Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-10

Further accounts confirm the reports of the suf
ferings in Kansas and made it apparent that bad
winter is in prospect for the settlers there.
A meeting of citizens of Leavenworth to
devise plans for the relief of sufferers in the Ter
ritory. A committee was appointed to solicit i'm
mediate aid from the East. A committee was also
appointed to act in concert with other counties in
the matter, and call has been issued for general
conference at Lawrence on the 18th of November.
Published extracts from letters from Hon. S. C.
PoxRoY, of Kansas, show that the destitution and
suffering IN that Territory has not been exagger-
ated.
To-day, October l0,) man came from Grass
hopper Falls for work Said he left at home wife
and four children, and only half bushel meal in
the house, and no money to get more let hm
have bushel of meal, and he started joyfully for
his home with this aid taking the meal, or his back
&c miles.
"In few days 100 teams will start out for buff
falo. have to give them meal to eat on the fair
supply Of meat. The surplus cattle Seward speaks
| of are the buffalo.
"Not less than 100000 bushels of corn will meet
| the demands of this winter, which, at 20 cts.
per bushel, cost 100000. 1t will take Sl50,0O0
! more to pay freight and carriage
" In Shawnee County, Judge Eener has adjourned
| the court till spring" He said !. The people are
too poor to pay costs, and all judgements must be
/ suspended Mrs. PomroY rode out to-day ten
| miles She found local Methodist preacher with
wife and nine children and only one bushel of meal
| and no way to get any more.s Others were on the
verge of absolute want.
1.-The papers at Lawrence, which at first ridi
culed the call for help, are now alarmed. and say
! that something must be done.
20, dread this long, dreary, despairing winter
l shall be obliged to part with the last dollar car
! raise, or see those who coming to me for helI
actually die.
The unprecedented drought which has caused al
this suffering has afflicted the territory for upwards
of fourteen months. Vegetation in Kansas can sant
great deal of dry weather. but early Gas july
(he thermometer up to 1870 degrees in the SUM- tht
ground was parched, the suffering badly, tn,
wheat, winch was ripe, yielding next to nothing
oats almost total failure and the best wells wer
failing and some entirely dry.
August brought no rain, except few scant,
showers, and no hope. The ground had become 81
dry that it cracked in large assures, even on TIL
tough sod of the unbroken prairie. Cattle wer
dying, in some districts forwant of water. No dew
fell during the north. Potatoes were dying, ant
buckwheat, the last hope of many farmers, prom
Used no return.
September came and all kinds of crops were pas
redemption Cornfelds were harvested. but tn
meagre return was often only cob with kernel
from quarter of an inch to an inch apart. On tn
Waukarusa there were a thousand acres of corr
that did not produce even pound of fodder. Man.
families were living scanty allowances of cor
bread and water. In the five towns Of Topeka
Monmouth, Soldier, Mission Creek, and Tecumset
in Shawnee county, 1854 acres Of wheat wer
s0wn, which yielded only 435 bushels, or an aver
ACE of sbout oas-se,enfh of n b,Lshd to The 1cre
the same towns there were planted S3l9 bushels q
Indian corn. which yielded 5,ls7 bushels.
The condition of things Is not equally bad in over
part of the Territory; but the need of relief is
! extensive and so urgent create claim on hi
name people elsewhere, who are enjoying the abur
dance of one of the best haryests ever known.