Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-06-12

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as follows:
81 have not been over five miles from
home, and have seen and heard direct
from 366 persons. The most Of them are
now without bread. and arc actually SUBJ
sisting upon ezra busks. and whatever
they can get to peescrve life upon. while
there are others who have one and two
bushels Of corn yet, without any means
to get more. Some have horse or two
and are trying to raise a little crop
but have little or nothing to live upon"
Mr.. H. Edmonds, of Ridqeway, Fair
field District, in letter of March 9Th,
says:
1--WE have neither money nor corn. Can
and will you let me have fifty bushels till
| can make crop? l will surely pay
you. l have fifteen freedmen hired and
we can get no corn. lfyou christian peo.
pie could see our suffering I feel that the
sympathetic tear would come to their eyes
Only think for moment; last year We
had I | weeks and no rain. Our corn fell
in the fields. and there is nothing but ab-
ject want before us.
GEORGIA.
Mr.. G. A. Nunnally, Agent for the
Poor. writes from Monroe, Walton county,
Georgia. April IL:
"In behalf Of the suffering ones of this
county (Walton) now address you.
The Inferior Court appointed me agent to
supply. as far as possible, the needy and
famisbiDg. To do this small appropri-
alton, raised chiefly by taxation, was
placed in my hands. Early in January
proceeded to my task and found, to my
surprise and sorrow, that more than 600
persons, white and colored, in this coun.
". were actually suffering for bread. !
Immediately purchased corn, and. issuing
the scanty subsistence of one-half bushel
per month to the head, have thus suppl.
cd. poorly, for four months, that is, to
the lst of May. The last bushel in the
commissary has been measured out and
duly applicants We, .,,,a,up :, for bread to
sustain life are turned away empty. They
must starve if help is not speedily extend
ed to them"
In circular Of the Board of Trade Of
the city of Macon. signed by its officers.
J, B. Ross and others, dated April II, it
is said
"Ihe agricultural inter..t! {: e. n tthhe South
is, especially. almost totally prostrated,
and its condition to-day is moro helpless
and hopeless, its future more gloomy and
checrless. than at any former period in
its history.
"'lhis condition Of the cotton growing
States, in particular. il owing to various
causes. a few of which it may be proper
TO enumeratc. The total subversion of
the former system of labor and the very
natural arrangements thereby produced.
the loss of stock, fences and farming im-
plements, which have not been replaced,
the great scarcity of subsistence for man
and beast, and. in many sections, the
scarcity of eoen seed the past season; the
almost entire annihilation of capital in
the hands of the agricultural class, and
the partial failure of cotton and nearly
entire failure Of corn crops the past sea.
son these, together with other causes,
which we will not mention. have placed
vast numbers Of our farmers in condi-
tion at present where they must have aid
or perish,
"A large area of land is new prepared
and being planted in cotton. aud a much
larger area than last year has already
been planted in corn, In spite Of multi
piled discouragements our planters have
resolutcly striven, and are striving, to
overcome the numberless embarrassments
of their condition and situation. and gath.
er from the willing soil, by patient, care
full industry, the means to repair their
losses, at least in part, and drive gaunt
hunger from their habitatiou and distress
and suffering from tho land. But, after
having employed their laborers (who, to
their praise be it spoken, are doing well.)
and prepared their lands, food must be
had, and they have not the moaey to pro-
cure it, and there are thousand of farms
,chose future calture must be abandoned
aDd the laborers discharged unless their
proprietors can obtain credit for these
needed supplies until their crops can be
harvested. This may seem startling
assertion, but we believe it to be literally
true" Ta
f, ALABAMA
Gen. ,. E. Johnston writes from Selma,
Alabama, April s:
'You ask concerning the condition Of
this country, If such suffering as is de.