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I?NTEO?S PORTO* RICO - \ ?hand Which Produces Many Things We Need. ISLASD AS A NAVAL BASE. Xew Posseision Also Seems to Bo of ?T?too From a Strategic Standpoint-Pos? sibilities of Development Under the Knie of tho ? aited States. I A noteworthy event in cur history as a nation is the almost simultaneous ac? quisition or practical control of the tropical islands of Cuba, Porto Bice, Hawaii it is notable rot only as eating a departure frorr ancestral tiens, but because these islands l?y produce just those articles we nee d_ but do not produce our ?9e?ves. Although we " have a restricted stretch territory capable of producing sugar, we expend abroad for h about $100, - 0*000 a?nuil?y. We have no soil and te capable of producing coff cfc though S?. John is u lovely island, fer? tile and picturesque, and Santa Croa covered with rich sugar plantations yet the sz&i object in view was tho single harbor of St. Thomas. Porto TACO, an island which becomes ours merely at the cost of conquest, combines all the advantages possessed i by St. Thomas in a marked degree, fer j it has at least six good harbors and a vast extent of fertile territory, as against the one iurbor of St. Thomas and its cluster of barren rocks. Strategically, then, as possessing a commanding situa? tion in these seas, with numerous har? bors for the assembling and refitting of our fleets, with unlimited supplies of naval stores, water, fruits and vegeta? bles. Porto Rico is of surpassing im? portance. ' A glance at those'natural features of the island, which make it not only val? uable property fer us as a national enti? ty, but a potentially lucrative invest? ment individual ly, is now in order. In the first place. Porto Eico is 5 degrees sottth pf the northern tropic, and so is capable of yielding any variety of plant, fruit or vegetable that the most favored region of equatorial America can pro? duce. In the second place, its physical - coiifigiiration is such that it is generally THE PHILIPPINE TRADE. It May Be Worth Much to lin? de Sam. TEE BUSI??ESS OPPOETOTITIES. Richness of the Country-How Spain Has Killed ( Enterprise - Some Fields In Which Enterprising Americans 7rlay Suc? ceed if Good Government Comes. The business opportunities in the Philippine islands depend altogether upon the disposition to be made of the country by the Spanish-American com? mission. If the place is remanded to its former owners, they will be few and poor, their profits going to the officials, politicians and lawyers and not to the merchant and manufacturer. If a pro? tectorate be established, the opportuni? ties will be rich and quite numerous. If the stars and stripes are to remain WHAT A TYPHOON ONCE DID TO MANILA. permanently, the Philippines will be a J better field for many enterprising Ameri? cans than the United States. Even un? der the crushing rule of Spain Ameri? cans and English have been commer? cially successful in many instances. An American house introduced the tele? phone and electric lighting system of Manila. A British company has built and operates a short railway from Manila toward Dagnpan, the eventual terminus of the route. Tl?e China and 1 Manila Steamship company is a British j corporation, as are its two rivals, the I China Navigation Company, limited, j and the Red Fnnnel (or .Tardine, Math- j eson& Co.) line. American interests in the islands in? clude marine, fire and life insurance companies, ropemaki?g, sugar refining and tobacco-a practically insignificant list One American mercantile house, Warner, Blodgett & Co., held a leading j place in the far east, but it was impov- j srished and finally ruined by the exac? tions .and extortions of the officials. American dentists frequently visit Ma? nila and other Philippine cities and do a lucrative business, but all the profit is taken by the fees and imposts re? quired by the government Other fields which Americans have occupiied successfully are rice milling, iron construction, ice machinery, drugs and chemicals, cotton goods, steam ma? chinery and electrical engineering. Few of these are conducted on a large scale. The entire business in these lines of the 10,000,000 or 12,000,?00 inhabitants of the islands is less than that of an active city like Cleveland, Atlanta or Denver. Under a good government the open? ings are numberless. Mining engineers; prospectors, mine superintendents, mine foremen, assayers and geologists may bo in large demand. The average Spaniard knows little of these callings and cares lesa Even at home half of the rich mines are under foreign control or su? pervision. The attitude of the Spanish mind toward practical science is well shown in the curriculum of the Manila college, where the course comprises physics, chemistry, metaphysics, theol? ogy, rhetoric, poetry, arithmetic and bookkeeping. There is an ever increasing demand for coal in the far east, and the coal beds of Zebu and Mindanao are destined to play an important part in future commerce. They contain