New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-09

| LAKE AND IT'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| RESIDENCES AGAIN-HANGIEG GARDENs-A
LAST RIDE IN YEDO-DEPARTURE--THE TO.
KAIDO AND ITS CROwDs--A NIPPON BELIE-.
sINAGAwA, IT'S INNS AND RHPUTATIoy-A
TRAVELLING GRANDEE AND HIS TRAIy-wAY.
SIDE BEGGARS-ExECUTlON GROUND--KA.
wAsAKI-A LECTURE ON DEPORTMENT-AN
AFTER-DINHER HOUR-SCALDING HOSPITAL
TY-BACK TO KANAGAwA.
From Our Own Correspondent.
KANAGAwA, JAM, 1861.
The Gardens of Iooniso &. The Twelve
Spirits") is another pleasure resort few miles
out OF the city, in the western suburbs. Its at
fractions are simple, but those simplicities in
which this people much delight. There is Q
little artificial lake lying between slopng banks
of green turf shaded by ornamental trees that
repeat their forms in the smooth and sleepy
pool. A long parterre Of flowers, mostly carna-
ton pinks, adOrns one side Of the miniature lake.
There are seats on the lawn and under the shade,
and across one end of the lake is bridge made by
connected series of tea-booths built piles where
pleasure parties may sit and look out upon the
pretty bit of scenery before them trees, garden and
waters or watch the goldfish, whose brilliant coats
of mail gleam in the crystal flood below. In the
rear of the tea-h0uses again is grove Of fine old
frs out of whose somber depths comes the tinkling
of some tiny waterfall, quite the sort OF place
that would be dangerous to susceptible young hearts
in other lands, but Laura Matilda moving the Pine
boughs with her sghs is not Nippon institution.
While stroing about the pleasant gardens, taking
note of the different groups Of visitors scattered
about the lawns and under the trees, to whom the
busy watnsses were bringing tea on ackered trays
| was witness to trifling yet amusing incident.
| crow percbed on nelghborIng tree was watching
with sinister intent party who were dining In ono
of the little tea-cottages over the lake. They ore
impudent fellows these great Japanese crows.
| whom nobody harms. There was one knew that
daily stole the dinners of IS little dogs, and
hid them in the matched roof which the thief had
converted into one extensive cache tor that pur-
pose.
This particular gentleman in black of which am
speaking eyed the tempting repast till appetite
oyercame his caution, when lie swOOped down from
his perch under the roof into the open tea-house,
and astonished the dining party by picking up q
sayOry morsel from the very trays OF which they
were eating, and flying away with IT In his claws.
Not less tame or bold were the goldfish which
swan in the clear waters Of the little lake. As /
stood on the bridge looking out into the waters one
of the servants to my side and repeatedly struck
his hands together. Obedient to the cab, the golden
| ID,
ange and gold, superb fellows, fifteen, eighteen.
twenty or more inches long, came swimming up
| from the deeper waters for the expected meal.
There was no indecent haste, scrambling for the
falling crumbs; they swan lesurey and gracefully
| for the fsating morSeis, and deyOured them with
the dgnifed manner OF fish that knew their position
in the piscatory scale, and that there were crumbs
enough for all. The japanese are remarkably sue
cessiul m the culture of the golden carp, pushing
| their hybridsm 10 curious results. The variety
offered for sale in market is not only large but st
moderate prices. Beside the usual scarlet and
! gray we have the same singulary mottled with
WHIT, III spots and spashes, large and small; en-
trey white, resembling tho eyeless fish OF Echo
| River in the Mammoth Cave; white and purple,
and even tricolored-the real red, white and blue
There is yet another variety, smaller and more deli
cate whose caudal and yentTal fms broad and fan
shaped, of size excessive compared with their
| bodies are constructed of q soft hlamentous tex
ture so gossamer-hke as to be nearly invisible In
| the water. Our ish-feeding was brought to an un-
timely end by one of our Yakunins, who at this mo-
ment signalized himself by falling over the teapot
our landady had just sent out with supply of the
fragrant brewing destroying that and his equannD'
ity nj the same moment. His evident distress at
this show Of awkwardness before Strangers, and his
heroic determination 10 pay tSe damages Oour
cents) required the soothing attention and renon.
strances of the household 70 the further neglect
! Tie UhU. IL was u tVs1i NitNhi NN-INt Noo "
yond Spadings glue, the tea was absorbed by the
officers baggy inexpressibles, and il was no more
! than fair that we should allow it all in tho biI,
when. soon after, we babe adeu 10 loonso.
Our Yakunns who were acting also as guides, To-
day took us back to the city by populous thorough
fare, occupied principally by small tradesmen and
hucksters. Long rows of two-stoy buildings, the
best by far on that street, were nomnally inns and
| the houses of dissipation and vice a. weI. Back
| ;,,t ~. aooin th.v conducted for hour
ride or more among the prneey residences OF the
aristocratic quarter through streets which We had
| not passed before. More than was | impressed
with the picturesque beauty of these metropolitan
residences. There is nothing in our own country
really like thcm tie suburbs of Boston have p0ints
of resemblance in that beauty gotten of shade and
carefully disposed and cultivated gardens aud
grounds. We rode for miles over the undulating
surface through wide streets oversprcad by leafy
branches, and narrow ones winding in and out
among the hedge rows. Terraces oyerhung the
roadside crowned with residences, where Summer
houses pecIed out Of yordant shade and arbors sup
ported the uXunant wisteria, and hanging gardens
with little grots and rockwOIk covered with azaess
and stone urns supporting dwarf yews and pnes,
sent down their pleasant fraCrances. The grounds
belonging to the house OF kipsin were particularly
beautiful We might have enyed the loyal owner
their possession, but we remembered how
Uneasy lies the head that crown"
and reserved our euylous admiration for the reel
dence of the royal astronomer, built on the summit
| of steep terrace, the approach TO when was ~
winding starcases of stone. laid out amid shrnbbep
and flowers. 1t was natural observatory from
winch to view those upper terraces OF starry
| lights. Yet much as | might wish to look upon
those star-gazers who st in the gates of sunrise
curious as il would have been to have seen Their
helps to the study of the stars-it was Ike mos'
places worth visiting in fedo, forbidden gIouhd.
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