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Poughkeepsie, June 5. - Up to this evening $2736 have been raised in this city for Johnstown.
Washington, June 7. - The total cash contributions of the employees of the Treasury Department to date, amounting to $2070 were today handed to the treasurer of the Relief Fund of Washington. The officers and clerks of the several bureaus of the Interior Department have subscribed $2280. The contributions in the Government Printing Office aggregate $1275. Chief Clerk Cooley today transmitted to the chairman of the local committee $600 collected in the Post-office Department.
Syracuse, N.Y., June 7. - Mayor Kirk today sent to Governor Beaver a draft for $3000.
Utica, N.Y., June 7. - Ilion has raised $1100, and has sent six cases of clothing to Johnstown.
The Little Falls subscription is $700 thus far.
The Utica subscription is now nearly $6000.
Thus the gifts of the people flowed in, day by day, from near and from far, from rich and from poor, to make less dark the awful desolation that had set up its fearful reign in the Valley of the Conemaugh.
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