The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-08
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS SHOWING THE COEDI.
T1ON OF THE PEOPLE.


are widows. orphans and disabled soldiers who
| are under present circumstances, unable to pro-
vide for themselves. He tuinks it will require from
5000 to 0000 bushels to meet thoir necessities.
| KERsuAw DIsrRIcr-The Commissioners of the
Poor for this district have bcen applied to for re-
| lief by FIVE hundred white persons. who furnish
certificates OF dcsttution; and tho number OF des-
| titito freedmen is moro than double that OF tho
| whites.
| HoRRY D1sTRIcT-I believe that it will require
not less than 20 600 bushels of corn tn supply the
district, 5000 of which must DO for charitable dis
| trbution.
WILLIAMSBURG DIsrRIcr.-One-twentie OF the
population OF this district must be provided for by
! charity, or greatly suffer.
LEXINGTON DIsTRICr.-FrOm the numerous a)-
| plications made to mo know the dcstitution to
be very great. In my opinion it will require not
less than three Thousand bushels of corn to supply
| the want. Colonel Palmer. now resident in this
district. among many certificates gives the follow,
ing Miss -. aged %, has an i,liOtic sister, aged
Ii, physlca ly helploss and an infant niece entire
'y dependent upon her; her mother and elder Sis
ter have both died during the past month, ii not
| from actual starvation from great want.
! The above estimates, with tic exception Of kcr-
shaw District, have been made without reference
| to the freedmen. In almost every district their
destituton equals or silrpasSes that OF tho whites
| GEoRGErowN DIsTRIcT.-Wc arc impressed with
tic belief that it will require ut least 5OO0 bushels
of corn 10 neet tho necessities OF tho paupers OF
this district
Tho tOIOWlnn cXtraCtS OI lclLcrs aTc I'LL TcSih'ISc
to circular sent out under direction of Governor
| Orr:
| GEoRoErowN.-Our population OF whites is as
you know, small; and yet there are about fifty WI
tlows in Georgetown, their small children, vino arc
dependent. number about forty, while those who
could work. If work was to he hal would swell the
number considerably. This does not. by any
| means. comprise all who are i'll actual want. am
not sure if the who are suffering tho most ara
not thos- whose delicacy leads them TO complain
the least. Iknow ofmany such.
ALLSToS. FAIRFIELD DISTRICT The failure Of
tho crops last year. following the disasters OF de-
structivc raid leaving us comparatively nothing to
live on, or to work with, has reduced liz t. that
dent on tho charity of those uutsidc of
munity, We no longer being able to help "nc
another. The situation at this time is really
alarming; starvation ut tho door of many indus
trious trying to make cro,'; will not br abc
to plant without help, II they Iail to get help
now they will be i'll wors" situation next year ii
they live to Get through this.
EDGFrIEI.D nIsTRICT. There aro several old I'cr-
sons both white and colorei, who for some months
past have been sustained b. the charity of others
until the community is no longer able To support
them and without aid from abroad they must per-
ish. Two old negro women were found in the
road one freezing day III january, without food or
friend and carried to the cottage of wnltU woman
near where they have boen supported hy the
neighbors since, but now the provisions Of all
parties arc exhausted.
NEAR GREENWOOD, ABBEv1rI.E DISTRICT There
arc several widows, with families of little children
who have been supported by tho charity of neigh
hors until they can no longer assist them, and they
are new ut the door of absolute want.
Fonr MILLS York DIsTRICr.-I am destitute.
and have large family. and have no way to get
corn. would be Obliged to you, it possible, if
YOU could send mo some relief immediately.
havo large family. ten in number. and nothing to
cat. sold all my bacon to buy corn anu am now
without either
I've, r
widowed mother and two widowed sisters who arc
much nee ling assistance. One of my sisters has
Two small children, tho other scvcn I'LL uf them
living with my brother-in-law, who has lost tho
use of his right arm. He WAS farming last year
and is this but last year he failed entirely max
ing crop, and hc hls no money to buy corn Or
meat.
