New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-01
FIG URES OF THE EXODUS.
AN ABSTRACT OF THE sEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
KANSAS FRREDMENs RELIEF ASSOCIATION.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE sEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
KANSAS FRREDMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION
TOPEKA, Kan, May 26.-The second semi
annual report OF Kansas Freedmens RelIef AssOel-
aton whose headquarters here, has recently been
submitted by the President, the Rev. J. b. gilbert.
During the month Just past liberal distributions have
been made to OUT parties going to other places, many
goods having been sent by wagons to colonies III Wa
baunsee and Dunlap, and there have also been large
disbursements Of garden seeds and seed potatoes Inc
officers and helpers OF the association here embrace
body twenty persona In the period between OCTOBER
49, 1879 and March 81, 1880, fully 10000 suffering
freedmen who have to this refuge from the Sonih
have been cared for NEST OF whom were In pltiaDle
destiutOn and distress. During this period the cash
contributions to the association have been $29596 Be-
sides this there have been large cOnsignmeuts OF cloth
ing and fIrning supplies OF seeds and tools There are
as yet no indications Of abatement OF the exodus
from the South The refugees are still arriving as here
tofore AT the time there are increasing calls upon
the ASSOCIATION from Nebraska, Colorado, New-Mexico
and California for large numbers, with assurances OF
good opportunities, steady employment and good pay
An increasingly large proportion OF those who now
arrive being sent TO these places anu gOOd re-
ports are received from have already reached
these destinations Besides this the association IS con-
sderng the propriety Of purchasing unOccuped land in
some locality on which to estab ism colony OF the
refugees "a necessity and wisdom may suggest AS
hitherto. therefore, the still calls for money ma
terias and work.
The distress of the 90 900 freedmen who have come
TO this refuge since October 49, 1872 has been matcrl
ally mitigated their urgent needs have been promptly
supplIed and themselves so helped to good locations
limited aid and work that with few exceptions they are
already sefsustaininR, and ambtlOusy laDornR TO
secure the TILE home farm They have from the
beginning proved peaceabe inOensive and law-abdinG
citizens intent Oh becoming independent OF charitable
support.
Tie Dunlap settlement, which is situated III Morris
and Lyon Counties consists Of about 1O5 Iames, who
have takan up land IN the Kaw Reservation, AT 81
per acre. purchasing It from the United States Govern
mont, pay ing OnesXt OF It's vue In cash and The bal
III six at per cent Interest. The ass0aion
hes been helping hat, hut Of the set
tiers are sel;-suppOrting They have built the first
church erected in Dunlap. They have divine SER
virr and Suud,y.sc1OOl very sabbath The Wabaupscp
colony Is about fifty miles southwest of Topeka and
fourteen miles northwest from Council Grove. There
aIe thirty-One families ~ This colony; having N all
each, one OF these families has eighty acres.
About half Of the refugees who arrive here quar-
Or the 81 hers scattered alb Ut among fTends,
while Others rent rooms IN Tue city, Inc ASSOCIATION
has for the last six months entertained the barracks
an average Oi 12O amlieS per mouth. Often, even IN
TIE cold weather 100 refugees have arrived III singe
day. ,, . -, ,
ton In North Topeka was Oeaed December 81, 1879.
and fOpl TINT time up u March 81, 1850 there nave
neen received INTO II l3SO PACKAGES some dea may
be Oruled Of the amount of labor performed In this lie
partmtnc from the fact that between tue 1s OF d. rt-
last and the 3lSt OF March. 1880 at least l3OOO
men, women and cnLdlen have been supplied win
cotl,ns by The a4sor1n ON the 3O0O tickets di'trib
utrd by the Culzrus' VISITING Committee, and that 1t
| has. IN ADDITION, furnished blankets overcOits and
SHOES to several hundred II the Icnsces sent out to
homes in various OcalitiPa. or the $50 packages
cciVrd, 54j unpdrkr aud distribute at Topeka
10 were -"nt to Prisons t. Fort Scltt 10 t. CL'op
Mhhattar. 81 to Duniap, 10 10 Emp ria, 10 Leayen-
wrIh, To ";Seman County. 20 10 Kansas CITY, = 10
Milford and to Louisville, leaving 80 packages III the
re- Augu L,