Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-02-18
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

We make the following extracts from an Ad.
dress put forth ly amee,ing lately held in the city
of Washington:
In the province of Cunnaught ''there were forty
seven deaths 10y starvation in one week. In the
TWINS of Skibbeieen, Ballydchah, Scun. Castle
haven, Cas,leIown, and other Places ten or fifteen
funerals day are commCn,and collections are made
in the churches to provide collins for the destitute.
letter from the county Of Mayo says:
The scenes described are as horrible as any re-
lated at beleaguered cities. Men are not unfre-
'quenry IT Is stated, found dead i'm the bitches bv
the way side. Some are SO changed as not TO be re-
'cognized by their friends; their looks wofish and
glarng as madmen; without clothes or food of
any kind, they roam about in search If food till
death seals their misery
The Cork ETGminer contains letter signed ~
Nj. Cummins. j. r., Ann-mUunl, Cork, addressed
10 the Duke Of Wellington. Here is AN extract:
" went On the 18th instant to Skbbercen, and to
| give the instance Of one townland which visited
as an example Of the state of the entire cuast district
81 s. al state simply what saw there. It's sit aled
IN The eastern sidcof Casehaven ha Dor anu is an
cd Suuth Reen. in the parish of Mynss Being
aware that should have 10 witness scenes OF
| 'irighifu hunger provided myself with as much
bread rs five n~ncould carry, and ON reaching the
spot was surprised TO find the wrc,cled hamlet
apparently deserted. entered some Of The novels
10 ascertain the cause. and the scenes ihas present.
ed themselves were such as no tongue or pen can
convey the slightest idea o. In the first SIX IA
mished and CHASTITY Skeletons 10 all appearance
dead, We're huddled in corner on some filthy
| straw, their sole covering what seemed n raured
horsc-coth. approached in horror and found bv
by low meaning, they were alive: they wore
I'm lever, four children, woman, and what had
ohce been n man. 1t is impossible to 90 THROUGH
the detail suffice it 10 say, that few minutes
was surrounded by at least two hundred of such
phantoms, such irighfu spectns as no words can
deScn6e. BY Far the greater number were deri-
Gus, either from famine or from fever. Their dc
moniac yeils are still IN my ears, and their horri-
hle images are fixed upon my BRAIN
There Is an affecting letter from the women OF
IJWmmanWay, IN the county Of Cork, addressed IN
the ladies Of America and we are sure that
Their appeal will not be in vain. ''Oh that our
American s;sicTs,' they say, could see the Ia
oorors ON Our roads, atlc-bcded men, scarcely
clad, furnishing with hunger, with DESPAIR inther
once cheerful faces, staggering al Their work, vet
striving 10 earn The ,nea which is to keep life in
them ~ earn another; tor probably having tasted
no food since The day lefyrc--Uh! that they could
see the fever and famine stricken family, iuddled
together tn their bundle Of damp SHAW with one
or more corpscs among ihem which the survivors
have not strength 10 drag from beside them--ohI
thar they could see the dead father mother or child
lying cuiilnlcsS, and hear the screams Of the survj-
voTs around them, caused ret lay sorrow hut by
The agony OF hunger, they whose hands and hearts
are ever open 10 compassion would unite in one
mighty effort to save Ireland from such misery