The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-11-06
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holding 81 Tie rains Nhlie d season
may be unusually dry IN Orissa, as tht
past wear, al Northern India may bt
flooded But whenever famine pre-.
yal.- IS almost always from the fact
that the rams haTe not been az album
dant as is their custom Sometimes
however an excessive rain floods the
rice lands until the season is passed, 81
it sometimes happens that Just after th,
planting Of the grain, long continued
heavy showers overflow the country
aud cause the young plants to rot
Rice being the chief article Of food
any diniDuton IN its harvest crop must
at once be seriously felt If, as m om
country, the inhabitants Of India wcrs
accustomed To variety in their food, ;
los If any one crop would be less seri
GUS But All, high and low, rich anl
poor, love rice. II is the foundation %
every full meal being seasoned with I
little squash or fish among the poorer
and With fish, vegetable or flesh among
the better claasos, as they might be Hin
doc, or Mahomo.an. The country il
most sections IS oyer-stockcd with pop
ulation livery years supply is eater
up closely ere the following ycn's har
west has been gathered. In some parti
Of India, the poorer loboring clusses
even in the best Of times, are compelled
to live on ono meal a day drinking tn,
water in which the rice was boiled, fol
a lunch, il we may use a word which il
our language has IN idea Of substance
! 1t VIII not be difficult to form pietur,
IN the mind Of the personal appearance,
Of such class. They are lanb and leal
1 like the poor kline ID Pharaoh's dream
/ One may count all their bones. Thei
Ieyes are sunken in the sockets The,
Iare many Ct them skeletons Of wha
man should be. To pinch people il
Isuch condition il about the same thin,
as to tell them death is as their doors
/ Wages are o low, being nom six 10 tel
cents pen day, that the labOrcrs canno
1 buy rice when itiisls above u certaii
price, and therefore, It would not be O
|much use to import the grain from 9th
Ter Provinces, where there is more album
dance, except for charitable purposes
For ,hese various reasons, 10 place j
tho world las so much cause to dfcat
the approach Of famine as India II th
result S ended with the suffering OF til
death Of HE people at the time th
event might be less dreaded, but III
long train OF evils which follow, are a
much TO be feared as the presence q
the famine IFS IT, Many sen an thci
houses, lands, cattle, cooking dishes
many arc compelled to mortgage them
selves ana 50 toll for years TO cameo
debt. Disease in every variety spring
mp in this It's seed tima and dysoatory
4 cholera, leyers are gathered as the hm
west. So India is at once The land @
I life and the valley the shadow Of death
Nowhere is there more lusury, no
where can there be more misery Cal
We wonder that so many are ready Il
accept the horrors Of The emigration
scheme, to better their condition?