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U 5 ST The following gentlemen are announced by their friends as candidates for the Office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing election : Col. JOHN QUATTLEBUM, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD, EDMUND MORRIS. SAMPSON B, MAYS, Lieut.JAMES B. HARRIS, Maj S. C. SCOTT, LEVI R. WILSON. T7 The following gentlemen are announced by their friends as candidates for the office ol Ordinary, at the ensuing election. Col. JOHN HILL, -"' Capt. W. L. COLEMAN. From the Temperance Advocate. ;.PLANK ROADS. Mr. Editor,-1 would like to call tbe ,rsattentio of the people of. South Carolina no the mode of improving their bighways Er b nieas~ ;lank roods., I ppars to pie that thiews thevery estspossible inn liositmpraeticable; and nevenafg atone 3e u pater. tshe nature ofjbsIowilwould be the worst for that kind of-imrprovemen't 'nwhile it-is the best possible kind of road, et there are many situations where,either " Srom the nature of the 'country, or the -stnallness of its products, the .expenase -of constructing them would not be justified.. Q The railway is more adapted to the exigencies of a great highway. where a ; large and regular supply of trade requires the power of steam to transport it, The communications to this greats highway are the positions where the plank road is quietuired. Upon them any kind of vehicle : f may be used, which is not the case with the railway, which, from its nature, e c? eessarily confines the transport to a par ; ..ticular kind of vehicle, which cannot be used in- other situations. Thus, though generally, the railway is the best kind of road, there are situations in which the plank road is its superior. These riads, first made in Russia, have been use in Canada, and a portion of the State of New York for some years, and are highly approved of. There are now in Canada, some five hundred miles ol --them in successful operation, and many ~more mites projected. In fact, in an~ -situation where timber is plenty, they are next to railways, the best possible kind ol *'road.'both for ease of draft, greater uni -'bri-ityjduring alt kinds of weather, anad 2' resenting the greatest. faihiities for re .-&pars. - Te mode of constructing a plank road is ery ~simple; two pieces of scanthing, *hfour inches square, are laid in the directioc 6- f the road, and .at the proper distance apart-these timbers are entirely imbed, *:2:dd in the earth, and upon them, anc ~~acdsuithe road, three inch plank is laid ~tiinbers, hut without being fastened tc $-theni in any way; upon the plank abou ;~~Cgesn inch of elea sand is strewn. This :a 49 ith side ditches for draining, similar ti those made on other roads,-and especiall: necessary for this, completes the track Cimaieful experiments mnade to. this object fihis'determined that the friction of vehi ~li,T of the amount of. power required ti ~draw them, on a good gravel road, amont tone-sixteenth of the weight; on a Mc Adamized iload, ond-thirty-sixth of tha .eieghi; 'on a McAdamized roed,. will M aed bot tom, one-fifty-first ofthe weight .~eawell made payment, one-seventy O -:srt ortheweigh; on ant oaken plank road 4 ..eleinety-eighth of the weight;' on ri a iilway bar, one-two hundred ani Aehtt of the weight.-From which ::hIbe seen that a plank road ranks nex ~u.thes ailway in'th'e power required z r~tspel freight over it.. I :btiokiftmy be .assumed... that th ~ ___ OO~tor a railwaywiah a bar. no cedog 50 lbs. to the yardeor.77 ton ewl e ftfeenshousand dot -hemite, in this portion of tlie Stat Soang.track, esl ~*"uolwing is the-estimate ofthse cm noaij~tack or .plank .roadi one mil C1igitie wande: 126,720 feet- boar \e,.auie~3ch plank, and 14,080 feet ~-w 4'y~~ia'~T~atling, in all 140,800 fei board mearure, at seven dollars per thou sand, is $985 60 Grading and laying highest price per mile, 400 00 Engineering and toll houses, 200 00 $1,585 60 Say 1,600 per mile. The actual cost of working a railway with a heavy bar and steam power, will be as follows : Locomotive power, per too per mile, 0.219 cents Repair and ren'l. of track, &e. 0.401 " " cars, 0.430 " Miscellaneous. 