New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-27
Things In Japan.

The soil is SO fertile that it is capable Of main
tanning more dense population than any other
space of the same size on the face Of the globe.
The skill and industry of the people in agricul-
ture is so great that they are said to surpass
any other people, and from what we have seen
in walking over the country for miles around
this bay, the half has not been told.
Of the mechanical arts he says:
6 Their skill in working the precious metals
and iron and copper is quite equal to that of
vanishing and identifying of wood. We see
daily and in common use, satins and silks, and
grapes and yelvets, as good and as handsome as
can be made any where. The fabric is peculiar.
and seems to be more durable than In our world.
The patterns and eolors as varied and tasteful
as the most exquisite fancy could desire. Who
can venture to say what this country wants ?
VINE could make up cargo and bring 1t here,
and have any sort of assurance that he had one
single article that the people really required,
or that they would be anxious to purchase !?
Some would fix on &c Yankee Notions" but they
would find that the Japanese did not fancy no
tions. Some would select cotton goods. These
they could sell cheaper than the japanese can
make them; but they must make the cloth as
good and handsome as the Japanese domestic
and besides, it must have on it
the hundreds and thousands of badges and
coats of arms of the serfs and slaves worn con-
stantly by them to designate their grade, and
to whom they belong There is, perhaps, not
an individual in the Empire who does not wear
on his dress badge of distinction, woven or
dyed in the cloth.
The writer says they look with curiosity upon
the Railroad, Telegraph and agricultural in
struments They admire also our steamships.
They look with awe and dread at our large
cannon. These they appreciate fully, and they
would like to possess them, for they are more
bold, and warlike, and Independent than tany
Eastern nation, and in this point they feel
deeply their inferiority to u.s. These they will
initiate as well as they can, and our visit will
make them stronger, though they may be more
weak in the end.
WASHINGTON Goss1p.-The New York Tri-
bunes correspondent gives the following:
The Homestead bill will either be defeated OF
to next session of Congress.
The Post-ofice Committee have a call of the
House and will move to take up the Railroad
bills. This slrewd movement may carry the
road measures.
A New York Nebraska Democratic member
says the North had better not take issue against
popular sovereignty, but go at once for the re-
peal of the Fugitive Slave law, This is pretty
rich for the Nebraskaites.
Colonel Colts book keeper and Mr. Wright
testified before the Colt Committee to-day.
Horace HI. Day and others from New York,
have been ssbpenod and are here.
#.s Correspondence Of the Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, July IS.
This being the most salubrious of all the
cities on the continent, Congress is tempted to
remain here during the summer. They might
find travel, in any direction, very hazardous
Here they are safe, and well employed. In
view Of the fact that the necessities Of the Gov
and of those who are brought here by
with it, require that the city should
be supplied copiously with water, the Senate
will again appropriate half a million dollars to
continue thesPotomac acqueduct. The House,
being already &c in a melting mood" will relent
and aequiesce r@~ ..a m
If the history of Congress consists. as was
asserted, in members jumping up and
speaking all the time on every trivial subject,
The Cabinet history might be recorded as a
meeting and talking nearly every day, whether
upon important matters or not. Some wonder
Jul results are expected from the recently fire.
luent and long continued consultations Of the
Cabinet. Whether new scheme for the acqui-
sition of CUBA project for dispossessing
Great Britain of the whole of Oregon up to the
Russian line--or batch of vetoes for the main
ienance of the doctrines Of '96, are on foot, we
shall soon see. Perhaps, however, the mystery
will be solved by final decision on some small
question of local patronage.
The opinion gains ground that the President
will veto the River and Harbor bill, whether it
% confined to the estimates, and to works be-
run, or not. He is not committed in favor even
If works that have been estimated for.
The Senate declined going into Executive ses
zion this morning, and took up the Texas bill,
which promises to be a fruitful subject Of de-
bate. The bill allows eight and half millions
IMPORTS on certain conditions. The creditors
ire quite willing to except the bill, though it
will not pay their claims in full.
Congress is determined to be liberal to Cali
ornia The House voted to-day nearly mil
ion of dollars for suppressing Indian hostilities
n that State, and the Senate amendments to
he general appropriation bill contain over half
million more for the promotion of California
interests. Yours, etc Ion.
The NINE RIFLE.-A Paris correspondent Of
Mimic and lis rifles:
81 spent yesterday at Vincennes, with Com
nandant Major MIME, the celebrated inven-
or of the MIME rifle and, after much agreea-
lie and instructive conversation, was shown
INTO his little workshop, where he personally
abricates the different arms which he invents
md improves upon. He is eminently prac-
ical man, though of high order of inventive
senius. The American ordnance department, /
Inn informed, are now making experiments with
lis carbine, which was placed in their posses.
lion, if | am correctly informed, some years
Ego, and which is acknowledged to be the best
lrm for infantry yet used in the field. Since
hat pattern, however, was sent over, Major
Minie has made great improvements in the arm,
ind hope to see the improved weapon intro
luced, and, indeed, to be instrumental in its
Introduction into the army and volunteer regi-
nents of the United States. With Colts pistol,
he improved Mimic rife, the gun Napoleon,
md the American Columbian we can, in three
months, arm and bring into the field an effective
army Of million of men, already half soldiers
n their knowledge of firearms. for offence or
lefenee, and the ak and spade for roads and
civilizations; and this can always be done as
ong as West Point and our little army are kept
Up and cherished as the depositors of military
Information for the nation, while our more for
innate fellow-citizens are pursuing the more
attractive and remunerative pursuits of peace
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DISTRESSING SUICIDE Parkersburg (Va.)
News says Mrs James, wife of Lemuel James,
vas found dead, on Friday morning, by her
ather, Immediately outside the door of her
louse, short distance below the mouth of Bull
lraak nd doan no al, 90 Al