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The Starving poor of Ireland.

The Dreadful Condition of Ireland may be
Judged of by cases reported in single Dublin
Daper-the Freemans journal of the 10th ut.
At SIX bEereen reporter staying halt an hour
in the town counted three funeral professions.
One family was found dying OF disease and
want, unable to 90 out and seek food or med
icine. In another cabin. nine persons lay
stretched on the ground, suffering from fever
produced by want OF food here woman bad
given birth to child, lying upon some straw.
Six persons lay around her, suffering from
aggravated symptoms OF fever brought on by
starvation In another cabin whole family
was i'll with fever, having lost two Of its num-
Der within two days, and the unfecling land
lord had unhinged the door, took OFT their
blankets, and left them to die without shelter
clothing or food In thirty two houses at least
two of each family were ill with fever or drop
sv; in some cases nine in Il family were down
unable to move, and apparently anxious for
death to relieve them from their sutferings.-
A man, his wife and children were confined
with the fever and among the dying children
was found the decaying corpse OF little boy
who had died some time previously. In this
case a piece ofcoarse packing stuff was the on
ly covering over the living and the winding
sheet of the dead In another house poor
woman having lost two OF her children by fe-
yGr. was found lying lit the side of her third
and last child She tried to 60 to the town
for relief for her dying infant, and while do
ing SO, dropped down in the street, was car
ried home and died in twenty-tour hours -
John Maloney and Michael Donovan, OF
the town of Beenean, were found IN their how
eli, having been dead some time. They died
of famine. There wal nothing in the house
to keen the ve1nin Oft the bodies. -Four
corpses lay in that town as they had died,
without preparation of any kind. Another
case is reported Of a boy who lay SIX days
and nights beside dead body, without being
able to procure assistance for its removal, and
when the last farthing candle went out, the
rats commenced to eat the decomposing body.
The employment furnished by government
scarcely saves the laborers from famine. By
dav the hungry wretches steal turnips from
the fields and gnaw them in their flight. At
night fall they prowl through the pasture lands
and slaughter sheep and oxen to stay their
hunger. A private letter gives an account of
the fTight to England of an Irish landlord with
all his movable property.
These are only few of the thousand cases
reported in the Irish paper. We could fill
our columns for days with these details from
various parts of Ireland and the highlands of
Scotland.
The New York Sun complies the above,
1t is gratifying to perceive the disposition
of the philanthropic portion Of the American
people, to contribute for the alienation OF
the starving poor across the water. Some
$4,000 900 has already been raised for them.
Let the work 90 on.
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FORGIVE AND FORGET.

When streams of unkndness as bitter as gall
Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,
And meekness is wrthing in torment and thrall,
BY the hands of ingratidude wrung-
In the heat Of injustice, unwept and unfair,
While the anguish is fostering yet,
None, none but an angel of God can declare
81 now can forgive and forget"
But, if the bad spirit is chased from the heart,
And the lips are in pcnitence stepped,
With the wrong so repcnted the wrath will depart,
Though scorn OH in Justice were heaped
For the best compensation is paid for all i'll,
When the cheek with contrition is wet,
And every one feels it is possible still,
AT once to forgive and forget.
Toforget? 1t is hard for man with a mind,
However his heart may forgive,
To blot ont all perils and dangers behind,
And but for the future to live;
Then how shall it be ? for at every turn
Recollection the spirit will fret,
And the ashes of injury shoulder and burn,
Though we strive to forgive and forget.
Oh, hearken my tongue shall the riddle unseal,
And mind shall be partner with heart,
While thee to thyself bad conscience reveal,
And show thee how evil thou art
Remember thy foles thy sins, and thy--crimes
How vast is that infinite debt!
Yet mercy hath seven by seventy times
Been swift to forgive and forget.
Brood not on insults or injuries old,
For thou art INJURIOUS too
Count not the sum till the total is told,
For thou art unknd and untrue;
And if all thy harms are forgotten, forgiven,
Now mercy with justice is metz
Oh, who would not gladly take lessons Of Heaven,
Nor learn to forgive and forget?
Yes, yes, let man when his enemy weeps,
Be quick to receive him friend;
For thus on his head in kindness he heaps
Hot coas--to refine and amend;
And hearts that are christian more eagerly yearn,
AS a nurse on her innocent pet,
Over lips that once bitter to penitence turn,
And whisper forgive and forget Topper
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SINGULAR. On the 10th inst Mrs. Chase
wife Of Mr.. Jonathan Chase, of Jay, i'll this
county, gave birth to three children, two boys
and girl. The boys were connected by a
ligaturG Or belt, resembling the description Of
that which conneqta he famous Siamese twins.
The point of connection # the aesl!tt; was lit
tie on one side of each, and extended from JIG L
abdomen up on to the chest, so that had these
children survived, and attained the use of
their limbs, they might probably have walked
abreast. The boys were stll-born; the girl
survived about one hour. The mother was
doing we'll Ycoman'S Record,
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-02-11

