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Show un bah love nci.ii.r nimu, Arniaaileue Ueeelve Help le Cut it vela Ikalv Lead. CUNaVrANTlNOI'l.K, April So. 4flal rorre.pondenoe of the A a. oi'lated 1'rcaJ Mtaa Clara llarton baa drawn up tue following alalemeut r-gaidlug tha p rug rata of her relief w rk lu Aula Minor. It abould be understood that ooe utject of our ex-pod ex-pod 1 1 luna In the Held at thla time, la the helping vt the people toculllvate their laud aud gat cropa oft that they may aubaiat In the near future and through tne wiulor, or their ooudftlou of hunger and threatened starvation will be as groat or greater than now. Totbiaeudour two expeditions have been for eevura! weeks purchasing in the oitlia, the farmlug luipleiueuts lo general ue by the people aud carrying them to the villagee and farm Janus ol tho couuiry where all Implements have been either destroyed or taken. It Is understood that the government govern-ment baa exoreaaed ft deelre to take part In providtug seed for planting, lndlaucjruls one article dwuihuied tor food by our people and II can be plauted If no other aaed la provided. The two fXpedllluoa are en route for llarpuuthy dillerent ways, providing fur the I ar intra aa they go. Money for this purpoae is being freely sou I Uom bore. The other object and perhaps the one appealing mora dlrvuliy to the syutpalhiaa of tba pouple Is the baud ling of the medical relief of the two fever alrlcken cities ol ZuKoun and Marasb, where eight to tun thousand people are aulluMug the agonies o four dlvllnct epldetulua raging among'tliem at onoe typhoid aud typhus levore, dyavautery aud amull-pox. The tlret three would naturally follow aa the conditions tf starvation aud hardships and the putrid atmoaphure of the un-lot-tod Hell ol teno and battle with feNterluu wounds and lung uoburlhU dead. The mall'piiX mul have been brought from einu lufeced olstilct. For Ihe troalmenl of these thcti aaoda (here are uo phyilclana left, they escaped ooe lute thry fell by au otbur, A few holy rulaalouary rncu and woineD, with nauieH to henceforth form e nartuf Lbe hlatury ol thla mla erable field, aud oue worn doutor, di-vutng di-vutng blwieif batwoon three ultlca suven miles apart, like poor Caueaot-auca, Caueaot-auca, stood at their potts. Ou this stale of tilings we look fur the medical relief ot these lll.fatad ; oltlua. I'hyaloians must be found who are willing lo nag tue double danger of c intaglnus dleae and a country by uo means In a M'tled c 'iidlttun. Thriuh Mr. H uro I'owt of Hoy rout a ttw wore drawn fnm the nuiitcal c-dlee in that city, placed tindr i charge nf Dr. Ira Harris and aont on lV aud land Willi ni Ih-al supplies t l -nti a hopltnl lu Mataah, More phyalciai are on the way and other Mo t.Hng procure! lu ri'prttn Dr. ItarrlP, uno baa lakru a part tf his men to Z 'itoun, forty miles distent where 8,(iii are reported III. The rt-ult rt-ult of ma investigations ftn nnly r-scli ua later. In all Aal Minor there ta no other orgatilii'd b .dyof uirdinal relle'. We have ehllaaled mraaives for lie entire expenaea, medical sup-pllrs, sup-pllrs, tranaporuiiou, hoapital arrancv mvuie, salaries and travedng exteiafa uf phyatoians and all uucetpary coats of oommuiilcatlou bat wee u the various Our fl rat order for physlrlana was br x in number with two druggists au i supp'le-. The number of pnsiciana should at least be double I aud every all rt a being maoa Ut that aud. rnerMported number of datht bas bran for eomu time from 75 to lud dally. No oae to well a ouieelvec-n recognise Ihe reapotitlblllty. Hut the oniiditluiis are here and we are here alone to meat them. We can uu'y lell tr eni tu the world uulslde and stand firm lu our work fiom day to day trust Ing by the mer y uf heaven lu atlnlo umn meaeuie of surcras. (rtlgliCd) t 1.A11A JIahion. |