The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-21
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The day is not likely ever to come when Mr.
Eeward like Alexander, will weep because
There are no foreign countries left for him TO
ucauire; but there is a fair prospect that there
mill soon be no strange lands to tempt the ad-
kenturous footsteps of explorers, and no dis
lant territory so little known as to justify one
nn making book about it. We have solved
pretty nearly all the great problems OF geo
eyrapbv.o We have found the Northwest pas
sage and the sources of the Nile We have
nroyed that there are no mountains OF the
Snoon where the old physicists said there were,
and no cold weather in the Russian pOssesslOns
near the North Pole. Our missionaries nave
traversed the length and breadth OF Ohlnsi vul y
merchants have forced their way thIougn tne
jealousy guarded gates OF Japan So,o 49, 80
Heaven has been compelled TO nee troln nl.!Is nio
1nalaco NJ Pekin before the armies OF outside
harbarians. Even the sacred precincts OF
Mecca have been profaned by the foot OF the
infidel: and there is now newspaper reporter
in almost every part of the habltaole gloDe'
Fast steamships are making regular trips be-
tween San Francisco and Yokohama ana hong
Kong. Chinese laborers are building our
Pacific Railway, Japanese acrobats are tumbling
and posturing in the New York Academy OF
Music: and it is only the other day that the
Journals reported the appearance in the streets
of one of our cities of genuine Chinese lady,
small feet and all. An embassy from the most
secluded of Eastern courts to the gay capitals
of Europe and America, is no longer matter
of wonder The brother of the mysterious
Tycoon himself is to-day gazing at the glories
of the Paris exhibition, and at the same time
official representatives of his Government are
shaking hands with Mr.. Andrew Johnson in
Washington.
We are forcibly reminded of the vast pro
gress made during the last quarter of CEN
fury in extending that free intercommunica-
ton which promotes the universal brother
hood of nations, by the publication of two
curious communications from two of the
most interesting countries of the far
East. The steamer brought us, the other
day, two newspapers from Japan, one printed
in the yernacular, and the other in English.
That there should be an English and American
population in that exclusive county large
enough TO support newspaper, is of itself a
significant fact; but our interest is excited
chiefly by the native periodical. The Ban Kok'
Shin Bun SKI, or "All Countries News Hear
ing Paper" as this journal is called, with its
fourteen rice-paper pages filed with news and
advertisements, its snowy title-page, decorated
with the picture of a steamship, its excellent
summary of intelligence from all parts of the
world and its description and explanation OF
the electric telegraph, is proof in itself that
the old wall of exclusion has been broken
down, and the strangely contrasted civiliza-
tions of the East and the West are about tc
greet each other. .lt ....
On the same day that we received the frs
number of this Japanese paper, Mr.. Seward
gave 20 the public translation of History o
Amciica, written by distinguished Chinese
scholar and statesman, to whom, in recognition
of tie appreciation of the character of Wash
5ngton evinced in that curious work, our Stat
Department has ordered copy of Gilber
Stuart's portrait of the Father of our Countr,
10 be transmitted.