Indiana State Sentinel

The Famine in Ireland---Dreadful. On the whole, the accounts from the disturbed districts are less threatening. Although destitution is extending, there has been altogether less turbulence in the popular demonstrations. In some parts, public works have commenced, and employment will henceforth become general.

At Skibbereen, on the 5th inst.. the day on which the general relief committee met, an attack was apprehended. From eight hundred to a thousand of the laboring population of Caheragh were seen marching ten abreast, and armed with spades, towards the town. The shops were closed in great consternation, and the military called out; but luckily, through the exertions of Mr. Gallway, Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick, Dr. Donovan, and several influential gentlemen, the people were induced to halt out-side. To an inquiry from Mr. Downing, the answer made by the spokesman of the people was: "We have come because we are famishing; because we have no food of any kind; we could suffer death from hunger ourselves, but can we look upon our children and our wives dying of hunger, and we ready and anxious to work for bread, if we can only get as much as will give us one good meal a day ? But it is not 5d. a day will give our families a meal, and Indian meal is 1s. 10d. a stone." "The truth and force of this distressing appeal," says a local writer, "could not be resisted; but Mr. Downing, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Donovan assured them that it was to the government they should attribute the price of food; and upon whom the maledictions of the hungry multitude were pouring in unmeasured terms. During this conversation, Mr. Gallway again and again called upon the people to disperse, and at length proceeded to read the Riot Act. But a universal shout was raised, "We might as well be shot as starved; we have not eaten a morsel for more than twenty-four hours."

Mr. Downing then besought the people to follow him out as far as the workhouse, and that he would procure them bread as far as the town could afford it; which, after much solicitation, they did, and regularly encamped on the rising ground outside the workhouse; where they remained until Mr. Downing returned with 50s. worth of biscuit, which he and the Rev. Mr. Webb, assisted by the Messrs. Levis, distributed in the workhouse yard: and about 4 o'clock the multitude moved on for their dreary homes yet sullen, discontented, and unhappy, saying, "That while a sack of corn remained in the country, they would not allow their children to starve," and denouncing in the strongest manner the Government. The military were then withdrawn.

The Galway Vindicator gives the particulars of an opposition to the removal of provisions from Galway to Tuam. Ultimately, by the strenuous exertions of the Rev. Mr. Roche, Mr. John Connor, and about 30 other gentlemen, forty cart-loads of meal and flour were conveyed out of town. Shortly afterwards, however, a lamentable accident occurred at Boherbeg, one of the outlets of Galway-

"It appears that the men of this street having proceeded to the cross-road at Bohermore to arrest the carts which the Rev. Mr. Roche and the other parties forming the escort induced them to permit to pass in safety, the women determined upon stopping any which in the meantime might come that way; and accordingly, when four or five other carts laden with flour and meal were proceeding through Boherbeg, the women, frantic with hunger and the cries of their famishing children, rushed upon the provisions and endeavored to plunder some of them. In doing so, we regret that one of the starving creatures, whom we have been credibly given to understand had nothing but one meal a day and a half previous, met a violent and untimely death. She laid hold of the head of one of the horses, exclaiming that she would have some of the meal or lose her life. The driver at the same moment struck the horse with his whip; the result of which was, that the unfortunate woman fell, when the wheel of the cart passed over her throat, killing her on the spot."

To relieve the universal distress, the Dublin Evening Mail estimates the sum of £5,000,000 will be required. The calculation is thus arrived at: "By the government returns, the quantity of land under potatoes has been arrived at accurately at from £12 to £15 per acre, and it amounts to the enormous sum in value of thirteen millions and a half. They calculate that three millions and a half of this crop is available; consequently the loss to the agriculturists is ten millions. With this loss ascertained they are called upon to tax themselves to the same amount. There are about 320 baronies in Ireland generally- the government officers calculate that it will require £3000 a month to employ the poor in each barony, at ten pence a day-twenty-four working days in the month-multiply this by nine, and the bill to be paid is £8,640,000. It is now discovered that the grand panacea for our misfortunes, the universal drainage act, this million of money which was "to be lent us, is totally imperative, for estates which are entailed can receive no advance." That disturbance may be checked as much as possible, a large body of troops is concentrating at Athlone, which, from its central position, is well adapted for a depot from which drafts can be drawn in case of disturbances on the border counties. Part of the Scot's Grays and Queen's Bays have already marched thither from Dublin, and further reinforcements are daily arriving.