The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-19

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datesnhsw that at tWenty.t two PLACES
Il7,473 poor are daily fed, IN additioh
10 thessiek IN the hospItala ana as
this nnmbef Is increasing by about
two hundred and fifty a day, IT may
be said that twenty thousand starye-
liaes. are now .subsisting on charity
I dsiIv n Calcutta. A sum Of Rl50,000
ID required 10 gEapple WIN the misery,
1 aud Of this, Wlfhln TOUR uHyF OF the
/ meeting being held, more than one
half has beet. subscribed
The most important work the new
| committee have 10 do ID to organize "A
system Of relief. The natives hitherto
have done as much evil as good by
feeding all who apply lndlkeriminately,.
50 that the many professional beggars
aud rascals OF the great city and the
vicinity too often exclude the deaery-
ing, aud by giving the food at differ
ent times, 80 that bands Of sGoundreis
have been wandering from relief sta
ton TO relief station IN the same day.
Recently thirty-tw0 weak famine
stricken wretches were trnmpled To
death la the rush Of these lnsty idlers
for food The public committee has
arranged that tickets shall be given
only to tho deserving, that none but
ticket holders shall be fed, aud that
all must be fed al one hour through
out the city None will be allowed
shelter from the rain aud cold night
air, which kills 10 many, in the public
sheds. constructed co accommodate
| 10000, ind Ia the panper camp out
side the city, except those who have
| tickets, As many poor as can be Ia.
du6ed to go will Be sent back to their
| homes 10 be relieved there, and the
IlhhHx will be arrested by establishing
relief outpoats ilt such places as Ooba-
baria, the ferry Hooghly, by which
hundreds, flock from Midnapore and
| OriaAa. A relief agent was sent there,
aud this Ii his tale: On landing from
the boat at sunrise, the first object
he saw San elderly woman in
La ghahtly. state Of cancellation, and
lying hdpelbsaly doubled up on
the wet ground al the road.
side, where she had apparehtly passed
the night. Thia was IN the midst Of 4
crowded bazaar Further on lay an
other woman and child in the Same
state. Near them lay the ghost like
figure of man worn TO the bone,
naked and etih, lying in, puddle.
About to pass Il by as q corpse, the
agent discovered ono spark Of life
Hil left, found that there was no doc
tor nearer than at Howrah, several
miles away, and had all these cases
removed into hut. The NATIVE P0-
lice inspector and his men looked on
with stolid indifference. While sago
was being prepared for. the poor
wretohes who were too far gone 10 eat
rice the man died, and from another
part Of the road a woman began TINT
piercing. shrill Oriental vail for her
boy Of eight, who had just breathed
his last, IL 1850 common for eight or
ten 10 die daily in the streets OF this
village that no one takes notice. You
will have more vivid idea Of the
state of the poor in Calcutta than
even the fact that 10000 are daily fed
by charity when 1 say that the num-
Der OF pauper bodies buried al one |
ghaut alone rose from ffty.--at which
y stood last yearrto 329 IN the first
nine days OF this month. On the
10th there were 2,723 native male and
female patients in the different hos
pitalsaf sCalGittas of whom SS7 were
indoor, against 1880 on the same
date last Year, of whom only 300 we're
indoor tigga tHf0a
Now, il this IN the case in Calcutta,
which has'nodamine or scarcity of its
own. what must be the state Of thisgs
IN Orissa2 Que of the Journals has
addressed q series of Qudstions TO the
senior missionary of Cuttack, which
does not suffer more than Pooree, and
very much less than Balasorc. To, q
question as to the action Of the Gov
crnment,. he replies 1.-THE early ut
terances of the Board OF Revenue
furnished melancholy evidence that |
the depth and extent Of the calamity
were wholly unappreciated. Any
representations az to the calamity |
bting comparatively slight or confined |
within narrow limits are wholly con
trary 10 fact. I'VE were surprised ma |
weeks and months passed and no
movement was originated hy the |
proper authorities To the question |
whether relief penetrates into the in
terror from the station, he says il does !
not 10 the extent that in desirable. |
although all the officials and non. Off. |
cials work with praiseworthy energy.
Where there are relief centers the |
entirely destitute are cared for, but
the large and important class who are
not paupers, yet can not buy rice ut
three pounds, four pounds, and FIVE
pounds shilling, arc neglected. The
price Of Government rice should be |
so low us TO meet their case, but this |
authority tells us Il ought to be sold Mt
sn pounds instead of FIVE pounds a
SHILLING, and its DEAFNESS was a cause of
dispute between the official aud nom
4llielal members of the committee.
ms dearness he terms 'the princi-
pa defect n the Government relief. Y
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