New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-06
THE DES7ITCTTON IN KANSAS.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
GAIL EOR AID.
ATcHIsoS, Kansas, +

ATcmsoS Kansas, Feb 4, 1851.
Tie suerngs Of the people here terrible and our
means Of relief are nearly exhausted The payment Of
freghbs on the goods and produce received this day
break the bank $1,000 have been paid ont within the
last four days. Gen. Pomeroy needs every dollar, up
to 100000, that your Committee in New-Yorl can
send him.
Hour by hour the case grows more desperate. The
class who now apply for relief may lie called the best in
the State The whole population are fast sinking Into
utter hepessness and unless seed wheat is at once fur
nshed God alone can tell what is to be the conclusion
Of this matter.
The amount Of relief distributed daily, and the slight
impression upon the famine which it seems to make
i. fearful to behold. VIII not your Committee 90 to
Albany ut once and urge immediate State and Private
bounty comes IN too slowly.
We are now at the crisi-; tis month determines the
fate OF thousands THADDFUs HYATT.
The following communication has lust been received
from Kansas by the Kansas Relief Committee in this
city, Is narrowing details ought to call forth gene
rous response from every friend Of mankind:
Your kind favor of late date was duly received and
any expressions OF gratitude our part are unealled
for Your labors bring their own reward. Our work
is one in common although opportunities OF learning
the reality extent aud extremity oil the destu'l0n Oh
this unfortunate people superior to yours. lhis
destution is on the increase. III there were thirty
thousand people in Kansas sixty or ninety days ago
needing aid, there now probably MY thOushiu'
Those who had something AZ the beginning OF the
Winter are getting entirely out. This was to be
expected and is made manifest by the tact that me
number Of township-organizaions with when TINS
office ia in constant correspondence Is gradually III
creasing =.
A man has inst arrived from township in Lykins
CO. whose statement forcbly illustrates this matter
He says tina, the number of families hs township hrst
reported as requiring aid 60; distributing from one
70 two bushels of meal, according TO the NUMBER Oh he
family and -four in the same proportion. The number
now supplied by the Committee Ii 90. They are TOTALLY
destitute of all means wherewith to purchase Without
aid salvation from starving Is an mpossloty asnPe
illustration OF the condition OF every lOcanty we near
FROM This man represents bimselt as beng
in a much better condition TO take care Oh
himself and his family than the great majority oil
his neghboIs, and be says ne did nor raise
busbel of good corn nor WIS there bushel raised 10
his knowledge in his township liz for bread, by reason
of the worms. He put III 10 aces, including corn,
potatoes, oats buckwheat, aud wheat ana tnLee 0p%-
els of potatoes the total from his farm. Their soie
dependence is upon The Committee-their hearts ana
hopes are with the benevolent of the East III these
hopes are disappointed death would enter ten thousand
homes within the next ninety days. that are now Out
one remove om il. Could they know that their hopes
are not to be realized despcir deep as the gloom oil
midnight would instantly seize the entire popuice'
EXPORTS MUST se6 CEASE.
The work of the benevolent, to meet me urgen,
wants OF this people, must quicken ara Tlu s Az
moral probability there viii De supply 81 food Tor
wsrded judging from the past and present alrlyasi
STILL zach II the falling OF IN the receipts oil money LOT
the ayment Of freghts and other necessary expenses
o. to create serious apprehension for The future The
RAILROADS. are doing molly and wogthy OF universal
gratitude; vet the bs must be pad ana That on de-
| Hrers. This is very urgent.
One thing iurtber-eoarse boots for men are greatly
needed. You cannot do the Pecpleo Of Kansas creates
good than by forwarding boxes of boots. Men come
IN with naked feet, making manifest t1etr need "
ba2lN tr1cks some "a their sloek ns tset, oaeta WIZ