Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-29
From the y \ Evening Post.
ssasyas,sn ut the West.

tern States We feel the pres sure here gu the ATTAIN
tic severely but yet there is distress that we ne
aware Of West Of the Aeghanies, however cattle
are perishiag by the hundreds and people pine for
| lack of food
In Iowa The Traveller finds no hay Or straw for hor
sos at any oil the hotel-At Des Moines is con-
! sidcrcd cheap AT two dollars per bushel, aud can
! scarcely be had at that II Is reported that
! five dollars is the regular price in many place
between there and Council Bluffs. Dead horses
aud cattle along the road said to be or1ina-
| ~ sights Wheat seems to be neary scarce
aud hay. Flour Is selling at five dollars aud
fifty cents per hundred and rising this price
is, farmers who could afford II feeding their cur
riage horsas on wheat.
The suffering in Michigan hns been 30 extreme that
public meetings have been held aud measures taken
by the public authorities for relieving the destitute.
The Relief Committee Of Lansing report that in
Gratiat county people were selling their land for
means to get away with--that none have provisions
10 last more tha two or three weeks. Wheat they
have consists of lour aud meal merely; they have NJ
meat the smoke last fall from the extensive fires hag-
ing driven of the deer
One OF the most substantial TURNER'S in the town Of
Arcadia reports that in his neighborhood most Of the
families have only few potatoes lefI Tor seed they
have divided with each other until they can DIVIDEND
more and have seed 10 plant Each has from one 10
three bushels. lie had last season one aud half n
eres oi fine corn that was cnt off by an carly frost
when it WAS in milk. aud he could only use it for
provender for his cutie. The cattle have had TO sub
sist mostly through the winter on browse lie has
heard OF neighborhooas north of him from to tir
~ aud even sixty miles, that have nothing but oats
10 boil for food aud that one woman aud two or
three children west of him, in Montenlm county, had
died for want Of food
Samuel Hewlett, one of the butchers Of Detroit re
turning from bus ness rip through the North part
ut Macomb county in the Stntc. reports To the
editor ofthr Detroit Advertiser thai he was compel.
81 10 ride miles ia orler 10 iud feed for hs horse
He snys tint the cattle aud horses are suffering
greatly and that the sheep aud ltnhs ARE diving of
the sconrs by the hundred This state of things he
reports upon bis own observation, aud adds thai he
etW number OF persons from the county of Lapeer,
n'ljoccnt, who say that matters are much
there.
Tho Advertiser attributes the excessive scarcity in
Michigan, in n measure, to purely local causes. 1t
says
The pervadng fire, of 1856, the heavy Angus,
frost, which cut of corn and huckwhcat aud nearly
ruined potatoes the miserable cro,s of other vegetn-
ilc7, aud bitter winter, have combined to depress
the standard OF life to point of absolute starvation.
The worst has not come The cattle can begn to live,
1t IL true. aud the milk will help out the fare of the
poor children hnt large portion of the
| dead, and it will be two months before the ground
Will yield anything upon which human beings
rely for support.
Ia Tennessee things in n still worse condition.
The Knoxville Register of the eth inst, says that
trYwhere IN Etst Tennessee the greatest scarcity OF
rrovcnder and grain of every description prevails
Tho cattle actually dying by the thousand and IN
that the cattle may eat buds. Nor il this alarming
state of affairs confined 10 cattle. In many sections
OF the country families lint have been well provided
with NOT only the neeeR ric5, but many OF the lnXu
RES OF lie. are SO strained rs To be compelled To so
forty or hfiy miles 10 buy corn or wheat
While SIS the case with those who have hereto
tore been comfortable and independent, the Nashville
1m7tcan .y5 that the greater want prevails among
tue poorer classes, aud IN counties east OF knoxville,
hat some OF mem were actually unable TO have more
than one mcnl day.
from thnadt tue same cry OF hunger Is heard
The Hamilton Spectator says that hay brings $50
ton, that no oats ARE to he found except what are
needed Tor sced ANA cattle hay been driven into the
woods, "whete they are now dying 10 numbers from
sheer Starvation,
These arc some OF the fruits OF the excessive slim
uIns given to western emigration 10y the immense
ihnd Ennts OF Congress. population that might
he more productivity employed in acompact society,
through These Influences Is spread over thousandsand
ml,'phs oil aere', tempted hy the prospect OF new
railroad 10 he built ora swelling current of emiera-
tnn' to spend all iis money and perhaps run IN
debt ia more mnd than it can afford to hold or eul-
Nn'e Ihis class OF settlers generally have 10 sell
their hrst crops ont pretty clean ior money 10 meet
h"r interest account making but llttie provision Tor
thc tunly consumption through long spring They,
n,o have overlooked this year the extraordinary en-
gr1llon which has deIngcd the West and indefinite
~ multiplied the number of consumers. With their
money all gone, the produce OF their land all sold,
what have they to do but to starye begl In some
instances, in Michigan, no doubt local disaster has
contributed TO the general dcSutHtoni but, in the
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