The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-08
Americans In Paris.

From the Tribune.
Voltaire and Beaumarchais, the one stock
jobbing philosopher and the other CONNER
cial playwright, may be considered as the true
revolutionary prototypes of modern avidity in
Paris. Any city which makes money out of
its hospitality, will speedily come to regard all
travellers in the true tavern keeping spirit,
and to adapt the warmth of his reception to
the length of the lodger's purse. Imperial
Rome long ago went into business upon a
capital stock of antiquity, and, for several
ages, it has continued to secure by mendicity
whatever it could not extort by impudence.
'The people of Paris" says George in ''The
Vicar of Wakefield - "are much fonder of
strangers that have money than of those that
have wit. AS could not boast much of either
/ was no great favorite." Why the pilgrims
of to-day, who have been feeced through all
the phases of the grand European tour, should
vent their spleen upon America as the sharp
ing "Shylock" of the nations, is a problem to
be investigated by those who think it worth
their while. Humanity we venture to sur
mise, is much the same in all the four great
quarters; and whoever is doomed to be fiayed
should, by all means, if he has any choice,
repair to Paris, where he will be fashionably
and artistically relieved of his cuticle. He
may go further and be stripped more roughly.
There is one feature however, of the news
which reaches us from the French capital,
which, we confess, fills us with patriotic grief
We could hear, we think with equanimity of
the peeling of Prussians and Russians, of
Englishmen and Turks but it irks us to be
told that the thrifty shopmen, the lodging
letters, and the victuallers of Lutetia are
making mere pigeon OF our golden American
eagle. We are 10th to believe that the mis-
fO1tn Of no hay off ka1
denttmind. We are tenacious, not of reputa-
tion for sordid cunning but of that credit for
judiciOus bargains which has been so long and
so universally allowed us. When we hear of
Yankee who has been outwitted, we feel as
the elder Weller did when Samuel, the boy of
his careful culture, was bamboozled by the
fearful TrotteT Alas if the universal testi-
mony is to be received, our Samuel upon
his travels is no luckier than the gentle
man who went down from Jerusalem to
JeIlcho; while in these degenerate days, the
priests and Levites lamentably outnumber the
good Samaritans. They understand the Colum-
bian proclivities in Paris, and they have taken
their measures according to their knowledge
Newspaper correspondents announce that EIGHT
| special restaurants have been provided for our
occidental grinders; in six bar-rooms the
national cocktail foams, and the ice tinkles in
| the verdant julep of the free and the brave;
| there are meeting-houses for the pious; there
are milliners by the Million and tailors by the
thousand, and diamond-dealers by the hun
dred, for those republicans who are attached to
| gorgeous raiment; there are picture-dealers
who know our passion for the works of Pietro
Perugino, and who have provided several
cords of the canvas ascribed (by themselves)
to that eminent master; while the very boys
on the bridges anticipate boot-blaoking brill
liancy of business and an influx OF sous and
centimes which contest between our patent
feathers and Partisan mud will naturally and
inevitably OCCASION
We are far from believing that our country