CAPITAL DEVICE. There is fashionable
dry goods store in Broadway, New York, the
owner of which is unfortunate, and his credi-
tors leave him to sell his stock at fixed prices
He closes his windows but it is buzzed about
that he is selling off cheaply, that the whole
world conidentally rap at his door and enter,
the gas is lit up in the store, and he gets as
good price, and sells more than he did with
open doors.
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BRANDON, Thursday February II, 1917.

before me, land his words of rebuke and warn
ing, the utterance of a spirit elevated above
the mlry ways of party politics, and undis-
turbed by the eXhalatuns arising from world
ly things, sound in my ear like those of Il
prophet risen from the dead
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-02-11

COOP. A Savings Bank bill for Newark is
before the n j. Legislature, and contains a
provision that a married women may deposit
her own earnings, or any money received
from others than her huband, which shall be
clear from her husbands creditors.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-02-11

SPIRITUAL DYSPEPSIA This is in some
places prevailing disease. Allow me in a
word to point out its cause, signs and RENE.
dy. 1t is caused by want Of active spiritu-
al exercise adequate to digest the amount of
instruction received. Those afflicted by it
listen to great deal of preaching, but they
do not obey. They are hearers of the word,
and not doors. 1t is indicated by great fas-
tidiousness of appetite They can eat moth
ing unless it is that which is prepared solely
to crafty the palate. Every dish must be Of
the incest kind, or their stomachs nauseate it.
Every sermon must be as spruce, as neat, as
beautiful, as the choicest words or the flowers
of rhetoric can possibly make it, or it disgusts
them. The remedy, as well as the prevent
i've is, to eat plain food and go to work. Be
content to have plain preaching, and practice
what you hear, "being doors Of the word
and not hearers only."--Morning Star.
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TERMS OF ADVERTISING

Legal advertising to be charged atlegal rates
Outstanding NOTICE. Postmasters officially bound
to notify Publishers Of papers of wish the part of
subscribers to discontinue their papers Those subscr
bers therefore who tax postage such notices will
be charged the amount in account for the Voice Of
Freedom.
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Allow me in conclusion, to recapitulate the
thus hastily reviewed.

I Allow me in conclusion, to recapitulate the
imperfectons thus hastily reviewed.
/. In hography-ignorancc of the true
method of teaching it words written incor-
rectly.
2. In Notwithstanding ofthe rules
but failure in application.
3. Use of capitals-same defects as in
punctuation.
N b. The above difficulties result chiefly
from want of practice.
Reading-heavy; devoid of life and
spirit deficiency in emphasis; undue emphasis
on propositions and pronouns; neglect of paus-
es all the result of the want of attention to
the sense when first taught to read.
5. Writing-illegiblity, particularly in
figures and proper names; too sparse and
too many tlouriShes, both of which diminish
legibiiity.
| g. acknowledgements of principles;
implicit reliance on artificial rules.
Z. Geography-ignorance Of the mathe-
NAUTICAL part OF the science.
8. Grammar-too exclusive attention to
parsng words, to the neglect of the more Inn
portant part of the science.
Thomas H. PALMER.
Sup't of Schools for Rutland Co.
P. S. Any of the following publications
would be useful to the teacher. A list of
books on education will be furnished hereaf-
ter.
l. The Common School Journal edited by
Horace Mann, published semi-monthly in
Boston, at S per annum.
2. The District School journal, published
at Albany, at so cents per annum.
The Teachers Advocate published
weekly in Syracuse, N. Y, at 50 per annum.
4. The Common School Journal of the State
of Pennsylvania, published monthly in Phila-
delphia, at 81 per annum.
A Coon ONE. One Mr. Patrick T. was
annoyed exceedingly by Il strange dog-as
Colerdge says a harmless dog-who invaded
his domlrl, made distractions from his cellar,
and was very much IN his way in the kitchen.
On cold winter night the wind cutting like
Il knife, and the snow frozen so as to burn
like carbonic acid gas frozen, after the dog
had been turned out Of doors no less than
three times, and requested to 90 to "A warmer
place unmentonabe, Pat was awakened out of
warm and comfortable sleep by the noise
of rather an extensive fracture of glass. The
dog was in the house again. Patrick waited
him out, and both were absent some fifteen
minutes, so that Mrs. Patrick f. becoming
surprised if not alarmed at such prolonged
absence, arose and went to the window
From her point of observation, she saw in
the clear moonlight her lord standing in nat
uralibus, barring the shirt, and the wind max
ing free with that, as of course it would at the
northeast corner of the house. The dog
seemed sustained on {" his last legs''--his
fore legs forming two sides of an accute TRAN
gle.
"What can you be doing there, Patrick ?"
There was such chattcring of teeth that
the answer for some time was somewhat I'M
inteligibe-at Last it came
81 am trying to traze the develish haste to
DEATH"
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-02-11

