The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1869.

no proceedings agamsz rat police-me:l wutu,
The Pall Mall Gazette and div ers correspondents cannot
see why. They urge that the case is eminently one
for further proceedings as affecting an important
questionthe growing antagonism between the police
and the *public. "People have no sympathy
with the ruffians who ill-treat the police,
and at the same time they have no sympathy
with the black sheep who disgrace the
force and ill-treat the public. All they want is
fair play." Moreover, . says the Pall Mall Gazette,
have not the better class of police-constables and
officers every reason to desire the purification of their
ranks ? The evening paper condemns Mr. Bruce's
refusal as unfair to all parties, and, moreover, as
quite unnecessary.

1=,;,..ry Gazette says that Lord Mayo's rule will in all
likelihood be famous for great railway achievements.

DISTRESS IN NORTH-EAST INDIA.

The north-west provinces of India recently suffered
grievously from want of rain; in the north-east provinces
great distress has been caused by too much water. The
fall of rain has surpassed anything within the memory of
" the oldest inhabitant." The rice crop has been almost
entirely swept away, and the price of the great article of
Indian food has become so high that the people are unable
to buy a sufficient quantity. and a subscript'on has bear
got up in their behalf.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, July 10,

Europe continues to attract our prominent citizens.
General Banks has sailed, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooke,
(junior), left in the I? u.svia, and, by the way, in the
same steamer, was Mr. D. D. Iloward, who has
never recovered from the farnou3 Washington
" National Hotel poisoning," he got in 1857. We
have had pleasant weather after a spell of heat, but
it has not prevented a number of sudden deaths of
peel] le in apparent health. Among them, in one
day, were John Griffin, residing at the corner of
First-avenue and Thirty-fourth-street ; Mary Fox,
Forty-ninth-street and First-avenue ; and Thomas
Christopher, 476 Seventh-avenue. Thomas Irwin
Cornell, a young man, only 18 years of age, shot him-
self accidentally when examining a revolver, and as
the ball passed through his brain, he survived but an
hour. Ile was the son of the iron-founder of Centre-
street, and the news will be a great shock to his
father, who is now in Europe. The accidents on
Monday were below the usual average of an Inde-
pendence Day iu New York City :--
Lillie Ferry, aged fowy years, was burned in a shock-
ing manner, by her clothing taking fire from fire-crackers
in front of her parents'; residence, No. 263, Third-avenue.
John Keenan, aged-14 years, was terribly burned by the
explosion of some powder, while in the yard of No. 67,
Oliver-street; taken to Bellevue Hospital. Jacob Jerger,
aged 60 years, residing at No. 160, Maiden-lane, fell from
a Grand-street ferryboat in the middle of the East River,
but was not drowned. Joseph Ackley, aged 12, residing
at No. 524, Third-avenue, was badly burned about the face
and hands by the explosion of powder. William Palen,
aged nine years, residing at No. 210, Mott-street, had his
right thigh badly burned by a bunch of fire-crackers
catching fire in his pocket. James Marks, aged nine years,
was badly burned about the head and face by the explo-
sion of some powder on the walk in front of his parents'
residence, No. 28, Lexington-avenue. William Hegner,
aged 23 years, of No. 428, Fifth-street, a c Inductor on a
Seventh-avenue railroad car, was in the evening hit in the
eye by some fireworks, while crossing the junction of
Greenwich and Sixth-avenues, and was seriously injured.
Michael MiLaughlin, of No. 4, Chestnut-street, wat badly
injured by a skyrocket striking him in the eye while in
the City Hall Park. Michael Herrmann, aged 15 years,
of No. 181, Mott-street, shot himself in the left hand at
the corner of Broome and Mott-streets. Joseph Keating,
aged 12 years, of No. 527, Fifth-street, was run over in
Tompkins-square by a velocipede, and had his ankle badly
cut. Wm. Flynn, a bootblack, was badly burned about
the face and hands by the explosion of some powder at
No. 174, Cherry-street. Barbara Mason, of No. 38, For-
syth-street, was shot in the site and seriously injured by
the wad (,f a pistol fired by Solomon Laz urns, who was
lock. d up in the Eldridge-street Police-station. Michael
Lee, aged 10 years, of No. 316, Mutt-street, fell through a
building at the corner of the Bowery and Bleecker-street,
and had his arm broken. The limb was set by Dr.
Armstrong. John Keenan had both his hands burned
by the accidental explosion of gunpowder; he was
admitted to Bellevue, Ignatz Brune, aged 13 years'
of No. 43, West Thirty-first-street w,,s drowned
while bathing in a pond at the Eighth-avenn and
and One-hundred-and-twenty-second-street ; the body
was recovered. Domingo Gatries, aged 10 years, of No.
414, East Fifteenth-street, was so badly burned by fire-
craokers that he died last evening. George Wilton, azed
35 years, fell front a second-storey window of No. 101,
Parclay-street, to the pavement, and was dangerously in-
jured ; taken to New York Hospital. Charles Burnett re-
ceived a serious cut on the head by some unknown person,
during a fight at the corner of Bayard and Forsyth-stteets ;
he was taken home to No. 41, Elizabeth-street. Bella
Edwards, Isidore Kane, and John Riker, of No. 557,
Second-avenue, were seriously burned by the explosion of
a can of powder. A span of horses attached to a carriage,
owned ty Dr. William 11. Thompson, of No. 111, West
Forty-third street, sad driven by John Sims, tcok fright,
at the corner of Forty-sixth-street and Broadway, at &nue
fireworks, and dashed into the crowd in the vicinity,
_knocking a number of people down and s-rionsly injuring
it Mrs. Cassidy. She was taken to her residence corner of
Fifty-seventlt-street and Sixth-avenge.

