Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-19

Extracts from Correspondence Of tile Phil Eng
CHARLESTON, Dec. 81, 1860
If the same anxiety prevails at the North as here.
| am sure my letter will be welcome, even if it
should not contain any facts of which you are un-
informed The effect of this madness of secession is
earfully apparent in the aspect of the CITY, Trade
is almost entirely stopped, and money scarce enough
to alarm the most sanguine The market is badly
provided, and already serious fears are entertained
as to the possibility of famine. As | pass from
my hotel down Meeting street, and thence to King,
as far as the Battery, | am struck with the wobe-
gone appearance of the city The same is observable
at the wharveS. Broad street has no longer that
sterling look about it, although the Palmetto flag
waves SO boastfully over It. The post office looks
more rickety than ever and the only one bright
prospect is be bad out on the Bay from the south
east corner of the Battery Anxiety is depicted on
the faces of those whose interests are so seriously
involved and there is no longer that brisk, dapper
air for which many Of the inhabitants were wont to
be distinguished. All the bars are doing brisk
business; bad rum and lnflammatory talk seem to
go well together. The railroads suffer less than
other industrial speculations there is good deal
of freight necessarily in transtu over the Whining
ton and Manchester and the South Carolina roads.
How long this rightful condition If things will last
is more than the wiSest of us know.
Some grumbling has already been heard from
those who have the hard work. and more still from
those taxed for tie expenses Of this political game
The upper classes dignifed and secret that it
| is only on an occasion like the present that one
discovers that they ever feel the money pressure
The most seriously compromised parties are the
merchants ard those whose relations with places
and persons outside. They see only bankruptcy
and ruin before them, and it will require more than
Southern oratory to put their balances on the credit
side for them. They and all who suffer must be
prepared TO discover that craZed and selfish poll
f,rfb n off Tho
is attributable nearly the whole evil Blndly rush
ing into contest rninous from the first they have
by tiattery and cajolery, raised the widest excite
!Ient, and now furious and maddened mob will be
! their ruin. a gentleman informed me the other day
that nc despair at the prospect ahead, unless
the whole action of the State would bring speedy
relief to commerce and to private means-a hope at
once vague and useless. have no doubt that if the
| real sentiments of the wealthy could be obtained,
! which is almost an impossibiiity, that they would
be that the precipitancy and want of Judgment OF
the leaders have destroyed the State. The hope of
the other States following the same course is dashed
at the very outset though strongly urged; and this
| is another cause of trouble. They have sown the
wind and are about to reap the whrlwnd. There
is great deal of talk about the support expected
from outside but 1t is as yet all talk The excite
ment has been considerably augmented by the want
of success of the Commissioners, which was received
with all impatence 1t surely was hoping against
hope to anticipate victory. The whole hope and
struggle of the powers here is to create Confed-
eracy of the Southern States, Strengthening that
Confederacy by the acquisition of Federal arms.
Every effort both by the press and the people, is to
reason this to successful issue.
A CALL FOR An.-The Washington correspond,
ent of the New York World, narrates the contents
of private letter received from South Carolina, in
which it is suggested that New York ought to send
supplies to the poor people of the State:
II saw to-day letter from the interior OF the
State, addressed to gentleman OF this city, which
represents the condition of things there as truly
deplorable. Persons who, at other times, are well
off sorely embarrassed for the necessaries OF life
for themselves and their dependents. There is but
little money in circulation says the writer, and
when our scanty stock of provisions is gone where
| to get a fresh supply none of US can tell could
not 20 away if would, and would not desert my
State in this hour of her peril must fight in hel
defence if the occasion calls for my services but
| would to God some way could be found by which
she could be extricated from her present situation
| without discrcdit The premonition of impending
calamity weighs down my spirits, and makes my
nights wakefu.' Such, doubt not, are the expert
ence and real feeling of great many OF her more
thoughtful citizens who are away from the centres
of excitement and to whom comparative solitude
gives the opportunity of more serious reflection.
think the act of magnanimity would not be inter-
preted as taunt construed into giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, it would be good thing for
the merchants of New York to load vessel with
breadstufS and send them to Charleston, to be dis
tributed among the poorer classes as an evidence OF
the raternal affection which would be revived in full
force if South Carolina would give up her unnatural
position"