Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-03-12


the Cabinet was held at noon to.day-present
! Secretaries Washburne, Boutwell,, Borie, Cox,
| Raw Inns, Attorney General 'Hoar. and Pest
| master General Cresswell, Secretaries Bout
| well and Ra Wins received their commissions,
the former as Secretary of the Treasury, and
the latter as Secretary Of War, from Secretary
| Washburne, who brought them from the State
department. They were both sworn in at the
| White House by Chief Justice Cartier in time
oparticipate in the deliberations of the Cabi-
ne, which did not adjourn until nearly three
| olock.
| SECRETARY boutwell, arrived al the
| Trtasury department this morning about ten
| O'Clock, and proceeded 10 the room Of Assistant
s. cretary Hartley, where he was waited upon
by the head of bureaus in the Department,
who paid their respects to him. He remained
at the department over an heur, but transacted
| NO official business. During tue time he was
visits by VICE President Colfax, Senator Will
| son. and a large number of Representatives,
| At twelve O'Clock he attended the, meeting of
| the Cabinet. and received his commission a
| Secretary. A large number of office-seekers
| were dt the Department this morning before
| the arrival of Mr.. Boutwell,, but many were
unable to get in their appilc1ti as he was
| occupied during his stay. Several, however,
| managed to present their claims for Office, and
l tue new ScclcIdIy lSteDeQ 10 Iueu1 very pa
tiently ana good nat1redly, but made no PROM
| lses as to wba. he would do. II is rumored ir
the Department :hat a number OF changes will
| be made, and many of the clerks are on the
| anxious bench.
The WHITE HoUsB-The crowd of visitors
at the White House daily increases, and the
| President is kept busy all the forenoon. Once
seekers by the hundreds are in attendance; but
| General al of
referring their applications to the various
Cabinet officers, through whose hands they
| must pass before action by the President. An
| old gentleman, with long white nair and at
| tired In buff cOored clothes. IN continental
| style, who has been in town for several days
| past rejoicing in the cOgnomen of "George
| Washington the Second waited patiently In
! he ante room this forenoon to see the Presi-
| dent. having petition over thirty three yards
| long, with several thousand signers, asking
| his appointment to a foreign mission. He ex-
presses himself as willing to take the English
| mission, and declares he will promptly have
| the abama claims settled, and has every con-
fidence in his appoin tment and confirmation at
| an early day.
Among those who had interviews with the
| President this forenoon were Senators Drake
| and Sherman, ex-senator Carlile, Representa-.
| tyes lngersoll, Allison, Asper, Eggleston,
| Cessna. Sargent, Upson, Strickland, McCor-
| mick Governor Reed of Florida, John Lee
Chapman, Esq, and others.
| RECRPTION OF ARMY OFFICERS BY TIRE
| PRESIDENTIAL loon TO day the officers of the
| army now in this city assembled at the War
| department In full uniform, and headed by
| Ex-SecreCary Schofield and General w. T.
| Sherman. marched TO the White House, where
| they were received in the East Room by the
| President. The ceremony of Introduction
performed by the heads of the various Bureaus
| and each officer taken by the hand by the Pres
| ident. First came Ex.Secretary Schofield and
| General Sherman, General Geo. H. Thomas,
! Adjutant General Townsend, Surgeon General
| Barnes. Quartermaster General Meigs, Deputy
| q. NJ. G. Ekin, Judge Advocate General
Holt Adjutant Generals Vincent, Will
| Hams, Pelouze, Breck, Leet, Taylor, In
| spectOr Genls. Schriver, Hardie. Genls. A III
| Terry, Harney, HeintzeIman, Crane, o. O.
| Howard, Lorenzo Thomas, French, Brooks
| Shiras, Dyer, Wallace, Webb, Mich!er, Hum
| phrey, Woodruff, Parke, Dana, Perry, Myers,
| Brlce, Emery, Coils Campbell, Auderid, Bell
| Dupont, Tassin, Casey, kurtZ, Cihill, Wherry,
| Treadwell, Perry, Surgeons Otis, Wood ward
! Billing, Curtis, Majors Pond, Russell, and
| many others OF lesser rank. The Army Officers
were received Immediately after the Navy OF.
ficers, and very agreeable feature of the re-
ception was the collection of the officers o; the
| Army, Navy and Marine Corps, with their
| handsom uniforms. in the East Room.
RECEPTION OF OPFICKRs OF THa NAVY AND
| MARINE CORPs.-About eleven O'Clock this
| morning the officers Of the Navy and Marine
| Corps now in this city, assembled At the Navy
department in full uniform, tor the purpose of
| paying their respects to the new Secretary, and
| aod 10 tho n; TO
respects to the President, the time of the recep-
ton having been fixed at 1I:3O. They were
| first received by Secretary Borie in his office al
| the Navy Department, to whom they Were in
| troduced by the heads Of the various bureaus,
| and then marched d to the Executive Mansion,
! headed by Secretary Borie and Wee Admiral
| ID. ID. Porter where they We're received in thu
East Room by the President. The President
| cordially received them, taking each officer by
| the hand.
Among those present were, Rear Admirals
| Goldsborough, Dahlgren, Poor, Shubrick,
jos. Smith, Stringham, Commodores NJ Smith,
| jenkins, Sands, Powell, Captains, Patterson,
Davenport, Reynolds, Commanders Nichol-
| son, Jefers, John son, Morris Shlrk, Simpson,
| Weoker and Davis, Paymasters Jackson, Hir-
| ris Bridge, Washington and Russell, Caiet
| EngIneer King, Surgeons Horwitz, Williams,
| kimberly, Klimes, Marewell. Professors New
| comb, Eastman, and Harkness, OF the Naval
| Observatory. Gen Zeilin, Mai. Slack. Maj.
| Cash, Maj. Nicholson, L.. Col. Hayward, III ,I.
| Graham, Lieuts. Nokes, Muse. Reed, and
Bradford of the Marine Corps and many Off.
GERS of less rank Of the Navy and Murine
| Corps.
VISIT OF DELEGATIONS TO THR PRESIDENT.
About . O'Clock to- day, delegation Of twenty.
one citizens of the Seventh Congressional Dis
| trict Of Virginia-members of the Union
| League-called at the Executive Mansion to
pay their respects to President Grant, to whom
they were introdu uced by Mr.. Wm. ID. Massey,
postmaster at Alexandria, who made a brief
address, expressing in behalf of the delegation
hearty Endorsement OF the policy of the Pres.
ident as laid down in his inaugural, and regret
at Virginia's not having had a voice in Gen.
eral Grants election to the Office of Chief
Magistrate of the country. The President re.
turned. e, anks to the delegation, and said, ~
do not believe it will be many months before
Virginia is fully restored to the Union, and
have her Representatives In both Houses of
Congress 1t will not b., - he said, ..too much
| to hope that she will BE- in the Union before New
Years day, and all dinicuities settled" The
delegation then retired, after shaking hands
with the President. Among the delegates were