Even the British shipping in the harbour was gaily
dc led. It is estimated that 150,000 pers lli left the
city; crowding awayin every direction toescapL4ro:n
the scene of riot and noiAe. You may calculate at
what expen liture of life and li üb, property an 1
powder, we pr, serve the traditions of "The Day
e C lehrate." Here is a list of the fires :
The match factory of John Loehn, on the upper floor
of No. 427, West Fifty-fourth-street, wai damaged on the
morning of the sth to the amount of $5OO. Nut insured.
The apartment of William Bromermau, in the tenement
No. 137, Crosby-street, was slightly damaged. Cause
fire-crackers. The building on the corner of Manhattan-
street and Broadway was sligbly damaged on the roof.
Cause—fire-crackers. The fifth floor of No. 28, Ma-
dison-street, was damaged by a rocket having entered
the window. John Gunther's apartment on the se-
cond floor of No. 197, East Seventh-street, was da-
maged, a fire-cracker having been thrown through the
window. Insured by the Germania Company. The
shingle roof of the frame dwelling, No. 160, Elm-street,
owned by Mrs. Alltuack, was slightly damaged. The
awning in frcnt of No. 883, Sixth-avenue, was burned,
caused by fire crackers. The roof of the three-story tene-
ment, No. 28, Delancey-streot, owned by Mrs. llegeman.
was slightly damaged. The roof of No. 2112, Spring-street,
was slightly damaged. A window curtain caught fire at
No. 280, Broome-street. A slight fire occurred at No.
118, Chrystle-street. The roof of No. 343, Grand-street,
was slightly damaged. The roof of the residence of Patrick
McLoughlin, No. 165, Delancey-street, was slightly
damaged, having caught fire from fireworks. Wm. Doer's
large beer saloon, No. 69, Vandam-street, was slightly
damaged ; fully insured. The roof of No. 240, Vest
Thirteenth-street, caught fire from fireworks; slight
damage. The dwelling No. 117, East Twelfth-street,
was slightly damaged. A slight fire occurred on
the roof of No. 76, Norfolk-street, owned by Ann
Norris. The roof of No. 83, Perry-street, was slightly
damaged. L. Oppenheimer's cigar box manufactory, at
No. 185, Avenue D., was elightly damaged. A dwelling
at the corner of Thirty-sixth-street and Third-avenue
was damaged to the amount of $lOO. The roof of No. 79,
Vandam-street, was set on fire by a rocket. Loss slight.
The roof of No. 17, Third-avenue, was set on fire by fire-
works. Loss slight.

