The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-26

Legislature during the last sessiop, for whic
this heavy drain upon the metr op olitsn pock
will 60 to pay.
How shall We Receive tho Japasese.
A resolution has been introduced in til,
Board Of Aidermea apropos to the receptior
of the Japanese Embassy, the members o
which Industrious body will arrive in this city
In the course Of the next fortnight The Alder
men purpose to appropriate twenty or thirty
thousand dollars for the expenses of the recep-
ton OF the Embassy. Upon this long, aud Of
course lucid, debate ensued. We presume that
it may be taken for granted that the money
will be voted, and that the.civic authorities
will do tho handsome thing BY the japanese,
| 80 far as the civic authorities can be made to
understand what the ha ndsome thing is.
We, In common with almost everybody out
side of Corporation influences, regret exceed
iDgly that the high officers of the Japanese
empire are to be received on the part of the
commercial metropolis by such set of fellows
AZ those who rule the roast in the City Hall
But there must be reception, and necessarily
an Official one. Therefore We must make the
best Of bad bargain, and try to have the
thing done as we'll a. possible. II the Alder
men do not vote the money, 1t can be raised
among the merchants In couple of hours.
The main question Is, how shall we arrange
the programme? The Japanese are intelligent
men, who came here chiefly to gain informa.
ton to be laid before their master. It is to
our profit tn every way to make the most of
our good points The bad ones will speak for
themselves. This Embassy, then, should be
first provided with competent and handsome
quarters in the best part Of tho town. Their
maintenance will not be costly. The subor-
dinates eat nothing but rice. The dignitaries
live upon little fowl, sweetaseats, cakes and
coHtecions. They drink only tea, coffee
and water. Great care should be taken in all
these matters, which mcy seem trivial to us,
but which to our guests are of the first i'm
portanee. The theory q tie ceremonies should
be to combine the practical and Useful with
the ornamental. Everything of which we as
Americans are proud, every thing whiekis dis.
tinctively national, should be- ehown and ex-
planned to the Embassy. AS the diGnitaries
are all military men, reception by the State
troops will be eminently proper. On such an
occasion the First Division might be peraded
to ssme advantage. Then our gaests should
be shown all the lions of the city, beginning
with the Central Park the Reservoir, and the
High Bridge; then the navy and dock yards;
ty and Allaire Works; the CREST Broadway
shops. such as Stewards, or Tiffany's, OF
Lord Taytor's, or Singers, or u III & BlaoIrs,
Or Haushwout's,; the sewing machines, Ere.
arms and telegraphio instruments; the theatres.
opera house and churches, the great'newspa
,fices, With their lightning presses, and 90
IN. As they will come Wills the ansi-
are going on, it will be we'll enough
10 let them'see how the missionaries who aso
cent out to convert the heather, add don't do
It, are manufactured There should be o.
steamboat excursion for them, the vessel,
louchi pg at all the forts in the bay, and run,
ping up the river as far as West Point
and, bf it can be arranged, regatta with :.
yachts of the first class. It has been suggested.
hat, il there Is any member of the reception
,ommi ttee who has the entr<e Of q fashionable
Irawin 8 room, the Japanese migLhhave an OPT l
,ortup ity to compare the manners Of the upper
asse', here with those of the Orient The aS
air &c ems almost an impossibi!:ty, but there
nay t'e POUNDS Curtius who is willing to sacri
Ice hi carpets and run the rick of losing his
olata for this occasion only. Such examples
IF ps triotisun are rare, bnt still great emergen-
lies always bring out the re5oarOes Of great
minds.
We are willing TO give the Aldermen the ore
dit of gosddntensiens. We believe that they
will do right when it pays better than to, do
wrong. We beaieve that the right way to
receive the Embassy hea been indicated
in the remarks which we oRer above. Il the
Aldermen will keep clean, for q day or' two,
avoid the prisezps and lszsx houses, behave rs
decentay as they know how, read up fog some
manners, and, above all, refrain FROM splitting
in public tic such q taing is poeaisle), and
take aur advice generally, the stay of the Em.
oassy. in tho metropolis may be made a very
pleasing sOj0urn to taam and a very profitable
one, IN the end, to Cur merchants upon whose
position with the commercial wczld, the future
Of The metropolis mainly depends.
INCIDENTS OF GIvILrzATroN.-=We published
yesterday an account OF an incident that &C.
CURED In one Of our public institutions, which
shows that, 10. spite of our boosted humanity
and civilization, we are yet, in some things,
but very little removed from a semi-barbarous
condition. The rev born infant Of poor
Irish woman, who bad been removed to the
Bellevue Hospital 10 bs confined, was literally
devoused by rats durilg the nigbt-the mother
being too weak to- drive off the vermia
II will be asked how such an occurrence