New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-22
The New Cabinet.

rangement of the telegraph wires precluded
Our receiving it for Saturdays paper. 1t
was transmitted to the Senate on Saturday,
and Immediately confirmed without division
or dissent 1t is composed as follows:
Secretary of State. DANIEL WEBSTER, Mass
see'y of The T,sa'r,y THOMAS CoRWIN, Ohio.
See'y Of the Interior. JAMES A PEARCE, Md.
Secretary of Way....EDwARD BATES, Missouri
Secretary Of the Navy WILLIAM A GRAHAM N T.
Attorney General. John J. CRlTTENDEN, Ky.
POsfma.fey GenraS. NATHAN K HALL, NJ York.
The three first Oh the list were Senators
Of the United States up to the time of their
selection none were Members of the pres
ent House, though all have been Members
of Congress, all but Mr.. Graham have been
Members of the House, and all but MeSsrs.
Bates and Hall have been Senators. Mr..
Webster has served eight years in the House
and nineteen in the Senate; Mr.. Corwin mas
served nine years in the House and hve In
the Senate; Mr.. Pearce six years IN the
House and seven in the Senate; MIR. Crit
tenden fifteen in the Senate; Mr.. Graham
two wears in the Senate, (when he was called
home to be Governor;) Messrs. Bates and
Hale two years each in the House. 80 that,
on the score of experience and public repu'
tatiep. the present Cabinet has not been ex-
ceeded. Messrs. Corwin and Graham have
been Governors Of their several States, as
MIR. Crittenden now is of Kentucky. MIR.
Graham was reelected by largely increased
majority he was offered full Mission by
Gen. Taylor, but declined it, not wishing to
90 abroad. Mr.. Crittenden would have had
prominent place among Gen. TIyior's csn-
stitutional advisers, had he net peremptorily
declined. Messrs. Webster and Crittenden
were Members of the glorious Wing Cabi-
net selected - Harrison in lS4l.
As a whole, ffe new Cabinet is strong IN
talent, in knowledge of public affairs, and
in public confidence. Yetwe are not OF the
sort who throw up their hats and swear ev-
erything superexcellent that is done by their
own party or its men in authority. On the
contrary, we thisk the President has made
mistakes in choosing his advis srs, especially
in stripping the already lean Wing side of
the Senate # three of its best men to fill his
Cabinet. ,..nxiously await the time when
a fight for - honest and benefcens Tariff
can be renewed with fair hope of success;
the great obstacle at present confronting us
is the heavy Loco-Foco majority in the SEN
ate, and this selection is calculated to in
crease that majority. True, Mr.. Webster
possesses eminent--perhaps preemlnent-
qualifications fer the post assigned him;
and we may presume that his place will be
filed by good Wing; but Messrs. Pearce
and Corwin represent doubtful States, and
Mr.. Pearce was commissioned for five years
ahead. Msrylan is essentially Wing and
can always be straitened out at Presiden.
tial Election; but the Wings are not well
united on their Governor, are badly cut
up by the Reform agitation, and are in great
danger of general defeat this Fall. Ohio,
too, has been carried badly against US at the
last three elections, owing to the Free Soil
distraction, and we fear it will not do as
well with an open election for Senator ahead
as it would if Mr. Corwin's return to the
Senate were depending on the complexion
Of the Legislature to be chosen next O'to'
Der. 1t seems, therefore, throwing away
or at least a serious hazsrding of strength
to take such men as Messrs. Psarce aud
Corwin out of the Senate. They will make
good Secretaries, but Us good might have
been found among the millions out Of Wash
ipgton; while We apprehend their places in
the Senate cannot be SO well filed as they
have been.
Mr.. Crittenden will make good Attor
ney General-none better; while gooC
Whig succeeds him as Governor of Kentucky
for the remainder Of his term, 50 there II
nothing lost there. Mr.. Graham is in PR
yate life, and while he personally want
nothing) is SO warmly pressed on oil coca
sions by the leading Wings Of North Caro-
Ina when good post is to DO filed whiei
their State may fairly claim, that ne mas
be well qualified. Mr. Bates served on
term With distinction in Congress, and tne'
w,s lief. out because the Missourians ma
determined to 20 with one general yeu to
Jackson. and he wouldn't. He was Pres'
.dsnt of the great River and Harbor Con
v.ntion at Chicago in lS47, and made
,nssn;Scent speech at the close OF Its deiit