Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-17
The Feeling In New York.


The New York Times of yesterday says:
Twenty-four hours has changed the entire
feeling in the City of New York, tnnchinr
tue secession matter. Judging from the
pl0lnSSt AMI most OutspOkEn exDresSiunI
from men OF uOminally all parties, there is
but one sentiment in this City touching
Tue duty OF the citizen ut the hour, to Sus-
thin tue Government. The most Uclliger-
cnt in tone, and resOIute in the expression
OF their determination to stand bv the
government now, mt whatever cost, are
Democrats. On every corner, Yesterday,
IN every car, ON board every ferrv-hOat, in
every hotel, in the vcstibnlc of every
church, could he heard the remark Il
am 81 -cmOcrat; dyed in the wool; voted
against Lincoln, but will stand by the
Government Ofu1y country when ass.ilcd
as it now is by traitors
Says the Courier and Enquirer:
The discussions were excited, hut from
the fact that all seemed to he of one onin
ior as regards tue trcasOnnble conduct of
the South, little material was found fornr-
Gument. AT II news-office on Broadway,
where large crowd had collected, II man
exclaimed, Good; wish could have
been there to have helped them fight"
tmeAning the South CarOlinians.) A we'll
dressed gentler IN from the crowd stepped
up t" him, aud replied, "Sir, there is no
necessity for yOu to go South to fight if
you are anxious for that kind of business.
now is the opportunity, and am the
man." The entire crowd burst forth in
cries of Good" "Traitor." ale ought to
be hung" and other like epithcts. Yes
terday the excitement was more intense,
II 1t could be, than on Saturday. Every
hotel was filled with people, and the feel
Ing OF Indignation was universal. There
were few who still disbelievo the reports
but the majority had settled down in
the conclusion, that although the repcrts
were exaggerated and fAlsifed, the facts,
nevertheless, proved that Fort Sumter had
ieeu given up to the traitors. Atone of
tue large hotels up town, the crowd was
so great rs to almost prevent all egress
from the building. Private dispatches
We're received during tho day by south
Earollnlans stopping at the hotels, from
their friends in Charleston, confirming the
previous reports One frHm n large ner-
cantile firm in Charleston fead AS follows:
AFTER thirty hours Of bn3i fighting, Fort
Sumrter surrendered NO lives Iostn
The recipient Of the despat ch was forced to
read 1t aiond tOthe crowd, who bust forth
in EXPLANATIONS like the, following /: "a
great battle, and nobody burt" i"Blnnk
cartridges dont XIII people," There are
traitors somewhere" 'sThe Government
don't know who to lrnst.'' a few mo-
ments afterwards, geutleman remarked
that there was difference Of opinion IA
to the treason of the South. a gentleman
asked hin If he doubted ii? His rrnIv
Was not heard hut by few standing pear
him AN elderly man very much excited.
exclaimed, No man doubts their treason.
aud trust God will let me live to see The
dag OF my country v,ndieaSed. and every
traitor bIotted from existence" The whole
assembly burst forth in long and yocifrr-
Gus cheering. On Saturday evening. ut
the Fifth Avenue Hotel mai who called
Tor three cheers for South Carolina, was
instantly thrust from the building. Dur.
ing days travel around the city, our re-
porter has, with. hut one or TWO exceptions,
heard the slightest sympathy expressed for
tue South, and never in company, unless
tiOD and aeVereF sbuke. -,