The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-06-11

FAMINFs IN INB1A.-A British writer
recently remarking on the horrors, which
sometimes attend Christian rule in Pagan
Iaitds. sketches the following graphic but
ieafiaElpietures: .ag 4aaH Blafi ROD
it"Siurn voars eyes backward upon the
scenes Of the past year. Go with me
into The Northwest provinces of the Ben
cal presidency. and | will show you the
bleacIled skeletons of five hundred thous-
and human beings, who persisted of hun
ger in lhe space of few short months.
Yes, died Of hunger, in what has been
justly called the granary of the world.
The air, for miles, was poisoned with
the effiuvia emitted from the purifying
bodies Of the dead--'rhe rivers were
chokea with the corpses thrown into their
channels. Mothers cast their little ones
beneath the rolling waves because they
would not see them draw their last gasp
and feel them stiffen in their arms
Jackalls and vultures approached and
fastened upon the bodies Of men, women
and children, before life was extinct.
Madness. disease, and despair stalked a
broad. and no human power present to
-arresi3theirprngress.' !. And this occur
.Fed in British India, in the reign Of Vic.
tcria the first.-Nor was the event ex-
traordinarv or unforeseen. Far from it.
Eighteen hundred 'thirty-fve, witnessed
a famine in the northern provinces.
Eighteen hundred thirty-three, beheld
one in the eatearn provinces. Eighteen
hundred and twenty-five, saw one in the
Ocean. They have continued toincrease
in frequency and extent under our sway
for more than half a century. Under the
administrator of Lord Give. famine
in the Bengal provinces swept off three
millions and, at that time, the British
SPECTATORS in India had their granaries
filed to depletion with corn Eorrid
monopoly of the necessaries of life!
Three millions died, while there was
food enough, and to spare, locked up in
the st0re-houses of the rich. To add
to the horror which we are now called
to regard the last dreadful carnage-(that
iofa last year, we are made acquainted,
by the returns of the custom-house, with
the fact that as much grain was exported
from the lower parts Of Bengal as would
have fed the half million who persisted,
for whole year, oa4Jouradl.
The loco focos call the Wings 'sa pie
bald party" What manner Of party are
the loco focos themselves Z! Can any de-
scription of it be more graphic or more
true than the annexed, from the Rich
mond Whig2
There are Federalists, Wall, Buchan-
an. Ingersoll, fancy, Rush, Van Buren,,
&c. Natltifres-the Charleston Mercu-
ry and its squad. .Abohfionisfs-Dun-.
can. Morris, Tappan, Woodbury., &C.
.fmalgansafioaists- Col. johnson and
family .-.agrarin,s and intfdets-Fanny
Wright. Kendall, Owen, Ming, DC. Rag,
tag and Bobtaiis Blair and the Kitchen
Cabinet; and last, though not least Con-
seruafive, Ritchie--all bound together Tin
the LANGUAGE Of Mr. Caihonn) shy the CO.
hesiive power. Of the public plumber"
Cause Of the ouershro,, Of the Loco
Focos. The United States District At
torney, in conversation with a gentleman
in the city on Thursday last, respecting
The cause Of the defeat of his party. in
reply to a question, remarked that there
were some local causes, some general
rauses, and variety Of other causes,
which he did not exactly know. - Hart
ford Coarant. So oss