The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1845-09-27
HORRlD SCENES OF WAR.

The editor ofthe Brooklyn Advertiser thinks he +
cav enough of war<fn Bahia, a few years ago, :
to prevent him hereafter from desiring again to 81
witness it's horrors. That city was long encom. ~ ~
passed by sea and land by the forces of power ~
from which the Bahians sought to be indepen- r.
dent Haggard skeletons Of starving women :,
and children crowded the streets in search Of y
food. The putrid carcasses of animals were .
dragged from the river and devoured. Every .
thinS the human stomach was capable Of rec CIV !
ing and digesting was swallowed to allay the ,
cravings Of hunger; and il was tumored and
generally believed, that mothers ate their dead
infants Hunger was alike in the,palace of they
rich man and in the mud howell of the poor
Bahia was Nike a city Of living skeletons. I
Some few vessels not aware Of the blockade,
ran through it in the night time and whatever
provisious they could spare we're given to the
neop,e, II was distressing sight to see a
crowd Of women, and children, and old men,
scarcely able to crsw, made strong by the pros
@nec,s Of little food, rush to the beach and into
the water that contained it. They did not wait
10 cook it. Salt meat, Goldfish, and every thing
else given them. was eaten raw; and then as one
person they fell upon their knees and implored
blessings upon the heads of the donors.
The rich would pay from five to fen dollars
for a hard sea biscuit, and the poor would offer
whatever they prized:most dearly. Boats filed
with starving women and their little ones would
nut off to the ship. Oae woman would hold a
raudy picture OIL. the patron saint of the family
another cross; third, having nothing to par
with, would hold up her DEATH like child, ant
another in touching accents would cry for food
The soldiers, under hose control the city was
only had a regular but scanty supply Of rations
They seem to have no sympathy for the starving
inhabitants.
The opposing armies, numbered each abon
1000 men, for week had been alternately ad
vancing and retreating, a few miles distant fror
the city, iring!continusly through the day. with
out killing dozen men, when one night,
some lucky chance, they each advanced nea-e
to the other, so that at day.break to avoid
battle was impossible. II took place. tn
besiaeers conquered the besieged army, entere
the city, and great were the demonstrations
joy made by the starving women and children
They look upon the conquerors rather as the
deliverers from death and starvation, than the
enemies. Women clasped the soldiers in the
arms, and said to their little ones, "Now ye
shall have food-you will not de-" The tie
of battle was visited the same eyenng-and, {
God! what scene was there presented Des
and the dying-friends and foe, lay there togetl
er. Death on the battle field however SCENE
less horrible than death by famine in the cit
The next morning after the battle, the conque
ors shot numbers of prisoners within the wal
efthe navy yard. All this is the natural col
sequence Of war.
The ALLIGATOR POM AT KuRRAcHEE.-l
this pond about fifty aIligators are kept, sever
Of which are more than twenty feet long. The
animals are accounted sacred, and the plIgr't