New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-21

Apd1s.D, re post promising Of all he inserior oouo
been ksrvesed this season. tina, there wi re M NJ,
toes sbd no ether vegstbs and TIA. no, haf enough
corn has been sased 70 issd tho population Of he soa
asked the preacher Of the gospel what Of Kans,,,
Hearsen 10 what The preacher =" have prssqhsx
ihIee months along The Neosho Valeyi the people on
hey are all poor their crops have failed hsd no
the near 70 ask for my salary All have received for
my twelve weeks labor Is this two bts." And H.
preacher took fom bis pocket and exhibited IN hx
fI os exactly twenty. five cents! : : =
The preacher talked Of leaving but his mar rari.h
loners wept. They told him 10 s.ay That bonob
they nad no money and no food scarcely. Re
would stay they would hunt buffalo mea. Gr him. and
pay him with that. The preacher onsntsd. ~'f
Friend Of humanity, walt not, O. Wal, no. rA....c,
Jon, until the opened heavens shall aood the land WITH
rains that shall add sickness % poverty. For then
w woai mercy S's sn sss D
shall intensity suffering already too grea. % be bor1s
For the love Of God, pray you postpone oos yoas
PHILANTHROPY an hour Believe there i no sims
requiem Of the dead who shall have pershsd for want
of your timely aid. a5'
asked an old settler, What Of Ks1sssp Har
what the old settler says: Things are worse now
than they were in Sc Then we had money; now We
have more. l believe that If all the money IN Lian
was distributed ont even it not count TIRES DOL
lars TO man / have been here since early IN IS.
and gone through the troubles them was taksn pis-
oner and dragged away from my family saw my
neigbbors' houses burned and robbed sut, Sir, this
hour is darker one for Kansas than even that The
crops are an entire failure planted "A acres Of corn
and will not get Is bushels There Ia not vegetable
in my garden. Everything is gone Over there
pointing TO neiehboring farm |" lives an Illinois
farm er; he came in here with $40 900 in 81 and has
splerdid farm 70 day he cant com Dand cash enough
TO pay trAiDg debts. He understands farming web,
AID has put in one crop after another In s1ccefson,
has now gone 10 Missouri with some cattle 70 eel for
resdy money We regard him as one Of our Tich msn.
and yet be is that hard up for cash. Down On Nine
Creek know of eighteen families who have left for
the States within the past week n'p it
Such is the statement of cid Father Reese Of
Sugar Mound" near Mound City. i know him
well and indorse him.
Mr.. Clark, of Paris Township, raid: " planted 20
raise enough 10 bread my family. Bu, i koov Of
fourteen families in the southwest corner of Mound
City Township who have left for the States 70 look foe
food"
Josiah Lamb, of Potosi Township, on Mine Creek,
said: Z" planted ten Of wheat and got nothing.
plan ted sixty acres of corn, and have not roasting
ear; expect nothing from my crop but fodder for my
cattle have one hundred bushels old corn for bread
and in that respect am better OF than any On my
Father Cummings from the north portion Of Potosf
Township, said: 81 planted sixty acres Of corn and
out of il all will get four Of nubbins the balance
nothing but fodder. There 10 not enough corn 10 the
neighborhood 10 supply bread. The beans are PROM
-isipq but the prairie chickens eating them up.
will add word here of explanation on the prairie
chickens spoken Of by Father Cummings Generally
these birds get food enough on the grasshoppers until
the corn is ripe. But severe has been the drouth
especially the scorching heats Of the sun, that IN my
entire travel from Atctison did not see one grsss
hopper and looked for them. Through all the great
praIes where they are usually In uncounted Millions
now they are not 70 be And wonder, for the
prairie grass itself is burnt 10 the roots On the luxu-
rant Ottawa Reserve" where last year about tln
time las Horace Greeley probably remembers the rasa
says abe has seen it high TO render it disat to
fpd his cattle which bid away in across this
reserve lode now par he'd desert and on stopping
down and pulling the grass up, found it dead and
burnt to the very roots. No wonder there are no
grashoppers and no wonder that the poor feathersd
depizens of these burnt wastes seek the garden patches
in search of food denied them 10 their wonted haunt.
DR.. Samuel Ayers, who has travelled in the north
portion of LnD the south portion of Lykins and 70 the
east line of Anderson County, said There will be a.
mos, universal restitution There is about 600 BUSH
els of old corn in that whole extent Of country. In
short time it will be that the people cannot get corn
fare now is nothing but bread and water. Crops
were put in, but they have failed. planted % acres
of corn, but shall not get four bushels of from the
whole of it. The corn will produce scarcely fodder
enough for the stock. There is not corn enough 70
feed the hogs. Wheat and Spring crops are an entire
failure TIE sick cannot get medicine, nor can they
get such food as the sick require have expended al
my means for medicines, and cannot now supply tas
demands upon In the west portion of the county,
where the lands last year ordered 10 be sold he
DE- sitution is peculiarly great because the people have
no money, and they have money because they cere
asst gear forced TO pay for their lands Many Of the
poor settlers rad tentative but 10 mortgage their
claims TO raise the money demanded Of the N by tbs
Government. The drouib has O. me. and pay day has
come These poor people unable even TO subsst, and
quite unable to pay borrowed money, will be driven
from their claims, and lose all Had we Homestead
BILL this state OF things could not exist" p,
i can write more at this moment, bat win con-
tinue the story In my next. THADDEUs HYATT.