. Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York . e, seventy-five 47-100 Dollars ($). Having received fromJonathan Sturges, Treasurer, $2,C55 35-100. The majority of the colored people are now at work at their accustomed placesof business, excepting those employed in the Tobacco Factories, of whom thereare about two hundred. Their employers are afraid, as yet, to set them to work. We have pleasure in assuring you that your benefactions have afforded timelyrelief and alleviated very much distress. In all cases t
. Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York . e, seventy-five 47-100 Dollars ($). Having received fromJonathan Sturges, Treasurer, $2,C55 35-100. The majority of the colored people are now at work at their accustomed placesof business, excepting those employed in the Tobacco Factories, of whom thereare about two hundred. Their employers are afraid, as yet, to set them to work. We have pleasure in assuring you that your benefactions have afforded timelyrelief and alleviated very much distress. In all cases the sums given (howeversmall they may have been) were gratefully received and in many cases evenwith apologies for being under the necessity of asking assistance. We haveheard no harsh or unkind expressions or threats towards their persecutors. This substantial expression of good feeling towards them, on the part of ourcommunity, has encouraged them and made them feel that they still had friendsamong us who would stand by and protect them. Respectfully yours, Wm. w. wickes, R. P. BUCK, Brooklyn, Sept. 11th, 1863. To cash paid by order of the Execii-tive Committee for disburse-ments at the Central oilice ... .S2l,87o 00 To Joseph B. Collins, through tlieSociety for Improving the con-dition of the Poor, 1,GOT 00 To Charles E. Beebe for suflfcrers near Bergen, N. J -ioO CO To K. P. Buck for distribution in Brooklyn 500 00 To W. W. Wickes for distribution in Brooklyn 2,155 35 To Rev. Samuel D. Denison to bedistributed among the suffer-ers on Blackwells Island 250 00 Less 26 00 224 00 To Miss Anna H. Shotwell, Sectyof the Colored Orj^han .\sylum,for relief of the orphans 1,000 00 To Thomas C. Dorcmus, distri-buted by him 54 05 To Mr. Keid, distributed by GO GO To Albro Lyons, secured by mort-gage on his claim on the city 500 00 To Destitute Sufferers previous tothe opening of the depot in4th street 37 00 To Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, donation 25 00 To W
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