Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-02-24
DISTRESS IN THE SOUTHWEST.

Letters from Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee
Nation, represent the people as being in the
utmost distress from scarcity of food and
shelter. At Fort Gibson there are about
5000 refugees, many of whom are women,
children and negroes. 4 letter Of the 18th
alt. says:
Ca tic iay before Colonel Phillips assumed
command 2.;tO ratious were issued I" THESE re'u,
gees. and on that day there was mol an ounce oi
AOur left IN III. "OmmisS.iry, WINE tnSte Mere
1000 soldiers to feed, two hundred miles away
from thc base of supplies. The mules Were ueau
or lv!-g from want ~ forage. Only nNe poor
teams h,.. len in the brigade train. and one OF
rh. most terrific waters ever known was inst
.atfin.. H.: To make the matter worse. fonr hun
l-,I ,l.,,s q, anuy hal been borrowed from the
indian agents. and a. this pat them out of bread,
raryt,ir,, staged soldiers Indians, negroes all in
The face.
The writer's VINO send ont informotion in
relation 10 the state Of affairs in the South
west az. and no doubt Justly, condemnatory
Of the management of the Kansas Depart
men; One of them says that the honest
truth *. the Kansas army has been run for
the benefit of a "cloSe corporation. Men
whose brain and heart have been tested in
the old Kansas struggle, and who proved BY
thsir ability that they were "rulers amongst
mcu," have been thrust aside or put in
secondary places, in order 10 give the power
Of the army intOThe hands of men who would
be supple tools. Men who had no sense Of
their responsibilities or decorum sufficient to
behave themselves in the digni6ed places into
which they were thrust, carried on the war
rs Kidd or Morgan, the buccaneers, might
have done. Discouraged in the failing re-
Sources OF the rebels, they discovered richer
placer in the treasury Of the Government
Beef contractors, forage thieves and bogus
horse BUYERS swarmed about the camps. Sets
and clusters of officers were formed into
sort Of Jacobin club, the cohesive element
of which was plumber. Officers were detailed
on fictitious duties, to edit papers, or write
for them in the interests of these parties,
who were thus able to pay them.
Nh thu, il has been with the army of the
lraad little commonwealth of Kansas and while
her people have sent QUE her children TO shed
their blood calamity on every battlefield Of the
SonthweSt. Weep not fathers weep not, moth
err for the blood of your sons has been used to
cover mp the follies and crimes of men too little
and too weak tor their responsibilities and the
cry OF Ral1calism IS raised to embarrass the ac-
,i6n OF a President who has consented 10 many
weaknesses. because he regards Kansas kindly,
bur who Is ever startled from his disposition to
treat her well by such rogueries. If there is a
little feeling in what have written, you should
excuse il by seeing the women and children
around this place picking Qike tocks of snow
.1,, from nrr.N
rnulps that have come in with four-trainS At
present the soldiers get part riions OF Hour, with
beef and SalT bur it has been with terrible eSer-
lion. The worst % the strain seems 10 b. past
both wavs-the weather and starvation. But You
would feel il now if you were on Fort smith,
from which place came few days ago. Pande-
monium let loose, Is the only description. To
make it worse the grosseSt Righteousness is open
w boosted Of aad blush to think of even what
the rebels will think of Us.