New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-07

,ret,t the newspspeT limitations that be will
pro-. var foueuter In the State Department-he
lO7es bis ease too well and has too much regard for
tie heaven Of .lavehokiDg appreciation We hope
fem Gen Cas- prudent aud steady admins IA hon
CT Cur For ign Affairs. II be winks at Fllbu'.er-
oE, vii Re subserviercy to Slavery, not Anglo
phobia that prompts him. Gen. Casa was never
keuber tf the House, but has been for twelve
| Jears Senator.
HOW'LL COBB Of Georgia has decided ability,
but tas never exhibited talent for Finance Tha'
be has or las not pate industry and apsness for
cry details, rtmains TO be proved; but Mr.. Guthrie
came into the Treasury wihou. experience or pres
t;ge, sud hiss acquitted himself creditsbly. Mr..
Cobb il, if We mistake not, son Of the Member OF
Ike rsme Who served from 1907 to 1912. He en-
.ertd the House himself in l543 and has held seat
ever sIce, except that be stepped out in 1851 to
nun on the "UDion ticket aud faced the great bulk
of is Old Democratic associates who went for his
opponent, Mcdonald and got beaten BY the strong
vote Of 81 ,397 TO &c, 824 Alr. Cobb was the
Speaker Of the XXXIst Congress, elected over Rob
eft c. Winthrop under the Plurality rule. having lO2
votes TO 100, and some dozen or so scattering lie
reiUrred to the Congress just expired, having 2O3
10 5,227 votes; and, though not supported for
Speaker, took promire Mt part in its deliberations
He is not yet old, and is a man of strong sense,
energy az indomtable WILL
JACOB THOMPSON of Mississippi probably owes
bis g,td FOR ute to the fact tina! he took the oppo
site side from Gov. Cobb in the Southern feud
which followed the passage Of the Compromise
MEASURE. Of lsjC-he going as strongly for State
Rights as Cobb old for Union" Mr. Thompson
entered Congress in 1889 and served straight
through til ISL, when he took ground with those
se'f ttyed Estate Rights" and stgmatzed as
"Sece..ionists by their adrersaries, who ran in
7,l55. We reoollect no instance wherein Mr..
Thompson distinguished himself in thst long Con
gressiona career. and can only account for his call
TO the Cabinet by supposins that it was deemed sd
yisable to crafty the NulliSers and Regulators
with representative therein a. the least possible
cost; sTd that it was presumed tina: his mediocrty
ard obsturi.y would render him less obnoxious than
Picktns, Qui.man or SOule
JONI b. FLOYD belongs to one Of the Fret
Families of Virginia, Of which he has once been
chosen Governor on the strength of his having had
father who was a Governor before him. He
(this John has not been in Congress, aud has made
10 figure anywhere that we can remember, except
in making speech in Wall street, which prevented
any obstruction of that often crowded locality.
ISAAC ToUcEY Of Connecticut is pretty well
known. He was chosen to the House in IS and re.
elected n 81; and got into the Senate in 1851
through the treachery of two or three DOughfaces
elected az Wings. lie has acted for the last three
yesrs in Asgrsnt defiance Of the will of bis con-
st tuents, BY whom he has just been sent adrift.
fIe is of coure glad to bring up in Dir. Buchanau's
CabiIet, where he will find congenal society.
Mr.. AARON V. BROWN entered Congress in
1852 served six years, and then retired to run for
Governor, as already stated. He may be the man
for Postmaster General but we would far sooner
have seen the present Governor, Andrew johnson,
in that most important position. Trey just
alike as politicians, but Andrew has the work in
him, which We fear Aaron has not.
Judge BLACK, the Lew Attorney General, has
ben several years on the Supreme Bench of Penn
sylvsnia and We presume has filled other response
be poets, but is new to the Nation. We do not
identity him with the James Black who was in Con.
sress some twenty years ago.
We think this Cabinet will hold together through
Mr.. Bucbsnan's term unless he should tire Of it.
Mr.. Cobb will be content if allowed to have his
own way on all matters of importance, and the rest
if their salaries are paid promptly and fully, as Of
course they will be. Storms may assail the new
President from without, but all will be cosy and
plant within.
Our impression i. that few further nominations
will be made at present, and that the Senate will
have leave to adjourn-the Presden. presuming
that be can dispatch his ambassadors and renovate
his Collectors without them.