anthracite, semibitumia'ous and lignite, and there? fore appeal to coal experts from eastern Pennsylvania as well as those from the larger coal basins of our land. Petro? leum experts, from producers aEd well drillers to refiners and chemists, may also find good employment At present the islands import their kerosene from the United States, Russia and Sumatra. The trade is small, owing to the duty and other taxes, but is steadily increas? ing The natives use vegetable oils for their lamps, and the cheapest of these costs far more and gives less light than mineral oil. With the cheap labor of the Philippines it should be easy to tum out kerosene at a lower cost than is done in the United States. The market for kerosene in the extreme orient is al? most unlimited, China and Japan using millions of gallons annually and in? creasing their consumption every year. There will be a valuable opportunity for steam or electrical transportation if the islands get good government The country is fabulously rich, but almost nothing has been done by the adminis? tration to facilitate the movement of crops and other products. There are a ' few good roads near Manila. All the rest are cow paths or trails. Travel is dono on horseback and goods are carried by buffalo carts or pack trains. The ex? isting read shows what a harvest there is for good railways and trolley roads. Since it started it has never paid a smaller dividend than 10 per cent. Roughly speaking, the country is a series of long valleys separated by lines of hills or mountains. There are few marshes and enough forests to supply tics for the entire road as it is con? structed. Labor is cheap, costing 10 cents a day. A uative cannot do as much work as an American, thu ratio being one to two. ' It is clear that, the cost of railway construction will bc small and that it will be possible to build and operate trolley roads at a prent when it could not be done at home. There is a fine field for steam launches, river and lake steamers and email coasters. The Malays love tc travel, and even under Spanish rule make a eood business for the ranirali?ts and the friars who conduct the river and coasting trade. Scientific farming offers much to mee who love the soil. The ordinary steel plcsr is unknown to nine-tenths of the Philinpines. So are the mower, harvester, cultivator, horse rake and even the scythe.. The only good farm? ing is done by a few Chinese and half castes, but even here it is on a small scale. The iron industry will be remunera? tive. In a land of typhoons and earth? quakes iron and steel house construc? tion will in the course of time supersede all others. The Malays take kindly t the forge and foundry, and where these exist prove able and faithful workmen. . In textiles there ourtfit to be a good trade with Uncle Sam. What there is today is largely Spanish through heavy discriminating duties. Of the foreign goods imported the largest part is made from American cotton and comes from England. Next come the German goods, which are also made of American cot? tons, then come Japanese goods, and last the goods of the United States. With a free, open market and our own business men on hand we certainly would soon have a controlling voice in the trade. Excellent investments, it is believed by the sanguine, will be sugar refineries, ropewaiks, fruit canneries, jelly and preserve factories, ice plants, rug, car? pet and matting works, graving docks, boiler shops, steam marble works and steam cr electric sawmills. Millions of pounds of raw sugar are exported an? nually to Hongkong, Shanghai, Tien? tsin, Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka and Yoko? hama, and there refined, when the lat? ter work could be done near the planta- ! tions. At Hongkong there are the Luzon Sugar Refining company and the China Sugar Refining company, two million? aire institutions. They pay handsome dividends and numerous large salaries, yet all of this comes out of the Philip? pine sugar which they use. With a just government the refineries would be in the Philippines, where they would pay a higher profit. , The same state of affairs marks the hemp and cordage indnstry. Tho Span? iards themselves, much more so the foreigners, do not dare to go into cord? age making on a large scale for fear of the officials. The hemp gees to Hong? kong, Australia, Europe and America and is there? made into rope, twine and incidentally'paper. The packing, com? pressing, freight, insurance and double handling are so expensive chat they make possible a wide margin of profit toa manufacturer doing business on the islands. In canning nothing has been done, , yet there is as good an opportunity there as at home. Game and venison are plentiful' and sell for one-fifth of what they do here. Fish, prawns, tur? tles and edible lizards may be purchased as low as ? cent a pound. Tropical fruits abound and are almost given away. Above all is the king of fruits, the Manila mango, which if tinned would find a ready market in every part of the world. The Chinese