Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-07-29
OUR ORRESPO NDENTS
LONDON, July 1869.


there, and very pleasantly too. II one
finds such lovely weather As did. |
presume some other business is done
there except supplying the daily wants
of the inhabitants, and making new
streets and buildings. but if 50. few evil
dences Of it are apparent TO a stranger.
I was lodged alongside the fashionable
thoroughfarc. and saw few but those
who. like myself. were'eng aged In sight
seeing or living At their ease upon their
incomes. The number of strangers in
creases year by year. as Paris becomes
more attractive. and the United States
grows richer, and consequently affords
more people who are able TO spend
while abroad in search of pleasure, or it
NAV be health. for themselves or fami-
lies.
There are not few Americans who
have been there for years. Some of
them live extensively. especially when
they have unmarried daughters TO dis
pose of. and others keep house In the
Partisan stylc of one floor TO family.
which NAV be done at moderate rates.
The expense of living In Paris Is said 10
be greatly enhanced of late. which is no
doubt true. but il 50 it must have been
very cheap formerly. took my wife
10 . highly respectable boarding house,
one Of the best in the city.-where we
had very comfortable quarters. and an
excellent table. for which the whole
weekly charge was hundred and
twenty francs. or less than three dollars
and a half day for the two.
The means of locomotion are equally
cheap Elegant two horse carriages
with driver can be hired from a hun
dred Ia hundred aud fifty dollar
month, and IL j. said boy in livery will
be added. to ride behind. for a small
charge. A comfortable single horse
carriage j. the one usually used. and the
pay for il i fifty cents an hour. or
course Their, are omnibuscs everywhere.
and one can ride in them still cheaper.
A. almost all the places to be- seen. ex-
cept Theatres, are free. the necessary
cost OF couple of weeks of sight -ee-
ing in Paris, il small.
Writing OF expense. remind. me of
the pleasant reports | hear, even across
the Atlantic, of my wealth When
las. f,t ..f1i. \
such things urged BY way of reason why
| should no, be voted for. but give way
To the neccssitou-. rrcollect very well
having IL laid Ia me in 1884 at the some
what ianou. Columbia Convention -"
by an ardent friend Of Mr.. smith,
whose recent death We all lamenied -
much-..You are Young and rich. YOU
should give way 10 Mr.. Smith who j.
old aud poor. :" q did give way but
u nluckily Mr.. Smith got no benefit
from IT'D The statement was A. true
then A. the repetition Of ii j. now In
proportion Ia my ncighbors, | was better
supplied with means when | started for
Congress. than was when | got
through NV Congress ional career
am sorry la say this because know
now that | have retired from politics.
the reports hear are set on foot only
would gladly see me Astounding In prop
ertv. The truth il. n thcy will bc -or-
| ~ 20 learn. that all the property have
in the world outside Of the county Of
/ Washington. and the valley Of the ST
Croix. including bonds and note-. are
not sufficient % pay my debts. and what
property have in the locality have
I designated. j. known to all my neigh
bors a. well a. Ia myself, and they per :
haps are better Judges of it- value than
am. II on the day left Washington
last March, had sold all the property
! owned in the world for n hundred
thousand dollars and taken INV paw III
bonds ut the market value. | should have
made one of the thriftiest bargains of
my life. And the best and most valua
bic part of my property | owned long
before ] went 10 Congress. The bar
gains ! made in Washington not over
half dozen in sll,-the eight wears o
my life there-resulied ia los. as
whole. and in that respect they wer,
not different from those of some of IN,
fellow members.
The reason | write thus frankly is no
on account of myself, for the time wheI
| should have been benefited or iniure,
by such statements has gone BY, Blu
because Of the nonsense hear Abou
Congressmen's getting rich. Schencl
and Others were attacked in that way a
the last election in the West. Dawes
whose honesty is known of all his a.
sociates, shew me paper published il
his District two or three wears ago
specifying the sum he was worth whel
he entered Congress. and the large sun
he had made while there. And so
Others all over the country. The trui
Is, Congressman are pretty much lik
other men. If one of your neighbor
has lived for many years as an hone.
man in Ellsworth, it is hardly fair t
believe him a thief because he LA
moved TO Boston. And if a man la
grown to the age Of thirty, or forty, o
fifty years in Maine, and ALWAYS bee
honest in his dealings with his neigh
bors, pray what particular sense is ther
in believing he has turned scoundre
because he has been elected to Congress
But if a rascal at home, you can bet h
will be no better in Washington. 1t
; like the talk about lawyers who are q