The Hickman courier., 1869-03-13

what puzzled the public. IT is safe to
-say the Radical party, and especially the
Radical politicians, will not be satlshed,
lMhile Conservatives generally will giTe
sort of quiet acquiescence, knowing that
perhaps with one exception extreme men
have notlbeens named, and the politicians
have been almost entirely ignored. This
in itself. affords some consolation, not af-
fected by the factA that among all the
names presented thereis not a. one repre-
senting towering intellect or brilliant
statesmanship.s, The Cabinet, as a whole,
! may be set down as an aggregation OF
I mediocre ability and political modera-
tion. 2GQr2 2
Z. B. Washburne, named for Secre
ttary 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 go
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
tinguisbed and responsible position, as
the general public has somehow come to
believe that higher order of ability
would fill the chariot the Secretary of
State.
John McAllister Schofeld, Secretary
.ofkWar. rs a natiye- of New York, born
in Chantauqua county, September ~,
1881. At twelve years of age he re-
moved with his father to Illinois. He
graduated at West Point in 1858, 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 an en-
gagement in the Trans Mississippi De
partment Schofeld is 9emphatically 9
moderate man. During the first year Of
the war he was sharply denounced by the
extremely Radical press because of hi:
course IN regard to slaves. In carrying
out the reconstruction acts of Congress
as a military commander, he acted firm
~ but impartially very often incurrine
the wrath of such fire brands as Hum
cut and Underwood His stay in tn,
Cabinet will probably be but temporary
A. T. Stewart, Secretary of the Trea
sury, is a wealthy merchant of New
York, and an Irishman By birth. W.
believe he was Democrat up to the be
ginning of the war, but became Radica
in his views toward the South -subse
quently, and an advocate of the mos
vigorous prosecution Of the war. III,
has been wonderfully successful in bust
ness, and has the rel putation of inancia
ability of the very highest order. H'
is said to be very close in all his deal
ings, and a most merciless creditor. His
friends and acquaintances predict that
the Treasury under his jurisdictiog viii
be pretty secure against. the opera
DRof Treasury thieves and speeulatofs. z
= ,<;;is.ts, (we say nothing
- of welded love- Il will BE-
Zen that. for them, the chances of mar
rxjag at 80 years is not one in hundred
at forty there is NO chance at all. /
Eenty has three times the advantage of
eet sixteen. The reason the Doctor as
sgnsfor the rush of marriages at nine
zen and twenty is that the girls at that
Ne of life begin to fear the frosty APP
ech of old maidenheod, and therefore
athe arms of the first oppOrtune
xesenta himself. At fifteen
he little misses feel them
e; they are saucy; indepen-
aSkafd, coquetish. and hence lose
= opportunities which do not
6emselyes at a later age. The
i opinion that if a young girl
make matrimonial hit in life |
it betveen the ages of ff- |
enteen. 1t is at this age that
sets in in the affairs of wo-
OF Tenn The Radicals
Senator Fowler. of Tenn, out
pdssg A Washington dispatch
that, being considered as no longer
Sember of the Republican party, the
)mmittee have agreed to recommend
hat he beasked to stay away from the
[party caucnses in future
Hon. JOHN SoMERs, the present in
1cunbent, is solicited by the members Of
bar at Dresden, Tenn, to announce
self as candidate for reelection to
<ofhce of Chancellor of the 9th Di- |