and Japanese have learned to can foods in the last dec? ade, and are now reaping a rich profit. Money may be made in cheap and serviceable kerosene lamps, Ansonia clocks, Waterbury watches, electric an? nunciators, hand sewing machines, cheap fowling pieces, low priced spec? tacles and eyeglasses, barbed wire, the distillation of essential oils and in all preparations which will kill vermin, rats and mice. Business men should hear in mind, however, that our fashions and tastes are not those of the islanders. Ours may be better and generally are better, j .but that does not alter the case. They | STREET IX MANILA'S NATIVE QUARTER. will not buy what we like, but what they like. Any merchant sending out goods which are popular at home but different from those in use in the Phil? ippines will find his consignments a dead loss. The only safe rule is to send out a quick witted, clear seeing sales? man to find cut exactly what the new market desires and then to make the goods accordingly. Where a merchant cannot afford this expense he should join in with a number of others who will sbarexthe cost with him. Nor must any ambitious man of affairs expect im? mediate success. Excepting the gold mines, where a fortune may be found in an hour, it will be slower getting ahead at first than at home. The warm, balmy climate is enervating and tends to making men indolent. Besides this three centuries of Spanish rule have trained the population to believe in the doctrine of "manana'' (tomorrow). There was the same trouble in Texas at its annexation, and it took five years to put a more, intense vitality into its peo? ple. It will take as long to infuse mod? ern energy into the Philippine charac? ter, but the game is worth much more than the candle. The island common? wealth is ono of the richest on the earth, and its millions may make one of the greatest markets for the American merchant, manufacturer and man of enterprise if the government of the United States ar thc conclusion of the negotiations with Spain decides to re? main in practical control of a part or the whole di thc territory conquered by Rear Admiral George Dewey and Major General Wesley Merritt. WILLIAM E. S. EALES. Goo-1 S^-wiNi* Clifhinvs (rem $1(1 up H ! R .nj]?'/ Wis lom io-d ij mt-iins comfort to mor.ow To prove it bay a "Wtsite" a'd use tr. Entertaining the Copper. It was a bitter cold night, an?i Si night policeman in Lombard street no? ticed a light in the bank window, and, going to the door, rapped. "Is that you. policeman?" asked a voice from within. "Yes," was the reply. "Come in and have a drink, " said the voice. The policeman stepped inside and en? countered a dapper little fellow sitting at a desk. "I've been detained tonight straight ; eniug up accounts." The policeman warmed himself at the rousing fire that blazed on the hearth and went out again on his beat. An hour after the policeman came that way and, still seeing the light through the window, rapped again. "ls that you, policeman?" " Yes. " "Come in and warm yourself." The policeman accepted the invita? tion. "It's a howling cold night," said the clerk. "You're right, sir," said the police? man. So he got another drink and returned to his beat. He was rather surprised next day to find that his friend of the night before had got off with some $50, OOO of the bank's funds.-London Suc? cess. An Attack on Sevastopol. From where I was stationed I could see the dense masses of the attacking columns advance up the slope. Then the torrents of grape which met them would obscure their ranks for a mo? ment and hardly a man would be seen to remain. I at one time saw a body cf men many hundreds strong so complete? ly swept away by one discharge that only a few of the rear rank remained when the iron storm went past 1 The dead and dying could be clearly distin? guished lying in piles cn the hillside, and over their prostrate bodies fresh troops crowded on to meet the same fate. Many a manly heart and nervous arm went down in the deadly struggle on that green hillside. No valor avail? ed. The cannon's force was greater than the strength of man. How many ardent hopes were extin? guished ! How many home circles de? stroyed and lives rendered miserable by the havoc of that honr none can teil, no more than they can imagine the bodily agony or the grief for home and friends which was there endured ! What would be the value of what is called "glory" if weighed on the field of bat? tle among the dead?-Good Words. Al tama or Altamaha? There caa, I suppose, be no doubt that in the lines in "The Deserted Vil? lage" To distant climes, a dreary scene, Whe: e half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go Where wild Al tama murmurs to their woe Goldsmith is alluding to the River Al? tamaha in Georgia, the colonization of which had taken place not long before. But his expressions are not very accu? rate. So far from being torrid in the strict sense of the word, the latitude of the mouth of the Altamaha is more thau 31 degrees. No part indeed of the present United States is located within the tropics. But, besides this, although there are certainly rattlesnakes and, I believe, scorpions of a certain species in Georgia, there are no tigers there to "wait their hapless prey, " which the peet reckons among the horrors of the region where some of the inhabitants of Auburn have gone.