The examination of the fillibusters has been pro-
, ceeding this week, General Goicouria being brought
up before Mr. Commissioner Betts. The examina-
tion was continued over three days, in the presence
of an excited crowd, who earnestly desired to lynch
HenTy W. French, the informer, and on one occa-
sion assumed so threatening an aspect that the Mar-
gird considered it advisable to convey him through
a rear window into Reade-street, whereon the crowd
dispersed ; when he was wanted for examination
on Thursday he was not forthcoming, and Mar.:4llal
Davis did not know what had become of Lim, as he
had' been dismissed, and I suppose considered dis-
cretion the better part of valour and made himself
scarce. The Commissioner held that the evidence
had' failed to identify the accused with the Cathe-
rine Initing expedition, and discharged him ac-
cordingly. William H. Sanftsd, cashier of the Cen-
tral National Bank, has absconded with bonds
amounting to about $1.00,000, whizh had been
placed in his hands for safe keeping. Fortunately
the sum, according to the President, Mr. Wheelock,
is much less than the actual surplus, after paying
the semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. This is
another of those terrible cases arising out of specu-
lative transactions. He had formerly been in the
dry-goods firm of Clarke, Pardee, and Bates, and
had borne an excellent character ; frugal, industri-
ous, and even a religious member of the Congrega-
tionalist Church. So great was the confidence
a Mr. Wheelock in him that he made him exe-
cutor of his will. He was supposed to have a
modest competence. lie was born in Cincinnati
abcut 48 years ago, married, and h is three child-
ren. For three years lie
was cashier, to which
pest he rapidly rose after entering the bank. Su
highly did the firm of Clarke, Pardee) and Bates
think of him that they became his sureties in the
sum of $25,000. Ostensibly he left to visit his wife
and children at Westport ; but next day his brother,
who is a messenger of the bank, received a letter
from his brother's wife, which showed that he had not
gone to Westport. Suspicion being aroused his desk
was searched, in which his accounts and memoranda
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taken many times that amount. In the box was a
letter addressed to Mr. Wheelock, stating that the
money had been lost in gold and stock speculations,
coneuling thus, " Pray forgive me ; I have taken
nothing with me ; God bless my poor family, they
are destitute." We have had another theatrical
fracas. Mr. Dominick Murray is said to have
thrown up a London engagement to look after his
wife, who was an actress in the Grand Opera House,
under her maiden name of Miss Josephine Fiddes.
Mr. Murray, considering the lady slighted by
Manager Tayleure's dismissal, and a severe critique
in the Herald, accepted an engagement in New
York on purpose to set this little matter right. It
appears that he had written a letter, which Clifton
W. Tayleure considered impertinent, and conse-
quently on meeting him in New York, Mr. Fisk's
manager demanded a written retractation of the
insult. This was in the vestibule of Niblo's Garden,
when Mr. Murray met what Mr. Tayleure calls his
modest demand with the menace of a loaded
cane, on which he says two blows passel, an 1 the
chastisement appearing complete, he quietly left the
scene. I know no snore of the facts of the case, as the
accounts are contradictory than by Mr. Tayleure's
own statement, wh;ch is moderate, and bears every
evidence of probability. Mr. Douglass has postponed
the departure of the Sappho for Europe till her
ridging can be replaced with heavier material and
other improvements made. She went round Long
Island for London, beating the yacht Meteor and
displaying very satisfactory sailing qualities, which
also is soon to proceed to Europe. The So-
ciety of the Army of the Potomac met on the 7th
to complete the election of officers, and much busi-
ness was transacted. Among others, a motion was
m tde that Generals M'Clellan, Burnside, Meade,
and Hooker be appointed Honorary President
which caused consi lerable discussion, but was even
tually decided by the President to be contrary to
the rules. A vote of sympathy to the widows and
orphans of the soldiers of the Army of the Poto-
mac was unanimously passe 1, and the Society ad-
journed. Major-General Meade left on Wednes-
day for Philadelphia. On Thursday Sheridan left
f*3r Long Branch. Ex-Governor Gibbs, of Oregon,
is at Brooklyn, the guest of Mr. Frederick Kind-
berg. The emigrants for the week were nearly
6,000, and the carriers do not anticipate any falling
off till•after August; the great mass is German.

WASHINGTON', July 9.

