The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-12

be quite amusing. Will Taylor. or Clay be
nominated by the whigsi Will Polk, or Bu-
chauan, or Cass, or Woodbury., or Walker be
nominated by the democrats What will be the
Issues These are the questions.
PRESENT STATE OF Mexico We have received
from an officer of the Pennsy lvania Volunteers,
who so distinguished themselves in the Mexi-
can war, a very elaborate memoir on the present
condition of Mexico, giving number OF origl-
nal views and facts, taken from documents pub
lished in Mexico, from which better view can
be obtained of the industry of the Mexican popu-
lation, and the enterprise and the peculiar cha
racterstcs of that republic, than any thing We
have yet seen. The gentleman who prepared
this document is man Of high talent, and served
with great honor to himself and his State, in the
Pennsylvania regiment of Volunteers, through
the whole of the campaign from Vera Cruz to the
City of Mexico. His name we shall give at the
time we publish them.
In the meantime it will be necessary 10 say,
that the only reliable information on the present
condition of Mexico, is that which may be pre-
pared and received in similar way by parties on
the spot We have number OF papers OF this
character in our possession, which we shall give
to our readers in due time, previous to the meet
ing of the two conventions to nominate candi-
dates for the presidency. Not long since, we
gave some valuable information on the finances
of Mexico, which had been collected and pre-
pared by Col. Burnett, Of the New York volun-
teers Such statistics and information are of
much more value than those contained in the re-
cent speeches, letters and pamphlets of MIR. Clay,
r. An - A. Call latin nf Ifu
Those gentlemen know nothing of the present
condition of Mexico, and only speak from recol-
lections OF by-gone day. Mr.. Poinsett, good
many years ago. was minister to Mexico, and
might have known something of that country
during the time he resided there in that capaci-
ty; but great changes have taken place since that
period, and the only mode of reaching correct
views on the subject, is from those intelligent
officers and distinguished men who were por-
ton of last year Mexico, and who, as soon as
the capture OF the city Of Mexico was certain,
set themselves to work to collect every species
Of information on the subject of the condition OF
the country which they had conquered.
The paper which we intend to publish in few
days is the most satisfactory and comprehensive
document on the population, the finances, the in
situations, and every thing else connected with
Mexico, we have ever seen. In addition to
publishing it in our own columns, we shall
probably issue it in pamphlet form, and spread II
over the whole country and the civilized world.
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NEw SPECIES OF FRAUD "A new species OF
fraud has lately come IL our knowledge, which,
the sooner is made public, the better 1t will be
for parties who purchase paper, and especially to
proprietors of newspapers and other publications.,
who consume large quantities of that material,
and on whom the paper mills depend, in great
degree, for patronage.
1t is very we'll known that the price of paper is
regulated by it's weight per ream; because, the
more rag there Is in it the more valuable it is,
and the more it costs to manufacture it. Thus,
paper weighing thirty pounds. is proportionately
worth more than paper weighing twenty five
pounds. We understand that some paper manu-
facturers have adopted plan of fraudulently in
creasing the weight of their paper, by incorpora-
ing with it, at the rate Of FIVE or six pounds to
the ream, a mineral substance called barytes,
and in this way they defraud their customers,
and especially newspaper prcprietors, of a fifth
part of all the money they receive for their paper
With every ream of the material they manufac-
ture, they incorporate from five to six pounds OF
this barytes, which costs about twenty dollars
per ton, which, in this way, is disposed of at
more than ten times its cost, thus robbing the
printer of SO much in every ream Of paper. But
more than that, this mineral substance 10 IN the
highest degree injurious to type, and wears its
face in a very rapid manner, having the same
effect in that way as 50 much fine sand would
have. In the first place, therefore, printers are
robbed by some of the pious paper manufacturers
in one of the New England States, and then
their property is injured in using 1t.
This adulteration can be detected at once by
burning some of the paper clean plate. II,
after the fame has died out, white powderish
in the manner we have pointed out, at the rate
of five or six pounds of bsrytes to the ream.
We recommend our contemporaries through
out the United States to try the experiment with
the paper they respectively use.
ALEXANDER DUMAS AND JOHN G. CALHOUN
LITERARY FoReERY We see correspondence
circulating in several Of the newspapers, which
originally appeared in the Paris correspondence
of the Boston atlas, which is said to have taken
Paris, and Mr.. Calhoun, of South Carolina.
Inc letteI attributed 10 MI Odihoun, Is, Ho
doubt, gross and palpable forgery, from its very
face Of this there can be no doubt; and we are
astonished to see any respectable journal, having
so intelligent an editor and conductor as the atlas
has, give insertion to such an impudent fabrlca-
ton as that letter is. Whether the letter attribu
ted to MIR. Dumas, be authentic or not, we nei-
Their know nor care but il is well known in
Paris, that Dumas is complete literary charla-
tan, whose constant endeavor is to attract publ
city by every species of means. We suppose
that Mr.. Calhoun, who is now in Washington,
will think it necessary to contradict the for
gerry but we shall see.
GENERAL TAYLoR's OPINIONS ON PUBLIC Ar