0.200 Total cost per ton per mile, 1.250 This is supposing that the railway bar will transport two millions of tons, which is a large estimate, and above that which has heretofore proved to be the case. On a plank road, the first and third items will be divided among the many who transport, and will not be easily estimated, but will probably be 3 times as much as the railway, say 2.000 cents Repairs and renewal of track, 0 200 " Miscellaneous, ' 0.100 " Total cost per-ton per mile, 2.300 Of this not more than 0.300 will he re quired in payments, while the whole a mount of 1.25 cents per too per mile must be paid in cash to maintain the railway. if we allow seven bales of cotton to the ton, the cost will be in one case, 33 cents per bale, and in the other, 18 cents-on a road of one hundred miles in length, this will amount to 18 cents, and 33 cents, which will be the absolute toll required for keeping up the improvement. The inter est on the cost is another consideration. The railway costing ten times as much as the plank road, will of course require ten times the trade to support it, or the trade being equal, ten times as much toll on a single item transported. This makes the consideration of the expected trade an im portant item in the choice of an improve ment.I To sum up all these different considera tions, we arrive at the following conclu sions: That the plank road will cost but little over one-tenth as much as a railway -the same power can transport upon it one-third as much as it.can upon the rail road; though the cost of money paid will be one-sixth for keeping up - the. road. - It pan be made in. places where, from. the sniall quantity of product, a railway would not besujrtedandai ggradesthat would -binadmissible u : thei - i ce-an -power-w .thelate pidjtis farm'toiroduce: s crop, :in less bsy times,'be used to transport that crop. to market; " I have not entered into any calculations to show the advaitage of a good road over a bad one, as I suppose there are but few I who do not already know this advantage as well as I could demonstrate it. 1 have nierely wished to point out the kind of , road which would be-most suitable to car- E ry out the proper principles of ECONOMY. Roanoke Railroad.-The proprietors of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroab have t declared there determination to perform the. travel between Portsmouth and Wel don in three hours; between Portsmouth and Gaston in three hours and a half; and from the latter to Raleigh in three hours. They state the run from Balti- t more to Norfolk or Portsmouth can be made in ten hours-so that' the whole line of travel from Baltimore to Raleigh, when it is in complete operation, will probably 1 be performed in sixteen hours and a half. The di'stance is 350 miles. We learn that these gentlemen have sent on a heavy order to Richmond for T iron to commence the wvork of re-laying the road. Their expenditures within the State (to which it is their intention to cou flne them as far as practicable) must ne cessarily be very considerable-and they go upon the cash principle entirely.-Nur folk Herald. The Crops of Missisippi.--We are informed by gentlemen from all parts of the State, says the Mississippian of the 16th ult., that the crops of this year have never been excelled in appearance at this season. The oat and wheat harvests are over and the yield is abundant. The quantity of corn will undoubtedly be tmmenae. More land is planted and the woundrous growth excites the admiration of all be holders. There may not be more acres of cotton than there were .in some past years, hut the present appearance gives promise of as fine a crop am ever has been picked. Take it for all in all the earth, this year, has and will give a greater in crease than we have ever received. A Keen Repl,-iohn Wesley, in a considerable party, had been maintaining with great earnestness-the doctrine of voz popati voz Dei, against his sister, whose talents were not unworthy