New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-18

State, for century 10 como, VII experience 20
recovery from its ruiaous effects.
Take her chief city as q striking illustration
Charleston is the only seaport town whose popu-
latiOn has diminished within the last ten years.
tie elimination being nearly 5000. Instead of
inviting Northern increase, che is driving off
what Northern men she nog ba'. Her drunken
anarchy il ostraezing hundreds Of natives, while
otter hundlcds VIII leave The moment they can
get away In tho lost OF tGe., her only scay-
engcrs aro huzzards, whose appetite for garbage
is relied on to cleanse the city Of filth, which is
tue parent Of pestilencr. A nights seep in the
miasma which surrounds her Is certain death.
Her haTbor is the most intricate and difficult Of
access of any On the coast, yet her people have
fastened to shut out commerce By blocking ii up
with obstacles. Every marine insurance company
has had ample experience of its hazards. Yet,
instead of seeking the most commOu-sense RENE
dies for these great natural Disadvantages Of eli
mate, harbOr, and position, she is punging mady
into measures whose fatal consequences no future
wisdom can mitigate. Rival cities are already
sappBG her prosperity. Savannah now exports
as much cotton, though formerly the exports
from Charleston were seventy per cent greater.
Her whole interior trade has been steadily falling
off, while her local business may be pronounced
dead outright. Even this interior trade was
brought to her over railroads leading up Into the
cotton region, which were built by Northern
capital. Yet these roads now barely pay the
expense of operating them Without Northern
capital and enterprise, her steam packets would
rot have been built Yet every possible provo
cation is being given to drive this capital and
enterprise away. AS the trade of Charleston
has declined so that OF Savannah has been
steadily increasing. Notification in 1882 made
many of her citizens beggars; but Rebellion in
1861 is pauperziDg all. The taxation aud forced
loans now exacted are synonymous with ruin.
1t is instructive TO remember that various
Southern cities have been actually blOtted out
from the map. St Mays, in Maryland, is now
o desolatiOn. The site of jamestown can scarcely
be identified Sunbury short distance from
Charleston was once hOurishing seaport; but
her inhabitants blocked the harbor 20 prevent the
approach of an enemy, and though a better port
than Charleston, yet the city has long since been
abandOped to solitude. In each of these cases
single calamity was sufficient to produce utter
ruin But in the ease Of Charleston an accu-
mutation Of calamiies i: seen to De hanging over
her. How long she may survive under them it
nav be difficult TO say Unfortunately, the
heayies, Of them are seli.imposed, and therefore
the less likely to be acknowledged. But 1t VIII
be- safe TO predict that she can never entirely
recover from the depth of ruin into which her
present madness is fast preciptating her. She
will lnger on, gradually sinking into insigniG-
canoe, until ships cease to enter her prOitless
harbor, aud buzzards hold exclusive dominion in
her grass-grown streets, a black spOt upon the
map, il may be, but backer one in the history
Of human folly. No Northern city has expert
enced such fate. How much the frenzy of
South Carolina is calculated 10 excite our pity,
even when her treason shall have ceased To re-
ceige our iorbearance.