Fairfield DIsrRIcr-Therc arc in my immcdi-
alto reighborhood fifty or sixty persons in great
want, and who mus. perish unless help comes
speedily.
kERsuAw D1srRIcr.-Tha crops have failed to
such extent that feel satisfied from the repre-
seutations made 20 me on the subject that not
moro means of subsistence has been made than
will be consumed by hc 3Oth of June next
HoRRY DIsTRICT.-From the effects OF tho war
AMI the drought of last summer believe that il
will not require less than 10000 bushels OF corn to
supply the wants OF the district 5,0OO OF which
must be for charitable distribution.
DUE WEST, ABBErILLE DIsTR1cT.-ln limited
neishborhoud near Due West, a gentleman writes
that they must have 1O0 bushels per month to keep
the people from actual starvation.
LEXINGTON DIsrRICT.--I have q list of poor. con-
sistng OF old mon unable to work. and widows
with small children, and no resources: These arc
now in state of beggary and want. We are Ill tho
raidcd region and one person is not able tp assist
another.
HIGHLAND DISTRICT, including the burnt city of
Columbia have on my list $50 names, repre-
sentng 1,670 persons, most il not all of whom
must be fed from day to day by charity or suffer
This list embraces both white and colorcd. We
arc in great and immediate want.
KERsHAw.-There are one thousand individual
names upon the list who receive each two weeks
ratons Of tho corn out Of the shipment made to
INC from tho New York Southern Relief Assocla-
tior. That list is daily increasing. anu there are
many in want who unwilling to apply for rclici.
In addition to these sup, lilies for tie destitute
would suggest the appointing Of @ committee OF
intelligent and reliable gentlemen from each pre-
cinct of the district, to seek out mcrit0riuus OBJ
jccts among the retiring delicate, sensitive people
who need relief, but who would not hog.
CoKEsBURY, ABEEvILLE DISrRICT.-Thcir are
eight families i'll Immediate ncigilburhnod wii'
are in suffering condition. and WHO cannot live
without assistance; and have no ilca tlra, these
eight are more than onctourth OF the In!;,bcr "iiu
cannot live without assistance in this Immediate
nciShborhoutl Ii You can send any corn. III
mercy Ito 1t. The months of May AMI june will
test the powers of endurance of many delicate
woman and orphaned child in tho hard scufilc for
existence.
WlLLIsroS, UPPER PART OF EARNwELr. DIsrRIcT.
There arc sixteen white and twrlvu colurc.l fam
lies i'll this vicinity who are in utter dcstiuiium.
atd WHO, without charitable aid, will inevitably
stalvc. These families contain seventv-twu per-
surs
ABBEr1LJE, G. H.-Thrro is no end to our nc-
ccssities: We have received four hundred and
slXty-ciSht bushels OF corn and that will not sup
ply onc-haf the needy with ono busiIcl each.
cannot say how many families there are, but their
name is legion.
WINSsBoEo, FAIRFIELD DISTRICT The greatest
want is not with the extremely poor. but with those
who ar trying TO labor without lnras FOR fuiI.
support, S"nle have one. some two mutl,s SUI"
ply. but witllnut aid may yot fail in making (: crop.
All such heed assistance.
BAnNwELL DIsrRIcr.-I have Just closed the
distribution nt two hundred sacks uf corn among
the most destitute. regardless of color. THIS wls
u great blessing; but the rccfis o:,Iy temporary.
Since the distribution during the las! two nr three
days lave been visited by !iFty or sixty objects uf
Distress to whom am obliged to say, There is
no more com. Including destitute widows and
orphans, aged men and women. tlise,scd, wiitr
aud colorcd. there are not less than from twelve
to fifteen hundred families in this district
large portion of whom must meet death without
assistance.
man from this station writes There are ip,w
thirtycgt white families in this vicinity and Fix
colored who are i'll painful want, and ulnst suon
suffer very greatly. We hope to receive help
for we are III the ral1"d section, ait, those i'll tho
best condition have hard struggling tn NEE. Their
OWN wants.
Due NEST. ARnEvrLIE DIsrRIcT.-Thcr.. ar.
seventy-iivc families in this ncishburhond wtlmn.
corn. money, or any means To obtain bread. am!
unless some provision is made for them some uf
them will certainly perish.
CHAPrELs DEror, NEwBEREY DISTRICT
are here tw, oil negro women, one aged seventy
two, the other nincty-onc. who are totally unable
TO support themselves and have no one to whom tn
look for iIrlp,