New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01
THE TERRIBLE DROUTH IN KANSAS.
Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune.
MOUND CRY, Kansas, July z, 1860.

Correspondence OF The NJ Y. Tribune
MOUND CRY, Kansas July 7, 1860
The TRIBUNE comes to regular every
week vet YOU do not say one word about this terrible
drouth that poor mortals compelled to submit
to- 1t is near OF quite IL months old. For the last
four or five months we have not had rain enough TO
hardly wet the ground The consequence is there
will be no CT ps of any kind in Southern Kansas. Our
corn s near or quite dead grass for hay entirely
out of the question: for there is nonehs hot sun has
entirely destroyed it. What the people are going to do
jor something to eat God only Knows We are almost
az bad off as Capt Riley in the midst OF the great
African desert with the burning over his head and
the hot earth beneath his feet and no water no food
and no hope in the future at least for u.s. for our crops
are pact cure now Our neghbors can be seen in con-
verssti about what we going to do. Why, they
saw, twelve months we have prayed for rain, yet
none came; seven months for Homestead Bill, yet
none came and three long years for better times and
vet no change only for the worse. Now MIR Greeley,
look at us for is you am talking to, and you have
sell us-you know how we looked one year ago, with
all the bright prospect before u.s. with green fields Of
grain. and our rich prarie, covered with its high,
waveripg grass, and every few days shower. Oh !!
how bright the boyes of all then; but, alas, poor
hopeless now Hark hear me tell Gods truth. As
write in my house, the wind flaps over me- the sun
beatp il So that the wind almost burns me; my wife is
Low roasting eggs the stone steps 10 front OF my
house: the stove and tin boiler TOO hot to bear my
hands on them standing in the house where the sun
cannot touch them-tbey are hot by the wind blowing
ON them through the open door. Why, every flap Of
the wind lie like the heat Of fire from burning
building.
I have Just shut the door to keep the hot wind
from bio wing on me- 70 that can write. To say that
II has not raned for twelve months would not be tell
ING the truth but TO say that not than four or
FIVE inches of rain had fallen in that tme would be
nearly or quite true Nov, for Gods sake. what are
the people to do We cant stay here without food for
ourselves and cattle. Many of us have not got money
70 pay for our land orto get away with to cay nothing
of nyre food for our wives and children either here
or somewhere else. 1t is now time for all kinds OF
green sauce, yet none is here Our last years crop
d all cone. or nearly So Unless the great God Of
Heaven s~nds US from some place, some OF us
must stsTve You remember the potato rot of Ireland
The End1ess and iberaity of tie open hearted Amer
leans saved poor Ireland from starvation thsn: aud may
not tie people of poor down-trodden, longsuerng, and
none forsaktn Kansas, have faint hope that some
Eastern American will make the more to have provis-
ions aud clothing forwarded to the suffering poor OF
thip Territory. Many Of us live on milk and Indian
bread-tbe latter almost goDe-tbe former will soon
ery MP for want of grass. I am no~ 40 years old;
WAS born in the State of New-York have been in
Linn County X. t. three years. and never in all my
life did see such hopeless time. Raised in the En-
pire Sate-in the land of penty-then to have such
poor pros pect before me- is really dscouragDg pre-
sumo you will have more communications on thus sub
ieet. ! do wish you would Let the world know the
prospects Of this ever-sfhicted people, CHS.