New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-29


return with cargoes of seawced dried fish, hsh oil,
nd the ether few products of this Island ieso Is
not largely productive, owing not to want OF soh
TT, rer for tiage but for want OF good husbandry.
Unfortunately for the Developments the Island, the
sea yields of her kind too abundanty, and the world
over, where the yields spontaneously as it were
il is better farmed than the shores IT washes. III
snd however, that for some years past, large
immigration has been going on in this island. The
immigrants. stimulated by the liberal Inducements
held out by the hereditary lords of the soil have
e,me from the more thickly populated and some
what exhausted soils of central Nippon. "A ride OF
sixty niles in the country round about, and the sigbt
of new houses everywhere building convinces me
that better thrift is coming over the handsome
farm lands of Yeso. believe our Own potatoe, IN
troduced as Judge from the best data | can, getby
our American whalers will play an important part
in filing up this sparsely populated island. The
sweet posatoe does not thrive here, and already the
l,ish. or American potatOe more properly, Is be-
coming, with rice, the common food OF the people:
Its Weld is not only most abundant but its sire and
quality number one A schooner from San Fran
cisco has arrived during my stay here, having as
matt cargo several hundred sacks of potatoes, but
She found herself f0restalled in the market by
Japanese potatoe, equally good, at one-thlrd the
price and this japanese price WILL when the pota-
toe comes fully 10 market (now it is little early,
same excursion inland, riding along smooth, well.
made country roads Of two rods width, bordered
with fences of young timber-the frat rail fences
have seen since / left America-and sometimes
fences of clean.cut, we-pled turf, breast high, aud
two feet thick. ] saw handsome erups OF corn,
bucLw heat, beans onions, squashes, pumpkins ana
iurnips, of Brobdignagian proportions, growing
With per acre yield that would water DeVoasiire
catte.grOwers eyes with joy. The first beets have
seen were growing in handsome beds before
country farm house. Wheat was harvested, and L
can OILY Judge of it BY what / have seen Of It's
coneeners in latitude and suitableness OF SOL ana
cliDate So, tOo by the roadside, and the touses
were rows of pear trees, that will equal tho Old
French rears near Detroit for SIZE in full Tigr and
symmetry OF growth, and occasionally apple trecs OF
an pie head aud foliage. But what shall ! say OF
their iiuit7 Nothing could be more utterly lnslpid
and v oltllees The larger the tree the smaller tho
fiuit seemed to be the rule. Good scions alone are
wanting TO make fruit as abundant and cheap az on
ally spot Of the eObe-a want, too, that hope ~
TO be soon supplied. fellOw-trayelcr, Mr. ", an
English nurseryman, collecting seeds, plants. and
trees. informed me that he had already ordered to
each Of the open ports supplies OF gratis and young
trees, which, by new method OF packing, were
sure TO arrive in good order, perlls OF the sea
excepted.
Tie trade of Hakodadi with the adjacent country
is laIce I Lave not seen such another market town
or 30 much activity of trade between country pro-
ducers and town tTad;rs as here Not IN Yeddo
itself is there such an ebb and flow TO and from the
surrounding country. All The traffic with the IN.
terror passes sslrly over the sandy beach road
which unites Hakodad with the main land, and it
will he within bounds TO say that three thousand
pockhCrses daily pass in and ont of the city, asd
some hundreds OF bulocks beside. In addition to
these were several hundred horses, in Government
emToy, carrying dirt TO fill out an island in the bar
Dor whele the Government hope some dag to see
the "red men" snuely isolated. The horse is
tie more common beast of burden have encoun-
tered pack OF twenty, thirty aud forty, con-
Quoted sometimes by a single driver on Il we'll
broken fnst-walking lead horse sometimes with
eral riders Ass bullock trains Of three to twelve
bullotks | gee no nOIiDons OF kangos used ex-
cspt to carry the dead to their crematon the living
ride horseback. good burden beast may be had
for Sc End | rode on excellent saddle horse sixty
mil. that cost thirteen dollars | have discovered
where The mares of japan are at last As wrote
in a recent letter had been in japan one port and
another for nearly year, without seeing the fein-
nine of the horse ill began TO doubt if the male
did not possess binary functions. But its all right
cow The equilibrium oinature is not lost; in the isle
of Ycso. where pastures are green and grass Is
sweet, the equine mother undisturbed rears her
young.
There are few manufactures this island, it be-
re dependent for these the sister isle of Nippon.
be Prov ace of Nanbu, on the east coast, is rch
agricultural and manufacturing district supplying
lot Yeso alone but largely the marts OF reddo and
Ossaca. visited, however, one porcelain manu-.
iaciGry giving employment To score or ~ OF hands,
turning out with the simplest arrangement OF the
oldiDg colOring, and baking processes great va
riety of plain and ornamental ware, initiating any
pattern OF foreign table service that might be nedcd
In rude sUitby on the bill above Iiakad0di ca ne
f,up1a,y for hnmbgIplla Vhnae rpn llunt
words "No aGmlttaDce" did not stare me in the
face IA they would over like entrance Mt home so
WAS nj liberty to walk in and see the process OF
shell casting. A heap Of shells, awaiting the filling
process, Icy on the ground l found the workmen
civil and ready TO answer questions as one always
finds in japan but not always 10 America. No.
yet 10 n knowledge, when in pursuit Of infJrma-
lion, have l been requested to go to those ultra
tropical regors to which inquistive gentlemen are
SO often veIbrlly consigned III hSsne.
At the same pluce gray-halred old man VISA
casting handsome brass hinges, and q young
was lab0rously fling out by hand some screws foT
the sunie. At another place l saw welfnished
silver forks and spoons just completed to some for
eigner's oider.
The number Of foreign res dents is not quite thir
~. There is little activity in business, and the
ficial reports show both falling of in demand for
in ports and dimuDitOn Of exports. | append
tabular statement of Imports and Exports, and also
list OF vessels by EntiOnalirs arrived ut this port
since the opening of Japan under the Harris Tr,aty
for which am indebted to the politeness of G.. Pom
bcrtOn Hodgson, esq, her Britannia Majesty's Con-
sui for Hakodad:
Imports Exports.
July to Zee 1850 ..........E 1910 - RG 500 "a
Jan 10 Juuc 80 et0............. fSc Is +1517 90
July to Sept 30 Ito 4 moe 3co5 "a s26 IS
Total! foI l6 months ........ s2JG5s 30 sI35 ,l 10
PokkIGE sHPt ksTkkkD 1910 TIE rokr os hAKspADi
1859. 1850.
Russian OF war.
American wb6sfs ............,....... II
An efcan merchant sbip-...... " IN
Fbsih merchant .hip. 10