The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1874-03-26
The DcEca! Eau.ic.

The latest Intelligence from The East
bat too certainly eauirms The apprehsn-
sions which have Ter months existed OF
terrible and wide spreading, is;nino in
iiinGoostan. Again and again III Q the
London papers depic:cd the ioreshadow
ed horrors in all their gh.;silv detail,
and iHplored the Government, both al
home and in Calcutta, 10 spare TO eifoit
ard stint no money, and hesitate II no
law, which might lessen the extent anJ
check tho ravsgrs OF this vast mis-
fortune. IL ilas been seen irom The first
that the rice crop of Bengal would iui !;
that in ,naav places it wonid be below n
quarter of the az craze, and thai IN most
of the provinces il would il! below one
;liir1i. Thus ine primitive and staple
scstenance ut millions Ut liinGoOs mus,
inevitably be cut off AMI Bengal, in
stead of exporting ustinspori immense
quantities ofthe nn;r.tions grain. There
can be but little doubt thar II sas, forty
millions of human beings--npapuia,ion
cquai to that OF tic United sStates-are
to be in danger of death by hunger.
Compared with this tie great Injian
famine of atsntary ego, that more 70
Gently in'IS66, and the ,s'c famine in
Persia. were bagatcls. Lord Nsrth-
brook, 1T Calcutta, ard The lad an O:,ioe,
in London, have probably used untIring
diligence to at least lessen the giant evil
Seventy thousand ions of grain have
been sent every week INTO tho Ganges
valleys and nearly a million tons o.
material FOR food rsast by this time he
collected in the great store-hcuses of
Galcutia and Madras. But even these
accupUlaiions can feed but very small
portion OF the afflicted multitude and
it is strange to learn that the Governor
General has omitted 10 take one ste,i'
which might have bad a beneficial effect
At the very time the Besgalees are
starving for wan, et rice, Bengal rice is
being imported ihto Liverpool. At the
moment the Calcutta authorities are
.,rlining every nerve TO aceHH,siAie aac
dispense food, and are .deIasnsins il
from Australia, the Duseb, and MALAY
island, aHd the Vest indies, Caleutta
merchants are cody shipping rice TO
Englnnd. A vote OF ;hs council might
place prohibiiiYe .jaty upon. surl, OK
porlaiions; bri as far as has iransfired
no such action kas been taken.
England may well Wow with alarm
the in pending danger Of the csslcr.ii- ~
mighty The ASPECT ot terrible death
overhanging such u,aitiiHdes is awful
Ncreover. il Is for highlands profound
est interest, not only phiiantbropicslly
f.,,f .,,,l;sicalty .h.t This sitouisI BE- ayc-f
ed. Sire has tssen upon herself the
and caro- OF fhz; grea;
tcesriDg peninsula; shs has ca.asTe; in-
c .lculab,e wealth fran her dominion
there; Ter commercial aud military i'm.
porIsrce has been largely derived ..afa
her Indian Dependency and upon her
now lies the responsibility 81 feeding
the dependent r@rc. Shsal5 she f.il.
add famine desosste the land, aasi .h-us
ands die under hc- eyes, her prestige
and pewer IA uindoossaa sili bc In se-
rioas danger. The ssperslrioux reyer-
epre OF The Einjoo tor ;s5 ornaipofeaes
OF The Eng.isaEaan vii perhaps aitogesis-
er rasish- England has To tear. sitter
the farasse, issarrsesine aud inssrrcrS
tien now spread over territory ~ sasi.
aud Il; I tins when Rrss.7 i posted,
wa,ekfrI, jealous ard ready To seizs
every advantage, Jus. over The Hi,soo
k.esh. may no; unlikely he fatal, aad
&c ass a; least - Terrible esssa f,sxf-
Secretary Richardson is - The opsn-
ION that the ~emaas crrsate vfhre.Es