Editorial Notes and Clippings [pp. 484-496]

EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
(except Texas) the accounts of the
prevailing destitution are most harrowing, and that most terrible of all
cries, the appeal for bread, is heard
on every hand. The accounts from
South Carolina and from Alabama
are particularly distressing, and the
efforts of the charitable to relieve the
wants of the suffering in these States,
although energetic and unremitting,
have proved thus far totally inadequate to accomplish more than temporary respite from the fierce assaults
of impending famine. The government has authorized the expenditure
of a half million of dollars. The Ladies' Southern Relief Association, of
New York, and the Southern Famine
Relief Commission, in the same city,
are doing much good, and from Mr.
John Bowne, the courteous General
Agent of the last mentioned, we learn
that the total subscriptions to May 7
were, in round numbers, $193,000, of
which California furnished in gold
$45,757. Mr. Bowne also sends us a
statement of actual shipments, which
we annex:
"New York, May 7, 1867.
"MESSRS. EDITORS,- In reply to
your favor of this date, I beg to hand
you the following memorandumnamely:
"Shipment of Mixed Shelled Corn
for the relief of the Destitute of the
South, in bushels.
To South Carolina... 40,534
North Carolina... 3,000
Georgia.......... 40,190
Alabama........ 41,187
In all......... 124,911 bush.
"Very resp. your obt. servt.,
"JOIN BowNE,
"General Agent."
John McClintock, D. D., and James
Strong, S, T. D. Vol 1, A-B.
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