TO TIE EDITOR.

CHocrAw AGENcy, March 25th, ls47.
CoI C. w. (llrkp.
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Col. e. w. Clarke:


DEAR SlR-Thc cries of fam.
ishing Ireland have been heard even in tins re.
mote corner Of tho great west and nob!y and
generously have they been responded to.


On the evening of the 2,5i inst, meeting was
held at the office Of the Superintendent. at which
were present most Of the neguborng people, and
some strangers. who were hero on business.


On motion, Mai Wm. Armstrong was appoint
cd chprrmrn, ani J. B. Luce, SotrcIary.


After the reading Of letter from the Irish Re.
lief Committee of Memphis, the cnaIrm1n adj
ves,ed to the condition Of Ireland, briefly and
most f'rlingIy. lie spoke Of "Od Ern," as
men of Irish feeling and Irish blood alone can
spenk; be said -. vas no. wori, shc wanted, but
subslanlial fool" a subscription list was
then opened, and in short time $40 were sub.
scribcd and paid. BY reference 10 the hit you
will perceive the names of many tu-booIed
Choctaw Indians, who knew nothing more, cared
Tor nothing more, than tho fact. tHat across the
Big Water, there w"ro thousands Of human be.
ings starving 10 death. Is not this a sublime spec.
sncIel Tho Red man of the New, bcslowing aims
apon the people Of the Od world! With them, II
y literally complying with tha, golden rule of
0ristanty. Of returning good for evil.
y The funds were Immediately forwarded to tho
,sCmmit;ee at Memphis, Tenn. Can your city,
&fhmed as it is for its IIbcralIly, beat this.