Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-04-01
PETER SCROFFENBURGI
SUFFERING IN IRELAND.

The following reports of the condition of thepoor
have been extracted from letters and papers brought
by the Hibernia
COUNTY OF CoRK.-Dr. S. Sweetman, Dispen-
sary Physician at Schulz and Ballydehob, in let
ter to the Cork Constitution, dated s'Schull Feb.
ruary %" says: "This parish is at this moment
charnel house our mortality is fearful, averag-
ing daily from forty TO fortyfive at least could
noi--east, west, north, south--poiDt 10 any poor
mans house where there is not fever, dysentery
or death. Our grave yards crowded to excess"
''Io give you an idea Of state, for il is not all
known-nor can words convey what change
few months have made was informed by the ma
tional schoolmaster here that this time twelve
months he had hundred and forty school child
rem this day he has not one. Half, he said, are
dead, and the remainder unable to attend, for
wan, of sufficient food and raiment."
County OF MAYo.-The Rev. S. Stock, Rec
tor of Kilcommon-Erris, in letter to the Tyraw-
ley Herald, says: 81 am persuaded | am within
bounds when | say that 900 persons have already
persisted in Erris alone''
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY-Cahir, Feb 25-
The physician OF the Cahir dlspensary died last
week OF fever caught attending his patients. The
number OF poor dying of dysentery and bad food 10
truly dreadful throughout the whole county, al
though every human aid is extended.
COUNTY OF FERMANAGH.-Enniskil Feb.
25.-Every day the news from the rural districts
Is assuming more appalling character Fever
and dysentery are in many places fearfully mani
Testing themselves, and we have the highest
thorty for asserting that the interments far exceed
any thing of the kind witnessed in the county
within the recollection Of the oldest inhabitant.
Rev. MIR. Newell writes that in the parishes of
Oranmore and Bamacourty fifty four persons have
persisted from lack CT food since December.
The Clare Journal says: Numbers around
are dying of hunger. Yes, we repeat the words
again, the people are dying in every corner of the
land from absolute want of fond -
BELFAST, Feb. 25.-Owing to the large supply
of Indian Corn, the value of American has decln-
ed los. per ton, and large sales are making
CARLOW, Feb. GIVE feel great satisfaction
In stating that all apprehensions to sufficient
supply Of Indian meal for this and the adjoining
counties may be considered at end, as an i'm
mense supply OF this article of food has been i'm
ported by Messrs. Clarke and c., as well as by
Messrs. Samuel Haughton and Son. In conse-
Guence of this seasonable arrival, the price of In
dian meal fell e2per ton ON Monday last.
NEwRY, Feb 26.--Ihe prices of most descrip-
lions OF grain, oat meal, SC. continue TO have
downward tendency.
RYE MEAL FROM RUssIA-The Dublin Mer-
camille Advertiser says: Large orders, both on
Government and merchants account, have been ex-
ecuted in the Russian ports of the Baltic, and now
only wait the breaking up of the ice for the vessels
to come TO England. The quantities bought are
what may be called immense"
DUBLIN, Feb. 2S-As the Judges of assize advance
on their circuits, especially in the south and west
they seem struck with at the terrible condition
of the country. Mr. Sergeant Stock who opened
the commission for the county of Limerick, on Fri
day, in addressing the grand curry, said "No
doubt the times fearful and alarming in the ex-
IRENE. Every fact that transpres, and all tho
judges who have gone the circuits, prove that in
all the experience of past history the present fam
Inc and dearth have been of the most calamious
description that could fall upon nation"