Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-06-30

Our CIVILIZATION EXHIBITED TO THE JAP
ANEsE.-The Japanese ambassadors, with their
retainers, have left Washington for the north.
They have visited Baltimore and are now in
Philadelphia At Baltimore there was great
parade, With NeIs notnuiv iaoh Of eiviiity,
to say decency, in the treatment which the am
bassadors received. At the dinner table, where
some sixty or seventy of the citizens dined with
fifteen Of the Japanese dignitares, there was
some coarseness and insolence. the following
from letter in the New York Tribune shows
what took place after dinner =
"After dinner the ambassadors and their at
tendaDts returned to their apartments accom-
panied by focks of privileged visitors, good
proportion of whom were neither sober nor civ
il. The truth that the japanese are the best
tempered people in the world was never more
thoroughly tested They were all beset by i'm
moderate and unceasing applications for tokens
of emembrance-autographs presents and the
like. Their evident fatigue and disincnation
to be molested afforded them no protection
and from that time forward they could gain no
respite from the persistent appeals which they
encountered from every side.
Presently, notice was given that an exhibi-
ton of steam fire engines would take place in
the square. The balcony was instantly
thronged,. but not by the Japanese. Their
share in the enjoyment was entirely seconda-
ry importance. Here, as elsewhere, it appear
ed that the whole affair was a jubilee of the
Baltimore city government and its friends, in
which the foreign visitors were graciously al
lowed to act an obscure and Indifferent part
A small number of the Japanese, however, OBJ
tained positions from which the operations Of
the machines were visible, and seemed greatly
interested but even these few, yielding grad
ually to irresistible encrsachments, SOON with
drew, and waited aimlessy in the background.
1t was not long before a party of friends
mounted to the balcony with scaling ladders,
and, bringing their hose with them, invited
some of the Japanese to take hold. This
brought out the under officers, and among
them Tommy, who played away for a time
with much glee. But this did not satisfy the
bold fame quenchers. What they wanted was
turn with the Japanese nobility, and nothing
else would do. At last, one Of them was in
troduced to an ambassador, and Immediately
gave characteristic expression to his feelings
by pulling off his wet and heavy hat and clap
ing it upon the head of his new acquaintance.
This bit of jocosity took so well among the
Baltimore gentlemen that similar pleasantries
| were straightway indulged in; and the last
glimpse l caught of Simmi, Prince of Boojsen,
revealed him struggling beneath military cap
which some creature had showed over his eyes,
and pressed tightly down."
In order to appreciate this uncivi and very
coarse behavior of the people of Baltimore, we
must recollect that these japanese officials are
gentlemen in the highest sense of the word.-
They have great dignity of character, with new
er-failing civility and politeness. No gentle
man they have met, in Washington, or any
where else in this country, have more refined
tastes or higher style Of manners. They can
judge the treatment they received at Baltimore
as it deserves to bejudged and they will prob
ably excuse it as gentlemen usually excuse the
behavior of emi-barbarians. -