The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-12-13
Suffering in kansas
Personal Observations cf -lr. ThGdden
HYGH


ITO the Editor Of the New York Times.
Let me ask the attention Of the humane
reader to the following extracts from
private letters received by ne from time
to time. 4 more vivid picture of the &C
tual condition of things in the famine
land will be thus obtained than by any
word painting of mine-for the sketches
of my friends are from nature, taken en-
the SPOT.
Under date of Oct 81, Gen Pomcroy,
thus writes: Il am now out Of pocket
about &i00. Two cart-oads have just ar
rived. My Office is filed daily
with applicants; the cold weather aud
rains are making oar people frantic ~
Two days later, he thus writes:
GLOW glad I was to get your telegram
to day, and Theodorc's contribution Of
$500. 1t was a God-scnd, just in time
to pay freights. Illinois is in earnest to
supply as Cases Of suffering meet me
daily. There are hundred now where
there was one when you were here. God
only knows what January and February
will bring FORTH"
Two days later he writes:
Your telegram to-day to draw for 9t00
was Just in season. 1t brought me out
all straight, and made me feel light
again. This is Saturday night late. |
have not yet loft my Office; and such
dav as this has been. Thirty two ap-
plications for aid Two young ladies not
over eighteen years Of age, came long
way to see what could be done for their
little brothers and sisters at home; one
of them said she had never known sor-
row until nov. I can stand anything,
said she, 'Jut hupger.' She came from
a township not yet organized; SO | en-
ployed her to do this work, and gave her
some of The statistical blanks, prepared
By you while here, Size very gladly took
hold of Ihc work, and added, ! will fur
Dish you, Sir, with list Of the little chill
dren WHO cannot come to Sabbath-school
for want Of shoes and ciotbltg' All, my
dear Hyatt, how | thought Of the happy
Sabbath-schooI children that l had often
seen and addressed by hundreds in Dos
ton, Cambridge, Lowell, Springfield and
Northampton, and knew well how gladly
they would respond to a contribution for
shoes for the little Larefce. that are al
ready redeemed with the frosts Of an ap-
preaching Winter One local Netho-
dist preacher has nine children in this
county, not shocs far any ot them.
Garments for children could be made
here in almost any Of the destitute fam
lies if they had the motc5TaLs, simple
and warm. But boxes Of shoes are a
great desideratum; they are indispens-
able.
Iicol sacks We want very much, or
cloth to make them Of JJoolea blankets
are invaluable here, as you know, from
severe experience in '56' Iu short, my
dear Hyatt, the whole Territory who aIe
poor, are looking to us : and having be
gun, we cannot look back = ;" :
Your funds have just kept me SO far. If
your own purse had not been deep and
free, we should have had to stop last
week. The moment | refuse to pay for
and take the car off the hands Of the Rail
road Company at Winthrop, that moment
the contract for low frcights is broken
you know our contract for io,o freighfs is
only by the car load, and have it all to
handle myself, and bring across the ferry
from Winthrop to Atchinson. II
There are a hundred 'caypct bag men
running through the States who doR't un-
derstand their business, and in many in
stances what they send won't be worth
the freightit costs. = < I am still
beeing meal sacks and sending them to
Illinois. They have promised to I'LL all | .
send. can pat corn and potatoes down
here from the centre of Illinois at less
than half price; less than twenty-five
cents per bushel. and if you and our
good friends East can poy frcigits, aud
can hoid ont, all Kansas can be supplied
Not one bushel Of grain need be pnrcAas-
t. II !