Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-27
sFARVATIOS.


The Richmond Va Times Of the Sth
says: =:
The rations furnished by the city are
issued to thirteen hundred families.
Each family viii average four persons
thus making the total number Of per
sons five thousand two hundred.
OF this number none have regular ana
very few any employment, while two
thirds are prevented by age or sickness
from working at all, even could employ
ment be obtained.
During the month OF February rations
we're issued by the United States govern
meut to seventeen thousand different
persons, of which number one thousand
we're white. None of these drew ratiOns
from the city supplies.
The above statements show the ap-
palling fact that out OF population OF
about seventy thousand souls, twenty
two thousand two hundred are wholly
or partially dependent upon the charity
Of The public. OF the whole number SIX
thousand two hundred are whites and
| the rest negroes. How many instances
of destitution there are unrepOrted we DO
not know, doubtless many.
We know of numbers of negroes that,
l during the past winter, have died lit
erallv from starvation, and many, both
I white and black, have died of diseases
superindueed by cold and hunger
REPORT FROM GENERAL HOWARD.
The following is the text Of Gen. How
| ards letter, an abstract Of which has
already been published:
| WAR DEPARTMENT. BUREAU OF REFUGEEs,l
| FEEEDAlEN AND ABANboSED i4ASDs' iss
/ WAsHGNGrON, March :, 1867. )
/ q Sir. In answer to the resolution o.
! the senate Of the United States, l have
| the honor to report as follows:
! " From official sources, and confirmed
! bv gentlemen from different sections o
/ the south, my estimate is $685. whites
| and a, ,23S cOloTed people, making 10 al
56 500, who will need food from som'
l source before the next crop can relieve
them. The number Of rations for all ps
| month. .707 900. For five months, th'
| probable time required, s. 535, 600 rations
at twenty-five cents per ration, the est
! mated cost will be S2, ,l33, ,760. OF thi
sum an appropriation has already beel
made for the FIVE months TO the amour
of s625. 600, leaving -an additional sun
| required OF 81. sos, 80. This sum L deen
sufficient to meet the extreme want occa
| stoned by failure of the crsp, an
other causes referred to in the resolution
of inquiry The present appropriation
is ample, provided the issues be contine
to the classes named in the freedmen
bureau act; but the additional sun
named will be required, should the issu
be extended as contemplated ID tn
foregoing estimate.
"The following table affords the deta
of the estimates for the several state
where want is reported to exist.
! Very respect 'ullg, your obedlenJ servant,
o. o. HOWARD, MaJor-General,
Commissioner Bureau Of Refugees, ell
"P. S.-Since my report was drawn U
1 received joint estimate from th
assistant commissioner and governor
Georgia greatly exceeding the amour
; ia the table. l am, however, unwillin
to recommend a larger appropriation K
T Georgia before another estimate shall
} made, based on thorough inspection.
, s. Very respectfully, your obedient serNant Z,
80. o. HOWARD, MajOr-Geue er'u'
t 4" Commissioner, etc