The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-18

:. SATURDAY. DECEN
ineonvenieut to some Of the passsoesrs on boar
r:e Mno are English subjects, ono OF them indsed
nslusn Innctionary proceeding with family 20 on
y. ner MsJssty's possessions on ths Pacific coast
and unaees 10 cases Of actual warfare, such prohI
O.lon % intercourse appears quite nnusual. Non
suca rev exists on board her MaJerty's packets
WIN respect to forsign men ofwar, either In thi
nave to thank you. sir, for imparting 10 M
the grasffyfeg nature Of your instructions respect
ing fhe nilibustefs or others Illegally attackin,
nntons with whom our respective government &
aa @ psaeeIui relation; such an honorable cours,
was 20 be expected from the weil.known disposi
tIfn ana declaration Of tho Uaited States govern
nsns; aud it ID highly satisfactory to me to ac
quaint yen that nay Instructions are to similar
purport, and are actnated by the aauls spirit
In order to convince you of the perfect frank,
ness and cordially with which am desirous tc
act tosards you, will If you will allow me to
trespass still further on your tme lay before you
o. oGce, and without waiting till you communioate
70 me formally the reports on the sutjsct which,
statement Ct the circumstances under which di.
rected Capt. Wainwright, of her Msjesty,s ship
leopard" to procte to the Colorado river.
Having received . notification from the autho.
rites Of the Nicaraguan aud Costa Rican govern.
ments that hostile force had landed or were
about to land, in the river Colorado, with re-
quest that would aid In preventing IL, imme-
diately despatceedS Captain Wainwright iu the
Leopard TO ascertain if such was the case
Captain Wainwright lef: this port late In the af.
ternoon Of the 18th instant, and, It being dark,
mistook the entrance Of the river aud anchored
TWO or three miles to the southwark of it, At
daylight he weighed and anchored eff the river
ana In bis own boat, accompanied by tw others,
either side 60 il there were any of land.
Tag having taken place. In proceeding up the
river he observed the sCatharine Maria" at an.
chor, and as he neared her perceived some per-
sons on board with whom he was acquainted. He
Immediately went alongside in his own boat only
and going on board requested to be informed ii
they had heard or had seen anything resembling
marauders or fiibustsrs in the neighborhood:
ana AM being answered in the negative Captain
Wainwright left the "Catharine Maria" aud re.
turned to his own ship, weighed and was At an
chor again in this port by n 1on of the 10th.
trust. sir, that this frank explanation Of the
circumstances to which Your letter alludeB will
sonvlnce you that have acted in no spirit of ia.
reference with American merchant vessels, and
have not arrOgated to myself any right which is
not conceded by universal custom to the command.
ing officer of the naval forces In port belonging
to. or placed under the protection of, his own ma
ton.
have the honor to be, cir, with great respect
your most obeGient servant,
W. CORVALLIS ALDHAM, Captain
Flag officer JAMES McINTosH,
Cemm'r.in~chief Home Squadron U. 8. ships
Mcintosh, replying, say5 that "the injuries
which wero propounded by the boarding officer
from your ship locked at once to thoroug gh exam.
inssion aud investigation OF the ship, and to the
manner In which the United States officers had
Per formed their duties. This cousider ss exceed.
Jog what would be characterized as f. iendly
visit, to which called your attention. and W which
am constrained still ~ consider as unnecessary
on the part OF the officers under your command"
captain Jarvis, OF ship Savannah, Informs Com
haf "
very busy in diplomacy, bus we have not been able
to ascertain what about. He appears to be in con
slant communication with Mr.. Green, the British
Consul, MIR. Bannel. the reported Consul for Nica-
seven guns." Other points in the documents have
heretofore been substantially published.
