Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-18
The suaerinr lp kansas.

The Chicago Tribune publishes q letter
from citizen of AtchisOn, Kansas, who has
lately spent few hours at the relief Office at
that point We copy the following thrilling
extracts which viii furnish our readers with
some faint idea of the terrible suffering en-
dured BY the people of Kansas. We hope it
will also incite them to active and liberal
charity;
One forlorn looking man attracted my at
tention. BE was literally clothed in rags
Such a tatter-demalion one can hardly con
ceive Of His garments, originally home
spun, had been patched with so many differ
ent materials, mostly varieties of bed ticking
and sacking that the feeble threads would
no longer hold together, and the shreds were
tapping about him as he walked His face
was haggard and hunger worn; cheek-bones
prOtruded; flesh had SHRINK away, and his
eyes were hollow and eager, and had the
terrible starved look in them which | once
saw in famine-stricken party of Irish, in
ls47, and which shall never forget. l viii
tell his story as near as may be, in his own
words:
"My name is Abraham Huck. Pm from
Ilenoy, came to Kansas last March, and
hired q place on Deer Greek, Anderson Co.
Wasn't able to 60 on ami build so hired, this
year. Left home last Sunday, (siE days be-
FORE Wife and one of the children With
me; left seven at home, with some turnips
and a peck Of nsaI,"
"Whatr said, a peck of meal for sew
emf"
"That's all sir, and wave had nothing to
eat on the road for three days except The little
have begged.
"I planted ffty-fve acres and harvested
Eve Bushels Of WormY corn. Couldn't have
lived at all but for tie turnips. Got forty
bushels Of them. About ffty persons in my
neighborhOOd, and they's all destitute Is
divided my turniPs as faras they d 90. Lost
thres yoke Of oxen by the fever. Thar's no
money, no clothes, anC be casta melancholy
glance at bis own :attered garments. 81
knows f,milies as have nothing but milk and
a little corn meal to live on. Could name
fifty in these parts in that ar condition
Inquiries were mad and il was found that
neither himself nor his wife and child had
had anything to eat since they reached the
town in the morning It was a sad sight
TO see the yoriciOus hunger OF the haggard
woman, tearing the bread in her hurry 10
satisfy her tppetiTe.- The first thing men do
when they get into Atchison, is to obtain
bread. They mostly have little buffalo
meat especially those from the extreme bor-
der, but have had no brsadamfs for long
period d
the man whose story have before mar
rated, was furnished with ten sacks of meal
and seven Of potatoes, and he left this mora
ing. A sack Of meal contains two bushels,
or one hundred pounds. This, at the allow:
anee Of save in the Cotton States, one peck
for week, will support eight persons for that
period. A sack Of potatoes averages about
ITO pounds. Ten sacks Of meal and seVsno o
potatoes is all that the amount Of stuff in the
hands Of the committee will allow Of their
giving to township. They have not been
able yet to supply more than two-thirds of
the townships that have applied, even at
these rates. Since the 10th Of November the
Disbursing Agent here has received orders
from 225 townships, and has not filed more
than one out of three that have been presen-
ted. There has not been, at any time sufi-
cieHt TO fill the orders as they came.