The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-02

New York, is clearly out Of the question,
unless something extra may be considered as
due to this State in honor of Seymour aud tha
. Tammany Convention. And yet New York
has other Cabinet candidates. with batter
chances, perhaps, than either of the three
aforesaid, to say nothing OF Morgan. There is
a. Il. Stewart, at whose house General Grant
has taken breakfast; there ia Marshall
o. Roberts, at whose house special ten thou
satd dollar festival was given in honor of
Grant. including the Appomattox apple tres;
there is the present Attorney General Rvarts
(the defender OF Andy Johnson), at whose
dinner, given him by the New York lawyers
General Grant was the lion of the evening
and then there is Hamilton Fish, whose guest
it is given ont, General Grant this week viii
be for thee days and three nights. II NV
York is TO furnish the whole of the new Cabi-
net, here are the men; but II she is to have
only one member, his name will probably be
discovered after General Grants three days
with Mr.. Fish. But. here is another OF the
Cabinets volunteered for the new administra-
tom
For Secretary Ct state John Lolhrop Mot.
ley or Charles f. Adams of Massachusetts
Treaeuy-W. =, FesseDdeu, Maine
Nar-W. T. sherman, Mu souri,,
Nsgy--AdmiraI Porter, y. @.
lrterl r-kenjdmin L. Wade, Ohio.
Pustmasie GeneTal-A. q. Curlil, Peunsyl-
NBnia.
Attorney Gererol-J f. Wilson, Iowa
Then there are other availables in Msssa-
chuGetts, such as Wilson, Banks, and Butisr
and then from the forty OF fifty outgoing mem
bers Of Congress there are some not mentioned
by the Cabinet makers who are at the service
OF Grant. All taken together, there is a list
OF expeotents and probabilities OF One two, or
three hundred, from which the General may
pick and choose. Having chosen one, how
ever, he only wants half dozen to fill up his
Cabinet, so that the difficulty of satisfying Bill
without offending Tom, Dick, and Harry, is
apparent. When Lincoln first came in he had
a comparatively easy task. He saw at once
that the men for his Cabinet were his compe-
titors for the Presidency in the Chicago Con-
vention-Seward, Chase, Cameron, and Bates,
Tor lpstaDoe-and he acted accordingly. But
Grant, without competitor at Chicago, has
10 such guido book. 1t is thought however,
that he must do something for cola Ben
Wade" " as u competitor OF Colf.x, aud that
the President elect would have, ia the same
view, to provide for FentoD, if the New York
Legislature had uot kindly relieved him of
this difficulty, together with Morgan.
AS for Stanton, it is possible tn st Raymond's )
cock-and. bull story relating to Banks aud
Grant III the VlCkaDurg campaign, as q fl 4nk
movement agaiOst StantUU, from the Johnson,
Seward, Weed, and Raymond clque, may
bring the ex,Secre'ary Of W4r into this fore
ground. At all eveatS, IL is quite likely that
General Grant has not derived much informa.
We think it likely. too, that General Graut
will choose new Cabinet Out and out, with
out single stick of timber from Johnson, ex-
ceptiDg, perhaps, Schciie.d rs Secretary of
War. But ii Sohoi-ld, they say, cannot con-
tiuue to be a Cabinet officer wi hout giving
up his positiOn III the army, he will give up
the Cabinet.
Doubtless with or bsfore the inauguration
OF President Grant all tie members of the
present Cabinet, from 5 ward to Evarts, will
deliver ny to him their res psctive departments,
although, under the Tsnure-of- Office law he
may retain them for q month in their places
but no longer, without submitting their
names or the Dame OF any he may choose to
continue 10 the Senate. We presume, how
| ever, that President Grant, on the 4:h or 5;h
of March, will submit TO the Senate new
! Cabinet in full (eXceptjng perhaps Schof9ld),
! and that it will be at once confirmed. Mr.. E.
! B. Wasbburne, it is understood, does not wish
to undertake any Cabinet drudgery in any de-
partment. His health will not permit it. But he
does like the climate of France aud the cooks
! Of Paris. Accordingly he isstudying French
in the evening with master and during the
day without a master, and is getting on very
well. Admiral Porter, rumor says, on his
expectations Of the Navy Department, has in
vested fifty thousand dollars of his prize
money in house in Washington, and We
must stick a pin here to mark another proba-
| DlHty' Dut thelo Is nsrS III yet remalnlnS
to General Grant Of tour weeks and three days
to look about him. We expect him here in a
day or two-say Thursday, at the furthest-
and when he shall have had consultation
with Mr.. Fish, talk with Fenton, a look into
Wall street, visit to the French Opera of
the Erie Railroad, and a drive or two to the
High Bridge, We shall, perhaps, learn that
Greeley has been singled out for special an
nexation commissioner to Hayti, and Dana as
Governor of Alaska, where he can keep cool
all the year round.