Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-09-11

: Editorial Cor. of the N. Y. TGibunel
q IRELAND-ULSTER.
-o' -eI DUBLIN, July 81, 1851.
Though the night was thick, tn
wind was light, and we had a yer,
+ good passage across the North Chan
mel, though our boat was very mid
ding, and was nearly poisoned b,
some Of my fellow-sleepers in tn
gentlemen's cabin insisting that eve
ry window should be closed. o, t.
be Pope for one little week, just long
enough TO set half a million pulpit.
throughout the world to ringing the
changes on the importance, the vita
necessity of pure, fresh airi The
darkness, the general misapprehension
which prevails on this subject, is fright.
full source Of disease and misery. Nine.
tenths of mankind have such dread oI
"a draught' or current af air, that they
will shut themselves up, forty together,
in a close room, cur or cabin, and there
poison each other with the exhalations
of their mutual lungs, until disease, and
often death, are the consequences.
Why won't they study and learn that "a
draught' of pure air will injure only
those who, by droughts of alcoholic
poison or some other evil habit or glar-
ing violation of the laws of life, have
rendered themselves morbidly suscepti-
bic, and that even a cold is better than
the noxiousness Of air already exhaus-
ted of its oxygen by inhalationl Moth
ing physical is so sorely needed by the
great majority, as a realizing sense of
the blessedness, the indispensable neces-
sity of pure fresh air.
We landed at Belfast at this morn
ing, under pouring rain, which Stacked
off two hours later, but the skies are
still clouded, as they have been since
Tuesday Of last week, and there has
been some sprinkling through the day.
or course the crops are suffering
badly. Flax is a great staple Of the
North of Ireland, and three-fourths off
is beaten fiat to the earth. Wheat is
injured and poor, though not so general
lY PROSTATE; oats look feeble, and as if
half drowned; some Of these are, and
considerable barley is thrown down;
grass is light, much of it uncut, and
much that is cut has lain under the
stormy or cloudy skies through the last
week, and looks badly; only the pota-
toes look strong and thrifty, and prom
Use an ample yield. shall be agreea-
bly, disappointed If Ireland realizes
fair average harvest this year.
Belfast is busy, growing town, the
Of the linen manufacture, and
the capital of the province of Ulster, /
the Northern quarter Of Ireland. II I
seems prosperous, though no wise re-
so; and have been painfully
disappointed in the apparent condition
of the rural peasantfy on the line of
ravel from Belfast to Dublin, which
lad understood formed an exception 10
he general misery of Ireland. Out of
he towns, not one habitation in ten is
it for human beings TO live in, but mere
ow, cramped novels of rock, mud and
itraw; not one-half the families on the
way seem TO have so much as an acre
If land TO each household; not half the
nen to be seen have coats to their
'acks; and not one in four of the wo.
nen and children have each a pair of
hoes or stockings. And those feetl-
f the owners could only wash them
nee week, the general aspect of az
airs in this section would be materially
Wretchedness, rags and
espair salute me on every side; and if
MS be the best part of Ireland, what !
lust the state Of the worst be?
From Belfast we had railroad 10 Ar q
lagh, 35 miles; then IS miles by ON
ibus to Castle Blayney. We came I
YER this latter route with 10 or 2 pas
sngers and a ton or so of luggage on I
e outside Of the Railroad Company's q
with thirteen of US slowed in =
de, beside a youhgster in arms, who
lustrated the doctrine of innate de-
-avity by perpetual fight with his :
other. Yet, thus overloaded, we were y
.iven the thirteen miles of muddy road d
about two hours, taking at Castle
ayney another railroad train, which m
ought US almost TO Drogheda, some g
miles, where we had to take another fc
nDibus for a mile or two, for want of oI
railroad brid dge over the Boyne, thus n
aching another train which brought
into Dublin, 32 miles. The North :,
ireland is yet destitute Of any other -
lroads than such patches and frag- u
snts as these, whereby am precluded >.
I'M seeing Londonderry and its yicin- III
!, which / much. desired. At length
were brought into Dublin at half W
st three O'Clock, or in eight hours ne
I'M Belfast, about 1870 miles. IS
The face Of the country through this ..
IT Of Ireland is moderately rolling, ph
ugh some fair hills appear in the dis IN
ice. The land is generally good, hi:
ugh there are considerable tracts of ne
rd.- thin soil. Small bogs are fire. bI;
emily seen, but no. one exceeding a ha
zen acres; the large ones lying further 10
and. Taking so little room and sup IN,
ing the poor with a handy and cheap -,
i, | doubt that these little bogs are ''"'