Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-09

The sunny side of life is gone,
Its shadows only mine
And thorns are springing in my heart,
Where blossoms used to twine.
I do not blame thee for thy lot,
I only pray for thee,
That thou mayst from the tempter's power
(Oh, joyful thought,) be free;
That thou mayst bend above my grave,
With penitence sincere,
And for the broken hearted one,
Let fall sober tear.
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From the Richmond Despatch
THE JAPANESE AND THE LOST
TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
From the day that the Japanese Embas-
sy arrived at San Francisco, to that on
which it left, the California papers were
occupied with little else than matters ap.
pertaining to the personnel of the distin-
guished gentlemen who composed it. Their
appearance, their habits, their language,
their individual histories, formed the topic
of endless description, gossip and discus
sion. Since their arrival ip New York the
papers there have taken up the song, and,
we presume, they will ouly reliuquish it
when the Washington press shall have
caught the echo and repeated the chorus.
Of Japan, we really know but very little
of these japanese Ambassadors, we certain
!y know great DEAL Everybody can tell
how they eat, sleep, dress, and walk. All
America is aware that they consume but
little food at a sitting, although they eat
very often that the chief Ambassador is
Prince of Bujen and Chamberlain to the
Tycoon; that they all dress in variety of
colors, blue being the favorite; that they
shave the front part of the head, and comb
and tic their long and glossy black hair
over the part shaved; that they have seve-
raj physicians along who shave the head all
over; that the object of the Embassy is to
procure an exact copy in English, of the
treaty with the United States, that which
they had having been destroyed by fire :;
that copy of the treaty in japanese, is
carried along in what is called the treaty.
box, by four men with poles after the fash
ion of Sedan chair that they have some.
body with his eyes always fixed upon this
box, and that it has never been out of
sight of its guardians, save on one occasion,
aud then only for about fifteen minutes !;
that they bring with them $4,000 to make
purchases in this country, all in Mexican
half.dolars, &c. esay everybody knows
these facts, but everybody does not know
our theory about the origin of the Japan
ese. Why should not we have theory, as
we'll as everybody else, especially since we
never had one before, but have been fol-
lowing other people all our lives, as tamely
as flock of sheep follow the bel.weather of
the tribe? Some of the theorists think the
Japanese were the progenitors of the Amer
ican Indians, and they infer thus much
from the supposed resemblance of many
words in their languages. This theory was
suggested to the Japanese Ambassadors
themselves, and they pronounced it a very
good theory indeed. People, when the
idea was once started, found abundant evil
dence to support it; as, for instance, that
japanese junks have been found wrecked
among the South Sea Islands, and on the
coast Of Russian America, proving incou-
testibly that the Japanese have occasional
ly wandered much farther from home than
the Tycoon or Ziogoon, or what ever he is
called, at Jeddo, might be willing to be-
lieve. Why may not, then, whole feet
of iuuks have been wrecked, some two or
three thousand years ago, on the desert
coast of America, and why may not the es-
capped mariners and passengers have contin-
ued in the country and laid the foundation
Of the Indian tribes? Indeed, the thorists
of the newspapers have already settled this
matter to their own entire satisfaction, and
surely, if they are satisfied, nobody else has
any right to complain. They do not, how
ever, find it easy to account for the origin
of the japanese themselves, and therefore
content themselves with saying that their
forefathers must have gotten there from the
cradle of the human race, in Mesopotamia,
long time since, and that the primitive
Kingdom Of Japan was established 2,4OO
years ago.
We do not know the authority for this
statement, but we take it for granted, be-
cause it materially assists us in establishing
our theory, which is as follows:
Let all the world pay attention; for we
are about to make a remark we do not recoI-
lect to have heard any other perSou make
in the whole course of our lives. Nineveh
was in Mesopotamia, and the japanese are
the lost tribes of Israel. If proof is wanted,
here it is: Major Noah: many years ago,
proved that the language of many OF the
} Indian tribes, and the ancient Hebrew,
bore strict analogy to each other IN point
} of construction, and besides, contained, sew.
orally, numberess words that were strictly
identical. 1t appears that the same resem'
blance exists between the language of the
Indians and that of the Japanese. Now,
if it be good mathematics to say that things
which are equal to the same thing are equa
to one another, surely it is good logic to say
that things which are like the same thing
are like one another. We hold, therefore
that the japanese language is like the He