The New Cabinet

'ilie f9lto"Viiig is ,a short historicnl review of the public livos of the öiembers óf the Ciibinet of President Hayes : WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS, Kccretary of State, was boni at Boston Feb. 6, 1816. He was cducatcd at Yale College, and wa sa member of the class of 1837. After a course of study in the Harvard Law School, he was admitted to tho bar of New York in 1841, where by his superior power and force of intellect, lic noon rose to a degree of proniinence which he has since maintained. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him in 1857, from Union College, in 1805 from Yale, and in 1870 from Harvard. In 1868 lic Was the leiding counsel of Andrew Johnson, then ouder impeachment, and from the end of that trial till the close of Johnson's administration ho was Attorney General. He was the attorney for the United States in the Alabama arbitration at Genova, in 1872. The position of Attorney General, under Johnson, is the only public office he ever held. His residence is, at present, New York city. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury, comea from a distinguished Connecticut family, founded by a refugee lloundhead from Essex, England. His father, Charles Eobert Shennan, a lawyer, removed to Ohio in 1810, and became a Júdge of the Kupreme Court. He married young, and had a family of eleven children. Of the sons, Willitim Teoumseh Sherman is the General of i the army. John Shorman was the eighth child. He was boni at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1828, and received his early education at Mount Yernop, Ohio; At 14 he was sent to the t Muskingum InrprOvéinënt tb carn iiis twn ■ ing and to learn civil engineering Aftfer two years political clianges deprived him of bis , position, and he began the study of law at Mansñeld, Ohio, with his brother, Charles ï. Shernian, afterward United States District Judge. He studied Latan and read largely of English standard authors. He was licensed to practica law the day after he became of age. For eleven year, lie was s, partner with his : older bither. "John rodé tile circuits," it is i stated, "Charles managod the business and counselod in the office." John Shennan, as a politician, was a member of the National Whig Conventions of 1848 and 1852, and in the latter year was chosen a Presidential elector. In 1854 he ran for Congress in the Thirteenth District of Ohio, and was elected. The law flnn was then dissolved. He was again elected to the Thirty-f if th and Thirty-sixth Congresses. He was the Eepublican candidato for Speaker of the latter, and, after an unprecedented contest, wantod only one or two votes , ;o secure his election. During that Congress ie was Chairman of the Cominittee on Ways and Means. In 1860 he was elected to the i Thirty-seventh Congress, but in 1861, on the esignation of Senator Chase, he was elected by Jie Ohio Legislatura to. the United States Sonate and placed liptm ltn Wst important committce, that of Finanee. CASL RCHÜRZ, Secretary of the Interior, who lias been so M'omüient in public affairs, was bom at Livlar, ïear Cologne, Prussia, March 2, 1820. Ho was edneated at the Gymnasium of Cologne and the . Jniversity of Bonn, which he entered at the age j of 17. At the outbreak of the revolution of ; L848 he conducted a Liberal newspaper, bnt, j icing eoncerned in an unsuccessful :ompt to promote an insurrection at j 3onn, he fled to the Palatinate and ook part in the defense of Rastadt. On j he surrender of that fortress he escaped to i Switzerland. In 1850 he returned secretly to i Germany and effectod the escape o his eommtriot, Gottfried Kinkle. Mr. Schur caine to his country in 1852, and, soon after, took an I active part in the anti-slavery movement in the Northwest. He was an influential member of j he fifipüblican Convention ff 1800, and spoke, [ xth in Oerman and English, dnrlng the i'n.nvass which followed. President Lincoln ; pointed Mr. Schurz Minister to Spain, luit he ■eturned therefrom in December, 1861, In order o enter the army. He took part in the ; hattles of the second Buil Bon, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and retired at the close of the war with the rank of Major General. In 1865-6 Gen. Schurz was Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, and in 1867 he became editor of the Westliclie Post, a Germán i laper, published in St. Louis. In 1869 he was chosen United Btates Senator in Missouri for i the tel-m tinding In 18?5. He opposed kading measures of den. örafit's administration, aml xok a prominent part in tile organization of :he Liberal party, presiding over the conven:ion in Cineinnati which nominated . íforace Greeley for the Presidency. He visited Europe iii 1873, and agnin in 1875, being received with much consideration in his natlve counhy. EICHAED W. THOMPSON, Secretary of tho Navy, is a native of Virginia. He was bom at Cnlpepper, In 1800. In 1819 he , went to Kentucky, and up to 1831 he was a clcik in a store at Louisville. In that year he went to Terre Haute, taught school and rcad aw, and in 1834 was admitted to the bar and elected to the Legislatura, and for several years was a member of that body, In 1837 he ácted as Lieutenant Governor under Gov. Noble. He i wasaHarrison Presidential elector in 1840. The Mme year he was sent to Congross for two years. He remained in private life until 1847, whsn he was returned to Congi'ess, and again in 1849. President Taylor appointed him Minister to Austrja, and afterward Recorder of the Land Office at Washington, but he declined both positions. He was a prominent Whig, (mpported Bell and Evel'ett in 18Ö0, and was author of the platform of that païty. Lincoln : tendered him a position as Judge of the Court of Claims during his first term, but lie declined to accept. Since 1861 he has been itn active Iïepuhlican. Ho was a Prosidential elector i again in 1864. This was the last public office lie held. Buring the war ho raised and drilled four regiment of Indiana troops, and was in command of the camp at Terre Haute. In the Cineinnati Convention last June he was the mouth-piece of his delegation, and made the speech nomiuating Senator Morton for the Presidency. CHAELES BEVENS, Secretary of tho Navy, was bom at Charlestown, Mass., April 4, 1820, is a gradúate of Harvard, and for many years a lawyer. He was United States Marshal in Massachusetts from 1849 to 1853, under FiUmore, and entered the military service in 181)1 as Majorof abattalionnf riHes, ciosing his army record as a brevet Major General. He was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court in 1869, and siibsequcntly of the Supreme Court. He was nominated for Governor in 18(2 by the Demócrata against John A. Andrew, but, being at that time in the field conmianding a brigade in the Sixth corps, did not come home. He was promoted to the oommand of a división soon after, and severely wounded at Chancellorsville, where he lost a leg. Since the war he has taken no active part in politics, and has been known as a conseivative and independent. He has been on the bench since 1865, and at the time of his appointnient was a member of tho Supreme Court of Massachusetts. DAVID M. KEY, Postmaster General, is a native of Groen county, Tenn., the county seat of which Ik Green yille, the homo of Andrew Johnson. Mr. Rey is 64 years oíd, and a lawyer by profession. He ranks in East Tennessee among the ablest. From 1870, and np to his appointment in 1875 by Gov. Porter, of Tennessee.TO lili the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Johnson, Mr. Key presided as Chancellor of the Chattanooga Circuit. During the war he commandeda Confedérate regiment raised in East Tennessee. (IEOIU1E W. M'oBAKY, Secretary of War, was born in Evansville, Ind., in August, 1835, and went with his parents to Keokuk, Iowa, the next year. At the age of 20 he was admitted to the bar; in 1857 he was sent to tho Legislatura; and from 1863 he was a member of the State Senate for four years. In 1868 he was elected to Congross, and was t wice re-eleoted. He was originally selected for Attorney ' icneral, hut, after consultation, changed to tl ie war ofiice.