The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-09

posted up gives ssatsce later thar 1884 ana az
find II very dinsu TO CT hold Of hsse things from the
meIohan sba be unable to give my roe camille t-iends
what had int nde6.
NJ. Lsisburg showed every attention aud when
which Rajah had given Ee also gong 10
Tend me assortment OF that ugly looking weapon
peculiar 10 these Islands the kris il 10 korrid Looking
instrument in the sword ssh-e lac. and mike
nigh full wound when poisoned from the ugas what
irr is csadly bought at the tow pair Q. sn,sss
from native buck, and also fortuHate get
ecmple'e mooe, beautifully made by Malay, ds Jsps
lsge also mC0eis OF all their strange
mpler ents, Their kitchen utensls weapons and
sical pieces These beautifully executed and give
meet admirable idss Of the prir,ve habits sDi euss
of these poo- natives who have had to ei, heads
the rule Of conquest mihts-y power and yet
although there eleven millions Java alone tss.e
but eight thousand European sid twelve hous md
native troops to subject and keep down the svA-nng
population Of he Dutch Fast India Conyany-I relieve
about twenty five millions il all made up q AsiAt.s,
Africans and islanders Some Of the dependencies
gulst.d and managed by the native Princes asjahs
but sl must c-iDgs ana bow TO his most potent grave
ana reverend exssency NJ. Won TWIST, the Governor
With pa whose rooms and massive structure thrt~
entirely ato the shade the dimensions c the capitol At
Warrington Ia his adminiAtration he s assisted ~
Vice President and three Coun seo-s Finance Mnster
Director OF the Interior Secretary OF Foreign Affairs
~ vested in Rear Admiral BeuIcius and the head Of
the army in Lieut. General Stsrns. The Dutch have
la fleet Of men ofwsr among their coor.s, slthougt
Their army comparatively small Iwn Try and get its
| stIepg b and add II q POSTSCRIPT,
The Ct the islands may DO rtated at $3l 00C
leans viii reduce $50 COO 0Oo-thus esvinr the
handsome Of $l4 006 0CO for mother country
inc these va,srs ;us. ate Columbus had ssund n.
Western world little Dreamed Of such results and sailed
away in search of other lands But the more persever
ing Duchmen Of 1895 got y f0othcld in SSaksperes
the, just before Queen Eizabeth's enrerI rzna
merchants sent their four ships to British India. About
four months after the pilgrims landed 1T Plymouth, Ba
tavia received its name and then followed the subiuga
ttn and brutal conquest ancient and industrious
People whose only crime the possessing Of rich and
extentve lands Prince after prince down his kris
the repelious Chnamsn Of 1740 lost al their spirit
Dutch writer, AIRY Huyers- more fightful than the
outrsges Of the American Indian frontier, the
Bartholomew. For long time the settlers fought hard
against the fatality OF the climate and the r0ops died
like rats. Twelve months ia the island and halt the re-
ements would ertize the city of the desd Ever in 1872
apathetic the merchants hen the bell tollsd
funeral Aps the one would say to the other (as has
it must been painful 20 hear them add, '1Wen he
owed ns.hing." From the first the greatest enemy
O. the European settler the chmAte and even
nov the cheeks OF the men as we'll as the women are 81
white the color OF their houses telling the observer
plainly the nsinustipg nroads upon the constitution
and the little children pale ard thn-as fra the
railest flower that beomed-must wisher in
YOUTH and like hot house paanS will live in beautya
little while and their their freshness has gone for
Ano,g the twelve thousand Eu-opeans,ln the islands,
ten thousand probably natives of Holland the rest
believe there two American merchants in Java
Mr. Reed and his brother OF the highly respec
table mercantile house Of Paine. str,cker T. Co..
established than quarter Of century
ago, who, in addition to a large foreign trade
he fortunate possesscrs Of me lions shsre of the
American trade WIZ. Darling, long connected with
The irn who bous int the Boston steamship Rajsb
Walsh and after trying her IN these waters sold her
the Austraaps when in the hight of their lunatic
culations. $l25 0OO Is in the a.es and Mr.
Eaton Of Boston, of the wealthy and long established
Eneh house q Mclean Watson Co. Batavia whose
Co., Sourabsya, is also now ct home.
