The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-07-06
Clearing Estates--Cruelty of the Aristo-
cracV in GcOfland.

cracy in Scotland.
We make the following extract from the
last letter by "Karl Mark" the London
correspondent of the New York Tribune:
Your readers will remember my des
cription of the progress of clearing estates
in ireland and Scotland, which, within the
first half of this century swept away so
many thousands of human beings from the
soil of their fathers. The process still
continues, and with vigor quite worthy
of that virtuous, refined religious philan-
thorpic aristocracy of the modle country
Houses are either fired or knocked to- pieces
over the heads of the helpless inmates
AT Neagaat in Knoydart, the house of
Donald Macdonald, respectable, honest,
hard working man, was attacked last Au-
tumn by the landlords order. His wife
was confined to bed, unfit TO be removed,
yet the factor and his ruffians turned out
Macdonald's family of six children, all un-
der fifteen years of age, and demolished
the house with the exception of one small
bit of the root over his wife's bed.
The man was SO affected that his brain
gave way. He has been declared insane
by medical men, and he is now wandering
about looking for his children among the
ruins of the burnt and broken cottages
His starving Children are crying around
him, but he knows them not, and he is left
roaming at large unaided and uncared for,
because his insanity is harmless.
Two married females in an advanced
stage of pregnancy had their houses pull
led down about their cars. They had to
sleep in the open air for many nights. and
the consequence was that, amid excruciat-
ing sufferings, they had premature births,
their reason became affected and they are
wandering about with large families, help
less and hopless embeciles, dreadful wit
nesses against that class of persons called
the British aristocracy.
Even children are driven mad by terror
andpersecution. At Doune, in Knoydart,
the cottagers were eyicted and took refuse
in an old storehouse. The agents of the
landlord surrounded that storehouse in the
dead of night set FIRE to it as the poor out
casts were covering beneath its she'ter.
Frantic theyy rushed from the flames, and
some were driven mad by terror. The
Northern Ensign newspaper "That
one boy is deranged; that he will require
to be placed in confinement; he jumps out
of bed crying "Fire! freH' and assures
those near him that there are men and
children la the burning storehouse. When
ever night approaches he is terrified at
the sight Of fire. The awful sight at
Doune, when the storeheuse was in flames
Illuminating the district-when men wo-
men and children ran about half frantic
with fear gave such shock to his rea-
son.
Such is the conduct of the arstiocracy
to the ablebodied poor who make them
rich. But the rufianism ends not here.
A slaughter has been perpetrated at
Strathca,au. Excited to frenzy by the
cruelty of the evictions, and futher ones
that were expected, number of woman
gathered in the streets on hearing that a
number of officers were coming to clear
out the tenantry. The latter, however,
were excisemen, and not sheriff's officers;
but on hearing that their real character
was mistaken, these men, instead of cor
recting their mistake, enjoyed it-gave
themselves out for sheriff's officers, and
said they came to turn the people out, and
were determined to do so. On the group
of women becoming excited, the officers
presented a loaded pistol at them. What
followed we extract from the letter of Mr..
Danold Ross, who went overfrom Glasgow
to Strathcarron, and spent two days in the
district, collecting information and ex-
amining the wounded. His letter is dated
Royal Hotel, Oain, April Is, 1854, and
states as follows:
"My information goes to show shame
full cause of conduct on the part of the
sheriff. He did not warn the people of the
intention on his part to let the police loose
on them. He read no Riot act. He did
not give them time to disperse; but, on the
contrary, the moment he approached with
his force, stick in hand, cried out: "Clear
the way" and in the next breath said
"Knock them down." and immediatly a
scene insued which battles description
The policeman laid thsir heay batons on
the heads of the unfortunate females and
leveled them to the groun, jumped and
trampled upon them after they were down,
and kicked them in every part of thlr
bodies with brutality. The field was
soon covered with blood. The cries ofthe
women and of the boys and girls, lying
weltering in their blood, was rending the
very heavens. Some of the females, pur-
sued by the policemen, jumped into the
dcep and rapid rolling Carror, listing to