Litchfield enquirer., 1869-03-11

Saturday the 12th and 18th to receive no tices and perfect the list. -asua ta1sa: Ga El2 q1 Q L---4-g . - .g0 5 /. a1 D9@ The Republican Senatorial Con- Ivention for tho Fifteenth District was hol- den at rWinsted, on Wednesday, the 10th inst. Hon. 0. B. Andrews, of Litchfeld was re-nominated.d sa .3bs,y c3 1857 asori h aJn3fu-------->.s'~ s'~------ ts'....taef Ia.,--si;I Ycn sThs Cabinet. ad E. t.fss1f' aa Weiclip from mstha Hartford Poet the fol- lowing notices of the Uabinet:1 dgistw l z MT. Washbulne is so we'll known, that a sketch of hiim is hardly needed. He has been a member of Congress from Illinois
 eight successive terms, and is the oldest member of the House. His relations with
 President Grant have always been of the
 most intimate character. If Grant is in- debted for his success to anything besides his own inherent qualities, it is to the con-
 stant and unwayering friendship of Elihu B. Washburne, who, from the time of his first commission, has been. his sturdiest de- fender, and most persistent advocate.
 Alexander T. Stewart commenced life as 2 school teacher, went into mercantile bus mess early. and has devoted his whole life
 to business pursuits with such success that lie is to day the head of the largest estab-
 ishment in this country. He is a careful,
 exact man, whe has shown just the capaci-
 to for the place to which he has been called.
 He has no party t1ammels to bind him,
 no crotchets, financial or otherwise, to car-
 rY, out; but brings clear sound intellect,
 with unquestionable integrity and honesty
 to the discharge of duties which demand
 just those qualities. We shall be disap- pointed if, iii his administration of the
 Treasury Department, the New York, Gus
 tom House, of the operations
 of which. he has had occasion in his own business. to know something, is not
 pretty thoroughly purified. The value of
 such service to the country and to the
 cause of honesty and fair-desling cannot
 be over estimated g. -..,
 Adolph E, Borie, Secretary of the Navy, is Frenchman by birth, a retired mer-
 chant, not before prominent in politics,
 but known in his own State as man of k first-rate abilities and sterling integrity, and always a. consistent and straight-out
 Repub blican. He. too, ii we are correctly
 informed -and, indeed, we have the word of the late Mir. Mcclure to that efectAis
 free from entangIing political alliances or
 partisan affiliations Here in Connecticut,
 perhaps, we might have desired some oth-
 CT than Pennsylvanian for this place, as in the question of League Island vs. New London, we have q local interest. However, Mir. Borie cannot hurt New London or help League Island any more than our
 own Gideon Welles has. . @1< @-lsal l. Gen. Jacob D. Cox of Ohio was soldier in the war, was elected Governor of Ohio in 1865 by the Republicans. and during the
 Stanton imbroglio vas urged by General
 Grant as proper uan for Johnson to ap- point, to the War Dspartment.. oisl 70 a9.- T J, A. Cresswen of Maryland, is the ablest
 man of the Republican party in Maryland,
 q man of eminent aAility and high charac-
 ter. He was a member of the Thirty eighth Congress, an1 in March, 1865, was |elected to the Senate, to. fill the unexpired
 term of Senator Hicks. deceased. He goes into the Cabinet as the representative of the loyal Southern sentiment, and in the contrast between him and the Tennessee crowd, who came to the surface during the
 war, and who have been considered the special representative of the loyal South, decent people will sta cause for rejoicing. Judge Hoar, as Attorney General is an appointment eminensly fit to be made. He has occupied g seai upon the Supreme Court Bench of Massachusetts for eight years past, and has ieen, within 9 year or two. conspicnously nentioned for Govern or of that State. H, is so. little of . poll
 tician that the appointment has probably taken more people U surprise than any other of the seven. r1s -Aat ts.'~. I
 . General Schofeld pntinues temporarily
 in tlie War department His record, as . gallant soldier. and hs faithfulness and eff Ehciency as the head oI the War bureau. for
 some months past, unaer trying and deli
 cate circumstances,a ,ar9 already well known.
 Who his successor vii be is still open to conjecture. .-rssE -ss....,~...r,