The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-25
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.


WAsnNcroN, July "a, 1853.
The President don't respond to the request that
he will ''show up" the recently selected Minister
to France; but there are number of crcum
stances which point to him distinctly, although it
In understand his name will not be officially
announced for some time to After all
that has been said about this mission, the oft
repeated publications of predictions that it would
be given to ex-senator Dix, Of New York, and
the oft-repeated indignant denials, l would
like to wager one of Todd's best that this
distinguished Freesoiler takes the prize. The
fact is, a coup d'etat has to be managed for his
benefit. There is scarce doubt the President
designed giving him the French mission from the
day he was compelled to abandon his design of
making him Cabinet Minister. But great
row was made over it. Southern men refused
to hear of his appointment on any considera-
ton, and the storm of clamor became so fear
full that the President was forced to appear to
yield. 1t was given out all over the country
that the idea of Dix's appointment had been
entirely abandoned. Mr.. Dix himself en-
braced the opportunity to decare-in such way
that it would be sure to 60 in print-that he had
not been rendered the mission OF coure not
He had only been assured he should have it, and
he had expressed his willingness to accept it; but
no ''tender" of the place had been made. Does
the reader understand the meaning of all this ?
No, did you say' Well, do you understand what
Louis Napoleon meant by proclaiming universal
suffrage i'll advance of the empire? The latter
is more finished history, and we can all undcr-
stand that the ambitious Louis was moving by
popular means to secure an Interior end. just so
in the present case, which has not progressed SO
far. Public opinion in the South was to be quiz
eted by Mlling the suspicion of the Freesoier' 8
appointment. The Administration knows that it
is far more easy to keep down opposition to an
act after it is done than to put it down when OPP
position is likely to accomplish an end. Party
organization and discipline among the "Democ-
racy'' is such that the man who would bolt if
thwarted when the 'sblood 8 up" will submit to
any thing the leaders do while he is caught nap
ping Wisely calculating upon this assertion of
'the party mind, the President hopes tosprng the
appointment of Mr.. Dix upon the country while
the organized opposition to him is asleep. But he
don't intend to run any rash ventures, The ap-
pointment may disgust some whose services and
votes will be needed soon in the North Caro-
lima, Kentucky, and Tennessee elections, so
it will not be made public until they are
over If Mr.. Dix don't go to France soon after
that time, all / have to say is, it will be be-
cause the President has less of frmness md in
dependence than his friends claim for him. Per-
haps the Union will deny all this. If it does, Just
set the appointment down doubly sure thing;
for it seems to be the duty of an organ in these
days to decry whatever is true, and call people
idle fabricators" for telling it-pide its denial,
in yesterday issue, of the recent msunderstand-
ing between Buchanan aAd Marcy fact which
the adherents of both these gentlemen have adj
mitted over and over again during the last three
weeks, and which is quite as certain as the Union
organising, and much more certain than its pros
poets of sustaining itself as the official press.
! r. S. Barnwell, esq, of South Carolina, learn,
has been appointed Consul at. Amsterdam; and a
MIR. Murphy, now in the Sixth Auditors Office,
is appointed Consul at Shanghai.
Judge Clayton, of Mississippi, the new Consul
to Havana, was in town yesterday. Why does
the Judge not get off to his important post
There seems likely to be stirring times in Cuba
soon, and the United States should certainly be
renresanted there hu tho highest e--lA cal
laws allow MIR. Robertson, the acting Consul, is
a worthy gentleman and able man; but Spanish
etiquette and affected punctilio will never accord
the substitute the respect they feel bound to show
! the principal. as
What's in the wind from the North' Isaac v.
Fowler, the Postmaster, and John Cochrane, the
Surveyor of the Port, are here from New York
Rumor says they are looking after the Barnbur-
ner interest, and laying certain wires connected
with the Dix appointment. Won't somebody
unravel the mystery' Where's John Van Blu
rem! Hope he too isn't ssunder the meal'
Young America is to be serenaded tomorrow
night, they say, in the person of Senator Soule
Lovers of moonlight music, who don't object to a
late evening walk, will be apt to honor, by their
presence, the vicinity of G. aud l4th streets.
Mr.. Allen, the gentemanly Navy Agent, has
been allowed several additional clerks to help him
through with the work of distributing the extra
pay to sailors who served on the Pacific station
during the Mexican war. Thousands of dollars
per day are being paid on this account, and still
they go. .
Lieutenant M. F. Maury, Superintendent of
the National Observatory, recently received from
merchants, ship-owners, and others, of New York,
magnificent token of their appreciation Of his
services to commerce and navigation, in getting
up his wind and current charts. Just before leay-
ing the city, on his way to the Scientific Conven-
ton in Europe, package was placed in his hands
containing $1,000 in gold, and handsome service
of plate Such good fortune could have befallen
no more worthy man, nor more useful servant of
his country and the world ZEkE.
kossuTH's OPINION ON THE QUESTION OF WAR.
European correspondent of the Now York
Times, generally understood to be Louis Kossuth,
in letter dated the 5th of July, says:
''As the Gear has threatened that he would
cause his armies to pass the frontier if his un,a-
tssimum is simply and purely not signed, you may
depend upon il he will attack He means quite