The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-03-11
The New Cabinet.

The President of tic United States has
nominated and the Senate confirmed the
following constitutional advisers:
Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, Sec
retary of State.
Alexander T. Stewart, of New York,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Adolph E. Borie, of Pennsylvania, Sec
retary of the Navy.
General Jacob d. Cox, Of Ohio, Secre-
tary of the Interior.
Hon. John A j. Creswell, of Mary yland,
Postmaster General; and
Eben lockwood Hotr, of Massachu-,
setts, Attorney General.
General Scbo6eld retains his position
at the head of the War Department.
The name on this list that will give Pc
culiar pleasure to the Republican party is
the first, that of Mr.. Washburne, of llli-
nois. He has signal claims upon the con-
fdence of the county. The earliest friend
of General Grant in Congress, he is also
the oldest member of the House. Born
in Livermore, Oxford county, Maine, on the
23d of September, 1916, he served an ap-
premiership to the printing business in
the office of the Keane6ec journal at Agus-
| ia, Ia that State; studied law at Harvard
University, and removed to rns West, prac
ticing law at Galena, Illinois, where he
made the acquaintance of the newPresident.
He has been member of the House In
the Thirty-third, Thirty Thirty
| fifth, Thirty sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty
eighth, Thirty ninth, Fortieth, and was
reelected in November to the Forty-frst
| Congress, and has therefore served In the
| National Legislature longer continuous
term than any other citizen, not except
| ing Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts.
Always an advanced Republican, heartily
cooperating with the active men, and
earnestly supporting the vigorous meas
ures of that party, he will be popular
Republican member OF the Administra-
tion. Especially qualified by his recent
travels in Europe 20 administer the De
partment of State, we look TO him not only
to purify that long-perverted branch
of the Government, so far as its officials
abroad are concerned, but earnestly TO Sec
end the comprehensive foreign policy Of
President Grant. Nothing would give
greater satisfaction to the people than his
willingness to remain in his new position.
Mr.. A. 7. Stewart, Secretary of the
Treasury, is well known as an enterpri
sing, successful and benevolent merchant
in the city of New York. Heretofore
identified with no political organization
his summons TO the second post in the Cab
met has evidently been prom pied by de-
sire on the part of the President to do hon
or to an interest not often represented
among the constitutionafs advisers of the
Executive. This new business, In all it:
vast details, requires extraordinary talent
and his experience abundantly qualities
him for the new position to which he hal
been called. Mr.. Adoiph E. Borie, tn,
new Secretary of the Navy, is the presi
dent ofthe magnificent loyal Union Leagu,
4 of Philadelphia, aud one OF the old-estab
IfAhed firm of Mex can, Borie q Co., lon:
associated with the East India trade. Al
original Old Line Whig, he became Re
publican inS the natural course of things
and he and his business partners have beer
among the freest voluntary contributor
to the great Union cause during the re
bellion. Perhaps no man is more surpris
ed than kIr. Borie at this appointment
Chosen, like Mr. Stewart, from hereto
fore neglected class, we do not doubt tina
he will make an excellent Cabinet minis
ter.
Ex-Governor JACOB D. Cox, of Ohio
the new Secretary of the Interior, was /;