Lower Sandusky Freeman

CUBA.

The island is 624 miles in extreme length, with a width varying from 22 to 117 miles, and covers an area of 37,000 square miles, being about the size of the state of Maine. It contains a population, at the present time, of 1,400,000: of which 610,000 are whites, 190,000 are free colored, and 600,000, slaves. Its imports in 1847 were $32,389,119. of which $7,049,675 were from the United States. Its exports during the same period were $27,998,770, of which $12,394,876 were to the United States. In 1847 the number of arrivals. at its ports, was 3740, and the number of clearances 3343. Its principal harbors are the finest in the world. The amount of American tonnage employed in the trade with Cuba is 476,773 tons. It has 195 miles of railroad completed and in successful operation, and 61 miles in course of construction. It is well watered by numerous rivers, and its surface, except in the central portion of the island diversified with mountains. Only two-fifths of its surface are cultivated. Of the remaining three-fifths, now uncultivated, one is probably worthless, leaving one half of its agricultural resources undeveloped. The climate is so genial that it yields two crops a year of many of its productions. It also abounds in materials for manufacturing purposes, and its mountains contain mines of copper which are worked to considerable advantage.

[Troy Whig.