of the famile to which she belonged. At last thy preacher, to put an end to the controversy, put his argument in the shape of a dictum, and.sidr "I tell you sister, the voice of the people is the voice of God." "Yes," she repfied, mildty. -"It cried crucify him, eructfy hirn,crucify him !" A more admirable answer was. perhaps never given. A toad, which was buried :under a re Sversed flower put, three feet beneath- the fsurface'of the ground, on the 14th of June,. disinterred, and instantly commenced skipping about. Its mouth was closed up with a white skin, but its "eyes were as sparkling as when, on that- day twelve months, it was put below the ground. AN EASTERN FUNERAL. A funeral is described in a letter from Alexandria as one of the most gorgeous spectacles in that region for years. It was that of the Pacha's' son, who died while absent from Alexandriaand whose remains were landed there from the French steamer Osiris. The places of business, on the day of the funeral, were closed, -the flags of the shipping hung half mast high, and minute guns were fired from the admiral's ship. The procession was as follows: 1. One hundred camels, laden with bread, provisions and water. in two lines. 2. A number of bullocks and sheep, driven by butchers, to be slaughtered, tic :ording to the custom of the country, at the place of interment, for distribution amongst the poor. 3. Six regiments ofsoldiers, with arms reversed, and bearing the usual military insignia of mourning. 4. The National Guard in two open lines, between hich, in procession, were the household officers, in their beautiful state uniforms. - 5. The principal native merchants bankers, &c., all :ressed in the Nizam costume, with white mourning turbans. 6. Twelve boys, in two files, each bear og a copy of the Koran on a brilliant salver, and covered with elegantly em >roidered white and scarlet satiu nap tins. 7. The naval and military officers. 8. The native clergy, with white mourn ng turbans, 9. Twenty-fotir men. dressed in em troidered satin robes, bearing incense in :hastely-designed gold and silver vases. 10. One hundred blind boys, in white urplices, who chanted the usual funeral ion;, (and which seems so closely allied ;o the Irish funeral cry.) 11. The ministers and chief officers of state, in two lines, between which was the tier, covered with the richest. Cashmere sbawls, and borne by twenty boys. This was followed immediarely by his ughness Saib Pacha, as chief 'mourner ; md immediately followed, by the Euro Lean consuls general, a body of- French aval officers in uniform, and the principal Europian merchants. - These, aga'nj *erecloseup by a d Vas matamna.e ":h the "greatest regulair ty, and its general.effect; was peculiarly mposing. Scarcely an accident occurred -a fact strikingly singular. where there vas an accumulation of something very ittle short of 50,000 pnrsons, and a large troportion of these nearly savage. By s ofthose happy schemes for which these seople are retnatkable, the rabble- was intirely kept away from the procession sy an officer, who rode considerably in the ,ear, and who distributed quantities of tiall coin along, the line. Extra services have been since perforni id, both by day and night, at the family nosque. and the populace aie nightly re paled with coffee and pipes, at the grounds adjoining the cemetery. Dr. Franklin's First Paper.-We like o see the craft flourish, have great pleasure n acknowledging an Exchange, in which nerit and capability are discoverable. re yesterday received a 4isiter in the orm of the "Pennsylvania Gazette," pub ished by one Benjamin Franklin, the same udividual, we believe, who was once ex tmined before the British Parliament and ;ave answers perfectly satisfactory-to timself. The typography is not so good is it might be, for the types look like an army at the close of a long march-rather n a straggling condition, and the impres tion they have left is not of the neatest. [he sheet has merit of the right sort, and ire shall be glad to receive. "copies" fre iuently. To speakc plainly, we have