Americus Sentinel from Americus, Kansas • 1

UdERICUS SENTINEL IfiXTKA. Americas Sentinel Brckenrijge, Madison, Chase, Butler, Hunter, Marion, and other adjoining counties, in divided among the 327 people, would amount; to 9 lbs per individual. Amount of groceries! on hand, of which one family, numHrhich committees shall be chosen to carry out T. C. HILL, EDITOK.

beripg 7, owns $100 worth, Laving the rev maing 324 individuals witlj $85.50 worth, or; AMERICUS, K. T. -'SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1800. som.e systematized plan of operation, to be adopted at the meeting to-day. Agents will then be selected to visit the States and solicit aid for the needy.

We consider the plan a feaaible one, and hope soon to see it in suc 20 cents worth each, it equally divi.aea among them. Full one-third of these 331 people are The Drouth in Kansas. more or less destitute cf clothing, especially the children. cessful operation. This topic at present absorbs all others in this iV.rUon of Kansas.

From the fact that lsTovv is not the prospect before us a gloomy; one? If all the provisions in this township: CAIIOLA. TOWNSHIP. We append the following report of Cahola were equally divided among its citizen3, they 1 until lately fkciVv.has been a diversity of opinion pjpressci ns to the real condition of our people, wo have remained comparatively silent on the subject. But facts aro nowbeing dis 6j closed which render it obligatory on us to raise would not last them three months, and the entire amount of money in the township, if divided in the same manner, would give them about $2.10 each with which to buy food when the amount now on hand is consumed. No? is there anytning in the country to disposo of for either money or provision.

And besides this, the amount of fodder which has been scraped together with the utmost frugality and care will fall far short of wintering thp stock. Even should our people succeed in sustaining township, Breckenridge county, Kansas, as furnished us by Wm. McCullough, are 23 families in the township, numbering 104 No land paid for. No? of acres of corn planted in 1859, 1Q0 No. of bushels of com raised in 1859, 6810.

No. of acres of corn planted in ISQ0, 295 No. of bushels of corn raised in 1860, 431. No. of acres of wheat sown in 1859, 12 No.

of bush els of wheat raised in 1859, 200. No. of acres of wheat sown in 1800, 198 No. of bushels Of wheat raised in 1SG0, 21. No.

of bushels of potatoes raised in 1859, 125 No. of bushels of potatoes raised in 18Q0, 21. There aro our voice and unite our efforts with those of our fellowcitizens jn making known the destitute condition of this countrj. From accurate and reliable information, obtained by re-pponsjbjejmen. residing within 'the limits of their operations, it is evident that the actual destitution of the people of Jitinsoj withou' a parallel in the history of our country.

Messrs. Thomas II. Stanley aiid Geo. W. themselves through jth.o and comfort-J less winter which will socn be upon us with'iU icy breath, what are they to do in the spring? 30 head of horses, 14S head of cattle, and J.2G How are they; to obtain seed from iUj on hn This is owned by Shockley have within he past week, one or the other of them, visited nearly every family in Americus township, for the purpose of arriving at their true conditions, and the -fallowing is tjerujt of their investif They visited 07 famines, containg 331 portions.

Thereto nuia number of gl.e raise crop; ana on wiwn are iney i nUQlberiLg 12 persons, and is near subsist while thnt crop is growing? The wheat! ftU to be scnt 0ff jn a few da vs. Of thh this sown this fall is already fast dying out for! amount, one family of six persons has $30, 1 want of rain, and there are no indications of any coining change for the better. We do not family of 5 persons has $10, and one person has $120. This leaves 20 families, numbering 92 persons, without any inouey. There persons living in this township, and tJ.eral wonder that our people are becoming alarmed, faunluw.who are about leaving the levriiory.

I ci aL' flection. flire arc three-fourths of of land naid fo'r in 4. urths of the family of six parsons has 700 bushels, and acres the townshii). 123; amount of mortgage on land, $1135. No.

of acres of land unpaid for that is claim -dfand occupied 1G0 acres per family-43590. plates of interest paid, from 0 to 48 concent. lies in this township without a of money, i one family of three persons has 4 bushels many of them without provisions, and no way leaving 21 families without -any old corn. under the heavens to get any. Neither is thisJhero is 300 lbs of flour in the township less state of nfFairsycon fined to this particular lo-lthan three lbs per individual if divided.

