Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-27

condition bordering on actual starvation. The
papers from those quarters we receive in ex-
change tell tale of the state Of things there
sufficient to make those in this region shudder,
who, be the vicissitudes Of the seasons what
they may, never experience actual Vant of the
necessaries of life. According to the New York
E0e~t"g Post, which journal has carefully col
lec.ed statistics bearing on this subject
"ln Iowa the traveller finds no hay or straw for
horses at any Of the hotels. At Des Moines corn
Is considered cheap at two dollars and can scarce
ly oe had at that IL is reported that five dollars
Is the regular price in many places between there
ana Council Bluffs Dead horses and cattle along
the road are said to be ordinary sights Wheat
seems TO be nearly scarce as corn or hay Flour
IL selling at five dollars and five dollars Der hum
dred and rising. High as this price is, farmers
horses wheat
The suffering in Michigan has been so ex
IRENE that public meetings have been held and
measure taken by the public authorities for
Lansing report that in Gratiot county people were
selling their land for means 10 get away with
that none have provisions to last than two or
three weeks. What they have, consists of tonr
and meal merely; they have no meat, the smoke
last fall from the extensive fires having driven oil
the deer.
80 One OF the most substantial farmers I'm the
town OF Arcadia reports that i'm his neiphborhood
most of the families have only a few potatoes Ieft
Tor seed they have divided with each other until
they can divide no more, and have seed to plant
Zach has from one to three bushels He had Last
season one and half acres OF fine corn, that WIS
cut OF by an early frost when il was in the milk.
and hr could only use il for provender for his
cattle The cattle have had TO subsist mostly
through the winter OH browse He has hea rd of
neighborhoods north of him, from ten to thirty
aud even sixty miles. that have nothing but oats
to boil for food, and that one woman and two or
three children west of him, in Montcalm county
had died for want of food
q" Samuel Hewlett. one of the leading butchers
OF Detroit, returning from bushes trip throuy n
The north part Of Macomb county. in the same
state reports to the editor of the Detroit Adver-
user That he was compelled to ride miles in order
10 ma feed for his horse He says that the cat
We anu horses are suffering greatly, and that the
nmtrP ana lambs are the scours by the hundred
MS state OF things he reports upon his own OBJ
seiNa.ioh ana adds that he saw a number Of per-
SOILS lIoih the county OF Lapeer, ad jacent, who
say n amat lduels are much worse there
The Advertiser attributes the excess;ve so,,
causes. IL says: 'A
The pervading fires Of 1876 the heavy An
gust frost, which cut of corn and buck wheat
and nearly ruined potatoes, the miserable crons
of other vegetables, and bitter winter. have
: combined to depress the standard of life 10 a
: point Of absolute starvation. The worst has no,
come. The cattle can begin to live II IL true
and the milk will help out the fare Of the Door
children; but a large portion of the cows are
dead, and IL will be two months before the
ground will yield anything upon which human
beings can rely for support
"ln Tennessee, things are In a still Worse con-