Relief In the Woxt.
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To the Editor of The Tribune


In your journal Of last Saturday read very
touching communication from Discharged
Clerk, in which he portrays his dest;tuton and
sufferings. 1t is deporable truth that there are
thousands of our fellow-ctizens who have no en-
poyment and arc unable to procure any. Well
may the question be asked, What can be done to
alleviate the woes and suferings Of this portion
of our community In your reply to the ques-
tions of a Discharged Clerk, you recommend,
as you have often done, that those persons who
are in want of employment so into the country
This is the very best advice that be given, and
nv object in writing this is to subserve the inter-
es. of this unfortunate class by pointing out more
particularly the way in which they may proceed IL
order to place themselves beyond the reach of ex-
treme poverty. It is we'll known that good land
can be obtuiped in Illinois and other Western
States at the low price of two three dollars per
acre, where some of which has been put under
cultivation, and in that part of tho country too
which is rapidly filling up with hardy and indus
trious population. Now ten persons might unite
in purchasing, say GAO acres, which at the above
named prices would amount to 1880 or 1920 dol
lars, and in order to raise this sum, or little
more, to pay passage, &c. sell their furniture,
watches, in short every thing they could convert
into money and if they failed in obtaining the sum
in this way lot thom solicit loans of their friends
relatives and acquaintances anti they succeeded
then let them start for the West. When ,here and
their land paid for, apprehend they would expe-
rience very little trouble in erecting log cabins and
in procuring necessary implements for the cultiva-
ton of the soil. 1t is true they must lead for scmc
time life of toll, selfdenial and privaton, but
one thing is certain they could there supply them
selves with the nccessaries, if not with some of
the luxuries of life. In the language of Scripture
- their bread and their water would be sure,
while their ainds would be comparatively free
from those crushing anxieties, which like an incu-
bus had before weighed down their spirits. V