Washington Irving is about putting to pTfss
a complete edition Of bis works,
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-02-11

In SCHOOL. Glass twenty-three, como up
and do your lesson. What is the use Of
geography"
"To tell where Gen. Taylor licked the
Mexicans, sir"
"What is the use ofgrammar
"To tell when gals is Of the feminine gem
der, sir"
"What is the use of mathematics ?"
"Matty Mattocks, sir? His mother says
he is of use to keep bread from moulding|
"Thats right You may go out now"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-05-14
BT AUTHORITY.
Laws Of the United States, Passed at ths
second Session OF the 29th Congress-
1PUBuc-No. 3s.

AN AOF relinqusIng the city OF M on. ~ tg
state Of Indiana all the right and title OF .he uhl!en
States TO. a certain Strip of unsurFyeo taho yine
within the limits of said city, and bordering on the "
TSEe. IL Be 1t enacted By The Senate ana
HS.se of ReoresentatiUeS Of the United States O
A,ueric9 in Congress assembled, That all the
right, title, and interest of the United States in
and TO all that unsurveyed strip or parcel oil
land lying and being in the county of Jetter-
son, and State of Indiana, bounded as follows
viz Beginning at the southeast corner OF 1rac-
tional section number one; thence westWardly
along the south line of fractional sections one
two, and three, all in township three north
of range /" ten" east, until said line strikes the
southwest corner of said fractional section
numbered 'sthree :" thence from the cornel
last mentioned, due south, to low-water marx
on the Ohio river; thence east~ardly, up ant
following the meanderings of the river at low
water mark, to point directly opposite tn,
southeast corner of said fractional section
numbered one; thence north, from the poin
last aforesaid, to the place of beginning of tn
lands, lying and being in the JeHersonvill
land district, be. and the same is hereby, yes
ted in the city of Madison, for the sole us
and benefit of said city.
JOHN w. DAVIS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
G. VI. DALLAS.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
Approved, March 8, IS17.
JAMES X. POLK.
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the enemy's batteries the word was do,cn. ?
and every man would fall flat. Two shells
exploded within twenty-five feet OF us, blow
ing up 100 pounds of our powder, knocked
our provisions and water about, took out
piece of Lieut.. Fraily's hat, and never injured
a man.
Tomorrow we bury poor Tom Shubrick.
How deeply we all deplore his loss! A bet
ter messmate never had. He had strong
presentiment that he should be shot, and left
a letter directed thus: &c To be opened should |
be among the missing" ! opened it in the
presence of Capt. Mayo and others. 1t stated
his desire TO have all his things sent to Mid
shipman Scott, and contained lock of haiI
for his mother and others, and ring to S
Capt Mckenzie has made arrangements fol-
the proper disposition OF his effects, and has
written beautiful letter to his father. hope
we shall raise by subscription handsome
sum to erect monument to his memory in
Washington.
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TPUBLIC-NO. 42.1
AN ACT providing for the building and equipment

AN ACT providing for the building and equipment of
four naval steamships.
[SEC. IL Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the United States
q An,er'ca IN Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be, and he is
hereby, authorized to cause to be built and
equipped four first-class sea-going steamships,
to be attached to the navy of the United States,
and that one million of dollars be, and is here
by appropriated for that purpose, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
from and Immediately after the passage of this
act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
Navy to accept, on the part of the government
OF he United States, the proposals of E. K.
Collins and his associates, of the city of New
York, submitted to the Postmaster General,
and dated Washington, March sixth, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, for the transportation
of the United States mail between New York
and Liverpool, and to contract with the said
E. K. Collins and his associates for the faith
full fulhlmen! of the stipulations therein con-
tanned, and in accordance with the provisions
! of this act
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PATENT .MEDfCE.v'ES.

