Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-07

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dispatch comes to hand.
STARVATION IN NORTH ALA
BAMA.
There is n Of the strongest appeals be.
ing made in the East for bread in behalf
of the perishing that ever attracted public
attention, and we hope it will be promptly
and literally responded to. Judge Wyeth,
Of Alabama. in his address to the people
Of Cincinnati, Gays the people Of Northern
Alabama ." are literally starving; helpless
women, children and in6rm men are suf.
fering for the want Of bread. The facts
are so terrible that they can scarcely be
believed. and I feel that the creates, diff
Guilty that I shall have to encounter will
be the doubts tina, will suggest themselves
in regard to the truth of my statements.
In the name Of God and Of our common
humanity, I beg for bread for my starving
people,. After war comes famine. But
in this case the suffering is not long or
hopeless. In q month or two the danger
and difficulty will all have passed away,
and ripening crops will relieve the present
suffering. But until thea their supplies
must come from the North, and the peo-
pie have no money. We have no doubt
that up in the northern regions Of Georgia
there is also much suffering, both among
whites and blacks. No, far even from
Macon some were perishins for lack Of
food q month ago. In the neighborhood
where the last armies were encamped last
year, fences were burnt up and all crops
so completely seized and exhausted that
the poverty was complete. So deficient
was the sowing, and so little was left. as
to render scarcity inevitable now. A pri-
va,e letter, written within a few weeks,
viii show how entire the restitution and
poverty are, ever lower down In the State:
"Our University, with all its buildings,
literary and scientific furniture, etc., was
destroyed by fire last April q. e. 9 year
aso) by order Of General Caxton, who
made a raid on this place. Crhe 1nstitu-
ton had been converted into q rebel mill
tary school.) The soldiers devastated the
country around, taking of what was por-
table and burning up what was not, so
that we have been reduced to very great
poverty. A good many houses in and
near Tuscaloosa were burned up. The
result, has been that the farmers were not
able even to put in the usual seed through
large sections Of the country, and even
where they have done this, most Of their
provisions are utterly exhausted until the
new crops are gathered.
He who at such a moment stops min
u,ely to inquire whether these sufferers
were Unionists or rebels, can hardly claim
the name of Christian. IF thine enemy
hunger, feed him ; il he thirst. give him
drink" is the divine injunction, But
these are not any Of them enemies now,
aud no, rebels. They have laid down
their arms in all good faith. 'our people
took up arms" writes the author Of the
above letter, " but they have accepted the
issues Of the war as facts. Honestly they
have laid down their arms. We are hon.
es, in declaring ourselves ready TO sup
port a government which can &C, noSly
and generously"
A. the great naval battle in 1882, in
which the las, attempt was made to cap
ture Gibraltar BY the French and Spanish
forces combined. red.hot shot set the
besiesers' vessels on FIRE and boiling water
was poured down the rocks on those at
tempting to ascend. But the momen the
burning ao,ills struck, friends and foes
made one united and emulous effort to
save the drowning. and four hundred
were brought TO land in the boats OF their
former enemies. But the men for whom
appeal is now made are our countrymen,
and many Of them have been ever nobly
loyal.
In North Alabama the people were loyal
Unionist,, and many Of their present suf-
ferings are owning to this cause. They
can be reached by the Tennessee river,
and every cent forwarded properly to
Cincinnati will reach them in food and
save life. When the Irish potato crop
failed, we supplied them with shiplosds Of
food. They had no more claim upon US
than all now have throughout the South.
I, is now the time to bury all past strife
and feeling between Unionis,s and disun-
lists in the South, and in fact between the
North and South, by ar op~en-kanded and
generous humanity to those who, in the
providence Of God, need daily bread to
keep them from starving. The New York
Erenins Post tells a good anecdose TO the
effect, that when Richmond was captured
a Union man was distributing food sent
from the North. Among the applicants
Virginia woman with a basket, who,
with loud voice, proclaimed, You I'M
ders,snd-I am 3 Southern m I
hate Yankees. Ny husband was in the
army, and killed many Yankees. I am
glad he did IL, and I wish he had killed
more. I hate them" SC. Madame"
the Union man, severely, as he
filled her basket with crackers, sugar and
coffee piled up, and q piece Of beef on top
OF all, '"go and feed your children"
There is no more pertinent or humane re-
ply to a wickedly foolish speech on re-
cord.
TRAVELLING UNDER DIvTIcrLrIEs.-A
large party Of ladies and gentlemen, num-
oerins nineteen persons. passed through