The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-30
! From the Philadelphia Inquirer
The Famine In Ireland.-The victims.-An Appalling
| Picture.

ble still more frighul than those embodied in the pre-
vious intelligence, The calamity is, indeed desoatlns,
and many OF the details produce thrill OF horror One
account before states that the number OF deaths which
had already occurred in Ireland, from famine and IFS at
endan mlseres, amounted TO no less than fifty thousand
persons Dublin correspondent OF the New York
Courier, writing under date OF March says that
that the elements OF misery have had time to display their
terribly potent energes-want OF food IN cases,
unwholesome and nadequatey supplied food in others
with an inclement season, bad clothing, and the utter
absence of all household necessares the that
published by physicians, clergymen, and visiters
sembe the records OF medieval famine and pestl-
ence than what might be supposed TO be the details OF
actual occurrences in contiguous province of the
mlghtest and the weathiest empire of the Old World
Walking skeletons lettering along the roads-in Mayo
and southern Cork-the yards crowded with the
dead, buried by those for whom the sad Office is
to be performed by Others like themselves scarcely
able for the task and novels crowded with the dead and
the dying unable to crawl away from the pesenal ex-
halations OF their purifying corpses"
Ii is added that the deaths from starvation for the
want of sufficient and nutritious food, before the due
supply furnished TO the extreme south and wes-as
Skibbereen, Cork, and the western coast of Mayo Sill
go, and Gaway-are iearully numerous. lnquests
called for beyond the power OF the coroners TO hold
Them and the of deaths, with none bury the
Dead and ntements in fields and gardenshuuiedly and
half donen people proverbal for their regard for the
dying and dead mutudnous to be detailed land too
narrowing and revolving to admit description. And
diseasedysenery, fever, &c.is spreading frighullyn
the work houses, less destitute districts Lurgan, Tull
amore, Tim; and the central board of health in Dub
lin sending doctors TO examine report and assist
From many ports, at this unusual and inclement
season. emigrahon-manly from funds furnished from
American irends-is in progress; the work houses
crowded. sickness prevails where record of mortality
is kept; and universal gloom is spread the land
And this, while the lord lieutenant is advancing "A sum
equal that raised BY relief committee in any ocali-
IL; and while the whole of Britain is laid under coniri-
button every form OF charity, prompted by benevolent
ingenuity, for ministerng to this widespread calamity
We have also before us, in files of Dublin and
Londonderry Journals details well calculated to touch the
stoutes heart The commander of the British -soop
Scourge, recently visited Schulz for the purpose of dis
charging cargo of corn meal; and in letter he saws
that three fourhs OF the inhabitants of the village carry
the tale of their features and persons as they are
reduced TO skeletons, the particular all their
physical power wasted away they have all become beg
CARS.
He states also that having desire to see with his own
eyes, some OF the misery which said to exist he
called upon Dr. Trai the rector of the parish who i'm
mediatey accompanied him, and he continues
81 found there need take beyond the VILLAGE
to show the horrors of famine in features
things and thought they be highly colorcd TO attract
sympathy but there saw the reality OF the whoIe-no
fearful degree, with all its horrors Fever has sprung up
consequent upon the wretchedpess and sweng OF limbs
everywhere be found Doctor Trails parish is tweny-
miles in extent containing about Is 900 souls with not
more than hall dozen gentlemen IN the whole OF it, He
drove about five six miles; but commenced our
visits before leaving the village and IN no house that Iener
ed there TO be found the dead dying parcj-
arzing three they may be taken picture Of the
whoehere was no picking or choosing, but took them
just they came.
'sThe first which shall mention was cabin rather
above the ordinary ones in appearance and
children. all crouched fire, and the pictures ery
Dr. Trail asked after the father; upon which the
the father and mother in bed the father the most
wretched picture OF starvation possible conceve skel
little better her cries mercy and food were heart-fend
ing sheer destution which had brought them to
this. They had been well to do in the world with their
COW and lew sheep, ana potato ground; their crops
failed and their cattle stolen although anticipating
with them every night, but they stolen in the day
time. The had worked the roads, and earned his
and he, from work and nsuficiency of food is laid up aud
win be as bad as his father They had nothing
In another cabin we went into, a mother and her
daughter We're there; the daughter emaciated and lying
the ground with rug over her most Distressing object Of
misery she whed about and barred her limbs in order
until nothing but the skin covered the bones she cannot
have survived to this time
Indebtedness without but It's inside misery Dr.
Trail putting his head inside the hole which answered
He having been with her the day before replied To-
oh, sir, is it yonl Mother is deadr and there fearful
crying the eess body of her mother, which on
the floor cramped up she had died, with her rags and
her cloak about her, by the side of few enbcrs of peat
Sin the cabin three young children belonging
to the daughter, whose husband had away from her
know what do with the corpse, She had of get
ting removed, and she much exhausted
the rectory.
in another cabin, the door of which was stopped with
dung poor woman, whom we had taken by surprise
as she reused up evidently much astonisled She burst
into upon seeing the doctor, and said she had not
been able 10 sleep since the corpse of the had laid
in her bed This was poor creature who passing
ths miserable cabin and asked the old allow her
to herself for few moments She had lain down, but
up again She died in hour 50, from sheer
exhaustion. The body had remained in this howell OF six
feet square, with the poor old for four DAYS; she
could not get anybody 10 remove it, She said she trusted
her sins parloned. She had prayed earnestly for for
gveness. She had been wicked sinner, but God was
merciul, and her Savior alsulicient. She thought
she could die, and onged TO depart and be peace and
she had blocked up the door that she might be disturb
ed. She had some moneya trilieby her; but living
four five miles from the village she could get
food She had asked her neighbors children buy her
sone but they much taken up with themselves
She could rise up, and could just manage kneel She
had nothing eat in her miserable hole and should fear
must be dead this.
81 could in this take Won through the thirty or
cottages that visited but they, without excep
ton all akethc dead and the dying in each and
the lamentations and bitter of each
of these poor the threshold OF death Never in
my life have such wholesale misery, could have
thought il so complete"
This, be it remembered, the statement of British
officer, who at first thought that the accounts eXag
geraed The for Mayo states that he has held
twenty-five nquests, in of death from extreme des
tuition and starvation, in the baronles of Costello and
(Ialen, since the LIST OF January last.
In giving particulars, he says that he has behed
a mother and child both dead in the same bed--aso a
mother dead in the porch of corn kiln with her still
living child, three years od lying her dead body. He
has seen the nursing infant die the mothers breast
from exhaustion of its the MOTHER with ten the
family living waercresses for four days previous, as
her only means of support)--two children of six and
seven years old both dead together, and the mother
prng and dying the following day. man in rude health,
not fifty years old struggling To walk the day before,