New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-03-07
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
The New Cabinst-Transforned.
c.,,e.pondence Of The Tribune.
w. w .anxG1oS Wedne DAY. March

w,sHISGToS. Wednesday, March I.
The report, Of last night, stu current imply
-, in consequence Of the creation OF the Home
n'n.,,,oept Hon. JouN DAVIS, Senator from
y...scbu,e,ts. AMI Hon. REygRDT JoHSsoS,
s.n,,or from Maryland will be called INTO den'
~,,lo,. Cabinet-Mr. LAWRENCE declining the
r,vy Department-to which Mr.. PRrsroN VIII
- ,,s,.,erred while Mr. DAVIS takes the Home
n,,.rtment and M Johnson TIE Attorney Gen
srslship.
Won will Of course know all about the matter
,sfore this letter can be published, but do not
,hi,k the arrangement can bs as above stated
IA b,oe II may not be, for several reasons.
IN the first place, Mr. DAVIS cannot take the
Home Department There IS Constitutional
,ion in the way'--M. DAVIS having been a Mem
he, of the Senate when this Office was created.
II he i. brought into the Cabinet at all, he must
have the Treasury, and Mr. MEREDITH be trans
ierred 10 tue Home Department. But, aside from
,bis difficulty, Mr.. Davis's broken health-now so
oog continued-a affords objection 70 his desgna-
non To post requiring much and constant labor.
II he were as vigorous in body In mind his ap
ooiotment to either post would be very happy
one.
Mr.. JonssoS's appointment, If made, is injudi-
,ious IN several respects In the FIRST place, the
Administration is probably to be in aminority in the
Senate, aud needs strong and experienced cham
mons there To withdraw two such men as
Nessrs Davis and Johnson and supply their places
with raw hands is about equal to giving up one
.eat 10 the Opposition. Can the Administration
afford this
But again, Mr. Johnsons location is unfortunate
II apponted four Of the seven seats IN the Cabinet
Will be filed from four contiguous Atlantic states
PENNSYLVANIA, Delaware, Maryland, and Nlr-
g,nis Three of the Members will live within SIX
=, eight hours ride of each other. All this time,
the Great West has but single representative
in the Cabinet while containing hall the poPula
non and three fourths of the territory OF the Union
Tbi, is deplorable error. The seventh place
should clearly be filed from the West-say by
CIyRB Smith of Indiana, EDWARD BATES of
Missouri or MEREDITH p. GENTRY of Tennessee.
i presume there can be no improperly IN say
inc that Col w w. 5. BLISS, is very properly, TO-
be Gen. Taylor's Private Secretary. so under
stood some time since.
Il have not yet seen the President elect, though
called at his hotel once for that purpose. He was
engaged with his Cabinet. trust he does not al
low his time to be broken IN upon either by oifce-
seekers or sight-seers. He has quite enough to do
and bear without allowing himself to he hand
shaken. stared at and gossiped to three or four
hours per day. | should like well enough to pass
the time OF day with him, but probably shall not
before leaving the city, since 1t IS matter OF no
consequence and he has enough to do that Is I'M
portsnt
will only add, therefore, that he makes a very
favorable impression on those who now see him
for the first time leave out of account the Office
seekers, who are of course in raptures - no such
President since w ashington, nc. &c. The less nu-
merous and more reliable class of his visters speak
Of him as an urbane, frank, intelligent, kndheart
ed gentleman-s,er honest and intent on doing
his duty ready enough, but with nothing
rough in his bearing or conversation, and very
much behed by the current pictorial semblances OF
his vissge. presume this is about the truth.