Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-05-12
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the Japanese visitors, will not arrive at n.
Y. before the 10th inst, aud perhaps not
until some days later. The Government
having wisely reversed its original intention
Of permitting the Embassy to FIRST land
at New York, the Roanoke, on reaching
Quarantine, will at once be ordered back
to Hampton Roads. The exact route by
which the Japanese will be con lucted to
Washington is still undecided, but IL is
probable that they will disembark ct Nor
folk, Va, and proceed thence to the capital
in a smaller steamboat This, although
less expeditions, will be much more conve-
nient and agreeable. Their residence at
Washington will be in Willard's Hotel, an
entire floor of which had been secured for
them.
The New York Committee appointed to
receive and entertain the ambassadors, ex-
cept that they will visit the city about ten
days after their arrival at Washington.
For their accommodation, the first floor Of
the Metropolitan Hotel will be given up.
Rooms for one hundred persons are to be
prepared, aud arranged in the style suppos.
ed to be most satisfactory to japanese
taStes--a sufficiently easy matter, since the
japanese have no particular tastes in fnrni-
ture, seeking only to satisfy necessities, and
regarding with tolerable indifference all
such dazzling decorations and ornamental
fryolities as form the principal adornments
of cur American hotels. They are also to
be allowed ample opportunity for the ex-
ercise Of their own culinary principles, their
appettes not being fully educated to the
American standard, and demanding q good
deal of attention which they alone know
how to bestow. They look with incredulity
upon many of our most elaborate CASTRO
nomic preparations, and perpetually main
tain simplicity of regimen that would re-
duce New York Alderman to speedy
starvation. In consideration Of this fact
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New York Committee, after the military
display with which the strangers are to be
saluted, will be a brilliant and stupendous
dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel, in the
glories Of which seven hundred persons are
expected to share. OF course the modest
inclination of the seventy-twO japanese
must yield to the more highly cultivated
desires of their six hundred and twenty
eight New-York entertainers. Although
ia the matter of solid food we fear it will
be difficult for the Committee to bring a.
bout q unanimity of sentiment between
themselves and their guests, yet when the
question of liquid luxuries arises, more
harmonious state of feeling may be count
ed upon. For all bibuIous refnements the
Japanese have ever manifested thorough
ly enlightened appreciation.
Following the majestic dinner, ball will
have its course For this event, prepara-
tions will be made to receive from seven to
ten thousand persons, the sight of whose
united salutations will naturally produce
startling effect upon the unaccustomed
foreigners. But as the japanese have not
yet experienced the benefits of polka, their
participation in these perspiriug sports is
somewhat doubtful. The embellishments
and illuminations of the hotel on these oc-
casions of revelry, will, be quite of the
japanese order, and equal to the most bi-
zarre aud brilliant that Yeddo could pre-
sent. OF the other plans for the delecta-
tion of our visitors, no doubt they will
be as expensive as the heart Of man can
desire, and sufficient to occupy as much
time as the Commissioners (who will be
here about the 9Th of June) can afford to
spare.