Tabreez,
wv Persia, at the end Of October. 1t is sal
- that from the llth to the 27th Of that montl