The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV ORLEANS. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1870.
lGlscRLLAnEous IRISH NEW

Scene Qt'Gn kClcft0n IN WacktOO.-POOr
old Ireland still suffers from the malady
that has sickened her almost unto death.
Her English and pro-English lords and
masters still tern her luckless children out
of doors, in order that the land from which
they drew scanty living may, perhaps,
be given up to Scotch sheep and English
cattle. Here is an account of an eviction
scene lately witnessed in Wicklow, which
we find in the Dublin correspondence of the
New York Herald:
Alas / fear there is no hope for the Irish
peasantry, at least in our generation.
Another land bill must be passed, as much
I'm advance Of Mr.. GlaIstone's as Mr.. Glad
stones is in advance of the old system, be-
fore they can secure in their holdings,
and even then I'll cir position will be pre-
carious enough. Though not as attentive
TO business as one could wish, still it must
be acknowledged that the tenant farmers
community. 1t is unfortunately too true
that we want new blood, new spirit, new
activity among US. We are too idle, too
fond of squandeIing away our time, too
apt to underrate the Importance of In dustry;
and if the most active class in the country
received more encouragement they would
set an example that might be followed
with great profit and advantage. But this
is not to be, at least for the present. Near
Baltinglass, in the County Wicklow, on
: Interstate of Mr.. Dick, the member of Par
Lament for that county, what, think you,
took place during the last few days' No
less than twenty four families-one hun
dred and forty-six persons in all-were
sent adrift upon the world! All of them,
without exception, were well TODD, ana
owed not penny of rent. They were Will
ing to pay higher rents sooner than be
obliged to go, but their offer to this effect
was not accepted. Mr.. Dick, "the patriotic
member of the county," happened to be
travelling on the continent, and, of course,
could not be communicated with, either by
the sufferers or their friends. he was.
therefore, spared. the unpleasant task OF
listening to the opportunities of his serfs,
or of witnessing the terrible tragedy enact
ed by his express command. DIR. GOwlng,
an eye witness, thus describes what he saw:
'sHere was a scene. The mother, an aged
woman, with eleven children, tainted at the
last conjuncture, and was deemed to be
dying. Her son gave me sudden sum-
mons to see her. l hurried on after him.
When arrived l found the woman in a
field. I had her brought into shed and
there ministered to her, and most anxiously
did she desire the holy administrations of
tho church, which, more than anything
else convey consolation to the troubled
heart. When bid her to be calm and re-
signed she told me her heart was breaking;
that she had many SORROWS through life
the death of her children, worldly disap-
pOintments, and the recent loss of her hus-
band. But this CT ,ss surpassed them all.
Leaving this poor woman 1 returned home.
On my way met horses laden with furni
ture and farm produce, then -droves of
cattle, pigs, horses, fowls, men, women,
boys and little children. l exhorted them
to be patient, but my words were drowned
by the wild cry of the women. 'We have
no home Tonight" THE next emigrant
ship may, in all probability, land some of
the poor sufferers in New York; for to the
hOspitable shores of America the unhappy
children of Erin turn in their Affections and
sorrows. How delighted they will be, to
know that the sad story of their grievances
had preceded them!
The ancient Cross of Iudm.-We have
been given to understand that an amicable
arrangement for the re- erection of the an
cient ecclesiastical stone market cross and
replacing it on its original site, is in pro-
gress between the Town Commissioners of
Tuam and those parties holding fragments
oft, and we sincerely hope it may be true.
It is we'll known that there formerly existed
in the Town of Tuam very ancient and
beautiful stone cross, erected like other
similar monuments in Ireland, for the pur-
pose of teaching, through the aid of sculp-
ture, a rude unlettered people some of the
rudiments of Christianity, as we'll as of
commemorative the names and actions of
Christian divines and native artists. In
those times styled iconoclastic, of which
Oliver Cromwell and John Knox were in
this country and in Scotland the represen
tatives, the cross of Tuam was broken, and
its fragments dispersed. The base stands
within the enclosure of the Catholic cathe-
sdral; n portion of the shaft was formerly in
q chimney piece, in house at Tuam, until
removed at the time of the first Dublin EX-
hibitiou, and the third portion now re-
mains in the churchyard of the Protestant
cathedral. All Irish antiquaries, both
Protestant and Catholic, have long felt an
ardent desire to see those fragments put
together, and now that the members of the
two Churches in Ireland stand on the same
platform, we think the time has arrived fol
Che union of these fragments, and we hope
that no petty sectarian jealousy will maj
the efforts making to restore on what may
be termed neutral ground this grand his
toric monument-that is within railing in
the market place of the town, where, in all
probability, it originally stood. More than
once this subject was brought under the
notice of the late bishop, but he said he did
not feel justified in giving over the portion
of the cross in the cathedral to be re- erected
perhaps to him in an Objectionable localityj
and he felt some difficulty in having it re-
constructed in the market place, lest il
might become an object of Over-religious
veneration to the people. Itis, however,
worthy of note that, although Lord Plum
kett and the dean and chapterwould not
aorea RI rastOre the cross of Tuam. the