Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-11
TIE Threatened Famine In Ireland
Suffering on the Increase.

ONE HALF THE POTATO CROP DESTROYED.
LFrom the Dublin Freeman, November AL
The potato crop is now dug ont, and the re.
suit had been anticipated. More than one
balf is gone, and whether the remainder will
stand in close pits, excluding the slightest ap-
proaoh of air, remains to be seen. In the pro
vincial papers We find that soma localities had
been visited less severely than others, and our
country friends draw general conclusions about
"rhipgs being much better tbs they had been
represented" We wish We could join in the
encouragement, and hold out O hops Of i'm
provemspt. But we can not The staple food
of the country has been already reduced one haf,
an estimate in which farmers, boards of guar
6ians and landed proprietOrs concur, Shiie in
some districts it would not be extravsgant to
assert that, far from portion Of The crop being
ovoiiabie for food, The people tOM not hdUe sgG
cient for seed! II is useless 10 disguise the fact,
and ibs government should take instant steps,
in concert with proprie'ors, to give employment
during the enfuipg year.
THE FAMINE AGAIN IN sKIBBEREEN.
Dublin Correspondence of London Herald
regret to hear that there is great distress in
SkibbeIeen. A correspondent of one Of the
journals writes
"There is good deal of misery pending the
laboring classes this winter, and farmers will
greatly suffer from deficiency in their crops.
If fair amount of employment could be
obtained for the laboriug classes it would be a
great, if not an effectual means Of keep ping the
workhouse empty. The guardians of the Skull
and Skibbereen Unions have made an app'ca.
tiOn to Government for loan of 970 600, for
the purpose of commencing the West Cork
Railway"
DEATH FROM STARVATION IN CLARE.
Ennis Correspondence of Dublin Freemanl
P Culiman, Esq Coroner, held an inquest
on Move mber II, Oh the bOdy of man ua
known, aged about twenty four, who was found
dead ON the roadside By the police, near Manus,
The jury returned b verdict that deceased dtsd
from the effects of exhaustion, starvation and
exposure to the cold.
PINCHING DISTRESS IN SLIGO.
From the Sligo Champion, November 10.
The resolutions adopted by the clergy of the
deapery of Castlebar, gave true and painful
picture of distress in that quarter, and our re-
ports received this week from other counties in
this province are equally distressing. In the
rocky ard mountainous parish of Dysarr the
potato crop is nearly gone, aud if the appeal
made by their good pastor, Father Brennan,
does not soon meet a response, the moral and
industrious people of that district will have no
alternative but famine or the ,oorkhouse. Sir
Robert Peel says that the Government are con-
fideTing. When will they actP
POTAToEs AND WHEAT LOST IN LIMERICK COUNTY
From the Limerick Reporter, November 1871
The harvest returns in the neighborhOod Of
Newcastle West are lamsntably deficient. We
have been eredibly informed that not more than
oDe fourth of the potato crop is available for
human food, while acres Of wheat have not
been cut down OF all, but allowed to be eaten
down by cattle. Large quantities Of hay,
which has lain several weeks in the meadows
half covered with water, are new being removed
to the haggard, almost useless except for ma.
Lure. The gloomiest anticipations are INDUCED
in as regards the prospects of the small farmers
during the coming season,
THE COTTON wEAvERs AND BMBRoIDERERs OF
DOWN IN GREAT DEsTITUTIoN,
TFrom the Belfast Newsletter, November AL
Perhaps for many years past there has moi
been felt as much desttution among the work
irg classes in NeWtownsrds and its vicinity a.
az The present time. The staple trades of the
place were cotton. weaving and embroidering
in both Of which there is at present little Of
nothing 70 do, and whatever triAe is being done
is at SO low q rate of remuneration that sup
port can not be earned even by those employed
Mr.. VIM. DobbiD, hitherto one Of the Iarges
employers of NeWtowDards, estimates that from
hve to six hundred weavers are idle In the tow
and neighborhood. ..-....