Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-17
Washington News and Gossip.

derstand very little of our relations with the
European governments and people, and, from
the character Of their foreign appointments,
care even less ''-Ner York Herald, Of De-
tobcr 18th.
We congratulate the country on the fact
that it now possesses an editor who, without
experience in the business of craftsmanship,
is competent to pronounce, ca cathedra, upon
the qualifications of those who compose the
Government of the United States, to manage
our foreign affairs. As all the world know
that capacity to form an opinion worth six
pence, on suoh n subject, does not como in
tuitively, and as it is further known that
lifetime spent in making up morning
paper, is but flash" school for acquiring
the attachments and experience, &c, in the
conduct of public affairs, required in him who
would judge soundly in delicate questions of
State, the question naturally arises: Where
and how did General Bennett THAT being
the travelling title accorded to him by some)
become qualified to give the testimony of an
expert" proving the incapacity of the
present Government of the United States to
can clear up the mystery. He has studied
diplomacy with commendabie pertinacity ever
since the second of November last The tele
graph, on that night, Informed him of the cleo
ton Of Franklin Pierce; the result, of course,
Of the earnest eloquence with which the
Herald sustained his aspirations. General
Bennett, on that same night, dreamed himself
in the possession of the Chargeship at Vienna,
rs his reward-his share of the spoils of the
victory. His attaches in Washington, as well
as in New York, shortly afterwards com
menced to crack up General Bennett for this
Chargeship. While the General himself dill
gently poured over international law books,
and other works likely to store his well-bal-
anced mind with diplomatic lore, to the at
taches aforesaid was left the work of con-
vircing all supposed to be able to influence
the foreign appointments of the incoming Adj
ministration, with the impression that this
mission was ''due to General Bennett for his
services in the canvass; and that his appoint
ment would not only secure the powerful aid
of the Herald in defence of the Administra-
ton, past rer-adventure, for its whole term,
but would operate grandly for our country
abroad, where his reputation was wide spread.
and not affected by the vulgar prejudices against
him prevailing in the United States. In the
meantime. all sorts of people began to aspire to
all sorts of places, and some rather remarkable
foreign appointments were made; that of Mr..
10 ia1s Of r,nia 9th
ments which satisfied General Bennett that
as such things seemed to be going, the Aus
trian Chargeship was, to use a homely phrase,
"a huckleberry below his per.immon So,
his attaches turned to talking him up for the
French mission, and lie rushed to the Cont
nent to properly prepare to fulfil the duties of
that position with credit to himself and profit
to his beloved country. Thus, he hied to
Wiesbnden, and there underwent diplomatic
quarantine or noviciate, for a time Wies-
ing place of Europe. Within an hours ride
of Frankfort on the Main, at all times during
the season. gentlemen in the diplomatic
service of all the Governments of Europe are
to be found there; the elder going to relax
their minds and to recuperate their energies,
and the younger to study in that deservedly
most renowned diplomatic school in the world
Thither, as before remarked, our pilgrim
wended his way, to drink in lessons on diplo-
matte etiquette, and by personal intercourse
with the distinguished statesmen thcreI con-
gregated from every European court, to learn
tue precise condition of European affairs. and
what might be necessary for him to do for
our national rights, interests and honor,
Minister to France arrived out He was
known at Wiesbaden Familiarity as the Amer
lean gentleman who was about to repre-
sent his Government at Paris The servants
at his hOtel-the female ones of course-6rst
made the discovery, and through them the
secret made its way to the ears even of the
Russian Princes there assembled, through
whose indirect encouragement more than one
veteran continental diplomatist kindly aided
him in mastering the mysteries of disposing of
the fortunes, if not of the fates of the millions
oy the legerdcmain of European statesman
ship. Our General made rapid progress in
deed, in his diplomatic education; his fame
rising hourly, more especially with the trades
men and the servants Of all the great folks
present; for he was as generous as Americans
on the Continent usually are. He had little
time left for preparation, and paid like a
prince for everything aiding his acquisition
OF the desired knowledge in hurry. And
besides, he was too sensible a man to despise
the information he sought even though ac
corded by the footman or valet, whose famil.
iarlty with the great, at times when no others
but themselves are permitted to carefully note