The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-11-30
War and Famine in Kansas.

Gen. Harvey has been ordered to proceed
to Fort Scott, Kansas. with two light batter
les. three companies of infantry and two of
cavalry, in all 800 men, with instructions "to
exercise his judgment as to the most expedl-
tious manner of wipins out Montgomery and
his marauoiers but at all hazards to eX:er-
inmate them" SO Washington dispatch
saws, and Gen. Harney's character gives as
surance that he vii! not err on the side of
forbearance. The government acts as usual
on the presumption that the free state men
are the aggressors, and takes no account O!
the terrible provocations they have endured
at the hands of its own officers These do
rot indeed justify the excuses charged upon
Montgomery and his party. But it is fresh
in the recollection of the country that SINH
lar charges were made against him. and by
the same men, during the former difficulties.
and vet when he voluntarily gave himself up
for trial grand jury, with majority Of pro-
slavery men, found no bill against him.
whatever may be the merits of the present
case, it furnishes painful evidence of the
folly and wrong of keeping Kansas out of
the Union. Under a state government the
people would have been delivered from con-
tnued insult and violence at the hands of
the ruffian officials of the government and
such collisions as those now going on would
have been prevented. The reports about
arms and ammunition sent to Montgomery
from the East are highly improbable, as ere
also many OF the statements that come from
that region by telegraph.
L., 81 F.,
A:chison, on Tuesday, stated that, according
to the official reports of the Kansas relief
committee, there have been SO far distributed
from that point, $3.50 pounds of provisions
consisting Of flour, meal, beans and potatoes
Applications have been received and supplied
from 20 counties. They state that although
they have SO far been able to at least suppl,
something to every one bringing proper ere
dentas, they are yet unable to meet all de
mands presented, and there are urgent call,
for further and immediate supplies.
a recent letter from Gen. Pomeroy tc
Thaddeus Hyatt says:
"Your telegram to-day, to draw for $500
was Just in season. 1t brought me ont al
straight, and made ME feel light again. TIKI,
is Saturday night late. have not yet LEFT
my office and such day as this has been
Thirty-two applications for aid! Two young
ladies', not over eighteen years Of age, can't
a long way TO see what could be done fol
their little brothers and siMers at home one
of them said she had never known sorrow
until now. i can stand anything, said she
JM huHger.' She came from township no
yet organized so employed her to do th
work, and gave her some statistical blanks
prepared by you while here. She very glad
ly took hold of the work, and added, i vii
= furnish you, sir, with a list of the little chill
dren who cannot come to Sabbath school fo
want of shoes and clcihinS.' All, my dca
Hva;t. how thought of the happy Sabbath
| school children that have often seen ar.
addressed b. hundreds IN Boston, cambridge
Lowell, Springfield and Northampton, an,
knew we'll ho~ gladly they would respond t
, contribution for shoes for the lit,Ie ban
feet that ale already reditAc " it'll ih~ fro>;
Of an approaching winter. One local Meth
odi>t preacher has nine children in this coul
ty, and no shoes for any of them Garment
for children could be made here in aimos
any Of the destitute families if they had til
materials, simple ana warm Blu. boxes OF
shoes are great desideratum they ale ii
dispeusa5le.
".Meal sacks We want very much, or clot
!. to make them of. Wooden blankets are in
, valuable here, as You know, from severe eA
; perence in &c. In short, my dear liyatt,,h
, whole territory. who are poor, are looking t
US aud having begun We cannot look back
"a ,
. your own purse had not been deep and fire.
We should have had to stop last week. Tn
mcmert refuse to pay for ant! take the ca
off the hands Of the railroad company 4
Winthrop. that moment the contract Tor 10,
: frelghts is broken yen Know our contral
for low fret sh,s is only by the car load. an
! have it all TO handle myself, and Grin. d
cross the ferry from Winihr, p to A,ch;so,
: There are hundred 'carpet-hag' men rui
= ming through the state, vino don understan
, their business. and in many instances VIVA
: they send won't he worth the freight it cost,
$ am still begging meal-sackS and s-ndin
g them to Illinois. They have promised to fl
: all send. | can put corn ard potatoes DIV
y here from the centre Of illrois at less tina
half price less than twenty-five cents pc
+ bushcl . and if you and your good friend
:. East can pay trcigh,s. and can hold cut. a
!. Kansas can be supplied. Not one bushe ,
i grain need be purchased it will all be 81,
en-. All; if We can only pay for meal-sack
: and freishts ~
: 1.-THE West contributes food it would seer
$ that the East nigh. at least contribute sack
e to carry it in. and clothing for the nake,l-
: MIR. Barnum has given thousand tickets t
y his museum to the Kansas fund, and the
will be sold at any price the purchasers ma
e choose, from quarter up, the proceeds &C
I. ing to the Kansas relief fund