-Notes and Queries Snow That Ia Alive. A most curious phenomenon in the northwest of Canada is the appearance of millions of minute black insects whenever a thaw occurs. During the winter the snow is dry and crisp like sand, and nothing what? ever can be discovered of these insects, but as soon as a thaw comes they are found everywhere in large patches, looking like a dusting of soot. They are generally known as snow fleas or snow lice and have slight hop? ping powers, being able to leap some three or four inches. They entirely dis? appear when it freezes again, and not a trace of them can be found. They do not fall with the snow as there may have been no snow for a month or more before their arrival and are probably analogous to the "red snow" of arctic regions. Second Time Is Out. The hotel stood on a corner of a main street and a comparatively unfrequent? ed side street. One evening I overheard the little old black man talking very savagely with another around the cor? ner on the side street, and among other things he said: "Yes, suh. an ef I hits you dey woan' be but two licks struck. I'll hit you an you'll hit de groun'. "Yo? done heah whut I say."-Den? ver Post. Her Liquid Voice. "Yourwife has such a liquid voice," said Mr. F. admiringly to Mr. T. "Yes: that's a pretty good name for it," replied Mr. T. Mr. F. looked up inquiringly, and Mr. T. added immediately: "Don't you j understand? Why, it never dries up, j you know. "-London Fun. >"ot Disposed to Delay Him. "I would go to tho end of the world j for you," he exclaimed passionately. "I'm sure 1 wish you would,"she i answered coldly, "und-then jump off. " | -Somerville Journal. During the siege of Paris no fewer j than 22,000,000 letterssailed out of the \ city in the 5-i balloons dispatched bc tween the 19th of September, lsTO, and the 2Sth of Januarv, 1 s ; i. -:- I Sr. Loni:; has one church to 2.800 of j population, New York one to 2,408, ? Chicago one to 2,081, Boston one to ! 1,600 and Minneapolis one to 1,054. Wisdom to-dny means comfort to-morrow. To prove it nay a White and nse it. As "?T&S Done Unto Him. Catching at the stranger's coattail he murmured ia a deprecating tone*4 Could you give me a little assistance sir?" The stranger turned and looked him over. His eyes were bloodshot his j clothes dirty his whole appearance de? cided the worse for wear. "What do you want?" was the reply to the tramp. "A job after I get a square meal," Said the tramp. "What can you do?"asked the stran? ger. "I can keep books, sell goods, drive a delivery wagon, compound prescrip? tions, set type and do farm work." The stranger scribbled a few words on a card, handed the tramp .$1 and said: "Take this card to this address, and I think it will get you work. Take that dollar, get a bath, a shave, a hair cue, something to eat and a drink of whisky. That will brace you to meet my friend. Solong!" "There's just one thing more," said the tramp. "How do you happen to give me just $1 and all these directions with it?" "Because I got $1 from aman on this very corner about ten years ago," said the stranger, "just as you are getting it from me, and I'm passing up his ad? vice and his money jnst for luck." Chicago Chronicle. Bedtime In Canada. Any one who has visited Canada real? izes the difference between Yankee hustling and the easy going way they do things up there. "I should love to go visiting in Canada," says a tired wanderer, "if the people there ever went to bed." "They never go to bed, and they never get up," commented a Hibernian who had been there. Something must be wrong with the old axiom of howtobeheaithy, wealthy and wise, for the first at least these Canadians are, and they rarely go to bed much before midnight, nor break? fast much before 9 o'clock. It is an old country custom handed dows and com? fortably enjoyed. The 9:30 p. m. bed? time of American domesticity is there unknown, and the 7:30 breakfast be? longs solely to the lowest laboring classes. "Oh, yes, I feel splendid this morn? ing. I got to bed early and had a good sleep," said a young man, who had been complaining of weariness and lack of rest. "What time did yon retire?" asked the inquisitive American. "Oh, real early, " was the reply. "Soon after the clock had struck 12. "-Troy Times. The Astute Lion. One day a toothless I?GU, whose mus? cles were unstrung by age, lay in a shady place by the streamlet side. He set np a dismal groaning, which soon drew a crowd of hyenas around him. "What is the matter?" they asked. He explained to them that the days of his kingship were over, and with tears pouring down his facer protested that he was unable to defend himself against even the weakest of his enemies. On learning this the