TENHE subscriber is agent, and has for sale, the
"a following PATENT MEDICINES, to
which the attention Of the public is especially d.
rected, as he warrants every article genuine.
DR. Swayne's Compound Syrup Wild Cherry,
Wistar's Palsam do.
DR.. Jaynes' Expectorant,
Carminative Balsam,
Vermifuge,
" Is Hair Tonic,
{" Sanative Pills,
DR. Woods Sarsaparilla and Wild Cherry Bitters,
Carpenters Compound Fluid Extract Sarsaparil-
Extract Cnchonine, la, &C.,
Buchu,
Sands Sarsaparilla.
letter Remedy,
DIR. McMunn's Elixir Opium,
Dr. Perry's Dead Shot Vermifuge,
Mohat's Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters,
Dr. Smiths Whooping Cough Syrup,
Upham's Pile Electuary,
Henry's Magnesa, Leidy's Blood Pills,
Murray's fluid do. Gray's Ointment
Lees, Peters, Be ,kwith's, Brandreth's. & Spen-
Dl. Thompson's Eye Water, [cer's Pills.
Cheeseman's Arabian Balsam,
Taylor's Basam Liverwort,
Swams and Indian Panacea,
Rowand's Improved Tonic Mixture,
Scarpa's Acoustic Oil. certain cure for deafness
Aliens Vegetable Compound for Dyspepsia,
Harlem Oil, Pain Killer, British Oil, Bateman's
Drops, &c. &c. VIM. SHAW.
January Is, lS47.
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GE OF 1T Z NG1

as can be found in the market. AS they were
manufactured under my own superintendent, anC
every garment sell warrent to give satisfaction
or it may be returned and the money refunded.
consider that good business can only be estab
lished by giving all satisfaction, which I am deter
mined to do Ifyou favor me with call | will
thank you whether you purchase not, at my old
stand on Market street.
The above Goods will be sold lower than have
ever been offered before for cash, or on time tc
punctual customers. CHAS. BARR.
Oct. 23d, 1916.
N. B.-I shall in future settle my business ev
cry six months: say, the lst of January and the
l st of July, and will expect punctuality in pay
ments. | will also make deduction of six pei
cent, for cash, for all sums over $40.
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[PuBLIC-No. 4O.l

AN ACT creating collection district in Maine, and
constituting Bangor in said district, porI of entry
aud delivery.
[SEo. III Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States
of imericG an Congress assembled, That the
counties of Penobscot and Piscataquis, and
the town of Frankfort, in the county OF Wal
do, be, and they are, hereby created collec-
ton district, which shall be known and called
the district of Bangor; and Bangor, within
said county of Penobscot, is hereby made a
oport of entry and delivery for said district.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That
there shall be collector of customs ap-
pointed for said district, together with such
other officers as are provided for by law and
the compensation of said collector shall be
such fees and commissions as he by law may
be entitled to.
Sec. 3. Ind be it further enacted, That
Frankfort, in the county of Waldo, shall form
part of said district of Bangor, in the same
manner that it now forms part of the dis
trict of Belfast; and there shall be a deputy
collector at Frankfort, as is now provided by
law, who shall perform all the duties, and ex-
ercse all the powers, in the same manner as
the same were performed and exercised wher
Frankfort constituted part OF the district o.
Belfast.
Approved, March 3, 1847.
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DRY GOODS,

Mostly ofdomestic manufacture, purchased low
and for sale accordingly, in part as follows:
Kentucky Jeans, Negro Cloths, Bed Tick, Cot
ton Duck, brown Drill, do. and bieached Shirtings
and Sheetings, white, red and yellow Flannels,
Ravens and Bear Duck; splendid lot of Calicoes,
Satinets. wool Plaids, cotton and silk Handker-
chiefs. Cambria, Suspenders, Gambroons. cotton
and linen Thread, Buttons, Tape, Sewing Silk,
&c. &c. For sale at STANTON g. Cos.
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TPuBLIC-No. 39.1

