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needed until time for spring growth to commence.— Western Fanner.Mr. Washburne’.* Allowances.The Illinois Warwick, Mr. Washburneit seems, did not carry his demonstrativesystem of economy to Paris with him, for he has made application for an additional $1$,000 of allowances to the legation ot which he is so iilustrious an ornament,^ I for contingent expenses. As the present 1(1 allowance has heretofore been esteemed sufficient by the really eminent diplomatists who were Mr. Wasliburne’s predecessors at the French court, this application, from one who in the last Congress made himself the rough champion of economy in cutting down the expenses of everybody else’s office, occasions some surprise and provokes some remarks.Mr. Washburne will be chagrined when he learns the result of his application, fie has miscalculated his power. Minister Washburne at Paris is a different person from Congressman Washburne in Illinois, lie left fully one-half his influence behind him when he went abroad. At home his requests were generally complied with, but a request from him three thousand | miles away is laughed at. Let him read one ot his retrenchment speeches, and submit to the hardships of his ill-paidoffice with as good grace as possible.—Missouri Rejm II lean.A Perfect Fom«eno l anternStov and Tts a lily11 is tlHerin ahedistgistdonwoipoitsixtrealt;motTtwhicaltotweiTEthavetionhavefor 1worrace'hasmanprolt;seei
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Centralia Democrat
Centralia, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 04, 1869
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