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 I, is impossible for us so ascertain the iTae state of Cuban sfTnrs Rep sss from tae most refa- bic soGfcssr gre go contradictory. One short week since, the number cf Americans who accompanied Lopez. oa his excursion to Cnba. in the Pamp<gs. was ielegrsphed 10 us from New Orleans, as HOO; few days since. it dwindled down to s0oi and, by the last accounts from New Orleans, which take from . paper favorable 10 tke cause Of the revolutiansss, # appears that the real number was Rearly four handred. amply supplied with arms and ammunition. but ss illy prorised uik stses and Svorisinns, that, ere the vessel had reached the port she was found 50 crowded. lI-ordered and destitute of bedding ihat over 100 returned to ;he city. by the steamer Uacn, Those who hacked out affirm. moreover, that there was strong dis position b mutnr, among these who remained on board.
 l am aftaid that we are hardly active enough in our preparations for the next presidential cam pasgn. Indeed, 1t is q pretty general fault of the democracy to rely too much on the righteousness of ther principles. and the good sense of the peo- ple while the whigs who commaed more wealth and less scrnpulous. use il in perecsing their town and State organizations, long before the period arrives for going into active warfare. We work well when we go at i., but we dent begin soon enough.
 The present policy of the leading democrats of this city is caused parti9Iy by the excitement in the whig camp, in favor of General Scott. These democrats think that II we display careless isou- eisner, the subject of the next Presidency, the now ~averiug Clay and Webster whgs will be induced by their brethren of the availability" school, totake ID Scott and will have so far com mtted themselves in his favor. as to be unable to withdraw then support from him, at the whig National Convention. This is coatended to be the best policy to pursue; as there is scarcely man in the whig party whomit would be easier for us to beat, than Scoth while, if we were to show our hands al oncei the wings would immediately select strong man against whom it might be quite difficult to hunt up successful antagonist
 This, say. is what majority of our leading democrats think; but aEn entirely opposed 10 the principle cfnon preparation for an enemy, however despIcable; and trust to see, ere long, more life energy and above all, concerted effort in our ranks Let Us baaish all sectional questions, for he present-all questions foreign to the main issue the triumph of democracy or oligarchy. It IS time for us, say, ts-banisa all minor questions. After the Presidential campaign shall have terminated in the election by the people of President,who will faithfully discharge hiS duties, as the chief magistrate of a Republic, instead of catering to the wishes of the monarchs of Europe; then, but not til then. le 'ocal questions be revived by the democratic press of the Union But, for Heavens sake. let every democratic paper drop them aou. and help to keep us from the grievous inletion of another whig adminiSTation--a cuSe visited on us, doubt not, by the Almighty, for his own wise purposes as punishment for our sins, as q nation. m negecting to cherish more fondly and gratefully the precious boon he had accorded us-but yet a curse, the consequences and repetition of which, its our bounden dat, to eHdeavor to avert.
 You Southerners, SeceSSonists, States rights men, On-submisSionists, of whatever you call yourselves, or others call you, have, see, politi- cal opinions. 30 diverse from those of Northern men that il would be impossible for me to give you any political news bearing on the questions that interest you. The fact of the matter IS that there IS not either whig or q democrat in this city, that has the most remote idea of the possibl ity of dissolution of the Union, or who deems the Southern movement tf importance enough to refer to it, in the recent eoncaves of the party; although many talk about Il on paper, for effect Those who inform you otherwise deceive you. can, then, in touching on political matters, only give you such information and dwell upon such sub
 eets, asare considered important, by the twog great political parties of the Union. tell you quite frankly, that am a Uni5nst. Indeed am not only Unionist, but also what IS termed univer- sal annexationist. l go for Cuba and Mexico, Canada and the Sandwich Islands, the British West Indies and all of South America, and as much more ss we can get, slavery or no slavery, Wilmot Proyso or no wilnot Proviso,--lets have 'eIn, say l. Knowing then. that your correspon- dent IS radical free trade and direct taxation
 ocofoco. all you have to do, if you do not like bis probable future comments, IS to suppress inc DOT ton of this letter bearing on politics, and he will take the hint and confne himself in his future correspondence, 10 other subjects.
 Everybody occasionally meets social phenome- non. Mir. Dick Swiveller met with one. in " the MaTehioness." who was h years old, lived in Lon don, and Jet had never tasted porter. Sir Walter Seasfs eldest son another; for he asserted that he had never read one Of the Wayeriy novels, your correspondent stumbled over a social phe- nomeuon n Boston, last week, in the person of eomposiior, who has worked in the office of the Boston Gazette 34 years; during which period he has never been out of seeing distance of the State House. You may judge of the horror of the edto- raj eorps, wheRAgp Thursday last, he applied for leave of absence fot q week, and added 'saipels, am going to see my sister, down east, and shall then take my first trip railroad" For my part, 1 cannot fully credit the mans assertion; for through England, I have met with old women who had never seen steamboat, still, cannot see how man caa have lived 3i years jn the very heart of New England, ia the very faces of