The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-30

he has business, or j. ublc officer, spermed TO enter
nside Of the Cuso use gate and whenever one Of our
boats reaches the a ng hundreds Of the people 70
De seen outside OF IA e for the purpose Of seeing us az
We land. II one Of ppens TO stop few moments in ono
Of the streets or III o Of the shops we are at once sur
rounded by doz more Of Japanese who closely ex
anime the butol clothes and the figure OF the
eagle, which they m to admire very much; they will
also examine tn aty of our blue clothes flor white
are not wanted her is AugusD and try to pull open
the seams TO un r and how they put together Our
boots shoes AMI caps also attract their attention The
ing Of piece Of wood the length of the foot the top
strap which passes between the big and next one and
then on TO the ankle On the bottom secured at each end
piece OF wood about two inches wide, which raises the
women that much higher from the ground Those worn
by the men made out OF grass and rest fiat
upon the ground and secured the same to
the feet as those OF the women large majority Of the
poorer class OF the males during the summer months go
almost in state Of nudity, wearing nothing but narrow
strip Of ccth around their ons In the winter months
they protect themselves from the severity of the weather
with thick heavy stuffed deer and other skins The HoorS
Of The dwelling houses Ike those at Nangasaki and smo
da all covered with thick straw carpetng There is
not much furniture in them excepting that which is abso
utey required for cooking purposes, and rice cons
tutes Their principal food not many articles used in
that line This carpeting for the bed and chairs,
for the Japanese all nj cross legged the oor like the
Asiatics.
All hands have been permitted to 20 on shore and to
remain night and they all speak well Of the good
treatment received at the hands Of the Japanese and
must say that, during my long life in man Of war
n ships behave and their vessel
Ia good AMI well ordered our men have
done in this and all the ports they have had liberty in
They are credit 10 themselves and 10 the Of tho
United States, We shall lie here until the arrival
OF the Commodore, which will be about the first Of
next month, when expect 10 proceed again to
the coast Of China Our time Is pleasantly oc-
cuped with target practice boat exercises general quar-
tsrs, EXCURSIONS fishing hunting and surveying and the
health of all hands has improved very much. This will
reach you by the way OF san Francisco, in Hamburg brig
which arrived here few days ago bound ~ that port
We have had no news from the United States for four
months and are anxously waiting for the mails by tho
Powhatan, when we hope 10 find nlcs Of the HERALD.
Yesterday forenoon we had grand OF all the
boats attached 10 the ship The signal boat stationed
one mile from the vessel and the boats had to from
the ship and pull around Il back 20 the ship which
done in about twelve minutes by all the boats third
cutter Harry Rsmsdale coxs~ain, coming in victorious
few seconds ahead Of the other six boats In the after
noon they all had grand sailing match the first launch
being the flag boat with the pennant Tying in her bows
You will perceive that endcayorng pass the
time AZ agreeably as possible.