New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-07
Things ut Washington.

WASHINGTON March 9Th. lsi5.
Wednesday Afternoon, 81 O'Clock.
The superstition that mentioned in my letter
Yesterday turns out, to-day, 10 be true, and the
nomination Of George Bancroft to the Office oil
Secretary of the Navy Is laid on the table
The following members of the Cabinet have been
confirmed:
JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary OF State,
r. j. WALKER. Secretary Of The Treasury.
WI. L. MARCY, Secretary of War
CAVE JOHNSON, Postmaster General
JOHN Y. MASON, Attorney General.
The opposition to Mr.. Bancroft is pretty strong.
II originated against him among the Woodbury.
and Calhoun men hardly know whether he will
be confirmed or rejected The Senate meets again
tomorrow.
Col. ]. Knox Walker, the Presidents Private
Secretary, (and his nephew,) has been appointed,
nv the President and Senate, Secretary TO sign
Patents.
There is a good deal Of feeling against the Adj
minis,raton for their treatment OF John e. Cal
houn understand that he has been offered any
foreign mission which he would take, but he re-
fused them all. He leaves for home in South Ca
rolina in about a week, where he will remain Tor
The next four years. think Mr. Calhoun is always
badly treated Without him Mr.. Polk would not
have been elected. Yet he is not retained IN the
Cabinet, to finish the negotiations in which he has
been engaged, nor to see the Texas scheme, winch
he originated, completed He Is not even consult
ed about the formation of the new Cabinet Heis
used and praised just before an election, and then,
after the election is over, he 10 turned out, like a
used up horse to live as he may, Cor dle,) unless
his services, to make some one else, and net him.
self, President, are again required.
The President did no, withdraw the varou;
nominations now before the Senate to-day. This
gives the Tyler office holders hope that he intends
TO re-appoint them. II is usual, believe, TO with
draw such nominations as are not acted on during
the session. understand however, that ne vii
withdraw them tomorrow
The Globe, you will see, is very indignant, be
cause John Tyler, on the last day Of his Admins
tra,ion, acted on the Annexation resolutions. A
every man who was not a fool must have seen, ne
has taken the Resolution of Milton Brown, tc
which majority of the Senate was opposed; anc
now the Globe is quaneing with Tyler for doing
The very thing which they expressly gave HIM the
power to do. Bentons bill is thus unceremonlousb
kicked out OF the way and a scheme, which Ben
ton, Bagby and others pronounced unconstitutional,
goes into opera'lonb by their vo'es' WHAT an uhei-
viabe position these men occupy before the world
The hotels continue 10 be filled with oiiiceseek-
ers, belonging TO con,ending factions. Last night,
or rather this morning, at O'Clock, great many
strangers arrived. A number came TO Coeman's,
among them W. L. Marcy, Fl. c. Atwood, j. ii.
Suydam, &c. AS many of them as could find sofas
sbunked' down on those-about twelve of them
disposed of themselves in chairs around The stove
in the Office where they SLEPT till mornlng--t may
be, dreaming Of flowery beds OF ease 10 come with
expected Offices
| have heard that the foreign Ministers generally
attended the cheap Loco-Foco ball last night al
the National Theatre. l have heard, though !
know no, how true il may be, that the ten dollar
ball managers neglected to invite them. The five
dollar men did invite them. The consequence was
that the foreign court.dresses shone brightly among
the cheap Democracy.
II caused some remark TO see MIR. Zabrskie, Of
New-Jersey, of Tyler contract memory, one OF the
chief men in the Inauguration procession yester-
day. He has fergotton hls love for the old IN the
dazzling sp!endors of the New Administration.
Yours RICUELIEU.