The case of General Butterfield has been decided
by granting him an indefiuite leave of absence. If
such a system is to hold, the President may at any
time appoint naval or military officers to civil posts,
and by granting unlimited leave, avoid the neces-
sity of their quitting the army ; but a bill is threat-
ened to be introduced when Congress meets, which
will force army or navy officers, accepting civil
appointments, to resign their commissions. General
Sherman has returned from St. Louis ; General
Porter, the President's Private Secretary, is absent
in New York, so is General B idcock. President
Lemur has returned from Philadelphia, but his
hopes for Cuba are not S 3 strong. Seuato. s
Cameron and Cole and John Covo le have had
interviews with the President regarding the aid
to be tendered by the Administration in the election
of Governor Geary in October. All the clerks here
from that State will be sent there to vote to order.
As usual rumours were circulate], one was th tt
Senator Cameron had urged on the President the
appointment of his son-in-law, lll'Veigh, to the
Cabinet, but this they deny, although ad-
mitting that all the Pennsylvanian politicians ex-
pressed the opinion that the appointment of a Sec-
retary from their State would aid the Republican
party in the approaching c invas. Tue British Mi-
nister, Mr. Thornton, has hurried back fro n Mas-
i sachusetts to meet the Hou. John Rose, the Cana-
diau Mipister of Fin nice, sent here by the Demi-
' nion to negociate a new reciprocity treaty, but also
on a subject which engages much attention con-
nected with the Hulson Bay claims. It was advis-
able for the British Minister to be on the spot
while subjects so important were being discussed.
Secretary Fish was to meet the lion. John Rise in
reference to the reciprocity treaty to-day. S.!cre-
t try Boutwell has been accused of allumin.; his
iurentioa to purchase more Bon Is to le tk out and
enable certain barkers of IVall-street t 3 pro!it by
the knowledge. The accasatiou is until eri as
the Secretary, to be on the safe sin,, allewe I
ne one to know what his intentions were till
he ha 1 111-1,1t3 theta p tblie himself, so that those
who had anticipated his course did so by the
exercise of their own judg-nent, and taking their
ri,k. The President intends to spend some tine
at Long Branch, and his wife and family will
proceed there in a few days. It is not,
ever, anticipated that he will remain there more
than a fortnight at a time, constantly returning dur-
ing the summer. When at Baltimore a collector
there complained that he was worried to death by
office-seekers. The General rather laughe I at this,
and told him he should do as he did, not allow
those fellows to bother him, and he would soon regain
his health. John Cochrane has declined condi-
tionally the post offered him of Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Sixth District of New York, being
unwilling to become responsible for the daily money
receipts after the closing of the Sub-Treasury, but
Mr. Bout well has removed this difficulty by naming a
National Bank near the Collector's Oiriee, wherein
the money could be deposited before the Collector
closed his office. Charles 11. Langston, of Kansas,
is a coloured candidate for the mission to Liberia.
His brother, John M. Langston, has been pushing
his claims for the post, which the President says
he will grant if any change be hereafter made
in the mission. Judge Lewis Dent, residing here,
although a citizen of Mississippi, has been offered
the Republican nomination for Governor of that
State, and he will soon take the stump in his own
interest. He settled in Mississippi when the war
closed, having married a lady of Mississippi, and
having his property there invested he is regarded
as a permanent resident. The plan is to make a
good selection on the ticket for Lieutenant-Gover-
nor, and in case of success to send Dent here to the
Senate. Much attention has been directed towards
Virginia. Walker, who was victorious, was a Demo-
crat when the war commence], but then became a
Republican, and the president of a national bank at
Norfolk. Ile is a native of Binghampton, New
York, but he had been long settled in the West
before he entered business at Norfolk. He was
always a Union man, though with Democratic pro-
clivities. Although they call it a Republican vic-
tory, it is the victory of the Conservative ele-
, went, and the question will be whether Gov. Walker
will allow those to rule to whom he owes his elec.
t.
on. The following was the full ticket as returned :
Governor, Gilbert C. Walker ; Lieut.-Governor,
John F. Lewis; Attorney-General, Jas. C. Taylor.
Congressmen-Ist District, D. M. Norton (Inde-
pendent Rep.), coloured ; 2d District, James 11.
Platt, jun. (Wells) ; 31 District, Chas. 11. Porter
(IVells); 4th District, Levy C. Thayer (Walker) ;
sth District, Robert Ridgway (Walker) ; 6th Dis-
trict, Milne (Walker) ; 7th District, Lewis Mac-
kenzie (Walker) ; Bth District, James K. Gibson
(Walker) ; at large, Joseph E. Segar (Walker).
The Walker party is pledged to the adoption of the
XVth Amendment, and so thoroughly professes to
uphold R.publicauism as to have congratulated the
President on the great Republican victory. Several
counties were carried by Walker through negro votes.
The majorities were unusually large, all going one
way in particular localities, and, what is really
worthy of note, the greatest good feeling and order
prevailing at the polls; yet there was some turbu-
lence during the canvass at Richmon 1, and a bridge
over the James liver broke under the crowds that
gathered on it on the 21 inst., when two men were
killed and seven hurt, and it is actually as-
serted that the bridge was purposely injured
by the opposite party. Ilow the victors regarded
their triumph may be gathered from this letter to
General Grant :—" Mr. President,—On behalf of
the State Committee of the Walker party, I con-
gratulate you upon the triumph of your policy iu
Virginia. The gratitude of the people for your
liberality is greatly enlivened by the overwhelm.
ing majority by which that policy prevails.—R. F.
Daniels, Chairman." At Laurel an accident oc-
curred which proved Fred. Grant to be a worthy
chip of the old block. The President's son, who is

