The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24
THE REBELLION.

NfAE JAPS TIRED OF PROTECTION.
The revision of the Japanese treaty makes
out iNtle progress. Notes have passed be-
tween the foreign ministers and the Jam
anese government, but e.latter is using all
lts endeaYois 10 have the eX-territoriai iu-
risG ction abolished, which point the minis
ters have been instructed by their respective
governments not TO concede. NegotiatiGns
may be said at present to be in a dead lock.
IL ls said that the budget for 1874, prepared
/ Dv the minister of finance, show q very
favorable state of International finance. Great
anxiety felt for the Pacific Mail steam
ship Alaska. which did not arrive here till
the evening OF the 9th, nine days over the
contract time. The delay was caused. bv
bad weather.
n scheme IS under consideration Ss<.im-
proving the hsrhor by building picrs.so as
TO shelter the anchorage from the winds
In correspondents summary OF jar
anese news inst received. he gives IN ac-
count of an attempt upon the life of the
/ lwakure, and sass that some of his assaiI-
ants were discovered and arrested toward
the end oI january, while Others still
remain az large. IL Is understood their mo-
tive was one of political hostility waich is
felt toward Iwakura by many persons of
various degrees of rank. There is no sus
piciCn, however, that the assault was-sanC
toned by any of the leaders of the antagc
hAStAC DdAbiCSs lncSo IcdQ6Ts uea06 q niue
MORE FORMIDABLE DEMONSTRATION
against the government, of which he is
most important member by means OF :,
memorial to the MikadO, attacking the ad-
ministration in violent terms. and proposing
radical and immediate reform chie.lKin the
establishment of u national legislative body
The Incorporate tone of this document
would have deprived it of all weight, had it
not been signed by some of the most popu-
lar men in the country than
nma, a former vigorous minister a foreign
affairs. Great surprise was expressed at
! finding the name of this statesman, and
those Of some others OF equal eminence.
appended to a seditious memorial. But no
action was taken beyond the publication of
brief answer to the effect that the subjects
alluded to had long been under the govern
ment's consideration, and the establishment
OF a parliament had for some time
been decided upon. Immediately af-
ter the appearance OF this memo
rial, the country was startled by the report
of insurgent gatherings in Sagaken, better
known as the old province of HiZen. reports
which were wildly exaggerated and distorted
by the Yokohama newspapers. The real
facts of the insurrec,ion up to the
present time are not OF q disturb
ing character and first broke cut in the
neighborhOod of the city OF Sage. 1t has not
vet spread to any considerable distance. The
ostensible motion OF the rising was TO
demonstrated the desire of the Ss,nurai in that
section for war with Corea but that is
believed to be only the nominal rallying,
the real grievance being g.. f,rr-,......
THE RENDoUBLED HARpsHIRs,
which the political changes of the last three
, years have brought upon the military cls 80
Although Sage is the state TO which
Soyezinia beIongs, no charge OF completely in
this movement Is made against hun. he
continues to reside at freedom in YedGO.
| ! -,
that many of the disalascted have taken
advantage of the mOmentary excitement
, caused by his memorial TO make. this
demonstration more eflsetive thar il other
wise might he. The government has acted
with great pTOmpUness. ana thus laE, with
! tn rough success. IL thH confusi-Si of the
| uprising of some five Thousand sf ,Nfsii. GER
, tain inevitable casualties hapiersfI. rS',ne
officials were seized, The. bank YVES attacked
and an old castle was burned, br-s about the
, middle of the month troops wers called aud
, dispatched to the Sce..e or the disturbance
; and high civil Official, Okubo, minister Of
the interior, charged with the task OF
instituting official inquiries on the spot
ON the 22d and 23d of this month news was
received the first encounters between ths
national troops and the insurgents. EhesI
, took place probably on the list and
22d at the small towns of!TOderdaka and
Abyoma, in the near vicinity of Saga, which
q latter CITY has been in the possession of the
rebels for several days. The number OF goV-
+ ernment troops was sma9e not excseding a
. few hundred, The first zho arrived. The
resistance osssFed them Eas so sight that
the affair is hardly considered eSsn in the
, light of a serious skirm.sh. The best results
. appear TO have been thu proofs of spirit and
) LOYALTY shown by the national sc}diers. IGs
rebels ret zeated in, cSatnslon toward saga
7 ON which their assailsnts were advancing al
|, the last accounts. The dissatisfaction Is
: not believed to have spread beyond th'
/ very limited space in which u frs
MANIFESTED IIszLF.
e A messenger is. known to. have besa SEN
g to communicate with SaIaZs, of Satsums
2, but he was ordered out Sf the province il
: haste. Samiza Sabarno. the Old ruler G
5 satsuma, was Immediately sent southwark
/. AT his own request, to watch the affairs in
,r Tour district. This is absolutely all of in
r portancs that has transpired to the presen
~ date The statements in many of the Yoko
m homa papers are without foundation and d.
G. not create much excitement. Thes
IS foreign representatives who always seei
~ for opportunilies of display have beer
=, =, encouraged by several characteristic
demonstrations, and the citizens o
rs Yakohoma i've agitated the question oSas
~ ~ tablishing volunteers for their own defence
o. IL is important to understand that not
D. single one of the reports with which, tha
IN settlement has overfiowed during the pas
y, twogeeks have been confirmed, and onl
- - certain facts relating to the hostl9des ar
es known. The treasury department has pre
nd sented an earnest protest against the futnr
be regulation of the tariff by treaties. Towar
G the last of January one hundredand twenty
u a. five thousand dollars have beea paid to eac
a. of the three foreign representatives who ha
to announced a determination to- extend tn
er balances of tho Simeonescki-indeinni 4
"a "a case certain ncJmmercial and other oOncesslol
" should not pe granted by the Japanese. Thes
ne installme,lts were for England, France an
IN Holland. No part of the amount Que %
), United States was offered to Mr. Blnghamsi
re re accordance with his wishes to that efiec
er yen OmOto starts Tor ~. IeSersnufR tet
n me. nth. and will carry out the regulation
90 or r,ncerning Marialus and Saghalien, the PR
:, .iminaries of which were entrusted 20 Hon:
be busa, the secretary OF the legation