The Hickman courier., 1869-03-13
) PresIdent |, . de & Grant. Cabinet.

what puzzled the public. IT is safe TO
-say the Radical party, and especiail the
Radical politicians, will not be satished,
1while Conservatives generally will give q
Sort of quiet acquiescence, knowing that
perhaps with one exception extreme men
have notbeen named, and the politicians
have been almost entirely ignored. This
in itself, affords some consolation, not af-
fected BY the factN that among all the
names presented -thereis not a one repre-
sentine a towering intellect or brilliant
etatesmanship.s. The Cabinet, as whole,
may be set down as an aggregation of
/ mediocre ability and political modera-
zion. '19Ges - u
E. B. Washburne, named for Secre-
rtary of State, is the well known Con.
gresham from Illinois, the fast friend OF
Grant during the war, and latterly pretty
well known by his watchfulness in the
House in checking extravaganza and
Wholesale stealing. He is now about 90
years old While the war was waging
he was considered an extreme man, but
has toned down somewhat since the re-
turn of peace. 1t is perhaps the senti-
ment of gratitude on the part Of Grant
that places Washburne in such a dis
tinguished and responsible position, as
the general public has somehow come to
believe that higher order of ability
would fill the chair-o of the Secretary of
State
John McAllister Sehofeld, Secretary
.ofkHVarzzis a n1tive- of NewYork, born
IN Chantauqua county, September 20,
1881. At twelve years of age he re-
moved with his father to Illinois He
graduated at West Point in 1853, was
brevetted Second Lieutenant in the Sec
ond Artillery, and stationed two years at
Fort Moultrie aud at Fort Cossin, Flori-
ds. He was subsequently FIVE years at
West Point as instructor in Natural Phi
losophy. and afterwards held the same
position in the Washington University OF
St. Louis BY an order from the War
Department. he was directed to muster the
Missouri troops at the beginning Of the
war, and was made Major of the First
Missouri Infantry In October, 1862
he was in command of all the Federal
troops composing the army Of the From
: tier, and defeated Hindman in au en-
gagement in the Trans Mississippi De-
partment Schofield is semphatically q
) moderate man. During the first year o1
the war he was sharply denounced by the
extremely Radical press because of his
course in regard to slaves. In carrying
out the reconstruction acts of Congress
as a military commander, he acted firm
ly but impartially, very often incurriDe
the wrath of such FIRE brands as Hum
cut and Underwood. His stay in tn,
Cabinet will probably be but temporary
r. A. T. Stewart, Secretary of the Trea
: sury, is a wealthy merchant of New
York, and an Irishman By birth. We
believe he was Democrat up to the be
ginning of the war, but became Radica
in his views toward the South 7subse
quently, and an advocate of the mos
vigorous prosecution OF the war. ii,
has been wonderfully successful in busi
ness, and has the reputation of fnaneia
ability of the very highest order. Ht
is said to be very close in all his deal
ings, and most merciIess creditor. Hi
friends and aequaintances predict thai
the Treasury under his jurisdiction viii
be pretty secure against. the opers
,{ef Treasury thieves and speculafors.2
4 5L.iefs, Eve say nothing
- Is of welded love- Il will Be
Zen that. for them, the chances of mar
eejHg at 80 years is nOtone in hundred
at forty there is no chance at all. /
Fenty has three times the advantage of
Get sixteen. The reason the Doctor as
sensfor the rush of marriages at nine
cen and tventy is that the girls at that
se of life begin to fear the frosty ap-
sch of old maidenheod, and therefore
1the arms of the first opportune
reseuts himself At fifteen
he little misses feel them
es they are saucy; indepen-
a5Eafd, coquetish. and hence lose
opportunities which do not
6smselyes at a later age. The |
e opinion that if young girl
make a matrimonial hit in life I
it between the ages of ff- |
knteen. 1t is at this age that
sets in in the affairs of Wo
OF TENs.-The Radicals
Senator Fowler, of Tenn, out
lpdssF- A Washington dispatch
that, being considered as no longer
5ember of the Republican party, the
,nmittee have agreed to recommend