Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-11-05

Tribute of Gratitude from Eeland.-We
have already stated that Capt De Kay, of the
Macedonia trigate, presented on Wednesday
TO the President of the United States an ad-
dress from the corporation of Cork. The
Washington Union states that it is handsome
ly written out on a roll of paper, and embeIl-
ished at to p on one side with the flag of the
United States, and on the other with the Brit
ish flag. The seal of the corporation attests
the authenticity of the signatures The roll
is enclosed in a small, neat mahogany box,
with the following inscription upon a metallic
plate -" Tile Corporation to the President of
the United Hates.'
This eloquent address breathes the gratitude
and the spirit of the Irish people:
10 the President Of the United Stotes of f.
mer'co: Slr-We, the mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses of Cork, in council assembled. de-
sire most respectfully, in behalf of our fellow
citizens, to express our heartfelt gratitude to
you, sir, the head OF the United States gov
eminent, and through you to her Legislature,
and also to her great and generous people.
In this warm and earnest record of our
! thanktulness, 1t would be out of place to dis
cuss the causes of oar national poverty, re-
st1chng the great mass Of the Irish people for
subsistence OF one article of food, which, tho
valuable IN many particulars, is in these coun-
tries the lowest class of diet, and consequent
" subjects the whole of the poorer population
to constant risk of scarcity, or even famine,
should partial or general failure of that one
crop, the potato, occur.
The immoderately cold and sunless summer
of 1915 was followed by deficient potato
| harvest; hut in 1916 the visitation was uni
versaI and its awful consequences are, still
pressing severely on our community. Famine
brought disease; private employment for the
industrious classes was greatly diminished
| public employment was deficient, and would
not supply three-ftths of the people with mo-
ney wages. Gram, at an eXhorbitant price
was IN many places scarce and difficult of &C
cess; starvation an / all its miseries We're a.
round US; but the cry of those who were. rea.
dy to perish was heard, even across the divi.
ding sea The American nation, with ready
sympathy, came TO the rescue, unsolicited, ex
cept by their own hearts, they gave food tc
tced the hungry, to check the famine fever
and under the blessing of a mercifu God, &c
restore the sick to health and usefulness.
Sir, we are of one blood with your own A
merlca-brothers. Many of the boldest ani
purest spirits OF England, ireland ana Scot
land have made their homes in the Grea
Western ~RePublic. That love of liberty
which they carried to your shores is become
your Nations character. OF one mind an,
one heart with America, we glory in her act
OF philanthropy; we emulate her independence
| MAY HER BANNER EVER FLOAT ABOVE TIL
BRAVE AND FREE
Sir, the generous aid given by the American
pubic, and sent on peace making mission il
Americans hips-ofwar, has done more TO Sc
cure continued harmony between the countrie
than any armament could effect Your PEG
pie, by doing us good, have recognized tn
ancestral relationship which belongs to us
while we, in our cordial gratitude, will eve
use the remembrance of your noble benevo
lence as the talisman of amity.
The light of freedom of trade now dawn
upon our country; the grand law that al
men are brethren, is about to be made practi
cal. Your prompt and liberal free will offer
ing has been timely placed on the altar of fra
ternlty Just as the doors of the temple of com
MERGE are about to be thrown widely OPEN
For the future, our mutual necessities will re
commend to us mutual forbearance, and mu
tual benefits exchanged will develope mutua
estimation, until the best interests of thes
Islands and your free States shall become as
soclated, so as every day to draw the peopl
more closely into a friendship based on mer
camille, moral, and benevolent intercourse.
Receive, sir, our appreciation Of your mos
valuable generosity. As Christians and a
men, you have dignifeI your nation. Sue
trlumphs are among the proudest laurel
which can wreathe the brow of the first off
Ger of a great and generous people.
Done in council at Cork, under the cit
seal, the Goth day of July, 1847.
ANDREW P. ROSIE, Mayor OF Cork.
ALEXANDER MCCARTHY, Town Clerk
Il Notel Witness.--Last Saturday a tris
came off between two persons for debt. TIL
person who brought the suite kept no book
of accounts, but was in the habit OF maxim
down his accounts on the cellar door! H
appeared before the squire in Morrisvile, an
the defendant demanded the evidence of tn
debt The Justice told him he must bring hi
book and prove it He Immediately procure
a wagon and set out for the cellar door. an
actually brought it into court, established hi
claim and got Judgment The lawyers wcr
wonderfully puzzled in the cross examination
the witness hinged altogether upon stubbor
facts II Trenton Advertiser.
APPEAL TO THE HUMANE, particularly
Editors and PastmasterS-On the 10th {
May last, John McGarr, and his two son:
Edmund James, aged Il years, and Owen,
years, and left Pensacola in the public stag
for Mobile Since that time his distresse
heluless family. residing in Washington, bay