Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-25

Maan Turk and the Halfway House. The
people are every where in despair, and the
country presents one unvarying scene of neg
lect. They are thinking OF nothing but try
ing to grow another oat crop, if they can, for
even potatoes are out of the question. rea
soned with them as well as could, but what
could do with poor creatures of the kind,
vino have nothing in the world 10 exist upon?
They have nothing TO support them, nor 10
provide for the future"
Destikution--D eath--The most awful
deslitutlon prevails in and about Cllfden, and
many deaths have taken place from want oil
food One Of the ffighlful acts to which man
may be driven by hunger and disappointment
occur ed in Connemara few days since
II appears that OF the applicants Tor food at
relieving. officers depot in that district many
hungry poor creatures had 10 depart without
receiving any assistance, while some few did
poor boy, who had received about stone
of meal, while on his way home, was joine d
by one of The men who had been dsappon-
ted in his hope OF receiving some food for
his starving family; and he murdered the IN
fortunate boy in order to possess himself of
the stone of meal An inquest was held and
a verdict returned accordingly. Pestilence
is making dreadful havoc in this poor neg
lecled district. In one village where there
were over one hundred and forty inhabitants
only three now survive! Is coercion bill
The only remedy vigilant or wise Govern
meni can provide for such state of misery
So echoes all English Parliamen t.-Inam
Herald
Horrible State of the Poorhouse in the
IScarif Union.-Between Scarf and Toom
grany there are eight warehouses;, which
might be better designated slaughterhonses
They are crammed to suf1ocation, four IN fe
yer in one bed! The healthy man is com
PEELED to sleep with The fever patient, and
the beds are literarily heaps of MANURE
There is scarcely any attendance. The doc
tor says he has no medicine. The best o
nnrse-tenders are only paid Is. per day with
OUT food, and how can they be expected IL
| be efficient? In one of these houses there
are eighty-iwo in foyer, sixly-four in aUoth
er, aud in Two others one hundred aud thirty
Ia one of them the Rev. Mr.. M'Quade, P
i p, fom whom we have learned these horri
BILE facts, found putrefyng corpse lying IN
washed on lbe floor, where it had been 70
several hours, and in the same room with The
patients.
In Dark Island, too, has the work of exter
mination been carried on. A number of poo
| families were evicted and their cabins RACED
| Mr.. Lloyd, the landlord, has attempted t.
throw the blame on his bailiff, Browne, but i
will not do.
At Kildysart, in the county of Limerick, The
survivors cannot procure the collins for tx
dead.
Ev1cTIoNs-LIsmoRE.- Rev. Dr. Forge
ry, in acknowledging the receipt of subscrip
tions through Rev. w. J. Sheehan, OF st. Chad's
Manchester, observes .sNo language of mine
! can convey to you an adequate idea of the ex
cessive wants OF my poor people. Their pri
yations are really awful. Deaths occur daily
from starvation in every quarter of my parish
i No in or outdoor relief is sufficient to ares
the fearful progress of the calamity. Beside
| have certain landlords in my parish who are
utterly regardless of the deplorable condition
of their furnishing tenants. They have levelee
their cabins, and evicted them from lands
which they had reclaimed and cultivated TO
several years, and at the end received no con
sideration after years of toll and labor. Mum
bers of those poor creatures who were thu
cruelty exterminated, are now living in hut
erected by them on the road side, the victims
of famine and of fever Hundreds of then
have persisted in these parishes during the las
two years. The monstrous conduct of th,
landlords here, and in every other localit,
throughout the country has considerably added
to the extreme mass of human misery > Wa
terford Chronicle.
!, More EvIcTIoNs.-A correspondent of tn
Cork Examiner states that Mr.. Longfield, Q
Castlemony has elected 70 families within thu
las. few months, from his estate between
Cloyne and Ballycotton. The houses are lev
eled, and the lands remain uncutivated. Their
} is famine in the land. What wonder?
i The Galway Mercury says that in Clare, ma
: ny deaths taking place from Starvation
Bodies remain unburied for days for want O
collins The clergy are exhausted with appli
cations to bury these victims of English mis-
, rule.
PREPARArIoNs.-We understand, says tn
Dundalk Patriot, that the people are serious
engaged, both in this and the adjoining coun
ties, in furnishing themselves with arms fo
! self-defence. Rifles and muskets, we are in
q formed are to be found in both town and coun
try, in large quantities. That terrible wea POI
in the hands of an Irishman-the pike-is be
, ing manufactured in thousanGs-forks, th
prongs shaped like bayonet, are in great re
QUESTION. Certain it is, that smiths in al
: quarters are working double time, and the an
VII anu SiedSe are meeting eacn otner Twice
! often as they have ever done before, in tn
5 manufacture of pixies. This isas it should be
r There is no concealing the fact that the peopl
are coolly and quietly preparing to resist an
: attack on their rights Go where you will
and hardly anything ia spoken but the cali
resoIute movement in which they are engaged
r There is no alarm-no inegularty-no terro
S for all are in earnest, and seem ready; whe
y the time arrives, to face danger and death il
defence of life and porperty and the rights c
their country. Such is the feeling among tn
rural population. They are certain of success
, They contrast their present sober habits will
those OF former times, when drunkenness mad
the people an easy prey TO their opponents
q They assert that lrishmen will nevera again com
nit such mistakes as before, and that the mex
il battle in which they are engaged will result il
A their total destruction or the establishment O
their rights. Such are the views of the coun
try people. In the towns we haze learne,
that the different trades are procuring arms
and that each trade will organise itself Flo
instance, we understand that the shoemaker
are afming themselves as distinct body, an
u also the masons. tailors, carpenters, &c
/, Whsn lhps Organized, they state that the trade
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