Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-07-19
Vol. VI.---No. 4e

The New York Times, one Of the most
enterprising and snowy Journals in Ncw
York, has been obliged to reduce tho size
of its sheet very considerably.
The New York Spirit of the Times.
the oldest sporting paper in tho country.
has suspended publication.
The Christian Advocate has lately
closed up
The Mount Vernon (Ohio) Banner
says: These are times that try the bot
tom of newspapers We can scarcely
pick up one of our exchanges without
finding the most prominent article in it,
a dam. And our editorial friends state
their cases we'll The following is from
the Fremont Messenger aud it applies
so well to our own case that we adopt il,
We dislike to dun through our coz
lumns; but have word to say to a large
number of our patrons. and cannot well
say it in any other way Times are
close-money is very scarce article
Three months more of business stagna-
ton will probably force one-half of the
journals in the country to suspend"
Who Suffers Most, the North OF the
South?
The following article appeared in the
New York journal of Commerce" Of
Friday last: :.
"Who would believed last November
that statements like the following, would
have appeared in the New York papers
in July ensuing. The World Of the
9th instant said:
The city of New York has suffered
by the Southern rebellion and repudia-
ton little if any short of one hundred
and fifty millions of dollars. 1t conti-
nues to lose, every day, by stagnation
and nacton. Whole classes Of merchants
have failed. Credit has fallen to its low
er obb. The great body of commerce
is paralyzed.'
And the Tribune Of the same date
had the following:
This war is costing the government
from twenty to forty millions Of dollars
per month, and the country--in the dis
ruption and staguaton ofits industry
a great deal more. We are generally
anxious being ourselves heavy sufferers
along with our neighbors--to see this de-
plorable state Of things brought to an
end at the earliest possible moment.
In the South, on the contrary. if we
may believe the representations Of men
now in this city whose veracity has ne
yer been doubted, the condition Of affairs
is comparatively unaffected, A gentle
man from northern Georgia, with whom
we conversed yesterday, mentioned as
one Of the evil effects Of the war, that
they could not export their carly wheat
to the north lie said ii was selling at
his place for rs cents bushel. and in
Augusta at IS or 80, of tho very best
quality. The crop was large. Cotton
was bringing good prices.
"A gentleman from Richmond, Va.
a northern man, who has resided there
two or three years, but does not expect
to return. states that business in that CT
ty is quite brisk, which we presume is at
tributable in great degree to the de-
mands Of the military for clothing, pro-
visions, dc. A lease Of a large store
having about five years to run. was sold
a few days since at an advance Of 800
per annum. lie thinks there are at least
1870. 900 troops in Virginia majority Of
them from States further South aud
West. Most Of them are well armed
Such statements as these are OF little
account, after all, except as they indicate
the true nature Of the contest in which
the north is engaged, and aid in forming
some proper estimate Of the task upon
which il has entered. The north is full
ly determined upon war, to the last man
and the last dollar, and the south arc no
less determined in their resistance. Some-
thing may occur to change this condition
Of public sentiment in either section, but
the prospect is gloomy. AT present there
is no beam Of light