The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-08
The Japanese who are Coming
Princes and Peasants.

Herr Schnell, Prussian gentleman,
for ten years past, resident in the north
ern principalities of Japan, has arrived
in San Francisco with three Japanese
families. These families are the precur-
sors of forty Japanese families now on
the way for our port, and of further
accession Of eighty families, making in
all one hundred and twenty families, or
say four hundred persons who are coming
here for permanent settlement They
are mostly silk cultivators and manufac-
turers; some are culturists. They bring
with them 30, 900 trees of the Morus alba,
three years old. This is the most tender
leaf of all the mulberries, and it makes
the best silk in that country. They
bring a great number of bamboo plants
of the large variety, useful for a thousand
purposes. They are twelve feet high.
Also 500 vegetable wax trees, four. feet
high, and three years old They bring
also 5000, 900 of tea nuts. The seed of
the tea plant is a small nut.
Herr Schnell was Interpreting Secreta-
nv to the Prussian Legation, and latterly
Minister of Finance to the northern prin-
CAPABILITIES at war with Mikado. He is
complete master of the japanese Ian
guage, and was attached to Prince Usu,
under whom he held an important COM
mand. The defeat of the North has OBJ
liged him to seek elsewhere for peace and
occupation. 1t is not improbable that
three Princes will follow him and share
his fortunes Herr Schnell possessed one
hundred and twenty retainers and their
families They look to him for means of
living, and charges himself with their
care, support, and guidance in way to
conform to the law and usages of our
country. They are not serfs, but free
If the Princes come they may bring
many more industrial families They
are highly educated and polished gentle
men, with families brought up in the
highest refinement. They fully cOmpre-
bend our laws and usages and will con-
form to them.
1t should be understood that the ia
panese conduct themselves with dignity
but they are prompt to repel insult and
imposition. They cannot safely be treated
as Cinnamon often are. They come with
their families. They bring skill and in
dustry to develop our resources. Herr
Schnell means to buy Government land,
HOT III the NaIleys, WHICH are unSulte1,
but in the cheaper hill or mountain lands.
These gravelly loans are best adapted to
the healthiest growth of silkworms, and
to the finer qualities of silk; and especi-
ally is it an axiom, Hills for fine teas,
dales for coarse" He knew that we were
Overstocked with common mulberry trees
in nursery, with very few set out for per-
manent plantation so he has brought
his own trees. He does not intend to
feed worms till his trees now three years
old, have another full years growth.
The japanese do not esteem either eggs
or cocoons fed, like ours, on cuttings
scarce rooted in the nursery. Three feet
is the standard hight of plantation null
berries in Japan. They never bear the
stem, but the branches are allowed to
grow clear to the ground, thus giving the
bark protection from sun-scalds Their
mode of feeding is TO cut off the entire
branch, instead of plucking the leaves,
and thus the worm has always a Clearly
feeding place Alta California.