Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-18
TIE "vERY LATEST +" WASH
XNGTON RUMoRs.
Fremont Stock Rapidly Go
ing UP.
MORE CHANGES TO BE MADE IN
Tan CAsINET.

The following "special' from the Wash
ington correspondent Of the Brooklyn Times
is decidedly the most interesting we have
seen lately. 1t will be particularly refresh
ing and comforting to the friends of the gall
liant Pathfinder. Like all Washington spe-
cials it is doubtless true:
WASHINGTON, January Is.
The retirement OF Mr.. OomerOn from the
Cabinet, instead Of being offensive to the
Radicals here, as every body supposed would
be the case, is quite otherwise; and it begins
to leak out that it is the first of q series OF
changes in the Cabinet, to conciliate the
friends Of Fremont in and out of Congress,
who are too powerful and too active to be
longer defed.
General Fremont's friends are not satisfied
with Cameron's course, Notwithstanding his
championship of the emancipation policy"
and they have no commiseration for him;
and thoroughly distrusted by the Conserva-
tives, his political status was destroyed. He
has fallen between two stools.
Mr.. Blair is also to retire from the Cabinet
Immediately. Like Mr.. Cameron, he has
forfeited, by his persecution OF Fremont, the
confidence of the radical constituencies, and
has not acquired that of the conservatives.
Mr.. Blair is entitled to the credit of being the
only member of the Cabinet who resisted the
evacuation of Fort Sumter, and for the fear.
| lessness with which he comhated the popu ar
fsllacy respecting the efficiency of General
Scott; but the quarrel of "the Blairs' with
Fremont has done for him politically. But
| if this fact were not sufficient certain indis-
cretions on his part, not in any way involv-
| ing his reputation as public officer, will
necessitate his retirement. 1t is said that
| letters have come out before the Joint Com
mittee on the Progress of the War, in which
he is found to have spoken disrespectfully of
the Presi6ent-ssying that he was an "old
Whig, and characterized by all the timidity
and irresolution of that class of politicians"
etc Mr.. Colfax, a strong friend of Fremont,
will succeed Mr., Blair as Postmaster. General
Mr.. Smith will retire from the Interior
Department, and go upon the Supreme
Bench; The rumors about the retirement o
Mr.. Weles are unfounded. 1t is said Mr.
Smith will be succeeded by Ex Governor
Hicks, of Maryland, or Mr.. Etheridge, o.
Tennessee. Adiutsnt General Thomas is tc
be retired, and Assistant Adjutant Genera
Williams promoted to his place. Genera
Thomas means well, but is the most ineffi
cent of men.
! Thus one after another of those who per-
secuted Fremont into retirement, are goinl
down. Scott, Cameron, Blair and Thoma
are forced into the back ground.
A letter from General Lyon, written jus
before the battle of Springfield, has been pro
duced before the Joint Committee of Con
gress in which he directly charges his thel
impending defeat to the imbecility or indif
ference of General Scott and his staff and t
red-tape bureaucracy in the War Depart
ment. Fremont is making most successful
, defense, and when the committee report
will be ordered to a command. "Old Abe
is very stubborn, but he has never felt IN
kindly toward Fremont; he has spoken {
him recently in the most friendly terms, bu
were it otherwise, he is too wise man t
| defy so powerful an influence in this cris
! He will adhere to his policy on the emsnc
,, patton question, but FremOnt's friends wi
, hereafter have larger share in its admins
. tIation.