The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-05-11

you VIII be obliged 10 dismiss that
womuD, she does her work so badly"
said Capt. II. To the steward Of the Sail
or's Home, one day.
IL suPPos | shall" answered the
steward, Il took her iu from PITY"
From pityl Who is she, aud what is
she?"
"She is poor woman. Just arrived in
this Country; her husband died a few
months ago, and left her widow with
six young children. She has left them IN
Ireland, and come over here to find en-
.Ployment to earn enough. if possible, to
bring them over; such is her story, and
she seems honest enough"
"Well, show her how 10 do her work
and keep her awhile. ill we know more
about her"
She was modest. diffident, and retiring,
little disposed TO be communicative, and
with little appearance Of energy ofchar.
acter. -.
You have left your children in Ire
land, ! understand" said the Captain ap.
preaching her
IL have all Of them. the dear ones"
Chow old are rheyl"
The Oldest little girl was thirteen and
a half when | left her in care of them all,
and the youngest. sweet one, was a little
more than two"
How long since your husband died;
and how have YOU supported them since'
My husband died about four months
before ! left Ireland. poor man, aud left
us in a little cottage and not half of a
quarter acre of land; aud the rent was
twenty-five shilings year. put into
it potatoes and garden vegetables for the
support Of the children; but that was lii.
tie. you see sir, after paying the rent
| thought | should be obliged to take
them to the poor hoIse; so says what |
thought to the children; but JOHNNY says
TO me-that is the second one, dear boy.
"Oh dear mother, do not send US To the
poor house, for ye see that they will Dot
let you come with US, and we shall be
|seperated from you; and the white swell
ing is there, and many ofthe children die:
but do dear mother leave us here to get
along as well as we can, while you 90 to
America. and it may be mother, with the
blessing of God, ye may be able to fetch
us all over at last, ift be but only one at
a time" And SO the child was teasing
L.e day and night to come to America: so
| wrote letter to my two sisters in New
York, the one at service, the other mar
ried, for the loan ofa few pounds to fetch
me over; and they sent me six pounds;
and l left the younger children asleep
when l came away, for | knew sir. if
parted from them awake, they would cry
SO after me, it would break my poor
heart" .r
The Irish mother ioiled on, after this
conversation for weeks and even months
doing her work better and better, remit.
ting every cent other wages, often in ad-
vance, TO her children, and receiving in
return from them. letters, from which we
give few extracts: ,
"Dear Mother:-Soon after you left us
the landlord, seeing we could not pay
the rent, took the best bed, and the bed
stead, and the table and the chairs, and
left US only the blankets and the straw on
the ground; but i hope you will return
him thanks, land his family, in your ne xt
letter, for giving the house gratis to US,
this present year."
W" Z" Dear Mother:-The price
of meal here is one shilling and six pence
the worst of -four the same; in regard to
the prices being so high that we deferred
to pay their demands for rent, &c, which
you had mentioned in your letter, unit
the next time you write. Catharin,
bought no shoes since you left home, il
like manner, she wonld Udat to buy
some clothes for the children. Dea
mother. hope you will send for myself
that is Johny, as soon as you can, yot
think l would be any benefit to you there.
i The mother, with her Irish heart al
most crushed with the thought, that al
though nearly year had passed not
dollar had been saved to pay the passag,
money of the first child, was about respl
wing TO GO back and starve with her chill
dreh in Ireland. But by good provi
dence, she was in the Sailors home-hei
case reached the ears of sailors. The
distance from a sailors ear TO his heart i,
short; from his heart to his pocket shor
ter. A subscription was started a
mong the boarders aud raised at once six
ty dollars; increased few days after
wards, by another set of boarders, to ont
hundred dollars; aud by loan from he
relatives. aud an advance of wages To on,
hundred and forty dollars; sufficient tt
provision and pay the passage of The
whole six. y.- '-
The second Sabbath in November, il
: the morning, one of the runners of The
house made his appearance before the
door with six thnly clad, bare headed ,ant
bare footed Irish children. The meetin.
of mother and children was ameeting o
Irish hearts; they laughed and cried al
at once, and all together. The first burS
of Joy over, Crolon wafer and hair brush
did all that mothers ingenuity could d,
to improve the condition and the appear
ance of the young voyagers. At even
ing she might be seen in her little room
by cheerful light, and with mor'
cheerful heart, gazing iuto the face o
one and then anothel IF her sleeping chill
dren, as they lay in pairs in different part
off The room.