Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-02-18

been starved 10 death. Within the last three weeks
% have died Of desitution and both the reverend
gentlemen state that oat meal is 24s. per cwt. IN
the nearest market town, which is % miles distant
from the remote portion Of Mr. MacManus's pos
ition.
The Cork papers are nearly filed with details Of
destitution in he various towns and villages in that
extensive COuuly. Many more deaths from starya-
ton are reported. The reporter ofihe Cork Exam
liner gives the following account FROM Skibbereen :
INCREASE OF STARVATION AND PROCREss or
DEAru-Alter an absence Of nearly week from
SkIbbereen, passed through that town Thurs
day last. BY two respectable inhabitants was as
sured that the mortality, so far from diminishing
had up TO that day appeared 10 increase. One Of
these gentlemen told me, positively, that one day
during the week he had counted less than fifteen
funerals. On leaving Sklbbereen the coach was
crcled round by at least from fifty to sixty Somen
all of whom appeared in the most extreme deslitu-
ton, and who appeared To pay patieular attention
To a gentleman who about leaving SkbbeFeen
for Cork. On making inquiry as iothis gentle
mans name, | was informed that it was lnglis-
that he has for some .ime held the situation Of
Commlssary General, aud that he was sent down
specially by government TO investigate the condition
the people ofths district. BY chance happen
ed TO travel with him Thursday last, and. during
my journey, received some important information
regarding the effects Of the present mortality, and
the operations OF the relief and soup committees
He related 10 me several incidents connected with
the present desitution Of the town, and alluded 10
one particularly. which, ia this abode Of desii
tuition and misery, is singularly shocking as TO
require more heightened notice On Sunday,
(2Oth Dec.) young woman with difficulty entered
the public streets from one OF the narrow and ILL.,.
formed lanes that compose the outskirts Of the town;
with iottering steps and tremulous voice she be-
sought the charity ofpassers by but for some time
her solicitations were useless, and from continued
absence Of food, and consequent exhaustion, she
fell in the street, and remained there for short
time unable to rise or even TO speak. She was
shortly after removed from the place where she fell
aud, after the proper restorative had been supplied,
the poor sufferer conveyed TO the wretched cab
in that she called her home. 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 directed their
attention TO heap of dirty straw that lay in
the corner, and apparently concealed some object
under it. On removing this covering OF straw. the
spectators were Mortified on beholding the mangled
corpses OF two grown boys, large portion Of each
OF which had been removed by the rats, while the
remainder lay fostering in its roitenness. There
they remained, perhaps, for week, il might be
for fortnight. unknown aud unheeded, the wretch.
ed relics Of poor mortality. on which these loaih.
some rats had nightly held their disgusting ban.
quet.