been 'avored wtth no loss than a per feel fac timile of the very firatuumberlof the Penn rania Gazette, edited by Dr. Franklin, he date being. Sept, 25th, 1729. This is a great curiosity, and so well executed,. sven to the color of the "pot" sized sheet, that it would deceive even the critics. It has Dr. F3ranklin's address, in which he apologises for not continuing the printing in his small vehicle, of Chamber's Diction ary, which had been commenced by his predecessor. He says, in excuse, that the references, from one year to anothet, would be sometimes ten y'ears apart ! This facsimile of a very scarce and remark able paper, has been prepared for No. 2 of "American Historical and Literary Curi osities,'' edited by J..Jay Smith and John F. Watson, about to be published. The same number will contain, also, a copy of the original of Lord Corn wallis' Surreader at Yorktown, signed by himself, and rmany other very remarkables original documents. -U. S. Gqx. Method of supporting Tre.-T he branches of irees when loaded with fruit, may be kept from breaking in the following manner : C nnect with cords all the heaviest brai shes, commencing with the lower ones, and fasten the ends to the upper part of the trunk. Branches when thus secured together cannot break. This plan is far superior to the' old method of props, New Speculatian.-Mehernet Ali has found 6 new source of revenume, iir the fiue anen in which 'the imariie denosIte' ef muia iit wrapped, by applying it to theriua eture' of paper. Calculations, foudi '' mummy statisties, mgke the linens age of the ancient Egyptians .or:, 0,006. This is better than steali 'ies from the eyes of dead men: ' N. 0. Delta, 22d inst. L r[hORTANT FRoM MEXICO. Am " Newe Orleans-Latest from .Vera Crux. T Anahuae, of the 15th inst., ea s vate express arrived here night be east from Puebla, bringing very :n tzlng intelligence from that place, lexico, and from Generals qdk!u and Pillow's trainE The etjres 5uebla on the 3d inst., and broug1 te letters dated the same day had been received the day previou , n Mexico, that three Com missione ifl been appointed by the MexiEi ernment to confer with Mr. Triuta ..Martin Tesmelucan, eight leages'f Vuebla, and it was supposed theywos eet him on the 4th of July. Theeitp :der met with General Cad walla arN Pillow, and their respective cowiai' *iPerote. They had beery attacki Hoya, and had completely routedtli 'my, having sustained but little I property was lost, and bothj ratn arrived ia Perote; which plate' pogdent says, they wereto leave;o= thiinst. en a letter dated Mexico. I July 2dZ writer .says that he does not doiut- t a treaty of peace would be i onlrudO ce by the commissioners. He alsos' !that the Peace party has i beeome, siderable in the Capit'l, t that itlj aita Anna (who is ever i on :theist the strongest) will soon 1 prondune self in favor of peace. The t Mexican still fortifying' the City of 'Meico b means of the government wereso It tiiat we do not doubt that I iLwill be than a day's work for Ge Sc eimolish all the Mexicans vedon iOe months, in case they I ould sho istance. I * ebla, which was writ ia efore the, express left t t t plue tes.that there had been 4 s niasit n ong our troops. We do nptvpo era the whole contents of I this each iLns'fullbfromora which Iad~ote mit jhe'latest'dates." &nstionfrom the City': ro a. iitnissiitner; in the Don' ward de Cooistizo, Don MenuetBa rIoda 1tad Jose Muria Tornel, hadbeen 'ppoibid to open i conference with'Gen. diScot ;'who, on his :part, had comiiissioneddMr. Trist to the same of feet. Lieut, Ivhipple-His Capture and Sup posed Murdec.