The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-09-24
From the Boston Pilot.


Within one short week, the brilliant hopes of
the people of Ireland respecting an abundant
harvest, and an extensive and healthy '".oe
crop, appear to have been evePt away by the
numerous alarming reports which are circulated.
Private letters, end most of the Irish journals,
contain glowing accounts about the re-appear-
ance Of the disease amongst the potatoes. Last
week the crop was all sound this week "the
potatoes are all gone" The mos; exaggerated
statements are industriourly circulated, for they
will have tendency to enrich spectators in
corn. People are too easily misled by these re-
ports. They do not consider that, because
powerful rains, followed BY intense heat, have
turned leaves and stalks black, in every part Of
the country, that the tubers may not, neverthe-
less, be injured. Some reports state that whole
fields are affected-other reports assert that the
tubers are sound. The disease has certainly
appeared again in certain localities, but it spreads
slowly, aud has come too late in the season to
cause serious injury Vast quantities of sound
potatoes are offered for sale in all the Irish mar
kets. The total crop is far greater than it has
been for years. There is partial, but not
general blight, and no real cause for alarm. /
make this statement upon excellent authority.
A recent correspondent for an Irish journal
has given several letters on the social condition
of the people of Ireland, and they have attract,
ed much attention in England. In one Of his
articles he has given atext to John Bnll for in
Vulnerable essays He tells Englishnen that
they may rely upon it, that there is growing up
in the New World new generation. which, if
the occasion ever arrives, will make England
repent bitterly Of the neglect with which she
has un'formerly treated every effort made by
the friends of the people of Ireland to make
them comfortable al home, instead of being com
PEELED to fly to strange country in search of
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as memorable words, containing true prophe
cy. The Morning Herald quotes them in a
leading article, and says that the worst part Of
matter is, that " do what we will now, we can
do nothing which will obliterate from the minds
of the descendants Of our Irish fellow subjects
in America the feelings of bitter hatred and
bitter revenge which (alas with too much rea.
sony they are now imbucd against all that is
connected with England" The Herald gives
some of the causes of this bitter feeling. "The
Irish peasant, within three hours of the English
coast, has heen left for years and years, long bc
fore the famine, in state Of squalor, poverty,
and wretchedness, unknown to the poorest of the
peasantry in other countries in Europe" Eng
land adopts measures merely of provisional
relief for lreland-the famine over, that relief
is withdrawn, and agitation and revolt follow.
The Herald concludes its article by aging,
" England, then, has bitter enemies on both
sides of the Atlantic. How long, we ask, are
we to pursue our present fatal and unhappy
policy towards Ireland How long shall it be
before we set about conciatlng and making
comfortable the remnant that are left - All
experience shows that England will contrive to
treat ireland with utter contempt, till that Pc
Rod in the history of nations when powerful
army, comprising all her old, and young and
bitterest enemies, shall be organized in the New
World, to overthrow her rickety old government.
That period is not SO far beyond the men of the
present generation, that we may not all live to
see it, reioic over Is, and hurrah for It!