... situation regards the common routes of navigation, gives it almost control over the commerce of the Golf of Mexieo and the Caribbean Sea. Such possession in As hands of a weak maritime power like Spain, has long been regarded by large party the United States ...

... Stafford. Islands. —An official notice from the Veoeanelan Consul announces that the guano islands of that republic in the Caribbean Sea are transferred an American association, called the Philadelphia Guano Company, and warns all vessels from going there ...

... cruisers still continne their depredations upon Federal shipping. whaler with all hands on board, had been sank In the Caribbean Sea by the privateer Retribution. The whaler had previously shown fight and killed one man on board the privateer. Diplomacy ...