PAPERS OF Mrn.AJ3EAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 369 spectability, and prosperity of the place, but also [the means of] clear- ing it, cultivating it, and improving it, fulfilling thus the design of nature which has destined this place to be an imposing highway for commerce, at the same time a delightful promenade for the inhabitants of Granada- This will be infinitely better than to have that maritime suburb, which extends from the beach to this City, full of miserable custom houses, and of houses of vice and of prostitution. The Honorable Municipality must not attribute to lack of delicacy on the part of the petitioner, if he insists upon a reply as soon as pos- sible; because the interest which he takes is born of the desire which he has for furnishing a home for his family with the least delay;- and preferring Granada as the place most convenient for their resi- dence, he would regret in the highest degree to see himself in the necessity of searching for a home in some other part of the Country- But whatever may be your decision, the petitioner will not in any case cease to be always the friend of Granada, and a just appreciator of the hospitalities of its inhabitants [MIRABEAU B. LAMAR 1 [Endorsed:] Spanish Translation of Genl. Lamars petition to the Municipality to purchase certain lands- Appril 1858
No. 2613. JOSE M. NOGUERA TO LAMAR
[Translation from the Spanish]
Office of the Municipal Secretary Grana., April 6, 1858.
Hon MIRABEAU B. LAJ\fAR
Minister of the U. S. resident in this Republic- The M.unicipal Corporation having been called in extraordinary ses- sion with the interesting object of informing themselves and resolving upon your exposition relative to soliciting the purchase of a plot of land contiguous to the margin of this lake, states, in conformity with a provision contained in its laws, that it will be referred to a Committee in order that it may render an opinion, after which it will advise what is proper. Remember me as your attentive and obedient servant J. MA NOGUERA [Rubric] [Endorsed:] Noguera, April 6, 58 to Genl M. B. Lamar No. 2617. CURIOSITIES. SOME COSTA RICANS [Translation from the Spanish. Printed] Among the many which distinguish the good faith, the honor etc. of the present petty officials of the unhappy Republic of Costa Rica we note the following. In number 48 (the 30th of last December) of the "newspaper'' "Star and Herald" of Panama an article by Senor D. F. Schlesinger appears in which the gentleman acknowledges the receipt of a let_ter which was addressed to him from this city, which he deposited in the offices of the "Star of Panama." By said article we were informed that one of the most Excellent or most insolent brothers of the President of the
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