-Extract from a letter from i one of our corr'espondents, dated I VaRA Cauz, July 13, 1817. As to news, there are so. many different rumors constantly afloat here that it is i almost impossible to get the right end of I anything.' On our arrival on Sunday evening. I learned from the Quartermas ter, that on theprevious evening, an officer j of the U. S. A. Lient Whipple, (who was also adjutant.) of' the 9th Infantry had i walked out in the evening towards the i Cementery," a short distance from. the walls of the town, accompanied by a ser vent, and in the presence of the attendant, he was lassoed by one of the guerrillas, made prisoner, and carried away, the t Lord knows" where ! A patty, under i the cominand of. Capt. A. M. Duperu i (who is 'yet in camp,) were despatched on i the following' morning; but they were unable to discover any traces of guerrillas, or anything whatever connected with the i hard fate-of 'thei unfortunate Lieutenant. TIhe general. belief here is that he has been murered-anid from what I hear myself about it, I have 'no doubt thiat he has. i 'IMPOR.TANT FROM TAM PICO. I Thesteamship New Orleans, Captain Auld, arrived this morning, having left Vera Crus .n the 1yth, Tampico on the 18th, and Brazosr St. Jago on the 20th; ins.- 'Ca pt. Auld reports that Gen.'Pierce i left Vera Cruz on the morning of the 14th i ins,, with' 2500 maen, and train of 150 bggage wagons. The N. 0. strived at Tampico on 'the morniug of the 15th inst., and the: captain 'was informed by Col. Gates, that Col' DeRustiy, with a detach met of Lousisiana .Voltunteers, and part of Cp. Wise's company -of artillery, Capt'Boyd,'ith one company of infantry amounting,'in all to 115 or 120 men and oicersleft.by theiway of the river on the 8th 'inta~foritlie purpose of .relieving the AmericanD-prisoners, and landed 60 miles up the river, from' the' steamners Undine and Mary ESummers, without seeing an enemy,-and the boats 'returned to Tam pico at 3 o'clock, P. M. o'n the 15th in stant. An-express arrived at Tampico from Col. DeRaissy1 stating that they had been permitted to move on uninterruptedly un til they got into a very narrow pass near HuejultaYwhenZ they wvere surrounded by 1l00 or 1400? men,;.undler Gen. 'Garay. Col.DeRuuig'ts command had suffered consderabile~loss, y but withb the assistance of Gapt. Wise's .artillery,~ they had cut their way to the river,' anud there awaited for'reinforCemnts. Col. Gates despatched' the' New Orleans ack to Vera-.Cr~z. with a requisition- on Cel dlseforfourgLeompanies of infan try eHe liadsaiso.sent~ the steamboats UnlineandflaStflSuma se thle uiver with 150 men to Cul. DeRussy's assis tance. The New-Orleans arrived at Vera Crus on the 16th, at 2 o'clock, P. M., ant found the city in a state of excitement Gen. Pierce had miardhed dut as above stated, ancamped. about ten miles fror the city, when the advance guard came in and reported a heavy force of Mexicani at the National Bridge, who were march lug towards the city. Everything ra got ready foreaction. The shipping wa removed from between the castle and the city. Gen. Pierce reinforced 'his com mand with 700 men, making in all 3200 In consequence of this. difficulty, the re. quisition from Col. Gates on Col. Wilson could not be complied with. The New Orldans had on board 25 marines, from she U. S. sloop Saratoga, on the morning >f the 17th inst., and sailed for'Tampico, previous to which Gen. Pierce bad march. 'd out to meet the enemy.. The New Drleans arrived at Tampico on the morn. pg of the 18th. A detaehment which Sad gone up the river had returned, and eported, as follows, as near as we cid tacertain. The troops under Col. DeRussy had naroled within seven miles of Huejutla, in the morning of the 12th, whe the tlexicans commenced a heavy fire on hem from all directions. Capt. Wise ;ot his piece of artillery to bear on them, vhen, after receiving six or eight rounds f grape, which cut a lane through their hie, they gave way and fled to the cha >arral. The Americans continued fight og their way back along the road towards he river at intervals until the morning of he 16th, when they were relieved by a einforcement of 150 men. They re urned to Tampico at a late hour on the 6th, with a loss of 20 killed, 10 wounded rnd 2 missing. Among the number was apt. Boyd, who fell in tli first charge, vith three balls through his body ; also. is First Lieutenant, who fell mortally rounded and was left dying on- the field, Col. DeRussy had several balls through is coat. Capt. Wise had his horse shot om under him. The men and officers ought bravely. The names of the offi :ers from Louisiana - who accompanied 'ol. DeRussy are not recollected. The Vexican lose reported by a Lieutenant tc re 150 killed, and 120 wounded.