Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-04
Ths japanese Embassy in thsir Voyage Home
Something about Tommy"

A correspondent of the philadelphia Press
writes a letter to that paper, dated U. $. steam
frigate. Niagara, harbor Of Hong-Kong, octo-
ber 90, 1860, in which he says that the Niagara
would leave there on the following day, expect
ing to arrive at Yeddo, about the 18th oil NO
yember. We make the following extract from
the letter. The shabby treatment which the ia
pspese received on board the Niagara, 1t the
account given below is true, is deeply to be re-
gretted: :
"Little has occurred of interest during our t'ip
being iu such hurry to get the Embassy home
They still have the most kindly feeling TO our
nation, but are perfectly disgusted with the
manner they have been treated by our captain
during the voyage. He has entirely overlooked
the fact that the ship was fitted out for the ex-
nress accommodation OF the Japanese, and he
bas treated them more as servants than guests,
carving into effect many rules whibh are very
good in the discipline Of q ships company OF 10
navy, but might have been well done away WIN
In this case. For instance, preventing their nav'
ing lights in their cabins after nine O'Clock, ai-
though they particularly requested it; and pre-
venting them from smoking around the ship, but
at stated intervals. BY such like little aggra-
vatious as these he hes procured for himself the
dislike Of them all, and they are by no means
choice in their expressions Of disgust More
over, by making long passages, it has been i'm
possible to furnish them with fresh water for
washing purposes, and as they have dislike to
salt water their quarters have become overrun
with vermin. think if some of those love-sick
damsels who were SO carried away with Tom
my, were to see him OF warm day; hugging
himself and kissing their likenesses, they would
sigh for him no more. On Tuesday lost we re-
ceived visit from our American Minister, MIR.
Ward. 1t 10 his intention to wait here until we
return from Japan, (Which will be about the
| lst Of January nextO when we will convey him
to Alden, and then return to the United States
where we will arrive about June" --
A correspondent Of the New York Times il
more explicit in his account of "Tommy:"
"'Tommy' is in excellent spirits, but as he
draws nearer home he is becoming more init
mate with the servants, whom he irowned upoI
| in America, when he thought he was considered
high officer of the Embassy, and the blood
relation Of Prince. For the benefit of the Ia
dies who made go much of him in the United
States, and one of whom he says he is going t
4 marry, will here state that he is nothing NOR
than the adopted son OF the second interpreter
Tateish Tokoguro, and came out as his servant
but, being bright boy, and quick to learn, b
soon got up reputation, but which am sorr
to say ia now fast dying away. Poor boy littl
does he think that If he were to return to th
United States, as he is still bent upon doing, an
3 wants to have an application made by some Q
our officers to the Tycoon for permission fc
, himself and several other Japanese boys to 6
to the Naval Academy, he would not be notice!
Q and most likely, before many weeks woul
Q elapse, he would be under the painful neoessit
q of selling ground-nuts in the streets Of Ne
| York - GOO.