The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-12-09
Progress Of .gspan--Nsw Treastes.

important treaty with that power, to take
effect from and after July 4th, 1859.
From tho correspondence Of the Public
Ledger. VIC take the following summary Of
it's provisions a. far ~ they have trans
PRED:
Fira. That the tax Of six per cent Tor
coming our money into theirs. now paid ny
the American purchaser OF Japanese exports
shall be dispensed with,
Second. The annual practice OF tramp
ling upon the cross, which has existed at
Nagasakc only, since about the year 1920.
ia to be continued no more after the 4th OF
July next and our ministers aud families
are 10 reside at Jeddo
Third. The provisions Of the treaty 10
take effect from and after July 4, 1859.
The opening Of some new ports form an ex-
ccption 10 this article.
Fourth. Americans may build churches
and worship their God, and religious free
dom is granted 10 oil Japanese.
Fifh. The port Of Simoda IL to be
closed, and that Of Kenayawa opened in its
place. IIego and the great city OF Osaca,
Of which II Is the seaport, are also 10 be
opened At Ilego the water Is 30 bold that
vessels may moor close alongside the beech
and tho back country is the most prodnc.
tive and thickly populated 10 japan.
S,1lh. A stipulation 10 made In the ar
ticle that opens kcnayaws, which il only
seventeen miles from .Neddo, which protects
the latter from the visits Of foreigners. MIR.
Harris says. however, that shis will not last
long. Such q stipulation was necessary, for,
by Commodore l'ery's treaty, we should
have been allowed 10 ramble around kcna-
yawa, TO such distance that the site Of
Jeddo would have been included.
The article granting religious liberation
10 u great concession.
The immeasurabls preposterousness
and stupidity Of scctarian fsuds, was never
better exhibited than in the history Of
Christian Missions in Japan. II was to tho
missionaries Of 1900. 10 the aniIAosities Of
rival societies which then dcuged Japan
with blood, that her long secluson has been
owing. Tho Japanese arc described NJ in
reality liberal. tolerant and sincere and be-
ing 80 they probably understand christiani.
ty better than the majority Of it's own
priests say 1t in all sorrow.
They do no. understand how . people
can worship the same Tod, a God who says.
Love thy neighbor as thy@lf." and yet
who can tear each other to pieces over
cony~t-who can compass heaven ande earth
90 make one prosclyte. and when they havo
found him make him two fold more tho child
OF hell than themselves, Out with these
canting crcc,lmongcrs The correspondent
wo have aluded to takes sensible view VI
the subject!
Suppose that next year dozen or more
sincere but r,pdI missionaries burst sudden
ly into Japan. and begin to proclaim US
many different crc'sls One says. there are
three gods IN one you must do this aud
you must not do that, II you expect to be-
saved Another. there Is but one Col and
oil meu are destined by Ills mercy to he
saved Onc need not ask what the result
OF all tins would bc-~,t IL sclfevitlcnt
These honest. and simple minded, and sensi.
hle people would say ave had better
stick TO our gods OF stone. for these foreign
crs oil seem to think differently"
And they would be right! An officer of
the L 3 steamship Powbatau gives the
following instance of the rapid leap into Eu-
rupcan improvements made by the japanese {:
Ga the morning of the 29h. we awoke 10
lind that Jdpa6sse steamer had arrived
nom Jst,fo during the night and to he in
Termed that WI were 10 be IN uniform at
once, ms two kan. or Princes might visit
tho ship at any moment They. however
had the coed sense to put on their visit un
I'll $50 u. IN AT which hour We had prepared
l,Isurrly for their reception,
Now want the reader to stop here
moncnt and reflect upon the strangvness Of
such thing W. u Jupdnfe steamer. Four
years since, Cammodop Perry startled their
simple IDEAS with the shIi whistle OF the TO-
conceive. and now. here IL ,japancso
steamer otwar. mannol solely by Japanese.
AID yet running like any other steamer
Several OF US went on board 10 visit her
after the signing OF the treaty. and w,re 70
ally surprised at her cleanliness. warlikc
hook and at tbs Knowledge of her engineers
At her peak flew the red sun. on white
ground, which is the National Flag. and
really believe that u, this moment, she could
CapturV any Portuguese man OF war of her