New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-30

of every description. Perhaps should say salted,.
for the salt appears to be ten to one Of acid. a.
staple and avorie dish il sailed or picked rsdskes
one mouthful of which would insure chronic dye
pepsia in any but an 0strich-like stomach ID sav
nothing Of the taste which is vil.sfnous beyond a.
scripton. They must pronccctsc saki-drinkinq a
prefzels do the consumption Of lager. New lettuce,
olions, and radishes are offered by the vegetable
! sellers.
| The variety of wild flowers ia not large. Among
| them are familiar faces like the dandeion, wood
volets, forget-me-nots, lupines, and Others Tbs
pyIus japouca redeemed the grassy banks with rts
shiny blossoms; the heavy racemes Of tho Wiz
taria, white and purple, have a size and beauty
have seen nowhere else. The purple and red, and
white azsleas fill the forest air with fragrance.
| The shrub is taller than the swamp pink Of
| America, and The blossom larger. The cultivated
varieties produce flowers equal to your greenhouse
specimens. growing out of doors without protection
| Both the white and purple magnolia are here,
| though have seen but few.
| While this advanced stage of growth is exhibited
in grain and garden vegetables, deciduous trees like
the oak walnut and chestnut, as bare and leaf
less as in New-Yoik at this season. The naples
are just putting out their young leaves, red az
their autumnal tints in New-England. Others az
golden yellow.
On these islands of Japan gifts from al climes
seem to have gathered. The temperate zone has
contributed its fruits its cereals its arches pines and
deciduous trees and its wild wood flowers the trOpcs
have sent thither the orange, the palm, the plain
tain the bamboo, while native to the soil are tho
brilliant camelias, the tea plant and the dense fo-
age of the cryptomeria. Over and around this
mixed vegetation nature has spread an atmosphere,
and climate adapted 10 its varied needs The slight
Int steady recurring frOsts Of Winter coming ON
the wings of the north wind that blows steadily for
FIVE months, gives vigor t. the trees that love the
repose of Winter, and bring no harm to the tender
natives of frostless regions Then for month the
north and south wind contend for the supremacy,
till at last the north flies back to it's arctic den, and
for another FIVE months the sweet south brings life
and warmth to its expectant children. SO to-day
the grain mods its bearded head, the bamboo sends
up its succuant sprouts the camea bursts into blos-
sCmng side by side with the eafess, almost feless
oaks, chestnuts, and walnutsl YeddO, which is q
city OF trees and evergreen hedgerows, has at this
season the appearance of an orchard in bloom.
There are signs of Summer, too, in the Streets
in the nude MORMON bearers that hasten rapidly
along, the unclad beggars wandering from house to
house, the nude mechanic plying his trade by the
open shop-front, the garmentless boatmen that
ferry YOU over the bay-nude ALL with only thin
strip of cloth between them and complete exposure.
The bathing houses, which the Winters cold
kept closed and so Outwardly decent, have open.
doors again. The passer-by substantial shapes
wandering about in the steaming fog within-not
feshless ghosts, but clotheless flesh. With the
curiosity, too that belongs to the flesh, unmindful
of their scantiness of drapery, they come reek--
ing from the bath, male and female together to-
see the "tojm," a foreigner who passes by.
These lighthouses are numerous In every street.
They open from morning till night, and are WIS.,
tied once day by every man and woman to whom
they are accessible. The sexes battle indiscrm-
inately in water that is changed once day paying
for this luxury about one mil of Federal currency
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his clothes in one of series of pigeon-hoes made
for the purpose. He plunges into the murky fluid.
and, having completed his additions dries himself
ON platform where there are, perhaps, dozen
beside, and either dresses himself at the bath-hOuse
or if his house is not distant gathers his clothing
in bundle and, in primitive dressing-gown, walks
to his own house to make his toilet Persons who
go with good clothes to the bathhOuse often find the
mistake made which happens to silk umbrellas at
church-they are apt to be exchanged. CoOnee.
faithful native cook, who is a spruce fellow,
and who is rather admired of the brown damsels in
the vicinity, came home from the bath few nights
since with tears in his eyes. Somebody had taken.
away his best suit of clothes while he was in the
bath, and CoOnee was discOnsolate.
The alarms created by the assassination Of the
Regent have subsidized. To foreign eyes the condi-
ton Of the empire is one Of quiet; yet we know NOT
what is beneath tie surface. The Government in
ternit none Of the precautions taken at first but
have rather increased their guards and sysenatized
their defenses The guard houses have been in
creased and enlarged. Imagine chereauz dc friere
thrown across Broadway ut short distances apart.
with gateways flanked by guard house, with six
or ten soldiers with muskets, bayOnets and swords.
extend this to every street, place guard at every
oat-lahding; block every avenue to the city with
guarded gates, and you will have some idea Of the.
course pursued here Every Japanese entering
fokuhama is under espionage, and must, if not
known, give satisfactory account for his being
there. The Japanese have taken advantage Of
this time to persuade the COnsuls of foreign powers
resident at kanagawa to leave that place. under
the plea that their lives were more endangered
there, and go to Yokohama, where they could be-
easily protected. Having succeeded in dverting all
the foreign trade to Yokuhama, they hoped in this
manner to clear Kanagawa of all foreigners. The
Consuls would not 60, and the Japanese are pro-
tectfng them where they are, by throwing high
fences around their grounds. 1t is impossible to
learn the exact condition of affairs as respects tina
Government and Prince Mito. 1t il known that
blitO Bed to his own principally, the province of
Ftats to the northeast of YeddO Its capital civ
MitO, is laid down any good map of these islands.
His resources are large, his followers numerous.
and it is supposed that he would arm against the
ruling powers. There have been some collisions
between small parties Of Mtos men and those of the
late Regent One of these took place at Kanasaki.
ten miles distant resulting in the death of three or
four. They were chance collisions, such as are
born OF drunken brawls. Then we hear that an
Envoy OF the Emperor, sent to Mto with desire to
q peaceful termination of the existing feud, was
executed by MitO without moments parley. The
Emperor would send another ambassador on the
same coDciatory errand, but naturally finds no oue
ambitious OF the place. Such is the latest rumoy.
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