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From the Greenville (S.C.) Southern Patriot, May 22. Capital leaving South Carolina. We understand that a gentleman of this place has recently carried ten thousand dollars, in money, to invest in Georgia or Alabama, or place there at interest, in consequence of our. taxation and civil commotion. This gentleman, too, is a member of the Southern Rights Association. We were likewise informed that application was made to another large capitalist, in this. district, for a loan of a few hundred dollars, and he informed the applicant that it was not his purpose to lend out any more money in South Carolina. We have also heard it suggested that the business men in our community, having large demands owing to them, would commence a general collection in time for secession. The bills of South Carolina banks are already beginning to return from Georgia and Alabama, under the suspicion that their credit will be affected by our civil commotions. In one instance, but a few days since, a gentleman drew from the bank, in Charleston, for the upper country, five thousand dollars in specie, preferring to have bis money in gold and silver to bank bills. There can be no suspension of specie payments in that case where the money is wanted. We were consulted the other day by a gentleman, who wished to make a purchase of some real estate, whether we thought the State would secede. If so, he did not intend to purchase. A gentleman just from Charleston, and a delegate, too, to the late convention there, informs us that if it was certain the State would secede in six months real estate in the city would not sell at half price. In preparation for secession, a merchant of this place has already ordered his shipments to Savannah, instead of Charleston. Another one of our citizens, who has spent perhaps a hundred thousand dollars in Greenville, drawn from his estate in Georgia, is about to leave the "sinking ship," and cast his habitation where he may be quiet and live in peace. Thus it is the anticipations of secession are proving disastrous to the State. What will the reality be? It is a fearful question to answer. May the Almighty, in his mercy, avert so awful a calamity, should be the prayer of every true-hearted and patriotic Carolinian.