under 20 years of age, and now on leave of ab-
sence from West Point, was with his cousins, the
Dents,and the sons of Dr. Sharpe,who were bathing in
the Patuxtent River, when one of the latter, a boy
of 11, suddenly cried out that he was drowning,
and his father, who was present, began to throw
off his clothes to save the lad, but Fred. Grant
waiting for no such disrobing, sprang in. as he
was, and caught young Dent Sharp by the hair as be
was going down for the last time, and brought him
safely to shore. The appointments of coloured
persons continues to be made, ; three policemen
being selected from respectable negro citizens, to
the intense disgust of many white people, although
they were taken from those who had served in the
Union Army. A coloured boy has been placed on
the same footing as the white app. e atices in the
bureau of steam engineering at th Navy Yard.
He bad ingeniously constrncted a model of a steam
engineovhiell attracted atten.ion. There are, ho ,v-
-ever, instances in which these appointments cause
great inconvenience, for example, as in Macon,
Georgia, where every white clerk left when the
negro Turner took possession of his office. To
show what a coloured man so placed has to endure,
I may add that Turner was arrested on the evidence
of two women, taken up for having in their po3-
session a large sum stolen from the Treasury De-
partment here. They accused Turner, knowing that
it would begenerallyacceptable; but as there wasnot
a particle of evidence he was discharged. I may here
observe that if negroes are often lynched after being
confined on a charge of crime, the Governor'. of
Georgia is striving to make it up to them ; he has
commuted the death sentence of two murderers to
one year's imprisonment, and the countrymen of
the two German gardeners whom they were convicted
of having murdered are indignant at this leniency.
But while African interests are thus upheld, it is
only in the face of a strenuous opposition ; the
Journeymen Housecarpenters' Association have in-
serted the word " white" in their constitution, so
as to exclude coloured carpenters from member-
ship, and the Bookbinders' Association met to dic-
tate to Mr. Clapp, the Government printer,
how many additional apprentices he should be
allowed, and, I believe, of what colour they were
to be. The ironclad Centaur has been dispatched
to Santiago de Cuba to investigate the circum-
stances attending the execution of Speakman, and
she will be followed by several others. The Sintino!e
will be ready to-morrow, the Dictator next week,
and within a fortnight 20 vessels will be available.
Speekman was shot, notwithstanding the protest
of our Consul, backed by the British, as he had
been taken in arms, and was regarded as a fillibus-
ter, which he denied, having, he sii i, shippe 1
without any intention of going to Cuba, where he
was landed against his own wish and voluntarily
surrendered himself. It is denied th it Admiral Hoff
will be relieved, unless he desires it, as the Navy
Department has no fault to find with him. The
Executive Departments made the fullolN ing expena-
tures during the month of June :—Civil and miscel-
laneous an 1 foreign iut, rcourse, $3,829,288 ; War,
$5,253,298 54 ; Navy, $2,685,096 21 ; Interior
(Pensions and In iiabs), $2,082,416 04. Total,
$13,850,198 82. Special Agent Kinsella has re-
turned from Nev Orleans, where he found the
reports of fraud had not been exaggerate]. lie bad
discovered, and is now writing an account of, the
frauds in the Custom House, which, it is said, will
implicate men of high standing in the Cres.;ent
City. We have had enough of those reports, and
of the doings of Perry Fuller, what is required
now being active prosecution and punishment.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.

