The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-19


Making Up The Slate for the Next
Tern-HaRlap's Anxiety and lhe
CoIoFcd Casdidate's ConcIusiOs.
A Washington special to the New
York Herald says: The Boston fire has
but momentarily Interrupted the anxious
discussion here of the ch anges through
every grade Of official position that are
to mark the opening Of the second term
of the President. 10 the inferior places
there will be but little movement, but
as the grades ascend to, Chiefs Of
Bureaux the prospects are brighter for
the aspirapts for place. With respect
TO the Cabinet the President win be sub.
jected to no other embarrassment than
that OF satisfactorily disposing, of the re-
firing members without displscing other
officials who. expect to retain their
positions. The certainty. as it is ad-
mitted in the best informed circles,
that all the present Cabinet, except
Secretary Delano and Attorney General
Williams, will be counted out with the
present term, makes the task OF placing
such ss require suitable offices outside
Of the Cabinet matter Of difficulty.
Secretary Fish is said by his friends 10
desire nothing beyond the retention of
the cordial friendship subsisting between
himself and the President, and the kind
treatment of the personal and political
friends on whom he has bestowed offices
suited to their capacities. Secretary
Robeson, who desires to go abroad,
covets foreign missions, but will permit
none to be vacated expressly to make a
place for him and Postmaster General
Creswell is said 70 be willing 10 take
ANYTHING that an ex-senator and
Cabinet Minister can take with
! propriety. There is absolutely no
reliable data concerning the successor.
ship to the Cabinet officers soon to be
vacated by the present ncumbents, the
President evadHg all attempts to smoke
him out, and manifesting no disposition
to take anybody into his confidence exI
cept those Immediately concerned, it
being doubted, even by near friends, If
he has exchanged a word with anybody
as vet on the subject. Senator Harlan
is known to be anxious for seat at the
council board, and II he cannot get the
State Department, will be content to re-
lieve his fellow lowan at the War De-
partment. But the most careful inquiry
fails to indicate anything in favor Of his
prospects, and it is known that he
is personally disavowed. and must
count on his assumed political strength
and party services in the last session
and during the campaign for support to
bis professions. But to get the War
Department he must be acceptable to
General Sherman, as the President,
with 80 many TO choose from, will un-
questiopably be careful to put nobody
over the General.in Chief who cannot
establish and maintain the same per-
soual relations that exist now, and must
continue to exist, between the heads Of
the War Department and the army.
The colored aspirsnt for Cabinet honors
has met the fate that has betallen the
long line of white predecessors whose
ella ms" and chances were prematurely
advertised by themselves or parli'ans
his name being only mentioned with
derision and his self-asserted rights re-
PEELED by the Presidents friends and
the local polite ans OF his own color.