Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-03-06
THE NEW CABINET.

names into the Senate yesterday as his
Cabinet:
Secretary of State, E. B. Washburne,
of Illinois.
Secretary of Treasury, A. T. Stewart,
of New.York
Secretary of War, Gen. J. M. Scho-
field, OF Illinois.
Secretary of the Navy, Adolph E.
Borie, of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Interior, J. d. Cox,
of Ohio.
Attorney General, E. E. Hoar, of
Massachusetts,
Postmaster General, J. A. J. Creswell,
of Maryland.
The above nominations were imme-
diately confirmed by the Senate.
The DAILY MONITOR was one of the
first newspapers in the country to an
nounce the Cabinet of President Gen
eral Grant yesterday. Well the agony
is over The long iookedfor Cabinet
is announced, Everybody is COM
menting on the appointments, and dis
cussing the merits of the men whom
President Grant has selected for his
immediate and confidential advisers. 1t
is difficult to give fair idea of popu-
aar feeling, but there is no Disgusting
the fact that the announcement caused
great disappointment at the Capital
Messrs Washburne and Creswell are
looked upon as the only politicians of
national reputation among the selec-
ton.
The appointment of Elihu B. Wash
burne of Illinois, the fellow-townsman,
and longtime-champion in Congress of
Gen. Grant, to some position in the
Cabinet was generally expected. 1t
was less generally predicted that he
would be made Secretary OF State.
This appointment, however, will be the
most gratifying to the country of the
Cabinet changes.
Alexander I. Stewart, appointed to-
the important post of Secretary of the
Treasury, is known all over the coun-
try as a successful merchant and finan-
cier He was born near the City of
Belfast in Ireland about the year 1903.
His appointment has caused the great
est surprise of all the appointments
Previous to the Rebellion he was gen
nally understood to be of Democratic
proclivities, but during that struggle
le was strenuous supporter of the au
jhority of the Federal Government
He was one of the earliest supporters
of Gen. Grant for the Presidency, was
on the electoral ticket in NewYork
State in the last campaign, and since
the war has been thoroughly identified
with the Republican party. sf
Among the members of the new Cab
met Gen. Schofeld is the best known
to the people at large, having been
prominently connected with public af-
fairs for many years, and having as a
soldier done good service to the State.
John McAllister Schofield was born ON
the 29th of September, 1881, in. Cha
tauqua County, New-York. In 1S43,
at the age of IL, he removed with his
father to Illinois, from which State, af-
ter having received his primary educa-
ton, he was admitted to West Point
In 1853 he graduated and was breveted
Second Lieutenant in the I'd Artillery.
Mr.. Adolph E. Borie is one of the
leading citizens of Philadelphia. He
comes from French family, his father
having come from Bordeaux, and after
wards distinguished as merchant in
Philadelphia By his mothers side he
is descended from one of the San Do
mingo families who left that Island
during the troubles with the blacks,
and settling in Philadelphia formed
small colony which now is represented
by some of its cultivated and distin-
guished families. He was born in
Philadelphia in 1909, and is now in the
Goth year of his age.
Ex-Governor and ex-Major-Gen.
Jacob Dolson Cox, Secretary of the In
terror, was born in Montreal, Lower
Canada, on the 9th of Oct, 1928
His parents were both natives of the
United States, his father being mast
er builder in New York, who had taken
she contract for the carpenter work on
he Cathedral of Notre Dame in Mon