COMMANDER ADAMS A K K I V E S AV I T U THE TREATY. 



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SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. 



COMMANDER ADAMS ARRIVES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THE TREATY. SUBMITTED BT THE PRESIDENT AND RATIFIED BY 



THE SENATE. CO.MMANDER ADAMS SENT BACK WITH AUTHORITY TO E-XCHANGE RATIFICATIONS —ARRIVES AT SIMOD.A 



AFTER AN ABSENCE OF LITTLE MORE THAN NINE MONTHS ALTERED ASPECT OF THE PLACE FROM THE EFFECTS OF AN 



EARTHauAKE. JAPANESE ACCOUNT OF THE CALAMITY LOSS OF RUSSIAN SHiP-OF-WAR DIANA. RUSSIANS MAKE A TREATY 



EXACTLY LIKE OURS, WITH A SUBSTITUTION MERELY OF NAGASAKI FOR NAPHA AS O.VE OF THE THREE PORTS. FRENCH 



SHIP BRINGS IN TWO SHIPWRECKKD JAPANESE. AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO RECEIVE THEM EXCEPT FROM UNDER OUR FLAG" 



HAVI.VG NO TREATY WITH FRANCE. .MEN TAKEN ON BOARD THE POWHATAN, AND THEN RECEIVED BY THEIR COUNTRY! 



MEN. ENERGY OP JAPANESE IN REBU1LDING»SIM0DA FREEDOM OF INTERCOURSE WITH THE PEOPLE. NO MORE ESPION- 

 AGE. BRISK TRAFFIC AT THE SHOPS. DELIVERY TO CAPTAIN ADAMS OF SOME RELIGIOUS TRACTS LEFT AT SIMOD.A BY 



MR. BITTINGER. JAPANESE HAD LEARNED TO MANAGE THE LOCOMOTIVE, BUT NOT THE TELEGRAPH. MORYAMA YENOSKE 



PROMOTED. .MESSAGE FROM THE COMMISSIONERS TO COMMODORE PERRY. RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED. 



HE Narrative of the Japanese Expedition, properly speaking, 



ended with the act recorded in the closing sentence of the 



last chapter ; hut for the completion of the story, it is 



thought it will prove not unacceptable to our countrymen to 



._ present the suhsequent transactions connected with the treaty 



4i up to the exchange of ratifications by the respective repre- 



3 sentatives of Japan and our own government. 



Commander Adams, it will be remembered, was dispatched 

 home with the copy of the treaty, on the 4th of April, 1854, 

 in the Saratoga. On the 1st of May, he reached Honolulu, 

 and took the first vessel that offered for San Francisco, and 

 thence, taking the usual route, via Panama, reached the 

 City of Washington on the 12th of July, thus making the 

 travel from Japan to our seat of government in three months 

 and eight days. The treaty was submitted by the President 

 to the Senate, and was by that body promptly and unani- 

 mously ratified ; and on the 30th of September Commander 

 Adams left New York with the ratified copy for Japan. On reaching England, he took the 

 overland route, and arrived at Hong Kong on the 1st of January, 1855. The Powhatan was 

 ordered by Commodore Abbot immediately to convey Commander Adams to Simoda, where he 

 arrived on the 26th of January, 1855, with full powers as the representative of the United 

 States to exchange with the Japanese authorities the ratifications of the treaty. The journey 

 back to Simoda occupied three months and twenty-seven days, and the whole time that elapsed 

 between the signing of the treaty and the arrival of it in Japan, duly ratified by the President 

 and Senate, was nine months and twenty-two days. 



■ On the arrival of Commander Adams at Simoda, he found a great and sad change in the 

 physical aspects of the place. In the interval during his absence from Japan, (on the 23d of 