- The \mericans, also, last 12 or 15 horses and n pacli mules. MEldCAN PRISONERS IN MEX Ntte MdbftlnbroEub~Ie~'c:e ;itnt1en itucky Volunteers Vwho-is now I prisoner in the city -of Mexico.-It wil >e recollected that he was, taken prisoner vhen in command of the escort of a trait mut to pieces by- the Mexicans. After the )ublication of the paragraph in this papei ,vliich elicited the letter, intelligence wat 'eceived of Lieut. Harbour's fate, yet the etter is interesting for some of its details, tId we give it, omitting paragraphs of a rivate nature. The letter will awaken ie alarm for the fate of the handful of crave men now prisoners in the city of Mexico. The perfidy of Santa Anna in he case of these prisoners is suflicient to ustify every stigma which has been cast ipon him, It is eminently cruel and con emptible, and far more shameless than nest of his -unworthy acts, for often the nan endeavors to propitiate universal re ;ard by traits of apparent magnanimity 1 CITY or MExitco. June 29, 1847. Dear Sir-I was surprised on receiving number of the N, O. Picayune of the 5th st., to find thstt nothing was known of me mnd my command since our capture on the 4th of February last. A correspondent if the Picayane sopposes that we were nurdered and the editor concurs with him n opinion. I had written repeatedly and tand confidently hoped that some of my etters had reached their desination; in. leed, I wvas very certain that my friends n Montarey had received intellijgence of s. I regret this the more, as it has doubt. ess caused my family and friends much mneessary uneasiness. On the 4th of this tmonth 190 of our pri. loners (among whom were Charles and Iohn Swigert) left the Castle of Santiagr a this city for Tampico where we were old they were to be released, but it is with~ 'egret that we learn through the city pa. >ers here that they were stopped at an In lin village 150 miles from this by order if Gen. Santa Atnna, and that they were atarving. Gen. Garay, whoe has them ir :hrge, writes to the government here, thai -e cannot obtain provisiotns, &c. I refet you to the paper EL Republicano, which I tend you. We have suffered great hardshiips, parti :ularl-y the men. 'They have been in a tate of nakedness, famine and disease foi he last five months, and many of then would have died had it not -been' for the roreigners here through whom aid wat iven them. We havebeen on our parol4 ince the 20th of Aprif ratt, and this cit3 is assigned irs as our charter. The Govern ment has paid us during part of this tim, rour rials (50 cents) per .diem and thei charge us thae same to- obtain it ; so in fec we get nothing. But we have not been ii rant, for mercantile houses - here are wil lng to-suipply us with whatever funds w want. It is known oftciolly that Maor Gafae and Borland, Capt. Clay, Hesady an Danley, Lients. Churchill and Davtdso were agreed to be exchanged at the battl of Angostura. Capt. Smtth, Qunarterm tr, Midshipman Rogers, of the navy, an myself were not provided for. But ti, Govert meat or rather Santa Anna, has n - idea of releasing any of us. It is his wish+ to send us to Acapulco on the Pact The most rigid and compulsory. measu I on the part of our Government will [alone] do us any good, [There is evidently i - word wanting in this sentence in. the orugt"i nal, and we have ventured to supply it. It is but a conjecture.] - As I tend this by the British courier thence by the packet via Havana to Ner - Orleans, I cannot mention any news oflow '-= cal or military character, as it would eter; promise his neutrality. lespectfully your friend and serv't. WM. T. BAlIt3O1t - GENERAL SCOTT. The N. O. Bulletin makes the followin estimate of Scott's forces, at Ises accountsS Gen. Stat. as hsat as w* eat ascertain fromt ou- enquiries. had with him when he joined Gen. Worth at Puebla, about 7(K& md"= He was subsequently joined by Col. Childsr with tie garri son at Jalappa. 