New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-02
NETWORK TRIBUNE.



Alas for Ireland!
The following letter. from an lrish lady VINO once
,..,asA In Pennsylvania TO friend IN that state gve'
. heart renelns though Still an imperfect picture Of
,-h., Ireland is suffering We copy from the Phiis
delohIa United States Gazette
The Manor House DUnMkNwAY.
County Of Cork. Dec. %, 1916.
M Dear Friend IL Is long SINCE have had
with the dear friends Of esry date and ON
the present heart cutting circumstances Of my famine
stricken country may well call my nspper Gays sho
a. have much 10 say 70 you Of wesghty concerns
muss be brief as to personal details inquiries in Ire
lands calamity Irish hearts and hands must Try every
channel where the possibility OF rehef may DC iouno
and my dear friend, after weary TASK OF "iiibs 70
numbers Of Enslish sisters who now surviving 10
help Us turn TO you my ioncly rememo Ameficsn
friends and entrest Of you. for the SAKE oil nm "ho
had not vhereon 20 ley hs head that you or your OWE
dear psstoer and sisters will hsve me mercy 70 IN.
copies of the enclosed sppes 10 which there - no aHa
eoanof be any exsggerston into every qusrtsr "ne1s
you would excite interest or ooisin assistance.
have taken the freedom TO put your nafne - zoe
trsnsmitter Of relief ~ for rfDe VIII nct ADMIT OF ~
ssk1nz Won about it-for At the moment o. my NIe
the dead and the dying sre around Us ana gnss zoe
Lord IN mercy stay bis hand this country VIII 80 ~
one wide cb.rne house All local means are nthcent
An the resident gentry Cor many hsve ned from ne
horrors they could rceye) ere streinDg every ner
10 keep al 70 their far1shed neiah0ors ny ss'ef sho
4 who ere now sole residents If d manor, buy indian
mes. At The enormous price Of Els per ton IN cox ana
cell 4, out at our kitchen At reduced prre 10 our
starving neighbors and gye 70 those VINO eainol IVY
but our means ale TOO DarroW 10 permit Us "
continue this much longer.
on nv dear friend in your blessed land OF penny
you cannot conceive our misery feope are pyine y
hundreds in the next parish 10 ours tne oeao are
out cofns The prospect before rs is fearful an IN
usually early and severe frost Tin clothing bedeotne
all pawned TOR food and tbs suffering OF cod soheo %
hunger The pig (the Irish coiters "eain) tne ioNIs
by which many lived gone starved and In many cases
dfowped BY the owrers when they could feed tnem no
more. OH If you the sight saw YESTERDAY ABOVE
two hundred tattered 10 king more IKE tkeie1oh'
than human beings with despair on every IeStoIs ~
log ON q road they we're making and not one prooso =
having tasted food since the day otiore' ana IN tnt
mountain wilde the women and children perlshins ~
hundreds. rnsns days hire VII hardy earn Wa
ke@ps himself alive ind though an lnsnman "oulo
svs bis last oTsel 10 his child yet he must EeeP \
himself for II be peTishes bis isfniy must pef'n "i
him.
From the same feeling writer comes the following
Address to tee Ladies Of America The author knows
10 whom she addressing herself and her plea
ADDRESS TO THE LADIES OF AMERICA.
The Chri.tia an Ladies Of America are earnestly
called upon by their rsh sisters n assst hefu u sarna
alive 10 famine aud us attendant peseniai diseases
the utterly destitute men, women and CHILDREN OF Sod
smtten Ireland IN former times Il was sad ~ ire'sna
that the potato In the bowl was for the widow INC
f.,heress and The houseless wanderer and iOr thf
hungry the Irish eotter WAS ever ready 70 share h'
las, But now there 10 not one TO DIVIDE me GAY
mOffes--n ne oven mas, sven u cOnroh'" N"N'f o"1
he has nothing left to ire Starving neishoots HOh
dying at bis door.
On that American sisters could see the sboreTi
on our roads, able bodied men, scarcely clad, furnishing
with hunger with despair In their once cheerful faces
Staggering their work yet striving 10 earn the mea
which IL 10 keep life in them 10 earn Snother-tos
probably having TASTED food since the day before :
oh that they could zee the past nort1a examination
of hundreds who have died o. hunger on inc rOsos
where they WORK Utmost 10 The last gasp tnH not par
tclc food found in their contracted ttfndcNs =
sl.fs ftn ffTGT
family huddled together their bundle Of damp straw
with one or more corpses among them which the sur
yiyors have not strength 20 drag from beside Them
OH that they could the dead father, mother oi
child lying coinless, and hear the screams OF me sr
vlyors around them caused. not by soTow but IN the
agony OF hunger-,hsy, whose hands end hearts are
ever open 20 compassion, would unite In one mighty
Effort TO save Ireland from such misery II you dear
lady into whose kind hands this may TALL would collect
among friends and Deighbors sums, however small
such aid will many lives in country which the
Lord In righteous judgment has severely stricken
and cause the blessing o. them who ready to perish
70 return upon the heads Of the donors The enc rmous
price OF Indian Meal and Provisions of every sort puts
beyond the roach Of the Poor % buy and those VINO
would gladly give them, from he same cause nave
not In their power.
Fever and other deadly diseases have followed IN The
train of Femme and unless extraordinary aid can
be ootsr>S Ireland must become one vast Lazar
honsc Of the dying and the dead,
Dsrsrasuay, County OF Cork Ireland, Drc - lsio'
MARTHA j. cox.
KATHARINE a. cox,
HARRIET sHJLDHAM.
ANNA MARIA GALBRAlTHi
ISABELLA SULLIVAN
ELLEN JACOB