The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-09

Ing and departed, he gathered . few sticks
ana erected . temporary howell within the unroofed
walls OF his once happy homo. His brother, who
held the adjoining farm. got the farm from which
Thomas had been evicted. He permitted him to
remain In tho unr0ofed house, but when the agent
heard OF this act OF brothery Kindness he sent his
bailif to warn the brother In possession that II he
did not put his brother and family out OF the same
he would be evlcted himself Tho Rev. Father Cudd.
when he heard this statement from the wife Of the
invalid, thought IL too atrocous to be true. and
sought the baif who informed MIN that 1t was true
The poor fellow, to his brother from the pains
| ana penalties OF eviction. crawled from the walls Of
his Old homo with wife and children but he could not
| 20 far; ne entered deld In Haystown, In view OF
hts hearthstone. threw up . few boughs against
fence and covered them with furze; faggot served
for door. The drst night he passed In this print
tive dwelling was his last. The Rev. Richard Kelly.
OF Templetown, attended him; when he arrived TO
prepare the dying man for eternity tho faggot was
removed the priest crept in ON his knees, and In
that posture administered the last sacraments OF
the Catholic Church to another victim OF Irish land
Notwithstanding to law DOre would have o last
ing place the memory Of the benevolent n ne were
to illustrate the last moments OF Thomas Foley OF
| Haggard late tenant Of the Most Noble Marquis Of
| Ely
| Ellen Gore. OF Templetown, eighty years OF age,
| was evcted the day subsequent to that when ner
daughter paid at the office OF the agent the sum Of
| f3 rs. 3D. Not copper was due when the excel
lent agent sent his balilfs to remove the Old woman
and daughter, peaceably possible forciDly II neces-
sary, from their old home. They were at breakfast
when the messengers OF the agent arrived, but the
latter did not give them time to finish It. Furniture.
pulled down the house unrooIed. When the
baiiiiis had departed the creatures gathered all
| their little household affairs together and sought
shelter inside the walls OF their home but no more
SO. In thus miserable place the old woman her
daughters sought shelter. The old woman from the
fright &C, took Ill; word came to the agent that the
Cores were cnglng to the ruins Of their former
"the sacred rlghts and SET out t0ell 1t not where
ever civilization mas laid rail, butt school house
Dalias arrived in front Of the nut, and
with profanc EXPIRE isions demanded Tie poor
creatures to leave immediately. The grand
the lmperious summons. One OF the gallant
members Of the "brlgade" struck match and swore
to the dry thatch,. which the poor creatures had
gathered and liked to preserve them from The biting
@oaned inside the a ono q the daags
atch and BROUGHT Out her AGED moher na
smothered and almost naked, amidst the Jeers and
laughter Of these worthy minister's or landlord law
In ireland. Tne brave girl rushed In again to save
the debris Of the Old house, one d the bas showed
her, he says, by accident. She fell and broke her
arm 80 badly that the bone pr0truded through the
SKIN All present did their best to comfort the old
! woman and wounded daughter. The ballffs satls-
fed at the part they had enacted skunk away. The
| 'men" looked on goomly with curses between their
teetnit would DO unlawful to curse aloud-and said
| nor did nothing Five days afterwards the grand
mother ana four or the grandchildren died OF fever.
1t Is impossible to let belief take hoe Of me that
| the foregoing are true; but Father Doyle has In
formed that particular fact Is true and 'can
be attested by crowd OF eye Witnesses" There Is
| not a country IN the world where a man who was
related to the ABOVE poor woman would quietly wit
ness such an outrage, even he were TO die an hour
afterward, put IN Ireland. Every Christian man;
at the conduct of the bailills and tue masculine
spectators-she former for their cowardy, brutal
conduct; the latter Tor species OF poltroonery
known only outside OF the gem OF the sea-"
Few EngIlshmen understand the conduct OF too
many landlords and agents In Ireland, and Ameri-
cans so engressed That they can't afford TO spend
hour upon an island not half as large the State
OF New York but botn will profit by examining into
the causes or Irish discomfort and the reason OF SO
much misery, the most abject IN Europe, IN SUCH a
fertile country The secret OF all s the tenure OF the
land the hearessness OF the landlords and agents.
No matter what labor a farmer may spend upon
farm, or what improvements be may make thereon,
the may rise upon the home of his boyho0d; the
shades OF evening may witness the same ruins. &C
cordng to law.
square miles, or 46,553 acres, OF which 325,3i5
are arabic, lo5,Asd uncuitivated. 2s.4os in
and 5.77o under water. the leading land
lords are the Marquis OF Waterford Lord stuart DE
Deces, SIR Henry Winston Barron, Bart, Edmand
&c la Poer LORD Hastings and Sir John il. Keane
Bart. "Ihe wtd Marquis Oh waterford" was ''the
but hs successor was not good and the present one
is unknown to Kindness or badness, except III the
case OF his eopement VITA Mrs. Captain Vivian. The
services OF "the crowbar brlgade have seldom been
ants and the ieeliug OF the gentry is not 80
favorable TO bullock raising as In other parts OF the
country. But absenteesm Is known as well as in
Tipperary. TIE trade OF the port OF Waterford, how
ever, Keeps business pretty brisk throughout the
Countrywide trade IL good the Irish III not shed
many tears Tor the absence Of the aristocracyMand
the city has good steamboat tratfic with Milford
I.verDOOl London.
one OF the peculiar CHARACTERISTICS OF Ireland Is
the immense amount OF land devoted to the game
and pleasure drives OF tho great landlords.
This aad Is invariably the best IN the country,
wen wooded and watered. At Curraghmose, the
demeane which contains upwards OF 1000 acres OF
the best land IN the county. It 49, believe, the
Clodagh river runs through 1t for three mics. More
than onefoarth or the land OF this small county
special use OF the lords OF the manors to walk and
ride IN and tue propagation or deer; but the poor
oeoc X ON Inc aay when o %e u
according TO law; but the deer are guarded while
the father ana husband Is unhonsed sent into this
breathing world with an empty purse aud "a Dig
family"
This county has large quaker population, par.
ticularly in the cry. Their quiet, unobtrusve man.
ner5 and sense OF justice have done much to have the
landlords and tenants get along smoothly; but no
country can advance or be moderately prosperous
where q few men own land and the tliier OF the
SOIL has no tenure but in the viii OF the landlord.
plants but sons and daughters are as eager ITO
go 10 America" as any other in the province OF
Munster.
1t was in Waterford Henry H. landed when no
came with the Bull OF Pope Adrian. lie
Engishnan, and, Of course. had nothing In his
minds eye or heart but 1.-THE best interests VI the
Holy See." when he in the name Of himself, handed
Ireland over to Henry. II was from Waterford
James 1.-THE last and most ignobe OF the Stuarts
Ills departure from the d0nliniOns of his fam
lily. IL IN this Old city that the eloquent General
Thomas +. Meagher wa5 born, whose services during
the war ana whose early aud sudden death In the
far West have endeared his memory to thousands In
America and Ireland.
Poverty, In the hablimcnts OF famine, has never
touched her cabins, but the landlord ia az 0mnp0.
tent as IN any other part OF Ireland.
The nrst family In the county-the waterford.
Bercsford famiiy-the Marquis is the head OF IT.
dates its origin from the Anglo-Norman invasion.
For over six hundred years the family have enjoyed
the great estate which supplies IT with a prncey
income. Although tile tenants do not receive leases
there are few evictions, owing to their THRIFT and