Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-06-13
Washington Gossip.

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We extract the following from the ex.
c~el!ent Washington correspondence Of III.
Ba' timore Sun
The net Secretary of the State Ia, hi.
hands full. Not only are the continued
changes in Europe altering our relative
position in regard to European powers:
but themselves are compelled to withdraw
the extendedhand Of, friendship to sustain
themselves at home. Thus, u treatie,
with Hanover, Oldenburg and Meek
lenburg Schwerin, made but a rear ago.
are on the point Of becoming annulIed:
these powers having already given the re-
quired notice to that effect. 1t might hav,
hern foreseen that a political change in
Germany would compel these powers to
join the other German States, politically
and commercially, and that a treaty with
Germany, can only be made with these
powers who. like Prussia, represent them.
Ihe unceremonious manner with which
the Prussian Minister, Baron Roenne, has
lately been treated in regard to the steam
ship United States, has o smoothed the
way toward a better understanding, and
has rather had an acidifying diplomatic
tendency. We have laid toom much stress
on separate treaties with all the smaller
German States, and have neglected a
treaty with the Zoliverein.
The different blockades of Venice. 81.
city, the German parts on the North Sea.
DC, may give rise to complicate questions,
all of which will require an immediate
solution at the hands Of Mr.. Clayton
The occupation Of the portion of the ter
ritory Of Nicaragua by Great Britain, and
the appeals which have been made by
that power to US, may also be worthy Of
notice, though the British pretensions to
California set forth in some Of Tie Eng.
lish prints, are never intended to suauirs
more than a mere literary and scientific
reputation.
The news received here from Missouri;
Is that Col. Benton, with the manly stand
he took for the Union, is carrying all BE-.
fore him, and that he will, beyond a doubt.
be returned to the Senate Of the United
States by the new Legislature. The
Calhoun movement in Missouri was in.
stigated by politicians here, and must, by
no means, be looked upon as The sponta-
Eeous expression of the will of the p-o-
pie of Missouri. Col. Benton was not
the man to be thus entrapped by the wire
workers, or to bring a great principle into
the political stock market of his State
He will maintain his place, not only in
the Senate, but also in the democratic
party. "
The whole South Carolina movement,
as it is called, is an abortion, end no more
threatens the dissolution o. the Unionthan
the effor, to revive the fifteen gallon law
in Massachusetts. There are enough
Southern men to crush it to atoms, and the
cause Of the whole tempest in a teapot
will be removed in less than a year BY
admission of California as a Stete.
The Union was never stronger than it
is, the noise of few professional
croakers to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
We may, in the course Of this Sum.
mer, expect the ARRIVAL OF more than two
hundred thousand cmigrants from Germa-
ny-mostly men Of considerable means,
or less compromised in the late
revolutions. If, as was estimated BY
the former Secretary of State, each of these
men brings with him only on an average
eiO sterling, the money thus brought to;
The country cannot be less than two mil.
oas of dolars. This is but from one.
European State, the others will no doubt:
US with their quota. a@'
A very large amount of U. s. 9 per
cent stock, is taken for German accounts,
md the investments IN that country in:
American securities are constantly on the.
increase. III "s.t I3f'@ ii.
Contrast bet,0een a Queens Speech
md a Pyesident's Message.-The LON