hypocritical sympathy before shown by the hyenas changed at once to open malice. They threw themselves upon the prostrate monarch and worried him with their teeth. Inside of five minutes they all lay rigid in death. "Golly," chuckled the lion, "I'm glad I took the precaution to dust my hide with strychnine before I tested the Madness of these good friends. A fel? low learns something by having been in politics." So saying he calmly went to sleep. Criterion. His Worst Offense. When it was proposed to lessen the list of crimes punished by death, Lord Eldon objected to the noose being ban? ished in cases cf petty shoplifting. "The small shopkeepers will be ruined by this exemption," said the old Tory ?ord chancellor. Another Tory, a judge, so venerated the sovereign that he included in his re? gard any article belonging to the king, ho matter how far removed from actual possession. A tailor had been condemn? ed for the murder of a soldier, and the judge tacked on this addition to the sentence of death: "And not only did yon murder him, but you did thrust or push br pierce or project or propel the lethal weapon through the belly band of his breeches, which were his majesty's!" Past Salaries of Actors. A number of autograph letters of Ed? mund Kean supply some interesting in? formation about the salaries of actors early in the century. One relates to an offer by Mr. Ellison offering Kean ?3 a week as acting manager of "the new theater in Wych street." Later this rose as high as ?25 a month. In 1826 Kean was offered ?12,000 a year to go to America. In the prime of his popu? larity he received ?200 for a week in Edinburgh, and apparently reached the highest point when Mr. Bunn wrote from the Theater Royal, Dublin, on Feb. 8, 1S29, and offered him ?50 a night to play in Dublin and Cork.-? Liverpool Mercury. The Worrying Habit. A prime necessity of our permanent freedom from worrying is the possession of the personal quality commonly =:uown as sand. If a man has not been endowed with saud by nature, he must pick it up for himself. Nobody is going to give him any, but he can do this easier than he thinks .Most of the things we worry over are only bugbears that fade and disappear upon the first attack. Herein lies tho first secret of success-in attack-and the great secret lies in persistence, in keeping always at work. Thc man who actually does this, wasting no time, will iind the first thing he knows that he:s stopped worrying, and he laughs a lit? tle as he says to himself that he's got no time to worry, and the next thing ho knows he linds his sandbox is no longer empty, he's actually got some sand of his own, and then he is somebody and begins to find some solid satisfaction in life.-New York Sun. -TBS SUMTER WATCHMiS, Established April, 1SS0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, EgtabUabed Jone. 13*6 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14,1898. J?ew Series-Toi. XVIII. No. 7 c within the confines of the continent Pnited-States, an4 for ifc we send o ; to foreign parts another $100,000,00 ; ^Wishont going into dete-il it may i x?^^?. that wo expend anuaally at lea . $250,000,000 for purely tropical pro ;acts, whick we cannot raise ourselves ?fc-Ih a word, from the expansionist |-j?infc of view the acqnisit?c?t of the ?fs?ands gives TL* all we have hither >Ifceked in tho way of tropical produ. ttoasa^ fills a long feit want Am S what is more, while they produce tl things we lack and need the people? those islands manufacture almost notl ; ing and will look to ns for all their rm cinnery, flour, cotton and woolen gooc -in fact, for everything necessary t civilized comnrinities. O? these- newly acquired tropical po? ' sessions of ours Porto Eico is the sonti ernmost and also the easternmost I : fact, it lies farther to the east than an portion of Maine even and about in th latitude of St John, N. B., and wini the Hawaiian group lies between lati tnde 19 and ?5 degrees north and Cub I- just south of the tropic cf cancer, Port Rico lies Ijetween 17 and 18 north, an its northern coast line is 100 miles t ?he south of Cuba's southern shores . Within a little more than a thousan miles of the equator, its southern coas facing the Caribbean sea, its northen . toward the Atlantic, it forms the key stone of that arch of islands, the Antil lean archipelago, extending from nea the month of the Orinoco on the norti coast of South America, northward ant then west1 vard, toward the eastern coas of Honduras, inclosing that vast bod* of water known as the Caribbean sea It is anont 1,000 miles distant fron Havana and Key West, 1,200 from tin isthmus of Panama, 1,400 from Nica ragua, 1,500 from New York and S,00( from Cadiz in Spain. The trouble with us, said Senator John T. Morgan to the writer not long ago, is that we are afraid of being great It seems at last that we have overcome our dread of territorial expan? sion and are no longer afraid of trying at least an experiment along that line. It has long been foreseen by our naval i strategists that if we ever