Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-26
The kansas famine.

IN these days Of wintry storm and cold,
let us think Of our suffering friends in Kan
sas, who, without food or clothing, are look
ing forward with dire forebodiugs to the long.
months which viii intervene before Spring
and its sunshine. The Recommendation Of
Gov. Dennison, to-cou butte to the Kansas
fund on Thanksgiving day should receive a
general response from our prospering farmers
and merchants. Gen. SC. Pomeroy IS the
general distributing agent at Atchison, Kan
sas. he is laboring with heart and hand,
in receiving and appropriating provisions and
clothing, which are forwarded at reduced
freights by the railroads. Tic American
and United States Express ~Companiez With
commemorate kindness, advertise that they
viii forward money or clothing to Leaven-
-GAAf AharGa If for the destitute in
Kansas, and consigned to the Central Re
lief Committee Of L~eavenworth."
If anything in addition to the bare call for
aid is required To qpeprt me purse strings and
granary doors of our readers, let them read
the following letter from Gen. Pomeroy to
Thaddeus Hyatt under Jat5 date:
Your telegram to-day to draw for s400,
was just in season. 1t brought me out al.
Straight and made me feel light again.
"This is Saturday light late. ! have not
yet left my Office; and such q day as this has
beenL Thirty-two applications for add TIC
young ladies, not over eighteen years Of age,
CANT a long wag4t0 see what c6uld be done
for their little brothers ana sisters at home
one of them said she had never known scr.
row until now. Il can stand anything, said
she, 'But kVnger1 She came from a town.
ship not yet Organized; so employed her tc
do this work, and gave her some of the sta
%tistical blanks, prepared by you while here
She was very glad, took bold Of the work.
and added, 4 will furnish you Sir, with
list Of tie little children who cannot come tc
Sabbath School for want bf shoes and cloth
lag.' All, my dear Hyatt, how th-ught o
the happy Sabbath School children that
had seen and addressed by hundreds in Bos-
ton, Cambridge, Lowell, Springfield and
Northampton, and knew well, how gladly
they would respond for a contribution o.
shoes for the little bare feet that are already
REDEEMED with the frosts of an approaching
Winter! One local Methodist preacher has
nine children in this county, and no shoes Jol
any of them.
"Garments for children could be made
here in almost any Of the destitute. families
If they bad the uaGtTiG& Simple and warni-
But boxes of shoes are a great desideratum
they are indispensable.
&" Neal sacks we want very much, or cloti
to make them Of WoOln blmkes are 10
valuable here, as you know, from severe eU
perienee IL So. In BBOrt, my dear Hyatt
the whole TerrftorysYh0 are poor, are ioOkiE.
70 rs, and, having begun, we cannot lool
back. Your funds haT'
lust kept me So far. gfyour own purse hal
| not been deep and fred we should have hai
to stop last week. The moment refuse t
pay for and take the ear,of the hands Of tn
RaIlroad Company ct Winthrop, that mo
mentthe contract for low freights is broken
yonknoE uF-eeRtfaet for low frei5ht is onl,
by the carload, and hate it all to handl
myself and bring across the ferry from Win
thrVp ami 4tchisons 80
I ana stil begging meal sacks an
sending them to Illinois. They have prom
ised to eli all / send. Can put corn an,
potatoes down here from the centre Of HfnOi
at less than half priceless than Is cent
per busheL, andjf you and our good friend
Fast can pay Gsghts, and can bold our q
Kansas can be supplied. Not one bushel ,
grain need be Parehased It will all be giver
All. if we can only pay for meal sacks an
tJreigHts.
III am, IN every good work, yours, sincerely
as. c. PoMEROY,"