The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-06-02
Ireland.

DEsTrrUTIoN--Death.--Th most awful desti-
tuition prevails in and about Clifdcn, and many
deaths have taken place from want Of food
One Of the frightful acts to which man may be
driven by hunger and disappointment occurred
in Connemara a few days since. 1t appears
that Of the applicants for food at a relieving
officers depot in that district, many hungry,
poor creatures had to depart without receiving
any assistance, while some few did. A poor
boy who had received about a stone of meal,
while on his way home was joined by one OF
the men who had been disappointed in his hope
of receiving some food for his starving family,
and he murdered the unfortunate boy in order
to possess himself of the stone OF meal! An
inquest was held, and a verdict returned ac-
cordlngly. Pestilence is making dreadful
havoc in this poor, neglected district In one
village where there were over one hundred and
forty inhabitants, only three now survive! Is
q coercion bill the only remedy a vigllant or
wise Government can provide for such a state
of want and misery? So echoes an English
Parliament.-IuGn Herald.
Horrible State of the Roor-House in the Scar
if U~aion.--Between Scariff ami Toomgrany
there are eight warehouses, which might be
better designated slaughter-houses They are
crammed to suffocation--four in fever in one
bed! The healthy man is compelled 10 sleep
with the fever patient, and the beds are literally
heaps Of manure. There is scarcely any at
tendance. The doctor says he has no medicine
The best Of nurse-tenders are only paid Is.
per day without food, and how can they be
expected to be efficient? In one Ell these
houses there are eighty-two in fever, slxty-tour
in another--and in two others one hundred
and thirty. In one Of them. the Rev. MI
M'Quade, p. p, from whom we have learned
these horrible facts, found q PURIFYING corpse
living unwashed on the floor, whereit had been
for several hours, and in the same room with
the patients. In these slaughter-hoases thirty
died in the three days previous to MI M
Quade's visit last week--so that ten per day Is
the average mortality! Even during the chol'
era the poor people were not treated 50 badly
as this. Yet what is the fact? Why, that in
that Union the rate-payers are paying g. 90
in the pound! Such is the state Of misery o.
this district.-Limertck Reporter.
In Dark Island, too, has the work Of exter'
minaiion been carried on. A number OF poo
families were evicted and their cabins razed
MI. Lloyd, the landlord, has attempted tc
throw the blame on his baillf, Browne, but |
. will not do.
AT Kildysart, in the county Of Limerick
the survivors cannot procure collins Tor tn
: dead.
' EvtetiOns-Lismore.--The Rev. DR.. Forgar
/ ty, in acknowledging the receipt OF sDbscrlP
s tons through Rev. W. J. sheehan' OF 81
Cloud, Manchester, observes: mo longuag
b of mine can convey to you an adequate idea Q
the excessive wants Of my poor people Ihel
e privations are really awful. Deaths occu
n daily from starvation in every quarter OF m
d parish. No in or outdoor %reliefis sufficient
arrest the fearful progress OF the calamlt.
a Besides, | have certain landlords in my paris
i who are utterly regardless OF the dePloraO