Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — STARVING IRELAND. [ARTICLE]

STARVING IRELAND.

An Idea of the Extent, of the Suffering in the Afflicted Isle. [Dublin (Feb. 4) Telegram to New York Herald.] The daily, hourly cry of distress in Ireland becomes more and moro urgent and wide spread. Every day reveals new horrors in the catalogue of suffering. The outlook for the coming months is gloomier than any prediction has yet painted. No language can describe the appalling privations, the utter destitution, which prevail; but a vivid picture can be found in the statement and figures below. They are unexaggerated and well authenticated. It is impossible to ovordrawthe situation, so rapidly do matters become worse. What might liave been an exaggeration j esterday will to morrow be an underestimate. ' Three hundred thousand people are slowly starving, and can only be kept alive by superhuman efforts ou the part of their fellowcreatures. Some of them are living on one meal a day of turnips or of meal. Thousands more are consuming their last potatoes. Local efforts are becoming feeble. People are looking to the world for succor.' The land agitation has hidden its head for the moment, the land agitators lending a hand in the common cause, Parnell’s attack upon the Mansion House and the Duchess of Mariborough funds ia a crime, the responsibility of which no man should tsko upou himself at thiß time. The confusion thus caused only blinds the eyes of America to the present awful necessities of the Irish peasautre. If Parnell be a true Irish patriot he will sink animosities, which every one deprecates, even his friends and sympathizers, and will become the champion in America of that cause in which all the world is one—the cause of charity. The following figures are compiled from the official returns of the local committees to the central bodies organized for the distribution of relief in Dublin as well as from private inquiries made by your correspondent. They are vouched for by Protestant and Catholic clergy, gentry, and public officials. Farther returns are arriving daily in overwhelming numbers. The returns by counties where the chief distress exists show the numbers of those suffering to be as follows: Mayo 64,509 Tipperary 6,300 Galway 43,200 Leitrim.... 5,800 51ig0..... 42,030 Wicklow 3,000 Kerry 33,100 Mcnaglian 3,800 Donegal 28,000| Westmeath 1,900 Roscommon 20,150 Longford 1,875 Cork 23,800 Kilkenny 1,790 Clare 19,300 Limerick 7,000 Total 212,370 Accompanying this report is printed a tabu--lated statement covering a page, and containing an analysis of the actual condition of 350,000 of the persons represented in the summary.