New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-20
rnr rAAnNF IN INDIA.

The Times correspondent writing on the 5th
alt from Calcutta. says: But the dearh I'D hapootana
and some parts OF Central India Is terrible ana cannot
be prevented now. Deserted villages dying ana oeau
cattle and whole population emigrating 10 more Ia
vored regions, old and young totteTlhe aong nun No.
iStie money on which they had 10 subsst LOT Weehs
p a., ~ y,ectace presented in such states as Marwar
Rhaneer s6ckawnttce. and Jessumere, the worst Coy
armed not only IN India but IN ASIA IN Inc w! VI -
80 tbe caDitai OF Marwar where there u SIMPLY 40
Eorernutent me RANGES and Court favOreS lllelIec
with tile food market, and the poor uHIaso " ,,b or
nv carrying wafer from distance at d. per gurIah ot
earhen pot "MaTwaT" saws the highest hu t I'm, v
the spot win shortly be wilderness Wlie w P ot
lton who must manage TO live WI HsAt i c
ported utterly incapable OF gOYetnlns} ~ nj bv or
sas kept from open rebellion against nm 9ig b
political agent was regret to say honOIeue WI, I
highest class Of the most exalted Order or to 0 0t m
Scotland with half tie population OF that country, anu
his revenue is Rl75GO year; his sons hye Dy vo
roblerv Col Kcatinge Is carrying out IeLCl MO4h
wherever he can do So TIC purely British districts OF
Ajmere and Mharwara the latter OF wl'e vii he
saved 0nly by the tanks which were made iohg ago ~
So b nan @ 9e1ded nv M into noble aIa 10y
who can be trusted 70 help themselves. $500 ,.
THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES TO MEET THE FAMlNE.
ne ZINES correspondent writing on the Oh Oct rom
Calcutta says that in It's resolution" the government
Of India c0ntempates not only the destruction OF me
kAsgeef Autumn crop which In many places IS no"
inevitable but that more dreaded IaluIe OF the
or Spring CROP OF which wrote some weeks ago Inc
pressure will increase tn November before which time
cannot DC certain regarding the 1utuIe wen n tn9
oped 50 that grain may be poured into the afflicted o
trlcts by railways which now traverse OF OOSct
them. except IN feudatOry States Prices show mat
there "a good stock OF wheat the DOHb between the
Tnmna the Ganges, bat the cost or the Two efas
which form the staple OF the peoples food JON9f ana
Dagee, doubled between January ana July, ana went
up. stn further IN August and September What
tins means for millions Of the labOrng
classes WHO live from hand 20 mouth yon may imagine
Not unly have railways SPREAD Lahore ana mfltSf
beng almost practically linked on 10 Delhi hut the area
Irrigated Oy the Gauges canal has nearly doubted since
the last great famine of lsJO6l The DOab is ia al res
poets unlike Orssa, being so open to markets on al
sides that the law OF supply and demand may be SlC
50 operate unchecked almost as IN England, WLth ue
ponds OF he Of the world FOR It's food quite as much
famine .strckea district In India Accordingly, re,
lief II required had best assume the form OF money ptd
fer public works. and the local governments have been
told begin such works wherever scarcity develops IL
self and to eall IN the and Of civil military aud railway
officials il necessary. The projected railways ana eanhs
~ Dude. ROhcund, the DOab Bundecund, and elsewhere
to be utilized and pushed on IN this way govern
mcnt is 20 give Il rupee for every rupee contributed by
the public in addition to all this Altogether the orders
ISSUED mastery, and they have been prompt: We
RAY assured that mortality and intense suffering
will be confined 10 native States.