Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-14
INDIA
A Doomed People-The Greater
gicsGs Part Must Die. 4

NEW YORK, Nov. l2.-The TIMES
correspondent gives the following inter
esting particulars of the great famine IN
India erts.,.,
A Calcutta paper Of August 10th says
that 10000 paupers from the famine
stricken region have inundated Calcutta,
and the arrivals are reekoned at zoo a
day. We have, on the highest authority,
irightful picture of the prevailing des-
titution, especially in Calcutta 1t
would be difficult TO exaggerate the mag.
nitude and extent OF the calamity All
! the accounts have seen have moderated
it
1t is difficult 10 obtain reliable status,
ties as to the mortality from famine ana
cholera occasioned ey It but All that /
have seen and heard has convinced me
that it has been on scale OF irighini
magnitude There sre stu tour long,
dark months before us; though Tor a
month past there has seemed some silght
abatement IN the distress IN the TOUR ais-
tricts OF Batazor, Mednapore, Sarum,
and Tirahout. Over 40 ,Ooo non-iaeor.rg
paupers were pesng asi'y reheved ad IA me
latter part OF July; besides ioOo VINO
we're able to make some return ior 1000
by working f.i,ta.h, =,
A week later we ma "a, Oou dairy re-
heved in Batazore ana Aidnapore alone
while Poore ana Nuada add it,VVu more
10 the sad hst -
1t Is believed that IN Sattaek Inc ma,
Jority OF the people must que oeiore reiiei
can reach them while iuvV persons
day were perishiug at the single s'Suon
OF Batazore. a Fessei, the iaeal Cain'
which was bringing them 1000 was urlveh
OIL BY storm ana eompeileu 10 'nroW
overheard iooo bags OF rice -, :,
But this 10 not aii,l ano pessipiy not tnei
worst Inc new crop OF rice VIII soon
be obtained. but IL is likeiy 10 aud ne"
source OF damage ior, lAeAlne o'ner
food, the poor people VIII ue'our u IN us
unmatured and nnwnoiesome state, ana
dreadful pesulleAnpee VIII prooaoiy mus
De Pfouuceu, ..tFnf
Unit! the land can be covered with
network OF raiireaas ana canals mere
seems no escape rom the frequent repe-
luton OF sncn cAiamines' anu tna' uay Is
tar distant, a-rfg
Another account says; Wnen tne IAN
Inc was al its nignt Tue starving poor, we
are told, crowded INTO me streets Oh Cai-
cutta ana II was esIiinated tnat no lever
than Z0,V0o 10 Lo,uvo Starving people
were wandering ABOUT the csplal
AT Muliick Onat, where the BOMBAY
merchants raised q innd ana distributed n
food, there were at one ume .VOO lam
ishing, applicants CROWDED up; lney
were described as piace9 III orusr upon
an open space, waiting ior tne g, qis1.lpu-
ton, On one side nearly 4ooo hlndoo',
each with a ieai platter before MN, were
scattered on the wet GROUND, nastiiy par
taking OF the scanf dole they received
On the other SIDE were thousands OF IAN M
ishlng Musseimen, ranged IN IKE man
ner, and watching with silent ana greedy
eagerness the meal OF itheirl hindoo
brethren ana counting WIN oi'Ier iong,
lngs the minutes tii their time should
come, s.It,V, se,Isc,
Under the shelter OF tne uhat croWded
women, and girls and emidren, ana out
side the gates were hundreds and nun
dreds who had lost their chance TIL the
next distribution. Over all horrible
dead silence reigned' there was no
ehattering or conyersation hardly
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