The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-22
RUSSIA.
Her FTe%%asSP set%dsan l;a ,ksT Fast

Friendship between the two &aiISSSs, SS F"''
From interesting correspondence from 81.
Petersburg, dated June 2, we take the follow
ing:-
In one of the last numbers of the Moscow
Gazette find long and clever letter from
washington, evidently written by an American
and calculated to afford the most unalloved
qualification to all who, like myself-and their
name name is legion-bear sincere and friendly feel
ing to your country and wish for the closest pos
sible intimacy with your nation. It is a remark
able fact that, however high party spirit NAV
run, and however bitter parties may be on each
other with respect to most questions of internal
which most hostile opinions meet.
The righteousness and expediency of n fast
friendship with the United States is a thing too
universally acknowledged to admit of nnv
great amount of discussion. 1t is not often Won
hear any doubts on the subject, and verv rare
indeed to hear 1t discussed in n downrigbt
skeptical or even hostile spirit. Perhaps i'm no
Instance does the national sound political sense
more clearly manifest ITSELF The general oood
feeling is at present at its height in the expee-
tation of the new American Minister than whom
no person could have been selected more
agreeable to the Government and to the public
If 1t is indeed true, the Moscow Gazetie
Washington correspondent saws that there
is a notion among the American public
that the Alaska Territory has been ceded
to the States only as u special act of
friendship on the part of our Emperor, they are
not far from the mark for, as he very well OH
serves, il was not those paltry seven millions
that could have tempted him to part with so i'm
portant if out-of-the-way portion of his do
minions, nor would il have been ceded 10 onv
other power for ten times the sum. Another
strong claim of America on our kind feelinp is
the invariable sympathy she has shown to our
co-religionaries III the East and as for Asia she
is rather likely, if anything to become n link
between us than an occasion for strife for the
people of Asia cannot but very soon draw line
undoubtedly favorable to both nations between
el.usw Ill al H., Ii
East India; for if they will take care of their
own power and interests, neither will they leave
the indigenous population unattended to- nor
treat them with ill-concealed contempt under
pretense OF introducing their own high standard
of civilization.
AS for China, all my political friends fully
agree with the Moscow Gdzette's Washington
correspondent when he says that the completion
OF the faclhc railroad opens new aud meal
culably vast era in the history of that country
and will scarcely more affect its political and
commercial relations to America than to Russia.
Indeed this is subject so immense and fertile
with possibilities that it is next to impossible /
do not say to grasp all its probable bearings and
future results, but even dimy to conjecture
them. That something grand will come of it
can be felt but not as yet eXpounded. One thing
may bepredicted, however, with considerable Ger.
tainty-it is that revolution will be produced in
our business transactions; half what was done
through New York will now be turned the oppo-
site way and go through San Francisco of
COURSE IdhluS Oulud on the way, Tor there is
exactly such an increase of attraction to our
tea-growing neighbor among as there appears
to be among your countrymen. We begin at
last to awake to the fact obvious enough, it
would appear, that good understanding with
our Asiatic neighbors is, if anything, rather
more important than with oar European ones,
and that perhaps our young people have more
business to study Chinese and make pleasure
trips to Pekin and Yeddo than to learn Paris
slang and spend their time and money in Paris
cafes, or perhaps, in still worse places.
REVERDY JOHNSON'S ACCOUNTS SETTLED
The accounts of Mr.. Reverdy johnson, eX-Minister
to England, were audited a few days ago at the
Treasury Department. His telegraph bill for the
three months endiag March 81 amounted to $3.50 in
gold This was exclusive of the large bill which
was presented some time ago for cable telegraphng
in reference to the celebrated protocol which the
Senate rejected, and which has been paid by Barring
Brothers on the order of the State Department. Mr.
Johnson's contingent expenses during the same pc
riod amounted to sl567, which is considered mode
rate. the contingent expenses of Minister Dix, at
Paris, for similar period. amounted TO $290O The
comparison Of both items Will show that Mr. john
son was not, after all, so very eXtravagant