Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-13

The United States Senate have passed bill
appropriAtiug $4,000 to dsfray the expenses
Of the japanese Embassy while in this ooun-
try. The grand embassy was to have sailed
for San Francisco and Panama in the o. 5
Powhsttan on the lIlh ofFebruary
From Panama tho Embassy will be conveyed
across the Isthmus by railroad to AsPinwall,
and thence by the steam frirate Roanoke dis
rect to Washington. The most important
persOnnges are siume, Prince Of BOOzen, and
Moorragaki, Prince Of Awadsi, who come IS
ENJOYS to ratifY the treaty of YeddO. They !
viii be accompanied BY suite Of eighteen of
fcials and frty-one servants
This is the first embassy sent By the govern
ment Of Japan to any Christian power. Lord
Elgin tried hard to have the FIRST visit paid to
England, but as the United States first made a
treaty with Japan, the high officials chose to
pay as the honor OF first visit. The party
will remain in this country some time, and will
return by way of England and France, taking
the Suez route. The Japanese will be likely
to see some wonders in their travels.
The people of San Francisco have already
had specimen of the "nalives abroad" On
the l7th of March the japanese steam corvette
Candinmarruh, Capt Kat sin tar rOh, arrived at
San Francisco from Uragawa, which she left
on the 10Th OF February. Lieut. Brooke, Mr..
Keno, an artist, and nine of the crew of
wrecked American vessel, were Passengera.-
The japanese steamer is a ten gun ship of 300
tons, built in Holland and sent to the Emperor
of Japan as present by the Dutch King, and
has a full complement OF officers and seventy
men. Her flags are,at the mizzen a wbi'--A-s
.-,-----'E vrHTrU, and at her main
white lozenge ground in a circle of red 1t
being the first arrival of japanese man.
of-war in Christian port in several centuries,
it was looked upon by those on board as great
event. The vessel was in charge of Lieut.
Brooke U. S. N, the japanese, through good
sailors along their own coasts, not claiming
knowledge enough to visit our shores with
safety. The object of the trip was to accom-
pany the Powhattan, which left Yedio on the
10Th of February, and to return with tidings Of
Tue safety OF the grand Embassy.
The japanese proved about as much of 4
curiosity at san Francisco as the city and peo-
pie were to them. The correspondent of the
Times thus describes visit on shitboard and
the conduct of the rare and singular visitors
on land:
The Admiral, Kemauratonkame-who, by
the way, is no sailor, buta Provincial Governor,
of the rank of Commodore, and was selected
for this mission that our high and mighty
men of war might feel that they talked with
their equals when they met him-sat on the
floor of his cabin as we entered, enjoying the
attentions Of hair dresser. The Captain,
| lKatsintarr I'D was in but poor health. He
looks MAJ lously like Col Fremont, talks
English int iigibly, and has the reputation, at
home, of ng great astronomer. The Of
liceIs all " two swords Of polished steel, with
milk-white shark skin covered handles =
Except for rir elaborately dressed hair and
their embrUl-ered sandals, in their undress they
looked not very unlike the uniformed officers
Of our navy. The marines wege clothed in
dark blue frocks; each with his rank and the
style OF his service written on patch betwC en-
his shoulders, and in blue flowing trowscrs -
| The sailors looked much like Cinnamon, but
all were cleanlY, active, curious, and polite -
To the Americans on board, the after cabin
and servants in abundance had been surrender
ed on the voyage, which was 81 days long,
and to the American sailors. who had helped
work the ship, the Admiral came down liber ally
with the coins, as present, on leaving There
we're no idols on board, of course, no hints
toward any religions faith, though prayers in
the iOrecasile, our people say, they had often
heard. Chairs and tables were no part of the
furniture. They fed on cured fish, rice, veg
etables and tea The choPsticks stood instead
Of knives and forks.
Some of tie officers came on shore under
guidance of Lieut. Brooke, on Saturday night,
eat Christian dinner at hotel, and experienced
the luxury of ice creams. When invited to a
bath, they declined on the ground that the
Admiral must prOcede them in any such priv
iege.
Next day was Sunday. Our city officials
knew scarcely what to DO If they invited the
distinguished Pagans to Church, it might alarm
their sensitIveness. for they have had national
experience ofJesuits; if they ignored all church
going, it would scarcely be the thing for a
Christian cily's fathers. At last, four of the
Supervisors, headed by their President. Tesche-
maker, were rowed off to the corvette-were
ann unced as of rank enough to talk familiarly
with even the Admiral were grzeiously saIuted,
and then invited the strangers to see the city
under their escort. The Admiral agreed, but
it took half an hour to manage the order of the
going. The Admiral proposed to take his OVn
boat and certain of his men; he invited
Teschemaker to ride with him, but would not
hear of the proposition that 'his men" should
90 too Lieut.. Brooke had hard job of it to
I cor his HOnor that Taerhar,s sLor M
better than "his men, to wit, the other Su
peryisors. Finally the Admiral and the Pres
ident were rowed off together, and "the men"
of the two officials dispatched in another boat.
On landing, our President politely leaped out
ahead, to help the Admiral out, and had mar
row escape OF giving offence by thus taking
the precedence. The two, walked up side by
side mutely; the others, in careful order of rank
the democratic crowd humrolng the strange
notions Ofetiquette by opening for the noble gen
tlemen to pass to ther carriages. Here anoth,
er halt hour was spent in getting the right order
of rank. Then up to the international parlors
Fortunately our modest little Irish Governor,
Downey, was in town. Hearing what
was up, he went over to honor the occasion -
Entering with single companion, it took all
the faith the strangers could command to be
lieve that little man in black coat, with no
retinue, could be ger uine Governor. When
it was fairly comprehended. and the interpreter
had turned certain classical japanese into
broken English and sundry Californian Execu-
tive compliments into japanese, the Admiral
expressed desire that the Governor would
order dy>dock prepared to give the corvette
a thorough overhauling-explaining so clearly
that no interpreter was needed t. render it,
that the Yankees should not be out of pocket
for Their courtesy in this business. His Ex-
cellency, with straight face, signifed that it
should be done as promptly as the lumber
schOOners now occupying the dry.dock could
be got ready to launch. While these two high
grands thus consulted, the other officials, re-
turning to the carriages, were being conveyed