New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-16

poor frost bitten wholly unable TO nee their
feet Others hobbhg in pain with frozen ears, snd
81 act proper clothing to shield them nom the ineemsnc5
such the shtfu condition Of our poor people in tn. die
ettementssuch the immediate prospect before them
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To the foregoing add the following confrmatory
and startling testimony Of Mr.. VIM. w. Jerome, the
founder Of town called Irving in Marshall County
forty miles beyond Manhattan. Mr.. Jerome says:
The cattle and hogs in my mel hborhood are actually
starving The inhabitants nearly destitute Of food
and must perish unless relief ia speedily afforded; the
desperation Of despair is fast falling upon them their
teams giving out; they are too weak even now to
make their way through the SHOWS some OF them have
been four ,oeeks vainy endeavoring to get from the
Republican Forks down to Atchison, and then turned
back dsheartened unable TO get to where food could
be procured"
Mr. Jerome il here at Atchson and the above stste-
ment have from his own lips. He says the condition
ofhe roads il 30 bad that but about ten mQes day
can be travelled
The Township Committee Of cred Vermilion,"
Nemaha County, in their report acknowledging relief,
say: The sacks we received prior to the box Of
clothing rere made up into garments! We could not,
therefore, return them"
The Committee in Woodson County, l6O miles from
Atchison, send the following word to Gen. Pomeroy
:" Our people have neither money nor breadstuf, and
but little clothing. If You can, consistently with your
rulee, we would like TO have you load our teams
heavier it takes three tceeks to make the trip and we
can hardly make the loads meet. In Belmont Town
ship there are weny mine families of one hundred and
twenty.one persons, all depending on your organization
for bread We received the two os Of provisions as
per bill We win comply with your request Ito return
the empty sacks far as possible; but the hrs SACKS
that we got were distributed among the citizens, and
they have been made into chtldren's elothes!"
Ny friend Army, who has gone South TO see about
establishing Relief depots writes TO me- under date Oh
Feb g az follows: 10" near freezing to death last
night on the prarie-thermometer TO- below zero.
Our sleigh broke down, and we were near no cabin.
kept awake and in motion to the best Of my ability;
had gone 70 sleep, only the last trump could have
awakened me. With good wooden socks, and boots
and buf4lo overshoes, / had hard work to keep my
feet kom freezing What then must be the condition
of the poor teamstes who out upon the praires,
with neither socks overshoes, and whose miserable
apologies for boots out at both toes and heels ano
sides met them all along the way with feet frozen
in various degrees badly that nothing short OF
amputaiion can save their lives Ny heart bleeds at
the sight Of so much suffering"
These cases friends, are in number almost legion
To rece them ia unnecessary. The condition Of things
here can only be by just suffering these poor
people TO die outright without further effort to save
them. What will you do' l make this question
personal one. ] mean you, my friend, who read
what here write. What does your heart Say to you
upon the subject Can You rot contribute dollar
Can you not beg dollar What can you do!
VIII you feel happy when the last waiing cry comes
up from an expiring multtude-when the last famine
victim has lain down In bis hopeless despair
Send your contributions to j. f. Williams, ESQ.,,
President Metropolitan Bank, Eew-York. In behalf
of this suffering people,
dteA,,or, Feb, 6, 1861 THADDEUS HYATT.