, 1861-02-01
The Destftutfon in Konaax-An ApYea1
to the NQvV York LcntaIQture.

r1,a T1aststutfon in Kanaax-Au Anueal
to the NQvV Xork LcntsIoture.
,,-..v..- .o..yse
=. N*" aoAh' jan. ILL., Aeol',7
Hou. B. F..CANp, AIha1y, N. Y.-1y Deq1<
Sir: Cannot something be done at Albany for
our poor, starving and freezing people in Kan
:as? 4 movement ought. to b. inItiatcd nt
once in some one Of. our Btafa / 1.egI6laturcs,
giving promise Of d relief, III soIf1a aTa1on6ble
3egree prppostioued to The calamity:
Forty Thousand etar ying and freezing people
cannot xeadily:be reached by private old alone.
They might be, indeed, II: ::fhe people who are.
filled and clothed could bit be brought to re- !
nlizc the nakcdness and hunger Of those who
hare nothing. But thus far The public heart
seems callohs, and the public mind inscnsible,
to the appallinp fact that a great multitude In
Kansas aro actually dying of. starvation, or in
langec nf -------------------
An intelligent physician; Tho ts wen known
the following language: s'I write" says he,
"in behalf Of suffering community. The
circle represent embraces the corners of four
counties Alien Bourbon, Anderson and Linn.
The suffering here bas .cumtneuceI As long
rs hrcadstuiIs lasted, 50 ono could borrow
from another, the pressure was not felt but,
now, starvation .sarcs Us all IN tic Jaet! .Ihaye-
More than. twenty persons, on Saturday. were
t1yingto borrow or beg enough for day Or.
two: ! could mention many families that are
using only O few turnIps aud meal; SONIC, only
sugar-caue seed ground in coffee mill. 1tany
children are without shoes to their feet, or
garments to their backs. What VIII be theIr 4,
In letter Of Sd january, Gen. Pomeroy
writes from AtchIson to our New York Com
nlittee as follows: :" Scores Of teams from The
Nepsho country laye come In to-day through
the scverest storm Of the season; q weary
Journey Of, eight. aayBt. Mr. L. G., from Gene
~ .Allen Connty. was. nine iays. making his
lan1e: and his own feet were frozen aud out OF
;his shocs On I'll sides; as he walked they lite
rally len foot, prints Of bloodt In yeplysto nv
remark. that he must have had hard time, he
said: Yes; but was the best able Of any Of
them to comet When I told him ho must
have pair Of shoes, be replied: 1T won't do
for nc to take them; there are Others who
me tales OF sorrow and suffering until I Vas
obliged to close the scene. lie told me of
whole families who were living on sorghum
seed bread; the seed ground by hanil In cof-
fee mill 1t wa with difficulty I could make
this young man take anything for himself, so
snxious was he to take everything: to the
letter, he lies By the stove in my Office, sleep-
Ing In his travelling blanket, the first time If
nine uiglts that he has slept in house, during
nearly I'll Of which time tic thermometer has
been below zero! The story Of this mans
hardelips is only the story Of hundreds; and
yet, not the frat man among them has uttared
even happy If can give them bread!''
In these Eastern happy homes Of ours no
one comprchends whnts famine is; people bear
OF It, bat fail to realize the import OF the fear
ful word. To give you some idea Of the ex-
tent and universally OF the distress IN Kansas,
let me say, that have statistical tables, many
Of them sworn to, from sixty Townships ont of
tacenty5ltr Counties of the Territory, cmbra-
cling probably one seventh OF Inc entire popu-
lation from the Vermlllton to the Verdigris,
aud from Osage and RottoWatomic to the BIZ
Blue and Smoky Atlt forks, and theu condl-
tfon, as reported full two mouths ago, was
then as follows:
Twelve thousand SIX hundred and seventy.
three persons had on hand, al told, but ls, ,NI
bushels Of corn and corn meal, or fraction
less than ono-and.haf bushels to each person
LOG, ,22o1 pounds Of Hour, Or about nine pounds
to the individual, and but $lo.671, or less than
one dollar per head to meet the consequences
Of this terrible dearth OF breodstui5! AND
this, my friend, is why starvation nov,
stares' that unhappy people I'm Inc tace!'
And as TO Wlnter clolnlnE and shoes' they afe
not due to any want Of industry, on the part
Of the people, the following facts Will shoE
In 1853 they planted 18 5l2 acres in corn. In
1860, 32,S24, 81, 81 or nearly donhlc: But sec What
the dronth did for them. They got 9l5, ,N:5
bushels Of corn In '59, ora lactton under ~
bushels average per acre. II 1sGo, 4S,al4
bushels, or fraction under n bushels to the
acre.
In 1850 they had SIT acres In wheat. In
1860, 7,173, or more than double In '59 they
harvested q, ,5S3 bushels, or a fraction under
seven bushels to the acre In 1850, s, III bush
els, or less tAdn the seed socni
They raised IS, ,997 bushels potatoes In 1850
In 1850 they raised but 500 bushels.
Their garden produce in 1859 Was worth $16,.
eos, In 1850, b1t $190.
One Of my returns shows the condition Of q
single township in Chase Co., on the 18th oi
last October. to have been as follows: viz: q
population Of 18G persons, comprised in 81
farni,ies. had. MI told. but $50 so! Had but
about 7D56 bushels of com meal! Had but 48::
r1nthinri And rct thesn nonr. irnnoyerishcf
nrnnIe r. a sincie toTnship. undcr The rrind
fnr nnnrrssion If the Land Sale. had prcSious
~ 9nnid intn fhc Goyernment Treasury orej
nrlx tSousand lo1ars
Ana in The sixtv toEnships above alludcdto
the tnta1 amonnt of money wruur from tht
| Inor ecttiers hV thc y-ovcr., .,ment land snles
puo4 nnnts ~ orcr ~ .tso i,nndraI thousand o1
]ars. Had thcse poor Deoplo not been thu:
| t1cnietct1 hr tia peyernn1ent. thew had not to
| dsr I,een fhe rr1infcnts nf Eastern bounty
| Ard rat Tho Nat;onnl Coagrees refuses to n0
| tice their sufTsrincs or do Ought for their re
! lief: Shar,e. Shame. on such q mockerv O
royernmeut and Of Justice. :
Thesa eiItv townships need. as an nbkolnt,
ncccssitv @ ngainst annthcs vcar Of famine. til,
| folloTine iinds and amounts of seed. viz,
| Of seed Wheat, 1881 bushels. OF seed corn
| 5000 bushels. OF seed potatoes, 8,45 bushels
| While to meet The absolute requirements o