Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-05-24
Letter from washington.
Special Correspondence Of the Piesyuns.

| Special correspondence OF tuS ECSyuHos
WASHINGTON, Mayl3, 1856.
The city is filed with politicians, who swarm
here to pick up their bearings before going to
Cincinnati. Among the number are many men
from the Northwest, among whom the strife in
relation to the nomination runs very high
Sam Medary and James Steadman, of Ohio,
MIR. Bright, of Indiana, and other of the leaders,
are engaged in an effort to make the North
west a unit, in advance of the convention, upon
the basis of no agreement to cast their entire
vote either for Pierce or Douglas--the relative
claims of those two gentlemen to be settled by
Il caucus after the warm point or union shall
have been settled. This you will perceive is
one of The results of the coalition between
Douglas and Pierce, of which | notified you
when it was so suddenly formed a few weeks
ago. The arrangement was to crush out
Buchanan. Come what may, the other two
a~spirantS have arranged, as they think, entirely
to their own satisfaction, that the great Penn
sylVanian shall have no showing at the conven-
ton. ] am informed to day by a Democrat,
who is posted, that, although the Administra~
ton party is now opposing the proposition to
admit Kansas as q State with her present
constitution, il is in contemplation to promise
that after either Pierce or Douglas is nomina-
ted. Kansas shall be admitted, just as she
stands. The purpose of this is to prevent the
threatened stampede from the party ticket Of
large numbers of Northern Democrats who are
in favor of this measure. The apology for this
sudden somerset is expected to Do the anomoIs
Gus condition Of affairs in Kansas, brought to
light by the Congressional Investigating Com.
mittee.
There is not a little danger that a collision
will occur between the steamer Orizaba, which
sailed from New York for San Juan on Satur-
day, and the British frigate EuFydice, whose
officers boarded The Orizaba on her last trip,
and ordered that al passengers ticketed for
San Juan shorld be taken back to New York.
The captain has been advised, 10 the event of
any similar attempt being made, to resist it at
any hazard, and throw upon the British captain,
Tarleton, The responsibility of violating our
flag. or the necessary of backing out FROM his |
unjasliiabIs interference. Our Government is
quite DESTROYS a case should be made upon |
which the right of search may be again tested.
1t is doubtful whether thee is any vessel of
our own Navy at San joan at the present time,
as orders having previously gone out 10. the
s!oop OF war Saratoga TO proceed from there to
AspInwaIl, where she is to be joined BY the
Fulton.
The Administration is unusually ~secretive
in relation to its dispatches by the last Euro
pean steamer. Although it is asserted quite
positively that the recall of Mr.. Champion has
been absolutely refused by the British Govern
ment, we are unable 10 learn whether the story
is true or false. Mr. Dallas had his first official
with Lord Clarendon on the 25th nit,
and was received with much cordiality By that
gentleman.
Hon. Cbas. J. Faulkner ia about TO under,
take the task of preparing bill amendatory of
the Diplomatic and Consular Reform bill of
last Congress, which has proved to be an ag.
glomeration in ineongruities and 5lnnders.--
Dir. Faulkner will spend Thursday next at the
State Department, advising with its officers as
to the best mode of remedyin ing the defects in
The reformed" system.
Hon. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, has in
press a work on the camel, designed to show
this useful animal can be readily domes-
icated i'll any part of the United States, and
its employment on our great plains will be
Of vast advantage. The book will be published
1T Boston within q few days. SIGMA.