The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-01
Important from Springfeid-The Presi
dent Elect Working Up His Cabinet a nt
Foreign Appointments.


Foreign Appointments.
While the revolutionary events at Charleston,
and the embarrassments of Mr. Buchanan's adj
ministration, in reference to Major Anderson,
Fort Sumter and the three treaty Commits
soners from South Carolina to Washington,
overshadow all other subjects Of public inte-
rest, our attention is suddenly diverted to the
little inland town of Springfield, Illinois, and
to the great things going on in that interesting
locality.
Our intelligent correspondent there estab-
lished gives us, in his letter which We publish
to-day, some very important intelligence, from
which it appears that the Cabinet Of Mr.. Lin
as the Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan has been fall
ing to pieces. The leaders, managers, organs,
orators and Wide Awakes of the republican
camp have not been asleep, though they have
had very little to say for the last month or SO
touching the prospects and the spells Of the in
ping quietly into Springfield, singly and in small
detachments from all quarters of the compass,
and from day to day, for many weeks. Some
remaining only an hour or two. and very few
of them longer than two or three days, the
worshipping pilgrims, gathered together under
the droppings Of the new formation Of power,
have never been at any time so numerous as to
create any very marked sensation.
But for all this, between Mr.. Lincoln and the
engineers of his party, vast amount of work
has been done since the great day of Novem-
Der in the inspection of the stores of timber
presented for his Cabinet and diplomatic estab-
lishment Thus it appears that the following
Cabinet appointments have been definitely fixed
upon, to wit
For Attorney General Edward Bates, ofMis-
souri,
For Secretary of the Interior-David Wilmot,
of Pennsylvania.
For Secretary of War-John c. Fremont, of
California
Next, il appears that the head of the Trea-
sury Department will be awarded to New
York, and will be taken from this city, the
great financial centre of the Union and the
continent, which is good idea The issue
lies between Moses ii. Grinnell, the candidate
of the SewardWeed faction, and George
Opdyke, the favorite Of the anti-Seward- Gree
Icy faction. Mr.. Grinnell, of course, in every
practical view of the subject, is the man to be
preferred. Mr.. Opdyke's claims are of the
negative sort, his principal recommendation
lying in the fact that, in our last election Of
that officer, be ran as candidate for Mayor,
and was defeated. Upon this standard Of
merit, the test of popular election, Mr.. John
II. Brady, the reelected Japanese Alderman,
quite eclipses the pretensions of MIR. Opdyke
for a Cabinet appointment
Mr.. Lincoln's Secretary Of State, as under
Stood is to come from New England. We have
heard the name of Edward Everett mentioned
in this connection; but we guess, from the fact
that Mr.. Everett was mixed up with the New
York fusion ticket, that he will not be inter-
rupted in bis contributions to the New York
Ledger by the duties Of the State Department
We should not be surprised If this Office were
TO fall to the lot of Governor Banks; and we
apprehcnd that within the lines Of the republi-
can camp IL would be difficult to find man
better qualified for the post or more generally
acceptable to the country
Thus much for Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet. His
diplomatic appointments are next in order. In
this chapter we learn that "thc drift of opinion,
about Springfield, thus far, indicates the follow
ing selections
For the mission to Bngland-W. ii. Seward.
For the mission to the new kingdom of Italy
VIM. G. Bryant.
For the mission to Prussia-G. Koerner, Of
Illinois.
These appointments we think highly proba-
BILE. Mr.. Seward, we suspect, would like to go
TO England. He would be well received there
as the American Minister. He became quite
favorite at court there on his late visit /;
and more recently his presence at Governor
Morgan's dinner to the Prince Of Wales
was evidently very pleasing to the Prince, the
Duke and the whole royal party. They may,
perhaps, have regretted the absence of the hotel
keeper in bis military capacity; but that is an