Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-03-07
RELIEF FOR OUR STARVING PEOPLE.

North and Sonth, and even in England, that Q
great scarcity of provisions, bordering upon fam
Inc, exists throughout q great part Of the Late
Southern Confederacy. In our own State the
distress is great and general, but seems 10 be par
ticularly felt in Sumter and Lancaster districts
ows and orphans Of Southern soldiers, and from
the host Of starving freedmen, that it has ever
pierced the ear Of Congress, as will be seen BY
the following: ,......,. :: .as., .,c,,.
Joint resolution authorizing the employment o.
public vessel for the transportation OF provision
to the people of the Southern States. a =
Be It resolved By the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatiues of the United States of America, q
Conqress, assembled, That the, Secretary Of tht
Navy be, and is hereby, authorized and directed
upon the application of the contributors, to assigf
public vessel for the transportation to Charles
ton, Savannah, and Mobile, Of any supply Of foot
and clothing that may be contributed by the peo
ple of the United States, orthe use of any portion
of the.people of the Southern States, who may bt
suffering from the failure of crops or other causes
under such regulations as may, by the Secretary o.
the Navy, be prescribed. '.'-ss'T
Approved, February %, 1857. = - :.
In pursuance of this resolution, the New York
Tribune announces that Government vessel will,
under late joint resolution of Congress leave that
pofG III leH uaSS, w CsAiy neo nnoooroi na"y
meantime be contributed by the citizens to feed
the famishing Door at the South. The Tribune
after stating that the vessel should be freighted 10
her utmost capacity with corn and meat, adds:
We are amazed at the apathy with which the
appeals hitherto made for our starving countrymen
have been met. As yet, apart from what our no,
BILE women have raised, only $4,000 have been
contributed. Ten years ago like appeal would
have been responded to at the rate OF hundreds oi
thousands per day. Are these people less near to
us because of their need? Let us resolve that al
least 800, 900. shall be contributed this week BY
our city. Let us not be shamed by St Louis, which
has gwen $4,000 =. -. -.
Under the head of Famine in South Carolina, u
the New York Euena.g Post says:
The Southern Famine Relief Commission, o1
which Mr.. James NJ. Brown, No 81 Wall-street,
is treasurer, have received many letters from South
Carolina, all Of which agree in representing the
scarcity of provisionsi in that State as being of the
most serious character It extends over nearly the
whole State, and unless relief be quickly given
nothing can prevent absolute starvation among the
poorer classes, while large number Of the plant
ers and farmers will be left without seed tor the
next crop. g., a... -, -E,s-=s...- ;.se-. -
Governor Or writes that the destituion. is q
great and severe that FIVE hundred thousand bush
6lS VI CUTu are cStu5to0 w w uOS0CN W iOCo .a'
people, over and above all thatcan be obtained with
| in the State. Col. VIM. Nettles, a gentleman O
high standing in Sumter District, has been In thi
city with bond signed by about seventy five plan
ters, in which they pledge their next Cotton croI
as security for about forty thousand dollars worth
of corn and bacon. He could find no one to take
his bond, and has left the city, after obtaining two
thousand bushels of corn from the commission tol
the relief of the very poor of his district saying
that unless he could find some persons in some 9th
er city to make the necessary advances, he did not
see how it would be possible for the planters o.
Sumter District to put In their seed the present
season. :E'f. - o. 49, -
A similar statement comes from the most promi.
nent men in Lancaster District of the same State,
who offer to mortgage their real estate as security
for the corn and bacon needed to supply the wants
of the people until another harvest can be gather.
ed in. ) = ...i-. - =. ~
Representations Of the same character come from
Richland Greenville, Darlington and Greenwood
districts; and it is believed that at least one hun,
dred thousand people, one quarter Of the popula-
ton of the whole State of South Carolina, are now
in the absolute need of provisions, and if relief i
not given, the number must increase every week
until July. 90
Congress has placed at the disposal of the Sec.
retary of the Navy National vessel to carry sup.
plies to the South, and it is to be hoped that the
kindly disposed people of this city and the North
ern States will make it possible for the commission
to fill every available square foot of her space with
the means of saving human beings from death,
and enabling the husbandmen to put seed into the
earth, for another harvest But what Is done
should be done without delay. :,