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treets, so as to insure non-intercourse between the sick and the well. It will be a bad business if they have to resort to that extremity. "The Chamber of Commerce here does not believe in the wisdom of repealing the reciprocity treaty with Canada. At a special meeting, this afternoon, Mr. Bloodgood, from the special committee appointed to consider the subject, said they were not ready to report yet, but he could not refrain from expressing his conviction that Congress had acted with injudicious haste in the matter. The uppermost idea at Washington seemed to be that the treaty was of greater advantage to Canada than to us. This, he said, was not the case. The advantage was all with us. To the Canadians, it was of comparatively little advantage. "The subscriptions among the merchants for the relief of Savannah are coming in freely. The total amount already raised cannot be far short of thirty thousand dollars. The subscriptions are for almost every amount, from twenty-fiv
er than he expected and our croakers more numerous. The world, he said, has been struck with admiration at the heroism of our people; and that Europe is our friend, especially England, where nine-fourths of the people are with us, cordially and constantly. They read of our victories with elation and praise, and of our reverses with dissatisfaction. The English Government itself is not unfriendly towards us; but it is cautious, even timid. That timidity was due to the exposed condition of Canada, but especially to the ease with which England's commerce can be swept from the seas. And with reason; for if the Confederates, with a few ships, have driven Yankee commerce from the seas, England may reasonably expect a worse fate for her's at the hands of the United States should war arise between them. "He spoke in handsome terms of South Carolina; of her heroic promptness in secession; her chivalry, and her antagonism to everything Yankee. He referred briefly and happily to himsel