The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-23

when patriotic duty was to be performed.
So il will be STILL The West is the grow
ing power on this continent, and perhaps
these Northern seaboard States have not as
yet begun to realize the import of it's growth.
The South, on the contrary, cultivates 1t as
siduousy. The various commercial conven-
tions exhibit West and South in intimate fell
lowship. They have common ends to serve,
and common enterprises in view for their
promotion. To this extent the cites of trade
have a certain significance. They fore
shadow changes in the current of trade which
the people of this section cannot afford to
wholly disregard.
But. politically considered, the West is more
likely to control the South than to be CON
trolled by it. On fiscal and financial questions
they are probably not far apart. When, how
ever Georgia Democrats take ground against
the Union policy which the West and the
North, united. shaped and sustain, they COM
NIT an eprepious blunder. With the Demo-
cracv which made war upon the Union, and
now makes war upon reconstruction, the
West holds no fellowship. It decides in mat
ters of that nature without pausing to esti-
mate the value of 'ties Of trade. 1t is de
voted to the Union, and to the, he,Republican party
as the party of the Union Ohio and Iowa have
lust pronounced their verdict, and its tenor
is unmistakable. Could Indiana and Illinois
be heard from, their judgment would be the
same. The West has common interest
with the industry and commerce of the South,
but none with its Democracy.
OUR MINISTER AT THE TUILERIES
from the NJ Y. Sun.
The Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States near the Court of the
Tuileries, finds himself straitened for pecu-
mary means to keep up the dignity of his
station. In plain English, Elihu is hard up.
His limited salary will not permit him to
make his bills as big as his love of maguif-
cence desires, Our niggardly Congress only
! allows him 200 year, gold which is not
near enough, so he writes home for an extra
| allowance of $4,000 for contingent eX-
penses," OF what a lady would call pin-money.
| That he thinks will relieve his present dis
tress, and when it is exhausted he will call
again.
Some of our plain, hard-working citizens
may perhaps want to know how Minister
WashbUrne contriyes TO spend so much
money. His T17, 600 year, gold, is equal to
about 1922 600 in currency, and one would
think that that ought to suffice even for a
foreign minister. But they forget the perni-
cious effect of bad example even on a Re-
| publican politician. Mr.. Washburne, while
he was in Congress, was the very incarnation
of rehenchment and economy. He had a
keen scent for every symptom of extrava-
gance in the use of the public funds,
and denounced it most virtuously. OF
plain education, frugal habits, and
democratic tastes, he was the very man
of all men to send as our representative to
the most luxurious of modern capitals. 1t
was to have been expected that he should
deport himself there like q Spartan at the
Court of Xerxes, and rebuke by his example
the wanton luxury of the gaudy Pari-
slams. But, as it was said of Bishop Colenso
that he went to Africa to convert the natives,
and the natives converted him, so Wash
burne has been seduced from his primitive
purity by the attractions of Partisan splen-
dor He has taken a suite of costly apart
ments; he has been feasted and fattered,
and has given feasts IN return to his new
found friends He has gone to Court, and
presented to the Emperor and Empress hun
dreds of rich and aristocratic American
snobs, who, of course, must entertain and be
entertained by their official representatives
He has also been at Baden and Hombourg fol
his health, both very expensive places,
Thus, in the mad whirl and carnival of Pari
sian revelry, and in the pleasures of the great
German watering places, S17, 600 in gold has
disappeared like soap bubble. 1t is the old
story Of the frog and the OK. In trying tC
emulate his brother diplomatists with salarie,
paid out of royal Golfers, Washburne's
purse has collapsed; and now he piteously
w PONPtS
When man of such stern and incorrupti
BILE virtue as Washburne fails in resisting tn,
Establishments of European diplomatic life
what hope is there for weaker aspirants
And is it not evident that our missions abroad
ought to be summarily given up? They ar
only traps and pitfalls for unsuspecting limo
cence, and it is cruel to maintain them.
PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE COLI
RING.
From the ~ Y. World.
The thickening mass of embarrassing dis
closures, and particularly the circumstantis
statements of Mr.. Jay Gould, printed in seve
raj of the city papers on Thursday, bring tn
operations of the gold gamblers SO nearl
home to General Grant, that something NOR
seems necessary, in the way of exculpatior
than the simple denial contained in his recer
letter to Mr.. Bonner. II was painful an
mortifying necessity for the President of til
United States TO be constrained to vindicat
his official honor by the publication of such
letter; il is doubly painful and mortifyin
that fha accumulation nf new avidaOca raT