New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-18


deep tawny hue, bua the bands Of those nnseeof
toned to toll, as white and delicate ~ those "
American ladies. Wherever their skin is proteceo,
krerfeety fair. Ar for the peculiarly OF expressly"
which marks aluost all their faCes, IL appears 90
caused by .sor singular method Of dressing TIE hair
One or r,, 81 tho ambassadors attendants who had
neg .4ed shaving for some days, and Suffered their
b de % tap about after the American fashion, conid
4 not, excepting by their dress 70 O''
The saiors on board the Roanoke ~,
In other respects, the differences between the Cm'
No. ra Iarauese are more striking They have, IN
auea Tho same reieion--although the primitive re-
| r; 90 Jaran is elsewhere unknown Buddhism,
,b;h 4; also the Chinese faith, having been intro
dueed only In the sixth century-and to certain de-
cree the same habits and ways of life. But the forms
Of Government the character Of the people, and the
most important of their customs, are wholly different
The dignity senstveness, intelligence, neatness and
enterprise of the Japanese the exact anttheses OF
Chinese degradation stolidty filth and suggshness.
To hint at possible resemblance between the nations
| is to give japanese his severest pride-wound.
The Japanese are generally smaller than the average
of our people but often stronger in proportion TO their
| size.
JAPANESE CURIOsITEs.
| Last Saturday when the Philadelphia lay at Ports
mouth, no thought of any matter apart from the
japanese posse .sed the slightest interest The attrac-
| tons of Norfolk were held out III vain, and nothing
| during the long detention claimed special regard,
excepting rare and valuable collection Of Japanese
| curiosities brought to this country by Mr. Robert
| DANNY. an engineer of the United States Navy, who
| first visited the Kingdom Of the Rising Sun under
| Commodore Perry, and who, in subsequent expe-
diton, enjoyed additional opportunities for gathering
IL Il.
memorials Of the skill and ingenuity OF the people Mr.
Dandy was the engineer who laid the first railroad IN
Japan and introduced the steamngne to the natives
an invention that time far surprising any achieve
| ment of their own, and welcomed by them win
delight.
In the selection of his Japanese souvenirs he sought
mostly articles of mechanical interest, all of which,
however display also in their manufacture very good
degree of artistic elegance. Fans of exquisite decacy
in form and construction rvang the costlies that our
jewellers can show; tables of acqueredwood combining
much beauty with varied utility, altogether too unim-
tied for ready remembrance; porcelan-ware OF airy
ohtness vet needing no tenderness of treatment for
its preservation and covered with brilliant and fancful
adonments dressingcases, perfumeboxes tops, dolls,
and other characteristic productions of their ingenuity
and taste are brought together in such protusion and
variety as to present the finest display of Japanese
9. | cuTiosities in this country.
e Most interesting of all was the lqcquerwareboxes
h, cups plates baskets, &C.. covered with that delicate
r. but very durable polish, the knowledge and appca
r. ton of which belongs TO Japan. This lacquer, when
le properly prepared, is so hard that it can only be
is scratched by the harpes Instruments and Jnred
by the hottest fluids The luster is like that OF mir
4 ror Tie japanese tops of which Mr.. Dandy has 40
l. different varieties each showing novel capacity,
are admiralty made. They develop, after starting
.,.:. they
It multiply into fraternity Of tops lourishng top
family small and frisky, springs suddenly from sage
f and maronly spinner Some tops give out the queerest
noises some dance along upon strings i'll the air, and
| some expand into fanciful and symmetrical FORMS
f wholly at variance with the popular idea of tops.
Another curious possession of Mr.. Dandy il a col
lection Of dolls, representing the yarions ae~~ f"
| childhood 10 manhood These served TO explain, IN
new way the japanese custom of arranging the hair
with bows the hair shaved off the top Of the head
from infancy leaving only the narrow rim around the
r sides and back Until the age of fourteen it is per
mitted to grow loosely and is then gathered up in the
e manner described in previous letter, which is ad
hered TO through life. With girls the hair is suffered
r through childhood to grow in five locks, the
middle of the forehead each side of the head just
u above the ear one larger than the rest, upon the
b | crown, and one upon the back of the head
At fourteen these locks gathered up and thence
forward there is more shaving on any part OF the
head. The hair consequently grows very rapidly and
thckly. Some OF Mr. Danby's illustrated works re-
veaed higher artistic power than the japanese are
usually credited WITH They contain pictures far above
| the ordinary colored views which common among
the people of the Embassy, and which mainly of
character calculated TO prevent their very wide circu
laton here One of Mr.. Danbys pictures, represent
ing a spirit rising from grave and floating mstily
through the air, is full of imagination, and executed
with skill that would be sufficient give dstnc-
I ton if produced among us
This evening Committee of the House of Repre-
sentayes visited the Embassy, and invited the attend
of the Embassy at the Capitol, The Chief Com
m sion replied that bc with his associates, would be
wen pleased to come, and took opportunity to make a
new acknowledgment of the couitcsies shown them
by the Government Of the United States. The visit
to the Capitol will lot take place for some days
By Telegraph
WASHSGTOS, Thursday, May II, 1860
The japanese Embassy, attended by their officers,
aud the Naval Commission, left Wizards Hotel at
about IL o'clock this morning on their way 10 the
} Presidents house. They rode in open carriages.
Twenty-Five uniformed policemen were in front, and
the same number in the rear, while the marines and
ordpa &c marched each side of the vehicles to
the music of the marine baud