The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-03-24
The Cabinet.

great military President Let see of whom it con
ssts and what are their aHtecedents Hamilton Fish
| New York; Secretary Of State; Geo. ). Boutwell,
Mass Secretary of the Treasury; John A. Rawlins
(Illinois) Secretary of War; Adolph E. Borie penn.
Secretary of the Mays Jacob D. Cox (ohio) secretar
of the Interior; +, 4. j. Ores ell (Md) Postmaste
General, and sben r. Hoar (aass) Attorney General
| When in public life years ago Mr.. Fish known
as Wing. lie was Governor of New York for two
terms, and is said to be of character and abil
ity, besides being very wealthy. lie resides in New
York city
| Boutwell,, OF Massachusetts, is well known to til.
country one OF the bright lights of the Radical party
and one of the impeachment managers. lie was for
merlya Democrat but finding it did not lead to Office
donned the Radical uniform and found it,
| Gen. Rawns is a lawyer by profession and yolun
teer general in the late war He has for some tmt
been attached to the personal staff of Grant, and
there is any truth in reports is much the better gen
eral of the two.
Adolph E. Borie says the Philadelphia Ledger, is ar
honored Philadelphia merchant, of the firm of Mexican
Borie & Co., importers. He is in the prime of life, ar
able and intelligent representative man of his class
Bore is a native Rhiladephian of French extraction
and is about Gftyoight years Of age For more than
thirty years he was engaged in the China tea and silk
trade importing also for the Cuba and Mexican trade
as well as that of Philadelphia. He is of the
highest type of mercantile honor and probity, and uni
Versaly esteemed for his purity of character
The same authority says Jacob DoIson Cox the new
Secretary of the Interior the last Governor of
Ohio serving from 1866 to 1868. He is native Of
Montreal, Canada, but subsequently settled in Ohio,
where be was educated at Obern College, and after
wards went to the practice of the law at Warren in
thai State. lie a State Senator in 1859 When
the rebellion broke out, he appointed Drisaaier
General Of militia, and on May H. 1861, was commits,
stoned Brigadicr General Of volunteers He served
CALAMITY in McClel.ns West Virginia camraisn, was
subsequently in command of brigade in Pope's army
of Virginia, commanded division in the Twenty third
Army Corps, and after that had command of the whole
corps for time He was with Sherman in lia great
fighting campaign in the summer and fail of 1861, from
Chattanooga to Atlanta, and commanded the right of
Gen Schoteld's corps in Thomas signal victory over
Hood, at Nashville. He continued to the close of the
war; his last services being in the operations near
Cape Fear river, North Carolina Gen. Cox was forty
years old on the 9th of October last.
j. A. j. Creswe, the Postmaster General saws the
Baltimore Sun, is lawyer by profession. His politi-
cal career would seem not to have been infexibly re-
stood that lie started as Wing in support of Mr..
Fillmores administration, and in the fall of 1854 acted
with the party known as Know-nothings, after the
shortved existence of which he appears to have sided
with the Democrats. lie was delegate to the Cincin-
natl Convention Which nominated Mr. Buchanan for
the Presidency in 1856, and in 1860 supported JOHN
c. Breckenridge for the Presidency taking the stump
with Mr. Salisbury, OF Delaware, in advocacy of his
candidate. MIR. C.esweil continued to act with tie
Democratic parg nniii some time in 1861. At coun.
IS contention held in Ekton to send delegates to
sovereign convention held in the Urvcrsalist Church.
in this city, he reported resolutions censuring Henry
Winter Davis, Witch, however, at the suggestion of
Judge Chambers, we're struck ont and not acted on
He was afterwards in the year, elected to the
Legislature on the Union ticket where he declared Him
self Conservative Union man-what some called
pro sArery In that Legislature In 1862 he was
| strong advocate of Eevcrdy johnson for United
Bradford appointed him Assistant ard Acting Adiutant
General of the State. lie acted enrolling officer
Of the State in Baltimore, and at the death of Sena-
or pearce, named candidate for the place but
Governor Bradford appointed the late Holiday Hicks
In 1868, Mr. Creswcll was in the convention of what
was called the Conservative Union party that nomin-
ated Mr.. Maft, of Cecil, for Controller. In fea
weeks after he was suggested by some friends as a
candidate for Congress in the first or Eastern Shore
District, in opposition to Mr.. CrsGeld, known Con-
sentative Union man. He continued to support Mr.
Aafit, but against Mr.. Crisfed, General schenek
being then in command ii this military department. He
vas elected to Congress- and for the first time acted
With the Radicals. In 1864 he was beaten by Mr.
dcCulloch for Congress for second term In 1865,
before his GEst term expired he was elected to the
United States Senate by the Legislature to fill the TN
i'll March 4, 1867. Mr. Crcswcll is understood to
cad one division Of the Radical party of tie State
nd Judge Bond the other, the latter beating him for
he nomination for Governor at the last election. In
he late Presidential he took active part in
ddressng the people in Maine, Connecticut PcnHsyl
ania and Michigan, in support of General Grant
ir. Creswel is 40 years of age.
The New Attorney General, Mr. Eben Redwood
Ioar, says the same authority, is son OF Hon Samuel
ioar, late Of Concord Massachusetts an eminent law
err whose name has gone into history the Commits
Toner from Massachusetts to South Carolina to re-
nonstrae against the imprisonment of colored sailors
# the former State when they arrived in the ports OF
he latter under tiieir State law. Ebcn. RocIwood
lear, the elder SON. is nov Judge Of the Supreme
court in Massachusetts, lawyer Of great learning and
man Of remarkable rigor Of intellect lie was a
Wig Of the Webster sclcoI, but one Of the earliest
free Sellers, though lie always expressed lis aEt-
The whole tone of his mind is that of a thoroughly
rained Statesman. IN the new Attorney General tile
President and tho SANITY will have ali able, expert
need dspassiouate conscientious and learned legal
dyiser.
Low PRESSURE STEAMERS OF THE MIsslssIraI.-The
Sew Orleans papers state that company is being Orr
sanised, which expects to so into operation next fall
or the purpose of navigating the Mississippi with low
pressure steamers with important improvemen:sad
y Capt. DeHapeH, who is the president of the COM
,any. 1t is said that steamers thus constructed will
lase the speed of those on the Hudson and other
Northern rivers that is, from 81 to % miles per hour,
They are expected to make the round trip from New
Orleans to Cairo and -back in seven days, and it is
promised that freight will be carried between those