HARD TIMES AT THE WEsr.-The late commercial
revuIsion laid its hand heavily upon many Of the
cities and towns of the west, where the credit
system was expanded to an enormous exteut. and
now nothing is heard frcm them but a terribly
earnest cry of "hard times" The city Of Chicago,
which has been the great headquarters of speculs
tion ut the west, and where store lots two years
ago we're worth almost untold gold feels the reac-
tion with great severity. Business is emphatica
~ down to the 'shari pan" What trade there
exists is limited to the actual necessities of com.
merce, and the Improvements" which dependsd
OF flush times are greatly retarded. The price of
labor, building materials and produce OF ali kinds
has fallen one hundred per cent. in a year and
half. Real estate is sept up by making no sales
except forced ones. Mortgages are not forec.osed
by land sgents, for the reason that it would prove
loss to the holder, as not eDonsh has been paid
by the purchaser &C make up the dfere &c of de.
probation in value since the purcha.e was made.
TO the present time. Hence 1t is for the interest
of the creditor to obtain another payment on the
land. The number CT uncccupied stores and
houses, already counted by hundreds, is increasing
daily.
At st. Paul, Minnesota rents have declined from,
twenty-five to fifty per cent, while real estate
has, on an average, lost one-third of last years
valuation. Outside the city the decrease has been
greater. Wages have partakea OF the do~nward
tendency, and lsborers who las. year obtained
81 30 per day, are this year forced to be content
with 80 ceuts. From Iowa, too. there is general
cry of bard times. We hear Of young men who
have gone from this section to the west during
the last six months, TO seek employment, who
came back with very different notions OF the re-
sources of the west from what they had when
they started, and purses sadly depleted.
These evidences OF pecuniary suffering at the
west are by no means pleasant to record. Not
only are many of the sufferers old friends and
neia hbors, but their misfortunes react upon u.s.
We trcst, however, that the rampant epirit of
speculation which has been 80 rife in that section
of the country Of late years has received a check
which will lead the people to adopt a more caus
tious policy, and confiue themselves more closely
to legitimate operations Boston Journal.
FIRST THING IN IlrERA-uRE-The first literary
journal ever published was issued at Paris on the
30th of May, 1885, by Dennis de SaIlo ecclesiastical
counsellor to the Farisian Parlament-Its title is
Journal dss Savans. This work met with favora-
BILE reception and was coon initiated throughout
Europe. Its author had the qualification of seeing
it translated into several languagee
Lord Surveys translation Of the 4th 1Enoid was
the first specimen of English blank verse; Turoer-
vlles translation from Ovid the second, and Kit
Marlows Lucan the third.
The first almanac in England was printed in Ok.
ford 10 1873. "Tbere were." says Wood, =" nearly
thirty thousand of them printed besides sheet ai.
manac for twopence, that was printed for that
year. aud because of the novelty Of the said altman.
&C and its titIe they were all vended Its sale was
great that the Society of Book selers in Lon
bought of che copy for the future. In order to en-
gross the profits in their own hands,
The first daily paper in Paris appeared only a
few days prior to the Revolution, End was called
the Journal de Paris.
The fret journal published in France was the
brain.child ofa physician named Theophraste Re-
naudot, and appeared On the Goth of May, 1851,
under the title OF the Gazette. The farsighsed
Richelieu, the man before bis age who was az ne.
cessary to the France of ahat day as Louis Bona.
parte is to the present. greeted its appearance
with pleasure, for he knew that it would act as bis
unhaundtd psrt,san.
The earliest magazine issued in America was en-.
titled "Ths General Magazine and Monthly Chron-
icle for the British Plantations in America II
was published in Philadelphiab by benjamin. Frank.
lin. The first number appeared in January, 174l
few successive numbers Of the work are owned
by the Philadelphia Library Company.
The firss English literary pr oducton peuned In
America. which has any rank Ia the general his
tory of literature, Ia the translation of vds Met
amorphoass. by George sandeys, printed in Lon
don, in 1925
The frat collection ever made of American poe-
try was In 17o3. 1t was edited by Elihu L. Smith,
of Coensetieue,
Tho frs. American edition of sterhold 4; Hop
ains's version. was published at Cambridge, 1868
DR.. Watts Hymns were first published in Engr
land, in l707, and his psalns in 17la. He sent
specimens Of them to Cotton Mathew. These
hymns we're irst published in America BY Dr.
Franklin in 174l, and the psaims were Published
the same year In Bcston. They did not come into
general use till after the Revolution.
James Otis was the first writer Of the American
Revelation.
The Rev. John Calender was the fret historian
of Rhode Island.
The first Greek type Hsed in the United States
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