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The Cabinet.

The Cabinet.
The following is President Pieree's Cabinet:
Seeretrry Of State, VIM. l.. Marcy, Of N. y.
Secretary Of the Treasury, James Guthrie,
Of Ky.
Secretary Of War, jefferson Davis, Of Mis-.
Secretary Of Navy, James c. Dobbin, Of
lN.C
Secretary of the Interior, RObt MeClelland'
Mich. i,
Postmaster General, James Campbell, Of
Pa.
Attorney General, Caleb Cushing, Of Mass.
This Cabinet, for strength, does not fayora-
bly compare, we think, with that formed by
Mr.. Polk-Buchanan, Walker, Marcy, Bau-
croft. Mason and Johnson. Marcy is man Of
eminent ability, and one of the most shrewd
and lucky politicians in the land. Amid all
the revolutions and conflicts OF bis party IN
New York, he generally turns up winning
card He belongs 10 the 'sott'shell' De'aOc-
racy Of his State.
Mr.. GUTHRIE is lawyer Of Louisville and
hitherto unheard of by the people Of the ma
ton. He was always, an opposer of the Eman-
cpation question in his State. In his selection
for the second place in the Cabinet the Wing
State Of Kentucky has been highly compli-
mented,
Col JEFF. DAVIS has national reputation
as one of the fire-esting opponents Of the Com
promise measures He resigned his seat in the
Senate TO run as the Anti Compromise candi-
date for Governor of Mississippi against Gen.
Foote, the Union candidate, and was beaten
about 1000 votes
9 Mr. DoBBIN if diamond, has just been dug
up from the obscurty of the mine. lie has
served a term in Congress from which he OBJ
n tanned no distinction. He was recently can
didate before the Legislature for U. S. Senator,
It and with Locofoco majority OF on joint bal
>, lot he failed to get elected.
y Gov. MCCLELLAND is a pretty fair sort OF q
1t man. He has served in the Legislature o
d Michigan, in Congress six years, and elected
re Governor in 1851 lie was backed for place
II in the Cabinet by Gen. Cass.
MIR. Campbell is a Philadelphia lawyer o
small calibre, and his sudden rise TO high plac'
is one of the curosilies of politics. AT tn
m election Of 1851, Campbell, because Romal
7, Catholic, was placed upon the State ticket AS
" candidate for Supreme Judge, but his want o
n fitness for the station was so well known tha
Gov. Bgler and four of the Loco candidate
ne for the Supreme Court were elected by 300
majority, while Campbell was beaten by 800
!" votes Gov. Bigler, considering Compbell
ne martyr 70 his religion, appointed him Auone
of General, from which Office he has been trans
as planted, by President Pierce, into the Post Ol
10 flee Department. By this move Gen. Pierc
his oyerleaped the bounds of New Hampshir
~ religious federation.
w CALEB Cushing, prior 10 the Tyler detection
it, of 184l, was a believer and actor in Webste
as Whirgery. But chosing to try his forum
10 with Captain Tyler, his fidelity to his Acciden
cy was rewarded by the appointment, in l84S
as Commissioner to China He returned !
I845, and as the transition from Tylerlsm t
Locofocoism was very easy, he joined hlmse
to the house Of Polk, volunteered Tor the Me1
ge lean war, was made Major General ny h
F. master, went to the Rio Grande, walked OIL
A. one evening with one of the dusky daughter
-, of the South and broke his ankle, which rer
dered him useless, so far as physical serviC
M was concerned. In 1848, he was the LocofC
ri. co candidate for Governor Of Massachusetts
er. but received small vote. About year ag
m he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court
his State by coalition of the Locofocos an
Free Sellers.
lr- It is not little singular that in the compos
ert tion of his Cabinet Gen. Pierce has taken tW
RS of its members from Massachusetts, and Kel
lucky, States hat roted for Sect, and anoth
from North Carolina, which, although it vote
49, for Pierce, has generally been one of the mo-
H. reliable Wing States. Had Ohio no claims
an honorable place in the allotment of the
er, vors of Gen. Pierce Maybe the remer
brance that half dozen Ohio delegates T
-, fused to vote for him in Convention had son
w. influence in shaping his choice.--G"ernS
Ter Times