Vab cality. From Nearly all parts.of the Territory jue of groceries on hand, $20 if equally dis the feaiful tidings are borne. On jhcs.vSvWcTtr would be less than 20 cents each. All page of this paper may be found stateirieiAbut two of the families reported rather desth relative to the condition of the people in bWeHute of clothing. jinp.nnniim.

Wn. nf ni'rm nf enrn nlnnfoil in i 055, from which thero was raised 13,005 'I JlMlJf bushels. SJo. of acres corn planted in 18G0, from which there wero 835 buehejs portions of Kansas. We are told that in foi Americus, 10th Month 30th, 18GU.

No. of acres of wheat sown in 1859, 1TOffi3OT2fl7 8 No. of bushels raised. 2.912. No.

of I To tJiose whom it may concern acres of wheat sown in I860, 553; No. of We, the undersigned, citizens of Americus township, Breckenridga County, Kansas Ter tions of Butler, ffunter and Chase counties the settlers are reduced to the last extremity. The "wolf" is already at their doors. What will become of them Who can depict the sorrow and suffering which await them We are gratified Jo obs'erve that movements aro now being made throughout the Territory to procure aid for the destitute. Even those ritory, are well acquainted with Thomas If.

1 '-I? -7 i 1i i bushels raised, 129- of which nearly all has been sown. Thero were 773 bushels of pota-toes raised in the.township in 1859, and only pISS 50 bushels this year, and these of an inferior mm v. Stanley, of this place, aud we aro happy to say that we have the utmost confidenco in his integrity. Our friend Thomas II. Stanley refardinn' it jis Ii is dutv.

is exnectincr to leave I quailty weioiiging ineseuf rammcs, mere f'sflfels aFe bead of horses, 410 head of cattle, anJ 292 hogs. Beside these, there are quite a who were at first disposed to treat the subject kifl famiy and home within a few days to l.ght.y, have seen "the folly of their wke.a tri throuh a nuniber of the glate of horses in the township owned by I'tfi unmarried men. Value of gardcnvegetables and many of them are now actively engaged jVor the purpose of soliciting aid for the poor ill tlin me, rwy An1 it t-r, i 41.. in the work. And it good ts high timo the raised in 1859, Lot including turnips, $138 people were moving in the matter.

The crisis "4 pis labors bo blosjed, and he safely return MMxiim VQlue of garden vegetables raised in 166(1 in eluding turnips, $07. Money on hand, $095 pome to his family, arc. the sincere desires of his friends. which is all in the hands of 18 of the 07 i tttfffi families, jpayjng 49 familieswithout a cent of T. (J.

HILL, Editor and Publisher of Americus Sentinel, a. white, m. d. swim, m. s.

chapman, j. 0. H. REES, PTT.TQ is dail) assuming a aspect. Startling disclosures are being made by the investigating committees now canvassing the varjoqs counties of the afflicted district.

It is evident that the people are worse off than any had conceived them to bo. Thero has been a call issued for a mass meeting at Emporia to-day, for the purpose of obtaining information in regard to theneces? sities of the people, and to determine on some course of action for the future. We under. QTIT1HJQ tnonoy by them. Tw families reported them-5 selves as having $1 each, 2 families $2 eaclu 1 family $5, 4 families $10 each, 2 families each, 1 family $25, 1 family $30, 1 ftmi-: iy 5U, 2 families $75 each, and one family 'I $250.

Old corn andjmeal on hand, 144 buVh-" No. of pounds of flopr on hand, 5,55, I cf which one family, numbering four persons, pyrns 3,000 lbs. The. remaining 2,955 lbs, i1' WM. MILLER, JOHN F.

GIBSON, tr.Tir tf ft 4 'f stand that the feadcrs'jn the matter desire the fh WM. C. BUTLER, 'SAMUEL formation of a district, to be composed of.