The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-03-13
The New Cabinet.
ELIHU B. WASHBURNR.

The New Cabinet.
ELIHU B. WASHBURNR
The Secretary of State, Mr. Wash
burne, of Illinois, has signal claims
upon the confidence of the country
The earliest friend of General Grant in
Congress, be is also the oldest member
of the House Born in Livermore,
Oxford county, Maine, on the 23d of
September, 1916, he served an appren-
ticeship to the printing business in the
office Of the Kennebec Journal at Au-
gusta, in that State; studied law at
Harvard University, and removed to
the West, practicing law at Galena,
Illinois, where he made the acquain-
lance of the new President. He has
been member of the House in the
Thrty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth,
Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty
eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and was
reelected in November to the Forty
first Congress, and has therefore served
in the National Legislature a longer
continuous term than any other citizen,
not excepting Charles Sumner, of Mas
sachusetts. Always an advanced Re-
publican, heartily cooperating with
the active men, and earnestly support
ing the vigorous measures of that party,
he will be popular Republican men,
Der of the Administration. Especially
qualified by his recent travels in Europe
to administer the Department of State,
we look to him not only to purify that
long-perverted branch of the Govern
ment, so far as its officials abroad are
concerned, but earnestly to second the
comprehensive foreign policy of Presi-
dent Grant.
ALEXANDER T. STEWART,
The merchant prince of New York,
Secretary of the Treasury, aside from
the personal friendship which induced
him to make the selection, has been
undoubtedly chosen by General Grant
as Secretary of the Treasury on &C
count of his business qualifications
Having conducted with unexampled
success larger business than any other
man in the United States, employing, in
the prosecution of it, large numbers of
persons, and having acquired thereby
the executive ability, as well as an ex-
tensive and varied knowledge upon all
commercial and financial questions, it
is fair to presume that the same ability
that has made him successful and emf
nent heretofore will work it's appropriate
effect in the new and enlarged field of
official life upon which he has entered,
Mr.. Stewart is Irish by birth, but came
to this country at an early age He
commenced life as school teacher, af-
forwards became clerk in dry goods
store, and has won his present great
wealth and eminence by his own indus
try and force of character
ADoLPH E. BoRIE.
The new Secretary of the Navy, Mr.
Borie, is the president of the magnif-
cent loyal Union League of Philadel-
phia, and enc of the old-established firm
of Mexican, Borie & Co., long associated
with the Last India trade. An original
Old Line Wing, he became Republican
in the natural course Of things, and he
and his business partners have been
among the freest voluntary contributors
to the great Union cause during the
rebellion.
JACOB D. cox
The Secretary of the Interior, ex-
Governor Cox, of Ohio, served during
the rebellion under General Sherman,
with bravery and distinction. After
the war he was elected Governor of
Ohio. During the Stanton embroglio,
General Grant wished General Cox to
accept the position of Secretary of War,
the Senate being willing to confirm him,
and thus end the struggle. General
Cox, however, was unwilling to accept
the position under the circumstances
He is thoroughly staunch Republican,
and man of ability, who will, in the
discharge of the duties of the Office, do
credit to General Grants choice.
HON z. LOCKWOOD HoAR.
The Attorney-Gener Mr. Hoar, is
native of Massachusetts,, and is in the
SD year of his age He is a son of
the late Hon. Samuel Hoar, who was
driven from Charleston by the violence
of mob, some twenty-years ago, where
be was sent as special commissioner
Of the State Of Massachusetts, to test
the constitutionality of their black laws.
He is an able lawyer, and has for the
past fifteen years been connected with
the Common Pleas and Supreme Court,
on the bench of the latter of which he
is the oldest associate judge. Mr.. Hoar
is brother of the new member of Con-
gress from the Worcester, Mass, dis
trict, Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, and resides
in Concord in that State, where the
first blood of the Revolution was shed.
He was an original member of the
Freesoil party and sound Republican,
although he has not recently taken an
active part in politics.
HON. J. A. ]. CREswELL,
Post Master General, we have spoken
more at length elsewhere
The Senate of the United States
unanimously confirmed these several
nominations, together with those of
Columbus Delano, of Ohio, as Commits
sioner of the Internal Revenue; Cen
eral VIM. T. Sherman, as General-in-
Chief of the Army, and General Philip
Sheridan, as Lieutenant General.
HAPPINKss.-"What would you do,
James, if you suddenly had large sum of
money left you?' said lady to her gar
dener, q respectable married man, laborer