1400 " Glen. Cadwallader's columu is 1400 "" ' Gen. Pillow has with blot 1800 Gen. Pierce was to leave Vera Cruz on the6th and 7th with a large trula, and will have a force of 4000 Making together, 15.500. Laterfrom the Brazos.-The steam-ship James L. Day at New Orleans, frorh the Brazos, (urnishdsd toe itemzs of interest which we append. " The Mexican forces at San Louis Pole - si are variously reported at from four thou sand to fourteen thousand men, and are commanded by General Yalencia. It was - reported thot be Was en route to join Baatk Anna at the city of Mexico. The San Louis papers state that Gen. Valencia.: had about 9000 regular. troops under his command. The troops at ifuena Vista number2900 men, in good health, under Cen. Wool. Gen. Taylor *hs stillst Welinet Sp'i .S awaiting the arrival of reinforcements."E.> has 120,000-rations, 800 wagons, and200( . mules, waiting to move forward. Gen. - Urrea, it is.possitively asserted, - was at-Victoriignot long since, and arrested4 the Governnr.ft hat plaiceid sent DDimi&r the city .of Mexit cha . a nilh- treinibe against Jih M.iseaxi.'G f. cut' - Tbe 'ted tbat0aneil't shot~ ir i Rtche' her 'pasagefranth mouth of :theriver to Matatinoro They were in thedemployot the Quartermastetr. at the timhes ISLAND OF CUBA The New York Sun 'contains some most--. oxtraordinary revelations with regard atd: , the Island of Cuba. The following state ment will excite surprise : "Cuba by geographical positionr of ua & cessity and right belongs to the U. Staten, it may 'nd murst lie ours, The rbotent -- has arrived to place it in our hands and -- under our flg. Cuba is in the nrket (o . sale, and we ar.e authorized by parties ; , eminently able to fuifal what they propose, to say that if the Utiited States will offet the Spanish government one hundted meli} 1 L d lions of'dolfars Cuba is ours, and that ,iftt one week's notice, tbe whole amount will be raised and paid over by the inhabitants of the Island. One week is all-they asks . if our government will only make the offex - for them to act upon, and which Spain is ready to accept. This is no vision, but a fixed fact, of which we have seen, and noW - hold! the most undoubted prnofs." - The Editor of the Sun presents several - forcihle reasons why the island of Cuba abould he the property of the U. States,' We say hands oli Let us not furnoisih au ., pretext for the interventihir of the Eures pean powers. The .two great maritame .~ States ofEurope, France and England, will never be segniescit under an arrange' .__ ment, by wvhici ie $Jniied States, bacone' ing possessed Cuba, e'oufdacontrol the cea merce of the Gulf. And how would such a manifestation of territorial anggrandize.' ., mnent stand by the side of a treaty -witir. - Mexico, if one should he formed,- the pre amble to which would, perhaps, diselmit such aggrendizemnent int her case 1. Ouir poliey with regard to-thes Island of Cuba should be passive,but Watchifrl. No tempt- .~ ing bait heltd out by the a'uthorities -and people of C'u!!m, or even by thi* government. of Spain, should fure us from this pathr of sa fety.-Een-. i$ewe. - - A Mayor of one -of the interior cities of France has made a curious ec'leulation, which he had laid before the consideratibE s of local auth'orities. Assiined by a mem-- . ber of the municipal eouncil, he has ascar-. tained that there are in-the town 502 dogs, t-, and 163 jpnupers, and he calculatei thats. tbe food consumed hy the dog.. wouldh-b more thats eougl tbt the-suppori of all' the. poor in tire whole commune. % . -C. Fremot.-The correspondent :the lIqew York- Her'ald stares that the sq mueb talked of THit Carson will not onlv 4 s take Mrs. Vremuount out to her husband-is i Californta, but also a commissie to- tls.4 m gallant and judeiotns Colonel, appointiu a hiss Governeu of the Terrirory, so latel Sn cnntest between Commodgre Sveetou I and.General Kerney. This will--be o . a of the very best appointments say. the o correpondentfot'the whole campaurga