Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-12-14

dental expenses. The men who haul the
meal have their pay in meal to support
them, aud the balance is put into the
hands Of the committees who were raised
in your presence mostly, or in conse-
qpence Of your visit; and they distribute,
free Of charge
can do nothing but attend to this
business, while the poor are unfed.
Truly, s. c. PoMEnoY.
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DEAR HYATT. To day, ike yester-
day, is full Of sad reports. A man by
the name of Budd came over from Grass
hopper Falls, begging for work. Said
he left at home a wife and four children,
with only half bushel Of meal in the
world, and no money to buy more4s He
did not wish gift, SO loaned him one
bushol of. your meal, and he took it joy
fully upon his back, to rulk with it 26
miles. szyQ- zs-,a- saa esG,ts
Another man with good span Of
horses, begged work at dollar day for
himself and team! / have encouraged
numbers to start off after buffalo meat
Seward's "surplus cattle !" but have
fhad to give them some meal for bread on
the way. IF l had not bought that lot
Of old corn with your money, should
now have been obliged to see and hear
all this distress, without the means of
relieving 1t. But can make these poor
people no promises for the future. / tell
them you furnished what little have
now to bestow, and you have gone East,
to see if others will combine their efforts
with yours. Thousands of Gods poor
are tonight asking GOES blessing upon
you, and hoping you will be abundantly
successful; but be assured that not less
.,aan 500, 900 bushels of corn will meet
the demands of this winter, the freights
and carriage alone on which swill cost
$500, 900! You see the work of relief is
great work and we'll may you say,
/" Who is sufficient for these things p"
I should despair, but for the fact that
our people have responded once and
again. Even the voice of Ireland was
not left to pass unheeded; and the hands
of our brethren shall not be stretched
out in vain.
Your friend Judge Hoagland has
written me letter of the same charac-
ter as the one he wrote you, and which
you sent to the N Y, 7Tibaae, (the N. Y.
s1fibane suppressed this with Hmy other
letters, except one. 7. H.) but more
gloomy aud despondiug.
Mrs. Pomeroy rode out 10 miles west
to day. and reports some destitution in
near prospect Mr.. Servoss-an excel
lent man from New York. whom we
have known for years, and who suffered
much during " border ruffian" times, and
never desponded-has family, but all
his large fields Of corn has not yielded
one bi:shez. He will have, about twenty
bushels of late potatoes, and some
sqaashcs, and that is the aoieter supply of
a family who are every way worthy, of
good moral and religious character, and
have been distinguished for Industry and
temperance.
A local methodist preacher in the
same neighborhood has uine children,
aud all ,barefooted and destitute, But
the good mother of this family said,
" she would not beg until she saD they
mast die She will resort to every ex-
pedient, and I" eat the breud of careful
ness Oh, how feel to see little white
headed healthy boys like those asking
for eornbread, or some "mush and
milk, ,, and think of nothing better, and
yet hear the mother say they had not
a ,reeh's prorision IN the teord,"
These cases are occurring in this Sec
tion of Kansas, where l told you they
could etalong ,cithoutaid. What shall
we hear when the Committee come up
from Humboldt, lie. Roy, Mound City,
&c, &c. Even the papers at Lea0en-
seorth, that ridieuled your early effort,
begin to be alarmed, and say, some
thing must be done" OH. / dread this
long, dreary, detpairing winter! But I
a,ust not, l aoillnot leaue, unless it be only
for few days to get aid for others. l
shall be Obliged to part with the last
dollar | can raise, or see those who are
coming to NE for help actually die
How can l do otherwise but encourage
them by dividing amongst them the.
eornmeal on hand, and bidding them
trust God, and be of good cheer.
1t has done a aoorld Of good to make
the beginning you made by the few
hundred bushels of corn you bought
They see the beginning of what they
hope will be increased. No one family
has even asked for more than one dollars
acorth.
: am hoping to hear from you. l
know we have no truer friends than those
in Boston. They have done nobly in
the past, and l feel great reluctance in
asking them for more.
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