The Arkansas banner., 1849-06-12
Unparalleled Mlserv ir I,eI.,a

The Dublin Freeman's Journal thus writes; Tuesday night We took np tho evening papers and said, hese at least tho cry of death will not meet al every line. We were mistaken h p,ns stlll the same. The vail of the destitute poor was taken mn by the conservative Packet. and flung among our rulers with vigorous and trWlhful eloqnence which few could command. The first thing that met our eyes in that journal, true to the cause of suffer- ing humanity, this:
 Doom ot the Mere Irish .''-We feel it is not necessary to utter one syllable Of comment when introducing the following letter to our readers. It has been communicated to usby highly intelligent gentleman, who would be incapable of cxagger8teu, and the fruits of whose talent and learang have frequently delighted and instructed our readers.
 There are some facts simply stated in this letter that are terribly suggestive of the state to which our peasantry are reduced -our once happy. light hearted peasaniry. The children fighting for the nettes, is one of these. Childhood struggling with childhood-struggling for such to exist little longer in living death The !" weIl-grown girls ' covering before the writer is another the agony of their shame-God help them !-surpassng the agony Of their hunger. And what in all the records of this unreleVed famine that is sIayng unhap- py people, can be demonstFative of the desert through which our correspondent passed, than the drivers significant words, |" You won't hear the cry of child from thts 10 Limerick" Not child cry in district once fruitful and beautiful--once peopied with life and happiness-once filled at this season with the hustle Oi harvest pFeparationo musical with the glad mirth of young voices Good God could volumes suggest a appalling change than the simple words, You won't hear the cry of a child from this to Limerickl''
 Tho following is the letter:
 |" ArRL 2sth, lSi9.--I0 tke Editor Of fhe EseRiao Paeket: Dear Sir--I have been for the last ten days through the counties Of Limerick, Galway, Clare, and across thence to the Kings county.
 " All attempts to depict the existing state of the misery of the masses beyond shannon, must come utterly short of the truth All that tract of country from killaloe to Portumna, on the Galway side of the shannon, Is lying waste and uneultivated. About three out of four of the miserable huts are unroofed. Some of the former inmates are dead, some in the unIon, and some few hudded together in one or two of the huts still existing. The nen generally have perished."
 The correspondent of the Packet having described scenes of human misery on which demon could scarcely look without emotion concludes thus: | "With large tracts of land lying uncutivated a | few miserable men employed on the roads-at | what wages think you One pound of yellow meal | -i. z. less than Id. per diem ! Great God how | is this to cure famine
 {" If this process of depopuation goes on few months more you mGy seek dbLe-bOdied man ia pain for ttoenfy or hirty miles of country" l Such is the testimony Of an intelligent coDserya- tive witness after having visited four counties. In l the name of our common humanity and our com mon faith we call upon the public, one and all to arouse themselves to their brother men, their
 brother-subjects. and ther-chris,ians, who now stand the brink of destruction from this devour-
 ng sea of pisery; whose deluge eagulfs it's thou l sands and it's tens of thousands by tine week