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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Cotton crop. (search)
press the belief that the relations between this country and Japan were not altogether so promising as they appeared to be on the surface; and that the Japanese, a people remarkable for shrewdness, attention to their own interests, and the imitative faculty, had sent their embassy here more to obtain information, which might enable them to resist the intercourse of foreigners, than for any other purpose. It seems they design to send an embassy to England, next summer, and have applied to Mr.Harristo know if American officers can be obtained to navigate a steamer there and back. Probably, they are desirous to learn all they can about the Armstrong gun, of which they have already a specimen, made at home, from a description found in some newspaper. When they shall have completed their armament to their own satisfaction, it would not be matter of surprise if they at once shut their ports, and expelled all foreigners. They seem to know no difference between the subjects of different na