Sufferings Among The Belgians In Brown CountyThe Green Bay Advocate of the 17th inst., says;
Information was received here last week that a party of Belgian emigrants, who have located near the Bay shore in the vicinity of Red River, about 20 miles north of Green Bay, were in a suffering condition for want of provisions. A generous donation in the shape of flour and other other supplies, was at once made by some of our citizens, and sent to them. Measrs. Scott and D. M. Whitney, the gentlemen who volunteerd to distribute the supplies, give a sad account of their condition. Wholly unused to providefor a Northern winter, their houses or huts are entirely unfit to protect them from the cold, being roughly built of logs and brush, the cracks and crevices of which are so open as to admit the wind freely. Many of the mens had already frozen their hands and feet, During one of the coldest days which we have had, one of the men came up as far as the house of Mr. Rosseau, soliciting provisions for his starving family.- It was late before he was ready to return, and as he was inefficently clad Mr. R. urged him to stay until the morning; but being fearful that his sufferng wife and little ones at home might die for the want of provisions, he started home and froze both feet getting there.
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