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WAR WAsTE.-A letter from Vera Cruz, under
date Of 2sth May, published in the New Orleans
Delta, thus describes the waste of public money and
properly exhibited in that quarter:


Since the surrender Of Vera Cruz there have been


ss~d st this place. Sacreios Lobo and Anton Liar
do, vessels varying in number from fifty eighty the Go
vernment employa chartered by the day. prices vary
from forty hundred dollars per day Some of them
have been here three months with ores original
which months demurrage would pay for You will
anchored within pistoho of each other five and six vessels
with coal for the army the quantity contained in the whoh
not being sufficient to 6 the hold of any Of them.


The demuage of of these vessels is less than sixty
dollars per day. Is the duty of those who have charge
of such matters here attend these things Could
the coal in the five vessels be transferred the one and LET
the four be discharged This, Messrs. Editors is not an
oyerdrawn picture 1t would take time than can spare
at this particular moment give faint idea of the immense
waste and might add bareaced pundering Govern
ment property carried here The Of the coal
ses given above but the history of all vessels
poyed by Government The captains report their arrival
and ordered wait orders the owners getting i'm
per diem for their vessels they satisfied remain
for and take good not to remind the
Of their existence, having reported The surf-boas
which cost at least six hundred dollars apiece scattered
along the beach for miles in Sixty surboas
bged and strewed along the beach in every direction
One days attention of the quarermaste his assistant and
Of the hundred vessels the pay Of the Uni
ted States, would havesaved every of them"