Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-06-20
The Feeling in New York.

The Feeling in New York.
We learn from a gentleman (says the
Charleston Courier, of the 18th instant
who left n York on Tuesday of last week,
that the reaction of the commercial commu-
nifty in that city, of which mention was
made in an extract published by US on
Thurday from private letter, has fairly set
in, and threatens to embarras the action of
the Lincoln Government very seriously, by
cutting off his financial resources.
The Washington Administration is now
literally dependent upon loans, which must
be offered and taken up to an extent uu-
precedented in our history, if the war a.
gainst the South is to be prosecuted. The
customs revenue at the port of New York,
for the month of May, averaged little
less than $4,000 per day, which IS equiva-
lent to an annual income from that source
of about $4,000, ,000-or less than one
fourth of the income so received in the dis
astrous year of 1858. The revenues of the
other United States ports, combined with
that of New York, can hardly therefore
put into the Treasury, in all the rest of the
year, the sum of sl5,000,O00 Mr.. Chase
has already itimated his intention of asking
for loan of $50, 800, 900 at the opening
Of the session of Congress, in addition to
the s14, 100000 now offered in Wall-street.
To this we must add that the States of the
North now asking for separate State loans
have come into rivalry with the Govern
meut for not less than s2l 900, 900.
United States securities having dscliued
from 81 on March % to IS on May "a, are
now offering at 81, and it is the calculation
of the most sagacious 6nauciers that the
Secretary of the Treasury will not be able
to dispose of his next loan at rates above
IS, if indeed be be not compelled to accept
lower figure still. Asthe actual expenses
of the Government, already incurred, will
reach by the 4th of July an amount Of at
least equal to the whole sum which can be
raised from the loans already projected, it
is not at all surprising that intelligent men
in New York, looking into the near future,
should begin to tremble at the financial pros
pect before them.
Private subscriptions for war purposes,
of which so ostentatious parade was made
after the Goth April, have now already ceas.
ed. The sum of $4,000 being asked for
early ip May, by Mr.. F. P. Blair, Of St.
Louis, to equip eUnion regiment" in
Missouri, no more than $4,000 had been
subscribed by the 4th Of June, and of this
sum by far the greater proportion had been
offered by members of the "Uniou Defence
Committee" Custom House officers, and
other public functionaries. In explanation
of the past "unanimity," as well as Of the
coming "dissensiou" in the war sentiment
of New York, it should be remembered that
between the 4th of March and the goth of
April, Mr. Lipcoln's Government had as
siduously devoted themselves, through the
vast Federal patronage of the New York
Custom House, Post Office, Sub-Treasury
and Navy Yard, to create subservient ar
my of opinion makers.
The eighteen hundred policemen Of the
city, appointed as Republicans under the
Albany Metropolitan Commissioners, were
also at the disposal of the Administration,
which further controlled no less than four
of the leading journals, all of which we're
applicants in the persons of some Of their
staff for Federal Office. Under the pres
sure of this tremendous organization, a
"public sentiment" was..created immediate
ly upon the receipt of the Presidents Proc
lamation, which swept everything before
it. Little persuaded of the unity of South
ern feeling, and anticipating speedy re-
action against secession South, from the
display of force by the Administration
the Commercial community of New York
bowed to the tempest of popular and part''
san clamor. The tempest has spent most
of its force; volunteers are returning dissat
isGed and ezaSi rated to fud their families
suffering aud their o"cupation gone. nnd tn1
6nauvo of the grea' c.ty l'tts up its head II
see into what gulf it is rapidly dr!fslog
The return of the Seventh Regiment has
contributed rota little to effect public opiu.
ion uufavorably to the policy of the Gov
ernment. The laboring classes not unnatu
rally begin to complain that the "gent!e'
men soldiers" decoyed them into service
for the war, and then quietly withdrew,
and left them to bear the brunt of the bust.
ness However unjust this feeling may be,
it exists, and is exerting silent but power
full influence in favor of returning common
sense.
Later from Missouri--The Invaders tc