The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-30
'iour Poor Old World.

'-,G al Our Poor Old World.
War, famine, fire, flood and pestilence, arc
evils which perpetually aflict the human race
Within the present year, our poor ola world
in one place or another, has suffered from the
rayages of all of them.; 90.
In Persia, for many months past, there has
been famine of the most appalling character
which has swept the entire length and breadth
of the country. 1t is one of those destructive
famines which have appeared from time to time
in the Oriental countries during all the ages OF
their history. 1t was said short time age
that exaggerated accounts of it had been pub
lished; but the recent reports of its ravages
which have been received from official sources,
leave no doubt that the actual facts OF the case
are far more horrible than previously repre-,
sented, or than can be represented. Tens OF
thousands have perished by starvation, amid
circumstances inexpressibly shocking, and it
appears as though the entire country would be
depopulated, for, at the date of our latest ad-
vices, the famine continued .unabated. The
government of Persia is despotlsm OF the
Oriental type, and, instead OF adopting lntelll-
gent means to relieve the sutterlngs OF the peo-
Pile, it seems to increase Its exactlons ana op-
pressions to greater degree than ever.
From China, we have accounts OF the de-
structiye. foundations which have swept oyer
the north, They have, resulted in fearful
amountof suffering, and q very great loss OF
life in those densely populated regions; the
people of entire districts have been impover-
ished by these floods. They have swept away
whole villages, destroyed crops, and left moth.
ing behind them but desolation. We have
read letters describing the scenes witnessed in
some of these localities, and we will only say
that they were fearful beyond description.
In the United States, the ravages OF flre du-
ring the last two months have been immense
and terrible, OF course the most memorable
and impressive incident is the great Chicago
'conhagration !; but the tremendous forest hires
in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, which
nave ragged over thousands of miles, have been
far more destructive to life, if not to property.
Hundreds of people have perished in them
two villages, with nearly all Of their inhabi-
tants, have been wholly consumed; thousands
of farmers, with their families have been COM
pelled to fly for their lives before the deyouTing
flames: and innumerable farms, with their
crops and stock have been blasted and destroy.
ed. The immense extent of these fires, and
the appalling suffering that has resulted from
them, has hardly yet been realized by the
American people. s.: -'', 'l"'3i !
q! From pestilence in one form or another,. sew
eral countries of the world have suffered fear
fully during the year. The cholera which
along with famine, ragged in Persia, Passeo
through Russia with Limited fatality in July
and soon after appeared in several parts o.
Pralsssiia, where it Counted its victims BY thou
sands It appeared for a time as though Il
would break out in France and Great Britain
| from whenes It could very easily have passeo
to America, ibutits progress was providentinlS
stopped before reaching these countries. Ihe
most terrible display Of the power Of the
plague, this year, however, has been In South south
America, in the vicinity of Buenos Ayres, ane
T in that city ITSELF We have only lately re-
I cceived Buenos Ayfes papers containing &C
Fc3unts. of its ravaEes there during the first hal
of The year, or from January to May. q Within
that time, nearly thirty thousand victims o
the yellow fever perished, of whom twenty-five
thousand were buried in one cemetery hun
dred Thousand people fed from the city; al
business was for time suspended; and so ter
rible. were the scenes that many men wen
crazy. The disease also ragged in, several small
towns, carrying off their inhabitants by hun
dreds and the alarm which the plague ha
spread1thFough the whole Argentine Republic
is painful to read about, M .o ~: u a,.,i..t
l., Of the wars which during the year have
| afflicted q portion Of the human race, we hay'
I flately spoken SO fully that it is not necessar.
at this time to make any reference to them.
Thus it appears that our poor old world
| Notwithstanding the great discoveries OF seiene
and the great advance of civilization-is still
| doomed to- suffer from famine, food, fire, pes
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