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.-,rrrroN INiKANsAs.
.rPEAL FOR HELP


casional showers. and has yielded TAR crop
Some other small and isolated districts nave
also had light showers and raised palt OF
a cron. But residing as we do, 10 Wlae'y
senarated localities, we believe that four-nitns
of the cultivated land in the territory has not
welded the smallest crop of any KIND, except
a little corn fodder.
n onr hest localities the yield OF corn does
not exceed ten bushels to the acre; not
notato or vegetable Of any kind has been
raised gardens have proved an entire fail
ure. although they have frequently been re
nlanted. Fields have been resown to wheat,
then buckwheat, then turnips-and al
total failure.
From personal observation and intercourse
with the people from various localities, we
are satisfied this is, with the above excep-
tions, the condition throughout the Terrific
".
The inhabitants have not old crops on
which TO rely for bread. Last years veget-
ables of course are consumed. The wheat
was either used for seed or ground for food.
nearly ali the old corn has been fed out, or
was sold last spring, at from % 10 % cents
bushel. Not one farmer in twenty has
peck OF old grain.
Nor is there any money to buy bread. Our
people have expended al available means IN
making Improvements. The commercial
| disaster Of 1857 left Us stranded. The tide
Of returning prosperity has relieved our
eastern friends The Mississippi Valley Is
rapidly righting But the first wave has not
reached US. Now comes the loss Of our crops,
and with it goes our hope OF returning pros
perity.
We only make these statements because
| duty compels. Loving the good name OF ouI
! adopted home and fearing that the truth
would injure, the inbabitants OF Kansas have
waited through weary months Of doubt
without making known their fears or then
wants Even now those living in the favor
cd localities, above alluded to, write hope
fully Of the future.
This drouth is an exception in Kansas. Il
this fact We have the explicit testimony O
missionaries who have lived there from II I.
so wears.
Bat tire terrible fact contronts Us tha'
s7rHy Thousands Of cur people have no bread
and little clothing for the coming winter
While some of them will be enabled by grea
Sacrifices of property. or by the timely aid C
relatives at the East. to live through the
winter, there Is a very large number whC
must be aided by the public. or suffer tht
last extremity Of famine.
There Is little in Kansas TO divide, bu'
that little viii be share with the destitute
but beyond all this, much will be required.
We, therefore, in behalf Of our starYin.
countrymen, appeal TO the benevOlel
throughout the nation Christian friends
we ask you TO initiate the example Of : Hos
tolic times, and help your needy brethren
Brother man, we reach out 70 You IN this eI
tramity and impiore relief.
REV. DANIEL FOSTER, Centralia, Nemaha Co
REV. c. c. HUTCHINSON, Topeka, Shawnee ."
REv. W. Q. Thomas, Lawrence, Douglas q"
c. A Foster. O.awatomie, LykIns -
l. 7. GooDNow, Manhattan, Riley Z"
Id. BAILEY, Emporia, Breckenridge"
October so, 1860. Kansas
The restitution in Kansas is unquestiona
bly, very great The une1ampled drouth 0
the past season stopped the growth of crop
entirely save in few favored spots and tn
great mass OF the PEOPLE, ike other settler
Of . new counTy.are too POOR to send abroad
to purchase food. The circular above, j:
only one Of the documents sent abroad under
authority Of responsible names, appealing to
the public fo- aid 10 keep the people from
starving. This appeal is endorsed by 4 large
number OF clergymen and other eminent mer
o. Boston. who say that contributions SEN
u Dr.. Thomas H. Webb, No. 8, Winter St.
BJston, VIII lie promptly forwarded to th'
county committees OF Kansas, chosen by tbs
people Of each respective county, 10 be dis
tributeJ by them 10 the destitute. We might
fill column With the letters Of Mr.. Hyatt
Gen. s. c. Pomeroy, and others who are en-
gagged il the work Of helping the suffering
In one C Gen. PomeToy's letters ne say
that "not less than 500 GOO bushels OF corr
will meet the demands OF this winter, thl
freight and carriage alone on which VIII cos
$50. coo. You see the work OF relief Is q
great v ork and vel! may YOU say, who j:
sufficient for these shings?'' should despair
bat for the fac; that our people have respond
ed once and sg4in. Even the voice Of Ire
land was bot let; to pass UNDECIDED and the
hands Of cur brethren shall MT be stretched
out II vain
We add 10 the ahoTs an extract from a
letter to q gentleman Of this place by lady
now resident at Burlingame. Kansas, who
went taere from ihi- vicinity two or three
years ago
: d" presume vou have seen accounts O. the m
preaedenteo drouth which has visited Kansas this
4 season. II j, nov seventeen months since have
had rain sufficient . moisten the ground n
greater depth tHnn two inches, and only three or
tour showers that have wet down far that.
consequently cur crops are total failure. Not
= bushel O. corn, potatoes or vegetables Of Any
ID hss been raised in this section Of country
ana the same can De said o. the greater portion Of
Kansas.
One can hardly realize the situation Of new
Eet;iement, = Is afflicted. We have raue Of Us
much more than 3 foothold here, and it was only
with rigid economy ana the best OF management.
when everything favored us, that could make
both endE meet, and nov, when our crops which
were our role Dependence are cut Of, restitution
and fearful want sIRres boldly IL the face There
j uyi a family that csn pO,s.biy get through the
~intes without assistance from some source.
Few OF have friends Ess. who will not let Us suffer
bu: there are those among US who have friends
10 aid them. IL Is for these | appeal TO you for
help. They arr destitute Of food and clothing,
vita, and unless help from abroad is sent them,
must inevitably suffer beyond description.
l Fno- from personal knowledge, that there are
those among the good people Of Burlington, who
nave enough and to spg-e, who are ever ready, Of
their abundance, to give 70 the poor and needy,
and I trust this appeal to their lberzity and sym
patty will not pass unnoticed.'
There mas ever been readiness il our
people to answer favorably to well grounded
calls for charitable aid, whether the want
was III our own country CT in countries over
the Sea. - 1t always should be. 1t ought
u be LETT t. be 10 taz to make such contri-
buttons, but rather . Prrpiiege-an occasion |
To- a thank Offering to God who has placed
orr iot in land Of plenty-a thank Offering
in III ,.Ta Of substantial aid, cheerfullv |
given Il, iao~e WHO are in suffering condi- !
tion. N.-huy has yet been done abou.
here. So sar a. we know, TO help the perish