The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-02

FROM RIO DE EJANE1AO.-AQviCe4 have been
ceived at Rio from Beuuos Ayrss and Moptevdeo to
the Sd and 7th of March respectively. There was
every probability that the questions existing be-
tween that empire and the Republic Of Paraguay
would be amicably settled by diplomacy, WITHOUT
resort to arms.
There had been a ministerial crisis in Uruguay,
arising out of some Offensive article published In
journal OF Montevideo at which the Brazilian gov.
erument took offence. The Prime Minister who
had declined to prosecute the publisher, was re-
placed by Mr., Chucarro, who had directed the
prosecution. The President. General Flores ad.
ded TO the general excitement and alarm, by pro.
posing to retire into private lite.
national bank was about to be established at
Montevideo with a capital of S5, ,000, 600 A Mr..
Menck, had also arrived there to propose to the
government terms for the establishment of another
bank, with S3,000,000 capital the plan of which
was formulated 10 Paris.
Tho birthday of the Empress was celebrated
with all due ectat on the 14th of March
THEASRIcAL.-Mrs. Estee Potter made her frst
appearance 10 California, at the Metropolitan The
etrs, 10 San Francisco the first of April In the
character of Margaret Elmore.
Mr.. Chanirau and Miss Albertine are at Albany,
New York.
Mrs. C. Howard Is In New Orleans, preparatory
TO filling engagements In Western cities.
U 8. EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THK NORTH
PAcIFIc.-At the last accounts the U. s. ship VIM
cennes was at Hong Kong, preparing for the ex
plora,ion of Bhering's Straits and the Northwest
American coast. Several of the officers attached
to this expedition have died during the winter, of
diseases contracted during the long stay of the yes.
sci at Hong Kong last summer. Captain Davis,
formerly Of the PorpOs, Lieut.. Hunter, OF the
HSncock, and DR.. Hamilton, of the Kennedy, have
all died the last winter.
GOVERNOR BURNT IN EFFIGY - On the 18th inst
the temperance men OF Berlin, Wisconsin, burned
Governor Barstow in effigy, and placed the ashes
While the funeral procession was moving through
the streets, groans, hisses, yels and cheers fre.
quentiy drowned the solemn toling of the village
tell. This was done because Governor Barstow
put his veto upon law to prohibit the sale OF spir-
itous liquors.
letter to the New York Herald, after bis arrest,
says
''Whatever parties may have nstigated these pro
ceedngs they cannot prevent the speedy establish
ment OF thrifty aud law abiding community on the
rich soil OF Nicaragua. They may subject me to
some temporary Inconvenience but aside from
this, am grat6ed that opportunity will thus
be afforded of vindicating before court and before
a jury OF my fellow countrymen both the character
of the present expedition and the general right of
American citizens la peace aud for peaceabIe pur.
poses, to leave American soil"
ScoRcHINa WYKoFF AND FANNY FgRN.-Mr.
Wykoff's account of his courtship and its conse.
auences, hes been e-published in London, and tho
author 10 mentioned, by one of the critics. a. /" a
New York journalist, who had piled a yenal pen
in behalf of England. at the bidding, and under the
pay OF the Foreign Office Ia London"
The London Weekly Chronicle, speaking of re-
printed American Literature, describes Fanny
Fern as a dreadful person, species of idiotic
Mrs Trollope, possessing all that lady's want of
refinement. but without an atom OF her w.t.
HEALrHY Place in Charleston, g. c., among
a white population of 80, 600 inhabitants, there
were but TWO deaths for the week ending Saturday
last.
Town COLLECTOR ABscoNpEp.-The Stamford
IN ~ Advocate says that Horace Scodeld, the
Collector of Taxes In that town, has absconded
With about O., 500 He 10 supposed to have gone
to Chicago, and the Cheers have gone after him
HKlrEN HosE The Chief Engineer Of the Fire
Department of Ndw York, has authorized one of
the companies to use hose made of hemp, which IL
represented to possess many advantages over eath.
or hose
SUR r6R SLAVE suit Of g. 0stlsrd of
st. Losis. W. 8 Booth. Of Miiwsukiss to recoyss
ei.0d0 the value Of slave which Booth !aidsd bv q
mob rescued from the Unted ates Mafehsl in Mi.
vsukis 10 now On trial in that city. Great difieuty
was sxps1isnssd In ssttDs jury.