AN ACT to amend an act entitled act to raise for a
limited time an additional military force and for 9TH
or purposes.
(SEc. IL Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States
of AiaeTica IN Congress assembled, That un-
der the provisions of the ninth section of the
act approved February eleventh, eighteen
hundred and forty seven, entitled An act to
raise for a limited time an additional military
force, and for other purposes, it shall be the
duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
Treasury scrip therein provided, on the certif-
cate of the Secretary of War, showing the
claimant entitled thereto, and not otherwise
and that the stock thus issued shall bear inte-
test from the day of presenting to the Treasu-
ny Department such certificate of the Secreta-
cry Of War in due form, and the interest there
on shall be payable on the first days of !anu-
ry and July in each year, and shall be trans
ferabIe on the books of the Treasury Depart
nfent kept in the Registers office. Such GER
tifcates of stock shall be signed by the Regis
ter of the Treasury, under the direction Of the
Secretary, whb shall cause the seal of the De-
partment to be affixed thereto and no other
signature shall be required to said stock
Approved, March 3, l847.
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Backsnlithing!

HVHE subscriber respectfully informs the cit
IL liens of Wilmington and the surrounding
country. that he is prepared to have executed, with
neatness Il dispatch, all kinds of Smith work. which
may be wanted viz: Plouahs, Axes, Hoes, Round
SLAVES, Scraping Irons. ship, Carriage, Wagon
and Dray Ironing, &c &c.
Horses will be shod at short notice, in the neS'
est and most substantial manner.
L. HOLMES.
March, IL, ls47 26-6m'
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STATE CT NoRTE-cARoL1NA,


Superior Court Of Law-Sp:ing Term, A. D.,
Eliza E. De Shields
VS. Petition for Divorce.
Martin A. De SHEDS
SIT appearing to the satisfaction ofthe Court
- that the defendant is no, an inhabitant of this
State, on motion, it is ordered that publication be
made for three months in the Wilmington Chroni-
cle and Wilmington Journal, notifying the said
Martin De Shields to appear at the next term
of this Court, at the Court House in WhteviIle,
on the third Monday after the fourth Monday in
September next, and Plead answer or demur to
to said petition, the will be taken pro CT ~
ESQ and heard erparts.
Teste, JOHN A. MAULTSBY, Clerk.
April 18th, ls47 Printers fee $40 3L-3m
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LIST OF BLANKS

AN HAND, and for sale at the
~ JOURNAL OFFICE.
County and Sup. Court Writs
do do Subpenas
do do Fl. Fas.
County Court Scire Facias
Apprentices Indentures
Letters ofAdministrators Appeal Bonds
Jurors Tickets Marriage License
Peace warrants Guardian Bonds
Constable's bonds Administrators DO
Notes of hand Military Ca sas
Checks, Cape Fear Bank Land Deeds
do Branch Bank efthe Negro Bonds
State Warrants. Ca Sas
Notes, negotiable at hank Ca Sa bonds
Inspectors Certificates Bills Sale. Negro
Certificates of Justices attending Court
hipping Papers Bills Lading Qettc')
O5Any blank wanted and not on hand will be
printed with the utmost despatch.
OfOfficers of the Courts and other officers, and
all other persons, requiring blanks, any other
work in the printing line would do well to give US
a call, or send in their orders. We are deermn'
ed to execute our work we'll, and at the cheapest
rates for cash. Call at the JOURNAL OFFICE
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TO THE PUBLIC:
Summer Advancement.

wNE will deliver ICE from the Ice House, in
wv future every morning Except Sunday from
sun rise till breakfast bei. 1t will also be retaiIed
from
Shaw's Drug Store at all hours of the day.
We will open every Saturday afternoon for two
hours before sunset to supply our customers for
the Sabbath.
In cases of sickness during the summer,
can be had on Sundays at any hour the night
by calling on w. Shaw, at his house nearly OPP
posite Mr.. O. &. Parsley's. Thankful for past
favors, we beg to assure the public we will use
our best endeavorse to accommodate and keep a
good supply on hand.
SHAW & REPITON.
April 10th, 1s47 Stiff