Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-24

The officer occupying the first carriage in the procession n was arrayed in loose slate-colored gown oi state, Of general form like the pulpit | gown of the Episcopal clergy, with huge sleeves stifhy extending right and left, the texture hav- ing brocade.lke appearance, but with the ig- uring quite minute. The lower dress consisted of pair ot tr0wsers very wide and full and of nearly the same material. On the crown of the | head, immediately over the tonsure, extendino from the forehead to the crown, was worn an or. nament, shaped like band of three or four inch es wide and eighteen inches long, bent in the middle, and the ends tied, but not close togeth- er Nearly all the Ambassadors wore this dis tinction, but in some the bend stood forward, in others backward.
 After the official in the slate-colored dress, came one in rich green brOcade, with larger figure next one in light green then one in vel low ;next dark slate, and another in yellow or orange, third in green, and two riding with MT. Portman, the interpreter, both arrayed in blue: One little official, in skirt richly embroidered with pink and gold, attracted considerable at- tention.
 Of course there was grand lowing and bend ing and pow-wowing as the distinguished cortege were ushered into the presence of his serene highness the President and his cabinet officers, but all this will leave to your imagination, con graduating you that your ribs and your corns do not suffer today as do mine from the intense el- lowing and treading they have individually and collectively received. The upshot of the whole matter, as you know was to deliver to the Presi- dent, copy of the treaty between the two great 1 nations of the antipodes, which was read at first in nasal twang, by the grand Phoo-phoo, then being translated into sonorous Dutch. and after wards into barbarous English by the ponderous interpreters This done, the President delivered short address of congratulation in original by the Japanese gentlemen, except the conclu- ding sentence that they should be sent back, as they came, free of charge,-whicl was re- ceived with gracious grimace and profound ge- nuAection.
 The official ceremonies now being concluded, the band of Princes bowed and backed them selves out of the drawing-room, but soon return ed unofficially, and were introduced successyely to all the members of the Cabinet, with whom. l suppose, they enjoyed the sweet communion of unfettercd conversation, detailing to each their various biographies, and recounting the methods by which they had become, on the one side Ty- coons and Pho-phoos and on the other, Secreta- ries of War and the Navy. This being orer,the illustrious strangers made parting sallana to the President, which his Excellency returned with bow as low, and with evident discontinue to his rigid backbone.
 How the Japanese gentry afterwards visited the State Department, where they paid thcirrcs- poets to the fossilized hero who presides in those time-worn halls; how they figured at various balls and soirecs among the elite of Washington; how they wondered and smiled at the expanded skirts of our feminine belles, and turned up their Japanese noses, Every peculiar), at our feminine beaux; how they distributed gifts indiscrimin- ately, and received in return tooth-Lrushes combs, and bottles of japan blackng, the al- ready too extended limits of this letter do not permit me to dilate upon
 Thanking EYE GLASS and yourself oh most patient Editor, for this opportunity of figuring in your piquant and pungent ENQUIRER, allow me to subscribe myself with sentiments of my most dis tinguishcd consideration. SAuERwEIN.