Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-01
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


The PSEUDO DIPLoMATIsr, of the New York
Herald, in his issue of Saturday, approaches
the subject of his icritte's application for the
French Mission on fc tn tie State Depart
ment. He nibbles round it like mouse
fearing to grapple boldly with it. He by no
means dares to deny the existence OF THIS
written evidence of his impudence. We are
not among those who believe that his vanity,
though we know him to be we'll nigh entirely
self-consumed by it, led him ever to expect 10
get that mission As, with all his seif-con'
ceit, he is not utterly devoid of single spark
of common sense. He was after somewhat
smaller game. By way of explaining what
that game really was, we put to him the 1oi-
lowing queries, to which We should like TO
have categorical answers, though We believe
that he does not dare to give them. They are
as follows:
Did you, or did you not have the presump-
ton to ask for the Mission to France
Did you not expect by demanding so high
post, to receive at least the Mission to Austria
Were you not SO confident of success, as to
make an indirect application to the Austrian
Government to ascertain whether you would
or would not be received by them as Ameri-
can Charge
Did you think of leaving Niesbaden until
you heard of the appointment Of Judge Jack
son to Austria, and until you also heard Of the
filing of the rest of the diplomatic posts ct
this Government, without giving you place ?
1t is we'll known from letters received by
foreign diplomatists stationed here, that Ben
nett actually went SO far as to formally sound
the Austrian Minister of State, to ascertain
how he was likely to be received when his
commission as Charge to Austria arrived out;
and among the standing jokes at the dinner
tables of such persons in Washington, are ac-
counts of the antics he cut at Wiesbaden on
finding that he had deceived himself as to the
probability of his receiving diplomatic post
at the hands of President Pierce.
We pursue this subject, only by way Of
awakening public opinion, the country over,
to tho necessity of reform in the personnel
of those who assume to be pleading men in pub
lie affairs, which can be illustrated in no bet
ter manner, than by making it we'll known
that to such pass have such things come,
that eUen Mr. James Gordon Bennett has felt
at liberty to "run his face" for the French
Mission.
Unfortunately for our purpose, such are
the rules governing the State Department,
that it has been impossible for us to get
a word out of any one employed there
concerning BENEFITS letter of applica-
ton. We commenced the search, origi-
nally, upon information direct from Wies-
baden, and have continued it through unwit-
ting hints from leaky vessels-his own
friends-until we have ascertained for GER
tainty that his letter Of application for tile
French Mission Is on file tn the State De-
partnsent. His halfgiven consent to its pub
LEGATION is q mere rnse, to create the impress
sion that it has no existence; for he knows
we'll that nothing short of call from Con
gress will get word on the subject out of any
one connected with the State Department.
Mr.. MARCoLErA-The New York Tribune
| informs us that theNicarasuana authorities have
again accredited Mr.. Marcoleta to this Gov.
eminent, and expresses the belief that the pre-
sent Secretary of State will consent to receive
him on the ground that his original difficulty
with Mr.. Webster grew out of a GO difference
on point of etiquette This is mistake
very wide, indeed, of the truth. MIR. Webster
originally demanded his recall, on account of
fragrant breach of confidence on his part
Thus. at his request, Mr.. w permitted him to
read an important state paper in manuscript
| with pledge on his part that he would mel
ther take notes from it not copy it. He was
detected in the act of copying it, and being
taxed with his breach of the confidence of thi.
Government, denied the fact, and was after
wards compelled to give up the copy of the
paper in his own hand writing His conduct
| throughout that affair compelled Mr.. w. te
| Government, Mr.. Everett (who was in Office
when the refusal reached Washington sum
marily dismissed him no official intercourse
having been held with him in the interim
Under these circumstances, it can hardly be
possible that the present Secretary of State
will consent to put himself in communicate
with Mr.. Mareoleta; more especially as he
is believed to have rendered himself notorious
after his first offence, by prostituting his
quasi official position for the purposes Of
stock operators in Wall street.
The STATE OF THE russo TURKISH QUEs-
TIoN.-We present an extract from private
letter from distinguished person in Europe,
received in Washington by the last steamer,
as it comes from one who, upon such
matters, is better Informed than almost any
other whose letters find their way into the
newspapers on this side of the Atlantic. We
regret that we are not at liberty to give the
writer's name. He, however, says:
@ 1 am able to give you but little political
news. The war is always in dispute; how
ever, it appears inevitable, although nobody
desires it, Well informed persons say that the
Emperor Nicholas is much embarrassed with
his position, and that he will cut the question
by disavowing the diplomatists, Nesselrode
included, and asking Of the Sultan personal
interview, in which they will discuss all ques-
tions of mutual interest in a manner the most
friendly, as did, on former occasion, the