Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-17

SAD PICTURE OF IRELAND.--The Dublin Nation
contains a horrible picture Of the condition Of
Irelend, from the pen of Mr.. Duffy. lie says:
"No words printed in newspaper or elsewhere
will give any man who has not seen IL, concep-
ton Of the fallen condition Of the west and south.
The famine and the landlords have actually created
a ne,o race In Ireland. have seen, on the streets
Of Galway, crowds of creatures more debased than
the Yahoos of Swift-creatures having only dis
tant and hideous resemblance to human beings
Gray-haired old men, whose idiot faces had har-
dened into settled leer of mendacity, simious and
semi human and women flthier and more frightful
than the harpies, who, at the jingle Of coin on
the pavement swarmed in myriads from unseen
places, struggling, screaming, shrekiDg for their
prey like some monstrous unclean animals. In
Westport, the sight of priest on the street
gathered an entire pauper population, thick as a
village Market swarmng around him for relief
"Beggar children, beggsr adults, beggars in
white hair; girls with faces gray and shriveled, the
grave stamped upon them in decree which could
not be recalled; women with the more touching
aad tragical aspect Of lingering shame and self
respect not yet affected and, among these terrible
realities, imposture shaking in pretended fits, to
add the last touch of horrible grotesqueness to the
picture have seen these accused sights, and
they are burned into my memory forever. Away
from the town, other scenes of unimagnable hor-
and even troops, Of wild, idle, lunatic-ooking pau
psrs, wandering over the country, each with some
tale of determination to tell. If he penetrate into
a cabin, and can distinguish objects, among filth
and darkness of which an ordinary pgsty affords
but faint image, he viii probably discover from a
dozen to twenty inmates in the hut, the elected
cotters clustering together, aud breeding pest-
leace. What kind Of creatures men and women
come living in this dung-heap, what kind Of
e,,l rad hara IN orOv nm Mt n DER
tion have no words to paint"
MARBLE PALAcEs.--A large number of magnifi-
cent buildings are in the course Of erection in New
York, as we learn from the Journal Of Commerce,
aud rents for irstclass accommodations in choice
locations, win no doubt be fully up to the highest
hitherto paid:
Mr.. George Douglas has just completed store,
which, in the design and execution is unsurpassed
by any In the city 1t Is 48 feet inches by l4S
feet running from Barclay street to Park Place,
and has marble front on both tho streets named.
It is Ave stories high above the level Of the side
walk, and two below, the latter well lighted on
three sides. The main floor and the two stories
below Il, have been rented to Messrs. G. w. & j.
T. Moore & Co., general dry goods jobbers, at the
rate Of ten thousand dollars per annum. The sec
ond, third, fourth, and fifth stories, have been
taken by Messrs. Cromwell, Williams Co., inn
porters Of woollens at annual rent of nine thou
sand dollars. There were many disappointed sp.
plicants for the lease. The last-nsmed house have
been offered $4,000 for their chance, and the other
lessees could also obtain large bonus To relnquish
their right. Twenty-Five thousand dollars per an
mum has been offered for the whole, and there are
several (among them leading auctioneer) who
who would take II at SIC, 1000. The building has
been put up by q contract, at cost of 900.
HEN ISvESTIoS--0ne Of the most serious OBJ
stacles In the way Of keeping hens about house,
has been their hitherto unconquerable prediction
for scratching up gardens We learn from the
0swego Palladium thatIan ingenious Yankee has at
length discovered a remedy for this difficulty, and
Is taking measures 70 introduce IL into gene USE