The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-03
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FRIGHTFUL DEsTITUTIoN IN IRELAND.

consequence of the truth of their statements having
been questioned special reporter, at the request OF
the relief committee, has been sent down bv the pro-
pretors of the Dublin Euening Post to make investi-
CATION on the spot, and in a communication to that
paper of Tuesday, the 18th, we find the result of his
visit and inquiries. Gweedore and Cloughaniely
the districts in question, embrace territory of
mountain and bog, with an occasional strip of ara
, Bile land, lying on the northwest of Donegal. The
weather at the time of the visit very severe
and the ground covered with snow. On reaching
the scene of distribution, says the reporter 81 per-
ceived perhaps one hundred and fifty persons male
and female, waiting with their petitions and memo
rials in hand, to be presented for relief. of these
the majority were matrons, barefoot and without
stockings and of those who possessed the lux
ury of stockings had not shoes or brogues. The
bare limbs of these women appeared to be swollen
and covered with chilblans."
He visited some of their houses-if houses they
can be called. Here is description d entered
one on all fours through hole in the wall, and
there found an aged matron. Father Doherty
} preceded and led the way, or | dare say should
have been denied admittance to that abode of mod
esty and destitution. She was seated before a fire
on the HEARTH the turf of which had been dug by
the male members of the family. There was win
dow aperture to admit the light of day, save the
hole by which | entered There, and elsewhere,
there was time to be lost The inquiry pro-
ceeded with by Father Doherty who showed me the
bed on which some of the family lay, and here is
true description the head of the bed in the
corner, few ods of earth at head and foot to sup
port it; board for the side, with few sticks thrown
|
end supported by stones and turf There
bedtick; clothing with the exception of wooden
rag, which could not bear the name Of blanket
nor it sufficient in size for single grown adult,
certainly not fit to cover person of full growth
Here in this howell unfit for the habtation of sin
| gle human creature, there were seven persons-l
| think the number was seven.'
| Of their food he says Gin another house we
asked what their food was, and they exhibited
metal pot which contained the meal for the family.
This was chopped or pounded potatoes in a pulp,
and with this pulp re-heated, and with some sea
weed which they exhibited in wooden vessel, call
ed a noggin, they made up their dinner and supper
in one meal. This system of regimen certainly
cannot present the idea of Baron Pennefather's op
| vlence.''
The two following pictures of distress, he says,
apply to hundreds of cases :-''The day awfully
severe, and all who could remain inside doors with
out the pressing necessity of going abroad were
huddled about the fire. In one of these domiciles
| there female, and she was one of many in the
Is or 20 houses explored in this part of Gweedore.
| She was about l6 and when called upon by Father
| Doherty to come forward she advanced with an air
of confidence, perfectly unconscious of the graceful
ness and beauty of her form. This poor helpless
child was not Clad unless you could call shapeiess
garment, thrown without inner covering, cloth
| ing. But in this house there was another female,
older than the whomI have just now introduced.
| This girl was about 20 or thereabouts. This poor
creature had neither shoe stocking, and avoid
ing the presence of strangers she shrunk away back
| into the obscure corner in the dark, from which
she had been reluctantly drawn by the priest she
| revered."
In conclusion the reporter states-''What have
| now said of few might apply to all | have
of deplorable distress in this district of the
| Gweedore, adjoining the place where the chapel
burned, and not far from the residence of Faith
er Magee the parish priest. But | informed
by many that there districts still misera-
BILE and desolate in the remote and isolated
parts of Gweedore.
A MELANCHOLY ROMANCE OF HIGH LIFE.-Dr Con
| oily, describing portrait published in the last
number of the Medical r lines, says ''The history
of this patient was, in TRUTH one long and melan-
chOly grief-a real romance in woman of high
rank. She was princess of one of the noblest of
| the French families, and brought up in splen-
dor, and in all childish happiness. She grew tall
and strong, and all the illusions of youth and
beauty and high station were gathering around her.
| The time had scarcely gone by when, in the care
less days of childhood, the young Duke d'Enghien
was often her playmate in the splendid gardens of
| the Chateau of Chantilly. Soon afterwards the
great French revolution shook at once from rank,
and power, and wealth all the princes and mobiles of
| the land. The young princess was transferred to
| the obscure care OF a private goyerness. she be-
came acquainted with poverty, and disappointment
and fear agitated her daily existence. Her educa-
| tion neglected.
