Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-22
I'll NEW CABINET.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.

VIM. NJ. EvARTS,
the new Secretary of State, was born in
Boston, 1918, and was the grandson, on
his mothers side, of Roger Sherman.
He was educated at Yale, where he
graduated in 1887; studied law in Cam
bridge. and was admitted to the bar in
New York in 1910. His talents were
soon manifest, and he rapidly attained
the highest rank as a lawyer. In the
impeachment trial of President John
son he was the leading lawyer for the
defense. He wa appointed Attorney
General in 1868, which Office he held
about a year. In 1871 he ~zealously pre-
sented the case of the United States
before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitra-
ton, when the settlement of the Ala
bama claims was effected, and in 1875
he was one of the counsel to defend
Henry Ward Beecher in the celebrated
Tilton suit. He delivered the Centen-
NAL Grafton last year in Philadelphia.
He is the author of a number of legal
works, is a pleader of no mean ability,
and is in all respects fitted by educa-
ton, by talents and by diplomatic skill,
to fill the difficult position for which he
has just been named.
GEORGE w. M'CRARY,
the new Secretary of War, was born in
Indiana in 1885, but with his parents
removed to what was then Wisconsin
Territory, in 1886. He received a COM
msn-sohool education, adopted the law
as a profession, and was admitted to
the bar in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1856. The
following year saw him elected to the
State Legislature, while in 1861 he was
elected to the State Senate for four
years. After the expiration of this term
he refused all Office until 1868, when he
was elected to the Forty-irst Congress.
Here he served with distinction on the
Committees on Naval Affairs and Re-
vision of Laws. He was afterwards
reelected to the Forty-frst, Forty.
second and Forty third Congresses,
serving with acceptability to his col.
leagues, and with credit and distinction
to himself.
CARL sCHURZ,
who has been nominated for Secretary
of the Interior, was born near Cologne.
Germany, and was educated at the cele.
brated Bonn University. So far as
writing and speaking were concerned,
he was actively identified with the rev.
olution of 1848, and when the appea
to arms took place he participated in
the defense of Rastadt. Upon the res
toration of peace he became IN exile
and resided in Switzerland, France and
London, where he supported himself by
teaching. In 1852 he came to Ameri-
ca, and soon interested himself in
American affairs. He was a prominent
delegate to the Chicago Convention OF
1860, and in the following year he was
appointed to The Spanish mission, which
he was permitted to retain but a very
short time. After his return from
Madrid, he was made a Brigadier-Gen EN-.
eral of Volunteers, and took part in
several battles, among others those OF
Bull Run and Gettysburg. After the
war he was appointed a Commissioner
to visit the Southern States and inves-
tigate the affairs of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, and during the years 1866 anG
1866 he was a Washington correspond
emit for several Eastern papers. HI
was subsequently, identified with news
paper enterprise in Detroit and st
Louis; and, in 1869, he wa elected
Missouri Senator for the long term end
ing in 1876. During this term he serv
ed on several committees with credit
and acquired not a little notoriety by
his active partisanship In the new de.
parture of Liberal Republicanism in
1872. Since the failure of the Greeley.
Brown movement, of which he had been
the most active promoter, he has kept
pretty quiet, and his appointment on
the Cabinet is to many q genuine sur.
prise.
RICHARD NJ. THOMPSON,
who has received the Portfolio of the
Navy, was born in Culpepper County,
Va, in 1909, and during his early youth
received a good English education, but
having a rowing disposition he gratifed
it by wandering away into Kentucky,
even before he was 20 years old. In
1881 he located in Louisville, and
clerked in q mercantile establishment,
but getting tired of this he went to In
diana, where he taught school, sold dry
goods and studied law. He was admitted
TO the bar in 1884, and soon after was