The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-20
Prise 1--WE Gems.
Galway Industrial ssosl>ty.


DEAR SrR IL have the pleasure to acknowisdg a the
receipt Of your letters Of the 3lst alt and 10th uus
the latter enclosing your draft for {, in aid this
To yourself the noble hearted generous friends
who have humaney exerted Themselves on our be
half cannot sufficiently express the sratitud feel
not for this remittance alone but for all they have hi
therto done for this unh.ppy country Bssy me- sir
with their lives the gratitude they owe to the United
States.
You will see, by the accompanying copy Of the Gal
.cay ator 23d June that have already afford
ed considerable relief to this nsishborhood,
IL Ii really awful to the erness With which our
poor Cths lazy IrishD grasp at any means Of earning
hapenny for instances we have already pure hased 1000
are made about Moycuin' Ross and Oushtsr ard from
Ave to fifteen miles from this The material for pair
Of stockings will cost Cd and at least four days wn be
spent in dyeing carding spinnin and Knitting &c &c
After this and walk oftwenty or thirty miles one sh
ling for the stockings will bring hundreds Of blsssngs
with such work for sale you would know the luxury OF
living In country where industry does not die OF star
walton.
The New Relief Act in operation, gives fourteen
ounces OF food to each grown person. per diem Just
mpracticabe to work; add this that 1t Is generally
given out cooked, almost to dysentery 1t
there at this moment than 500 900 personsn
Ireland whose constitutions have been weakened by
famine that all that wealth or art could do, would not
Keep them alive for another year but perhaps the best
proof OF our condition. Is sunday last at o'clock
when walking from the goal to Newcastle dead
boy on the side OF the road who had been there
for some days, and last evening taking the walk
counted six persons lying the stones by the side Of
seemed to notice them. the sight is common
Will you have the kindness to thank the edcr ~ the
NeW York Herald for his eloquent notice Of Thu eoey
am happy to say that at present there % b.
every likelihood of being able to establish here
extensive export knit stocking trade. thus sordpg
ployment to many thousands Of poor females but
there is another class to whom this society affords asss
lance who perhaps greater objects Of pity than the
inmates Of the most wreched novels ladies' by
birth and education who, heretofore enabled to
support themselves respectfully a small sum- which
they received either interest money rent charge &c
&C. and the ready hospitality OF their country friends
All these have failed and these ladies' too proud to
beg place their the relief lists, starve In
cret many Of them deriving their chief support from
knitting collars, socks cuffs, Nc OF thread; lone OF
which, collar, enclose rs specimenl DO you think
would be able to sell such articles in New York!
Your kind suggestion, as to opening chop In New
York for the sale of manufactures is Of the greatest
Importance, and would enable II successful to en-
large operations here to almost any extent for We
intend that every thing sold by shall be good Of ts
not refer TO such articles the enclosed which
only derive value from fashion II, upon seeing our
goods you consider such shop of advantage, would
meet the warmest approval Of our committee.
win yoa have the kindness to give the most sincere
thanks OF this committee to Messrs Fowler, Kelley and
Barclay for the active part they have taken In relief OF
our distress. The only return We make for their
generosity is to take proper Of the funds with which
entrusted and this will do to the best Of our
ability.
will publish their names as our New York Commit
tee and hope shortly to be able to form committees In
other parts of the States as have received per VIM
Rathbone, Esq, of Liverpool f70 from Rev. Dr. Way
land Providence, r. l., and $50 from Augusta Georgia,
per W. J. Allen Esq Belfast, being part Of the funds
entrusted to those gentlemen for distribution also,
donation of EGO from Lady Noel Byron
Apoogsng for this rambling letter In which, fear,
have omitted fifty things ought to mention, and only
Offering excuse that 1t is three O'Clock A. M
and that have for this days mail six other letters to
write 'S"'n y HENR IS'i BARRY HYDE secretary
| To DUDLEY fERssr, Esq. New York