St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-01-06

ed by ropes. Finally he was lodged in
one Of the temples, where he and his suit
found clean and even luxurious quarters.
The arrival of the English ambassador
brought about another ministerial crisis
the Liberal Premier was restored, and af-
ter residence Of eight days Lord Elgin
departed with treaty containing enlarged
conditions, which the othertplenepotenti-
aries had not even ventured to ask for.
The happy audacity of the British led to u
most triumphantresult.
A MAGNIFICENT CAPITAL.
Our countrymen had no restraint placed
! upon their movements, and they quickly
availed themselves Of their freedom. They
found that they were located in the BEL
gravia or court end Of .Jeddo. Around
them were the palaces Of the feudal mobiles,
mansions Of vast extent, each capable Of
containing 10000 retainers who followed
their lord to the capital As there are
$50 Of these mobiles who are compelled to
reside half the year at Jeddo, the extent
Of the aristocratic quarter may be imagin-
ed. The visitors saw before them a street
forty yards broad, ten miles long, and one
closely packed with houses and as densely
crowded as from the Hyde Park corner to
Miilc-cnd,
Towering above the vast city is the cas-
tie or palace of the temporal soverei gn.-
This is surrounded by noat seventy Or
eighty feet wide, round which rises a
grassy mound Of the same height. This
is topped by wall Of cyclopean architec-
ture, cnco1npa*sing buildings i'll which
forty thousand men can be Accommodated
From this place u view of ''the great city
OF jcddo, with its trees and gardens, pic
turesque temples, and densely crowded
streets, extending as far as the eye can
reach toward the interior, a thickly built
suberb, and green fields in the distance,
was obtained" The capital Of Japan cov-
ers a larger area than London, and contains
4 more numerous population. The streets
are we'll paved, and a perfect cleanliness
rules indoors apd out. There is none OF
the dirt and bad smells of great city,
while evidences of wealth and luxury arc
seen on every side. The country is us in.
teresting as the town. Neat cottages
stand within beautiful gardens, ,and private
residences are as neatly kept and as care
fully fenced as in England. At every
spot presenting great natural beauties, a
temple or tea house is to lie found. The
weary traveller may always find rest and
refreshment, and reclining on soft mats
! received from neat-handed Phyllises the
most delicatcly favoured tea. The de-
scription of all magnifcenccs. and the Ia.
tural and artificial beauties that met the
j, eyes OF the visitors, reads like a chapter
from the Arabian. ..Nights.
: A WONDERFUL PEOPLE.
t; And the people are as wonderful as the
country they inhabit. They appear to
have retained much Of the simplicity and
innocence Of the golden age. They pos.
sess the most amiable and winning quail,
tiles" In personal cleanliness they
surpass all other countries ;-bathiny
an institution, and is performed in public
in manner that recalls to memory the
state Of man before the fall. The En-.
' glish did not see person in the street
who was deformed, or any drunkenness
or quarreling, and beggars are unknown.
But although thus primitive in their
,, habits and manners, the Japanese are
industrious and inventive, and not without
scientific requirements. When the ad-
vanced ships Of the British squadron
arrived at Nagaski, they found a japanese
! man-of-war steamer at anchor before
They are able to make engines for rail
ways or steamships, and they have short
line Of railway some where in the interior.
The electric telegraph is no mystery to
them, and they are skillful at fabricating
astronomical and philosophical instruments:
Their manufacture Of glass is nearly equal
to our own. The Dutch language is spo-
ken by numbers, and some have even
learned English. Japanese captains and
eng gineers command their war vessels, of
which three are steamers They show
every disposition to seize and adopt the
discoveries made by European Science.
They are represented by their recent
visitors to be not merely progressive,
but Il "go-ahead" people.
A SOCIAL PHENOMENON.
:. What We have been told increases our
curios;tv Wo arc not admitted tO thC