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4 Young Hens Administration.
Correspondence Cincinnati Duly Tinss.

Correspondence Cincinnati Duly IimsS.
WASHINGTON. Jan Is, 1865
1t WAS my cool fortune, a few evenings since,
to be in company with very intimate friend Of
General Grant, when the subject OF the form.-
ton Of his Cabinet was hroacLe-i, and his
marks may really be regarded a. having some
significance IN this connection, ! have taken the
pains to enboiy them in full, and whether his
speculations are verified or not, the reader will
be amply repaid for the time spent in coming
over his ideas, which give literally.
No one he said, ''c9n know who Grant
will select, and he has hardly ever determined
the rules Of choice which should govern HIM He
certainly will not take old political hacks, who
would come into his Cabinet though il
were a Hotel deS LarGlides. t. 10 this. woult
be a. absurd ls II would have Leen for him TO
have nominated Wool, Harney, Anderson aad
Dimmca. and other antediluyians, to the COM
mand Of his armies, Instead Of sherman, Sheri-
don, Logan ami Mcpherson. Grant and Colflx
are both Young men, and be should have a yoang
mans administration. The Republican party is
full OF this kind oftmber Most Of the really great
men Of the organization came INTO it in the flush
of the Fremont enthusiasm. and wher the flag
was fired upon at Fort Sumter. Look in the
army. and YOU will hnd men ike Sheridan,
SchOfeld Fitzpatrick and Custer. not yet forty.
The Senate has been hOnore1 with men young
a CressWel. Conkling, Stewart, Elmunds,
Ferry and Sprague, upon whose cheeks still rests
the bloom of youth. In the House we have Gar
field, Blaine, Allison, Donnelly, AMI a host of
rising, ambitious Young men.
"Here are men Of unexceptionable honor and
capacity who can work twenty hours day,
when necessary, and who still have blood in
their veins.
e Well, you want business man in the Post
office Department and a lawyer in the place Of
Eyarts. suppose We take the Conservative Re
publican press. and pre-emiuently stands for
ward Raymond Of New York, and Bowles of
New England. Perhaps, in years, il / hardly
fair to call Raymond young man, but IN ener-
", knowledge and executive capacity, he Is A.
young ss Addison or Bowles BOwles ha~
created. in a country town, a leading newspaper
"A Journal that lives among the representative
journals of the Nation, and, in the PoStuihce. hr
would make reforms that would save the c1un-
try millions and millions Of dollars. Ii You
need a Young man 10 give law to the President,
take Stewart Of Nevada, Wilson Of lowa, Car
penter of Wisconsin, Eimunds Of Vermont, or
Cresswell OF Maryland.
=. \ cabinet Of young would make the at
ministraIion 90. Garfield or Conkling would
make Secretaries under whom cur foreign affairs
would be wisely managed. Either BOWles or
Raymond would make a. good Postmaster
General a. old Ben. Franklin; while men like
Young. or Halstetd or White. or Hawley would
make as brilliant a campaign against the Indian
thieves as Sheridan did in the valley. Grant
should follow the example OF Washington, who
appointed % hi State Dep rtment the young
man who, at thirty-three, wrote the Declaration
q Independence; and to his Treasury, young
man of thirty. We have had no greater Secre-
tary Of State than Jefferson--no Secretary 0f the
Treasury To compare with Alexander Hamilton. -