Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-21


Senate, and took his seat at the called ses
sion on Monday.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Hon. Simon Cameron served an appreu-
ticeship to the printing business at Harris
burg, and subsequently worked as a journey
man in Washington city. In 1921, when
a young man. be declined the offer of a
nomination for Congr ess; in 1923 was Ad-
|jutant,G General of Pennsylvania; in 1881
he was appointed by General jackson Wis
|itor to West Point; and in 1888 he again
declined nomination for Congress. For
many years be has been prominently identi-
fed with the works of internal improve
ment in Pennsylvania, and for twenty seven
years was Cashier of the Middletown Bank
in that State. He was also formerly Presi-
dent of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Com
pany, and President of the Commonwealth
Insurance Company.
SECRETAhY OE The NAVY.
Hon. Gideon &. Welles is native Of
Connecticut, and we'll known contributor
to the partisan press. He formerly held the
Office of Postmaster of Hartford, under Mr..
Van Buren's Administration, and left the
Office soon after the election of Gen. Harri-
son in 1910. During part of Mr.. Polk's
Administration he occupied an important
position in the Navy Department. Like
many other prominent Northern Democrats,
Mr.. Welles disagreed with his party Oh the
subject of the repeal of the Missouri CON-
promise. The territorial question being
the chief one at issue, he became identified
with the Republican party soon after its or
ganization, and has since been one Of its
leaders, taking a prominent part in its Con.
ventions, State and national. He was a
delegate from the State at large to the Chi.
cago Convention, and constituted one of the
Committee to proceed to Springfield with of.
fetal notice of Mr.. Lincoln's nomination.
He was also one of the Presidential Elec.
tors.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
Hon. Caleb B. Smith is we'll known in
Indiana, and is reported to be possessed Of
vigorous intellect, and considerable ad
ministrative tact and ability. He has been
fequeutly Whig member of Congress, and
was commissioner on Mexican claims. He
is now Republican of moderate views.
POSTMASTER. GENERAL.
The Honorable Montgomery Blair is @
son of Francis p. Blair, one of the editors
of the Globe, the organ of General Jackson
during his administration. For several
years past he has resided with his father
in Montgomery county, Maryland. He
graduated at West Point, went to the State
Of Missouri, practiced law in St. Louis, was
made judge, and was appointed by Presi
dent Pierce Solicitor of Claims, from which
place he was removed by President Buch
auan. Judge Blair is now in the prime Of
life, and warm Republican. He is sou.
in.law of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury., Of
New Hampshire, and brother of Frank P.
Blair, jr., Congressman elect from the St
Louis district.
ATTc3NEY GENERAL.
Hon. Edward Bates was born in Couch
land county, Virginia, in 1898, and in the
war of 1912 served as volunteer at Nor.
folk. About 1914 he set out for St. Louis,
and crossed the Mississippi for the first time
on the goth of April Here he studied very
diligently in the Office of Rufus Eaton, a
Connecticut man, and some time delegate
in Congress from Missouri Territory. Mr..
Bates came to the bar in the winter of
1Sl6-17, and practiced with fair success as
beginner. In 1858 he was elected Judge
of the Land Court of St. Louis county, and
after serving in the Office about three years
he resigned and returned again to the prac.
tice of the law. He acted as President of
the River and Harbor Improvement Con-
vention which sat at Chicago, and in 1852
acted as President Of the Whig National
Convention which met at Baltimore. In
1850 he was appointed by President Fill
more and confirmed by the Senate Secretary
of War, but declined the appointment for
personal and domestic reasons. Mr.. Bates
was complimented with the honorary degree
of IL D., in 1858, by Harvard College,
Some wears before he had been honored with
the same degree by shurtleff College, Illi.
nois.