New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-25
TIE DESTI7UTION IN NORTHERN
MICHIGAN.
From me Detyot PdpeyG


Advices continue to come from all quarters fully
substantiatng all the statements that have heretofore
been made relative TO the pressing needs OF the people
in the northern part Of the Shte
A letter from q. w. BulOk OF Saginaw City, re-
ceyed Yesterday q. m, stats in general terms that
there is much suffering in Gnot, Tuscoa and Isabella
Counties especially among stock OF all kinds. The
people are extremely short # provisions. Men have
been sent into Tuscola Isabella to ascertain the
facts. Committees have ben organized IN Saginaw
City for the purposes Of distribution.
In the north part of Naomi County the stock is
diving off for want of food md from disease created
by supply. This is esecialy the tact with sheep
There is no hay, and cattle and horses 1--we only by
gnawng at the ground for he slowly starting grass;
Mr. Higham, Chief EDgner Of the Detroit and Nil
waukee Railway, who refined Tuesday evening from
Fish Creek reports that he statements IN regard to
the suffering in that region are not al al exaggerated
Mr.. ii. stayed at Mather0n on Monday nignt, ana
saws he could not get anyway for his horses He says
man came in Monday n5ht from north OF that place
with yoke Of whic he turned loose In the road
10 shrk tor Themselves. Mr.. Smith who keeps the
hotel at that place relatd to Mr.. Hgham, instances
where whole families hai subsisted Tor Gays on no.
thing but maple sugar. One man came IN rom Few
miles north and asked Nj Smith for something TO eat,
having had nothing for dys. When he sat down to
dinner of meat victual, the recolecuons that ms
family and neghbOrs wee starving AT hOme so over
came him as 10 drive Authorization for food from nm
Mr. Higham thinks grain for seed and potatoes ougni
10 be out immed daily, else they WIN De UNABLE
TO raise any crops and mother winter VIII nhu them
as destitute they are low. $3.50
The following letter WIS received IN morning rom
Rev. NJ. Hickey by the Executive Cominntee, VINO
are doing everything in their power TO procure ana
forward supplies:
"MAply RAPIDS Monday, May 1910 P. NJ.
81 left ST. Johns at this morning on horseback
Two miles from st. johns, met TWO men-L1 W.
Shaver and Jerry broters-irO ioWu -, Nv, @
with yoke of oxen. They had borrowed kind Of
wagon three mee from st. johns, and were gong 20
town TO buy their load The eldest oiOtne' 5aiu us
family consisted Of wife and nine ehldreh. ne Seme
in from NewYoIk last Fall haa asea up
had borrowed till bis nghbors had no more 70 spare
About a month ago. be saw.what would De ms coni-
ton unless be got rdief abroad. ne wrote % ms
friends in New-York and received soo anu was no"
going 10 buy provision: for Instantly anu us
WHO was with him. These men appeared canuu anu
honest They saw no one knows, out OF the woods
the scarcity Of food which there IS al through uraoI
and Isabella Counties They state that the catte are
gaining now on greeu food and Will 'oon Dc ao'e 10
draw small loads.
had been up into Town 10 n, W., near Bad River
to take two or three passspgers. Inc oh'Sl soiu a.
the house where he stayed last SATURDAY hlnt ~ 'ia
town, he saw people come to the house ana asa ~.
bread that had not had any in their houses Tor rom
one 10 three weeks. They looked hsggsrd; they hal
subsisted on boiled leeks and roots; they wept In
stating their wants. IN.
90 Al noon took dinner at Fl. Bensdicts, near ma
pie Rapids. Mr. B. has been in the country ~ years
i eDterprsing farmer, and has niue SORE ne .hs Is
bringing in -four and meal to supply tne PeoPo ~ VIC
woods He sells -four here at - ~ per oarei- saw
Eve men apply for aour on foot horseback and with
teams. Mr.. b. had but one barrel on nand. one man
wanted this, but Mr. B. said he must divide II among
the applicants. He has two tuns oil meai cons 80. ~
and 20 barrels Of -four. / made arrangements win
Mr. B. to store wha. the Detroit frienos and others
may send out.
'Mr. B. pledged that Whist might be sent out on the
cars, If ,s{t two miles west q ST. JONAS where b ala