The New Hampshire Gazette

A STARVING PEOPLE.—A letter has been received from the American Consul at Villa de Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Verds, dated April 24th, giving information that the inhabitants of Fogo, an island in the neighborhood, containing 12,000 people, were on the verge of starvation; that fifteen die daily, and that the survivors were so weak and emaciated as hardly to be able to bury their dead. Every thing in the shape of a crop had entirely failed, owing to the absence of rain for a whole year. The provisions on the island would not suffice for a week's sustenance; and all that was carried there came from St. Jago, which was poorly able to supply it. The Portuguese government was too wretched to afford any present aid. The commandant of the United States ship Peacock had touched at St. Jago, and left there 150 of the islanders, with a small supply of provisions. The writer states that, without rain, St. Jago will be shortly in a condition quite as wretched as Fogo.—Transcript.