New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-16
SUFFERING In KANSAS.

We u axe the following extracts from private let
ter Just received from Trustworthy friend now travel
g in Kansas, in order that the friends Of Freedom
who give fol the relief Of suffering in that region may
be sure that their bounty is rea y needed. thou
saBd similar viii exist after all that can be shall
have been dome for the relief Of the heroic band who
are holding that lovely land for the Free Labor Of fu
ture generations
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Nov &c, 1856.
This afternoon visited, among others, on
the outskirts Of LAWYER ee, family. Approaching IT
from the open prairie found little shake house
shaped like the letter A; il was perhaps III feet square
From oil quarters the wind poured into and through 1t
through sieye. Light could be seen penetrating
il in every dirt ctiop One bed, with scanty covering
stood Ia the corner but clear mind you for this
New .EDglsnd family. With stove possessing four
times the capacity Of that with which partial warmth
have been heated. Beside it, rhivering in their sam
me earb sat two pretty girls as any days ride la
any country could discover they were fro N Maine
the elder about 10 the younger about H. There was
f.et comfortable r. said l. looking down upon the
earth floor, over which waves Of air were
sweeping. NO" she reeplied IL suffer very
uuch from chillblains. We were so cold last
Winter that my feet most froze. don't know what
We sball do this Winter it should be very cold, FIR
it is impossible to keep warm, even when sitting by
the stove with shawl on" The poor thing had
sca1ty Il in covering Oh her shoulders which Sue called
a shawl Pointing to pair of boffalo overshoes on
my feet said would not such PAIR keep your feet
warm "Oh! amt that delightful" said the poor
thing with uDsfected pleasure and surprise, - guess
they would how nice they would be! Wei, my
dear girl raid your house evidently needs improving
in some way end you both require more clothing; and
now paroo me for seeming to be inquisitive but
should like TO know what provisions you have In the
house 1--WE have" said che, i" little -four remain
ing Of the haf sack which father got from the Com
miee but very little sugar, and let me seeIwel this
is pretty much ell Yes" she added, I'VE ave some
IL, house fat lerk on d L
sateo it, We have two remaining, and our COW gives
milk not very much now, for we have had TO keep her
corn and the neghbols too. But our corn, after all,
was mostly destroyed by other peoples cattle getting
in ard now we have hardly enough TO last over the
Winter for the COW and pigs. For ourselves we have
none. Father ha.n't been able to get very good
fence around claim, and tina; is the reason the
cattle got in" But YOU can't stay in th tie hut tds
Win ter i said to them. =" don't kros how we
tb.ll make it warm, replied the elder of the girls
81 told father the other Light, when it sormed and
blew co. that could not bear it any longer and would
rather 20 East move out somewhere. But if we do
somebody will jump our clam, and 1t /. too valuable
to looie after We have suffered 3. much to keep IT,
yes" said the younger, speaking With emphasis,
while her fine, large eyes spark with patriotism,
"yes We must stay, we cannot leave for il is Pro-
Slavery man who wants 10 jump it, and We don't mean
70 Jet HIM"
looked al these Two beautiful ard intelligent girls,
s clad in the babiliments Of SIMMER; looked jus'
above, snd scarcely above, my head at few shaky
be ards or shingles laid ac oss come slender poles,
where at night the poor old father crept up, with his
only son, little, hsf:elad lad Of thirteen,,to SILVER
Il rough tie dark and dreary hours; looked at the
clean hay bed in the corner with .rcey half covering
tpoueh TO keep thee poor girls warm on any ordinary
night Of Winter, and in any ordinary mouse looked
a; The scariy cupboard in the corner, few rough
shelves and 10 doors few olea1 plates with nothing
on locked at the earth floor at the cheeTl.ss stove,
ard up end all around at or sex and cevce and crany
tLron5h WHICH poured even now in stil wind tune,
eli u prophecies of drcary, whstliDg, tenumbing,
wipt1y bla.ts; and then looked once more nto the
op D arless count.nances of these two New. England
sils ana he lard hemsay I'VE must stay here because
". GO Pro Slavery man i'll get the ground = add
s ttlt ID their sseriice FIR Freedom their quiet de-
yoon, wsy from the eye Of the world, to great pra-
cple-a devotion unaloy cd by amblooa devotion I'M
al n,self ard blushed think OF what had consider
I'd MY sacrifices.