Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-02-24
Condition of ireland.

We have room only for few of the extracts
which portray the wretched condition Of the poor
Of LELAND. A letter in the London Herald, da-
ted at Doubln the I'd of January, says:
'.The accounts from all parts of Ireland are
this day heart-rending. Death from starvation
is now so common that it scarcely excites no.
tee. One gentleman from Mayo, writes:-
''Death is now so common that wakes are sell
dem attended, and the bodies are conveyed 81
lently by few friends 10 their graves-the fol-
lowers being, in appearance, as CHASTITY as their
departed friends or relatives" 1t is impossible
to do sufficient justice to the patient endurance
Of the people under this truly awful visitation"
John Coghlan, parish priest of Kllkelly, coEn-
ty of MAYO, has addressed letter to the Len
don Times. in which he says:
Two months ago my Pensioners exceeded
6,OoO souls; they are now considerably reduced
below that number-death by starvation has
made its fearful ravages. This week two Ier
sons have died of hunger, one a girl named
Mary Dodd, of Barcoll, aged Is years, the 9TH
er man named James O'Donneli, of Sowna-
clane, aged SO years. | attended another last
night, named William Fallen, dying of starya-
ton. OF the entire number of about $3.50, |
solemnly declare, to the best of my opinion,
that not more than 200 of them have more TO
support nature than half meal in the twenty
fopr hours. The corn is all gone; not even the
seed for the ensuing year remains. The tur-
nips are all used. We have no Indian neal
The very small quantity of oatmeal to be found
is selling at 23s. per liz pounds. Indian meal
is not to be had in Sligo fer less than Gl9 Fer
ton. The people on the public works ale not
Permitted to earn more than IS per week. They
could earn more if permitted to bring their fam
lies. Such a rational course the Board of
1 will CIR IL ay-pr
ing humanity commanded ycur sympathy, the
diving destituton Of NY Pensioners Loudly docs
SO. Day ard night am lnpoYtnned for food"
The accounts irem Mayo gwen in the Free
man Journal are very painful. In the parish
CT Cong, 81 deaths occurred within week. In
a neghboring parish a like number in three
weeks. Rev. Patrick Fitzgerald, Rcman Cath
Ole curate of Kilseever, thus illustrate the in
tensi,y of the famine:
II shall not forget the impression made on
my mind few DAYS ago by most heart-rcn-
ding case of starvation. l have witnessed the
peer mother of five in family sending her chill
drer, almost lfeiess from hunger, to bed, and,
desparing of ever seeing them alive,she took her
last leave of them. In the morning, her first
act was to touch their lips with her hand to see
if the breath of life still remained; but the poor
mothers fears were not groundless, not a breath
could she feel from some of her dear little chill
dren: that night buried them in the night Of
eternity"
The Cork Examiner sums up the state of
things in the neigIborhood of Skberbeen:
''In the parish of Kilmoe IA died ON Sunday;
three of these were buried in collins, eleven
were buried without other covering than the
rags they wore when alive. One gentleman,
good and charitable man, speaking of this case,
says: The distress is so appalling that we must
throw away all feeling of delicacy.' and another
says: Il would rather give ls to starving
man than. As cd for a coffin
$40 died in the Skiberbeen workhouse in one
day! And Mr.. Mccarthy Downing states that
''they came into the house merely and solely
fo- the purpose of getting coffin"
''Rev. Mr.. Clancy visits farm, and there,
in one house, she administered the last rites of
religion to six PERSONS: On a subsequent &C.
casion, he prepared for death father and
daug liter lying in the same bed.'
'Rev. Mr.. Caulfeld sees SO members of one
family down in fever"
"Rev. Mr.. Fitzpatrick retires to rest at 8
o'clock in the morning, and rises after q couple
of hours heavy sleep. 1t is the same with his
coadlutors.
"Dr. Donovon solemnly assures public that
the people are dropping in dozens about them.'
"Mr. Marmon says that work on the public
road is even more destructive than fever: for
the unfed wretches have not energy enough to
keep their blood in circulation, and they drop
down from united effects of cold and hunger,
never 10 rise again.