Sin,—As the numerous Californians scattered
through Europe, who, I trust, are all patr)ns of
your valuable paper, may wish to know how travel
is being improved here, let me tell you what we
did the other day. Embarking from Vallejo-street
Wharf, in the steamboat New IVorld, at 7 a.m., we
passed Alcatrey and Angel Islands, the two brothers
and the twin sisters, and soon lauded at Vallejo,
where we took the railway for Napa and Calistoga,
which we reached at 10 a.m. After a dip iu the
new swimming bath, and a di Lik of the famous
mineral waters, reminJiug one of Wiesbaden, Ba-
deu-Ba ien, and homburg, we enjoyed a fine
breakfast, and soon left for &cram. nto City, which
we rcach.d about 4 p.m. Think of that, you who
used to consider it a good day's work to reach Ca-
listoga in one day, after a dusty ride throu,;liNapa
Valley. 'lle object of our excursion was to escort
departing fiends, bound overland, as far as Sa-
cramento, and to enjoy a ride in the Pullman
Palace, dining, and sleeting cars. At 4.30 p.m.
we were seated in the dining car, partaking of
a sumptuous meal, while the train moved at a
high rate of speed without disturbing our equani-
mity or breaking even the most delicate glass. We
returned to Vallejo by 9 and San Francisco soon
after 10 p.m., having ridden about 300 miles since
9 a.m. What a change since 1849, when we used
to occupy a week, and smnetitnes two, in reaching
Sacramento from San Francisco ! I'he Western
Pacific Railroad Company are building their road
to Oakland rapidly, but as the distance is 121 miles
from Sacramento City, via Stockton aid Oakland
to San Francisco, and only 83 miles via Vallejo,l,the
latter will be found the most expeditious. A grain
elevator, the first in the country, has recently been
built at Vallejo, where there is abundance of water
for the largest ships to receive or discharge cargo
with much less expense than at San Francisco. The
Navy Yard on Mare Island, opposite Vallejo, is one
of the best in the United States. The adjacent
valleys of Napa Sinome and Sant,Rafael are veritable
gardens of Eden, and a day's ride to the famous
Geysers, where steam spouts out of the earth to
a great height, and where icy cold and boiling
hot water are found side by side, leading one
to think of the infernal regions. When rails
are extended to St. John's, Newfoundland, leav-
ing 1,700 miles of water between Europe and
America, with fast steamers, we expect to cross
the ocean in four or five days, and on rails weighing
1001bs. to the yard, behind locomotives like the
America which took the first prize at the Paris Ex-
hibition, now running on the Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad, we hope to cross the Continent in
eight days, and so facilitate travel that we shall be-
come well acquainted. Considerable attention has
recently been called to a party of Japanese emi-
grants who bare settled in the Grayson Ranch, in
El Dorado County. About a year since some Ja-
panese who, having travelled, bad become liberal in
their ideas, were compelled to flee from Japan,
came to California, and by advice of Mr. Van Reed,
father of the United States Consul at Jeddo, they
leased a farm in Alamada County, and employed a
few intelligent men to instruct them in farming.
The result has been that they have benefited them-
selves,
and been the means of the Schnell colony
coming over, who design to introduce into their
woods the Japanese oak leaf silk worm, which
makes excellent silk, and large symmetrical cocoons.
The moth is of bright yellow, with large wings.
This worm is not domesticated and fed by hands.
It is allowed its own :way among the trees of
the forest, and families camp out during the season
of production. Though the oak leaf is its choice, it
is not dainty. It eats the leaf of most deciduous
trees, all being grist that comes to its mill. I
have seen the silk of this worm, it is fine and elas-
tic. Its natural colour is a pleasant grey, and the
silk is most retentive of its colour. The first day the
colony laid out a fish pond. To n
good
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water they formed a cheap, kethe
cementlak ofe hold
shell
lime, sand, and ashes. Rice. will be one of the
A French gentleman writes
grains cultivated.
thus :—" Unlike other Eastern peoples there is
something about the Japanese that is very c
genial. The men are dignified, well educated, and
Polite, brave, and full of ingenuity. The women
have refined. delicacy, very pretty forms and fea-
tures, and a very winning address ; not only is it
their personal charms that would be admired, but
they would in the eye of matrimony be endorsed
by the absence of the expensive habits that in our
own belles interpose so terrible an obstacle to
marriage."