The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-02-10

United Countries, While over the rooms
devoted to his suite the card read For
the Noble Followers The rooms were
covered with niats "a ordinary Japanese
style with btdserSor hitetehcs, as they
are called here, shnk intb the floor,
being simply little sduare pits filed with
linc, clean sand, with charcoal fires
lighted in the cen$e. The invariablc
custom of serving 3 was first yto puss
around tea, then tc,Bring in little tea.
pot to each room, flled with tea, and
place it on the fire, that each might re
plenish at pleasurea Then would follow
japanese meal se,sed in wooden bowls
with chop-sticks, which we soon became
expert in mauipd RSiug To cat soup
with two straight sticks was at first
poser, but VIC discovered how it could
be done-that is,tby putting enough
boiled rice into tn! bowl to Absorb the
soup, and then cailng the rice. During
the journey we ats many mixtures and
things that it woSs be quite impossible
to describe, and III which We knew nci-
ther name or origN A ride of thirty
or forty miles os3 Kicking and baulty
ponies, in cold SCI breezes, on the beach,
or over mouutainS on the worst of trails.
prepares ones steksach to receive almost
anything that caas possibly be dig>s,ed
without the possi or being over curious
as to the cuisine The eye would come
times dwell Lung BY for moment on
the contents of lA ss,wl OF strange mix
lures, and the ASTON come iecbly up
in the uriud as hether ,he oaerel
reircshment w3sss lat, or bat; but II
craving appotas sslaarally cut short all
such specuatlg'
RELIGIOUS wS AND RELIGIOUS
Alppg The sasel, Whenever we
i found aus So wo woull find lit
hflssmitisi q ,i,l,es, With ss9ae
some instances dressed with red cloth.
and in others without raj nont. Before
each OF sliose places wouli be seen the
lnvariabie red gates denoting the f ith
to be Sintooism, the religion of the
Nikado and of the Government. In
the discussion that ensued many months
ago between this Government and the
foreign representatives. when the at
tempt was made by the latter to save the
settlement Of native Christians near
Nngasak from persecution, the question
Was pressed home on The Government to
know why it was that this people were
being sent into baniSllmant and slavery
If it was not on accoun. of their beiug
Christians. The reply was. because the,
We're insubordinatc and ungDvcrnlblc.
but ths cXtcut OF the inSlborlnation
WAS that they refused to pass through
those red gates; this bein. the test of the
faithful. II is an established fact that
terrific religious war is now going on in
Japan between the Sintoo and Bul,list
sccis, the latter being possessed OF the
most valuable estates aud privileges ac-
CURED during the three hundred years
Of the Tycoon, whose faith was Bud
disn. With the ins'al!ment Of the pre-
sent Government. the Mikado brought
Sintooism, the faith Of his ancestry, to
the 'front.', and he has steadily prosecuted
the Buddist sect, stripping them of
privileges and possessions until it is
rumorcd that, in despair, they have re
Gently been making some nvortnsoa =
ihr'stians, looking to an alliance of
strength to resist the common foe
Hence it is that the trayclcr in ,Japan
finds the sorgeou, temples Of the Bud
dis's going to decay and Utmost deserted.
while the ncw Sintoo temples are
throngei with dcyotcos. 1t does not
appear to disturb his peoplc any to
change the gods they worship, and there
is but little reason why it shoald.
sACRILIGIOUs pOG, AND \ SINGULAR
CUSTOM.
We had with US dog, "Icro. whose