possessed a navy, we must also own or control naval bases or coaling stations in vari? ons parts of the world. A glance at a map of the world reveals the fact that Great Britain has girdled the globe with such stations, for the supply and refreshment of her fleets. It was suffi? ciently emphasized in the east when our fleet was ordered out of Hongkong; in the west when, the coal heaps of St. Themas and Martinique were declared ; neutral property. Fortunately brave Dewey captured a coaling station for himself, and in the West Indies we were rendered tempo? rarily independent by colliers accom? panying the fleet, and finally by the taking of Guantanamo. But if Dewey :-vfcad not taken Manila, and if Cervera!s fleet had been as strong as was at first reported and we believed, the coaling problem would have been an important factor in determining the success or failure of our plans. It may be a mat? ter of surprise to many to learn that such acquisitions have been urged for many years, at least 30 past, in the hails of congress. Away back during the administration of President Lincoln Secretary Seward had in mind the ac? quisition of the Danish islands cf St. Thomas, St. John and Santa Cruz, and later negotiated a treaty by which for $7,500,000 we were to acquire them. But for the unexpected opposition of certain senators when the treaty was . np fer ratification we shouid have ac? quired tueca, and notwithstanding the enormous sum we promised to pay exempt from the diseases and draw backs to which most subtropic corm trie are subject In other words, it is ? habitable country for tho Anglo-Saxon which cannot always be said of region nuder or near the equator. This i owing to the fact that the island i hilly and mountainous and contain few swampy sections. Sf The central backbone of the island ii a mountain chain which reaches it greatest altitude of 4t 500 feet in th? peak of the Luqnillo Sierra, called E Yunque. The chain rises near the Ca beza de San Juan, in the extreme north eastern point of the island, and extend? throughout the interior, which is s heaved np mass of mormtains, hills, spurs and valleys, down from which run the many streams of the island, es? timated at 1,300 in number. The length of Porto Rico is variously given as from 95 to 105 miles, and its breadth from SO to 40, but probably a safe" estimate would make it about 100 miles in length and 35 in average breadth, with a total area of aboui 3,500 square miles. Though the greater portion is hilly, even mountainous, the elevations are generally of such a char? acter, with gently sloping sides and rounded summits, that they are suscepti? ble of cultivation to their very tops. No more beautiful picture can be imagined than the aspect of this island as it is approached from the sea, with the ranges of hills rolling like billows from shore to mountain tops, which latter are mostly forest clad, and t>us every tint of vegetation is seen, from the most delicate to the deepest shade of green. To revert to the features which make the island valuable as a naval station. Although most of the streams descend? ing from the mountains flow north? wardly, yet very few have open or nav? igable harbors at their mouths, and most of the good ports are on the south? ern shore. The north coast boasts but one really important harbor, that of San Juan, the capital and only fortified city of the island. It is an inlet of the northern coast, about one-third the dis? tance from Cape San Juan, in the east, to Cape Pena Aguda, in the west. The width of the navigable channel at its mouth is about 400 yards, and when the water is smooth vessels drawing five fathoms can cross the bar in safety. When a storm is raging or a norther blowing, the harbor mouth, or "boca," j is a sheet of whirling, seething billows, j through which the most experienced pilot can only navigate with extreme risk. Inside, though exposed to the northers, is a deep and beautiful har? bor, which can doubtless be improved j by dredging and the building of break ? waters, which will make it safe even in : the hurricane season, t Arecibo, 35 miles west of San Juan, j is a place of importance, but has no ' good barber, only an open roadstead, in i which vessels lie while their cargoes j are transferred by lighters to the shore, j Rounding the northwest cape a mag ; nificent bay is opened, that of Agua I dilla, with water deep enough for a ; battleship, but with no good wharfs. I The same may be said olf Alayaguez, to i the south, on the west coast. On the i south coast, going east, the first fine I harbor isGuanica, where General Miles I landed his forces, with water enough i for large vessels; then the harbor cf j Ponce, with one channel carrying five fathoms; still farther east tho T'-orts of Salinas and Arroyo, and on the eastern end of the island the ports of Kumacao, 1 Naguabo and Fajardo, small but safe, with no great depth of water. So it may be seen that there are har bors enough to suit all sorts of vessels and all kindi of weather. FREDERICK A OBER,