A DARK PICTURE -- A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Charleston, believes that the colored race in that section "is dying out, emigrating to the West, murdering its young, much as some animals do when the litter is too large.”

SHREWD SMUGGLING DODGE – Shrewd China men have been smuggling opium, spices and tea into San Francisco by throwing overboard water proof packages with chain and buoy attached just before landing from incoming steamships. Confederates ashore pick them up at night.

NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA GETTING RICHER – Supervisor Perry of North and South Carolina reports that the assesment lists in those States show an increase of nearly 22 per cent over the lists of last year.

G W Delawder has been elected chief burgess of Oakland Allegany county, Md.

The coal trade at Cumberland, Md, has been active this week.