Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-17
GAUN'r FAMINE.

when, as now, The cry of iaa.ino has
gono up from 80 many diffsrept,quar-
ters. In Algeria, the suflcrings of the
Arabs havo been, and continue to be
terrible, two hundred thousand OF
them, it is computed, having pcrishcd
from starvation. In parts OF Eng
Ii"d the d.s:i!utiou Is extreme, and
:hc condition Of large sections OF the
people, always poor, is now more than
usually dcplorablc. Somo of tho dis
trc;s OF France arc scourged in the
same way. Bat it is in parts of Cor
many and Eastern Europe that the
misery and distrcss arc most iutcnsi-
lied at least tho horrors o. Tho stu
alton il those regions are brought
moro home. to the sonse of The Euro.
; pcan public. East Prussia is q 4. :. rked
victim Of this awful visitation. 1t is
hardly conceivable that under such Il
Government as Prussia, aud mony
such people as the Prussians, hamap
misery anl'w could attain suchA
height. In Western Prussia, The facts
could net, for long. time, gain belief.
For some tine the Government denied
their existence, or treated tho reports
as gross cNassggcrations, though, doubt
lcss, it could not have been ignorant
OF their truth-a truth which, it could
not but feel, was reflection upon the
character OF tho administration aud
even upon the Natl ,naI character.
In one district, Gcrmb;nucn, there
arc $50 little villages and 100000
destitute people. Literally it may bs
said that nc;try al these people arc at
the Starvation point. They arc clAs-
s:iicd IS snail farmers who may by
possibility, without aiI from abroad,
boab!e TO exist through the severe
months till next harvest; laboring
farm hands heretofore subsistcd by
their cmployer but now necessarily
discharged; and lastly, small trades
poopic in the villages. OF tho intcn-
sjty Of suffering somo idea may bc
formed from the following account OF
intelligent ego witnesses, whose re-
port appears in the Berlin corrcspon
denco of the New York Times:
"They (the viIlages) lay before us
like the torsakon dwellings Of gyp-
sy triDo, and reminded US of 4 ceme-
terry by their lonely and forsaken as
pect. Tpcrc was not to be discovered
a single token Of the usual village life.
OGtside tho huts there was not shed
TO be iouad, nor less u tree, for every
piece Of wood had been Used for fro.
wood. Tho hu,s themselves were
built Of mud and covered with straw,
and seemed TO be scarcely fit for cat
tie, still less for human beings. Here
and there even the roof straw had
been partly removed to make litter
for the COW, which the proprietor has
managed 70 keep alivo. The partially
covered part Of the hut is occupied
by mon and cattle. On entering
abodes of this kiud one would not
thinkit possible that men could lisc
thore. Z AZ : : 4 E
Tho barking ofsdogs does moi vel
come you, for these poor animals have
been killed and eaten long since.-
Neither 90 YOU hear tho Growing Of
the cock, for. he and his wives are gone
with tho dogs. No human boing is to
be seen in the strCots nor cvon at the
windows; and as even at dinner-.ime
no chimney is smoking, ono would
think tho village iorsakcn. On critcr-
ing more than twenty such 'huts in!
ono village, wo discovered shat ..thoy
were tenanted. We found ~pcHsops.oi
both ssxcs and sa!kngosL mps.ly sl1cl-
etons; even tho children boro deep
despair qf stupid torEiNty in theis
faces. A fcw non And WOMEN were
spinning oakurn, furnished thom by
one Of tue committees, by doing which
whole family may earn thrco Or four
ss";' ~s: ON, on 'ssE slsgs 1A 1a Gs
soaked WjLA- weterto such q dqgree
Tint ths fefootcd SRAdr6n $stSSsiA
it up to thoir ankles, and 1hatin holes
without fire at a fefnptrature.seseraf
degroosbfe!lpY seros, AAtv ..AYshap ssuraV,
s:s', sss; sk$s'i s1 e|sa5~ !! is :ss.s
and the air is truly pcstilontiak It is
wonderful how, nc nsi d can sdsist 10 sasb
an atmosphere, for it is more intoler-
ss's scssI:Ry, astsgs T. IN
Soup furnished by tho soup kitchens, :,
established BY sthe .9utlsy of , 30e, 900
thal0rs 4sntllo9ed above. WI doul$
not discover in this cruel a trace Of
fat, afldipoor ssaYrEaA itssdistribssjon
was made with e4tteme ApsrsimShy.
Only aged persons and children are
ensftcd TO is, s,gndtwo-rtHtdrurrecstvs
| ohA f1itit q day. We3jsau- M ia rafIo