The import duty on foreign cotton sad wo,lien
gcccs 25 per cent sdvaloreD FROM Holland by Dutch
ships these footing, If accompanied by
certificate of Netherlands origin ms halt Import duty
with 80 per cent augmented on invoice From Holland,
mpaped with certificate of Netherlands origin the
bali On all import ard expor. duties, an inpost Of
per cent pierageis added.
The monopoly OF the government, IL purchasing from
the planter, and restrictive policy regarding other
tons, psrsiyses all private enterprise, and pre-
vents all improvement, and Java at the present day,
far mc6ern cullure the steam engine, the
railroad the msgnetc and the nunberless inven
tons Of this wonderful age concerned is almost as a
behind the times japan with whom alone they have
b, en- permitted 10 have limited IL ade for one OF two cen
urss the Jesui,s driven out OF Nippon
Mr.. Leisburg informed ms that step has been made
TO meet the finss and in year or two telegraphic wire
VIII the arrival Of ships passing AMER at Ba
tavia, Sausrang ard sourabaysr but douo. the time
es curing The rext century when the European
weller will hear tr whistle OF the locomotive in The
groves Of the inland provinces Jsyauese
ploughn his rice fe ., the fierce beasts Of the
railway train Like China there too many people to
erplty to introduce labor saving machines.
When the putstive fsther Of the presen. Emps-
at Nspoleons baoDg Java became part OF France.
in 1871 up went the French flag which the battle Of
Wareroo gave England 1914 who frightened by the
climate and of its richness restored it TO the
Ouch pIefering TO keep Ceyon and the Cape which
rg over for almost half century. But it not till
1876. when its conqueror like Parrhasus captive, was
sbaiLed to tie rock Of St Helena did the Dutch flag
Heat over the galcens OF the East.
But there was place during AL those startling
chs Dges which convused Europe during Bonaparte's
The little island opposi Nar gasak the residence of the
Dutch Ambassador where the coors have never ceased
10 fly.
The ps ives are warhke peotle and are ready to
when their Mahomedan priests give the signal, as has
sep the two three times since the Restoration
Sore thirty years most bloody warfare again put
them Gown; ard ony few years ago the Bally Princes
rocden under foot Bearing III mind the fact that
natl gene al thing not governed entirely by
motives If bepevoepce pbisn hropy and tina, SELF
with the Individual is the ruling passion aud rerember
ing that force OF My eight thousand European solciers
dents Of java ye IsV st sny time be- massacred oy MI
lps OF men who obey with servte lear the cmEoand Fl
,her prince priest, wonder that Holland is
TO beI aizE the minds Of the people by throwing
her ports to the slipping and citizens Of al the woIo
wonder that foreign coDsus have been recognised
(Unt be ieye, very recently for purely commercial pur
pcses)-,hat py stem of espionage and police
The land and that the trembling natives are so~ed
nird the introduction Of European liberalism wou i'm
neoiatey be the signal at which these prolific isanis
mss, = the cena,on Of the natives Of the SAND Sich
Islands and the tribes Of the Pacifc--when anything
to relieve the sueriDes Of the aboIigna o. Ameri
who obeying the Pequot lesson, (says Holmes
flom the white when he fms he smells of Hand
gin'-when notice enlightened England throwing over
tsrkened Incia the light of intellectual culture-then
and not till theD will amuse myself by abusing in
dus;rious and commercial people as the Dutch whose
Intelligence in languages in modern and ancient history
and in inform alton have been the characteristics
Of those it has been my good fortune to meet.
The merchants here live like princes and ten to fit
teen thousand dollars Fer year is unusual amount to
spend. Mr.. Reed has beautiful residence, built by
himself. ground where art and nature have batted
hard 20 gain superiority Among the ten or fifteen pc
and horses Of different breeds 10 his stables
beautiful Arab which he had just imported could but
observe how elegantly the oinner tables adorned in
this place. meals and dessert ali go st onceand
~ you sit down the fruits entirely hidden from sight
by flowers Of many kinds, WI icb give most graceful ap
D. ars nee to the tout ensemble.
The least said about the morals Of many Of the Euro
poems in these ATTITUDES perhaps will give the best idea