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I learn from the newspapers that 300 bushels from the cargo of the Memphis have been sent to No. 11 Central Railroad, this place- Bartow for the justices of our Inferior Court to distribute. 

I learn also that a prominent and most respectable gentleman of the county remarked, a few days ago, that perhaps Jefferson could get along with that amount. Col. Sibley, if Jefferson can get no more than 300 bushels the starvation of the helpless here will only be a question of time. 

I can count up 50 families within 7 or 8 miles of me that have neither bread nor meat nor a dime to purchase with nor any possible means to get any money. These are all in Jefferson. But in Emmanuel only 5 miles South of this place- I mean the line is only 5 miles South- there are hundreds of poor wretches that have not food for a fortnight.

Johnson, only 8 miles away, is as badly off as Emmanuel or Jefferson, while all the Southern &  South-Eastern parts of Washington, only 7 miles away, are in the same condition. 

"But 300 bushels have been sent to 9 1/2 Station for Emmanuel." Yes, and thank God for it, but that will only give a bushel to each one of 300 people, where at least 1,000 will starve unless they get help  And 20 bushels to each of 100 families will hardly be enough, with the most rigid

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