'"The Duke d Enghien unhappiy entered France,
and his life the immediate forfeit. His murder
| filled Europe with grief and horror. To the prin-
cess, then l6 or II years old, it brought despair.
She fell by degrees into profound melancholy, and,
| young she was, the springs of her life being
! poisoned, her hair became almost suddenly gray.
She was taken to the Satpetrere, OF which asylum
| she remained inmate until, after many years,
death came to her relief Long before that release
her lower limbs, partly from habitual position had
become contracted so that when she moved about
it the hands and ossaischia, like a cripple.
| In all these years she seldom spoke and then only
in murmurs. Her usual position was that repre-
| sented in the wood engraving. She safe on her
bed, her head leaning on her hand, and her large
eyes fixed all the day long, and every day, on
window opposite to her, as if looking for some one
| fhnca
| listening for some loved voice, more to be
| heard by mortal ears"
| HINDoo HERoIsM.-An Anglo-Indan in the Times
says :-"At the time when every newspaper is ring
ing with the vices of the Hindoo character appeal
to you, in the interest of truth and of common
humanity, to publish the following thrilling Incl
dent from Mr.. Ree's Narratire of the Siege Of Luck
nou. 1t is gratifying to human nature to learn that
even in the Hindoo nature are depths OF nobleness
that it is capable of deeds of heroic self sacrces
such as have never been surpassed. Those who
know India best will, perhaps be least surprised
The incident occurred at the moment when the first
relieving force reached the Residency The 18th
Highlands coming upon the Bailey-guard battery,
and not knowing it to be within the Residency,
stormed it, and bayoneted three of the men, whom
they mistook for insurgents They never, resisted,
and one OF them waved his hand, and crying,
'Kooch purwan (never mind, it is all for the good
cause; welcome, friendsp fell and expired"
NENA SAHIB's TREAsUREs.-A young officer who
assisted at the recovery of some of the Nenas trea
near Blthoor, writing to his tather under date
| the 30th of December, says:
81 wrote in the beginning of this month from
| Cawnpore and since then another engineer officer
and myself, with few Sappers have been fishing
treasure out ofone of Nena Sahibs wells at his pal
ace at Bithoor, about ten miles from ,Cawnpore-
The well contained about twenty-five feet of water,
but by getting two hundred of the line to work half
a-doZen buckets we succeeded in getting it down to
| three feet. Two three Sappers then went down,
and, after emptying the well of three feet of rub
bish, which the fellows had thrown in the top,
oh, thnfcsI
plate and about f6, 900 worth of gold vessels.
HSome of the gold plate was magnificent. Two
large plates were two feet nine inches in diameter
and of solid gold, and weighed together 20 pounds
The other gold articles consisted of chaices, cups,
&c. spurts for throwing roSe-water massive spoons
for the Ganges water when worshipbing, &c. 1t
was difficult work, for had no implements for
working the WE'LL and the water came in at the rate
| of sixty gallons minute This mine is not quite
! worked out yet, and few Sappers we left behind
at Bhoor to get at the rupees, which they say are
still at the bottom. The Nena's palace is in COM
plete ruins, and everything belonging to him in the
village have burnt"
ITALIAN CONFERENCE. = The conference of the
Italian Constitutional Party has at length agreed
upon an "Address to the various Soveregns Princes
and Statesmen of Europe" This address states
| that Italy at the present time presents features
which are the signs OF an existing vltaity-of
a nationality which is later certain to be
realized, and that having the same traditions and
aspirations Greece it has, in seeking an indepen-
dent existence the same claims on the gratltuue,
the humanity, the justice, and the interest of the
various European Powers. The address proposes
that there be granted to the various States OF Italy
constitutional Government, comprising Repre-
sentative Assembly and House of PEERS the free
dom of public speech and the liberty OF the press;
the right of public assembly; the appointment of
municipal guard; the organization of the municipal
authority on liberal elective system; and the
opening of all courts justice 1t proposes also,
confederation of Italian States analogous to the
Germanic Union. The address concludes by stating
that the liberal constitution granted to the Sardin-
ians by their late King, Carlo Alberto, for whose
ton, has fully proved the undeniabe fact that the
Italians are already fitted to claim for themselves
the only form of government suited to their wants,
and which when granted will for ever set aside that